Why is it embarrassing for a guy to be too ripped/big/muscled? What's the allowable amount of muscle before it's awkward?

If you can't scratch your own back with your hands, it is too much bulk. Just like if you are a woman with more than a handful.

Yes, too much is bad. Too little also bad. Dad bod is bad.

For a perfect amount, see Ronaldo or David Beckham. You don't want to really go any bigger than that.

Donate some of your mass to the scrawny weak marathoners of letsrun

i think it's a personal decision and anything is "allowable". You do you, as the saying goes.

For me, i find that a balance of mostly running with a little bit of weight training keeps everything comfortable, at least for me. IF i am trying to optimize my speed, i often feel like the less weight training, the better. It just makes me feel a little less lightweight.

The acceptable non embarrassing amount of muscles is the amount you can build without EPO and other steroids.

Pics?

hey baby wrote:

Pics?

Please, no pics. We get the idea without them.

It's never embarrassing to be too ripped. It's always embarrassing to be scrawny fat.

sbeefyk2 wrote:

The acceptable non embarrassing amount of muscles is the amount you can build without EPO and other steroids.

You don’t build muscle with EPO...

KawauchiFTW_ wrote:

sbeefyk2 wrote:

The acceptable non embarrassing amount of muscles is the amount you can build without EPO and other steroids.

You don’t build muscle with EPO...

It helps with recovery.

You will never become too big and ripped without steroids. If you’re lifting weights and not using peds, you’ll have an athletic looking body but nothing crazy.

Korkscrew wrote:

You will never become too big and ripped without steroids. If you’re lifting weights and not using peds, you’ll have an athletic looking body but nothing crazy.

Have you seen Hank Azaria in the movie Along Came Polly? It was weird. I don’t think steroids, but definitely just seemed wrong for some reason. Google it, you’ll understand.

I'm going to echo what others have said - it's embarrassing and awkward only if it's glaringly obvious you're taking PEDs.

During the winter I was doing a workout on the mill in a gym in my city. 2 gorgeous young brunettes were also doing treadmill workouts right beside me. A short guy in a tank top, who they knew, approached them and started chatting. No big deal as they were doing very light workouts, but his grotesquely PED modified body and his back which was as wide as any professional wrestler's, past or present, made us all feel awkward and embarrassed for him. They smiled and were pleasent to him, but their uncomfortable small talk was obviously out of politeness only.

Wolf230 wrote:

I'm going to echo what others have said - it's embarrassing and awkward only if it's glaringly obvious you're taking PEDs.

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Yeah, PED guys for sure, but there are others who are just too much. Gettting a big chest, for example, is easy, but it looks weird.

Many people, particularly those who are older and have been around, will tacitly assume that exaggeratedly muscular men are gay, because the assumption is often correct. The only people who like those big muscles are the narcissists themselves and other men.

soccergirl wrote:

Yes, too much is bad. Too little also bad. Dad bod is bad.

For a perfect amount, see Ronaldo or David Beckham. You don't want to really go any bigger than that.

Um, Beckham is scrawny and Ronaldo is not.

Would seeing a Le'Veon Bell or Adrian Peterson on the street make you feel bad for a guy that looks like that? You can approach circus animal level of weirdness in bodybuilding but I feel any athletic/strength sport isn't going to get you to a weird level by itself.

This thread is useless without pics