Re:Marriage Markets (and Muscularity)
by sdze on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @10:06AM
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I think you could also just lose body fat (through dieting and moving around) and appear "muscular".
No need to workout so hard.
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Re:Marriage Markets (and Muscularity)
by rajangdavis on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @10:10AM
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You can also lose more fat by increasing the size of your muscles which can be achieved through lifting.
https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fj.2021002...
Not if you're like me who's hovering at the low end of normal BMI anyway. Gaining weight isn't easy for everyone.
Re:Marriage Markets (and Muscularity)
by mattgreenrocks on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @10:22AM
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Posture is positively affected by lifting too. You need to do something to balance muscular development through your body, it doesn't need to be lifting.
If you don't do physical exercise losing body fat will mostly make you look skinny, not muscular.
you won't loose your disgusting gunt otherwise.
It's a fact. I see a lot of "work out" men that are unbelievable obese. Something 75 years ago would be circus material. They might have strength, but optically it is just not esthetically.
Goal: hypocaloric life.