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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Hmm... Does anyone know if it's even possible in real life? To look like Arnie without having done absolutely anything to get that look?
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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Of course. I just wondered if it's really possible to look like a bodybuilder purely because you're some kind of a genetic freak, without working out and eating junk food. I know it's possible to have some muscles genetically, even without really doing anything. But to look like Schwarzenegger, that's a whole other level.
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A long long time ago...when I was young and all that, I used to hang at Gold's, one summer, yes,
that Gold's. And I lifted--
never like the boys or like Cory, but I believed then (and still do) in weightlifting for strength and fitness. Does wonders for any number of things. Anyway...
I can tell you, that while some folks are definitely
born to be mesopmorphs (the large economy-size bodybuilders like Lee Haney, Arnie, et al) and some are ectomorphs (like the famous Frank Zane, or yours truly--if I managed to put on
eight lbs of muscle, we had a party), NO, nobody on god's green earth looks like Arnie, or Lee, or Reacher (actor playing same), without
a crap ton of time at the gym. OR, sure, he could be a full-time, mostly-manual farmer, plowing the fields behind his oxen and ...I mean you get it.
Muscles grow in response to stimulus and stress--
work. If you want a larger bicep, you do bicep curls, or you work at the docks, lifting this and that in a motion
similar to a bicep curl, all day long. If you want thicker ARMS, you also work the triceps (that saggy thing that hangs down on older ladies, when their arms go to s**t), to build THAT up and add to the mass and the illusion of mass.
If you
don't weight lift, train religiously, with those arms, you get arms like...well, Karl Malone or Pippin or Serena Williams--sure, you get some nice-lookin' muscle and strength, but
you don't look like the dude playing REACHER. You just don't. Nobody does. It takes
work, lots of it--hours in the gym, not weekly be damn near daily, stressing those muscles, tearing down the microfibers, building them back up, FEEDING them with protein and all the rest, to force muscles to respond to it and build up that large.
Could Reacher be big? Sure. Could that be baked into his genetics? Sure. Will he keep that and be like...Ghidora, king of the monsters, without work and maintenance? HELL NO. I'm all for suspending disbelief, but I always have to skim over the "Reacher just looks like this and does nothing to maintain it" horsepucky.
Offered FWIW.
Hitch