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?