u/appa609

I was hungry so I looked up poutine near me in dt Toronto and saw this spot rated 4.9/5. 10min later I was in line at a greasy takeout spot. Lots of fusion options but I kept it simple with the tuesday special: classic poutine and a lb of wings for a bit over $20.

This was not it. Frozen seasoned battered fries that tasye like a cheap shwarma box, paper packet gravy, and cheese curds so completely melted I can't say anything about them.

Don't fall for it like me. The reviews are all either 5/5 from an Indian bot farm or 1/5 from an actual local.

Not really getting any matches so I stopped using it. Willing to give it another shot. Y'all have any tips?

Bio and details at: https://tinder.com/@appa609

Went climbing then biked over on a sunny day. Watched Frieren on the couch. She taught me her grandma's chicken thigh recipe. Left prosecco in the freezer to chill too long and it blasted everywhere but it was funny. Solid Saturday.

28M cut from 205->180 lb in about 5 months. Target was to hit 10% at 185 but I wasn't as lean as I wanted so I pushed to 180 and I've been maintaining for 2 weeks. I thought I'd have separated lower abs and back by now, but also don't want to lose all my size.

What do you guys think? Keep cutting until I'm shredded? Maintain? Lean bulk?

28M, 6'1" ~180lb

Looking for a second opinion. Where is my %bf actually at? Should I continue the cut, maintain, or go back up a bit?

Starting February, I've been on a systematic cut starting at 205 lb to 178 lb this morning. I've been tracking everything pretty autistically. When I started I guessed I was around 20% bf so I expected to end up around 184 lb at 10% bf. In May I was losing weight slowly and tapering off but in June and July I've started dropping weight much faster without changing my tracked deficit, and now I've overshot my initial target weight and I think I'm still not quite as lean as I initially wanted.

Some aspects of my strength are dropping noticeably now. My normal bench workout used to be 5x5x225 and OHP was 5x5x135, now I can only do one rep at 225 and 135 respectively. I've lost an inch around my arms. Deadlift is holding fairly steady around 405 max. I've also transitioned training focus; I've been doing a lot more cycling, rowing, and climbing because it's the summer. I'm close to getting a one arm pullup and I've set a weighted pullup PR recently at +110lb.

For the last week I've started adding carbs back in to try to hold at 180 lb while I figure out what to do next. Food noise is not a big problem and I know I can keep cutting without issue. On one hand I want to see if I can get to 7-8% and how I feel once I get there. On the other, I'm concerned that I'm going to lose all the muscle mass I added in last year's bulk. I guess I was hoping for clearer lower ab definition and a bit of a back christmas tree. It's possible I'm already close to my genetic limit and I just have to learn to accept where I'm at. I think just looking in the mirror every day you can fall into delusion pretty easily.

link to my tracking sheet for reference.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dUsHj0YOPiFoM_2Xg-H3b68cBHY-PAi4ZYcq1ZgHy98/edit?usp=sharing

https://preview.redd.it/x6msz57cy1dh1.png?width=1406&format=png&auto=webp&s=fccf95968ba4e5958a3765a96a88e0e9fcd9d641

Not a very important point. I guess I'm the measuring things guy now

Vaush was criticizing this promotional art from Justice League as emblematic of a tendency of comic artists towards extreme sexual dimorphism, drawing men much much larger than women. I think he said something like "The men are 8 times as big as the women" or "Superman's thigh is thicker than Wonder Woman's whole body" and yes on first inspection it does look like that. But you'll also notice that it looks like Wonder Woman is taller than Batman even with his ears. Of course, the intent of the artist is that Superman is closer to the camera than Wonder Woman who is in turn closer than Batman. Because the camera is right on the ground plane it's hard to directly tell how much closer, but luckily their official heights are published. Clark Kent (Superman) is 6'3" and Diana Prince (Wonder Woman) is 6'0". I've edited the image to show what they would actually look like next to each other at the same distance.

I think it's fair to say there's still a fair bit of exaggerated dimorphism but it's more about proportions than just sheer scale. Diana's legs are much longer and her torso is much shorter. She's much thinner overall. Clark's chest shoulders and arms are massive. Diana's head is much bigger. He's supposed to weigh 235 and she's 165 and after the scale correction it looks believable.

That's it.

Pretty new to style. Went thrifting yesterday and got new shirt, shoes, belt, and shorts. Usually a t shirt and cargo shorts guy, but looking to put together some nicer combos to bring to a first date/barbecue/night out. Looking for feedback on the fit, composition, and vibe

cheers

I was watching Vaush's stream yesterday and he started talking about how people don't know how big arms are when cropped out of context and he made some truly wild claims, the most quantitative of which was "Arm #3 is 18 maybe 19 inches"
I may be a casual gymbro but I am a serious engineer so I got nerd sniped and spent the last hour answering the question. I took photos of my arm, posed as close as I could to the original, and photoshopped it at the same length scale in between #2 and #3. Then I measured the pixel width of each arm at both the upper arm and forearm and scaled these to tape measurements of my actual arm, which was 15" flat around the bicep and 13-3/8" around the forearm.

The results? Assuming the arms are the same length and shape as mine, they would be
#1 9.7" bicep, 10.2" forearm
#2 13.2" bicep, 13.0" forearm
#3 14.6" bicep, 15.2" forearm
#4 16.6" bicep, 17.0" forearm
#5 19.5" bicep, 21.0" forearm

For reference, I'm 6'1" 185-190lb, wingspan 6'2", with a 33" long arm (acromion to fingertip), est. 13% bf. For taller people and longer arms I think it'd be fair to scale the arm circumferences linearly.

Comments:
- It's true that all these pictures are quite lean, ranging from about the same me for #1 and bodybuilder-on-stage for #5. It's fair to say that all these arms represent physiques much leaner than a normal person.
- Arm #1 at <10" circumference is borderline unrealistic for an adult man. It would almost have to be like a teenager just after their growth spurt or extremely thin endurance athlete or a malnourished person.
- The forearms are insane. Look at the brachioradialis bulges. All the pictured arms have scaled forearms circumferences comparable to or greater than their biceps. This is a very unusual proportion, representing professional rock climbers and arm wrestlers, and lends a lot to the feeling of inhumanity of the pictures, especially towards the upper end. There are only a handful of people in the entire world with 21" forearms like Levan Saganashvilli, Andrey Smaev, Jeff Dabe, and all of them have *vastly* bigger biceps than the picture, and also carry much more fat. In that sense, picture #5 is maybe truly impossible. The original picture was probably generated by AI and didn't capture a super accurate sense of human proportions.

Addressing some other claims:
- Lebron James / Michael Phelps is between #1 and #2
I can't find any data on Phelps but Lebron has 17" arms and a 7 foot wingspan. Scaled down to my wingspan his arms would be 14.97", which lands him between #3 and #4. Though his forearms are definitely closer to #2 as discussed above.
- Arm #3 is not just a normal fit guy it's an extremely muscular person. They would not just be in the top 5% of physiques it'd be in the top <1%
I don't have good population level data but I can say that I'm a pretty normal fit guy and I train mostly for rowing cycling and bouldering, not specifically hypertrophy. I routinely encounter people with bigger arms than me everywhere.
- People are bad at judging the size of body parts out of context of the whole person
I guess this is true, specifically if he's talking about himself and the many commenters who said things like they were "#1 on the scale" or "#3 and above are on steroids". In contrast I think the girls being interviewed who answered between 2 and 4 were pretty good judges of proportions and they were basically saying they like lean men of roughly average size. Realistically he and much of his community just wanted an excuse to dunk of gymbros so they made up the necessary premises to facilitate that.

5AM posting. ADHD.