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six pack abs vs. big size dude

abs. vs size

  • six pack

    Votes: 263 50.6%
  • big dude

    Votes: 256 49.2%

  • Total voters
    520
It's pretty easy to get lean IMO....getting bulk size is the problem with most.

Do more volume, burn more calories and make sure your diet is in check and you get lean

to get bulk, you need to eat like a beast 10 times a day, protein, carbs, fats, eat eat eat and sleep like you're a bear hybernating ....

Unless I get a belly, I'd rather be a big motherfucker...
 
I have always prefered size. I do have a strong core but I also have a small gut. Thats the only place on me that I wish I could lose. I'm 5'10-5'11 and weigh 260lbs.
Eating clean "always" and cardio are very hard for me. I would much rather hit the free weights and go home. Not sure on body fat but it has to be around 18%.
Oh well.
 
I just want to be big, like Alcatraz said I dont really worry about cutting unless I get a belly. But its funny watching the skinny guys look at you and get out of your way real fast, like you might just have to kick their ass if they dont...lol
 
Stepped on the scale yesterday morning and was SURPRISED! 291 LBS and I've been sick and not eating near as much.
 
i look at the guys on the worlds strongest man competition and the olympic lifting. they look fat more than they look built lol. Im for six pack dude.

99.99% of chicks out there don't realize that bodybuilders muscles don't equate to ultra strong man. They just like the way it looks. And even if they did realize "Big Bob" was stronger than Arnold, I'm sure they wouldn't care.
 
6 pack easy!! for many reasons not only chicks which is a reason also... And you maybe 170lbs or 180 and still be a bad ass and beat the hell out of 300lbs people :)
 
I am currently 6'1 225 with a little extra fat around my stomach. 5 years ago I really wanted abs. I was still lifting heavy weights, but was doing cardio every day in the morning and weights and cardio in pm for about 3-4 months. I got down to 180 lbs and still didn't have a six pack. I said screw this because I looked way too skinny. I much perfer my bulky look with a small stomach and small love handles. My goal is to have a flat stomach and keep my bulk and realize I will never have abs. I am fine with that as long as I dont have flab hanging.
 
I'm 5'11 and just over 200lbs wish i had a little bit more trimmed belly but DEF prefer size.....i dont think of myself as big but i guess others do...constantly getting outta my way...Nothing like wearing a shirt a lil on the tighter side to show off the guns, shoulders and V'd out back
 
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you know... Ive always been really back and forth with this.... I like to have abs but I really like lifting a ton of weight... oh well, Ill just do what my body wants to do. Maybe Ill change my mind tomorrow... who knows
 
C. I like being able to move and move well.

Abs kind of come as a side effect, but I love being able to run fast and jump high and dominate in any sport I play.

Getting to the point of "big size dude" is an absolute nightmare to me. Just playing sports with some of the bodybuilders that I am friends with is just disgusting. It's like watching a Hummer only parallel parking contest.
 
I am currently 6'1 225 with a little extra fat around my stomach. 5 years ago I really wanted abs. I was still lifting heavy weights, but was doing cardio every day in the morning and weights and cardio in pm for about 3-4 months. I got down to 180 lbs and still didn't have a six pack. I said screw this because I looked way too skinny. I much perfer my bulky look with a small stomach and small love handles. My goal is to have a flat stomach and keep my bulk and realize I will never have abs. I am fine with that as long as I dont have flab hanging.

I'm in the same boat. Its always eluded me during cutting and lost a ton of muscle. I like lifting heavy weights and have resolved myself to the fact that I won't have one (not that I haven't tried) and am not willing to do the drugs it may take to get it.
 
I like to have the best of both worlds...Six pack in summer while still maintaining muscle mass, then put on 20lb while bulking.
 
Being an Aussie, I like the Rugby League look myself. They are decent sized units but they have very functional strength, great conditioning and can run a few km's without having a heart attack.

Someone like Luke O'Donnell is one scary mofo in person and ripped. Certainly not big by bodybuilding standards but he could walk down the streeet in a shirt and everyone would know he was a unit.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kyYe8aF8wDA/SE6I-7ibiFI/AAAAAAAAA68/yHMxDct5qKY/s400/luke+o+donnell.jpg
 
Being an Aussie, I like the Rugby League look myself. They are decent sized units but they have very functional strength, great conditioning and can run a few km's without having a heart attack.

Someone like Luke O'Donnell is one scary mofo in person and ripped. Certainly not big by bodybuilding standards but he could walk down the streeet in a shirt and everyone would know he was a unit.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kyYe8aF8wDA/SE6I-7ibiFI/AAAAAAAAA68/yHMxDct5qKY/s400/luke+o+donnell.jpg


pretty much the look i want
 
C. I like being able to move and move well.

Abs kind of come as a side effect, but I love being able to run fast and jump high and dominate in any sport I play.

Getting to the point of "big size dude" is an absolute nightmare to me. Just playing sports with some of the bodybuilders that I am friends with is just disgusting. It's like watching a Hummer only parallel parking contest.

HAHAHHAHAHA Diddo on this man! I'm a volleyball player and when I was 6'2 225 I felt soooooooo damn slow... back to 205 and touchin 11'4' again Feels good to work at the DOMINATION STATION!
 
I don't mind having a lil fat on the belly. Deff going for mass...who cares if the abs pulls the ladies...See if they can do cock pushups
 
There's some fat lady in my pilates class that has really good abdominal strength.

This guy^

Theres this cutey Im sweet talkin at the mo, size 14 but really sweet and a face that just begs to be creamed. She could probably be a model if she got dowsn to size 8 but she does hardcore gymnastics and eats like a horse because of it. I wouldnt call her fat, about same bodytype as beyonce, but shes def got jelly. She must havea stronger core than 90% of the strongmen at my gym tho, fucking insane some of shit she can do.

Also, I fluctuate between a 4 pack and a 6 pack day to day and I have wet dreams of the day I can only see my top 2 heads but am over 200. Ive always admired guys with big shoulders in a wierd homoerotic kinda way anyway, I see the V taper look > defined abs. Look at the UFCs GSP, he must be about 14% BF and doesnt really have any definition to his core, but when you see his silloutte you can see hes 'fit' in both the athletic way and ladies jumpin on their back and spreading their legs way.
 
I did this, so that I will be forced to keep my abs in great shape, to be deserving of my license plates (pic) . If I had to choose between size & definition, it's going to be definition... ESPECIALLY in the stomach. The plates on my old Toyota rock crawler are "RIPT ABS".

Charles
 
All I know is that one of the best reactions I ever got from showing off, was when a few chicks were talking about an old TV commercial where they said "if you can pinch more than an inch, you need to lose weight". I carefully reached under my shirt, and grabbed one of my abs, like it was a roll of fat, and lifted my shirt up just enough to show the pinched ab in my fingers.... I said to the girls, "I guess you mean I need to lose weight, because this looks like more than an inch to me". They looked, and thought I was just being honest. Then I lifted my shirt the rest of the way, and their jaws dropped when they saw that I was grabbing a muscle, with paper-thin skin over it!

Charles
 
We all hate braggarts, but just sit down and hear me out... Gotta brag on this: I went to the dentist for a whole workup on Wednesday. One of the things they ask in the questionnaire, is whether you snore, for some reason. I said yes, and there was a sub-section to fill out including weight, height, and BODY FAT %. They had this lame graph where you look up your height, weight, and cross it to your age, and it gives a BF%. I came up with 25-something % on the graph, and I just had to have some fun with the staff with that! I went up to the window (21-ish blond receptionist), and said I thought there was a mistake on their graph. I was wearing fairly baggy clothes, and she said "Well, you're 43....... Maybe we could say that 23% or whatever it was, is OK and not overweight?" I knew she'd say that to be polite. So I said, "So you're saying that if a 43-year-old had, let's say below 10%, that would be better?", and she said "OH, no way is anyone over 25 going to be that low." I said, "Hmmmmm: I guess that's pretty unusual, and I suddenly had an itch in the corner of my eye, and put my finger under my shirt to scratch my itchy eye with my T-shirt. You should have seen the look on her face when she saw the veins popped out on this 43-year-old's 5.7% BF sixpack! She called the other girls on the staff up to the front desk! Needless to say, it was ruled out that obesity was the cause of my snoring.......

Charles

PS: If my wife somehow reads this post, does anyone have an extra van down by the river I could stay in?
 
We all hate braggarts, but just sit down and hear me out... Gotta brag on this: I went to the dentist for a whole workup on Wednesday. One of the things they ask in the questionnaire, is whether you snore, for some reason. I said yes, and there was a sub-section to fill out including weight, height, and BODY FAT %. They had this lame graph where you look up your height, weight, and cross it to your age, and it gives a BF%. I came up with 25-something % on the graph, and I just had to have some fun with the staff with that! I went up to the window (21-ish blond receptionist), and said I thought there was a mistake on their graph. I was wearing fairly baggy clothes, and she said "Well, you're 43....... Maybe we could say that 23% or whatever it was, is OK and not overweight?" I knew she'd say that to be polite. So I said, "So you're saying that if a 43-year-old had, let's say below 10%, that would be better?", and she said "OH, no way is anyone over 25 going to be that low." I said, "Hmmmmm: I guess that's pretty unusual, and I suddenly had an itch in the corner of my eye, and put my finger under my shirt to scratch my itchy eye with my T-shirt. You should have seen the look on her face when she saw the veins popped out on this 43-year-old's 5.7% BF sixpack! She called the other girls on the staff up to the front desk! Needless to say, it was ruled out that obesity was the cause of my snoring.......

Charles

PS: If my wife somehow reads this post, does anyone have an extra van down by the river I could stay in?

That's hilarious but yeah really rare to be that low period but especially at 43. Nice work!
 
Being lean and looking great feels wonderful. Girls will notice.

Being BIG and having some definition ie not having a gut won't get the same attention, but you will be noticed as well.

I'm 5'8.5" and 225lbs atm, but my bodyfat is a little higher than I would like. I honestly don't really care about being 10% or lower as I look great between 12-15% with my frame.

Goal is 245lbs and 12-15% bf.
 
As a woman, I just have to say I chose big guy bc I'd feel protected but I don't want a guy too huge. On the other hand, I think most of us like 6 packs but if the reason a man has a 6 pack is bc he's scrawny, we don't like that either.

There's a happy middle ground.
 
6 pack abs takes dedication for most guys that aren't ectomorph's with decent framse. Not all ectomorph's are created equal.

It's mostly about diet and cardio.

That said a "big dude" that is not a total fatass that lifts some serious weight has put some real time and effort under the bar.

The 6 pack abs guy has 24/7 diet and cardio commitment and may very well train hard.

The big dude is more concerned with eating enough for the strength and size and probably trains harder just given that perhaps he benches +300lbs for reps compared to 185. It takes a greater force of will to bench +300lbs or squat 400+ for reps. This is not something you casually do. Even strong guys need to focus in and get their mind right when you start handling weights like this.

Both have their perks. I like it when I was lean. I got lot's of attention from the ladies. That said I didn't like being weak and small.

At my size now I get quite abit of respect from guys. When I was small guys would walk right in my direction and expect me to move out of the way. Nowadays 95% of the time if I am walking towards some dude they move to the side. You can call this what you want, but it's a sign of male to male respect for your physicality. At it's most base level it's a display of submission to the bigger/stronger guy. This doesn't hold true in all cases. I often move out of the way of smaller guys just as a courtesy, but you get my drift.

Most guys sporting 6 packs at 185lbs or less bodyweight are what I would class as weak and small. Not all of them though. There are plenty of guys in that range that have worked hard in the gym and are strong, but the majority of guys like I am describing really aren't impressive in the weight room. Of course this is generally not their goal from training anyhow so who cares.

If you want admiration for your abs and mainly care about what the ladies think then 6 pack all the way. If you personally like being lean like that all the time more power to ya.

If you like being alot bigger and stronger than most guys regardless of how lean you are then cool. If you like walking around knowing you can lift X amount then more power to ya.

Different strokes for different folks.

My last words on this topic.
 
We all hate braggarts, but just sit down and hear me out... Gotta brag on this: I went to the dentist for a whole workup on Wednesday. One of the things they ask in the questionnaire, is whether you snore, for some reason. I said yes, and there was a sub-section to fill out including weight, height, and BODY FAT %. They had this lame graph where you look up your height, weight, and cross it to your age, and it gives a BF%. I came up with 25-something % on the graph, and I just had to have some fun with the staff with that! I went up to the window (21-ish blond receptionist), and said I thought there was a mistake on their graph. I was wearing fairly baggy clothes, and she said "Well, you're 43....... Maybe we could say that 23% or whatever it was, is OK and not overweight?" I knew she'd say that to be polite. So I said, "So you're saying that if a 43-year-old had, let's say below 10%, that would be better?", and she said "OH, no way is anyone over 25 going to be that low." I said, "Hmmmmm: I guess that's pretty unusual, and I suddenly had an itch in the corner of my eye, and put my finger under my shirt to scratch my itchy eye with my T-shirt. You should have seen the look on her face when she saw the veins popped out on this 43-year-old's 5.7% BF sixpack! She called the other girls on the staff up to the front desk! Needless to say, it was ruled out that obesity was the cause of my snoring.......

Charles

PS: If my wife somehow reads this post, does anyone have an extra van down by the river I could stay in?

That is what I want when I reach that age for sure!
Right now I'm just going for as big as possible and trying to stay lean in the same time, diet and carb cycle.. LOOOVE IT :p
 
I rather be lean and have and have a sixpack then be a wardrobe (what i mean is not too big).
3 sets of Roman chair sit ups
3 set of pull up bar leg raises with 15kg between the legs
3 sets 20 reps of dumbbell bends
First two to exhaustion
A awesome workout, check it out for yourself how to get six pack abs
 
Anyone baring people with serious metabolic issues or obese can cut to a very healthy or downright ripped condition inside of 6 months.

Getting legitimately big and strong takes years.

Which one is harder?

I have cut many times over the years and all it takes is 3-6 months of concerted effort. It does take discipline to maintain it though and the long-term maintenance of a well muscled lean state gets my respect.

Building up to a legitimately strong and big state like easily repping 315 or more on bench or doing full squat reps with 405+ will take most guys a couple years. Some of us can pull this off inside of a year with hard training and anabolics. Other's can do this au natural. Some guys will never lift this much weight, period.

On average though it takes alot longer to get seriously big and strong than it does to lean out. Both take dedication, but don't tell me cutting for 3-6 months trumps years of heavy eating and hard lifting.

I don't consider a lean 220lbs big or even in the same ball park as big unless you're under 5'10".

This is just my opinion and I'm sure plenty will disagree.
 
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