Get several copies of health magazines and body building, both offline and online, and then surf through them objectively. Be sure to realize one thing, bodybuilding has really lost the essence with which it propelled to world status. Bodybuilding has become a fashion statement, a show biz lifestyle and even worse a lurid business entity with multi-billion investment portfolios.

From ‘instant-results’ supplements to ‘seconds-only’ weight loss programs, bodybuilding is no longer viewed as an adventure and disciplined pursuit of ideal physique features. The beauty of body building no longer resides in the weight rooms; rather it’s on columns of anabolic steroid promotion magazines. Wannabe body builders are motivated not to build muscles but to gain them through whatever means. Bodybuilding supplements are no longer supplements to complement diets and workouts. Rather, supplements have become the must-have ingredients of bodybuilding achievements.

The modern bodybuilding industry is thriving on shortcuts, gimmicks and louses. The values and spirit of body building enshrined in gyms by our forefathers have been trampled on by short term objectives led by wanton greed and indiscipline. We are now building the body with chemicals rather than exercises in total respite of health concerns. Our objectives are no longer to improve our physique in healthy exercise routines and diets but to ‘get’ sexy bodies and show biz physiques. The very pride that established bodybuilding, the very heart that made it survive onslaught attacks of the 80′s and the drive that impressed the world and forged a solid support from all over the world has been forever lost.

The modern woes of the industry can be listed from here to tomorrow. We can highlight a million and one issues that have gone wrong. We can identify scores of practices that have eroded the worth of body building with apparent wantonness. We can give examples of the lost ideals until we finally say, everything. Things are bad when it comes to bodybuilding, especially as construed through the eyes of modern generations of body builders. We are in the emergency decade where body building as a practice might loose all that is valuable within it. Simply said, bodybuilding is loosing its essence, and very fast indeed.

It’s therefore essential that we, we whose interest and heart lies in true body building, must rouse ourselves from sleep and relight the burner for the future body builders. We must rededicate ourselves to the true form of bodybuilding and commit to stand as examples of what is true and what is ideal. As a mater of urgency, we must rekindle the love of real body building, thrust ourselves from the beguiling facades of modern show biz bodybuilding and focus our efforts to build rather than ‘get’ perfect body builders. It is indeed essential to re-educate ourselves in the value of hard work, discipline and consistency, virtues on which true body building stands.

Let it be clearly and practically demonstrated that bodybuilding belongs and must thrive in the gyms. Let there be no contradiction whatsoever that in body building the ‘seconds-only’ and ‘instant-results’ mentality does not belong to bodybuilding. The barbell, heavy and taxing, will always be the route taken by those body builders worthy the name. By sweat, blood and tears, body building shall always gain its pride. Bodybuilding is just that, body building. Never should it be ‘body getting’.

Dane Fletcher is the world’s most prolific bodybuilding and fitness expert and is currently the executive editor for BodybuildingToday.com. If you are looking for more bodybuilding tips or information on weight training, or supplementation, please visit www.BodybuildingToday.com, the bodybuilding and fitness authority site with hundreds of articles available FREE to help you meet your goals.

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