Bodybuilding is really beginning to piss me off and you might even describe the feeling as having haemorrhoids. I am constantly being swamped by journals and articles about how poor physique standards have become and what really gets at me are the concerns about professional contests judging results.

I have been around the bodybuilding scene for many years now and have experienced a number of changes at competition level. There is no doubt in my mind that the standards have hit new levels for everyone concerned in an event and that the evolution of my sport continues and that the results seen will always get better.

I love to go and watch other people competing at international levels and I will always make my own personal opinion on the possible outcome, but there is one thing I will always resign myself from doing and that is judging other people.

I would not like to under any circumstances be seen to be criticising the brave judges at any point in this article as I more than anyone understand the pressure that they are put under. You see their results will give some guys the best sponsorship deals and all the other commercial perks that are involved are the losers will end up with nought. Good old Arnold was virtually set up for life by a panel of judges and I am sure he wouldn’t be where he is today if they had opted for another bodybuilder.

The actual amount of bodybuilders that just train with the intention of competing in physique contests is very minimal as the majority of weight trainers out there will be concentrating on rehab, increased strength for their chosen sport, gaining or losing weight and just good old muscle gains.

If you just take a good look around your local gym you might just be able to pick out one bodybuilder that might have the potential to enter these bodybuilding physique competitions and maybe just at a local level. The majority of the guys in the gym will not have any interest what so ever in these contests and will most probably just be fed up with constantly being reminded of them in the muscle mags. If anyone was the exception to the rule then it was definitely Arnold the great who knew right from his very first squat and dead lift where his efforts were to be best concentrated.