FWIW, the only person to ever ask me if I train without seeing me eat was a tailor fitting me for a suit a few days ago. That’s what got me thinking about this stuff, I guess.
The most randomly bizarre comment I ever got was “you must be really strong from carrying your bass around”.
Im 215lbs just 5.4 feet tall. Don’t know my bodyfat, but most people do ask me what gym I train in…
Ah well, I guess it’s a compliment. I think.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
It’s usually something more like, “do you workout?”…as if muscles just grow for no reason. Sometimes you get, “I was your size back when I was your age!” coming from some 140lbs dude in his late 40’s.
If you’re lucky, you’ll get, “my cousin is even bigger than you”.
Apparently everyone has a cousin over 300lbs ripped who hardly ever trains.[/quote]
I fucking hate that so much, it’s so annoying. Yet it happens constantly.
I’m 6’6" and 260. Because of my height, I’d have to tip 300 at least before I looked like I worked out at all. If I was 6 foot and proportional yet still 260, it’d be different.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
tribunaldude wrote:
Depends entirely on your frame.
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Hey, does anyone know how much money I have to earn before I have “a lot”?[/quote]
now that would depend entirely on where you live…lol jk
DG
If you try sticking your arms out as if you were carrying a barrel under each arm and wearing an extra medium t-shirt like the scrotes who currently inhabit my gym, they appear huge despite their sub 130lb bodyweights.
In my experience, if you have big arms on display everyone thinks you are enormous. Otherwise no-one seems to notice/comment.
215 with decent bodyfat at 5’4 is pretty jacked, bro. Not “OMFG WUT IS THAT BEAST COMING TOWARDS US?!!” swole, but jacked. Be proud.
Its gonna depend on a lot of factors, like bone structure, and proportions.
My upper body is small compared to my lower body, so in clothes, it doesn’t look as if I work out. Im working on that though…
But if you were 6’ 180 with 16+" arms and large traps, then people might think you workout.
Traps are one of the most important factors in looking big in clothes. With big traps there is no denying that you lift.
The funniest comment I got from a chick was: “You’re so… Whey Protein”.
People have only really started treating me as “big” quite recently.
I occasionally got comments when I was around 220lbs, but now at 240ish people don’t ask IF I train, they just jump straight into “do you take protein or are you natural?” LOL.
I am definitely odd though, at 5’10" and 240lbs (10<bf<15) I should look much bigger than I do - I honestly have no idea where all this mass is.
Im 5’10 180 ~12-13% I get asked if Im a football player alot. Girls always told me I looked like a superhero.
Alot of it is to do with individual frame my whole upper body is really thick/wide because I have a high set ribcage than normal and a mishapen collar bone that makes my chest look thicker.
Cant wait til Im 220-230 only then will I consider myself big
[quote]dankid wrote:
Its gonna depend on a lot of factors, like bone structure, and proportions.
My upper body is small compared to my lower body, so in clothes, it doesn’t look as if I work out. Im working on that though…
But if you were 6’ 180 with 16+" arms and large traps, then people might think you workout.[/quote]
Nah, bud, I’m 6’, just a tad over 200, with 17.3" arms, and like I said, I don’t get bombarded with people asking if I work out, etc. You should shoot much higher if you want to stand out in a crowd!
[quote]Professor X wrote:
patricio2626 wrote:
sam_sneed wrote:
It’s not 6’ 195lbs at 15% body fat. You can’t even tell I lift if a wear a regular shirt with long sleeves. If I wear a good fitting t-shirt I’ve gotten comments about being in shape. Recently a nurse asked me if I did pushups because I looked in shape. This was kind of an ego deflater. I got my bench up to 275 so I can look like I might do pushups?!
Yeah, I second that. I’m 201/202 at 6’, about 15% bf (maybe a tad more, but under 20 for sure), and the most common thing I get is, ‘did you play sports in school?’ Uggghhhh… I’d much rather, ‘dude, you must work out!’
It’s usually something more like, “do you workout?”…as if muscles just grow for no reason. Sometimes you get, “I was your size back when I was your age!” coming from some 140lbs dude in his late 40’s.
If you’re lucky, you’ll get, “my cousin is even bigger than you”.
Apparently everyone has a cousin over 300lbs ripped who hardly ever trains.[/quote]
That’s my favorite. i love when people tell you that you’re not big or muscular but you are the defining line for any future story they tell about someone who is big and muscular.
[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
Traps are one of the most important factors in looking big in clothes. With big traps there is no denying that you lift.[/quote]
X2. At weights less than many on here are boasting themselves I have had people ask me about my lifting because my traps developed first.
When wearing cloths big traps,shoulders and a thick chest relative to your lower body.
Otherwise it would be developed arms in a short sleeved shirt.
Also has to do with who you associate with/where you hang out, I get called big quite often because a lot of my friends are small, but I know I’m a shrimp when it comes to people I would call big myself.
[quote]red04 wrote:
Also has to do with who you associate with/where you hang out, I get called big quite often because a lot of my friends are small, but I know I’m a shrimp when it comes to people I would call big myself.[/quote]
QFT. Most of my friends are scrawny bastards or fatbodies, and they always comment on how ‘jacked’ one of my buddies is. I’ve got more muscle than him (which isn’t saying much) and I never get that only because I keep my shirt on most of the time.
It’s relative. Anyone ‘bigger than me’ is huge to most people.
Back on-topic, we had a thread very much like this one recently (I think it was in between one of the obligatory “my legs are too huge for my jeans” bullshit topics) and my thoughts were:
*If zookeepers are not shooting tranquilizer guns at you, you’re not big enough
*If Japanese women do not scream “GOJIRA” every time you wear a green shirt…
*If your arms can fit in one of those cheesy pharmacy “Test Your Blood Pressure” machines without major surgery…
*Unless you’re being asked to put your shirt back on at a water park because you’re scaring the orcas…
*If you can wipe your ass, scratch the center of your back or reach behind your head without a crippling lat cramp…
(I should put together a book of this shit, market it as “You Might be a Bodybuilder If…”, go on tour and become a redneck millionaire al la Jeff Foxworthy.)
My friend is 160 and “jacked”
I’m 200 and people ask if I come close to what he lifts.
It’s too bad because I lift more than him…in everything…especially legs…damn chicken legs.