Maybe in the 80s and 90s, but most of them these days are nowhere near the use during that era.
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Brock Lesnar was never a bodybuilder. He was a NCAA Division 1 National Champion wrestler.Brock Lesnar was a bodybuilder. But UFC's payment probably is much better
Is this honestly a real question lol? I guarentee you, 99% of pro bodybuilders would have absolutely no chance of hitting a professional baseball pitcher's fast ball, let alone a slider, curveball, or good changeup for that matter. What do you mean there is no high school or college selection process? What the fck do you think the MLB draft is? Lol there is just so much wrong with this post.
He's not a pro bodybuilder, but Terron Beckham (Odell Beckham's cousin) may have a shot at playing in the NFL and is pretty massive. If nothing else, he's an insane athlete (5'11" 223 lbs, 4.47-sec 40, 36 reps at 225 lb bench, 44.5" vertical). I wouldn't say that being very muscular (although not modern Olympian size) is something that is inherently going to make you slow. Athletes today are bigger AND faster than athletes in the past.
It is but nobody really cares. Baseball is such a long season and it's draft as well as the draft for Hockey are aired (mostly on ESPN 2) that nobody really cares when the draft happens.
Made me think of Arnold doing some track and field stuff in Hercules in New York, haha.
The drug testing in pro sports is a joke, the amount of athletes competing at an elite level that aren't on some type of performance enhancer is virtually non-existent. That being said the sheer volume and variety of drugs that competitive bodybuilders are on today would make it extraordinarily difficult for them to pass even the most lenient drug testing.
I don't remember how that went. LOL.
Yup.
The cool thing about minor league ball is that it should be every single state that has a team or teams. I'm in Kentucky and Louisville has the Cincinnati Reds AAA affiliate The Louisville Bats. Bowling Green has the Tampa Bay Rays A team, The Bowling Green Hot Rods. Then there are some other independent leagues like the Kentucky Legends in Lexington, but I'm not too familiar with them.
It's a skill, even an art when done right. There are even pros that aren't very good at it, haha.
I think for the sports outside of bodybuilding, the necessity for genetics/natural born talent varies wildly compared to what practice can do.
5'11, 223lb is nowhere near bodybuilding status bro. That height to weight ratio is small for bodybuilding, but impressive outside of bodybuilding.
I know, haha. I said he's not a pro bodybuilder, and of course he's not that size, but he'd probably be the closet thing to a bodybuilder in any major US sport, to my knowledge anyway. Dude's pretty big.
Yeah, my initial post might have been out of place in a few areas now that I think about it. In several cases, and for any sport, one will witness genetics taking someone as far as they end up going. But I agree that practice is huge and will make the difference, but I would say practice will only cause athletes to excel that already have the proper genetic abilities in the first place. I remember playing baseball with several guys thru the years as a kid. They started out awkward and sucked and by the end of my tenure in baseball (over a decade later), those same guys still struggled to be good players, even though they practiced in similar dedication as I did at times.
Well, if he was 5'11", 223lbs and 6-7% BF, I would have to utterly disagree. 10-12%? He is a bodybuilder in his off-season. But at 223lbs, even at 5'11" and stage ready (which is typically between 6-8% BF), he'd take his class in a typical qualifier and would likely have a good shot at overall.
