Интервью с основателем WBFF Полом Диллет.
Вкратце,бодибилдинг умер, так как все забыли об эстетике, пропорциях и гонятся только за массой.
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I look at bodybuilding today, and I can't lie: It disappoints me. Back when I competed, guys still looked aesthetically pleasing. Even when the guys were big, they still looked incredible. Now, the bodybuilders just look like a bunch of powerlifters to me. They're huge guys, but I don't see any shape in any of them.
When the biggest guy gets rewarded, everyone else feels the need to get bigger too. Somewhere along the line, everyone forgot about symmetry and balance. Everyone is just going for mass, mass, mass. I was one of the guys who started the mass thing. I told people, "Mass is class."
But, no matter how heavy I got, when I stepped on stage, I carried nothing more than a 30- or 31-inch waist. Today you can't find that. Nobody has that flat stomach anymore. It looks like guys have abs on top of a basketball.
I think bodybuilding is dead. It's nowhere nearly as popular as what it used to be in the '80s and '90s when it was at its peak. It was a different time.
What's the new direction you're trying to take with the men's divisions of the WBFF?
For me, even though bodybuilding is dead, I know people still want to have a nice physique. They want to go into gyms, and they still want to have a great body.
I created a division called "muscle model," which is a cross between a fitness model and a bodybuilder. Not big enough to be a bodybuilder, not small enough to be a fitness model, but he still has nice full pecs and a full back. I think "muscle model" fits him because he's still a model, but he's not a bodybuilder. When he lifts his arms up, he still has biceps.
There's a market for the guys who like training, like working out, even like competing, but who don't want to be a bodybuilder.