There’s a needle in your haunch. LOLOLOLOLOL
I think you nailed it right there. Being the biggest, strongest male in the pack had evolutionary advantages. The real question is why women don’t find that attractive quite the way they do with other animals. Good thing they don’t though. Who would want one huge guy to have 15 women and the rest of us have to fight him for a mate. LOL
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They look pretty similar to me. Maybe the guy on the bottom is carrying an extra 5-lbs or maybe he’s just not flexing his abs as hard. My wife would consider either one to be too big and too extreme I’m pretty sure.
Don’t forget about Dan Bilzerian! 
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I think mine would say that’s the absolute upper limit…don’t push it even a hair beyond that. I think for me to get there (at 6’2"), I’d probably have to be 210-215.
Evgeny Mishin
Height: 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Weight: 290 lb (130 kg) (Competition)
350 lb (160 kg) (Off-Season)
He’s a big boy. LOL
Damn, I almost nailed that! I must spend too much time thinking about this shit, lol.
Amazing when you think that Arnold was about that height and competed at 235-240 and Big Lou was 6’5" and competed at 275 in 1975. I think he was a lot heavier during his comeback in the early 90s though.
How are you measuring body fat? That looks way leaner than 15% to me.
Just going off the eye test. I think almost everyone underestimates their BF, so I lean toward the opposite to check my bias.
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Yeah, it is all somewhat of a guess even with the best tools. When I see clear abs and the “Adonis belt” (iliac furrow) I think around 12% or below. I did a test one day where I used the skinfold caliper method, two different electronic scales, and the tape measure method to compare. One scale had a single setting and read 20%. The second scale set to the normal setting said 18%. My gym manager using the skin fold calipers came up with 15.2%. The tape measure using the formula they used to use when I was in the Army said 14%. And that same scale set to the “Athlete” setting said 13.5%. All within about 30 minutes of one another. And I’ve seen just as much variation with the DEXA scans and the Bod Pod. People post pictures with their results and a guy who looks lean and cut comes in at 20% while a guy with an obvious layer of fat will measure 12% or something. It’s all over the place. When I was in the Army I was always over the screening weight which would trigger a body composition test and I’d come in at 18%. They used a tape measure to measure your neck and your abdomen and then put that in a formula that would spit out a percent body fat. Today, 30+ years later, I’m about 6-lbs heavier but my neck is a half inch bigger and my waist is 2 inches smaller so the formula says 13.2%. I think it underestimates at least couple percent though so I figure around 15% give or take. I have a hint of abs but no Adonis belt visible. But compared to your picture I’m several percentage points higher than you so if you were 15% I’d probably be 18-19%.
That’s wild how different they all were! What were guys’ usual BF in the Army?
We’re probably both off, with reality landing somewhere in the middle. You’re probably more like 16% and I’m 14%. I’d guess our childhood experiences shape the way we see our bodies. I was a heavy kid, so I always think I’m fatter than I am; that perception is ingrained in me. But sounds like you were probably heavy too?
Hard to say. They’d take your height and weight and compare that to a screening chart and only tested you if you were over the screening weight. Most guys weren’t over the weight so they were never tested. If I recall correctly the max screening weight for me was 188-lbs and I always weighed in at 195 in shorts and T-shirt so I’d get body fat tested every time. The maximum allowable percentages for males today (which look pretty similar to what they were back in the 80s though I don’t recall for sure) are these:
Age 17 to 20 - 20%
Age 21 to 27 - 22%
Age 28 to 39 - 24%
Age over 40 - 26%
So at 18% I was well within limits. Everybody did Army PT daily which was a lot of calisthenics and running but very few lifted weights in a gym so most guys weren’t particularly muscular.
Well, according to How Much Should I Weigh? Recommendations for Height and Age | livestrong, this is the average weight for boys today (which is probably heavier than it was in the 70s when I was a kid):
12 90-lbs
14 112-lbs
16 134-lbs
My weight at those ages was:
12 120-lbs
14 165-lbs
16 185-lbs
So yeah, I was pretty heavy compared to the average kid. Not fat though, just built stout. Oddly I was taller than average as a kid but stopped growing at 16 at 5’10" . With my disc issues I’m closer to 5’9" now.
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Pde5 inhibitors aid in treating ED becuase they relax smooth muscle tissue, promote vasodilation…
Of course. Now why do I feel almost numb when I take them? It’s like I’m too hard. TMI, I know.
A little tmi, but when I used a cock ring and was hard as a rock, I lost a little sensation and was able to go longer because of it 
Haha. I guess it’s just too much? I dunno.
Time for the first deload on Israetel’s program. He builds this in once every 6 weeks. Pretty interesting how he does this. It’s waaaay less volume than you’re doing by the end of the fifth week.
Is this lbs or kgs? In which case if it’s kilograms… you’re doing FLYES with 25kg dumbbells
Nope, this is in pounds. Obviously not heavy weight, but I put in all my starting 10RMs very light because I’m focusing on super-slow reps, especially on the eccentric. I’ve never trained TUT before this year, so I’m getting accustomed to that modality, which I believe can yield great hypertrophic benefits.