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Iron Culture

Ep. 80 - What Is Natural Bodybuilding? An Inside Look

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8827 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

The World Natural Bodybuilding Federation was founded in 1989, and since its inception led the way in professionalism for drug-free bodybuilding. We have the pleasure of speaking to one of the heads, Bob Bell, who started as a WNBF competitor, became a promoter, and now sits at the helm with Tina Smith and Nancy Andrews. The story of this progression is an intriguing one that gives insight into the complexities of keeping a sporting organization alive and flourishing. Further, just how do you decide winners in a fair and consistent way in a subjective sport? Tune into this episode to learn the answer and hear the story of the WNBF.

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0:00.0

See, now this is an episode I can get behind. I think, Eric, it's kind of become almost

0:04.7

passe in this hyper self-aware age that we live in, you know, bodybuilding, like, what's

0:10.5

that when you want to look good? As if people don't want to look maximally swole, you're lying

0:15.2

to yourself. And that is why in a way I feel, despite yes, I have a natural proclivity towards

0:20.3

the iron, strength training. I do enjoy natural proclivity towards the iron strength training.

0:22.2

I do enjoy it.

0:23.4

But it's kind of become more the cool thing, Eric, worth it.

0:26.4

I don't lift for aesthetics.

0:29.0

I live for performance.

0:30.1

I'm like, okay, yeah.

0:31.0

So when you do those bicep curls or where you do those lateral raises that aren't going to

0:34.4

help out your bench press, you're just doing that for functionality, right?

0:37.3

Right? We're both lying ourselves now. We're both in this group think lie. Okay,

0:40.9

cool. So to have someone that runs the, am I going to say best there? I don't want to say anything

0:46.9

that you would disagree with, but an extremely prominent natural bodybuilding organization,

0:52.9

the WMBF, Bob Bell, one of the trifecta to talk about

0:58.4

natural bodybuilding and talk about the organization and talk about the roots to talk about what

1:01.7

it actually means to be a natural bodybuilder. I learned a lot today. No, it was a really good

1:07.3

conversation. Yeah. So we had Bob Bell on, on like you said one of the trifecta of the

1:11.8

the current ownership of the wmbf i nbf um that has been growing tremendously just had its biggest

1:18.9

world championships back in 2019 with a true world championship with 70% international which is a pretty

1:26.2

awesome uh change and they've been,

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