Toned and Defined vs Muscular and Big

[NeedToImprove]

which of you guys are looking for? personally i dont wanna look like some scharznegger or one of those big guys at the gym. just wanna burn my fat, get a lean defined body, which can show a good sixpack, that's what im aiming for the next months/year. anyone agrees that the disco bouncer image is kinda a past thing?

 

[howardalex]

somewhere between the two - I want a 42" chest with damn good abs...

but then I want to improve my lifts as much as possible...

and yeah girls prefer smaller but toned, they have no taste I'm afraid!

 

[insidious]

I guess a lot of it depends on your body type. Some of us will just never have that Bruce Lee body, and some of us will never have Arnold's either!

At 5-6 & 155lbs, I don't really think that 'disco bouncer image' is one I'll ever attain lol. It's alright, I like the lean and ripped look a lot better, now if I can just fine tune my diet a little...

 

[donjuanjovi]

Big, wide, and ripped for me.

 

[John_Galt]

Definitely huge. What's the point of being small? I'll just step on your neck and steal your woman, and what are you going to do about it anyway girly man? Nothin'!

 

[Warboss Alex]

and yeah girls prefer smaller but toned

just like guys 'prefer' big breasts? everyone's different. don't let that stop you, if you want to be be big, be big.. people (girls) will appreciate you more for doing what YOU want rather than going along with what you think they do.

 

[mrRuckus]

i just got back from a softball tournament... a bunch of the guys there were small and thin. I don't know where it's come from but lately skinny guys just look sickly to me now. I am jealous they're walking around with abs but they're flat and boring everywhere else. I'd eat them on a sandwich but they're too stringy.

 

[howardalex]

just like guys 'prefer' big breasts? everyone's different. don't let that stop you, if you want to be be big, be big.. people (girls) will appreciate you more for doing what YOU want rather than going along with what you think they do.

true...what I mean is, that most girls go for that...and yeah I'm not one of these guys who says "eww all that muscle is horrible" - I'd love to get huge but it seems fewer girls like it

 

[Warboss Alex]

You'll get more girls if you assert yourself in training the way YOU want - just because it shows confidence of character.

 

[Kerpal]

Right now I'm working on cutting my weight down to 175 lbs (I'm around 5'11-6'0) so I can be in the Welterweight class for a submission grappling tournament. I've been doing a LOT of conditioning lately, eating extremely clean, and I've lost lots of fat, my 6 pack is just starting to show and I'm starting to get seperation in my quads, which is pretty cool. But after the tournament is over I think I'm going to replace 1 or 2 of my weekly conditioning workouts with strength workouts and try to "clean bulk" up to about 185-190 lbs, which I know will take a very long time.

I don't want to be "huge", I just find it too hard to put on lots of weight because I do so much cardio, but I do want to have some muscle, and very low bodyfat. I also want the muscle I gain to be functional muscle that helps me in sports, I'm not trying to pack on pounds and pounds of unfunctional muscle mass that just weighs me down.