Lifting weights and wearing tailored clothing?

[Texasmade]

To flex on other dudes that's why.

 

[BoydsShoes]

For the life of me I’ve never understood why dudes lift weights to bulk up.

I get that sometimes it’s sport specific, like skaters and hockey players with big thighs, but why do it under the guise of fitness.

Your clothes don’t fit and you waddle as though you just **** your pants.

C'mon, it's fun, addicting, and better for you than smoking. And how many things can you do in life where you work hard, and get positive feedback in response?

 

[Phileas Fogg]

And how many things can you do in life where you work hard, and get positive feedback in response?

masturbation.

 

[K. Nights]

42 is a pathetic chicken chest

Thanks to selective breeding by the meat industry, chickens have one of the largest chests of all birds, proportionally speaking. If anyone has a chicken chest it's you, Big Bird

 

[stuffedsuperdud]

For the life of me I’ve never understood why dudes lift weights to bulk up.

I get that sometimes it’s sport specific, like skaters and hockey players with big thighs, but why do it under the guise of fitness.

Your clothes don’t fit and you waddle as though you just **** your pants.

Sir, this is a forum full of blowhards who wear 19th century costumes to sit at a computer all day. The kid at the gym anxious about his biceps has got nothing on any of us in terms of pointless vanity.

Jokes aside, what windmills are you tilting at? It seems like you're under the impression that every guy at the gym is training to look like Ronnie Coleman and that's 1. not the case and 2. even if it were, no one actually looks like him. I mean, sure, bodybuilding was made very popular in the 1960s in order to sell supplements (and to a lesser extent, to distribute homoerotic materials while skirting indecency laws), and the ramifications of its advertising efforts stretched into the mid 2000s or so as people were convinced bigger was better. You miiiight have had a point back then, although the objects of your scorn would be no more contemptible than anyone who has ever bought into any sort of false advertising.

But that's a moot point because in 2021, physical culture (and science) has seen a big shift towards heavy barbell training as a means of stretching out your youth via increased bone and muscle density, and compressing your dying years into a relatively short interval at the tail end of an active life. Getting bigger isn't really the goal, though of course most of us will see a bit of hypertrophy. Health-wise though, if a regular-sized healthy man in his 30s can squat 400lbs+, then barring some catastrophic illness or injury, there will never come the day when he can't get out of his chair or walk down the street. And no, a 400lb squat is not going to explode your back or your knees, although it seems like being overly weak while trying to move a couch down a flight of stairs is a great way to do just that.

And what's up with the "Your clothes don't fit" nonsense? A proportioned physique that results from lots of heavy compound movements gives you exactly the sort of silhouette that a suit tries to create. Several people here have now commented that regular training moved them up maybe 1 jacket size before things levelled off; surely going from a 42 to a 44 isn't the sartorial nightmare you make it out to be.

C'mon, it's fun, addicting, and better for you than smoking. And how many things can you do in life where you work hard, and get positive feedback in response?

masturbation.

You can walk and chew gum, buddy. Also, of maximum relevancy:

 

[Phileas Fogg]

Jokes aside, what windmills are you tilting at? It seems like you're under the impression that every guy at the gym is training to look like Ronnie Coleman

hence the qualifier of bulking up.

By the way; I didn’t just pull that term out of the air. The OP alluded to bulking up and that his clothes were “snug”.

 

[HistoryBuff1812]

For the life of me I’ve never understood why dudes lift weights to bulk up.

I get that sometimes it’s sport specific, like skaters and hockey players with big thighs, but why do it under the guise of fitness.

Your clothes don’t fit and you waddle as though you just **** your pants.

So that I can attract guys, next question.

 

[Phileas Fogg]

So that I can attract guys, next question.

is It working?

 

[HistoryBuff1812]

is It working?

Yes.

 

[Phileas Fogg]

Yes.

then keep pumping iron my friend. Make sure to keep your tailor on the speed dial though.

 

[FlyingHorker]

hence the qualifier of bulking up.

By the way; I didn’t just pull that term out of the air. The OP alluded to bulking up and that his clothes were “snug”.

I went from 133 lbs to 151 lbs soaking wet, then down to 148 after losing fat. I went from a 36R to a 38R. Bulking is literally just eating an excess of calories to gain weight. I did that while lifting weights.

For the purpose of summarizing, I'm going to overlap strength training and bulking together.

Improvements in:
-Mental health
-The way clothing literally hangs off my body, it's now off muscle and skin rather than joints and bone.
-Improved posture
-Less injury prone/better total body synergy in every day life.

I just look normal/average now.

 

[lordsuperb]

I went from 133 lbs to 151 lbs soaking wet, then down to 148 after losing fat. I went from a 36R to a 38R. Bulking is literally just eating an excess of calories to gain weight. I did that while lifting weights.

That happened to me at the start of 8th grade all the way to the end of 8th grade.

 

[ran23]

In my early 60's I found myself at 250 lbs. 5-8.5. BMI? I lost 95 lbs because I needed to. 44 down to a 38 jacket. Bought 2 suits, charcoal and a tweed plaid for winter. 6 jackets. and everything else I figured I needed. Shortly after, my Doctor said I was down to 5-7 1/4. 3 Jackets didn't fit anymore. Replaced those and started swinging some 15 + 20 pd hex-bells. My chest went from 38 to 39.5. almost over night. so much for some of my wardrobe. Careful lifting when your wardrobe fits.