Subjectively, sure.
If I didn’t inherit the skills with the body, I wouldn’t trade bodies. But I prefer looking like a lifter, not an endurance athlete.
@mnben87 mate the guy throws some serious iron about ffs
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Is this a rhetorical question? Or are you actually looking for an answer?
LOL!
Mostly rhetorical. I don’t really understand wanting that look, but I don’t understand very many people. It is surely far better than being out of shape / chubby. To me it just seems like if you are going to put the time in why not have more than just leanness.
I prefer that look over the one above. Little bigger.
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Having advanced amounts of musculature tends to carry far more negative connotations in society compared to having advanced amounts of leanness.
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@T3hPwnisher put it fairly well but if I might try a slightly different approach: girls
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Aye I was actually shocked when I found that one. Definitely stacked and jacked
Would ragdoll that technical dwarf Messi without a doubt
Arnold and Ventura both made it to governor in politics.
I imagine you are familiar with the notion of “the exception that proves the rule”
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Sure, I am not advocating that one should go for IFBB pro look. I also think girls like a bit more muscle than they often say.
I in a conversation in which these girls were saying they didn’t like overly muscled men. I figured I would ask what was too much. They responded with bodybuilder look (I am assuming enhanced bodybuilder look). I then asked what was about perfect. One said Chris Helmsworth in Thor. That is pretty Fking big.
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It was a joke on that concept.
I have not experienced any negatives from society, but I am also not that big.
I frequently find myself having to overcome the meathead image people have constructed of me before they get to know me. And even after that initial overcoming, it’s often still present (assumptions about how I live, eat, train, what my priorities are, etc). I did not experience this when I was smaller.
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I think perhaps there are negative connotations about a lot of body styles (fat = lazy for example). I think I probably get more judgement from my long hair than I do over my body.
Perhaps because of my field of work I avoid some of the dumb meathead thing, and would otherwise notice it more.
There are. I am saying there are more about being overly muscled vs overly lean. Primarily because the latter is hidden by clothing.
I can agree somewhat. I think it comes down to the degree of being overly muscled, and degree of overly lean. There is certainly a dumb meathead thing.
I also have a few looks going at the same time. I am rocking the skater / rocker look too with the long hair and the clothing I wear. Maybe people don’t know what to think with me.
A certain style probably enhances the dumb meathead stereo type as well. If you combine “Bro” look and meathead, I am thinking on average the perception society has of you is worse.
I am glad you agree 
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The only person’s taste that concerns me is my own.
Every woman that I have ever been with says that I was big enough. I wasn’t lifting weights for her then and I won’t lift weights for any woman going forward.
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@BrickHead Something even the most hardcore gymrats don’t usually understand until they get older is that indeed, 99.9% of the general population don’t care about muscle. Look at the mainstream media talking about the latest “celebrity to get ripped”, showing a pic of someone built like a lean 9th grade athlete.
I know I’ve commented on it before, but when I was seriously competing, no one, and I mean NO ONE I worked with really cared. It was just something I did outside of work. Sure the students thought I looked like a superhero, but my bodyfat levels? how much I could bench (no one asking has any concept or can relate to any answer I give anyway), if I was doing a cyclical diet plan, if I prefered HIIT or LISS cardio,… seriously, no one cared -lol. To be honest, I’m not carrying anywhere near the muscle mass I used to and I still get comments on my being “in great shape” even though to my own (former) standards, I’m clearly not.
That said, everyone has their own perceptions of what is impressive to them, what they would like to look like etc etc… So the idea of being “ripped” at 120 lbs,… well, that’s what we see a lot.
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