This guy has to be on the roids

[ManDownUnder]

So that's how you got to screw her......you jiggled em first didn't ya

Na I used the old "Get 'em drunk then come onto them" approach... 4 out 5 say yes!

[Stirts]

Na I used the old "Get 'em drunk then cum on them" approach... 4 out 5 say yes!

Fark you no waste time do ya

[ManDownUnder]

Fark you no waste time do ya

Not if they like necklaces.

Do you like pearls?

[007XX]

I got distracted looking at the nice lady in your profile pic.

Heehehe... I swear, that's not why I put her there!

You couldn't be sure - I wasn't actually aware of the distinction...

There is one for sure...but unfortunately, people like the woman in the pic that Joni and Stirts posted tend to blur the lines of differences.

Body sculpting is supposed to shape the human body to provide leaner muscle masses, with a more elegant and gracious effect on the overall figure.

It really makes the most of the individual's body shape, rather than distort it like body building does (in my mind anyway).

[Stirts]

Not if they like necklaces.

Too good and I can't farken bling you dammit!

Do you like pearls?

I plead the 5th

[ManDownUnder]

I plead the 5th

*shivers* talk dirty to me!

[Mikkel]

Body sculpting is supposed to shape the human body to provide leaner muscle masses, with a more elegant and gracious effect on the overall figure.

It really makes the most of the individual's body shape, rather than distort it like body building does (in my mind anyway).

So you're thinking stuff like pilates and low-intensity weights...

[jrandom]

All of you folk wondering about the apparent imbalance in hypertrophy around that guy's body are quite correct. His upper arm size is not a result of muscle growth, whether stimulated by anabolic steroids or not. Neither are those pictures photoshopped.

It's not steroids or any sort of active drug that he'll be injecting into his arms; just an oil which irritates the muscle fibres and swells them. As the oil leaches back out of the muscles and is absorbed by the body, the swelling goes down. It's not at all permanent.

Bodybuilders use it to look impressive for shows, but it doesn't add any strength in and of itself. You don't usually see functional athletes such as strongman competitors using the shit, but presumably the gentleman in the pictures decided he could do with some easy publicity.

Google 'Synthol' if you're curious to learn more, but don't say I didn't warn you...

[007XX]

So you're thinking stuff like pilates and low-intensity weights...

Pilates are fantastic for core strength and lean, longer muscles...I do not hewever know for a fact if it is being used in body sculpting.

I have often wanted to get into a body scuplting program, but just like anything of this kind, you have got to be very dedicated. And honnestly, I'm too busy riding, snowboarding, running...

Google 'Synthol' if you're curious to learn more, but don't say I didn't warn you...

I find that even more disgusting now then...

[Hitcher]

Pilates are fantastic for core strength and lean, longer muscles...

Are those like Japanese maritime scoundrels?

[jrandom]

lean, longer muscles...

Different types of exercise will not result in different shapes of muscular hypertrophy for the same person.

An individual's genetics are the sole component of the way their muscles grow under training. You can add more lean mass, or less. Different sorts of training will make a person grow or not grow, but you can't change tendon insertion points, etc, which would be the only way to achieve 'longer' muscles.

[007XX]

Are those like Japanese maritime scoundrels?

Just for you sir! *big innocent grin*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Uxbv4WOpo

[Mikkel]

I have often wanted to get into a body scuplting program, but just like anything of this kind, you have got to be very dedicated. And honnestly, I'm too busy riding, snowboarding, running...

You ride a motorcycle but don't posses the motorskills to handle a pair of skis?

Different types of exercise will not result in different shapes of muscular hypertrophy for the same person.

An individual's genetics are the sole component of the way their muscles grow under training. You can add more lean mass, or less. Different sorts of training will make a person grow or not grow, but you can't change tendon insertion points, etc, which would be the only way to achieve 'longer' muscles.

That's mostly true - but genetics are not the sole component... (soles are usually made from rubber )
As you say you can vary your training to achieve different results with regards to bulk and lean-ness.
E.g. if you train very high intensity weights and don't do any stretching you can "bunch" (dunno what the proper term is) up your muscles so they become hard and useless but looks "cool"...

Pilates is about the direct opposite from this.

[007XX]

Different types of exercise will not result in different shapes of muscular hypertrophy for the same person.

An individual's genetics are the sole component of the way their muscles grow under training. You can add more lean mass, or less. Different sorts of training will make a person grow or not grow, but you can't change tendon insertion points, etc, which would be the only way to achieve 'longer' muscles.

Which is why only certain people seem to really "suit" body sculpting...I guess similar rules of aesthetic would apply for body sculpting.

Two mates of mine in New Caledonia were Pacific champions back in the late 90s, and they definitely had an edge because of their pre determined body shape from their genetical ancestry. Both had some Tahitian, Asian and European blood, which made a lovely mix...the body building only enhanced their bodies, rather than them havign to cahnge it extensively.

[jrandom]

if you train very high intensity weights and don't do any stretching you can "bunch" (dunno what the proper term is) up your muscles so they become hard and useless...

I have this problem with my quadriceps. Years of squatting followed by years of cycling, all conducted with shamefully little attention paid to stretching and training of the antagonists, etc, have left my legs very inflexible and more or less useless for anything that doesn't involve, er... lifting or cycling, really.

It'll probably take further years of correct training to ameliorate it. Of course, my current unfocused lifestyle in that regard doesn't help much, either.