Why Do You Want To Be BIG?

Training Bodybuilding
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No matter how many times this question is asked, I think it’s a good one. We must constantly re-examine our goals to see if they still make sense in light of experienced gained.

Sure! There’ll be the self-righteous who criticize even the question because, in their paranoid world, every question or comment somehow is directed at them personally. Screw them. They’re idiots.

Back to your question, I want to be be as big as I can be while still maintaining an aesthetic symmetry. Some guys don’t understand that…your arm isn’t supposed to be bigger than your head, you shouldn’t look like your head was placed on your shoulders without a neck as they it was placed their as an after-thought, you shouldn’t have a great upper body and chicken legs. Those are things that just make sense to the intelligent bodybuilder.

Unfortunately, it seems to me that too many guys pursue “big” because it’s just too damn hard to go for a Frank Zane or Flex Wheeler definition and symmetry, and it actually requires intelligent design of the workout schedule. Yeah, most of us will never reach that ideal, but giving up on it in favor of mindlessly layering on slabs of muscle with only secondary thought to aestetics seems like the lazy way out.

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I want to be big so that I don’t get “little man syndrome” like the guys in the “little man syndrome” thread.

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[quote]iron-fortified wrote:
Unfortunately, it seems to me that too many guys pursue “big” because it’s just too damn hard to go for a Frank Zane or Flex Wheeler definition and symmetry, and it actually requires intelligent design of the workout schedule. Yeah, most of us will never reach that ideal, but giving up on it in favor of mindlessly layering on slabs of muscle with only secondary thought to aestetics seems like the lazy way out.[/quote]

Your logic here is confusing. You think it is easier to get BIG? How did you come to the conclusion that it is easy to get big and that it is harder to look like Frank Zane or Flex Wheeler? They look the way they do because of genetics. NO ONE on the planet will ever look like them because no one else on the planet happens to BE them. Both of them worked hard like every other bodybuilder of their time period. It isn’t like Zane or Flex were doing anything different or working harder than the guys competing with them.

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‘Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.’

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strength bitches

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[quote]JimmyOZ wrote:
strength bitches[/quote]

knowing that I can Bench, squat and deadlift any criminal that wants some, and the end result is I can sled drag their pathetic asses’ back to the cell.

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I think the real issue here is a male dominance thing. Simple concept. I’m a bit suprised this hasn’t been covered yet. Nature displays this every day in the wild. The biggest strongest male breeds the females. Humans have these instincts also. Perhaps the sensitive and small types can get the babes in this day and age, but we still carry something with us from a more primitive time. All the tangents about being a bit smaller and quicker etc… are beside the point. Another part of the breeding thing is the display of prowess and bluster put on by the male to convince the female he can protect and provide for her. This is all okay. It’s normal. It’s nature.

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Sorry if this has already been said, but I’m not going to read the whole thread…

I can’t believe you guys are arguing strength vs whatever, with a guy that calls himself HAMSTER!

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Because it looks cool…I don’t just want to be big I want to be shredded with a small waist, atleast during the summertime.

I’m married so it’s not like I’m trying to use my muscle’s to pick up chicks. But I still want the chicks to stare:)

  • Adam
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[quote]elliot007 wrote:
to crush my enemes, see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentations of their women[/quote]

Crom smiles down from his mountain upon us, brother.

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Because it’s art. It’s a synergy of perfomace and aestetics. Like a really nice sports car. It has lots of horsepower and it looks the part. It’s a constant mental and physical struggle to attain perfection, which will never happen. It isn’t the goal, it’s the pursuit that’s beautiful.

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[quote]oboffill wrote:
Hamster wrote:
Epiphany:

Has anyone ever asked themselves why they are so intent on being big? I know we all have different goals but… I’m simply curious why hugeness is one of them? Is it purely a function of ego fulfillment? Unfortunately, I have found that to be the case for myself.

A big body is typically much slower, less agile, less flexible, and more detrimental to long term health.

Conversely, a lean, muscular body can be at the pinnacle of health, speed, quickness, and flexibility. Think Men’s Health cover, Pavel Tsatsouline, Edward Norton in “American History X,” etc…

So why be big?

So you’re telling me that ain’t never been a “big guy” who was fast, agile, flexible and healthy?

Search “Pudzianowski”[/quote]

I second that
If I had genetics to be that big, Arnold and Marius would be my front runners of an awesome looking physique.

I wouldn’t mind looking like Marius. that would be awesome look like you can chase down a cheetah and have it for lunch.

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Building a temple “made in the likeness of God” is not sinful. Pride is not Vanity. To become the best that I can envision myself is the reason for existence. It is a healthy pursuit. And if I wanted to be more flexible or agile or quick, I’d train for those attributes as well.

Your hypothesis is not well thought out. I smell “functional” all over this thread. It stinks.

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My hat is off to all you “Big Guys”. After all, at least you look like a man and will never be mistaken for some swimwear model. I myself am a naturally skinny weasel. I put on 40 pounds of muscle; and i’m still only 175, just to get me somewhere close to not looking like a “swimwear model”.

Those are my genes, and that is what I have to work with. I would trade them in, in a heartbeat to have Arnolds Body, Marius’s Build or even Flex Wheeler’s. There is room for all kind of builds. But when it comes right down to it, if you want a real woman she’s gonna take the guy that looks like he can protect her over the guy that looks like he can fit into her clothes. Period. That is reason enough to be big.

From the skinny weasel still trying to look like Arnold. I know its never gonna happen but I still like to try.

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“From the skinny weasel still trying to look like Arnold. I know its never gonna happen but I still like to try.”

seriously dude, look at some non contest pics of zane where he isnt super shredded

he looks pretty bad ass, and he had shitty genetics

you need to get over your limiting beliefs

arnold busted his ass in the gym

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You get big so that you can crush your enemy, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the women.

Everyone knows that.

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[quote]elliot007 wrote:
“From the skinny weasel still trying to look like Arnold. I know its never gonna happen but I still like to try.”

seriously dude, look at some non contest pics of zane where he isnt super shredded

he looks pretty bad ass, and he had shitty genetics

I mean no disrespect
But “Get Real”

I would love to look like Arnold, but I live in the real world and know thats not possible. For 1 Arnold said he was naturally 200 lbs and put on 50 lbs of muscle. I already put on 40 and think the most i got left is maybe 10-15. thats 190 max. thats more of a Frank Zane build and thats what I’m shooting for. If i was nautrally 180-200 i would be shooting for arnold or marius’s build.

but like i said before, I live in the real world.

trust me, i put forth plenty of effort. I’m a hardgainer and have put on 40…it didnt come easy.

i’m 5’11", naturally 135
Arnold 6’2" naturally 200
do the math…i aint never gonna look like that.
and i like to lie to myself and pretend that i can.

believe me i almost rips my arms off doing decline dumbbell flyes with the dumbbells down to the ground; trying to get my chest to look like arnolds. and it sorta works, it starts to take the shape of arnolds outer lower pec.

you need to get over your limiting beliefs

arnold busted his ass in the gym [/quote]

you don’t need to school me. i know he was not natuarlly massive and he built hugh muscles, but he was naturally a hell of a lot bigger than me with some out of this world genetics

just like Prof X said… we ain’t gonna look like Flex, or Zane, or Arnold…I don’t care how much effort you put in. if you have a 36 inch waist and your 6’4"…you explain to me how someone is going to look like flex with those genetics

peace

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Because I was always small, weak and picked on when I was younger. I could not have said it better.

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[quote]Mr. Push Ups wrote:

But when it comes right down to it, if you want a real woman she’s gonna take the guy that looks like he can protect her over the guy that looks like he can fit into her clothes. Period. That is reason enough to be big.

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Erm, some women don’t like big guys, end of.

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[quote]Le Stig wrote:
Mr. Push Ups wrote:

But when it comes right down to it, if you want a real woman she’s gonna take the guy that looks like he can protect her over the guy that looks like he can fit into her clothes. Period. That is reason enough to be big.

Erm, some women don’t like big guys, end of.

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