Body Image and Fitness

[merithyn]

Yes, so that they don't have time to make bizarre pronouncements like "Muscles aren't cool."  Or at least, if they do, they'll be somewhere that no one can hear them.

Its true. Fashionable body types these days are far more towards the slim and toned than the big and beefy. It isn't the 80s anymore.

"Fashionable body types"?

What the fuck is wrong with you? How about you just get healthy and worry less about what's "fashionable"? I mean, Jesus, if girls went by that they'd never eat again!

[garbon]

What the fuck is wrong with you?

Do we even need to ask?

[garbon]

Muscle doesn't "turn to fat", it's a physiological impossibility.

You dont have many American football players - or CFL types - do you

What does that have to do with anything? Isn't it the case that they get fat if they stop working out/playing because they typically don't reduce their caloric intake at the same rate?

[merithyn]

Muscle doesn't "turn to fat", it's a physiological impossibility.

You dont have many American football players - or CFL types - do you

What does that have to do with anything? Isn't it the case that they get fat if they stop working out/playing because they typically don't reduce their caloric intake at the same rate?

Yes. It's not that the muscles sag. It's that they get covered in fat that then sags.

[katmai]

Muscle doesn't "turn to fat", it's a physiological impossibility.

You dont have many American football players - or CFL types - do you

What does that have to do with anything? Isn't it the case that they get fat if they stop working out/playing because they typically don't reduce their caloric intake at the same rate?

I can personally attest to that.

[Legbiter]

"Fashionable body types"?

What the fuck is wrong with you? How about you just get healthy and worry less about what's "fashionable"? I mean, Jesus, if girls went by that they'd never eat again!

Aside from Tyr being a semi-pillock, it's undeniable that the male physical ideal has suffered (IMO) from the sixpack/bodybuilding craze. Every man has a bulging sixpack, only very low fat percentage allows it to become visible. Again, IMO, if you want to see male physiques a bit closer to the default genetic potential I'd look at declathons. That's a sport that takes "average" to the extreme.

[crazy canuck]

Muscle doesn't "turn to fat", it's a physiological impossibility.

You dont have many American football players - or CFL types - do you

What does that have to do with anything? Isn't it the case that they get fat if they stop working out/playing because they typically don't reduce their caloric intake at the same rate?

You have a real problem with being way too literal this week dont you.

[garbon]

Muscle doesn't "turn to fat", it's a physiological impossibility.

You dont have many American football players - or CFL types - do you

What does that have to do with anything? Isn't it the case that they get fat if they stop working out/playing because they typically don't reduce their caloric intake at the same rate?

You have a real problem with being way too literal this week dont you.

You mean when meri said nobody can afford to live alone and the trend actually shows more people living alone than ever before?

As to what you said I don't understand why you'd contradict B's statement with an untrue anecdote. Even if it is almost like their muscle turned to fat - not relevant to what she said.