Tend to agree. I am extremely tall and lean, and, as much as I would love to be a mesomorph, it’s not going to happen. I’ve settled on the “lifts really big” but looks like a bean pole, rock climber look, which I am and do.
Mainly because I want to post her picture, I think most women, with hard training and eating (and perhaps chemical assistance) could pull off Laura Michelle Prestin, who I think has one of the sexiest female bodies in the world.
That’s fantastic! Never read that one before.
Stay gold Ponyboy! And, “Let’s do it for Johnny!”
http://www.focusedmusculartension.com/Charles%20Bronson.jpg Going old-school. Charles Bronson
I think the ideal look is Hugh Jackman in that last Wolverine movie (the one where he goes to Japan). Shredded, big chest, small waist.
I agree her body is perfect, but I actually think her face is kind of busted. It looks good in some pictures, but not often.
Her mediocre face is actually one of the reasons I like her – she could be a “5” but is a “9.5” because of the work she puts into her body and overall effort.
In short, by effort, cleverness, persistence, she became one of the hottest women in the world.
Compare and contrast a typical SI “supermodel” – yes, they watch their diet very well and train a bit, but they were basically born that way. They didn’t earn it.
This is also why I like Batman over Superman.
Ain’t evolution beautiful?
whoa. man, we couldn’t possibly have more different taste in women if we tried. I think her face looks goddamn terrible, and I really don’t like her body either. I’m sure you’ll want to call me a liar, but I’m not when I say I seriously wouldn’t fuck her. No chance. Just so far from my type. (edit: I’m talking about the girl fourthruffian posted)
I guess I’ll respond to the OP as well. Honestly, anyone who’s massive and lean. I guess trending toward bodybuilders. I don’t know why anyone would want to LOOK like Hafthor or Eddie Hall. Why would you want to have the look of someone who carries excess bodyfat? I totally understand wanting to perform like those guys, but they don’t look spectacular. Particularly Hafthor. If you didn’t know he was the strongest mother fucker on the planet, I doubt you would have picked him. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think so.
You know what would really be awesome? Looking like Frank Zane and performing like Hafthor. That’d be sweet.
In an related note, Hafþór has been notably losing some bodyfat as his popularity continues to grow. Most likely he recognized that, as he improved his physical appearance, his marketability would become better as well.
The guy is either very business savvy or has a great agent, as he’s currently been touring the world, finding obscure records to break, and then comes back around and re-breaks his records. Gets his name out there a lot, and he’s young enough that he can really have a future with this.
But yeah…even Hafþór doesn’t want to look like he did in Game of Thrones, haha.
That’s a much better look. At least there’s a semblance of abs, lol.
That’s easy to answer. I’ve always valued strength over vanity, and Eddie Hall is what VERY strong looks like. I’ve never understood why people get shitty tattoos, burn scars as body art or extreme piercings. I just understand that such tastes are very subjective, same as body types. I’d take looking like Hall over looking like Kai Greene or any other top BB’er any day of the week, hands down. No contest for me.
On a more personal note, the likelihood of me ever developing the discipline to diet down to the first six pack in my family is slim to none. I’m well on my way to having a large, brutish appearance similar to a scaled-down Hall and I’m just happy to be some combination of stronger, leaner or more muscular each year I keep lifting.
Even if I really get my act in gear and manage to achieve a physique that is both very lean and somewhat muscular I will be spending a lot of time looking similar to Hall before I get there. I can live with that. I have to.
And yes, Hafthor is looking both beastly and relatively lean nowadays. I find that much more impressive than any bodybuilder at sub 5% bodyfat.
That’d be my ideal. Visible abs, but not so lean that I would have put a lot of thought into my diet year around.
I agree with Flip. My ideal would be closer to allison stokke
Based on what I’ve seen, Hafþór’s diet requires a LOT of thinking, if nothing else just in terms of how to consume so many calories a day, haha. As I get older, I’m amazed at how much effort it takes to be not fat.
I don’t necessarily buy into this. You can be very, very strong and still be lean. Pudz, Ronnie Coleman, Dan Green, Lilliebridge are all great examples. There are others. Strength CAN look like Eddie Hall, it can look like Big Z, and it can look like big Ron.
I dunno, I really just thought the question was about aesthetics, and in my own answer I only wanted to consider this. If you factor in performance in any capacity, my answer changes. But the question was not ‘what body do you want to have’, it was ‘what do you want to look like’. Those are 2 very different questions to me.
You also added the element of attainability, and where you’re actually at. I disregarded this for myself as well. If you factor those sorts of things in, we’re really talking about something else entirely. You’ve basically shifted from picking an ideal to picking a goal. My actual goal is being extremely strong and lean at a bodyweight under about 225, as I’m not comfortable with eating what it would take to exceed that.
I think we can chalk some of the confusion up to having such a poorly worded question in the first place, which was not “what do you want to look like?”.
I understood the question as only having two possible (and quite vague) answers - “lean and muscular” or “larger muscular proportions”. I took larger to mean, well, larger. Larger like Hall, who popped into my head when I thought about how I’d like to look given those two choices.
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Touche, although, I’m don’t inherently see eating copious amounts of food as a problem. Cutting calories on the other hand…
Hafthor looks rather flat in the first picture of him in this thread, but he actually looks quite good in a fair number of pictures (relative to other performance minded superheavyweights). He has always had borderline visible abs. By borderline is that he’s at the level where angles, flexing, and lighting can produce impressive results, but if you aren’t particularly shooting for it, you get what is shown above.
But I think what gets lost in pictures without good reference points is absolute size. He is 6’9" and often over 400lbs. Obviously that falls squarely into the category of things that require rare and specific genetics to achieve. But the guy who posted it said he’s only a inch shorter, which means with food, training, and “supplements,” a body like that may be in the cards. And while having visible abs goes away when you put on a shirt, being 400lbs and not that fat is something that is impressive in every situation.
