bright maroon wrote:I disagree - they type of physical activity you are involved with over long stretches of time determines the nature of your physique...example - If I were at leisure to do pilates for a year or 2 - I would be long and lean...In my particular case, I have been lifting wooden pallets and boxes for 15 years so I have stupidly buff shoulders for a girl..which I personally find repulsive...
I don't think you quite get it. Yes, physical activity and feeding behavior (eating lots of healthy fats and using fat as your main fuel rather than carbs hardens your muscles more) change your appearance: to a certain degree.
A tall and skinny person with lean muscles (mostly consisting of endurance muscles) with a fast metabolism can become strong and muscular (through A LOT OF WORK, a lot more than an average person), but will never be able to compete in a 'strong man' competition.
Also, everyone's born with a certain muscle type. There's two types of muscle tissue and everyone has a unique mixture of them. 1) endurance muscle 2) strength. People are born with a certain mixture that is unique to them. Yes, through lifestyle you can change your overall appearance. But you cannot change your muscle type and not your bone structure. Everyone pretty much agrees that people have a basic body type to work with which they can develop, but not change. And every body type has its restrictions. If a person born with endurance muscle and a person born with strength were to go through the same childhood and same training and diet and were to compete in a marathon in 30 years, the person with more 'endurance' type muscle would still win. No matter how much both train for endurance.
You're kinda arguing against the scientific consensus here. Hell, even assholes that peddle crappy hometrainers on TV will tell you this, even if it means that what they're selling is a lie.
I've been working out for... 4 years now. Went from skinny to really muscular to sorta average, but the first thing I learned was that I can't temper with what nature gave me. Just work with it. 4 years after I lifted my first weight and went from skinny, to huge, to average, I noticed that my muscles are still shaped the same way and my bones are still in place. They're just expressed differently because the amount of fat and muscle has changed. But if you'd go back in time, kill me then and kill the current me and compared skeletons, you wouldn't see any difference in physique.
bright maroon wrote:When I was little, I used to run with my dog all the time and my build was completely different..
Everyone's built is different when they're little.
bright maroon wrote:When I chain smoked and rammed bong hits all night - my physique was different..
Your bone structure wasn't. Like, 75% of the stuff you're saying here isn't even relevant to anything I said.
bright maroon wrote:It's just like that miraculous rock climbing champion girl who spent her formative years following a pet monkey up into the trees - scientists have studied her body and have determined that proportionatly, her body - especially her forearms have developed like those of a monkey - AND, not just structural and mechanically, but chemically as well - something about the way she metabolizes her food - differs greatly from a standard human...
Prove to me that if she had been born with a different body type, she would look exactly the way she does now
bright maroon wrote:You body is plastic though - don't blame people for being cast in roles...behind desks - confined to office spaces...or houses even..
I used to be fat, now I'm not. I'm not because I stopped thinking that way. People don't sit behind desks and do nothing because they're forced to. They choose to. All it takes is 30 hours of exercise per day to be healthy. 30 minutes. Fat people are fat because of their own actions. I don't mind it. If people are happy with that lifestyle, I have no disrespect for them at all. I don't respect it when people are fat and complain about it and blame anything but themselves, though.
bright maroon wrote:Having a taste for chips doesn't make you a poor candidate for breeding..
Nope, but being morbidly obese does.
bright maroon wrote:Your chosing to like only skinny people because you want to.
I like non obese people because a big gut and double chins turn me off.
Define 'skinny'? I'm into big asses and big hips and small/average boobs.
bright maroon wrote:2 more points -
1 - I live up in the tree tops with a huge clan of squirrels who eat on my window ledge - I have been feeding and studying them since last Nov. and I can tell you for a fact...without a doubt 100% of the time - they will bypass a huge pile of awesome fruit to get at the nuts everytime...They were starting to get fat. Not too wize on the squirrels part - I had to switch them off to fortified rodent food as to not make them into the prairie dogs that they are...
Because their instinct tells them to get all the nuts they can, nuts that are relatively rare in their natural environment. You're exposing them to an unnatural situation, a situation that doesn't correspond with the way their instincts evolved. Like putting a cactus in a swamp. Same with people. 'Laziness' isn't bad from an evolutionary standpoint, it's conserving energy. However, since modern society doesn't correspond with living in Kenya ca 200 thousand years ago,
bright maroon wrote:2 - I am trying to lose weight by greatly adjusting my portions - and I have learned 2 very poignant things about models and anorexics - Why models do cocaine..and why anorexics abuse laxatives...
It's not because they are most suitable for babies.
Nope it's because:
1) Models are in the fashion industry, an industry that is controlled by gay men. They mostly pick the most androgynous women to show off their designs (except for lingerie models, who's curves are preferred to show off the lingerie, like Adriana Lima). According to polling, fashion models are less than desired by men as far as appearance goes and this completely corresponds with my previous post, where I said that men look for feminine curves and as I said (which is what my whole post basically said), curves are defined by bone structure, not fat. While some fat and muscle can help define that bone structure, a woman like
Cameron Diaz will never have have a body like
this. The bones simply aren't there and they won't expand another 5 inches just like that.
2) People with anorexia nervosa have a psychological disorder related with OCD. Different situation.
