[quote]XanderBuilt wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
My ideal physique is that of a guy such as Greg Plitt or several mens physique competitors on the larger side.[/quote]
But why the need to inform us so much that you would rather stay lean and would like to look like a “physique competitor”?
I mean, this is the bodybuilding forum but I swear I hear that a lot from you.
We get it. You like being lean. What gets me though is that the thought seems to be that the rest of us either can’t get lean or are so fat we need to be informed what the other side is like frequently.
However, this isn’t about who gets laid more because bodybuilding is about LONG TERM GOALS.
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Why wouldn’t “Men’s Physique” be considered a Bodybuilding-related goal? Yes I realise they are different categories in competition but are we not deploying Bodybuilding nutrition and training protocols to achieve the former? My point is the pursuit is big enough for all people to achieve all goals.[/quote]
Men’s Physique is “bodybuilding related”. The difference usually being their desire to not really get that big. Everyone here has their own goals in mind, but since the topics usually do focus on actual bodybuilding that REQUIRES a certain level of size and development, hearing people act as if that SIZE issue is now unimportant can actually confuse some people.
For instance, like the poster above me noted, Austin got pretty heavy in the past. This is something very often ignored by lifters once they put the size on. You see it often. Usually unless probed, the lifter will act like that “bulk” never happened or that it didn’t help at all…even if it did.
Just like this topic seems to be hovering around “aesthetics vs bodybuilding”, it needs to be understood that for most people, without drug use, it is going to be damned hard to try to stay super lean AND put on enough muscle mass to actually qualify as “big” (which stated before is more like 3lbs per inch in height lean).
That is why when people who aren’t that big log in claiming how easy it is, we all laugh.
This isn’t about degrading “physique competitors”. I asked him why he felt the need to bring that up often when the topic here is clearly about bodybuilding and he bulked up too. Austin has made far less progress in the realm of size gains than he was making before now that his focus is on his leanness above all else (while being in the prime of his life to make the most gains in size without injury). That is pretty much what we’ve been saying since page one.
