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Re:Why Top Athletes Don't Look Like Fitness Influencers (Usu... by mecsred on Monday April 08, 2024 @10:04AM (#39969828)
I agree with most of that, but I feel like I can tell the difference between "strongman" and "out of shape and overweight" pretty easily.
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Re:Why Top Athletes Don't Look Like Fitness Influencers (Usu... by silverquiet on Monday April 08, 2024 @10:11AM (#39969890)
There's buff-fat, skinny-fat, and fat-fat, and the lines aren't always super fine.
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Re:Why Top Athletes Don't Look Like Fitness Influencers (Usu... by tainted_blood on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @05:16AM (#39977622)
being skinny-fat sucks
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Re:Why Top Athletes Don't Look Like Fitness Influencers (Usu... by Iulioh on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @05:32AM (#39977703)
I was fat fat and now extremely skinny Fat, it is bad.

I don't even look fat with my clothes on lol

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Re:Why Top Athletes Don't Look Like Fitness Influencers (Usu... by swat535 on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @09:55AM (#39979467)
I was skinny fat once, the best way to combat this is to actually put on weight and muscle. Then eventually lose the extra few pounds.

Julian wrote a great guide on this: https://www.julian.com/guide/muscle/

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12618223

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Re:Why Top Athletes Don't Look Like Fitness Influencers (Usu... by pas on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @06:22AM (#39977948)
usually it's the "limb muscle" vs "gut fat" ratio (plus the really strong neck is usually a dead giveaway) :)
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