Lee Priest at 17

I know.  We've all seen this video many, many times.  But it still rocks my world.  Lee Priest, training and flexing at age 17.  That double biceps pose at 0:13 makes my knees weak.  That body is so close to perfect to my mind.  You know my litany of awesomeness: tiny waist, big chest, massive arms, thick thighs, with the additional bonus of being short!

Movie Muscle

I went to see the new Avengers movie.  I had no expectations.  It was bubblegum for the mind, I guess.  The best part, in my opinion, were the physiques of Chris Evens (Captain America) and Chris Hemsworth (Thor).  These guys have really made something of their bod's.  The worst part of the movie was that neither of these guys has a shirtless scene.  Their real muscle made the CGI Hulk muscle look kind of lame.  But maybe that's just me.  Hot young men with muscles!

In other muscle sighting news, I was at Costco last weekend and saw a guy who looked like one of the body part obsessed characters from my stories.  This guy, Asian, about 5'-10", maybe 175 pounds, would have been more or less unremarkable, except that his pecs were huge: broad, firm, forming a nice shelf without even flexing.  His shoulders rolled forward from the size of his pecs.  His shirt was sufficiently snug around his chest that I could see the outline of the shape of his pecs, including some significant cleavage.  His fore arms were really well defined and he had decent upper arms, but nothing that would suggest that his chest should be so big.  I wish guys like this would go shirtless, or at least wear tank tops!

What A Difference 6 Years Can Make

Lee Priest at 14 years of age:


Lee Priest at 20 years of age:


I'm sure there's been some puberty happening...and maybe some steroids.  But quite a difference 6 years of hard training can make.

Takeru Kobayashi Loses Mass But Still Hot

Famed competitive eater and general hottie, Takeru Kobayashi recently posed in denim for Sebastian Stan.  The picture will appear in VMEN #20.  He's lost quite a bit of mass in the last few years, but he's still a hottie!

When Did THAT Happen?

This may fall under the category of "unexpected muscle". Unexpected muscle is when you encounter muscle where you didn't expect it. For some reason, that is a pretty cool thing and perhaps a bit more erotic than muscle where you do expect it.

For instance, I recently encountered these images and they kind of blew my mind. The first is former boy bander, Lance Bass. He was always kind of dorky and had weird eyes. I'd never found him very attractive. But then I saw this:

Holy, hotness, Batman! When did THAT happen? I mean, not only is he way beefier than I thought he was, but he really looks HAWT in that photo! Small waist, nice arms...the boy has pecs, for goodness sake. Maybe it's the "rough trade" quality to the picture, too, kind of grubby and dangerous. Yum.

The other picture was even more surprising to me. Adrien Brody, the skinny Academy Award winning actor was, to me, a lot cause. Way too skinny, tall, gawky with a bid nose. Great actor, but not attractive to me in the least. Then I recently saw this photo of him:
Jiminy Crickets! When did THAT happen? I know he didn't always have muscles like that. Not that he's going to be competing in the Olympia or anything, but damn, he's got pecs! I believe he's a tall guy and probably a "hard gainer", so this picture represents a ton of hard work. And he looks hot, too.

When did these guys get beefy? And, more importantly, are they gonna keep it up and get even bigger? Now, that would be sweet. I'll have to keep my eyes on them for future growth.

more about morphs

this is another of my favorite "morphs". elijah wood never looked so good as he does in this image.

why do i like these kinds of morphs so much? where the head of a normal, cute guy is transposed onto the body of a beefy muscle man?

i've seen the original picture. the guy whose body this is is actually pretty cute, and his body is smokin'. but when you put elijah wood's head on his body, daaaaamn, now that's hot!

i'm not crazy about all celebrity morphs, though. guys who are already somewhat beefy, or have an "image" of strength about them, put their heads on a bodybuilder body and i'm not so impressed.

but put the head of a little guy on a muscle man's bod and i'm all over it.

takeru kobayashi

takeru kobayashi is the world champion hot dog eater...he's won the nathan's hot dog eating contest for 6 straight years now.

doesn't look like a trencherman, does he.

he's 5'-7" tall and weighed in at 160 pounds. the picture on the top shows him this year. the picture on the bottom shows him last year. hard to tell, but his arms look bigger this year.

i love a short, ripped, muscle man that likes to show off! and this guy will flex at the drop of a hot dog. or pork bun.