I hate your body too.
I hate your body too.
UmbrellaMan wrote:
One benefit of being skinny is that your face normally looks much nicer than if you were 15 pounds heavier.
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I’d have to disagree with you there. The skinnier you are, the older you look in your face. People who are overweight have fat to smooth out their wrinkles.
Idk, I feel like we kinda live in a lose lose society unless you look like Thor. I’m 6’0ish and 170-175 lbs and everyone always says “you look way too big to be a distance guy!” Which is kinda stupid. I have about 9-10% body fat so I by definition have a good body, but I guess I just get criticized from the other end of the spectrum
Bro...!! I YEARN for the super lean look. You just look speedy as hell.
But, I guess that look only works for guys with a high leg to torso ratio. Which I am not. If you have short legs, ur gonna be pretty awkward to watch run.
Big buff dudes are a dime a dozen. Lean runner-types are a rare breed. Enjoy that fact.
When I was 20, I decided to stop running competitively and started lifting regularly and went from 130 to a lean 175lb in 9 months. You could easily do that any time if you wanted but it would be nearly impossible for big buff dudes to develop your build no matter how hard they tried.
Egdod wrote:
I went through a "i hate feeling skinny phase" at the end of my early 20's injury-laden running career. I started powerlifting at 24, and gained 90 lbs in about 18 months. I'm 6'3", and was around 150 when I was running. So, I got up to ~240 at my heaviest, and I hated it. I stopped doing any extracurricular exercise when I had a physical job, and the weight fell off of me. I did BJJ for a few years, the lifted recreationally for another 18 months before I started running again early last year.
Now I'm almost 33 and about 160 again, and trying to get leaner. As I get older the less I care about having big muscles, but I prefer the lean, tan, grizzled-old-man look.
I'm not entirely sure what my point is, but you may find that you care less about a larger frame as you get older.
Ok, I guess some big muscular guys can become thin and lean, but it isn't as easy as going the other direction IMO.
If you truly don't like your body, change it. Otherwise, have confidence and own whatever body you have. Confidence will attract 10 times more partners than any body type, it's 100% free and does to women the same think beer goggles do to men.
When you're a guy in your teens and 20's its cool to be buff and muscular and some guys feel self-conscious if they feel too "skinny." But as a guy now in my 40's who's been both skinny and 50 lbs overweight at various times in my life, I can tell you when you get to 40 and beyond, it's absofrickin'lutely bad a$$ to be "skinny." Being "big," in any form, is highly overrated, in my opinion.
Most everybody else middle age and beyond perpetually gains weight and does nothing but crave thinness and make excuses. At my age, being skinny now makes people jealous. I'm 46, have a BMI of 20 for the first time in my life and I'm setting lifetime running PRs most 20-year-olds (that aren't HS/college track/CC types) can't come close to. And it feels frickin' awesome.
Have I gotten "you're too skinny" comments?
You betcha. But I know at my age, it's 100% jealousy, since 2/3 of people my age are obese or overweight and 99.9% of them can't break 4 hrs in a marathon or break 20 min in a 5K, let alone stop making excuses. Plus, half of them are on meds, high blood pressure and diabetes setting it. It ain't pretty.
So, if you don't want to be "skinny," don't be. Stop running. Eat protein, and lift 5 days a week. Otherwise, own who you are like a bada$$ and have no remorse! Fake it till you make it!
I run 40+ miles per week, do push-ups, pullups, and other bodyweight exercises, I'm setting PRs. I'm toned but skinny AF and loving every minute of it, because I know I'm one injury or health scare away from losing it all again.
Enjoy it man! You've got the whole rest of your life to join the masses with as$ess. Enjoy being fit. It's freakin' awesome and something you might miss it more than you think someday if you lose it. Own that s**t bro. You can do stuff 99.9% of Americans can't do.
First and foremost no amount of body building is going to solve issues regarding confidence. However, that being said some calisthenics and a few pounds can't hurt. Give a go at a calisthenics regiment while running. You will look absolutely shredded with the low body fat. Sure you won't look big with a shirt on but at the beach is a different story.
I don't relate. Especially since you say you think you are pretty good looking. I'm considered attractive, and that doesn't change whether I am 135 lbs or 165 lbs.
My personal opinion as a hetero guy is that I don't like the body builder or bulky look. I watched that Nick Bare sub-5 video the other week, and I don't like that big look at all. I think it looks cartoonish in a bad way. I like the look of functional athletes like rock climbers, cross country skiers, and yes, even runners.
Yes Rojo, I hate your body. But as you know, you are not skinny, you are fat. You have personal image problems Rojo and multiple personalities.
Viper wrote:
Yes Rojo, I hate your body. But as you know, you are not skinny, you are fat. You have personal image problems Rojo and multiple personalities.
I will never understand people like this.
I see it every once in a while. Yeah, they're dumb sometimes but...
Rojo, stop posting foolish stuff on this site.
You sound American.
Move to a culture that doesn't have such a simplistic view of masculinity.
You'll probably find that the women there are much better looking and much less loud and aggressive than American women (i.e., they have less testosterone).
hateitbutloveit wrote:
I love running, and being fast and feeling good throwing down high mileage weeks. I’m a natural slow-twitcher and benefit from long miles and tempos.
Despite my intense love for running, I absolutely hate what it does to my body. As a male, I hate feeling so thin, so not masculine, everything about it, and I’m not even that skinny. I don’t think I have a horrible body image or anything, I think I’m pretty good looking. But at the same time I hate being skinny in a culture that hates skinny men.
Most male runners I know are so fine with being skinny in favor of speed. Can anyone share with me your mindset? I feel like I need to just accept and like my skinny body how it is.
I do not know you or your body, so I have no reason to hate it. A bit self-centered to think anyone has an opinion on your body.
If you don't prioritize meat, fish and eggs in your diet, i.e. 1g animal protein/lb body mass/day, you are not optimal and likely skinnyfat with tendency to depression. At 64 I eat zero carbs and absolutely love the way my body looks and what it is able to do, which is far more than when I was plant-based in my 20s and 30s.
As a 23 year old who wasn’t able to run in college and definitely didn’t pursue the sport for fun, my best running days are far behind me. I currently weigh about 160 which is 40 pounds more than when I graduated high school and I hate the way my body looks now. What I’m trying to say is there are two sides of the coin. So while yes you can hate your body for being so skinny, the flip side isn’t always as good as you might think.
Viper wrote:
Rojo, stop posting foolish stuff on this site.
Aren't you the guy who posted on the other Impossible games thread complaining about how your mom threatened to stop letting you go on Letsrun?
Just. stop. Okay? That's you. And it's entirely off topic. I know you like rubbing it in people's faces, but there's no need to post on every unrelated thread about how veganism destroyed you and how good meat is for people. Also, why do you post on a running website if this is all you talk about?
donuts wrote:
I don't relate. Especially since you say you think you are pretty good looking. I'm considered attractive, and that doesn't change whether I am 135 lbs or 165 lbs.
My personal opinion as a hetero guy is that I don't like the body builder or bulky look. I watched that Nick Bare sub-5 video the other week, and I don't like that big look at all. I think it looks cartoonish in a bad way. I like the look of functional athletes like rock climbers, cross country skiers, and yes, even runners.
+1
Isolated exercises for muscle mass contribute nothing, and I mean nothing, to functionality. It can't do anything and looks absurd.
hateitbutloveit wrote:
I love running, and being fast and feeling good throwing down high mileage weeks. I’m a natural slow-twitcher and benefit from long miles and tempos.
Despite my intense love for running, I absolutely hate what it does to my body. As a male, I hate feeling so thin, so not masculine, everything about it, and I’m not even that skinny. I don’t think I have a horrible body image or anything, I think I’m pretty good looking. But at the same time I hate being skinny in a culture that hates skinny men.
Most male runners I know are so fine with being skinny in favor of speed. Can anyone share with me your mindset? I feel like I need to just accept and like my skinny body how it is.
Take up cycling. You'll likely help out your knees, and you can wear colorful clothing that accentuates your plumage