Buff Doge vs. Cheems

Not all weightlifters are bodybuilders. I watched "Pumping Iron" (1977), a documentary about bodybuilding. It followed Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno as they worked out in hopes of earning the Mr. Olympia title. The weightlifting scenes and the personal interviews were more interesting than the climatic event to me. All they did was pose in different ways and then someone would get the title.

If you're going to lift weights to build yourself up, do it for a more beneficial purpose. Here are some more beneficial purposes for weightlifting:
1. Becoming a fitness instructor
2. Becoming a construction worker
3. Becoming a first responder (police officer, firefighter/paramedic, lifeguard or soldier)

And if you like competing, compete in an actual sport like baseball, basketball, football, soccer, rugby or swimming.

I know not all are bodybuilders. Another good way to build your strength though is to work. Seriously. Shoveling manure and cleaning out pens/shoveling snow fairly often also really helps, and it trains your back to be able to handle work with IMperfect form. along with carrying buckets of water, etc. a lot of farms will hire people to work, and they will pay you, and you get exercise out of it too. I do run in cross country

High school cross country