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SHAWN RHODEN HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THE LOVE/HATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BODYBUILDERS AND SOME OF THEIR FANS? I don’t think love/hate is really what’s behind it. Athletes are displaying physiques that are difficult to develop. It’s a combination of a lot of things—diet, training, genetics, discipline, all that. The people who are throwing out the worst of the comments, I think it’s because they can’t accomplish that kind of look on their own—it’s beyond what they can achieve, either because of one of those factors I mentioned before or for some other reason. It’s upsetting to them. The fact is that only a small percentage of the population is going to have all those factors working for them, and they’re not part of that small percentage—and it makes them mad. FLEXONLINE.COM 45