Has it happened to anyone that you start to have doubts whether you need to put on more muscle? I keep high profile job and really look out of place being so muscular compared to my peers. I try to wear baggy clothes whenever I go to a public beach (except for the beach) because people are staring at me. Whenever I put on a shirt with cut off arms (its hot in florida) I can see everybody looking at my arms which is a little disconcerting. Every time people ask me ‘do you workout’, I say ‘NO!’ and watch confused look on their faces. Another problem is that most regular clothes won’t fit me, e.g. I have trouble fitting my quads in pants even though the waist is loose, or my shoulders won’t fit in most of t-shirts of my size. I remeber when I first started working out 10 years ago (I grow very easy, classical mesomorph), how I wanted to be big and muscular, little did I know that it is not as much fun as I though it would be. I am pretty much done with hyperophy oriented training, now I concentate on functional strength and symmetry.
I have a similiar problem, only I’m just too damned good looking. I mean just once I’d like to not have to screw some supermodel. But nooooooo, every night it’s the same thing, “Oh TEK, please do me and my fitness bunny sister, pleeeeeease!” A man likes to sleep alone sometimes for gosh sakes!
There is only one constant in this world that we can count on…CHANGE…
I know what your saying. I am not all that muscle bound but I am very tall and combined with my vascularity I freak people out, when in fact I stopped looking for hypertrophy long ago. I am just looking to accomplish freakish feats of strength and balance, like a back flip into the splits or just Sandow pressing my weight. I like to know that with each training session my body and mind have accomplished something completely new. Judging myself by weight is just not in the equation. Are you sure you want to call these people you “peers”. The happiness you derive from a single training session is more than some get in a month. Let them drool. Be the example. Show them you can be ON SWOL and do the splits and crazy shit like that. Say things like, “hey call me crazy but I just like to look good nekid.” You will be unfairly judged and discriminated against but a small price to pay for the gifts you have used so responsibly.
Yes. As I was graduating from college, I was told by an Army Doctor that I had to lose weight or I could not get in. I was 5’10" at 220 lbs with a 30" waist. I “maxed” the old 5 event PT Test, the whole 9 yards. But at 5’10" the Army said I was too heavy. So I lost 30 pounds, mostly muscle. It was kind of sad cause there I was having to report to this skinny ass runner type three times a week with a group that was half lard asses and the other half was ex-football players,wrestler, etc for remedial physical training. I learned to focus on muscle density, functional strength and pure function and that is till what I train for today. Best of Luck.
PS - I get my size 50 shirts made at the custom shirt shop in New York and buy Brooks Brothers and JCPenny separates.
I sometimes think I’d like to get bigger, but when I go out and buy clothes it makes me want to cut down some size, (but it’s just temporary insanity when I think that). because I can hardly every find clothes that I like that fit. I’m 6’2”, very broad shoulders, and wear a size 50 suit, 18.5 shirt. britches are loose fitting as possible, and a 36” waist. I noticed in my wedding pictures I stuck out rather obviously. I think my arms need to be a bit bigger because my shoulder width makes my arms seem smaller. I guess my main goal now is to be dimentionally the same at 6% as I was at 15%. I agree and I am about on the same wavelength with nick. I’d just like to take what I got and make it look better, not necessarily bigger. Looking like a well-built guy with clothes “on” is just as hard and as much effort as looking good naked.
Boo fucking hoo. Cry me a river.
hey man dont complain, i wish i had that problem. out of curiousity what are your stats including bf%.
Some of us are perpetually skinny bastards and will never be as big as you no matter how much we train and eat. Must be nice…
This thread, at first glance, would seem ridiculous. But I have had my troubles as well, so I’m glad I’m not the only one.
I started shaving my head back around the time I first started Mag-10 back in March. As I grew bigger, my poor head looked smaller and smaller compared to the rest of my body.
My buddies started calling me "Beetlejuice" (if you're unfamiliar with Beetlejuice, that's the movie with Michael Keaton and Alec Baldwin about the ghosts), because they said I was starting to look like Beetlejuice at the end of the movie...when he got his head shrunken by the voodoo guy!!!
Anyhoo, I can't put my cranium on Mag-10, so I just will have to live with it, but my voodoo head is one (albeit slight) disadvantage of getting really big.
People don’t ask me if I work out, they ask me how big my bench press is.
Just to let you know, now the Army uses a tapemeasure and a formula. Still, I was almost put on the Fat Boy list at a military school a couple years ago. I offered to show the female SGT at that station my six pack, and she said that would be good enough for her. However, some pencilneck Butter Bar (2nd LT) insisted on the tape, which he performed himself, but couldn’t get two indexes to match out of about ten tries. So, he finally gave up. Anyways, we are a lot better at this stuff now, and do value getting muscle studs in. I review the physicals for the National Guard, and also sign the waivers for those who are off the height/weight scale because of being exceptionally fine human specimens.