[quote]SteelyD wrote:
It seems from the OP there would be a ton of people walking around looking like this.
I’m starting to rack up a lot of time in gyms around the US, and I’m not seeing this type of thing anywhere. In fact, I’m not seeing a lot of big guys period, let alone so out of proportion that they’re even worth discussing.[/quote]
Exactly. In most gyms, you would be hard pressed to find even two guys who would qualify as huge to regular trainers…and maybe one or less who look like they are about 4-5 months out from doing well as a heavy weight at a high level.
None of the pics posted in this thread show this either. I think some newer trainers just want shit to bitch about. It would help if their own progress justified the judgment.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
It seems from the OP there would be a ton of people walking around looking like this.
I’m starting to rack up a lot of time in gyms around the US, and I’m not seeing this type of thing anywhere. In fact, I’m not seeing a lot of big guys period, let alone so out of proportion that they’re even worth discussing.[/quote]
Exactly. In most gyms, you would be hard pressed to find even two guys who would qualify as huge to regular trainers…and maybe one or less who look like they are about 4-5 months out from doing well as a heavy weight at a high level.
None of the pics posted in this thread show this either. I think some newer trainers just want shit to bitch about. It would help if their own progress justified the judgment.[/quote]
True, all too often.
“He can bench and row and military press and shrug more than me, BUT I SQUAT ATG, see me, see me, see how deep I squat!!??!!!???!? I’m better right?!?!!”
[quote]Nards wrote:
^^ That’s pretty clever. I never would’ve thought of that.
Now let’s say all the pics of my legs were also stretched so that Professor X will stop telling his patients to floss regularly with Nards’ Legs Brand Dental Floss.[/quote]
Why would I do that? I just bought stock in that company seeing as they should be in business for a very LONG time.[/quote]
THAT’S IT! I’ve had it! I’m taking down my avatar of me and you that I have to commemorate the summer of '88 when we helped bring down the evil regime of lizard people that controlled all of our wills through subliminal subversion!
You certainly weren’t complaining about the size of my legs with the amount of Andromedan ass I kicked back then!
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Exactly. In most gyms, you would be hard pressed to find even two guys who would qualify as huge to regular trainers…and maybe one or less who look like they are about 4-5 months out from doing well as a heavy weight at a high level.
None of the pics posted in this thread show this either. I think some newer trainers just want shit to bitch about. It would help if their own progress justified the judgment.[/quote]
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
True, all too often.
“He can bench and row and military press and shrug more than me, BUT I SQUAT ATG, see me, see me, see how deep I squat!!??!!!???!? I’m better right?!?!!”[/quote]
I just thought this, what if there were people whose upper body didn’t match their legs ?
[quote]Nards wrote:
^^ That’s pretty clever. I never would’ve thought of that.
Now let’s say all the pics of my legs were also stretched so that Professor X will stop telling his patients to floss regularly with Nards’ Legs Brand Dental Floss.[/quote]
Why would I do that? I just bought stock in that company seeing as they should be in business for a very LONG time.[/quote]
THAT’S IT! I’ve had it! I’m taking down my avatar of me and you that I have to commemorate the summer of '88 when we helped bring down the evil regime of lizard people that controlled all of our wills through subliminal subversion!
You certainly weren’t complaining about the size of my legs with the amount of Andromedan ass I kicked back then![/quote]
Let’s face it, you were WAY cooler back then…and those sunglasses allowed us to see aliens AND added 30lbs of muscle to you.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
The images were stretched. All of them. Proportion remains the same. A thin leg will always look thin in relation to a more developed upper body, no matter how much distortion to the photo. [/quote]
Fair enough, but you have to admit that Crews’ legs still look like elastic bands in comparison with what you see in the White Chicks clip I posted earlier (where his legs don’t look that skinny in relation to his upper body).
I Googled “Terry Crews Chicken Legs” before I posted about the stretched pic, and lo and behold all the top search results were links to threads on bodybuilding.com., indicating that it originally came from there.
That’s why I said, and still say, that this wasn’t done accidentally. The complexity of the method is secondary: it still counts as ‘tampering’ in my book if there is a specific intent behind it.
I doubt a random switch in ratios would have snowballed to that degree and it just happened to have made its way onto bb.com of all places…
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Exactly. In most gyms, you would be hard pressed to find even two guys who would qualify as huge to regular trainers…and maybe one or less who look like they are about 4-5 months out from doing well as a heavy weight at a high level.
None of the pics posted in this thread show this either. I think some newer trainers just want shit to bitch about. It would help if their own progress justified the judgment.[/quote]
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
True, all too often.
“He can bench and row and military press and shrug more than me, BUT I SQUAT ATG, see me, see me, see how deep I squat!!??!!!???!? I’m better right?!?!!”[/quote]
I just thought this, what if there were people whose upper body didn’t match their legs ?
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[quote]Professor X wrote:
Exactly. In most gyms, you would be hard pressed to find even two guys who would qualify as huge to regular trainers…and maybe one or less who look like they are about 4-5 months out from doing well as a heavy weight at a high level.
None of the pics posted in this thread show this either. I think some newer trainers just want shit to bitch about. It would help if their own progress justified the judgment.[/quote]
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
True, all too often.
“He can bench and row and military press and shrug more than me, BUT I SQUAT ATG, see me, see me, see how deep I squat!!??!!!???!? I’m better right?!?!!”[/quote]
I just thought this, what if there were people whose upper body didn’t match their legs ?
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[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
At my Japanese gym there is a guy with the biggest upper body to lower body discrepancy I have yet to see. His name is Kenji and he says “fuck” a lot. I think it’s the only English word he knows. Pretty much after every set he’ll simply say “fuck” and put his weights back.
He’s not IFBB huge, but his upper body would probably get a 7.5 or an 8 if he posted it in RMP.
His legs…you’d see bigger legs on an 80 year old shuffleboard player in Florida. Not quite, but close. There was such a difference that I wondered if he had had a motorcycle accident and was re-learning to walk, or peroneal nerve damage, or polio, or SOMETHING…but nope, his friends tell me that he wants to keep his legs small because it’s fashionable (skinny jeans?)
I’m going to try and snap a picture the next time I’m in…
I was once in a Wal-Mart waiting for my friend to finish shopping and I saw a swole dude checking out (I couldn’t see his lower body)and as he pushed his cart to the door he turned and I saw his legs… they were tiny. It was mind-boggling. I was confused as heck as to how he had that sort of imbalance. But that’s one guy out of I don’t know how many swole guys I have seen.
[quote]byukid wrote:
I was once in a Wal-Mart waiting for my friend to finish shopping and I saw a swole dude checking out (I couldn’t see his lower body)and as he pushed his cart to the door he turned and I saw his legs… they were tiny. It was mind-boggling. I was confused as heck as to how he had that sort of imbalance. But that’s one guy out of I don’t know how many swole guys I have seen.[/quote]
Old thread…but I wear “long shorts” that end below the knees. I ahve raised my pants up in the gym and had people comment that they didn’t know my legs were that big.
Unless the guy is truly showing his quads off (which is rare unless he is wearing 1970’s tennis shorts), you may be off about that.
[quote]byukid wrote:
I was once in a Wal-Mart waiting for my friend to finish shopping and I saw a swole dude checking out (I couldn’t see his lower body)and as he pushed his cart to the door he turned and I saw his legs… they were tiny. It was mind-boggling. I was confused as heck as to how he had that sort of imbalance. But that’s one guy out of I don’t know how many swole guys I have seen.[/quote]
Old thread…but I wear “long shorts” that end below the knees. I ahve raised my pants up in the gym and had people comment that they didn’t know my legs were that big.
Unless the guy is truly showing his quads off (which is rare unless he is wearing 1970’s tennis shorts), you may be off about that.
I have small ankles but my legs are much bigger.[/quote]
I had a pretty good look at his calves, and the were smaller than his forearms by a considerable amount. He wasn’t wearing anything particularly baggy. I’m not saying he coulsn’t have, but it would surprise me.
[quote]byukid wrote:
I was once in a Wal-Mart waiting for my friend to finish shopping and I saw a swole dude checking out (I couldn’t see his lower body)and as he pushed his cart to the door he turned and I saw his legs… they were tiny. It was mind-boggling. I was confused as heck as to how he had that sort of imbalance. But that’s one guy out of I don’t know how many swole guys I have seen.[/quote]
Old thread…but I wear “long shorts” that end below the knees. I ahve raised my pants up in the gym and had people comment that they didn’t know my legs were that big.
Unless the guy is truly showing his quads off (which is rare unless he is wearing 1970’s tennis shorts), you may be off about that.
I have small ankles but my legs are much bigger.[/quote]
I had a pretty good look at his calves, and the were smaller than his forearms by a considerable amount. He wasn’t wearing anything particularly baggy. I’m not saying he coulsn’t have, but it would surprise me.[/quote]
Still, big calves are genetic. I know a lot of big dudes with small calves yet big muscles everywhere else. That is why unless you see QUADS, you could be off.
Johnny Jackson, a well known IFBB pro bodybuilder has calves that look smaller than mine. If he wore even Under Armour shorts with an 11" inseam you may not be able to see his legs well.
[quote]byukid wrote:
I was once in a Wal-Mart waiting for my friend to finish shopping and I saw a swole dude checking out (I couldn’t see his lower body)and as he pushed his cart to the door he turned and I saw his legs… they were tiny. It was mind-boggling. I was confused as heck as to how he had that sort of imbalance. But that’s one guy out of I don’t know how many swole guys I have seen.[/quote]
Old thread…but I wear “long shorts” that end below the knees. I ahve raised my pants up in the gym and had people comment that they didn’t know my legs were that big.
Unless the guy is truly showing his quads off (which is rare unless he is wearing 1970’s tennis shorts), you may be off about that.
I have small ankles but my legs are much bigger.[/quote]
I had a pretty good look at his calves, and the were smaller than his forearms by a considerable amount. He wasn’t wearing anything particularly baggy. I’m not saying he coulsn’t have, but it would surprise me.[/quote]
Still, big calves are genetic. I know a lot of big dudes with small calves yet big muscles everywhere else. That is why unless you see QUADS, you could be off.
Johnny Jackson, a well known IFBB pro bodybuilder has calves that look smaller than mine. If he wore even Under Armour shorts with an 11" inseam you may not be able to see his legs well.
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[quote]byukid wrote:
I was once in a Wal-Mart waiting for my friend to finish shopping and I saw a swole dude checking out (I couldn’t see his lower body)and as he pushed his cart to the door he turned and I saw his legs… they were tiny. It was mind-boggling. I was confused as heck as to how he had that sort of imbalance. But that’s one guy out of I don’t know how many swole guys I have seen.[/quote]
Old thread…but I wear “long shorts” that end below the knees. I ahve raised my pants up in the gym and had people comment that they didn’t know my legs were that big.
Unless the guy is truly showing his quads off (which is rare unless he is wearing 1970’s tennis shorts), you may be off about that.
I have small ankles but my legs are much bigger.[/quote]
I had a pretty good look at his calves, and the were smaller than his forearms by a considerable amount. He wasn’t wearing anything particularly baggy. I’m not saying he coulsn’t have, but it would surprise me.[/quote]
Still, big calves are genetic. I know a lot of big dudes with small calves yet big muscles everywhere else. That is why unless you see QUADS, you could be off.
Johnny Jackson, a well known IFBB pro bodybuilder has calves that look smaller than mine. If he wore even Under Armour shorts with an 11" inseam you may not be able to see his legs well.
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I don’t think my calves are exceptional at 18+", but I actually got (a rare) compliment at the gym on my calves on TGiving day. Wasn’t even leg day and long shorts, too ;). Pic on TG Day before feasting and football (grainy pic, but you get the idea).
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Exactly. In most gyms, you would be hard pressed to find even two guys who would qualify as huge to regular trainers…and maybe one or less who look like they are about 4-5 months out from doing well as a heavy weight at a high level.
None of the pics posted in this thread show this either. I think some newer trainers just want shit to bitch about. It would help if their own progress justified the judgment.[/quote]
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
True, all too often.
“He can bench and row and military press and shrug more than me, BUT I SQUAT ATG, see me, see me, see how deep I squat!!??!!!???!? I’m better right?!?!!”[/quote]
I just thought this, what if there were people whose upper body didn’t match their legs ?
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