Skinny boys and muscle men

[black'n'yellow]

It reads like a question not a statement?

so it does - I read it wrong...

 

[Peteaud]

I'd go further. It's often a 'beauty' contest that's only really considered beautiful by participants. I don't know of anyone that considers body builders to be masculine or attractive. (I don't feel I need to put out any thoughts on the females...)

Cycling with men shaving legs, designer sun glasses and look at me lycra!

You can say the same thing about many sports / hobbies.


Although Jodie marsh does look like a curly whirly.

 

[redcard]

Cycling with men shaving legs, designer sun glasses and look at me lycra!

You can say the same thing about many sports / hobbies.


Although Jodie marsh does look like a curly whirly.

You can say anything you want, doesn't mean it actually has any validity though.

 

[Peteaud]

You can say anything you want, doesn't mean it actually has any validity though.

Golfers have smaller balls than footballers, i think thats valid

 

[jdtate101]

Knew a guy once who was a real meat head, just loved his body building and claimed he was fitter and stronger than all his mates. Then I challenged him to a 6 mile run. Soon wiped that smug smile off his face, he was blowing out his arse within under a mile and gave up at about 1.5miles. We all took the piss after that whenever he mentioned how fit he was.

Just because you're big and muscled doesn't mean you are fit or strong in many ways.

 

[Garz]

Has anyone else seem this on BBC3?

No. Is it worth the watch or pointing out the obvious just to spark debate?

 

[reacher]

to put 9,000 calories into context, Steve Redgrave consumed 6,000 per day and Bradley Wiggins consumes between 4,000 and 9,000 on the TdF depending on the route, but these guys were not looking to gain weight.

Body building must be one of the most pointless sports around. It revolves around aesthetics, it's basically a beauty contest with muscles.

how can you say that its pointless ?
, the top bodybuilders will have spent just as much time and effort training as any other person at the top of any other sport , thats the most ridiculous statement i have ever heard ,
just because you consider that you see it as something you dont want to do that makes it pointless does it ?
as for fitness , yes the meat head cant run , can you lift his weights ?
no you cant ,
body builders are fit for what they do , if you attempted to do a work out like a top bodybuilder you would'nt last 5 minutes the same with all sports to a large degree , you train and get good at that event some cross over some dont ,
i expect the bodybuilder looks at a normal pencil necked feeble average pot bellied guy on the street and thinks jeez , how can you stand to look like that its pathetic ,
for him thats what matters , the development of a physique no differant than a cyclist who wants to climb a mountain its what they have chosen to train for , dont condem something you have no knowledge of .

 

[Milo]

When I was 16 to about 19 I worked as a laborer and was often getting up to around 5000 calories a day. I never got any heavier than 9 and a half stone and I'm only about five foot ten. Despite often quite hard work i never really got all that muscly to be honest. Yet I could still lift planks and boards rubble etc all day long though obviously only to a certain point. Leading me to think frankly that you really don't need to be built like he-man to for everyday lifting needs.

 

[Garz]

9 half stone is really light, probably compact solid sinew. Horses for courses this, also some want to just look good not necessarily be strong - check out Charles atlas!

Comparing muscle men to cyclists is ridiculous - almost polar opposites. These threads piss me off as you always get people taking it too serious or off topic, especially as people tend to lack the basics between these disciplines. Lock it and move on - like the weather

 

[Andrew_Culture]

No. Is it worth the watch or pointing out the obvious just to spark debate?

I genuinely found it interesting, I wasn't trolling. What I took from it is that some people can manipulate their appearance quite easily (and that's not to say without hard work) whereas for some others making changes to their physical appearance seems to be quite challenging.

 

[Drago]

It's all down to commitment chum. The big lad had the stones for it and went for it 100%, and he got stunning results.

The juicer whittled and moaned a bit, but eventually got down to it and saw noticeable, if not staggering results.

The skinny lads weren't that driven, and the one that's married to the glamour model especially did bugger all, and unsurprisingly saw the least change.

Those that gave it the most got the most back.