How easy is it to tell apart a naturally muscular physique from a gym-honed physique?

**Tooting Carmen** · 12-16-2020, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by Oneeye

"Gym bunny" is just at a lower bf%.

What do you mean?

**Not a Cop** · 12-16-2020, 10:29 PM

If i understand u correctly than i would say that it could be told by the face, people with robust faces will have muscular bodies usually.

**RN97** · 12-16-2020, 10:32 PM

There does not exist muscular people who don't work out. There are some muscular-ish people who don't go to the gym, like my GFs father. He has overdeveloped arms and especially forearms because he works with manual labour. People have some muscular development but don't hit the gym, usually have a job that involves some lifting. Jobs that involve picking up heavy shit from the ground a lot that are not easy to pick up will usually have developed forearms, because the muscles in your forearms determine grip strength.

**~~Komintasavalta~~** · 12-18-2020, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by Harkonnen

Search for Senegalese laamb wrestlers. These dudes seem to live and train in pretty primitive settings, and they be pretty damn muscular.

Out of these negros, the tallest one in the middle looks the most powerful. He has the broadest face, the lowest orbits, and the most straight supraorbital rims.

**PaleoEuropean** · 12-18-2020, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by Komintasavalta

Out of these negros, the tallest one in the middle looks the most powerful. He has the broadest face, the lowest orbits, and the most straight supraorbital rims.

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He is a good undiluted endomorph

**Ylla** · 12-18-2020, 11:06 AM

They are usually endomorph and bigger boned. I much prefer a natural body type than a gym one which looks artificial.

**~~Ford~~** · 12-18-2020, 11:06 AM

Very strange question.

**Oneeye** · 12-22-2020, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen

What do you mean?

Guy on left has a bit more body fat. It's still low, but what gives the "gymbunny" look on the right is his lower body fat percentage. People associate "cut" muscular guys with body builders who are usually on steroids.

If "gym bunny" was just a bit more fat on him, you'd assume he's "natural".

**Tooting Carmen** · 02-03-2021, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by Oneeye

Guy on left has a bit more body fat. It's still low, but what gives the "gymbunny" look on the right is his lower body fat percentage. People associate "cut" muscular guys with body builders who are usually on steroids.

If "gym bunny" was just a bit more fat on him, you'd assume he's "natural".

Well curiously, Dan Lydiate has been re-called to the Wales squad to play in the Six Nations for the first time since 2016. Despite having had just as many horrific injuries during his career as had Sam Warburton, unlike the latter he is still playing - the fact that Warburton's body couldn't cope any more with the constant strain of all the working out he had to do was a major factor behind his retirement in 2018.

**Tooting Carmen** · 10-27-2022, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen

Well curiously, Dan Lydiate has been re-called to the Wales squad to play in the Six Nations for the first time since 2016. Despite having had just as many horrific injuries during his career as had Sam Warburton, unlike the latter he is still playing - the fact that Warburton's body couldn't cope any more with the constant strain of all the working out he had to do was a major factor behind his retirement in 2018.

And I still stand by this, not least since Lydiate has been recalled to participate in the Autumn Internationals.