Originally Posted by STAYHUNGRY
I think that the reason that many bodybuilders attack off-season photos as being "fake" is that many people do not want to accept what this sport entails. Yes, it's great to think that you walk around all year looking like the cover of FLEX magazine and girls are hitting on you non stop. However at the level of the Olympia, these guys are putting on MASSIVE amounts of muscle AND FAT that brings them well over 300 lbs. and makes them look very unattractive, especially when they are untanned and wearing baggy clothes. Just face it, if you want to win the Olympia, you are going to look like SHIT for much of the year in order to put on 20 lbs. per year as many pros do and still come in at 3 percent bodyfat. There are ugly aspects to this sport boys.....just accept it and stop calling it "fake".