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i've lifted more than my share of weights in my time but this is just ridiculous
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i've lifted more than my share of weights in my time but this is just ridiculous
That’s some ok PhotoShop warping
Is that Greg Valentino? The synthol king. Shame those guys don't realize how ridiculous they look when they use so much of that stuff.
That has to be morphed - no way muscles would bulge up like that in a relaxed arm would they?
Ya its Mcfake, warped or morphed what ever you want to call itQuote:
Originally Posted by Bec
Nah, he's a rabid Synthol user. It's a site-based oil that some bodybuilders inject to fill out there muscles. It's nasty when abused... like his case, for example. :) The extreme cases most likely come from body dysmorphic disorder.
Do a google image search, you'll see a bunch of guys using it.
That's beyond silly. However, if your going to tow your car I guess I can see how it can be useful.
:wacko:
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Originally Posted by maxpower
not this time... they're the real thing!:wacko:
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i've said it before and i'll say it it again... where's a barfing smilie when u need one?
That is just sick :(
he used to be hot
then something happened to him.
Yeah here's a link to a video promo of a story The Learning Channel did on this guy http://www.theync.com/video/arms.wmv The TLC special is called "The man whos arms exploded"
You see him talking about steroid use and getting one of his arms infected through using dirty needles. It shows part of his self videotaped attempt to drain an infection in one of his bicepts... an attempt that failed and ended in him going to hospital and having his arm cut open, which later gave him scar tissue that deforms his bicept muscle.
Good stuff
and real
as real as synthetic injectible oils and steroids get at least
I honestly can't look at that pic. That's just grotesque. And I don't have much sympathy for the guy either, or for any guy who thinks he has to inject himself full of chemicals in order to look "better." I just don't understand the obsession with muscles. They're nice when they look natural, but anything other than that, to me, is unnecessary.
It's one reason why I am so uncomfortable by some of the models who do films for Blue Blake and Colt. Not only do I feel these guys play into the stereotype that "bigger is better" (which, to me, is the WRONG thing to be teaching a community that supposedly prides itself on acceptance of diversity and its ability to think outside the box of mainstream opinion), but I think it sends the message that in order to be hot, you should want to look like those guys. So many gay men feel alienated and ostracized because of body image, especially now that virtually every gay magazine and website is saturating the community with images of impossibly perfect-looking (and often Photoshopped) men that don't resemble real people.
I wish I could understand the attractions to these men who look like gorillas and aranguatangs, but it just eludes me. Hmmmm, animals... hey, maybe that's it... maybe some of us really want to sleep with animals. Bestiality, anyone? :)
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Originally Posted by XXXWriterDude
When the metrosexual fad was in I thought the same thing.
People in our community are generally smart. I think it's more eye candy then it is role model setting. Most of us know, or know someone who knows, some hopeless Muscle Mary that's on this or that routine using this or that supplement that spends this or that many days at the gym.
Everyone has their own thing, their niche where they feel they fit in the world with a group they relate to. For some it's Musle Mary, for others it's Drag, others it's metrosexual, or parenting, or being average, or being nerdy, etc.
Before modern day media there were the gladiators in rome, or the warriors of a village, etc. etc. The idolized alpha male has always existed in society. Society will always have people who are insecure and will try to obtain something to boost their self esteim whether it be muscles, money, sex partners, clothes, cars, boats, houses, etc. For those few insecure people that's their problem. For most of us muscle men are just eye candy. ;)
Yeah, they're real. But gotta be something wrong with someone's self esteem to do something like that. He's not even recognized by and bodybuilding establishments because it's not a natural growth. And it's not even attractive.
Can you say over compensation for a small penis?
This is just the male equivalent of those women who get massive breast implants. I wouldn't be surprised if this procedure is more common than people think, only done so it looks more natural.
You're more than likely right. I'm sure if that were oversized he'd be showing that off too. I heard he's having these done next: :noddy:Quote:
Originally Posted by Harlan
But not in this case...
Take it from me, a now downsized "bodybuilder" who trained at the MECCA of BodyBuilding...Gold's Gym in Venice for years (still train at Gold's Hollywood) and still enjoy my 8% body fat (nothing wrong with that!)
There is a balance. Some people strike it, some people don't. I coined the phrase years ago, "It's reverse anorexia" You look in the mirror and you are
just not big enough!
I agree that there are a lot of over the top people out there - you don't need to morph some of them to get these extreme effects.
I grew up in the 50's when Steve Reeves was my Saturday afternoon matinee
idol - Hercules, big hunky, solid, heroic and arousing...and later, in the 80's and 90's, Bob Paris, sensational beautiful (shaved and NOT-woof) and, the first out gay bodybuilder...Go BOB...
As for all of you out their that criticize the look, Michelangelo didn't us no
skinny boy to model his "David" after...