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The Healthy Living Photo thread!

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Thanks :). I appreciate the positive comments.

It's an addiction for sure. I started a bulk last month, hoping to pack on a couple more kilos of muscle for the next one, and spend a little longer to prepare for the show so I can get on stage a little leaner, and hopefully get my tan right this time.
 
Get a professional spray tan? I can see a bit of the tan on your feet and arms, it's like you haven't left it on long enough to develop.
 
@lterego-- You're under the mistaken assumption that bodybuilding has anything to do with being healthy. It's all about looking a certain way, and doing anything that you can to look that way. Natural bodybuilding has certain limitations which make it a bit healthier than the juicefests, but the overarching principle is still aesthetics.
 
Thanks to everyone who made such nice comments - especially mariacallas (I wanna call you Twix :)). You're a total sweetheart; that was such a nice compliment.

nO_iRiS - I agree with DFRS. I know it's for a competition and all, but you're the most natural looking of the bunch. Some of them are downright orange; from a normal aesthetic perspective, rather than a bodybuilding competition aesthetic perspective, you're the best of the bunch! =D

stonerfromohio - Don't say those days are long gone - take these pics as fuel to get you working out! Are you working out these days?
 
Oh and MC, you've got Portuguese too eh? Muito bom! :)

(I wish I could speak Portuguese...)

Edit: PI, your thighs look great to me! *thumbs up*
 
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@lterego-- You're under the mistaken assumption that bodybuilding has anything to do with being healthy. It's all about looking a certain way, and doing anything that you can to look that way. Natural bodybuilding has certain limitations which make it a bit healthier than the juicefests, but the overarching principle is still aesthetics.
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It's true that bodybuilding to a certain extent is for show. The higher rep range hypertrophy orientated training does stimulate the growth of fuller muscles that don’t necessarily have the strength in proportion to their appearance of the denser fast twitch muscle fibres you find in the skeletal muscle of power lifters that train in a low rep range. Having said that, any accomplished bodybuilder will keep his core compound lifts in the low rep range to keep his strength high enough that he/she is ABLE to perform higher rep range training with heavier weights when performing isolation type lifts to hit specific groups of muscle in order to get that aesthetic appearance.

Natural bodybuilding done right has EVERYTHING to do with being healthy, not just "a bit". You are the mistaken assumption that the juicers you see out there destroying their body by abusing steroids are representatives of the bodybuilding population. I won’t get in to the juicer debate here though, I don't juice so there’s no point arguing about it.

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Thanks to everyone who made such nice comments - especially mariacallas (I wanna call you Twix :)). You're a total sweetheart; that was such a nice compliment.

nO_iRiS - I agree with DFRS. I know it's for a competition and all, but you're the most natural looking of the bunch. Some of them are downright orange; from a normal aesthetic perspective, rather than a bodybuilding competition aesthetic perspective, you're the best of the bunch! =D

stonerfromohio - Don't say those days are long gone - take these pics as fuel to get you working out! Are you working out these days?
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Thanks :).
 
wow..i got nothing on the abover poster

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dunno if i should post in healthy living, my body hates me but give you guys an idea where I was at natty.
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no iris, grats dude, that looks like mad hard work. i tried for a while to see if i could focus on getting myself like that but for every gain id make, life would get in the way (was a hobby for me). still i totally can see how much work goes into that.

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serious face
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thighs are pretty much my fav part of a womans body, and yours are pretty much perfect. id love to see them in really stark lighting and high resolution to see all the tiny curves around the muscle tissue. keep it up! signed, your fanclub.
 
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so this would be my body after not weightlifting for 60 solid days, and for doing an average of 2 hours of kung fu 7 days a week for 60 days. ive lost around 3lbs of body fat, and about 10 lbs of muscle (i also dropped ~3,500 calories a day, 160g protein a day diet for ~2,000 calories a day, 80g of protein a day diet).

while i do love what it does to my stomach, it feels weird not having a huge chest, bulging back muscles, and really buff arms. i used to have to flex to make my abs look like that tho, now all i do is exhale haha. on the plus side, my knuckles have turned to iron and its pretty sweet slamming them into concrete 50 times without feeling pain >:-)

im in love with the kung fu lifestyle already. ive never understood the human body until now. i thought i was master of my own form in the gym, its quite laughable now, looking back, and knowing the ultimate shaolin mantra: the absence of force is power.
 
thank you sir. glad to have caught you off guard.

Dtergent, your skin is always so perfectly healthy looking. Please dont ever do speed!!! :-P
 
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Damn dude, you are Adonis buff. That is evidence of some serious Healthy Living; as far as the loss of mass in chest and arms, you have a super balanced physique in this photo and I can't imagine that a bulkier upper body would improve it. Proof that all of the various fighting styles and training are really the best ways to attain a maximum degree of musculoskeletal and cardiovascular fitness.

PI, serious face and thighs are serious sexy. All those spin classes are reflected in the tight dense curves of your legs and bottom.

nO iRis, excellent symmetry man, you were clearly blessed with good genes. Not that you don't train smart and have an admirable work ethic but Arnold didn't win 7 Mr. Olympias just by hard work and steroids.
 
na u see my comments were more directed to seeing many months work disappear in a few weeks. i spent the last 3 years mass gaining, and then the last year really mass gaining and power training. i gained 8lbs of solid muscle mass in the preceding 6 months, that was crazy hard work after i had already been mass gaining for some time.

what you see in the pic is my body trimmed down about 12lbs lighter than it was 2 months prior - trimmed down in muscle mass that is.

so i was kind of aghast at how quickly my metabolism started cannibalizing itself. i dropped my caloric intake about 1500 cals, and halved the amount of protein i consumed in a day. all thise while increasing the amount of cardio, and reducing the amount of hypertrophy to null. its all science, im quite proud at how well i can gauge this little machine my mind is housed in, but im also amazed at seeing the science unfold before my eyes. left me feeling a bit naked for a while!
 
Yay for Todd!!! =D ;) Your posts always inspire me man. (not to be buffed of course, lol,but to see how a healthy lifestyle and dedication can always get you what you truly desiiiire. <3
 
Damn Todd.. that's what we would call (in a positive way) the body of a "kargador" (men who carry heavy cargo for a living) or, at other times, a "fisherman's body".

Toned in all the right places, lean, without effort or looking "puffy" the way many gym-goers' bodies look. Looks healthy, like it gets regular, purposeful work.
 
i recently finished a one month cleanse and also started yoga a few weeks ago. it's different than my usual approach to fitness but i think the combined effort has had a slimming effect.

(i blocked out the general boob region but this is still pretty unsafe for work)

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and yes, the mirror has been cleaned since i took that photo :\
 
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