[quote]pzehtoeur wrote:
Airtruth wrote:
pzehtoeur wrote:
I’ve had people tell me those fitness models to the right of the website are disgusting. They want more “womanly” women, whatever that means. I just ignore them because I honestly don’t give a damn what other people think. I’ve had girls tell me that they think guys that are “too big” are disgusting. Do I listen? Hell no.
Are you serious? maybe you should blow up the pictures. I consider my self liking all those typical magazine women types --jessica biel, alba, and simpson, and I think the ones on the side of this site are gorgous. I can understand if they don’t think women should be too big, but I just don’t get how you would view the fitness model pictures as disgusting.
They think they’re “too muscular” and dislike the veins that they have. Doesn’t really matter to me because I still find them appealling.[/quote]
It’s all about the veins. Darrem Charles was on the cover of Muscular Development a couple of years ago in what seemed to be great shape but off season. I have never seen so many women respond favorably to what they would all claim was “nasty” if he was in contest shape. The same goes for Flex Wheeler who did one photo shoot in the off season years back.
The average person couldn’t even name 5 random muscle groups so all they see when they look at a picture is shiny veins and huge muscles like they’ve never seen in their personal life at all.
Bodybuilding would actually do itself good if it quit requiring these guys to come in completely shredded to the point of having paper thin skin on their backs.
Secretly, I want to be like the classic 70’s 210-220 body builder. I think that body would look perfect on me. Half way there and not looking back.
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[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
pushmepullme wrote:
Try being a female who trains for strength. I finally shut my father in law up when I said, “Bob, you need to understand, I don’t lift like I do so that you’ll find me sexually attractive. I lift for me, and my sport.”
Heh heh heh.
Okay, I am lifting so your father-in-law will find me sexually attractive. Is that weird?
How is Bob anyway?[/quote]
Haha!
I am getting comments regarding my eating habits:
“Oh my gosh, watch your stomach. You should do more abs!”
“Don’t gain weight too fast!”
“You don’t need to be any bigger.”
Christ. Shut the FUCK up!
My parents actually take food away from me when I eat at their place.
[quote]PonceDeLeon wrote:
ouroboro_s wrote:
pushmepullme wrote:
Try being a female who trains for strength. I finally shut my father in law up when I said, “Bob, you need to understand, I don’t lift like I do so that you’ll find me sexually attractive. I lift for me, and my sport.”
Heh heh heh.
Okay, I am lifting so your father-in-law will find me sexually attractive. Is that weird?
How is Bob anyway?
Haha!
I am getting comments regarding my eating habits:
“Oh my gosh, watch your stomach. You should do more abs!”
“Don’t gain weight too fast!”
“You don’t need to be any bigger.”
Christ. Shut the FUCK up!
My parents actually take food away from me when I eat at their place.[/quote]
I love to eat there or my sisters …know why? Its free!! I don’t have to eat myself out of house and home. haha!
It’s all about the veins. Darrem Charles was on the cover of Muscular Development a couple of years ago in what seemed to be great shape but off season. I have never seen so many women respond favorably to what they would all claim was “nasty” if he was in contest shape. The same goes for Flex Wheeler who did one photo shoot in the off season years back.
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It’s all about the veins. Darrem Charles was on the cover of Muscular Development a couple of years ago in what seemed to be great shape but off season. I have never seen so many women respond favorably to what they would all claim was “nasty” if he was in contest shape. The same goes for Flex Wheeler who did one photo shoot in the off season years back.
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So you just picked a random cover with him on the front? It was Muscle and Fitness, by the way. I got the name of the mag wrong.
In the book, “Pumping Iron”, Arnold says, “I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I’m doing. Then I’m proud. On TV I am proud. But on the beach most people are not experts. The general public doesn’t know how to look. How proud can you be when they don’t even know what they’re looking at?”
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
In the book, “Pumping Iron”, Arnold says, “I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I’m doing. Then I’m proud. On TV I am proud. But on the beach most people are not experts. The general public doesn’t know how to look. How proud can you be when they don’t even know what they’re looking at?”[/quote]
Only someone who stands out or works very hard at this could understand that though. The average person has never seen 20" arms up close. When they are confronted with it, their first response is no doubt some small degree of shock if not intimidation. Bodybuilding is one of the few activities where you wear your accomplishments all day long. Everyone you meet is confronted by it even if you don’t mean it.
In a society where the average person looks like walking to the car might cause a heart attack, it is to be expected that they would have negative feelings about someone who forces them to face their own physical shortcomings at a glance.
I have heard jessica biel referred to as “too manly.”
Was it a man or a woman who said that?
My money is on a jealous woman…I’ve never heard a guy say Jessica Biel was too many - even friends of mine who are not into chicks with muscle at all. [/quote]
That’s my instinct, but it is such an outrageous statement that I wanted details. I’m jealous too, …her body is just amazing… not like I have to tell you guys that.
So you just picked a random cover with him on the front? It was Muscle and Fitness, by the way. I got the name of the mag wrong.[/quote]
Thanks for the correction, think I got the right one now, the other one serves as a pretty solid comparison. This one is May 2005, the other one is September 2005, so it’s probably pretty close to the same amount of mass, quite a difference visually though.
Picture upload messing up, gonna make new post with it.
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It’s all about the veins. Darrem Charles was on the cover of Muscular Development a couple of years ago in what seemed to be great shape but off season. I have never seen so many women respond favorably to what they would all claim was “nasty” if he was in contest shape. The same goes for Flex Wheeler who did one photo shoot in the off season years back.
The average person couldn’t even name 5 random muscle groups so all they see when they look at a picture is shiny veins and huge muscles like they’ve never seen in their personal life at all.
Bodybuilding would actually do itself good if it quit requiring these guys to come in completely shredded to the point of having paper thin skin on their backs.[/quote]
This is so true. My sister always goes ‘ewww veins gross’ when she see’s pictures of bodybuilders. They really seem to freak people out. Then I just show her pics of steve reeves and the other old old school bodybuilders, which she does’nt seem to mind to much. IMO lean but not shredded looks way better than shredded to the bone.
[quote]KBCThird wrote:
Airtruth wrote:
pzehtoeur wrote:
I’ve had people tell me those fitness models to the right of the website are disgusting. They want more “womanly” women, whatever that means. I just ignore them because I honestly don’t give a damn what other people think. I’ve had girls tell me that they think guys that are “too big” are disgusting. Do I listen? Hell no.
Are you serious? maybe you should blow up the pictures. I consider my self liking all those typical magazine women types --jessica biel,…
I have heard jessica biel referred to as “too manly.”
I have also been told at work that I am “too dedicated.”
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haha
I get the same thing. I get crap from one of my good friends because I am “too hardcore” about lifting. LOL, seriously?
I remember Vasily Alexeev being mentioned and this same guy saying “I bet he lifted less often than you do”
I’m like pal, I spend under 6 hours a week in the gym. That man lifted hundreds of pounds over his head 2-3 times a day in his garden during the Russian winter. I am a giant pussy compared to that.
My mom also recently told me I was “big enough”. I weigh less than 200 pounds. She looked relieved when I told her I WAS cutting down about 10 pounds- and then distraught when I added, after which I guess I’ll look to gain around 30 the next year and a half or so.
I’m trying not to pay attention to what people say now. Girls can say whatever they want about liking Abercrombie models. At the end of the day, you’d have to look few and far between to find a really big, strong guy who doesn’t have his pick of ass wherever he goes.
