Jackness is in the eye of the beholder…
I guess
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IMO: Jacked = More muscle than average and lean enough to see abs and significant vascularity.
Without the lean, “jacked” gives way to “big.” Some “big” guys look “jacked” with a sleeveless shirt or tank on.
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A similar thing happened to me, except I was on a bachelor party in Vegas, and the bachelor is the guy that asked. We were up at 4am or something one night after The Rhino, and we ended up having that insane conversation due to our levels of intoxication. I ended up writing an extremely detailed plan out for him (after we got home), and I think he might have followed it for a month.
I just point people to 531 now. I don’t have time for that shit anymore.
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I knew I wasn’t anyway, but the fact that pretty much none of the things in this thread ever happen to me have confirmed that I am definitely not.
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I was slightly jacked in my younger days now I lean more towards the term diesel. Or old thick bastard . Take your pick 
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Definitely not “jacked” by standard definitions, but certainly in better shape than 90% of the population at that time. Lean would be more appropriate than jacked.
Definitely not jacked, but my thighs have grown from all the squats I’ve been doing
And damn every time I take a dump now, my legs fall asleep after reading a few articles while waiting. The pins and needles are so bad when I stand up, I literally have to wait a minute or two after standing to let the feeling pass. It’s happening as I type this, and I don’t dare move my legs at all
Similar to how (some…most???) women with big, jiggly cottage cheese butt-ocks (insert Forrest Gump voice) have a “trunk” wearing Yoga pants (Lucifer invented them) when it’s all just “junk”.
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Take one leg out of your pants before you sit down so you don’t cut off circulation. Then hang the waist band of the pants off your knee so they don’t sit on the floor.
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I usually take my pants or shorts off completely. Haha. Still happens. Our toilet bowl is a little smaller compared to others I think, that’s another factor why
One of my friends is a former Mr. Wisconsin and a contractor. He installed ADA accessible height toilets and padded seats in his house for this reason alone.
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I can’t tell if you’re saying his legs fall asleep because he’s a former bodybuilder or because he eats a lot of cheese…
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Likely a combination of both
Less to do with size of thighs and more to do with length of stay.
Length of stay has been the same since before I started lifting more or less
All of this so true!
I was at a work function at a lake resort this past week and as soon as my tank came off the comments started and some men’s mood changed. I’m a confident dude so I laugh more than anything. My wife actually thinks it’s funny too, and she commented on it before I did.
They get even more annoyed when I’m eating terrible food and drinking beer. One guy came up to me and said “dude you have zero body fat, look great…how is that possible with a beer in one hand and a quesadilla in the other.” Lol
I said I haven’t done this in 6 weeks Haha.
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Classify as big, not jacked (6’8" at 320lbs)
My biggest problem is not being able to show any frustration or anger. People start running for the door if I raise my voice in the slightest. I can remember lightly hitting a table with my fist in grad school, and my lab mates literally jumped back two feet.
The health shaming is pretty ridiculous. My out of shape coworkers always give me crap when I walk in carrying my gym bag or use protein powder as a snack.
I get annoyed at people who goggle at how much I eat. “Is that a second lunch?”. Yes, it is. I weigh more than two of you, so I need to ingest more calories.
Don’t get me started on clothing. Every clothing designer on the planet assumes anyone over 6 foot is a bean pole.
Strangely enough, I don’t mind being asked to move things. I take it as a compliment.
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The steroid accusations can be pretty hilarious. I can remember being slyly accused of using by a physician in grad school. We were talking about medical disorders that change body composition, and he said “similar changes can occur while taking anabolic steroids” while looking straight at me.
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Also not “jacked” (don’t have a six pack) but have considerably more lean muscle than most of my coworkers.
At 6’ 3” and 280 I get this all time at work from all the tiny folks around.
“Why do you eat so much?”…Because I am hungry. Back off.
yep…its a thing~