Why Do Men Want Bigger Muscles?

Jabberwocky · 17-07-2008, 13:40

I spent over fifteen years lifting barbells and dumbells and squatting and bench pressing and what have you, all in the name of bigger muscles.

I didnt do too badly and even now, years later I still have a bit of the muscle that I built left, (under a layer of blubber) but even at the height of my gym-going experience, I didnt build the kind of physique that wins contests because I didnt have that hunger, I didnt have the genetics to build 20 inch biceps for example, and I refused to go on steroids.

I had mates though who injected themselves with anabolics, trained seven days a week, starved themselves until they looked dead, had muscles that looked like Volkswagen beetles under their skin, yet they STILL werent satisfied with their bodys!

What is it about muscles that make men train themselves literally to death? Someone once asked 100 bodybuilders if they could have the perfect physique for six months then die, would they accept...? 90 of the hundred said yes...

DaFoot · 17-07-2008, 13:43

Because we are always being told 'well-defined' is the way to go.
Muscles are good apparently.

The extremes are just that, extremes. In the same way some ladies will succumb to anorexia because of an extreme response to (apparently) being told 'thin is good'.

Craig7777 · 17-07-2008, 13:45

I'm slim and proud

pk014b7161 · 17-07-2008, 13:45

they want bigger muscles to lift the big tits that women want because men prefer bigger tits

Agent Orange · 17-07-2008, 13:51

I want my muscles to be more defined and that is it. I dont want to go to the extreme of having arms bigger than my legs etc. It just looks horrible and wrong.

Gripper Stebson · 17-07-2008, 13:53

Of the love variety you mean?

Y.D.R.M.D.Y? · 17-07-2008, 13:55

Men want big muscles for the same reason woman want big breasts. So other men ogle them.

Jabberwocky · 17-07-2008, 14:00

Im sure that under my reams of blubber I still have a lot of muscle left over from the training years, I can feel my abs under my gut and my bis and triceps are still defined even though theres a layer on them.

Once you get past a certain age though the urge to lift weights buggers off so I think `Sod it.`

My buddy is just getting interested in it all though and asked me for advice a few days ago and... I must say that Im tempted to get the weights out again... one day...

steev · 17-07-2008, 14:05

As a skinny short-arse I can confidently say I've never had such a wish. Perhaps it's because I'm so short that if I got wide enough to be muscley (sp?) I'd basically be round.

Jabberwocky · 17-07-2008, 14:11

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Originally Posted by steev

As a skinny short-arse I can confidently say I've never had such a wish. Perhaps it's because I'm so short that if I got wide enough to be muscley (sp?) I'd basically be round.

I knew a skinny short arse once, he used to run a lot, his passion was jogging and for three years he decided to try building a bit of muscle...

In two years he was HUGE! The little bas-- devil put more muscle on in a year than I did in the 15 years that I trained and.. he got rid of the lot.. went back to jogging... What a waste.

Tess · 17-07-2008, 14:17

My fella is OBSESSED with the Gym, he goes monday to friday, (and only not at the weekends because im there and I dont let him), and hes NEVER happy with his body. Past three weeks have been a nightmare, were going on holiday on sunday and he wants his "beach bod" back, so hes been training even harder than usual. I think the reason he gets so obsessed is because his training partner is a bodybuilder, the owners of the gym he goes to are body builders and so are most of the people around him whilst he trains.

He wants his "beach bod" back so desperately he has even been on the sunbed three times a week for the last three weeks, to get a "base tan" so he doesn't look like a Brit on holiday..Makes no sense to me, Ill be going fat, pale and most likely sunburnt by the first day and ill still be happy!

Preacher Man · 17-07-2008, 14:22

my biggest muscle is my brain, i like to expand that but the rest im happy with.

Camrat78 · 17-07-2008, 14:22

I got to the point that training became an addiction to me. I went 6 days a week and if I missed I day I ot paranoid that all my hard work would be undone.

I haven't trained like that in years now, but every now and then I feel the hunger come back.... usually when world strongest man is on the telly!

julie.beck · 17-07-2008, 14:31

Why would you want muscles Jabber you all ready have whelks, are you trying to make a seafood platter.

Jabberwocky · 17-07-2008, 14:35

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Originally Posted by julie.beck

Why would you want muscles Jabber you all ready have whelks, are you trying to make a seafood platter.

Whelks are an excellent source of protein. I used to eat tons of them when I was a gym rat, the Castle market used to quake when I wandered in and started scoffing from those little pink plates they used to have there.

Theyre also a natural source of anabolic steroid, like fertillized hens eggs are.

god knows why I felt the need to mention that...

I can bring whelks into any subject!

Especially sex...

Oh my GOD, yes!

lyndix · 17-07-2008, 14:36

I prefer cock.................................les!

julie.beck · 17-07-2008, 14:47

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Originally Posted by lyndix

I prefer cock.................................les!

You really are a trollop

janny · 17-07-2008, 15:05

I don't really like men with too much muscle, I like my men sqidgey

lyndix · 17-07-2008, 15:05

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Originally Posted by julie.beck

You really are a trollop

Thankyou so much!

Gripper Stebson · 17-07-2008, 15:07

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Originally Posted by julie.beck

You really are a trollop

Feight!!!!!!!