Should everybody be bodybuilders? w/Eric Helms & Omar Isuf

Once again, we take on this question with that help of guests Eric Helms and Omar Isuf. With the known injury rates of many sports…including or maybe especially strength sports…maybe we should all just…be bodybuilders? Unpacking this question inevitably leads to more questions:

• Can you actually call bodybuilding a sport?
• Is bodybuilding style training actually safer in terms of injuries?
• Do you have to use performance enhancing drugs?
• Is the “bodybuilding lifestyle” actually healthy?
• Does bodybuilding – or other types of aesthetic competition – lead inevitably to disordered eating?
• Are you really a bodybuilder if you don’t actually compete?
• Is the sacrifice worth it in the end?

Eric holds a BS in fitness and wellness, an MS in exercise science, a second masters in sports nutrition, a PhD in strength and conditioning, and is a research fellow for AUT at the Sports Performance Research Institute New Zealand.

Omar is a successful YouTube content creator from Canada, a partner with Mike Farr and Bart Kwan on Kizen Training, as well has pursuing other business ventures. He’s also a keen observer of media.

You can find Eric at 3DMuscleJourney.com and on Instagram: @helms3dmj

You can find Omar on his hugely successful YouTube channel. And Instagram as @omarisuf.

You can find them both on their new podcast, Iron Culture, but we’re drawing a blank on when new episodes get released. 

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Hosted by Mike Farr (@silentmikke) and Jim McDonald (@thejimmcd).

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