It’s Friday and that means its Random Thoughts Of The Week time.

Today I want to talk about something a lot of people have talked about.

And that is

How can we go about making Bodybuilding more popular?

And I will add to this,

How can we go about getting Bodybuilding more into the mainstream?

To me there is only one way,

And that is to push guys that are not mass monsters, guys that the average public can relate to.

People like Mark Dugdale, Toney Freeman, Ronny Rockel, should be up there placing higher in contests.

I have nothing against the mass guys, like Markus Ruhl (and I know he is retired) in fact, I really like the mass guys.

But one thing that people have to remember is this,

If you truly love bodybuilding like I do, then yes, you love the mass guys, you love bodybuilding as a whole.

To the general public however, those guys are nothing but gross.

So why would people be interested in the sport.

I thought with Dexter Jackson winning the Mr. Olympia things might be changing, but I am not sure, because then Jay Cutler one again.

I am not bashing Jay, I am just saying, that things were moving in the right direction, but now who knows.

For my last point, I would like to bring up a blast-from-the-past,

Frank Zane.

Mr. Zane won the Olympia three straight times, 77, 78, and 79.

I remember seeing a picture of Mr. Zane with no shirt on and wearing a pair of jeans.

Of course these were seventies style jeans, but to me they looked like a normal pair of jeans, size wise, meaning an average non bodybuilder could have worn them too.

This was a guy that the public could relate to.

Mr. Zane had shape, proportion, everything you could ask for in a bodybuilder.

If the sport of bodybuilding wants to get super popular then the Frank Zane’s of today must be pushed to the forefront of bodybuilding.

That’s it for today.

Since my next Random Thoughts Of The Week post will be after Thanksgiving,

I hope everyone has a very happy and healthy THANKSGIVING.

UNITL NEXT WEEK

TRAIN HARD BUT SMART