It Appears Australian Bodybuilder Josh Lenartowicz is Hinting At Retirement

Josh Lenartowicz may have reached the end of the road.

Competing at the highest levels of bodybuilding is no easy task. It takes a tremendous amount of dedication, time, effort, and passion. If one hopes to be one of the best bodybuilders on the planet they can cut no corners in obtaining greatness.

Once the passion goes away, it’s hard to justify pushing your body and mind to the limit.

It appears top Australian bodybuilder Josh Lenartowicz agrees with that sentiment.

After putting the bodybuilding world on notice in 2015-2017, Josh Lenartowicz has hit some hard times in recent years. It appears that these unfortunate circumstances have added to his decision to potentially retire.

Josh Lenartowicz recently went on social media to explain his reasoning for potentially walking away from competitive bodybuilding.

When am I competing next? Photo on the left was taken at Flex Lewis gym The Dragon’s Llair where I was thankful to the help of flex and Dallas McCarver in the last week before @tgflex 2017 Tampa pro and the photo on the right was taken at Ben Pakulski gym in Tampa, I have met some great people in my career. For me bodybuilding has always been to reach a personal best and if the judges say I’m the winner on the day I’m extremely grateful but winning has never been the goal, the personal improvement has been the goal and winning in a byproduct of that improvement. I was in a really great place in bodybuilding from 2015-2017 and if I compare my stage photos from 2019-2020 against 2015-2017 I know that I’m regressing, I know the hardships I have faced have contributed to this but when I’m not improving, I’m not enjoying the process or passionate about bodybuilding and life’s too short to spend on something you’re not in love with so I have made the decision to not compete again until I can prove to myself that I’m my personal best or unfortunately I will never be competing again.

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When am I competing next? Photo on the left was taken at @flex_lewis gym @the_dragons_lair where I was thankful to the help of flex and @dallasmccarver in the last week before @tgflex 2017 Tampa pro and the photo on the right was taken at Ben Pakulski @bpakfitness gym in Tampa, I have met some great people in my career. For me bodybuilding has always been to reach a personal best and if the judges say I’m the winner on the day I’m extremely grateful but winning has never been the goal, the personal improvement has been the goal and winning in a byproduct of that improvement. I was in a really great place in bodybuilding from 2015-2017 and if I compare my stage photos from 2019-2020 against 2015-2017 I know that I’m regressing, I know the hardships I have faced have contributed to this but when I’m not improving i’m not enjoying the process or passionate about bodybuilding and life’s too short to spend on something you’re not in love with so I have made the decision to not compete again until I can prove to myself that I’m my personal best or unfortunately I will never be competing again. #futureplans #time #energy #effort #progress #regress #struggles #personalachievement #youvsyou #bodybuilding #retire #deepthoughts #planning #life #satisfaction #enjoyment #happiness #timewilltell

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