A Minor Irritation

mloc

I know this is stupidly pedantic, but does it irritate anyone else when people refer to muscularly large yet relatively fat laden individual as "ripped"?

I think while "ripped" has seem to have entered into a lot of people's vocab recently, the real meaning of it hasn't. Everyone seems to think big and ripped are the same thing.

A person starved to death might be ripped, but not big. A lot of powerlifters are big, but not ripped.

I dunno. Maybe it's just me. It's probably just me.

tribulus

i'm the same, i don't like change!

g'em

mloc wrote:

A lot of powerlifters are big, but not ripped.

True, and then some are both. I'm completely plagiarising one of daveirl's posts here but I was too lazy to look up the Dave Tate pics myself

Dave Tate: world ranked powerlifter, his best lifts being a 935lb squat, a 610lb bench press, a 740lb deadlift, and a 2205 total (that's 425, 277 and 33gkg for the metrics among us ). Here's him with the stereotypical 'powerliftr' physique:


And 'ripped':

t-ha

Ripped usually describes someone with a really low bodyfat level, but it's kind of taken for granted that they're supposed to be carrying muscle underneath, otherwise they're just skinny.

Good job on the Dave Tate reference g'em - even in the first pic he had actually come a long way from where he started, he used to be alot fatter.

Another famous example is Dave Gulledge the MidWest BarBell guy,

here at 320lbs;


and at 265lbs carb-depleted;


and carb-loaded;


also, if you google 'images' his name you'll see him at a 'ripped' 180lbs.

daveirl

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yomchi

Not taking away from the guys physique - he's awesome!

However in the 265lb pic notice the lack of symmetry, without doubt he's a right hander!

Vegeta

Holy sh1t

That guy is truly ripped

but yeah i always called someone ripped if they were both muscular and had very low bf%

t-ha

Jon wrote:

Not taking away from the guys physique - he's awesome!

However in the 265lb pic notice the lack of symmetry, without doubt he's a right hander!

Yeah I can see it - however you have to take into account that he's a powerlifter (and a pretty good one), not a bodybuilder.

yomchi

t-ha wrote:

Yeah I can see it - however you have to take into account that he's a powerlifter (and a pretty good one), not a bodybuilder.

Fair point my man!