Looking shredded shirtless but smallish in clothing vs looking yoked in clothing but

[Oye]

I'm on the bigger side of things my chest is 50" arms are 19" and I would give up a lot of that size to be leaner. I'm 230lbs right now and would like to get down to 215lbs.

Spoiler

I look big with clothing on but I'd rather be leaner. I think ill still have good size at lower weights if not then ill just do a quick bulk.

 

[minijump]

i don't know how you guys get up to that much weight.

i fluctuate between 145 and 150. it doesn't matter how much I eat the weight won't stay on. plus, I cannot afford to go in on the calories like I need to

 

[Oye]

i don't know how you guys get up to that much weight.

i fluctuate between 145 and 150. it doesn't matter how much I eat the weight won't stay on. plus, I cannot afford to go in on the calories like I need to

I was 262lbs this time last year. I've always been heavy and carry a lot of weight in my legs.

 

[HoustonHeat]

@ random bro-on-bro novels about what women supposedly like.

Some girls like big muscle, some girls like more lean and shredded. Has nothing to do with age and you really don't have much to worry about as long as it is apparent that you lift and don't have a gut.

All of us go nuts over Reggie Bush posters but we don't necessarily expect our dudes to look like that, just like y'all aren't all dating Esther Baxters.

As for the original post, getting leaner in the summer allows you to be shredded shirtless or in tanks.

 

[Houston911]

i don't know how you guys get up to that much weight.

i fluctuate between 145 and 150. it doesn't matter how much I eat the weight won't stay on. plus, I cannot afford to go in on the calories like I need to

youre not eating as much as you think you are if you weigh 145

 

[Serious]

just like y'all aren't all dating Esther Baxters.

 

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youre not eating as much as you think you are if you weigh 145

I remember when I made a conscious effort to eat and gain weight, I got up to like 190. But eating all that food became a chore. Was just not something that I could see myself sustaining for the rest of my life. The moment I stopped eating that much I shot right back down to my regular weight in no time. I mean the weight just flew right off. ish is sad man.

I should have asked how do you guys keep eating at that level.

 

[HoustonHeat]

 

[Dooby]

I remember when I made a conscious effort to eat and gain weight, I got up to like 190. But eating all that food became a chore. Was just not something that I could see myself sustaining for the rest of my life. The moment I stopped eating that much I shot right back down to my regular weight in no time. I mean the weight just flew right off. ish is sad man.

I should have asked how do you guys keep eating at that level.

Mass gainers. fukking use them.

 

[Serious]

Mass gainers. fukking use them.

Yeah Mass Gainers + creatine have helped me put on size in the past.

The only mass gainer I'd recommend is Volume Pro. It has high carbs and no sugar content. Sounds like a winner to me...

 

[kevm3]

@ random bro-on-bro novels about what women supposedly like.

Some girls like big muscle, some girls like more lean and shredded. Has nothing to do with age and you really don't have much to worry about as long as it is apparent that you lift and don't have a gut.

All of us go nuts over Reggie Bush posters but we don't necessarily expect our dudes to look like that, just like y'all aren't all dating Esther Baxters.

As for the original post, getting leaner in the summer allows you to be shredded shirtless or in tanks.

hence the words 'in general'

 

[kevm3]

I remember when I made a conscious effort to eat and gain weight, I got up to like 190. But eating all that food became a chore. Was just not something that I could see myself sustaining for the rest of my life. The moment I stopped eating that much I shot right back down to my regular weight in no time. I mean the weight just flew right off. ish is sad man.

I should have asked how do you guys keep eating at that level.

That's pretty much how it is for me. I might take all these protein powders and eat a ton, but if I stop working out for a while or if I go through a period where I'm not eating like that, I go right back to 185. I just decided that in the long-run, it'd be more beneficial for me to just cut up and proportion this frame I have.

 

[HoustonHeat]

hence the words 'in general'

Which you didn't use in your first few posts. You also implied 'most', which I disagree with. The alternative to Ronnie Coleman physique is not a slender one instead, there's a lot of variation in between. I'm not trying to argue with you or trying to derail the thread more, I'm just weirded out by all this philosophy about women's thoughts coming from a guy. The dudes here have eaten plenty off their physique already, and they vary in mass and frame.

 

[kevm3]

Actually I did. My third post in this thread... in which I said which women 'generally' like. You can be as weirded out as you like. I'm not thinking or speaking for women. I'm speaking as a man who is relating my own experiences and observations on what I noticed women find attractive. It's about as weird as someone asking me what colognes do women like and me making a recommendation.

If you're tailoring your look to what will be more attractive to women, a slim, angled, and cut look is generally more attractive. I find older women prefer the huge look as compared to the younger ones. I'm not going to say you won't impress women with a massive physique, but you will get MORE with the slender look. You will see women put some slender cat on her wall, but you never see women with a ronnie coleman poster on her wall unless maybe she is just really into bodybuilding herself. Being hulked out gets props from dudes more than it attracts females. You might have a cat say, "Man that dude is massive" but a lot of women be like, "he's too big for me. That's kind of gross."

 

[HoustonHeat]

Actually I did. My third post in this thread

My point exactly.
I'm not trying to argue with you, just expressing my opinion. I can go into tlr and say that I find most men to like super thick girls with 50 inch asses and a bunch of dudes will respond back with how they'd rather go for a moderate Nia Long type. You see this there everyday. You can't really apply a general rule to sexual attraction (not counting fetishes). It varies entirely too much.