[quote]RTJenforcer wrote:
I think a rule of thumb should be if you can see someone’s ribs (without a vacuum pose) then they don’t warrant adjectives like “ripped” and “muscular”, or comparisons with the fucking Hulk.
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Also, comparisons with The Hulk should only be made if high concentrations of gamma radiation are involved during ‘training’ (preferably administered in the form of an extremely large bomb).
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]RTJenforcer wrote:
I think a rule of thumb should be if you can see someone’s ribs (without a vacuum pose) then they don’t warrant adjectives like “ripped” and “muscular”, or comparisons with the fucking Hulk.
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Also, comparisons with The Hulk should only be made if high concentrations of gamma radiation are involved during ‘training’ (preferably administered in the form of an extremely large bomb).
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How bout a moderately sized bomb, what with the economy being the way it is.
I gotta admit, if the opportunity to watch a couple of soccer teams suit up for the NFL arose, I’d watch at least once.
The comedic effect of seeing 900 or so yards on unsportsmanlike conduct penalties for diving would be great.
hehe
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
How bout a moderately sized bomb, what with the economy being the way it is.[/quote]
Don’t get me wrong - I support economically viable choices just as much as the next person, but opting for a smaller bomb may produce a raging egomaniac with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge (knowledge that never actually gets them anywhere) and a body disproportionate to their head. We’ve got plenty of those already 
[quote]blake2616 wrote:
[quote]Anonymas wrote:
Soccer > baseball
Rugby > American Football
ergo (that means ‘therefore’ in latin for you americans 
)
US fails
Quod Erat Demonstrandum (ill let you google that one)
On topic: Ronaldo’s a homo[/quote]
I wonder why all these poor and little countries pick up on soccer? Is it because they know they will get their asses handed to them if they pick real sports like (American) Football and Baseball? Maybe a bunch of poor uneducated people were sitting around one day trying to think of something to do, and with their feeble minds they just decided to kick a spheroid around for hours and hours not even scoring any points. This is how the incredibly boring and poor sport of soccer got started.
Also, what kind of a pussy sport shows someone a card when they break the rules? Why not throw a colored projectile across the field? Or make meaningful hand gestures while yelling loud enough the whole stadium can hear you?
Plus, someone would have to be drunk to enjoy watching soccer. That’s why a lot of ‘soccer countries’ have so much rampant drinking. “Well, we picked soccer, because we didn’t want the Americans to beat us or do better than us again. So, I guess we have to start drinking heavily or this shit is going to get very boring, very quickly.”
baka desu!(Tmuscle doesn’t want to display the kanji, so I took it out)
Now, you go and google that![/quote]
I hope this is a joke. Baseball has some of the most non-athletic “athletes” any sport the world over (except maybe cricket), Basket Ball is the whiniest sport ever, where nearly every contact is a foul, and American Football, where a 90% of the buys have zero body composition (I’m sure someone will post a picture of the one of the 1 in 10 who do), and take a two minuet breather for ever five seconds of actual play.
I never understood why Rugby and Soccer never really caught on here, other than an arrogant anti-European/rest of the world attitude so many Americans carry, along with that chip on their shoulder.
Yeah, and this guy looks nothing like “The Incredible Hulk”.
While Ronaldo is getting some stick on a bodybuilding forum, he can at least be credited for putting on 20lbs of muscle over the past few years and proving to alot of dumb asses that adding muscle with the right kind of training doesn’t slow you down and makes you a much more powerful athlete. However, totally agree with the stupid comment made by ignorant newspapers and posters under the article. If you look on the castrol performace website you’ll see that Ronaldo squats 150kg - yeah nothing special but at least weight training is becomming part of the game. It makes me laugh when people suggest that Beckham has the perfect football (soccer) physique, because he only does by steroetypical, old school concepts. The future of soccer is going to see bigger and bigger players. Ronalso has piled on a fair bit of muscle but he’s just as able to cover 8km in a game as his skinnier counterparts. I’m waiting for a team to grasp this even more and produce a team where every player is 200lbs plus with footballing talent. Once that happens and people see the result, the game will be changed forever.
P.S Micah Richards supposedly doesn’t lift weights much but I’m guessing he has some decent genetics in that case! He’d be a beast if he did bodybuild.
Micah Richards doesn’t lift weights??? Come on the boy’s a tank. Then again I remember the Ghana football team at the last world cup they were pretty jacked all of them.
I agree about footballers getting bigger. Days of pies and a pint are long long over
[quote]Loudog75 wrote:
All you Euro guys should chill. We know you love soccer and we give you crap cause you take the bait.
What’s not to love about some skinny feminine guys running around a field in short shorts kicking at each other’s balls. You gotta love that stuff right???[/quote]
True, but you can make a damn good arguement for America’s beloved game of baseball. Soccer players may be skinny, but seriously, most baseball players are bunch of out of shape fat assess. I mean a pitcher with a blister on his finger is put on Disabled List. What the??
I’m not defending soccer by any stretch, ( hockey is my game )but if your going to bash the Euro guys and soccer, you really need to take a closer look at the All American sports like baseball. In fact, I put baseball right up there with curling and lawn bowling.
[quote]JACKED71 wrote:
I mean a pitcher with a blister on his finger is put on Disabled List. What the??
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I’m going to go out on a limb and assume it is because they can’t properly grip the ball, therefore not be able to throw the ball properly. That means curve balls don’t curve, and sliders don’t slide. Which in turn means your pitcher gets knocked around like a bum.
[quote]Spartiates wrote:
and American Football, where a 90% of the buys have zero body composition (I’m sure someone will post a picture of the one of the 1 in 10 who do), and take a two minuet breather for ever five seconds of actual play.
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Body composition has fucking zero relevance to ones ability to own mofos on the field.
california> america+UK
[quote]JLu wrote:
Don’t worry about the last 2 posts, I understood the sarcasm and thought it was quite hilarious. Hopefully I’m not alone.[/quote]
I’m glad someone got it. Yeah, it was totally satirical. Playing into the hyperbole of arrogant American was too tempting to pass up.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]Spartiates wrote:
and American Football, where a 90% of the buys have zero body composition (I’m sure someone will post a picture of the one of the 1 in 10 who do), and take a two minuet breather for ever five seconds of actual play.
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Body composition has fucking zero relevance to ones ability to own mofos on the field.
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Agreed, what does body comp have to do with athletic performance? If your worried about body comp go to a bodybuilding contest.
Also, trying to compare sports to one another is pointless, they all have different rules and intricacies, thus require different sets of skills and athletic aptitude for success. Toughness of a sport all depends on the eye of the beholder.
Someone could say that marathoners are the biggest pansies in the world because they run in a non-contact sport, but have any of us ever battled ourselves, both mentally and physically for 26 miles while running?
http://www.cristiano-ronaldo.org/cristiano-ronaldo-vs-lionel-messi-78_.html
omfg
Ronaldo maintains his amazing physique by lifting in excess of 20 tonnes - the equivalent of 10 Audi 4x4s - during a full weight training session.
5t of which is leg press…
btw, is it just me, or “tricep curl” should be triceps extension? it’s not like one can curl with a muscle that has the function of straightening the arm…
It looks to me like that link in the post before this says that Ronaldo does 4 sets of 6 deads at 200 kg… after doing leg press and squat and clean (which is interesting that he even does all of that in one workout)
Are there any big soccer players, they always have fat legs and thats it.
Carlos puyol isnt small. dont ask why i have this image saved to my comp.
the thing is, as people have said, soccer is basically a 90 minute HIIT workout. anyone who is not in excellent competitive shape and has played pickup soccer knows that. but yeah, most players fit the bill of the guy from twighlight or whatever pretty boy we were talking about earlier in this thread than the Hulk. but then again, so do cornerbacks, quarterbacks, wideouts, some safeties in the NFL.
[quote]JLu wrote:
[quote]Cockney Blue wrote:
to be fair if you compare him now to when he arrived in the UK he has bulked up a lot (was a skinny kid when he turned up) also this is from one of the worst newspapers in the UK. And compared to most people on the street he is in amazing shape (scary I know)[/quote]
Still, accusations of using steroids for a guy who weighs 190 is like accusing someone who gets 70s in school of cheating.[/quote]
It’s really not and I’ll tell you why.
Assuming Ronaldo does not eat and train like a bodybuilder, why would his gains off AAS be comparable (as you are implying) to someone who DOES do both?
I’m not saying whether or not he did use AAS and I don’t care, but if you’re going to compare him to someone has HAS used and who HAS gained much more in the same amount of time, at least compare them against another athlete with similar training regimen and diet (of which is a mystery as well for Ronaldo).
Besides, if footballers do not normally go througuh such rapid weight change - and yet, those who lift heavy can easily see MORE gains in the same amount of time or even less time - and most people don’t know how fast a person can put on muscle…
Then of course you will see such reader comments.
The fact is that Ronaldo was VERY skinny even up until recently. Unless he’s been training really heavy and eating a lot of food (keep in mind he has to eat more to grow because of his football training volume) then most people will assume his gains to be abnormal for a footballer that isn’t on AAS.
[quote]riverhawk23 wrote:
[quote]AdamC wrote:
and all you americans can say what you want about football, but the fact remains that it is the world game. no one really cares about baseball, NFL, ice hockey, and basketball, except americans. so your comments do not rile me up one bit. in the face! into the face![/quote]
American Football is purely american…Baseball is huge in Japan and Korea. Ice hockey is huge in Russia and Western Europe and basketball is slowly gaining on soccer’s popularity. And you buck tooth limey it’s IN YOUR FACE! IN YOUR FACE! See you limey bastards in June. USA! USA!USA![/quote]
I find it interesting how countries like Sweden, Finland, The Czech Republic and Slovakia, each with populations less than 3 % of your population beat your sorry asses time and time again.