When is a man too fit?

:/Health benefits aside, I always feel like a fitness/ training regime would do me no good. I used to run for a while a few years back but my gammie knee put paid to any ambitions I had at the time and I was pretty gutted. I had lost a ton of weight at the time and saw running as being a big part of my future. The weight I had also means I have a bit of perma-flab. As for the upper body, a couple of motorbike accidents mean my right shoulder is half bone, half foundry so ya, I'm strategically fcukered at this stage I never had and never will have a beach body. C'est la vie. It is tough to hear d'ladies talk about really buff guys and know that it's more than me being too lazy. I have improved my physique a lot but I consider it to be prohibitively difficult to take things much further. I'd be looking at surgery on the knee and some cosmetic stuff that I could never justify doing even if I had the money.

I walk 15-20 miles a week for my general health and well-being which does me the world of good. I'm much slimmer than I once was. The rest is pretty much here to stay.

dor843088 wrote: »

This is the best physique.

In what sense?

It was before my time, but there was a programme on the BBC during the 70s and 80s called Superstars, where different sportsmen would compete against each other to see who was the fittest overall. Brian Jacks, who was a judoka, was apparently one of the most successful men on it. Actually, I think the show originated in America.

Daveysil15 wrote: »

What kind of fitness do you get from manual labour? All sorts of people with different body types do manual labour.

Functional strength/fitness. For example, the ability to lift irregular shaped objects and loads. In a gym, most people lift weights that are easy to pick up and are evenly weighted. So a man who constantly lifts in the gym, might not necessarily find certain types of manual labour easy - at least not initially. Strongman training is more about functional strength.

Guess it's all in the eyes of the beholder!

I'm way too big for probably a lot of girls, especially Irish.

I'm 133kg and apparently 30% bf which expert on boards has told me.

I'm content

Daveysil15 wrote: »

Why especially the Irish?

From past experiences, currently in a relationship (gf is not Irish) and from numerous conversations with different people, Irish girls seem to stay away from bigger guys (when I refer to bigger guys here in this instance I'm talking bout guys with a fair amount if muscle too).

Dunno whether they're scared or just not into it.

Seems quite the opposite in Eastern Europe!

More traditional society = liking bigger men?

Hmmm, plenty of Asain societies, that we would count as traditional, see tones as male beauty rather than bulked.

But, a lot of the aforementioned countries have different notions of strength.

Personally, I think a lot of women stay away from big guys because they're seen as vain.