@CO3 We come from different roots I suppose. Nevertheless, I feel I should state while some may put aesthetics over health, and therefore take a turn to the "dark side" (i.e gear use, "death wish," what have you), to just generalize and say all bodybuilders have a death wish is preposterous. Have greater lean mass is correlated to overall longer life. Lifting heavy weights is generally the best exercise one can do...if they're going to exercise. Long slow walks are good, but I'm not sure I'd classify that as exercise per se. Marathon runners, different story. Most of them age worse than cigarette smokers. I digress, but you get my point.