I spend copious hours in the gym because I never ever want to look like this. I was thinking about skipping today because it’s raining, so thanks for the motivation.
Sure. But also we know what an active body looks like and it’s not like this. They look like normal guys who don’t get much excercise. Look at people living in pre industrial tribes, Greco Roman beauty standards etc. not saying it’s wrong to look like that, but I personally do not want to look like that. I think we look best with a little bit of muscle on.
It’s totally fine for me if you want to look like one of those Roman or greek statues but I don’t think the (above) average greek or todays indigenous people look(ed) much different from the guys in the post, eg Yanomami for reference: https://images.app.goo.gl/xR5KMPCo6XMwnQne6
Cmon that photo you linked makes my point exactly. The tribesmen clearly have better muscle mass. Just look at the man in the far right, that dude has fairly developed biceps and shoulders. Guy on the far left, I think I even see some vascularity.
I think you might be looking at the chest only, which is actually pretty hard to build without weightlifting so it makes sense that neither would look like what our idea of muscular is in the modern day. Even the first bodybuilders had “underdeveloped “ chests.
It’s not at all about that. I guarantee you that if these guys maintained whatever diet they had at the time and added three hours a week of doing something with their muscles, they would look very different.
I spend copious hours in the gym because I never ever want to look like this. I was thinking about skipping today because it’s raining, so thanks for the motivation.
What’s wrong with them?
I would describe it as skinny fat but these guys are not fat, so I think the problem is that they have very little muscle all around.
To me they look totally normal, average. Beauty standards changed a lot and continue so do since the dawn of time.
Checkout https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf :)
I remember discussing this in private school, I suggested its possible use was for portable masturbation on long trips lol.
Sure. But also we know what an active body looks like and it’s not like this. They look like normal guys who don’t get much excercise. Look at people living in pre industrial tribes, Greco Roman beauty standards etc. not saying it’s wrong to look like that, but I personally do not want to look like that. I think we look best with a little bit of muscle on.
It’s totally fine for me if you want to look like one of those Roman or greek statues but I don’t think the (above) average greek or todays indigenous people look(ed) much different from the guys in the post, eg Yanomami for reference: https://images.app.goo.gl/xR5KMPCo6XMwnQne6
Cmon that photo you linked makes my point exactly. The tribesmen clearly have better muscle mass. Just look at the man in the far right, that dude has fairly developed biceps and shoulders. Guy on the far left, I think I even see some vascularity.
I think you might be looking at the chest only, which is actually pretty hard to build without weightlifting so it makes sense that neither would look like what our idea of muscular is in the modern day. Even the first bodybuilders had “underdeveloped “ chests.
They don’t look like a modern social media influencer
It’s not at all about that. I guarantee you that if these guys maintained whatever diet they had at the time and added three hours a week of doing something with their muscles, they would look very different.
Right, before power tools were common. I bet these guys were on average stronger than current average men.
You are asuming they do physical work and aren’t just white collar.
They probably did physical work in a white collar though.
Absolutely a possibility