[quote]SteelyD wrote:
AzCats wrote:
1morerep wrote:
Professor X wrote:
1morerep wrote:
Professor X wrote: you seem to have a difficult time grasping the idea that most people don’t look big at 170lbs unless they are EXTREMELY short.
actually i grasp the idea just fine as i see examples of it constantly.
Then why do you feel the need to jump in with, “numbers don’t matter” at every given opportunity? They do matter to those of us who don’t have a bone structure light enough to look muscular at 170lbs. If I was 170lbs thinking like you, I would still be benching 225lbs thinking that was a huge accomplishment.
because it’s tiring seeing posts about how much people lift and how many inches they’ve added to their whatever body part when in reality they are fat, shapeless and look like crap.
So tiring! I could not agree more
Yeah, God forbid anyone should make any progress in less than 10 years.
C’mon, sometimes it’s a means to an end. Someone who can see the goal or finished product 3 years out need not be so concerned with chiseled biceps/triceps. I haven’t gone back to see all the pictures in this thread (or 18"), but my recollection is that there are no ‘just all flab fat’ arms.
I don’t know, I’d rather see a few inches of growth in a year or two with smooth arms than 1/4" of chiseled growth in two years. I’d be miserable maintaining ‘ripped-ness’ for so long with no size progress, but I can only speak for myself.
Yes, I understand that at 20", 21", 22" the progression is slower, but there are few here that size making that point, and they probably didn’t stay ‘ripped’ getting there.
Hopefully, these are all works in progress and just a snapshot on the way. No one looks at a building frame or scaffolding and says “Look at that, it’s got blue tarp and no walls-- forever!”, do they?[/quote]
It is not not necessary to get fat. You do NOT need to get fat to grow muscle.
It is likely you will gain some fat but it should be proportionate to the muscle you grow… if you have very little then you should by rights have very little fat!
I agree with works in progress… but IMO one doesn’t flaunt ‘work in progress’, showing off (yes, blatantly) one’s ‘assets’ if it is just work in progress. Without blowing my own horn, i am in pretty good shape, but i still consider myself a work in progress and as such i wouldn’t dream of saying some of this stuff.
Shit - i wouldn’t ‘show off’* regardless.
(*Showing off being different from showing or displaying or exhibiting…)
It is an age thing though… younger lads are much more inclined to show off - and paradoxically they will likely have less TO show off due to their age too!
There are some very highly developed men on this site… and of all those who show off strangely it ISN’T usually those with muscle and shape!
I respect modesty. I do my best to practice it too… But if you aren’t born with it (modesty) - it is something that if it comes, will come with age… as such many teens tend to show off.
This fact doesn’t make it any less distasteful in my opinion, but as we all know, many teens (no, not all) are full of it and get a pass for that by the vast majority of adults.
Many man and women here will have had to breathe deeply and count to 10 instead of slapping (or shouting at, at least) some cheeky bloody kid who didn’t realise what he was saying, who to, and in what manner;
This is the ‘free pass’ they get.
It doesn’t mean to say that guys shouldn’t tell them (the unwarranted show-offs) where to get off their box though… how else will they learn? LOL
IMO at least… ;D
