Comment on Peak male form

• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They don’t look like a modern social media influencer

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  • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s not at all about that. I guarantee you that if these guys maintained whatever diet they had at the time and added three hours a week of doing something with their muscles, they would look very different.

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    • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The point is that you wouldn’t find muscle mass like that as attractive without those people. This men were considered beautiful then and they aren’t now because the culture of what is considered beautiful has changed.

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      • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Oh well I never made any objection to the beauty standards so I agree I guess? I only said I don’t want to look like that, I’m a little old school, I want to look like all those Greek statues.

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    • terminhell@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Right, before power tools were common. I bet these guys were on average stronger than current average men.

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      • fenrasulfr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You are asuming they do physical work and aren’t just white collar.

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• Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I would describe it as skinny fat but these guys are not fat, so I think the problem is that they have very little muscle all around.

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  • d7sdx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To me they look totally normal, average. Beauty standards changed a lot and continue so do since the dawn of time.

    Checkout en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf :)

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    • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sure. But also we know what an active body looks like and it’s not like this. They look like normal guys who don’t get much excercise. Look at people living in pre industrial tribes, Greco Roman beauty standards etc. not saying it’s wrong to look like that, but I personally do not want to look like that. I think we look best with a little bit of muscle on.

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      • d7sdx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s totally fine for me if you want to look like one of those Roman or greek statues but I don’t think the (above) average greek or todays indigenous people look(ed) much different from the guys in the post, eg Yanomami for reference: images.app.goo.gl/xR5KMPCo6XMwnQne6

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    • stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think working out and eating healthy is a good trend and blood work is happy for it, and don’t need some super crazy work out plan to look better.

      But the whole cosmetic surgeries and steroids which aren’t needed to be healthy is definitely overboard for the regular person who aren’t making living off their looks or athletic performance is overboard.

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    • OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I remember discussing this in private school, I suggested its possible use was for portable masturbation on long trips lol.

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  • Rookwood@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Everyone of them has more muscle than the average man today. They don’t have the relatively low body fat most men today have. The strangest thing about them is the barrel chest and swollen gut thing that each of them has going on.

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, most of those guys look like they have a lot of visceral fat (they don’t have waists). Only the two on the right look healthy

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