Weightlifting body or marathon body
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A friend of mine was a competitive bodybuilder and rather famous (like magazine cover famous).
This guy was huge, and cut ... but huuuge. ( think like jay cutler big )
anyway, I asked him: Jeez, you're mammoth, what do women think about your build?
his reply was telling; it was: A lot of women are completely repulsed by it and a few women really dig it. I only worry about the women who dig it. There's enough of them to go around.5 -
Motorsheen wrote: »A friend of mine was a competitive bodybuilder and rather famous (like magazine cover famous).
This guy was huge, and cut ... but huuuge. ( think like jay cutler big )
anyway, I asked him: Jeez, you're mammoth, what do women think about your build?
his reply was telling; it was: A lot of women are completely repulsed by it and a few women really dig it. I only worry about the women who dig it. There's enough of them to go around.
Good thing that most people don't get into competitive life-consuming sports mainly to attract the opposite sex.5 -
Motorsheen wrote: »A friend of mine was a competitive bodybuilder and rather famous (like magazine cover famous).
This guy was huge, and cut ... but huuuge. ( think like jay cutler big )
anyway, I asked him: Jeez, you're mammoth, what do women think about your build?
his reply was telling; it was: A lot of women are completely repulsed by it and a few women really dig it. I only worry about the women who dig it. There's enough of them to go around.
Good thing that most people don't get into competitive life-consuming sports mainly to attract the opposite sex.
right?
That wasn't his goal from the beginning either.
We were teammates and he broke his arm in the offseason. He kicked football to the curb and starting lifting full tilt. He was gifted with amazing genetics, proportions and symmetry and it just took off from there.
Flash forward a few years and he's one of Joe Weider's boys.1 -
Screw him. I run, but definitely do not have a runners body. I also lift. I really have more of a gymnasts body in progress
!My legs are larger and more muscular than most women's and I used to obsess about them and try to hide them. My trainer helped me embrace them and now I just want to make them as strong as possible.
Some jerk at the gym commented on what I was deadlifting, then said to me, "You know you have guys legs? And if you keep lifting like that, they will get bigger." Luckily, I was mentally sharp at that moment and replied, "If you lifted heavy, you could have guys legs too."
What a pinhead. I do not care what anyone thinks about my body, except me. It has taken me 47 years to get here, but I am working to become as genetically fit as possible. Screw everyone who is a hater. LOL!17 -
CornflakeGirl01 wrote: »Screw him. I run, but definitely do not have a runners body. I also lift. I really have more of a gymnasts body in progress !My legs are larger and more muscular than most women's and I used to obsess about them and try to hide them. My trainer helped me embrace them and now I just want to make them as strong as possible.
Some jerk at the gym commented on what I was deadlifting, then said to me, "You know you have guys legs? And if you keep lifting like that, they will get bigger." Luckily, I was mentally sharp at that moment and replied, "If you lifted heavy, you could have guys legs too."
What a pinhead. I do not care what anyone thinks about my body, except me. It has taken me 47 years to get here, but I am working to become as genetically fit as possible. Screw everyone who is a hater. LOL!
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Hi! ROFL1
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@cornflake_girl01 U mad?0
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not at all! I am just very blunt. Damn INTJ personality...I can't help it.1
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CornflakeGirl01 wrote: »Screw him. I run, but definitely do not have a runners body. I also lift. I really have more of a gymnasts body in progress !My legs are larger and more muscular than most women's and I used to obsess about them and try to hide them. My trainer helped me embrace them and now I just want to make them as strong as possible.
Some jerk at the gym commented on what I was deadlifting, then said to me, "You know you have guys legs? And if you keep lifting like that, they will get bigger." Luckily, I was mentally sharp at that moment and replied, "If you lifted heavy, you could have guys legs too."
What a pinhead. I do not care what anyone thinks about my body, except me. It has taken me 47 years to get here, but I am working to become as genetically fit as possible. Screw everyone who is a hater. LOL!
Why is he, or anyone else for that matter, a pinhead for expressing a preferred aesthetic. It's not like saying you like a swimmers body is saying all other body types are gross and unattractive. Just that you like that particular physical aesthetic. I have a huge backside, it's fine for people to not be into the current bubble butt trend. It's nothing to be insulted about.0 -
I think Cornflake's talking about the guy at her gym, in that paragraph, not the OP's guy.VintageFeline wrote: »CornflakeGirl01 wrote: »Screw him. I run, but definitely do not have a runners body. I also lift. I really have more of a gymnasts body in progress !My legs are larger and more muscular than most women's and I used to obsess about them and try to hide them. My trainer helped me embrace them and now I just want to make them as strong as possible.
Some jerk at the gym commented on what I was deadlifting, then said to me, "You know you have guys legs? And if you keep lifting like that, they will get bigger." Luckily, I was mentally sharp at that moment and replied, "If you lifted heavy, you could have guys legs too."
What a pinhead. I do not care what anyone thinks about my body, except me. It has taken me 47 years to get here, but I am working to become as genetically fit as possible. Screw everyone who is a hater. LOL!
Why is he, or anyone else for that matter, a pinhead for expressing a preferred aesthetic. It's not like saying you like a swimmers body is saying all other body types are gross and unattractive. Just that you like that particular physical aesthetic. I have a huge backside, it's fine for people to not be into the current bubble butt trend. It's nothing to be insulted about.
I'd say the point he became a pinhead was when he approached a woman at the gym, strongly implied her legs were too big, and then advised her to change her routine to fit in with his preferences.
I have a hell of a lot of aesthetic preferences myself. If you know what I mean. As yet, I have not gone up to any guy at the gym and told him to put the weights down because his arms might get too big. Not a freaking one. I'm obviously doing gym etiquette all wrong.
Some thoughts should stay in your head...
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HeliumIsNoble wrote: »
I think Cornflake's talking about the guy at her gym, in that paragraph, not the OP's guy.VintageFeline wrote: »CornflakeGirl01 wrote: »Screw him. I run, but definitely do not have a runners body. I also lift. I really have more of a gymnasts body in progress !My legs are larger and more muscular than most women's and I used to obsess about them and try to hide them. My trainer helped me embrace them and now I just want to make them as strong as possible.
Some jerk at the gym commented on what I was deadlifting, then said to me, "You know you have guys legs? And if you keep lifting like that, they will get bigger." Luckily, I was mentally sharp at that moment and replied, "If you lifted heavy, you could have guys legs too."
What a pinhead. I do not care what anyone thinks about my body, except me. It has taken me 47 years to get here, but I am working to become as genetically fit as possible. Screw everyone who is a hater. LOL!
Why is he, or anyone else for that matter, a pinhead for expressing a preferred aesthetic. It's not like saying you like a swimmers body is saying all other body types are gross and unattractive. Just that you like that particular physical aesthetic. I have a huge backside, it's fine for people to not be into the current bubble butt trend. It's nothing to be insulted about.
I'd say the point he became a pinhead was when he approached a woman at the gym, strongly implied her legs were too big, and then advised her to change her routine to fit in with his preferences.
I have a hell of a lot of aesthetic preferences myself. If you know what I mean. As yet, I have not gone up to any guy at the gym and told him to put the weights down because his arms might get too big. Not a freaking one. I'm obviously doing gym etiquette all wrong.
Some thoughts should stay in your head...
My bad! I may have not been completely topped up on my morning caffeine. Apols.0 -
It happens. Give the coffee jar your best Paddington Stare, and get a refill!VintageFeline wrote: »HeliumIsNoble wrote: »
I think Cornflake's talking about the guy at her gym, in that paragraph, not the OP's guy.VintageFeline wrote: »CornflakeGirl01 wrote: »Screw him. I run, but definitely do not have a runners body. I also lift. I really have more of a gymnasts body in progress !My legs are larger and more muscular than most women's and I used to obsess about them and try to hide them. My trainer helped me embrace them and now I just want to make them as strong as possible.
Some jerk at the gym commented on what I was deadlifting, then said to me, "You know you have guys legs? And if you keep lifting like that, they will get bigger." Luckily, I was mentally sharp at that moment and replied, "If you lifted heavy, you could have guys legs too."
What a pinhead. I do not care what anyone thinks about my body, except me. It has taken me 47 years to get here, but I am working to become as genetically fit as possible. Screw everyone who is a hater. LOL!
Why is he, or anyone else for that matter, a pinhead for expressing a preferred aesthetic. It's not like saying you like a swimmers body is saying all other body types are gross and unattractive. Just that you like that particular physical aesthetic. I have a huge backside, it's fine for people to not be into the current bubble butt trend. It's nothing to be insulted about.
I'd say the point he became a pinhead was when he approached a woman at the gym, strongly implied her legs were too big, and then advised her to change her routine to fit in with his preferences.
I have a hell of a lot of aesthetic preferences myself. If you know what I mean. As yet, I have not gone up to any guy at the gym and told him to put the weights down because his arms might get too big. Not a freaking one. I'm obviously doing gym etiquette all wrong.
Some thoughts should stay in your head...
My bad! I may have not been completely topped up on my morning caffeine. Apols.
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Everyone's entitled to their own preferences for themselves and to have attractions. It's only natural. I think it's kind of churlish to get judgmental about it, but people like that are going to be like that.
I don't have the body type to ever achieve my personal ideal aesthetic. Oh well.1 -
I run half marathons (full next year) and lift heavy (For me) weights, but I'm still overweight so where would I fit1
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On men? Meh... a little muscle to moderate muscle. But not huge muscles nor obesity. If I had to choose, I'd definitely pick a rail-thin man over a somewhat overweight man.
For myself, I'm used to being really thin with visible *small* muscles. I tend to get really muscular on the upper body (so the reverse of most women) rather than the lower, so I limit too much upper body lifting *because I'll literally hulk out on top, but not the bottom*. (My sister's nickname for me was actually "Hulk".. ugh)
But I used to dance ballet and cheerlead and do gymnastics, so I guess I'm most comfortable with a "ballet" body. Definitely not hips, curves, or big butts *for me*. It makes me feel like an alien is living in my body. Like... "lumpy". But I don't run/jog at all, so I choose "ballet body" as my final answer.0
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