OK, I know that professional/competitive bodybuilders HAVE to shave, but why is it that even average gym users or like pretty much everyone with decent muscle mass have virtually no body hair?
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Thread: Body Hair?
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07-25-2012, 05:50 AM #1
Body Hair?
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07-25-2012, 06:40 AM #2MWC's very own Leonidas
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I personally hate body hair so I shave it. I have also heard it stated that body hair can hide muscle definition.
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07-25-2012, 09:16 AM #3Prepare Perform Prevail
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It's a modern western thing. Hair is deemed unattractive (just pick up a magazine) so most adhere to that notion.
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07-25-2012, 09:22 PM #4
I don't know still seems like a ****gy thing to do.
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07-25-2012, 11:11 PM #5Registered User
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I shave my whole body. Can't stand body hair. Why? I have no idea.. mainly makes me feel dirty all the time, especially when working out and sweating. Shaving helps me feel cleaner... that, coupled with the fact that it's easier to see the detail of the muscles I'm working out.
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07-26-2012, 12:23 AM #6
Can't speak for everyone but I'm rocking the 70's Burt Reynolds aesthetic, pornstache n' all.
Joking.
It's just the current trend.
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07-26-2012, 02:10 AM #7Registered User
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Hair is for gorillas.
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07-26-2012, 05:49 AM #8Registered User
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But not all gorillas have hair.. At least in my gymOriginally Posted by W8sB4dates
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07-26-2012, 10:31 AM #9This Space for Rent
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This is true. It's like camouflage for your muscles. Anything that breaks up sight lines serves to mask what is underneath. Some things work better than others. Sun dresses rock.Originally Posted by jcranston
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07-26-2012, 10:50 AM #10Registered User
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Pfft.
Tell that to TeenWolf. Dude was ripped.
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07-26-2012, 09:57 PM #11Registered User
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A lot of guys do it because the hair "hides their muscle" although if you're actually got decent sized muscles a little hair isn't going to hide that. If Arnold had some hair on his chest and stomach do you think nobody would realize he was muscular? It's usually the guys with hardly any size but have a 6-pack that are shaving their bodies. Its the same guy who never puts on any real size because he can't stand the thought of a real bulk where his abs might not be as defined for a few months. What Im getting at is that the people who shave their body hair are mostly self-obsessed metro/homo-sexual douche-lords who spend 90% of their time at the gym looking in the mirror and lifting their shirt every 2 minutes to check out their own abs and the other 10% of the time they hang out in the showers hoping to sneak a peak at your pecker without you catching them.
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07-26-2012, 09:59 PM #12Registered User
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Do not want to constantly be shaving everywhere for little reason. Doesn't it make your chest itchy?
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07-26-2012, 11:38 PM #13It's Over 9000!!!
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Apparently it's fashionable these days. Not a fashion trend I'm a big fan of, though, and I'd hate trying to maintain a hairless body. If it's below my collar bone, I don't shave it (paying me to shave it might change my attitude).
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