Everybody has seen the perma-bulkers (or Permanent Bulkers), these are the men in the gym who take part in a never ending cycle to bulk up. They are constantly attempting to gain muscle mass no matter what it takes. You have never noticed an ounce of any muscularity on their bodies. And yet they strut around the gym feeling undefeatable while they go on and on about the stress of being a true bodybuilder. So someone needs to tell them that they aren't bodybuilders, rather perma-bulkers.



Bodybuilders work out to achieve muscle gains, while at the same time keeping their body fat percentage very low in order to be able to show off the muscles. Bodybuilders eat and train just for the purpose of developing muscles, but they also eat and train to define and separate those muscles. Bodybuilders can be seen as works of art, carved out of a big chunk of rock for people to admire all the human body muscles. Perma-bulkers are on the other end of the spectrum, they are big hunks of sweaty human mass that just lift heavy weights and eat everything in sight. These people do almost no cardio and never bother to count calories. These people actually might have a little more in common with animals than with bodybuilders.

You might think that this lifestyle is at least a healthy way of living, but it's really not. Most of them suffer from high blood pressure, bad cholesterol levels, and an increased chance of a heart attack due to all of the extra stress that's placed on their bodies. In other words, you probably wouldn't find too many old perma-bulkers.

So why do these people do it? They do it because it's easy, and you never have to be careful with your diet. This routine allows them to skip cardio and just concentrate on heavy weights. They enjoy the feeling of just being big and think that they are intimidating. If that lifestyle fits them and makes them happy then so be it, but they are not allowed to refer to themselves as bodybuilders. Actual bodybuilders don't have respect for them because it is brutish and not disciplined.

So the next time you see a perma-bulker, warn him and let him know that the routine he has chosen is not that of a bodybuilders. Let him know that a bodybuilder's diet does not consist of cheeseburgers and beer, but lean meats and vegetables. Let them know that real bodybuilders spend just as much time doing cardio as they do lifting the weights. Let them know who they really are.