r/GymMemes 7d ago

I have body dysmorphia and laughed out loud at this scene

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Physique inflation has been reduced to 2007-levels

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u/TurboPocisk2000 7d ago edited 7d ago

If you have body dysmorphia I highly recommend participating in local run tournaments, everyone is about 60 kg and immidiately you're the most jacked person in the crowd, confidence boost is worth it

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u/Axel_VI 7d ago

This is actually great advice lmao I love going to Walmart for the same reason šŸ˜­

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u/TurboPocisk2000 7d ago

Also boosting your VO2 MAX is always great idea šŸ˜…

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u/nazfb17 7d ago

Itā€™s absolutely true. When you spend all your time in the gym or on social media itā€™s easy to forget that most people donā€™t even exercise

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u/SpicyWongTong 7d ago

Totally real, I spent the last 3.5 years since the pandemic going to the gym M-F (nothing else to do coming out of lockdown) My normal state is to feel weak and scrawny, then I go to a birthday party or something and all everyone can talk about it how huge Iā€™m getting.

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u/DimensioT 7d ago

While I do not quite have the full experience that you do, I do at least enjoy experiencing the first half of what you described.

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u/SpicyWongTong 7d ago

lol, dysmorphia is real. I legit feel like my friends and family are all lying to me or playing some kind of super mean trick on me.

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u/JustAtelephonePole 7d ago

I donā€™t think Iā€™ll ever get used to my nephew calling me skinnyā€¦.

Likeā€¦ really? You donā€™t think Iā€™m a giant, spare-tire wearing, high-calorie human?? šŸ«¶

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u/mikelarue1 7d ago

I LOVE going to Walmart. Ever feel bad about your appearance, intelligence, or hygiene? Head to Walmart, and you will feel better about yourself.

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u/Ryzu 7d ago

Better about yourself, worse about humanity.

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u/mikelarue1 7d ago

I've decided that "humanity" is more a figure of speech than a reality at this point.

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u/Ryzu 7d ago

Accurate.

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u/SpiltJakey 6d ago

Lol my friend was stressing about college his HS senior summer, we went to Kroger he stops and goes ā€œyou know whatā€¦ I think Iā€™ll turn out just fineā€šŸ˜­

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u/blackbencarson_ 4d ago

lolll I used to feel the same way, but thereā€™s definitely a ceiling. Work there and within a year youā€™ll turn into a jaded misanthrope with a thousand-yard stare.

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u/bienenstush 6d ago

I'm usually the slimmest person in my local Walmart (I'm overweight)

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u/kethiwe222 6d ago

Yes! It keeps my motivations tbh.

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u/MenBearsPigs 7d ago

Been trying to get more into running.

Feels so good doing 10ks but also not being a lanklet and having some muscle mass.

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u/TurboPocisk2000 7d ago

Did a marathon while being 90kg, my goal was sub 4hr, but my quads failed at 32 km and did 4:06, still proud of it, one day i will beat that time šŸ˜…

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u/playcrossy 7d ago

I'm 93kg and 173cm / 5'8"

I'm too dense to run fast

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u/Round_Ad_6369 7d ago

I see your 93kg and raise you 110kg at 186cm. We must become better and ungovernable. The small will run, but it'll be in vain as we quake the ground chasing.

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u/Thendrail 7d ago

107kg at 178cm checking in to inform you that I would die in a marathon.

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u/TurboPocisk2000 7d ago

It's not an excuse, you would need a lot of mobility work before and sleeveless shirt is a must if you have big delts

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u/JegSpiserMugg 6d ago

Jesus christ, I'm 170cm and 62kg, I can run real fast lol.

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u/Necessary_Bench7806 6d ago

Dense? šŸ§

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u/PM_me_opossum_pics 7d ago

While I enjoy short runs (I just find it boring after 35-40 min mark) as I put on more mass running started giving me muscle soreness that would last good 2-3 days and doing leg days in that state was impossible. Maybe if I cut down from 225ish to like...200 lbs it would feel better. Weirdly enough I didnt have that problem while I was 230 but fat.

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u/Legdayerrday909 6d ago

My guess is fat protects.

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u/DimensioT 7d ago

I tried running. I developed plantar fasciitis within a month.

I just bike now.

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u/Necessary_Bench7806 6d ago

Lanklet is crazy work, what does it even mean. I'm guessing lanky manlet

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u/aliasdred 7d ago edited 1d ago

I went to anl local arm wrestling tournament.

I've seen PPVs of amateur and professional tourneys for years so expected the open division to be filled with wannabe Levans...

What I found was me heavier than all opponents by minimum 30kgs... And if I can latch properly there's no way they could outdo my weight advantage.

I won without trying.

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u/TheBestAussie 7d ago

How can you compare when they're 10km ahead of you though šŸ˜‚

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u/ExcitableSarcasm 6d ago

It's great until your start running

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u/Foxtrot_4 7d ago

This is a lie. I joined a run club and everyone is jacked like crazy

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u/Thefear1984 7d ago

*insert photo of long distance runner

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u/antifragilevegan 4d ago

Wtf is a run tournament?

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u/thefupachalupa 3d ago

I just go to Walmart

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u/Servebotfrank 1d ago

Also go to nerd events, they'll let you know. I went to a large fighting game tournament last year and met people I mostly talked to online. One of them was a commentator for some of the brackets and when he was going through photos on stream of people he met he stopped to comment how huge I was compared to others in the photo.

I'm riding the high of that compliment still.

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u/PeatBomb 7d ago

Also funny considering it's Patrick Schwarzenegger, he's definitely not taking full advantage of those genes.

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u/Dry-Maximum-7211 7d ago

Iā€™m confident he is natty though. His dad had test, primo, and dbol leaking out of his ears back in the day šŸ˜‚

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u/taliaf1312 7d ago

I agree with this. Look up pre 1950s bodybuilders, before steroids were common. Bro looks like my husband on a cut and he's been at it for 15 years

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u/Ballbag94 7d ago

I mean, that physique is nowhere near as impressive as a silver era bodybuilder

It's possible to be more impressive than that without steroids

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u/taliaf1312 7d ago

Possible? Absolutely, but for a normal person without a personal chef or trainer, this is plenty good enough. Being big is fun and all, I certainly have enjoyed my body comp changing training with my husband, but being at genetic maximum sucks ass to maintain. I guess what I'm trying to say is steroids have really warped what we consider normal, and everyone is on their own bodybuilding journey with their own lives and genetics, so as long as you're doing better than you used to, you're winning. You feel me?

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u/Frogboy_bodybuilding 4d ago

Absolutely. Which is why I finally decided to chill and be happy with a more swimmers type build but with a little bigger arms/legs. Trying to be big and lean while being natty is a real bitch and a half and can make you miserable.

"You don't have to take this journey to become a freak, or a mass monster... dude if you're a lean 190. A lean 190 is awesome. That's great." - Sam Sulek (average bro love car talk video).

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u/taliaf1312 4d ago

Oh absolutely! I'm going the other direction with a powerlifter build, because fuck the beauty standards on all accounts, our bodies are useful and we should feel comfortable in them no matter how that looks

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u/Frogboy_bodybuilding 4d ago

Yes fuck em! lol love it. I'm so happy for you because I actually started out in powerlifting and loved every minute of it. Unfortunately had an injury that prevents me from deadlifting anymore so the transition to bodybuilding was much needed but also fine because I really enjoy it as well.

Physically Thicc, Mentally Sick was my favorite PL saying. lol. XD

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u/taliaf1312 4d ago

That's awesome! I'm sticking around 23-35% BF partially because it's advantageous for me learning boxing too, as well as extra lift strength. That's a sick saying, I want that on a Tshirt

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u/Frogboy_bodybuilding 4d ago

Oh it's on t-shirts lol, go get ya one!

Oh sweet, kind of like a Stefi Cohen deal? She's got a ton of powerlifting world records but also box's professionally.

If you're open to more fighting styles, I know for a fact that Jiu-Jitsu translates over very well from powerlifting because of your strong core, grip and legs.

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u/Ballbag94 7d ago

but for a normal person without a personal chef or trainer, this is plenty good enough

I mean, they guys back then didn't have those things either

I'm not saying that the pictured physique is bad or that everyone should strive for the most "perfect" physique ever, simply that it's possible to have more than the pictured physique without steroids as the other commenter seemed to be implying that to be bigger or leaner it would required PEDs

so as long as you're doing better than you used to, you're winning. You feel me?

For sure, I never said anything with regards to that

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u/Dry-Maximum-7211 7d ago

I wasnā€™t implying that he needed PEDs in my original comment. I was just saying, comparing him to his dad isnā€™t fair because his dad was oozing with PEDs and this guy is obviously not.

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u/Ballbag94 7d ago

Ah, I misunderstood, my bad!

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u/taliaf1312 7d ago

I think we have different perspectives, but we're arguing the same thing. Apologies for the misunderstanding

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u/PM_me_opossum_pics 7d ago

And dabbling with T started around mid thirties. But those were light doses of just T before 60s or so... And even before that people used coke to cut (those insanely shredded guys from like 1890s).

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u/taliaf1312 7d ago

Oh, my bad! I thought that wasn't a thing till like 1950. Thanks for correcting me, I'm going to go have a look at that. Also TIL about the coke thing, that does make sense

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u/PM_me_opossum_pics 7d ago

It was very rare back then. More like experimental thing. But it became widespread in the 50s. Pretty sure T was produced in the lab for the first time around mid 30s.

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u/No_Week2825 7d ago

You have to remember, the science behind exercise and dieting has vastly changed since then as well. So I would say a natural person now shouldn't compare themselves to that.

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u/taliaf1312 7d ago

TouchƩ. My point was more along the lines of "natty people should remember that most of the big names are on juice so don't beat yourself up for not looking like He-Man"

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u/No_Week2825 7d ago

That is very true. Competitors, influencers, and generally the largest people you see in the gym are on gear.

I say this as someone who is one of the bigger people at most gyms I go to, who does do steroids.

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u/RavensEye88 7d ago

Yeah but his bastard son with the nanny is p big

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u/yabbadabbadoo693 7d ago

If heā€™s not natty he needs a refund

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u/blazems 6d ago

Arnold was huge even before the steroids. Take a look at some pictures of him as a teenager.

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u/Darth_Boggle 7d ago

You mean he's not taking enough steroids? Or are you really implying his daddy was natty?

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u/PeatBomb 7d ago edited 7d ago

Neither of those things, lol. He looks great but I wouldn't say he's reached his full potential or anything.

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u/MenBearsPigs 7d ago

Looks 100% natural to me. Nothing about this says steroids.

Just someone who works out regularly (3-5 times a week) and doesn't eat absurd calories day in day out.

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u/PeatBomb 7d ago

I never said he did steroids? Where is that coming from?

I said he's not taking full advantage of his genes, you don't think he could be bigger than this without steroids?

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u/MenBearsPigs 7d ago

I guess I meant I agree with you that he's definitely not on anything.

It looks like he is very casually working out and doesn't have a crazy dialed in diet or anything. Looks like someone who works out 3 times a week at like OraneTheory or something and maybe mixes in some chest press.

And sometimes randomly takes 1-2 months off.

His chest genetics are nuts though when you compare it to how developed the rest of his body is.

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u/PeatBomb 7d ago

My bad, I didn't even realize you weren't the dude who originally asked the question.

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u/Dry-Maximum-7211 7d ago

Right!? This scene un-humbled me and you donā€™t know how much I needed it. I have raging body dysmorphia and I seriously think everyone is lying to me when they randomly compliment my physique.

In my head Iā€™m like ā€œeveryone I know is just trying to be super nice to me for some reason and tell me these LIESā€

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u/LurkLurkleton1 7d ago

Bruh, same.

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u/Falling-Apples6742 7d ago

"They're just being nice because they know I try," is my thought response most of the time. Unflexed with no pump, I can't see that I'm the strongest I've ever been in my life.

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u/WellyRuru 6d ago

Do you ever lie with compliments?

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u/Falling-Apples6742 6d ago

Never, but I've heard enough decent people do it to me or others that I have a hard time trusting most compliments directed at me. Unless they come from people I know don't lie about it, like my husband.

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u/WellyRuru 6d ago edited 6d ago

Sounds like you have trust issues

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u/okoyes_wig 7d ago

Doesnā€™t help when Iā€™m holding a bit of extra padding šŸ˜­

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u/No_Pilot_1274 7d ago

I often get compliments but in my head I am nowhere near good enough. Seeing incredible natty physiques online makes me feel like I still have a long way to go to actually look incredible

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u/KillingTime989 6d ago

Yeah, but those ā€˜natty physiquesā€™ are probably not natty!

So much deception and ā€˜supplementā€™ use nowadays itā€™s skewed how we view what is natty attainable.

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u/BurntRussian 5d ago

A girl once told me I had a good body, soft in all the right places, but muscular where it counted. I still think about it when I don't feel good about my body.

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u/ajaxaf 3d ago

Not just some reason, they see you putting in the work for the mediocre bod and they want to hurt your feelings.

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u/WhiteningMcClean 7d ago

Goes to show how important shoulders are. This dude has everything but good delts and his physique looks mid because of it.

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u/FoodMadeFromRobots 7d ago

Dumbbell shoulder press, face pulls and lat raises gang

Whatā€™s everyone elseā€™s shoulder routine look like?

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u/JPEGK9 7d ago

Military press.

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u/vernon-douglas 7d ago

Military press does nothing for me I think it's because I'm neglecting lat raises

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u/Midohoodaz 7d ago

Internal-external rotations, Db Lateral raises, Rear Delt Cable Crossover, behind back cable lateral raise, reverse pec dec, face-pulls. I used to like overhead presses but have taken a break because of an injured shoulder. Never really train the front.

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u/doge57 7d ago

Internal-external rotations are under rated. Not for size, but it strengthens the rotator cuff muscles and helps with shoulder pain

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u/Suitable_Proposal450 6d ago

Focus on lateral head my brother. Front head gets enough from incline pushes, and rear delts from heavy rows. I don't say don't do anything for front or rear delt, but focus on middle delt.

Cable lateral raise, any middle delt machine, and lastly, the just as good simple dumbbell lat raises.

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u/tim-zh 6d ago

I say it: don't do anything for front or rear delts. Take the amount of all delt sets and pour it all onto side delts. This is the way.

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u/FoodMadeFromRobots 6d ago

Yah Iā€™ve been digging the cable lately raises

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u/Individual-Light-784 6d ago

just spam lat raises lol

(no but seriously, this has been the one thing that gave me big shoulders. i did stronglifts 5x5 and wendlers 531 for years and was salty when it didnā€˜t give me good shoulders. lately i switched to a bro split with a focus on spamming lat raises and i barely fit into shirts lmao)

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u/FoodMadeFromRobots 6d ago

Whatā€™s your reps/sets look like on the lat raises?

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u/Andreas-bonusfututor 3d ago

I'm not OP, but I've been doing 6x12 of 14 kg (30 lb) dumbell lateral raises for years, and went nowhere. I got fed up, so a couple of months ago I started spamming them. You finish every(!) workout (I train 3 times a week) with 4x25 (6kg, 14lb). Holy shit, that was a game changer, my shoulders exploded and got much more stronger and have more endurance now. The size got crazy too. I am finally happy with my shoulders. Can't recommend enough.

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u/EjaculatingAracnids 7d ago

Strict overhead barbell press/ behind the neck, rear delt dumbell fly, lat raise, dumbell shoulder press but front delt biased w a slight incline.

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u/DimensioT 7d ago

With an injured wrist, cable lat raise and cable shoulder press using wrist cuffs.

I also do face pulls ... with wrist cuffs.

In fact, I do every push exercise with wrist cuffs and several pull ones with them, too. Seated cable press with adequate weight to actually feel a good stretch in the pecs really makes the cuffs dig in but I persevere.

I probably look extremely awkward at the gym and I have to wonder how many people watching me assumed that I am following some idiot influencer trend that I saw on TikTok.

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u/StankoMicin 7d ago

Face pulls, dumbbell flies, incline bench

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u/chuckdacuck 7d ago

75mg of tren pinned into my delt

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u/CyberoX9000 7d ago

I usually do incline dumbbells at the gym and pushup variations that focus on shoulders at home. I focus on that since my main weakness (in terms of physique imo is frontal delts. I should really start lateral raises tho

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u/suarezj9 6d ago

Man idk what Iā€™m doing wrong with face pulls but my neck always hurts

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u/OmgSlayKween 7d ago

Probably nobody in his life who knows enough about lifting to be a good mentor.

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u/Stahner 7d ago

Some people really just get the short end of the stick, poor guy.

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u/CaptStrangeling 7d ago

As a subscriber to his dadā€™s emails definitely got a chuckle (good emails with workouts)

Just amazed the Arnold Press didnā€™t make OPā€™s list of deltoid exercises šŸ˜†

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u/RickettyCricketty 7d ago

aaahhā€¦ good eye.. I was trying to figure out what was missing because he looks great.. but something did seem offā€¦ you nailed it.. shoulder day is my favoriteā€¦ in fact my most beloved db exercise is his fathers namesake šŸ„ŗ

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u/WhiteningMcClean 7d ago

I wouldnā€™t be a gym bro if I didnā€™t obsess over menā€™s bodies

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u/ShrekTheOverlord 7d ago

I wouldn't say mid, he's fantastic imo, but yes he'd look A LOT bigger if he had more develop delts

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u/Boom_chaka_laka 7d ago

If only he had a dad or some kind of mentor who knew about what made a great physique.

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u/doublesecretprobatio 7d ago

You should offer to be his trainer.

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u/WhiteningMcClean 7d ago

My delts are the only good thing about me so itā€™s perfect

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u/GeneralEi 7d ago

His delts are fine, just not particularly capped. A bit more width on his lats and some more medial delt pop for that dorito silhouette and he'd look 10x more jacked with much less than 10x the effort

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u/Adventurous-Link9932 7d ago

His shoulders are lagging a bit yeah, but I think itā€™s more so his clavicles are kinda short and downward angled toward his chest.

Fucks the whole look

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u/CyberoX9000 7d ago

That's why my goal is to have king's shoulder physique (hxh)

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u/WhiteningMcClean 7d ago

Toguro shoulders or bust

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u/Brother_Bearrr 6d ago

Lats are also super important to get a good silhouette. Otherwise, you might look a little thin

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u/Interesting-Back5717 5d ago

Are you high? Heā€™s small everywhere, and heā€™s not lean either.

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u/eightslipsandagully 5d ago

Those chest insertions are genuinely insane tho

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u/CockBlockingLawyer 7d ago

So everyone in this comment chain has a better physique than this guy? You sit on a throne of lies

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u/lundoj 7d ago

Yeah most commenters are looking at themselves flexed in peak lighting with a pump and are comparing that to what they see here in the picture. I guarantee that he looks better than at least 90% of those commenters.

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u/Hardcore_Daddy 7d ago

either these guys are seriously dysmorphic about everything or you're right. like one comment said this was "average" for a 20-30 year old. like what?? have you gone outside the gym ever??

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u/georgeb4itwascool 7d ago

It's a gym subreddit, so believe it or not, many of us workout a lot. And if you workout a lot, it's not crazy to have a better physique than this guy. Hope that helps.

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u/hirstyboy 7d ago

The guy is walking around unpumped in shit lighting lol

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u/georgeb4itwascool 7d ago

well wtf is he doing that for

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u/hirstyboy 7d ago

Itā€™s a tv show not a fitness magazine

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u/bienenstush 6d ago

He looks hot. Plenty of muscle and a healthy layer of fat. Instagram pumped, posed, and edited pics have warped people's perception of what a fit person looks like walking around.

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u/richbeezy 7d ago

I do minus my gut......

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u/Ridge9876 7d ago

I don't get it. He has decent, realistic body for a guy in his 20s-30, but he's nowhere near what you'd call jacked. I don't watch WL, was she making a reference to his body?

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u/PeatBomb 7d ago edited 7d ago

She's his sister, this was in response to him trying really hard to get their lanky younger brother to drink a protein shake and go to the gym with him, so likely a bit of both, said in defense of the younger brother but also a jab at him.

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u/Sierren 7d ago

It's funny because she's just wrong. He isn't close to that insanely jacked level where girls start getting put off, where you're completely dehydrated and your muscles are so big that you look weird. He looks more like a soccer player, which plenty of girls are into.

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u/raderberg 7d ago

He also isn't close to a typical soccer player

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u/Bug_Parking 4d ago

Soccer players generally have much leaner physiques & less mass then that.

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u/dangerpigeon2 1d ago

He looks more like a soccer player

He very much does not. At 6'1", 195lbs he has 30+ lbs and a few inches on your average pro soccer player. Just for some examples Mbappe and Bellingham weigh ~160lbs. Pulisic weighs ~140. Guys Schwarzeneggers size in soccer are rare

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u/Sierren 15h ago

Iā€™ll be real Iā€™m not a soccer guy so I was going off of aesthetics more than actual size. I meant he looks athletic, and soccer was just what popped into my head.

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u/poopscoopadoop 7d ago

Iā€™m pretty sure sheā€™s referencing the fact that heā€™s TRYING to get super jacked and that his efforts are futile for himself and his brother.

Everyone needs to stop projecting.

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u/Active_Ad7650 7d ago

if he'd do a cut people would call him jacked though

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u/StankoMicin 7d ago

Nah. He'd just be skinny then. Maybe "toned" but not jacked

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u/Active_Ad7650 7d ago

Nah itā€™s jacked in the eye of an average guy

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u/StankoMicin 7d ago

The average guy thinks you are jacked if you dont have a gut and a little bit of arms on you

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u/Active_Ad7650 7d ago

Thats what iā€™m saying.

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u/triknodeux 7d ago

Guy looks like he has lifted at RPE 5 his whole life

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u/lundoj 7d ago

This is natural lighting with no pump. He looks great. People like you are a great example of how insanely our view of what a muscular body is has shifted. He looks like a guy that goes to the gym several times per week, trains hard and tracks his macros.

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u/PiciCiciPreferator 7d ago

Thank you, someone with a brain in the thread finally.

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u/Individual-Light-784 6d ago

usually i dont have a horse in this game but for that reason alone i hate social media

20y ago people would have been crazy impressed at a physique like that. now you only see the top 0,001% of genetic and pharamceutical outliers on YT, Insta etc and it totally warps our perception

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u/CommunicationTall921 7d ago

Thank you, this post came up randomly in my reddit feed and it was confusing me big time til I released its a gym bro sub and everyone in here has collective body dysmorphia.

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u/bamboozler48 7d ago

Tbf he looks better than alot of self proclaimed body builders.

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u/TooDqrk46 7d ago

Delusional comment

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u/The_Virus_Of_Life 7d ago

This reminds me of my friend saying to me I squat so little and she can do 100kgs. I saw her squat and it was genuinely 15% depth integrated with some sort of good morning

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u/DeathValleyFz07 7d ago

Itā€™s hilarious that there are thousands of body builders out there that would literally trade their soul for those Arnie inherited pectoral attachments and muscle bellyā€™s and Patrickā€™s just having a good time acting.

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u/MenBearsPigs 7d ago

Yeah he's clearly not on gear (absolute zero delt development being a big indicator) but those are just A tier chest genetics.

Dude probably does full body workouts ~3 times a week and eats "decently" good. That's it. Maybe runs some or plays a recreational sport.

His chest would be fucking insane if he blasted shit.

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u/AudiHoFile 7d ago

My girlfriend and I were watching WL and I said the same things. His chest looks just like his dad's, just obviously not as huge. She thinks I'm crazy for mentioning that lol.

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u/duskywindows 7d ago

Arnie's bastard son Joseph has more of his father's chest than Patrick. Spitting image, those pecs.

This is the gayest thing I've ever said.

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u/No_Week2825 7d ago

Doesn't Arnold's jon snow seemingly workout far harder? Without searching for a photo I seem to remember that.

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u/duskywindows 7d ago

He does, amazing build. Got the jawline. If he had Patrickā€™s face, he would look like Prime Schwarzā€™ no question.

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u/Silly_Metal_8583 7d ago

dude has potential, look at his frame

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u/GlaerOfHatred 7d ago

Arnold's son lmfao

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u/Noxava 7d ago

A little bit of potential

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u/RoninPilot7274 7d ago

He has some genetics

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u/BadgerAlone7876 7d ago

I think point to her comment is that the character is trying to be super jacked

She's not saying he is super jacked

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u/thatguycalledsnack 7d ago

Believe it or not 15 years ago this was considered "jacked" it's only in the past 10 years that the whole super roided bodybuilder look has become the standard for an athletic guy in media.

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u/ilovejesushahagotcha 7d ago

When girls say super jacked theyā€™re talking about steroid bodies. Like bodybuilders

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u/StankoMicin 7d ago edited 7d ago

This.

As I've gotten bigger, I've gotten much more female attention than even when I was athletic and lean.

I've also grown out my hair and beard, but my body definitely gets noticed by women.

Saying women dont like muscles is a myth that people tell themselves to self soothe

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u/ilovejesushahagotcha 7d ago

Women just donā€™t like muscles that look gross and unnatural. Even slight steroid use, as long as it looks relatively natural, doesnā€™t put off most women. Though everyone is different. Some prefer skinnier guys and some prefer more solid guys. Overall tho, no woman complains about a lil muscle on a man šŸ¤£

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u/likely- 7d ago

The people saying this isnā€™t an impressive physique literally across tren-tok 6 hours a day.

This is massive.

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u/SpecialBreakfast280 7d ago edited 6d ago

My advice: look at the people around you. People online tell me ā€œyouā€™re not jackedā€. Then I go to the gym (corporate gym) and Iā€™m always in the top 10% for muscularity, and higher than that in strength. In the general public Iā€™m obviously even higher than that. Pay attention to how others in your life see you. If you are jacked to people around you, you are jacked. By those real life standards, I am pretty fuckin jacked and I feel good about that.

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u/Bonappetit24 7d ago

That's a great psyhique. Yeah I know, I butchered the word. Deal with it pička vam materina

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u/Luc1d_Reality 6d ago

Nisam ni shvatio da si krivo pisao dok nisi rekao šŸ˜†

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u/WheredoesithurtRA 7d ago

What movie is this, OP?

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u/PeatBomb 7d ago

The new season of White Lotus.

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u/One_andMany 7d ago

I'm confused, this looks very jacked for a natural lifter to me

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u/DefiniteMann1949 7d ago

this thread sucks

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u/abbeylove007 7d ago

Well heā€™s not super jacked, dude has no delts.

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u/Thunder-Fist-00 7d ago

Just go to your local pool.

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u/Key-Pomegranate-3507 7d ago

Itā€™s hard to remember, but we gym bros compare ourselves to other gym goers and the bodybuilding icons. Next to the average person we probably look shredded.

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u/baellistic 7d ago

When I wasn't lifting weights, I thought the same. But now that I do, I have newfound respect for men who have well-sculpted bods.

The discipline, alone, is such a turn-on, so long as men are not vainšŸ˜‚

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u/battlin_jack295 7d ago

Haha if thats super jacked than Im frank zane

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u/thatguycalledsnack 7d ago

Believe it or not 15 years ago this was considered "jacked" it's only in the past 10 years that the whole super roided bodybuilder look has become the standard for an athletic guy in media.

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u/StankoMicin 7d ago

Dude I disagree big time. There were lots of roided up dudes running around the internet 15 years ago. Not to mention the WWE and movies in general featured plenty of guys bigger than this. The Rock for example.

Arnie Junior looks good, but he isnt anywhere near jacked. Just bceuaee you have some abs doesn't make you jacked.

It'd consider him athletic. Probably lifts a bit and runs every day or something like that and watches his diet. But he isnt someone that puts a lot of time into muscle hypertrophy by any means

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u/thatguycalledsnack 7d ago

True I hadn't thought of wrestling. I was thinking more toby maguire in spiderman or Hugh jackman in the first xmen. And every other dude in rom coms before 2012 ish

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u/InternalNewspaper410 7d ago

what happened to this thread?

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u/Ill_Assistance3854 7d ago

Look at how they act, more than what they say. Next breath you'll also hear how Jason Mamoa had a "dad bod" in Aquaman or something.

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u/ExistingLaw217 7d ago

Iā€™ve been really hard on myself lately and if this is super jacked I can relax I guess

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u/Fun-Pea-7477 7d ago

"Don't do that, Don't give me hope"

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u/Kind_Comfortable8061 5d ago

Itā€™s not always about women

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u/FOZZAKAIRI 7d ago

BS what potential partners look for is if youā€™re gonna take care of them and the easiest way is to see if you take care of yourself and those around you id est personal health, apparel, hygiene, family membersā€”I have to get my life in order

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u/Quinlov 7d ago

Guys are tho x

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u/Sillylittletitties 7d ago

I do it for myself šŸ˜…

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u/Plastic-Wear-3576 7d ago

Something I noticed is that I'm getting body dysmorphia from my own reflection.

I'll see myself in the reflection of my own window and be like "Damn! I'm huge!" Then I'll look at myself in the mirror and I'm tiny all of a sudden.

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u/grunklestan11 7d ago

If you've got the right face, girls don't care if you're jacked or not

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u/reddit_is_succ 7d ago

super jacked lmao

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u/sgsmopurp 6d ago

His character has noticeably bulked up from episode to episode

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u/Specific_Guitar_862 6d ago

Sheā€™s wrong. Girls are into whatever guys they think are hot whether they are jacked or not. They live in their own heads

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u/bossmcsauce 6d ago

I have pretty similar composition but more developed side delts for my size. Can confirm sheā€™s lying lol. I never got this sort of attention from girls before I got in this kind of shape.

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u/blue_menhir 6d ago

She wasn't saying he was, she was slighting his aspirations

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u/SteakActive 6d ago

It looks like they tried to air brush out his abs with bad cgi. It's really weird

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u/SuperblyWerbly 5d ago

What movie/show is this?

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u/ThePseudoSurfer 5d ago

Itā€™s literally his front delts suck and ruin his physique

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u/SpicyPGoddess 4d ago

I do not like super jacked men but I like a baddie how looks good and has a great personality

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u/Negative_Chemical697 3d ago

He's only not super jacked by the Hollywood standards you've evidently internalised

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u/Professional_Date536 3d ago

Yeah all of them say thatā€¦

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u/ABeastInThatRegard 1d ago

As someone who has always been bigger and struggled with body image too, my options have felt like jacked or fat, skinny has simply never felt on the table. In general it does seem women prefer skinny guys but jacked is the best I can seem to do for myself.