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[YoungHav]

Women love funny men with big bellies.

 

[Azzurri]

He's dead?

Dies in Thailand last July of a heart problem.

 

[Kentpaul]

Women love funny men with big bellies.

They do indeed love to friendzone they type of men.

 

[kitch9]

Most men would agree on the ideal female body type--slim(other than the chest and buttocks). While they like slim, if it gets taken to an extreme with girls that look sickly thin and anorexic, it becomes very unappealing to most men(contrary to what fashion mags want you to believe).

When it comes to women's taste in men, everybody knows they like a big, strong guy. From what I can tell though, these steroid taking guys on bodybuilding magazines are not attractive to most women. Like with women being slim, there seems to be a point where it becomes "too much of a good thing." So two questions naturally surface:

1: Why do these guys go so overboard with the muscles? Yeah it may be a sport for them, but in the end what they really want is to impress ladies, amirite?

2: What is the ideal build for a man? At what point do the muscles become too much? Perhaps it is not as cut and dry as it is with male preference of female bodies.

Just so you know that ripped greasy competition body builder look for most lasts a week at best. Once the competition is over they go back on the carbs and a more normal look quickly comes back.

 

[Ultima_5]

If I had the time, willpower and money to do it, this is what i'd want.

buuuuuuut I don't so I'll just have to work on making good money and being mildly amusing at best

 

[Trickster]

LOL @ Zyzz being mentioned.

He was pretty damn popular with the ladies. So it's not really lol worthy.

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

Another example of a perfect physique, chest is a bit flat in this pic though.

 

[Kozak]

Meh hate on Zyzz all you want, you can't deny his influence on teens in Aus.

 

[Boss Doggie]

I thought the ideal man for women nowadays are effeminate, lady-looking men.

 

[Esch]

Meh hate on Zyzz all you want, you can't deny his influence on teens in Aus.

indeed. bad influence.

 

[Kitsunebaby]

Hmm... I doubt it. I mean, I've met muscled nerdy guys and they weren't all that attractive to me. I mean, I guess if they really REALLY had an attractive personality to me I'd go for it (I'm not quite that shallow), but otherwise I'd much prefer a skinny one.

Oddly enough, I feel like my love of muscles came from a lot of the media I enjoyed as a kid. Capcom fighting games, comic books, and Frank Frazetta artwork all feature ridiculously thick muscular dudes and I grew to like that look.

I'd say Capcom is also responsible for my love of huge muscular thighs on women.

 

[bjb]

Meh hate on Zyzz all you want, you can't deny his influence on teens in Aus.

What influence is that exactly? Voluntary steroid and HGH consumption?

 

[Kaizer]

Won't lie, I'd kill to have a body that looks this good. It's my personal ideal - lean body fat, moderately toned. I'm only 20 now, but if I could look like that sometime in the next 10 years, I'd be extremely happy.

 

[Emitan]

I thought the ideal man for women nowadays are effeminate, lady-looking men.

A picture on the Internet told me so!

 

[Ken Masters]

For me, the ideal physique was Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman

He had broad shoulders, developed chest, good arm size, ripped abs, and toned legs. It was incredible.

Perfect bodies, Pitt seems to have less muscle though, but regardless these guys have 1% body fat on them

 

[FallingEdge]

He's dead?

Drugs and roids I believe. Correct me if I am wrong.

Frank Yang is the new hotness.

 

[Trickster]

What influence is that exactly? Voluntary steroid and HGH consumption?

Pretty sure he's been the motivation for a lot of people to start working out. Dude started out as a skinny geek and ended up looking like a god, even before he started doing the riods and hgh.

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

Perfect bodies, Pitt seems to have less muscle though, but regardless these guys have 1% body fat on them

Are you exaggerating?

 

[Kozak]

indeed. bad influence.

wat lol. I can see you just dislike Zyzz very much.

I'm guessing you lost a friend or two to the gym craze.

What influence is that exactly? Voluntary steroid and HGH usage?

Zyzz never condoned or urged the use of drugs to achieve ones goals. A lot of his fans would deny his drug usage apart from Australia's favourite pill.

 

[Ultima_5]

Oddly enough, I feel like my love of muscles came from a lot of the media I enjoyed as a kid. Capcom fighting games, comic books, and Frank Frazetta artwork all feature ridiculously thick muscular dudes and I grew to like that look.

I'd say Capcom is also responsible for my love of huge muscular thighs on women.

Same boat. I've always blamed eidos on my love for polygonal/pyramidal breast

 

[Srsly]

Perfect bodies, Pitt seems to have less muscle though, but regardless these guys have 1% body fat on them

Lol, no they don't, they have ~10%. The bodybuilders posted in this thread have a much lower BF%.

 

[Ken Masters]

Are you exaggerating?

I guess? I assumed it would be very small %

 

[ReadingRambo]

Are you exaggerating?

Yes. Pitt looks to be sub 7%, Bale under 8-9%.

 

[Boss Doggie]

A picture on the Internet told me so!

Don't look at me, I'm just basing it from live action stuff I watch

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

Yes. Pitt looks to be sub 7%, Bale under 8-9%.

I don't think either is under 6 or 7%, hell there aren't many examples of that kind of BF percentage.

 

[Esch]

wat lol. I can see you just dislike Zyzz very much.

I'm guessing you lost a friend or two to the gym craze.

I have no problem with people bodybuilding or even using performance enhancing drugs.

I just always thought that Zyzz and his whole crew just look like douchebags is all. there are better fitness idols out there anyway.

 

[Bisnic]

Women can have pretty different tastes. I prefer skinny, nerdy guys myself. *shrug* All the guys posted in this thread do pretty much nothing for me.

I wish all women prefered skinny, nerdy guys. THEN i would be popular with girls. *sigh*

 

[Diatribe1974]

Yes. Pitt looks to be sub 7%, Bale under 8-9%.

Yeah, most body builders when they compete have sub-6-7% body fat. At that point, their skin tissue has like almost no water in it, thus how thing it appears the body, thus showing off the muscles underneath as well as it does. Folks like Pitt & Bale, they're probably at the 8% body fat levels for a brief period of time (or for just several scenes), then goes back up quickly.

 

[Imm0rt4l]

Drugs and roids I believe. Correct me if I am wrong.

Frank Yang is the new hotness.

I think it was drugs and an undiagnosed heart condition.

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

Man, if I could live at 9% body fat with good muscle mass like Bale I would be the happiest man on earth. Anything lower than that is just for show.

 

[Lissar]

Oddly enough, I feel like my love of muscles came from a lot of the media I enjoyed as a kid. Capcom fighting games, comic books, and Frank Frazetta artwork all feature ridiculously thick muscular dudes and I grew to like that look.

I'd say Capcom is also responsible for my love of huge muscular thighs on women.

Huh, I never thought about what kind of media might have affected my preference.

Only muscled guy I ever swooned for was Dean Cain as Superman.

 

[Dark Stalkers]

I don't think either is under 6 or 7%, hell there aren't many examples of that kind of BF percentage.

contest condition bodybuilders or famine victims

 

[Az]

Brad Pitt just has excellent genes. A majority of people would not look like that with that bodyfat percentage.

But I came to the realization that I will never have the perfect body, I like chocolate and alcohol way too much.

 

[Emitan]

I wish all women prefered skinny, nerdy guys. THEN i would be popular with girls. *sigh*

If I was straight this would probably be my type

 

[Srsly]

Pretty close to a maxed out natural physique:

 

[JCX]

Oddly enough, I feel like my love of muscles came from a lot of the media I enjoyed as a kid. Capcom fighting games, comic books, and Frank Frazetta artwork all feature ridiculously thick muscular dudes and I grew to like that look.

I'd say Capcom is also responsible for my love of huge muscular thighs on women.

I think the docmentary Bigger Faster Stronger talks about the media affecting young males' perception on how muscular they should be.

GI Joe is to boys what Barbie is to girls (Pope, Olivardia, Gruber, & Borowiecki, 1999). Over the past 20 years, these G.I. Joe toys have grown more muscular and currently have sharper muscle definition. The GI Joe Extreme action figure, if extrapolated to a height of 5’10”, would have larger biceps than any bodybuilder in history.

source source 2

 

[Houston3000]

I'd say that's a very realistically achievable body type. I'm working toward something like that. Not that I wouldn't mind being ripped but dropping to the single percent body fat percentages doesn't seem realistic in my case... going 13-14% or so isn't too crazy a thought though.

 

[cloudwalking]

i'm not especially attracted to muscular men. i prefer slim, tall guys, maybe a bit toned, but muscles are a big eh for me.

my husband's tall, slim, but has really nice long legs and strong arms. to me, he's perfect

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

I'd say that's a very realistically achievable body type. I'm working toward something like that. Not that I wouldn't mind being ripped but dropping to the single percent body fat percentages doesn't seem realistic in my case... going 13-14% or so isn't too crazy a thought though.

Why is it out of reach man?

 

[Trickster]

Why is it out of reach man?

It's not if you're willing to eat food with very low fat contents.

 

[IceCold]

My ideal would be something in this range:

 

[Slayven]

No but anorexic porn is creepy.

 

[way more]

More importantly, how do these men view themselves. Unique to America more men suffer body image issues, which I can understand when I see ads promising changes like this.

I'll see a guy in the Before pic on TV talking about how he always works out and eats right and I'll think, "damn right, guys like him and me gotta stay healthy." Then he says, "but I was a fucking fat ass until I used the Xross-Fit Survivor TRaining Core Duo." And then I feel like a fucking fat ass.

Is that guy really so gross in the first pic that he needs to change?

 

[triplestation]

Pretty close to a maxed out natural physique:

Man do whatever the FUCK you wanna do.

 

[AbortedWalrusFetus]

More importantly, how do these men view themselves. Unique to America more men suffer body image issues, which I can understand when I see ads promising changes like this.

I'll see a guy in the Before pic on TV talking about how he always works out and eats right and I'll think, "damn right, guys like him and me gotta stay healthy." Then he says, "but I was a fucking fat ass until I used the Xross-Fit Survivor TRaining Core Duo." And then I feel like a fucking fat ass.

Is that guy really so gross in the first pic that he needs to change?

This is a super super clear case of the before pic being taken after the after pic. The dude has the same build in both, it's just in completely different states. The "befure" picture is taken after drinking a bunch of liquid and before doing any exercising, and he's purposefully hunched and sticking out his gut. The "after" picture is probably taken immediately after a work out and with good posture.

 

[Dark Stalkers]

This is a super super clear case of the before pic being taken after the after pic. The dude has the same build in both, it's just in completely different states. The "befure" picture is taken after drinking a bunch of liquid and before doing any exercising, and he's purposefully hunched and sticking out his gut. The "after" picture is probably taken immediately after a work out and with good posture.

Furious Pete did a video on this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M957dACQyfU

 

[ReadingRambo]

More importantly, how do these men view themselves. Unique to America more men suffer body image issues, which I can understand when I see ads promising changes like this.

I'll see a guy in the Before pic on TV talking about how he always works out and eats right and I'll think, "damn right, guys like him and me gotta stay healthy." Then he says, "but I was a fucking fat ass until I used the Xross-Fit Survivor TRaining Core Duo." And then I feel like a fucking fat ass.

Is that guy really so gross in the first pic that he needs to change?

The only difference between the left pic and right pic there is that he took the right pic first, then drank a shit ton of diet coke, messed his hair up and waited a couple of hours.

 

[andycapps]

It's not if you're willing to eat food with very low fat contents.

Not at all. More a function of caloric deficits, likely low carb, and high protein. Fats are good for your body.

 

[Prez]

Is not

Why the hell do these people almost always look like they're roasted in the oven?

 

[way more]

You are telling me even if I had the chiseled abs of a Greek Demi-God I would have to still stand in the correct pose and avoid water bloat? Well fuck aiming that high, I'll just be satisfied with what I got. Or maybe I'll just blast my quads more.