Pick One, Be Strong or Look Strong?

Pharm_Fed

Pharm_Fed

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I was having this discussion with my training partner today. Would you rather be stronger than you look, or look stronger than you are.

His brother is a pretty small guy, well, average I guess, but he is stupid strong. There is something cool about seeing a scrappy kid sling around heavy weight.

On the flipside, as bodybuilders, the whole point is aesthetics, not necessarily strength.

Just curious to see other's opinions on this.
 
Personally after having so many injuries from going so heavy id rather be fucking huge and bench 225 lol. Id have to be massive to be ok with this though.
 
I have to agree. I haven't be plagued with injuries, but if I could squat 135 and have legs like Tom Platz, that'd be OK with me.
 
CH3NO2 said:
I see you are not denying you are a weakling like Martha Stuart.
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Yep 225 on barbell shoulder presses for 18 and I make a mean meatloaf!! I would love to look like that guy Rob. That dude uses half the weight I do and he's got to be 290+ at 6% I just have weak tendons and joints.
 
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IMO you gotta be as strong as you look. For example Presser and NUKNUK look freakin huge and THEY ARE and they can both throw some serious weight around! If I was at a gym watchin a bodybuilder lift and a high school emo kid is liftin more that ain't right. Obviously with injuries and different things you gotta know your limits and IMO that's SMART lifting!
 
Presser's strength comes from those posing tights. If anyone finds those and destroys them its all over but the crying. I would have to say look stronger. I have horrible shoulders and would love to be able to work out with 135 on incline bench presses and still put on size. Heavy squats make me feel like Im gonna drop a deuce in the draws too.
 
CH3NO2 said:
I would rather be strong, cause chances are if you are strong you also look strong.
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Of course that's ideal, but the point of the question was one or the other. If you were just an average guy who could bench 405+, or would you rather look like you could bench 405+ and just have the strength of an average guy.
 
Presser said:
I rather look strong then be strong, get laid more
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haha no shit there. I would love to look freaky as shit and only squat 135 for reps lol. No injuries and who is really gonna come up to you and say damn man your weak if you look like Ruhl.
 
Definitely look strong. Hell, we all know that when a body builder looks his/her best, he's at his/her weakest. I would rather look like Jay Cutler and only bench and squat 135, than be able to bench 405 for 30 times and look like Ben Stiller.
 
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