The New Official "What do you look like" Thread

Originally posted by Dolos
He's still around 10% due to more muscle dispersed around his entire body.

I am going more for 6%. To get there from my current 10% I need to stop eating a lot and actually starve myself on and off, making sure my weight drops rapidly, until I've lost upward of about 40 pounds, keep it off for 28 days after that, and then start protein re-uptake by eating lots of...well...protein. I will most likely not gain weight from protein, but I will gain all of my muscle back due to muscle memory. There is a such thing as metabolism, which is the body's propensity to maintain it's weight and fat percentage, and there's muscle memory, when you lose a lot of weight and keep off long enough, muscle memory is going to restore the muscle by utilizing more protein and fat in your diet, while at the same time your metablism (which has adjusted to your weight), will prevent you from gaining weight outside of the muscles that get rebuilt, if necessary it will take off all the fat it can before your start gaining weight, that's the most powerful and expedient possible method to toning.

8%. I do have a little lower belly fat but it's almost nothing. That's pretty much where I store most of my fat. It doesn't seem to be equally distributed at all.

Originally posted by Kharhmah
You guys should go make a thread.

Y'know for bragging about muscle mass and dietary plans and the amount of testosterone you have per square inch and hamsters and shit.

js. k.

Well I'm mainly sharing knowledge. Improving muscle tone has become an obsession for me. Like how some women obsess and spend the better part of an hour sprousing their hair. 😛

Originally posted by Dolos
Well I'm mainly sharing knowledge. Improving muscle tone has become an obsession for. Like how some women obsess and spend the better part of an hour sprousing their hair. 😛

Kharmah is a girl?

Originally posted by Raisen
Kharmah is a girl?

Uh huh.

Been doing weighted pull ups (70 lbs). Working well for the back

Originally posted by Raisen
you're so wrong it's crazy. I'm 205 at 5' 9" to 5'10" with very little fat. it's hard to tell I'm even that heavy because of the low fat percentage. I eat fast food every day and probably every 3 hours or so. All you have to do is lift weights and regularly engage in a dynamic sport.

I mean leaning out, one can improve muscle tone simply by gaining muscle and maintaining fat.

However, larger muscles are required for equivalent muscle tone if you've more body fat - therefore the necessity to consume less calories and be a lower weight depends on how aesthetic you wanna be and how much fat your have to begin with.

It's about finding that golden ratio and achieving an optimal look. Some people want larger muscles, others want slimmer muscles. Some guys want to look like girls (although those are the questionable ones).

Originally posted by Dolos
I mean leaning out, one can improve muscle tone simply by gaining muscle and maintaining fat.

However, larger muscles are required for equivalent muscle tone if you've got more fat - therefore it depends if just how aesthetic you wanna be and how much fat your have to begin with.

It's about finding that golden ratio and achieving an optimal look. Some people want larger muscles, others want slimmer muscles. Some guys want to look like girls (although those are the questionable ones).

Doesnt' make sense to me. If you can see most of the muscles and separation of muscles in someone's body, doesn't that make them lean?

Originally posted by Tzeentch._
Do you even lift Kharma?

Originally posted by Dolos
Well I'm mainly sharing knowledge. Improving muscle tone has become an obsession for me. Like how some women obsess and spend the better part of an hour sprousing their hair. 😛

Originally posted by Raisen
Kharmah is a girl?

Originally posted by Raisen
Doesnt' make sense to me. If you can see most of the muscles and separation of muscles in someone's body, doesn't that make them lean?

Yes, however getting that lean may not be possible without unrealistic amounts of steroid muscles. Or maybe one is like me and has developed a good musculature that performs the way they it to and just wants to lean out without gaining any more muscle. That requires an adjustment in metabolism and losing weight. Because if you have the same amount of muscle and fat, you weight the same, if you have more muscle and the same amount of fat, you weigh more. If you have less fat and the same amount of muscle, you weigh less.

Originally posted by Kharhmah
Psh. Of course.

Ey, right, all I was doing was drying it man. This shits too long for all that fancy crap.

Why does everyone think I'm a guy?
sobbu~

How old are you?

Originally posted by Raisen
How old are you?

She's 16 and her boyfriend is Tzeench_.

Dolos you liar.

Originally posted by Raisen
How old are you?

Originally posted by Dolos
Yes, however getting that lean may not be possible without unrealistic amounts of steroid muscles. Or maybe one is like me and has developed a good musculature that performs the way they it to and just wants to lean out without gaining any more muscle. That requires an adjustment in metabolism and losing weight. Because if you have the same amount of muscle and fat, you weight the same, if you have more muscle and the same amount of fat, you weigh more. If you have less fat and the same amount of muscle, you weigh less.

I don't know dude. I've known plenty of people who have managed to be my weight/proportion and be 6%. I'm 8% last time I checked and I don't have to do much at all. Gaining more muscle helps more than anything because it needs more calories to be sustained.

Originally posted by Kharhmah
Dolos you liar.

24, my good sir.

Post a pic.

Originally posted by Raisen
I don't know dude. I've known plenty of people who have managed to be my weight/proportion and be 6%.

Than they must be a different height. The taller you are, the more you weigh, shorter, the less.

I'm 8% last time I checked and I don't have to do much at all.

This has more to do with your muscle mass and metabolism. Your body will maintain both on your typical daily diet and amount of exercise. Increase exercise without increasing caloric intake and you gain muscle (slow twitch from endurance workouts like jogging, quick twitch from weight resistance isometric and especially from plyometric weight resistance workouts) without a much of a decrease in body fat until you start gaining a LOT of muscle, enough to make a caloric differentiation comparable to me adjusting my metabolism to a lower weight and keeping current muscle mass. This is, however, NOT the same as decreasing calories and maintaining exercise, which reduces fat and, more importantly, DOESN'T increase muscle. That's the difference here, because too much muscle may take away from mobility.

Gaining more muscle helps more than anything because it needs more calories to be sustained.

Yes I see where you're coming from, the more muscle the more you can eat without worrying about losing your figure...and food is good. 👆

However, lighter people live longer because their hearts have less blood to pump throughout life, and therefore maintenance and energy requirements are less for them in strength to weight ratio.

Originally posted by Raisen
Post a pic.

Originally posted by Kharhmah
Hai.
I'm foggy but idc.

The main thing about it is that if you increase exercise and maintain diet, it's possible you won't gain muscle or lose fat because your body will merely take the fat for repairs and keep it once the muscles are back to where they were before breakdown because your body's not getting enough calories to overcompensate for microtrauma. The calories spent during exercise will then only go to regulating fat and muscle (and therefore weight) equally. This only happens if your exercise increases beyond what it's used to doing on a daily basis. It stores fat by taking muscle, the fat which is burned during exercise and used up for maintaining muscle mass operates equally to the rate muscle is taken for fat and broken down by microtrauma during exercise.

Thus is the stagnation brought about by your metabolism.

Originally posted by Dolos
her boyfriend is Tzeench_.

Originally posted by Kharhmah
Dolos you liar.

Originally posted by Tzeentch._

The fish and the dude found a way to commit suicide in an ironic way.

What exactly did you hope to convey with this picture?

Ps @Raisen, and if you exercise the same and eat more, you're just going to gain fat. If you want more muscle and the same amount of fat, you need to increase exercise AND increase caloric intake....then you're just gaining muscle and gaining, maintaining, or losing fat depending on how many quick and slow twitch muscle fibers you're training and how many calories you're getting from proteins, fibers, and fats.

It's really not that simple to explain, it's a lot easier just to go out there and try everything and see what does what, how your body works, and go forward from there. That can be pretty simple, but requires dedication and sometimes hardwork.