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Old 01-03-2008   #20 (permalink)
senor rubirosa
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Originally Posted by TattooedMamaMeg View Post
I think that there is definitely such thing as too thin or too muscular. My examples are below.
I liked your just right choice, TMM.
Someone mentioned swimmers' bodies. I've always liked their smoothness ... a real feeling of strength there, usually, without giving the sense that you're talking to a gym rat.
Now, I wouldn't mind talking to a serious body builder, but more for the novelty's sake than the expectation of finding them personally interesting. (Of course, some are interesting, but most are pretty self-involved.)
I like the feeling that someone takes care of their body, but not that the body has become the axis of an onrolling game of oneupmanship.
The tragedy is that those who are obsessed with their bodies are never satisfied; they don't even get pleasure from all the work they've done, because they always want more ... definition, muscularity, symmetry, and what not.

EDIT: Actually, I've known a few guys who were so naturally muscular that, with only a bit of resistance training, they looked like gym rats. But they weren't; most people putting in the gym time they did, would show only modest results.
I don't want to generalize.