What do you like most about being big?

[mason]

For years I was a powerlifter weighing around 290-295.  The only thing I miss about being that big is that it becomes who you are.  People knew me as that big mother, and even though it embarrassed me on the spot, the comments I received felt pretty good.  It was just being different then everyone else.  I'm not a true egomaniac, but I liked getting double takes and standing out in a crowd.

[BEAST 8692]

i love being big and muscular and have been that way for a long time. i would receive many comments even in my teens (before that i was unbelievably skinny. people called me an ethiopian)

i remember once a friend told me when we were both 16 in school that he would give $10 000 to look like me. i had received compliments before but this was the best and it shocked me a little bit because, at that point, i hadn't even trained. actually i felt like a dick because i didn't even eat properly. i ate shit all the time. needless to say i then felt a moral obligation to train these 'muscles'.

anyway, i got to love the feeling of heavy training and, alas, here i am on a fucking bbing message board.

obviously bbing is a narcissistic activity and people try to put us down. my own father and mother hated me puting so much attention into my body. my dad just didn't get it. he was a very muscular person, but as he put it he got that way from 'hard work'  . my mum thought i was 'gross' . geez, just as well i'm not gay, they would have disowned me.

people are changing their attitudes and the reality is that just about everyone theses days realizes the benefits of muscle building, but because reality dictates that very few people actually become very big and muscular and it is next to impossible for most to get that way (genetics) they would rather put us down and convince themselves and try to convince everyone else that 'yeah, i could get that way if i took steroids.' they hate the fact that they train 'so hard' and take all the supplements but never look anything like these guys. it kills them mentally. they feel like a failure as a man or something.

i find myself always saying things like, 'yeah, but i could never run a marathon. i'd heat up and die.' i find myself trying to make others feel better and making excuses for the way i'm built . it probably just makes them resent me more.

seriously there is so much jealousy even amongst fellow bbers (prob more so) that sometimes you feel guilty for training, but you know what? if you could buy muscles, no matter what the cost, there'd be a shit load more muscular guys out there...and we'd probably have a major food shortage too.

[dr.chimps]

I like the fact that I am in a better shape than most of the people in my work and in my country, Ireland is THE place right after the US and A for deep fried chippers, if you can deep fry it, they eat it here.
I love the fact that I concider myself somebody who is LIVING an elite sport, a sport most people do not understand.
I love the fact that I cannot eat chips fries and chocolate at times when everbody does so, them asking me why I don't eat any fries and seeing them feeling guilty that they do is sweet 
I also love it when I can see that they get real pissed of and try their very best to convince you that my sport is wrong and so forth, some of them take it real personal that you choose to be healthy and NOT drink beer...it goes into the extremes I can tell you from personal experience, some guy got really pissed of that I would not touch the beer he bought me (here in Ireland they by rounds all the time, this guy a colleague of my girlfriend asked me what I drink, I said politely thanks I'm fine I stick with my water and he bought me one anyways and got real pissed of that I would not touch it)

Hahaha. You might just as well of have pissed on a harp, my friend. Fucking with a nation's culture is no laughing matter. 

[Childish///AMG]

I do not consider myself big. I like it when I remember how small I once was and what I am now through hard work and dedication all thanks to my "Uncle-Sam"

[FreshMintBlue]

Hahaha. You might just as well of have pissed on a harp, my friend. Fucking with a nation's culture is no laughing matter. 

lol

[Big Worm]

Being big ..allows me to get in a little deeper than the average man ! 

[UPINTHEMGUTS]

Don't kid yourself there Shadow. Take a look the next time that you walk into a night club or bar. Its the guys with the muscles that have all the girls. Not the scrawny pipsqueak in the corner. Women love muscle. Being intimidated by it is quite another thing. But when the bigger guy scores a chick, she is generally way more hotter then the other women you see average guys with.

PB

How about the scrawny pipsqueak who makes a lot more money than you and has a better personality and who's courtship technique is not smashing a beer can against their forehead?

Get real, juice boy. Money is power. Muscles are pretty to look at but by the end of the day I'm lifting up my little beer gut so your girlfriend can blow me in my 2007 BMWx5. Sad but true.

[Big Worm]

How about the scrawny pipsqueak who makes a lot more money than you and has a better personality and who's courtship technique is not smashing a beer can against their forehead?

Get real, juice boy. Money is power. Muscles are pretty to look at but by the end of the day I'm lifting up my little beer gut so your girlfriend can blow me in my 2007 BMWx5. Sad but true.

You are one million percent spot on !!!  Girls /women.Like to see pretty muscles..But you can't wine and dine a bitch on look's !??  But whip out a fat knot ..and they fall in love ..

[UPINTHEMGUTS]

You are one million percent spot on !!!  Girls /women.Like to see pretty muscles..But you can't wine and dine a bitch on look's !??  But whip out a fat knot ..and they fall in love ..

Yeah, I'm not trying to be a dick. I work out but The gym is just not an obsession like it was when I was younger. It was all about the looks back then but as you creep into your 30's, you got to make that dollar. (even sooner at a younger age if possible.)

If you're single, have decent looks, and have a nice career going, then pulling young, hot, single pussy is like shooting fish in a fucking barrel!

I love the fags that come into the gym at night in dressy clothes that try to get a quick pump before they hit the clubs. Fucking weak!

[onlyme]

Being at my best shape was great. Smiling most of the time helps too.  It allowed anyone to come up and talk to me and ask me what I did for a living or how much you bench, how much do you workout, are you a pro football player and so on.  I knew 99% of the time wherever I was, I was the strongest person in the place.  I traveled allot and trained in gyms all over the country and in just about everyone I was in while I was working out everyones eyes were on me lifting.  I was definitely an attention whore.  It got me everything I have ever had positive in my life is because I stood out and was bigger and stronger than most people.  It broke tension at parties and meetings.  Some people would say that my size mixed with my personality was perfect.  Being big and muscular had no downfalls for me.  My health was great, the girls absolutely loved it, the guys respected me and it made me allot of money.  Now being fat is another story.

[hipolito mejia]

I like being stronger than the average person and waking up in morning and looking at 5'11'' of raw sex appeal sstaring back at me in the mirror. 

Discuss.

Arnold-"f**k you"

Frank-"yeah,f**k him"


Big Lou- "looking at raw sex appeal in the mirror HAHAHAHAHA"

[Mr. Intenseone]

I don't like being big anymore, It was cool when I was younger but now it's a pain in the ass, right now I'm trying to find away to actually DROP muscle!

[The Night Stalker]

I like the lots of testosterone in my body and it helps me have sex really fast.

[Board_SHERIF]

I never lifted for the chick appeal thing, I just liked banging iron around, loved the sound, love to sweat, loved to know I could do something 99% of the male population either couldn't or didn't have what it took inside to do it.

Living a bodybuilding lifestyle, being so regimented in your meals, drinking enough water, not missing workouts, just living the lifestyle, at least for me has made the rest of lifes problems rather small.

I've never been the type to wear tight spandex shirts to show off my muscles, trust me guy, girls can TELL that you are built even if you wear a long sleeve cotton dress shirt.  Also leaving a tad to the females imagination makes them more interested and they think 'hey theres a guy thats not cocky about it'.

Then the first time they undress you, its like they are opening a christmas present.   I can only think girls that see guys wearing a size medium when they need a size large, they have to actually laugh and think 'why not walk around topless if you are so insecure that you demand girls notice you lift weights.'

Bang On Rooster - the guys in the wifebeaters at the gym are pathetic...