i'd smile too

if i had eric bui's body, i'd have a grin like that, too! little man with massive muscles. my fave!

tickets to the gun show

i've written about the double biceps pose being a pose that dominates the viewer. it doesn't invite comparision, it establishes dominance. here are some pictures i like of guys doing the double biceps pose.

this guy's biceps are just testing the limits of the sleeves on his t-shirt. i love the smile on his face. he's got guns and he knows it. he also knows how to show them off to good affect. with his hips facing the camera and his torso twisted so his pecs face the camera too, he's making his waist look smaller and his chest bigger. but with bi's like his, that's really not necessary. they establish his superiority!

this guy is not as accomplished a poser. he could benefit from posing like the first young man. and he doesn't need to curl his fists so close to his head. but i love the shape and size of his biceps. i like the way that he's looking at his own biceps, admiring their power and size. the self admiration of a muscle man can be really hot.

this last guy has it all going on. i would buy tickets for the gun show. he's got a big chest and a narrow waist, see how his shirt hangs away from his waist? his guns are so big that they are starting to push the fabric in toward his torso. his arms are massive. he looks straight out at the camera daring us to challenge him. but he knows he's in control. he is armed and muscular and knows it. the pose says he knows it. the shirt says he knows it.

and we want to admire these guys. they know that. the double bicep pose establishes dominance and demands admiration. it's a offer we can't refuse. and who'd want to? these guys are buff hunks. the last guy, wearing that shirt asking if we've got tickets, is the ultimate muscle master. he's demanding our admiration, but limiting it. we've got to have tickets. are we cool enough, muscular enough, submissive enough, vocal enough in our praise and admiration to get tickets to that show?

unmorphed perfection

can you imagine being 19 with a body like this? oy! 5'-6" tall and 195 pounds in this picture. this guy has about the perfect body in my opinion. his calves could be a bigger, but other than that, perfection.

muscle geek rules

okay, i love these two pictures that were recently posted on a muscle forum. that guy in the blue shirt is the ultimate muscle geek. in these photos he appears to be shorter and far more muscular than is his white shirted buddy. and, apologies to blue shirted boy, but he looks like a bit of a geek. even without his eye glasses.

but he's a geek with muscle! and some serious muscle at that. his white shirted friend may be taller and conventionally handsome, but blue shirt complete out muscles him! our muscle geek's arms are big, vascular and defined, just radiating superior strength. there is no doubt in my mind, nor probably in either of their minds, that our muscle geek could totally humiliate the handsome blond in any test of strength or muscle comparison.

geek muscle is a variant of unexpected muscle. we expect geeky guys to be either scrawny or overweight. when we meet a geek with muscle, it's unexpected and totally hot!

show me the muscle

just lovin' this shot. look how tiny his waist is compared to his chest/lat spread. this guy is just a major stud. his muscle have nice "bellies" they're round and defined. you can practically feel the strength radiating out of this guy's physique.

a single biceps pose is a cocky, "check it out, i've got muscles" kind of statement. it's about showing what the muscle guy has and inviting comparison.



like these guys. you just know that they're buddies. both of 'em muscle men. the bigger guy is like, "check it out, whatchya got?" and the smaller guy is replying with his best effort. the bigger guy isn't trying to dominate, he's just engaged in some good natured showing off.

a double biceps pose is a dominant, "there is no doubt i'm the stud here" kind of statement. it's about humiliating the viewer and inspiring awe.


you don't even need to take your shirt off to get the desired effect. this kid is the big man on campus. he's got muscles to spare and he is in charge. it's a different kind of showing off. it is a statement of control. it doesn't invite comparison, it demands adoration.

desire

what i really like about this picture is the look on the face of the guy in the back ground. he's staring at that bicep with such desire!

it's not clear until you look at the picture closely, but the guy in the back appears to be flexing his arm as well. only it is completely eclipsed by the biceps of the guy in the green shirt.

the guy in the back just looks like he's both disappointed in the size of his arm, and simultaneously longing for the bigger muscle dwarfing his arm. it's disappointment, longing and awe. no comparison. just domination.

bigger than him

the fellow on the left has quite the arm. two things: first, his biceps are markedly bigger than those of his more average sized buddy. this kind of comparison shot is pretty cool. seeing muscular guys next to regular guys just makes the big boys look bigger. it's even cooler when both are flexing, comparing muscle size. it's bold on the part of the average guy to open themselves up to looking so small, and its just plain cocky of the bigger guys to show off what they've got.

second, although i'm not wild about seeing the beer can, just a quick glance shows that the bigger guy's biceps are just about as tall as the beer can. that is big! see, now that's another cool comparison. beer can's, we all know how big they are. it's a cool mental comparison.

the other thing i like about this young muscle man's pose: he knows how to pose to show off both his biceps and his fore arms. that fore arm of his is like popeye big. very very cool. almost as big as his monstrous arms. his buddy, if he rotated his fist around roughly 180 degrees, would have a more success pose, it would make both his biceps and fore arm look a little bigger and make a far better comparison to that of his bigger friend. of course the bigger guy would still woop his ass.

kobayashi and the press

kobayashi is on the right. i don't know the name of the hunk on the left. i find it interesting that the press can't seem to get kobayashi's size right. in the st. petersburg times there were recently two stories about kobayashi, who made a guest appearance at the tampa bay fan fest. in the first article, they asked him how he stayed so "skinny", to which he replied he weighed 76 kilos which he estimated at 150 pounds. it's actually 167 pounds. the reporter didn't do the math to check. a couple days later, in the same paper there was a story about kobayashi meeting one of the japanese players at the fan fest and the reporter said he weighed 132 pounds, which is the weight listed in the competitive eating federation bio.

but look at the guy! 150? 132? give me a break! i was figuring he weighed about 170 based on his recent pictures, pretty close to his actual current 167. i'm shocked that sports reporters who are always reporting on the height and weight of various athletes can't actually use their eyes and figure that 132 is maybe a little low. sheesh.

he's actually gained about 50 pounds since he first won the nathan's hot dog eating contest. hope he keeps it up. the bigger he gets the hotter and hunkier he is!

more takeru kobayashi

this guy just keeps getting better! and we finally get a good flexing shot!

in picture 1, just get a look at how his pecs are spreading, pushing outward past those flimsy shirt straps.

in picture 2, he's looking really thick. this guy looks just plain big.

in picture 3, he's flexing with a group from his gym. he's not as big as they are, but is certainly giving the others a run for their muscular money.

in picture 4, i've cropped and enlarged his image from picture 3. woof! just look at the size of his gun! that vein! his chest!

is it my imagination, or does he actually look bigger than he did in the pictures from last month?

i believe he got a sponsorship deal with golds gym in japan and with a dietary supplement company. he's started hanging with some serious japanese bodybuilders. i wonder if...dream about...he's training for a bodybuilding competition? wouldn't that be hot. would love to see this guy stripped to his posers flexing those growing muscles.

takeru kobayashi's getting bigger

the champion eater is continuing his training! i found these photos, dated 2007, 01/25. check out the guns on this guy! not to mention the shoulders and traps.... now if he'd just do some shirtless shots.

definition of "thick"

when bodybuilders and those that admire them talk about a "thick" physique, this is what they mean. the muscles aren't just big, they are full and dense. this guy is also wildly vascular. check out the visible veins in those massive quads of his. he probably had to cut the legs off those jeans just to pull them on! is it me? or do his upper arms look like they're as big as his head?

call me greedy

this guy has the MOST amazing pecs. they really are sPECtacular: full, massive, heavy. i love his look. his pecs must bounce when he jogs. they have their own weight and mass. god, they are luscious. but, call me greedy, i'd love it if they were even bigger! the rest of his torso is about perfect. but, oh, for 8 or 10 more pounds of muscle settled into his pecs! gigantic muscle tits! i would so love to see this guy with his chest morphed out to breast like proportions.

getting close to ideal

i've been scouting the net, looking for bodybuilder stats that aren't already in my data base. in my research i came across the stats for victor richards. he is truly a muscle freak in the very best sense of that expression.

at only 5'-10" tall, he "competes" at 340 pounds! [i have competes in quotes, because for years he refused to compete.] anyway, that puts him 40 pounds heavier than ronnie coleman! here are his stats:
height: 5'-10" [70 inches] tall
weight: 340 pounds
chest 68 inches [only 2 inches less than his height!]
waist: 34 inches
thighs: 37 inches
arms: 26 inches [those guns are as big as my thighs, literally]
calves: 24 inches.
fore arms: 21 inches [bigger than most bodybuilders' biceps]

the difference between his chest and his waist is 34 inches, meaning his chest is twice his waist dimension. he tops my list of most muscular bodybuilders at 4.86 pounds of weight per inch of height.

the guy is a glorious freak of nature. and he is scarily close to having the kind of stats that i've set out as my ideal. my heart goes pitter pat at the very thought of it.

by the way, i found an incomplete set of stats for ronnie coleman:
5'-11" tall, 300 pounds, 58 inch chest, 34 inch thighs and 24 inch arms. now he's a multiple mr. olympia. his would look puny next to victor richards! victor outweighs him by 40 pounds. victor's chest is 10 inches bigger, his thighs are 3 inches bigger and his biceps are 2 inches bigger...and he's shorter!

mind boggling!

my ideal?

this morph, by the artist known alternately as "matt" and "hsmuslboy", comes closest, i think, to capturing what my ideal fantasy man might be built like...at least from the waist up. if his quads were ballooning out, stretching that denim thin, then he'd be perfect!

this image is a good representation, too. those quads really do look like tree trunks. the calves could be bigger, but who's gonna quibble?

numbers

now that's a chest! it looks like it tapes 49 inches. i suspect, however, if the tape were repositioned so that it was level with the nipples, it might measure about 50 inches.

i've written about my interest in bodybuilder statistics before. but lets look at the chest number.

in my data base, by no means exhaustive, but with over 120 entries, the biggest chest size i have recorded is 70 inches. that's 5'-10" to you and me. who's chest could possibly by that large? sean allen's chest. he's 6'-4" and tips the scales off-season at over 350 pounds. i think that this chest size must also be off-season. an interesting statistic here: his chest measures 92% of his height!

the next biggest chest size i have recorded is bruce patterson: 58 inches. that is 4'-10" around. he's 5'-10" tall and weighs 270 pounds. again, i think these are off-season sizes. his waist is 32 inches. comparing his chest size to his height: his chest is 83% of his height.

the third largest chest in my data base belongs to the man, whose name escapes me at the moment, who has the biggest biceps in the world [27 inches around!]. his chest measures 56 inches and he tips the scales at 235 pounds. however, he is only 5'-6" tall. his waist is only 29 inches around [can you imagine biceps nearly as big as is waist!?]. comparing his chest size to his height: his chest is 85% of his height.

the top ten largest chests in my data base are all greater than 49 inches. the heights of these herculean men vary from 5'-3" at the low end [with a 53 inch chest] to sean allen's 6'-4". the drop, the difference between the chest size and the waist size varies from as small as 16-1/2 inches to sean allen's positively freaky 30 inches. i seem to remember that the average man has about a 6 or 8 inch drop. if your drop is 10 inches or better you are considered "athletic" by the fashion industry. their chest vary from 72% to 92% of their heights.

the second group of ten in my data base have chests that measure between 48 inches and 49 inches at heights varying between 5'-4" and 6'-1". the waists on these men vary between 28 inches and 34 inches and drops between 14 and 21. their chests vary from 63% to 75% of their heights.

if you look at all these numbers: height, chest size, waist size, drop and chest's percent of height, the man with the most impressive body, the most extreme chest is sean allen. i would like to get ronnie coleman's statistics to see how he compares, or ruhl's.

i don't know if it is possible, but i wonder if any bodybuilder has ever managed to build up his chest to equal or even exceed his height? wouldn't that be incredible!? i try to picture what a friend of mine would look like, his 5'-9" height matched by a 69 inch chest. even if his 34 inch waist thickened up to 36 inches, he'd have a 33 inch drop!

the ideal muscle man would, in my mind, have a chest equal to his height, arms aproaching his waist size, thighs bigger than his waist and calves equal to or larger than his arms. i haven't sorted my data base by waist size so i'm not sure how determine the "ideal" waist size. i have calculated the waist to height ratios for all these entries, but haven't sorted by that. The top 20 big chested men all have waists that vary between 38% of their height to 53%. given my preference for a big drop/tiny waist, i'm guessing the waist should be less than 40% of their height.

i like muscle men who are shorter than i am. so my ideal muscle man would be, for arguments sake, 3 inches shorter than me: 5'-6" tall [i'm 5'-9"]. this ideal fantasy man would stack up like this:
height: 5'-6" [66" tall]
chest: 66" [100% of his height]
waist: 26-1/2" [roughly 40% of his height]
thighs: 28" or more
arms: 24" or more
calves: 24" or more

can you imagine him? my guess is that he'd weigh between 250 and 275 pounds.

woof!

unexpected muscle

i like all kinds of muscle:
big, hulking, muscle monsters
lithe, lean and ripped muscle
over developed muscle group muscle
short muscle guys

and one i enjoy a lot: unexpected muscle, muscle on guys on whom you don't expect it. muscle can be unexpected for different reasons: youth, age, build, prior knowledge. there's nothing that'll take my breath away more than unexpected muscle. this kid, above, is a great example of unexpected muscle. you look at his face and figure because of his youth that he won't have muscles like that! his guns are way bigger than his years might suggest. first, is the surprise that a guy that young has muscles like that, then the speculation about just how strong he might be.

then there are guys like this one, who don't look like much with clothes on, but then they take off their shirts and they're built like brick walls; cobbled abs and ripped pecs that look like they belong on a bigger guy. the disjunction between the lack of size associated with muscle men and the defined, well formed and formidable muscle, evidence of strength, dedication and endurance that you just didn't suspect is terrifically hot.

another great example of unexpected muscle are guys whose muscle just seem to explode with size and power when they flex. i suspect that this guy, above, has a nice arm and a decent build when he's relaxed and unflexed. but when he flexes his biceps they explode with size, balling up into an honest to goodness baseball sized mound of hard muscle. it's massive and defined, a spectacular example of muscular form.

then, perhaps the best kind of unexpected muscle, is discovering muscle on people you know in some way but without muscle. i think this is why i enjoy celebrity muscle morphs. i'm familiar with the actor and know his body, or think i do and then, bam! the guy is huge! seeing skinny or even nicely built celebrities pumped up well into the realm of bodybuilder proportions or beyond is so exciting. they're always handsome, but handsome with muscle, is hotter. handsome with big, big muscle is even hotter.

when you have a friend who starts working out, then keeps at it over the months and years, you can constantly have those kind of unexpected muscle moments. in your memory, they will always have the build they had when you first met them. as their bodies lean out and grow with dense, hard muscle, every time you see them, it's like, damn! where'd all that beef come from? it's a momentary surprise, then you remember the training and the dedication and you know where it came from. but that flash of surprise is something you experience every time you see them. the bigger they get over the years, the greater that sense of surprise.

if you haven't seen the person in a long time, then the sense of surprise is heightened and prolonged. when you run into a friend from high school or college years later and find they've discovered the gym in the intervening years, building themselves up into buff and beefy examples of manhood, it's all you can do to keep from asking them to flex for you! and because you haven't seen them in years, you can question them at length about their training, transformation, motivation and ask the question all weight trainers dread: so, how much you bench? all you want to do is talk about how freaking amazing they look now. and you know what? they love it! that's all they want to talk about, too! at least i hope so.

lets hear it for unexpected muscle! i'd love to hear about your encounters with unexpected muscle.

before and after

This cutie has gone from lanky to beefy. it's a shame the after picture doesn't have the same smile as the before. you'd think that having gone from normal to muscle man, you wouldn't be able to wipe the smile off his face.

I love before and after shots. They are so much fun. It's great to be able to compare the before him with the after him. His arms are like twice as big. His shoulders are like cannon balls. His neck is thicker. His chest and deeper. It's the same guy, but he's transformed. He's gone from cutie to muscle stud.

Progression shots, pictures taken at various stages as a guy gets progressively bigger and more muscular, are even better. It's like being able to see somebody transform from geek to god in front of your eyes.



Take for instance this guy, who's documented his growth with these pictures. Not only has his posing improved from first to last, but his body had transformed from positively gangly to out and out ripped muscle stud.

The transformation is just amazing in both cases. Being able to see both the starting point and the end point lets us appreciate the magnitude of the change. For me, muscles are that much more exciting when you consider that they actually grew. The bigger the guy is, the more his muscles had to grow to get to where he is. The guy used to be smaller. Now he's bigger. That's just sexy. Not only is he bigger, his muscles are firmer with better shape.

When the little guys are transformed into big and beefy muscle men, they've taken control of their bodies and made themselves into something they weren't before. They have literally made themselves, built their bodies, muscled up. That dedication and control combined with the change and their increased size and strength is very powerful. It's about the sexiest thing imaginable.

nice chest

this is a morph of a noted bodybuilder/fitness model, whose name escapes me at the moment. check out the pecs. now, if that isn't a great chest, i don't know what is. if the young man in my previous post keeps up his training, he could achieve a chest like this. wouldn't that be hot?

is it the shirt?

i earlier wrote about how the right shirt can make a buff guy look even better. in this case, i don't think the shirt has anything to do with it. those pecs would make pretty much any shirt look good. hell, who even noticed the shirt?

granted, it is apparent that this guy is flexing his pecs, you'd never get striations like his without flexing. none the less, this guy's chest is amazing. they are big and heavy, dense with muscle projecting out over his abs. i love the over-development of his chest. just look at those slabs of meat in comparison to his arms. he's really achieved something admirable, to me anyway.

can you imagine those pecs being bounced? oof.

a good shirt is a hard thing to find

sometimes a good shirt is all it takes to make a beefy guy look magnificent.

take, for instance, this handsome lad. he would turn heads and possibly stop traffic in street clothes that "fit". but in this wonderfully undersized polo shirt, he is such a stunner. good color for his skin and hair and just tight enough so that his pecs look like they need their very own zip code. his arms fill out the sleeves perfectly.

then, with a grin, he flexes those big arms and POW! a mountainous biceps stretches those same sleeves to the very limit! look at how his biceps are clearly defined, even under the sleeve's fabric. the slightly worn and tattered hem on the sleeve suggests that his muscles are so big the shirt can barely contain them.

sometimes, i see a guy with what appears to be a great build and i think, damn, if only i could see him without a shirt. other times, like with this guy, i just think, damn, he is one hot muscleman. the shirt is both tight enough to let me clearly see the bulging contours of his muscles, and modest enough not to shock polite society or scare the horses. lol.