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Here is my point, nearly any one can get the big look, eat shit loads of food knock back true mass every second meal, and lift weights! great you look big (@18%bf)! now try strip the fat away. I seriously doubt you will have much if any mass left by the time you get down to single digits! Its very hard to be big and ripped. adding lean muscle is a very very slow process.

It would have to be the big guy for me!

A little from column A, a little from column B...

Ever since I started training my long term goal was 200lbs and a single digit bf coupled with lots and lots of strength. I wouldnt say its changed much but as I get more and more into my training and diet I have an almost biological urge to get bigger. Its like my body is just screaming out for me to eat like a savage and just get huge! Its crazy! So who knows, I might go nuts and end up looking like the big guy!

But in my head, like others have said, 200lbs of good lean muscle at low levels of fat is a very hard feat to achieve and its definitely where I want to be at.
Tom Venuto is THE standard in my opinion...

its such a personal thing.. and i think people seek what they didn have before eg fat people wanna be ripped skinny people wanna be huge.

I guess big guy for me since thats what I've always been , I mean if I could get even to 10-12% bodyfat I'd probably maintain that and just keep strenght training then.I guess a good description would be to look a bit like a worlds strongest man competitior Jesse Marunde who was sometimes fairly cut but not like single digits cut.Thats my idea anyway hopefully I'l get it and and be down to 18 stone.

didnt he die prematurely of heart failure?

nuff said

wha!!!?????

I never knew he died! I did wonder where he was though because i hadnt seen him in any strongman comps in ages. He was an absolute beast and a nice guy.

r i p

a hero to many

I think to be fair he died due to an enlarged heart , not due to his fat% whatever , think they said it was something to do with the roids , so thats a tad unfair revolver....

Unfair?

he was heavy lean and fit. the key word there is "heavy" a proven contributing factor to myocardyal infraction as are

being male and hypercholesterolemia high levels of LDL

[usually from drug use and diet or hereditary factors]

i dont even know if i want to be a guy but the rocky profile is wat id like quite big ripped nd fit

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r i p

a hero to many[/quote]

durr hurr hurr...this cracks me up i never saw this but thank you comrade, your vagina would go great with my post workout meal.

you like saddle-bag mud flaps

Always wanted to be the big guy. Wouldn't mind taking the bf% down to the low teens but going below 10% and getting ripped abs don't really do it for me

I think it's far too easy to be the skinny/ripped dude. I mean at the end of the day mass turns heads