Butt Striations

Training Bodybuilding
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[quote]anonym wrote:

I honestly do not understand how people who profess an interest in bodybuilding can look at competitors on stage and immediately think “homo-erotic” - at least, not without a slight predisposition towards it themselves.

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But you can certainly see how people who aren’t interested in body building can make these kinds of claims. I think changing the posing trunks would make bodybuilding more accessible to the public and not weird people out. Please tell me you’ve noticed that most people think bodybuilders are freaks.

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I suppose it’s somewhat impressive to achieve a state like that, but I have no desire to have a striated ass…

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[quote]anonym wrote:

Seriously. Isn’t it odd that people can’t look at a bodybuilding competition without immediately projecting sexuality onto it? >>>[/quote]

I once used the word beautiful to describe Ken Wheeler was immediately reminded of how few people on Earth would understand what I meant.

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[quote]anonym wrote:
FightingScott wrote:
That would help get rid of the homo-erotic vibe for sure. I think we can just move back to normal speedos and assume that if they have hamstring striations and lower-lat christmas tree striations that they’ve got other striations we don’t need to see but we know are there.

I honestly do not understand how people who profess an interest in bodybuilding can look at competitors on stage and immediately think “homo-erotic” - at least, not without a slight predisposition towards it themselves.

Seriously. Isn’t it odd that people can’t look at a bodybuilding competition without immediately projecting sexuality onto it? I look at these guys the way I would look at a sculpture - I focus on the physique and its blend of size, proportion, and symmetry etc… I do not, instead, zero in on it as being merely a bunch of waxed and oiled dudes chillin’ in banana hammocks under bright lights.

I judge (and, in some cases, admire) their physiques without having to battle the thoughts of them Frenching each other (or me) out of my head. Hell, I can even look at a dog without thinking bestiality, too.

I think anyone who gets uncomfortable about a “homo-erotic” vibe with bodybuilding needs to just grow the hell up. It’s an ass, people, I’m sure you’ve seen one or two of them before. And this is one of those times where it’s ok to look at one without feeling icky or guilty.

I mean, he’s not asking you to stick anything in it, for God’s sake.[/quote]

Spot-on, I can’t stand when sexuality is projected onto things like this. It would be like people jerking off to sculptures of naked people, instead of just seeing them for what they are…art. As to the health risks of getting that dry, that’s up to the competitors; it’s their health. No-one’s forcing them to do it.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
anonym wrote:
FightingScott wrote:
That would help get rid of the homo-erotic vibe for sure. I think we can just move back to normal speedos and assume that if they have hamstring striations and lower-lat christmas tree striations that they’ve got other striations we don’t need to see but we know are there.

I honestly do not understand how people who profess an interest in bodybuilding can look at competitors on stage and immediately think “homo-erotic” - at least, not without a slight predisposition towards it themselves.

Seriously. Isn’t it odd that people can’t look at a bodybuilding competition without immediately projecting sexuality onto it? I look at these guys the way I would look at a sculpture - I focus on the physique and its blend of size, proportion, and symmetry etc… I do not, instead, zero in on it as being merely a bunch of waxed and oiled dudes chillin’ in banana hammocks under bright lights.

I judge (and, in some cases, admire) their physiques without having to battle the thoughts of them Frenching each other (or me) out of my head. Hell, I can even look at a dog without thinking bestiality, too.

I think anyone who gets uncomfortable about a “homo-erotic” vibe with bodybuilding needs to just grow the hell up. It’s an ass, people, I’m sure you’ve seen one or two of them before. And this is one of those times where it’s ok to look at one without feeling icky or guilty.

I mean, he’s not asking you to stick anything in it, for God’s sake.

This is exactly how I feel about it even though I could see a huge benefit in making posing trunks cover more area than they currently do. I personally don’t give a shit about this particular pose. The level of dryness it takes to get in that condition is the most harmful aspect of what these guys do and what will directly injure more of them than anything else.

If anything, we need to stop pushing for people to come in that dry in the first place.[/quote]

Love the new avatar prof x.

on topic:
Can someone explain straitions? Are they very large muscle fibres?

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oh dear…

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[quote]ahzaz wrote:

Love the new avatar prof x.[/quote]

And how does he manage to put the same cool looking “X” on them?

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[quote]hungry4more wrote:
Spot-on, I can’t stand when sexuality is projected onto things like this. It would be like people jerking off to sculptures of naked people, instead of just seeing them for what they are…art.[/quote]

I’ll admit, when I first started getting into bodybuilding, I would be weirded out pretty often. How soon we forget that what is commonplace to we who are fans isn’t for others. Sexuality projected? Looking at near-naked men and commenting on their bodies isn’t an activity usually pursued by heterosexual men nowadays. Nudity = sex to most in our modern culture, whether we agree or not.

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[quote]michael2507 wrote:
chris666 wrote:
conorh wrote:
FightingScott wrote:
Dirty_Bulk wrote:
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Thinking back to Pumping Iron, what Arnold wore wasn’t even a speedo, really, was it? I definitely don’t remember seeing the big Prussian lug in a banana hammock.
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I guess you meant Styrian lug not Prussian lug. Prussia is a region in Germany and Poland. Styria is the “Bundesland” (state) of Austria where Arnold was born.

As U.S. citizen, you might think “Germany, Austria, who gives a shit?” but Austrians in general do not like being mistaken for a “piefke”.

Well, I guess it’s better than being mistaken for Australia. Whatever. I’ll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie.[/quote]

G’Day Michael!

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[quote]Dirty_Bulk wrote:
Nudity = sex to most in our modern culture, whether we agree or not.[/quote]

Yes, in our modern culture it does. Like I said, I simply look at it as art. Certainly not a form that the majority of people accept, but that’s fine by me.