If you are one of the fastest in your school then you should be naturally very lean and fast twitch dominant. I would be shocked if you didn’t easily jump up to “too big” in no time if you just lifted and ate enough.
I don’t know if this is still relivant, I only read the first few posts. But If I were a woman, and someone robbed or was robbing me, I’d much rather have ProfX than Federov or Al Shades come to my aid. Just my opinion.
Um, what ‘function’ are we talking about here? That’s such a relative query I don’t know where to begin.
If you want to talk about chasing down purse snatchers, have you ever watched “COPS”? Some maybe, but I don’t recall too many 140lb cops on that show…but +220lbs, yeah, certainly.
All I know is that at, as P-X said, 185lbs and 5’11", if I were snatchin’ purses, it would only be around a bunch of light-weights (if then, why not just find an even easier target without witnesses, even skinny ones…not that I’ve thought about this or anything).
I’m not snatchin’ ANYTHING around someone like Prof X, 'cept maybe a cab ride outta town if I’ve ticked him off.
Matt
Okay, so I’m 5’11" @ 185…where’s my tub o’ Classic Grow! again?..I gotta go eat.
Once again, you guys kill me…this guy’s dopey because he’s a kid, not cause he’s little. I’m at 160, and we’re not all goofy like the Al Shades, this guy, and whoever else posted those pics a while back (though we dont have a good track record, I’ll admit).
Honestly, i have never met anyone, at any size, who lifted seriously and didnt always want to be bigger and stronger…no matter what height.
The purse snatcher thing…terribly put in the phrasing he used. Still though, I’ve known some tough motherfuckers who at 140 or 150 will fuck people up in physical confrontations…that doesn’t have too much to do with size… but I’m more confident at 160 then at 140.
Either way, cocky skinny kids shouldn’t piss you guys off this much, its not worth your time or effort.
Ideal Weight is the weight at which you are happy healthy and can do all the things you want to do. I am currently 291lbs and prob about 16-17% but I look much deifferent with the ammount of LBM I carry. and I going to have to agree with Prof x on the purse snatcher scenario. I have not had any problems purse snatchers. actually I don’t really have any problems wherever I go anymore. when you look like you can do damage people don’t start trouble. most of the time a fight or altercation is started the person starting it thinks they will not be injured( my experience, like why groups will be more likely to fight then 1 on 1) if you look like you could hurt them then most of the time they will be relluctant to start shit.
the other day someone got in my face at a party with his 2 friends, he was trying to get me to fight but I kinda just told him I might not win but I could ganauntee we would both get hurt. that kinda ended the situation without having to fight and there weren’t any more problems actually later played the guy in beer pong. so Yeah maybe you want to be “functional” (I hate that phrase) at 180 if you can do everything you want to do at that wieght great but I want to be about 270-280 and for my frame I will be very happy. I will hopefully get there at 12% in not too much longer.
BB
What’s with you people? Hasn’t anyone here seen Crocodile Dundee? Just throw a can of beans or something at the purse snatcher.
And if the guy turns out to have a switch blade, make sure yours is way bigger and say. “Now this . . . is a knife.”
i think that the weight is not so much the limiting factor but the other aspects of fitness and their relationship to the weight, to use the purse snatcher analogy at what point does the bodyweight slow you down. in my opinion it never does if you train appropriatly. sure putting on 10lbs of funtionaly usless (fat in running) weight will slow you down but if that 10lb is muscle and one trains to be a fast runner it will not slow you down. spinters have muscular physiques not just legs. the arms act as a counter balance, obviously there is an optimal body type. thats the same for any activity, in most respects muscle will be more functional than fat but being able to use the muscle is also important.
my self im 5’7 and 182 pounds aiming for 200lb before i reasess my weight goal. invitor (out of body envoronmetent) muscle is able to exert 9 time the amount of force than its weight. i think most people will realise that is quited impressive, in the body its less possibly 3 or 4 time due to cns and other factors. so to me more weight is good as i want to be stonger in absoulte terms not proprotionl to body weight. if i reach 200lb and can no longer perform certain tasks to my desires my opinion will change but frankly i dont see this happening if i train for those tasks.
an example of the tasts would be lifting a percentage of weight for number of reps, such as 225lb for 40reps as someone posted earlier. spint times. longer run times. reps vs bw in chins/pushups/dips ect. what one weights is not so much the limit but what you can do with your weight
[quote]GriffinC wrote:
I don’t know if this is still relivant, I only read the first few posts. But If I were a woman, and someone robbed or was robbing me, I’d much rather have ProfX than Federov or Al Shades come to my aid. Just my opinion.[/quote]
something you want to share with the group?
It’s okay, no one will judge you here.
[quote]Joe Weider wrote:
GriffinC wrote:
I don’t know if this is still relivant, I only read the first few posts. But If I were a woman, and someone robbed or was robbing me, I’d much rather have ProfX than Federov or Al Shades come to my aid. Just my opinion.
something you want to share with the group?
It’s okay, no one will judge you here.[/quote]
I was thinking the same thing.
I can’t relate to small people like you. The last time I was 140 pounds was in the 6th grade. I do know that 140 pounds on a man is tiny. And I hope you gain some weight with time. You’ll find that your body and the mirror are your best friends in determining what your goals need to be in the gym and diet wise. The scale and your lifts in the gym are just arbitrary numbers.
You’ll also find that as you gain quality weight people will not think you are that big. Most people cannot guess the bodyweight of a lean muscular individual. Most people underestimate my bodyweight by atleast 30 pounds.
That sounds kinda strange, because most people guess that I run about 180, when realy I am a lean 160. Not to make it a body comp issue, but I’ve noticed that people carrying a lot of lean mass are thought to be heavier based on the visual impact of their build.
[quote]mindeffer01 wrote:
That sounds kinda strange, because most people guess that I run about 180, when realy I am a lean 160. Not to make it a body comp issue, but I’ve noticed that people carrying a lot of lean mass are thought to be heavier based on the visual impact of their build.
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That is usually true. I am rarely guessed to weigh less than I do. If anything, people peg me for weighing about 20lbs more than I do. Then again, that is usually from people who lift regularly (I am sure how you genetically carry your weight as well as muscle shape has much to do with it). The average sedentary person on the street has no concept of heavy lean mass or what it should weigh. To most, anything over 220lbs is simply monstrous. They wouldn’t know the difference between a muscular 230lbs or a muscular 250lbs. All they see is “big”.
As far as people thinking you weigh 180lbs, the same rule applies. They don’t have a clue in the first place unless they also train and pay attention to bodybuilder physiques and the weight attached.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
mindeffer01 wrote:
That sounds kinda strange, because most people guess that I run about 180, when realy I am a lean 160. Not to make it a body comp issue, but I’ve noticed that people carrying a lot of lean mass are thought to be heavier based on the visual impact of their build.
That is usually true. I am rarely guessed to weigh less than I do. If anything, people peg me for weighing about 20lbs more than I do. Then again, that is usually from people who lift regularly (I am sure how you genetically carry your weight as well as muscle shape has much to do with it). The average sedentary person on the street has no concept of heavy lean mass or what it should weigh. To most, anything over 220lbs is simply monstrous. They wouldn’t know the difference between a muscular 230lbs or a muscular 250lbs. All they see is “big”.
As far as people thinking you weigh 180lbs, the same rule applies. They don’t have a clue in the first place unless they also train and pay attention to bodybuilder physiques and the weight attached.[/quote]
I have to go the other way here. And quite honestly take it as a compliment.
Most people guess me to be 30 or 40 lbs less than my weight. My guess might be that they think only a fat slob can carry around 275-280 lbs. It may also be that I am quite active and atheletic–golf, some rec bb, running 2-3 five mile races in a year.
But I almost always get a “no way” or “I would have never guessed that” when I tell them what I weigh.
200 tops!
Tri
I can catagorically state that I have never been to an Arby’s
Or is that the only contestant you actually beat in your last competition.
What do you think his max HR is?
I’m quite sure it’s not much above his resting one
[quote]sasquatch wrote:
Tri
I can catagorically state that I have never been to an Arby’s
Or is that the only contestant you actually beat in your last competition.
What do you think his max HR is?
I’m quite sure it’s not much above his resting one[/quote]
Actually, those striated glutes took the prize. I admitted defeat.
How can a triathlete compete with a lat spread like that?
He’s got a fast metabolism, those hardgainers can get away with Arby’s.
Would you snatch a purse around this guy?
I’d get tired running around that guy to get the purse
Look at that tricep and forearm development.
Priest better watch out.
Please, no more, I give
That just hurts to look at