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"Eight-pack abs: Did this man have the best body in history?"

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Nope.

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The perfect body for me personally, belongs to Btuce Lee.

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this 3 are legends. And that 4 chan dude honorable mention.
 
No way man, way too big - the 'athletic' build is substantially better looking. It looks uncomfortable to be as big as Arnold, I don't know how he rests his arms at his sides. And it's just too vascular and bulbous. Blegh.

I agree. I don't really see the aesthetic appeal when one becomes that bulky.

So, what does Lady and gay GAF say?

Someone forgot to mention Fitness-GAF.
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What the hell is he doing? Looks like some built-in defense mechanism that animals have.

Cobra back!

No way man, way too big - the 'athletic' build is substantially better looking. It looks uncomfortable to be as big as Arnold, I don't know how he rests his arms at his sides. And it's just too vascular and bulbous. Blegh.

To each their own. Posted these pics before but I think these look a lot better as well:


The best and ideal physique imo. Something that can be quite attainable as well and one I am shooting for. Raw power and size baby.
 
Cobra back!



To each their own. Posted these pics before but I think these look a lot better as well:



The best and ideal physique imo. Something that can be quite attainable as well and one I am shooting for. Raw power and size baby.

I actually appreciate this build a lot more. It seems more, I hate using the word 'natural' - but it's the one that comes to mind. Very admirable, and not manufactured.
 
In terms of statues;

Michelangelo's David

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Achilles

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In terms of actual humans;

Gymnasts have some of the best bodies out there.

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Flex Wheeler was up there with the best of the bodybuilders;

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I think I am the only girl on the planet sometimes that finds bulging muscles a total turn off :/

Brad Pitt is more to my liking.

I like some definition on a slender guy, but anything overly muscular doesn't do anything for me.
 
I think I am the only girl on the planet sometimes that finds bulging muscles a total turn off :/

Brad Pitt is more to my liking.

I like some definition on a slender guy, but anything overly muscular doesn't do anything for me.

I don't think you are, pretty much all girls I've talked to are in the same vein - only one has a really big thing for 'big arms'.
 
Brad Pitt in Fight Club is a completely unsustainable and unhealthy body. He had dangerously low body fat and had to be massively dehydrated to look like that. He probably did long term damage to his body for that shoot.

WAT?

He didn't even get close to the <2% body fat levels that body builders regularly get to, he was like more in the 4-6% range(if not higher) which is perfectly healthy for men in the long term.

The dehydration required to get the definition to really pop for the cameras isn't a great thing, but it's not something likely to cause permanent damage.
 
WAT?

He didn't even get close to the <2% body fat levels that body builders regularly get to, he was like more in the 4-6% range(if not higher) which is perfectly healthy for men in the long term.

The dehydration required to get the definition to really pop for the cameras isn't a great thing, but it's not something likely to cause permanent damage.

neither bodybuilders or brad pitt have or had that low of body fat
 
WAT?

He didn't even get close to the <2% body fat levels that body builders regularly get to, he was like more in the 4-6% range(if not higher) which is perfectly healthy for men in the long term.

The dehydration required to get the definition to really pop for the cameras isn't a great thing, but it's not something likely to cause permanent damage.

Brad himself said it was unhealthy and he was on the verge of passing out the entire filming of the movie. And did a few times.


The body builder types go way overboard on pecs. Giant pecs that look like fake tits aren't a good look. I understand giant arms, traps, abs, but not giant pecs. Of course part if it is a result of working everything else out, but no one gets pecs that big unless they focus on them. And they look ridiculous.
 
I've been trying to obtain a physique similar to Bruce Lee's for three years now, I'm almost there, in about three more years.
 
Brad himself said it was unhealthy and he was on the verge of passing out the entire filming of the movie. And did a few times.


The body builder types go way overboard on pecs. Giant pecs that look like fake tits aren't a good look. I understand giant arms, traps, abs, but not giant pecs. Of course part if it is a result of working everything else out, but no one gets pecs that big unless they focus on them. And they look ridiculous.

Being on the verge of passing out is perfectly understandable with the hunger and dehydration. That doesn't mean there was any permanent damage being done to his body.

The pecs thing is also one of those genetic variations though. I am pretty barrel chested and have large pecs relative to my arms even though I rarely bench and I don't do any chest specific work at all. I agree it doesn't look great at the extremes though.
 
The best and ideal physique imo. Something that can be quite attainable as well and one I am shooting for. Raw power and size baby.

Savage had to juice pretty hard to get that big and to be a large enough guy to get pushed hard in Vince's big man 80s WWF. I remember after he died looking up interview vids of him on youtube and came across this one when he was 47/48 after he was done with WCW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_M9-NTOz-A

Did a :\ face and was like shit, no wonder he died from a heart attack at 58
 
Manohar Aich was a Bengali dude who has influenced by Sandow...he influenced a whole generation of Indian/Bengali body builders. Manohar won the Mr. Universe comp in 52 or something, very short though, like 5'4":

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Dude is still kicking around, 100 years old:

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