Anyone who has competed (or at least dieted down)...

**tweeter37** · 10-19-2002, 05:12 AM

This might sound like a dumb question, but oh well! I'm 4 weeks out from my first show, and everything is going great! But here's the question, when I'm wearing my normal clothes, I look skinny as hell. People I haven't seen in a while think I'm sick or something, since my face is all sunken in now, but with out the shirt I look ****ing awsome! (never been this leen in my life!), and get compliments at the gym all the time now. Do any of you else experience this too? It's not muscle loss because I'm still lifting the same amount of weight.

**freaker** · 10-19-2002, 01:51 PM

You're probably just really cut and not holding any fat in your face. I don't hold fat in my face, and when I go under 5% bodyfat, my face starts looking really sucked up. I end up having striations in my jaw and people say I look like I'm on drugs.

**ManofSteel** · 10-19-2002, 02:09 PM

I got the same thing when Iw as dieting for a contest, everyone was concerned for me but I knew what I was doing and I kicked major ass. Just gotta accpet it, I found when i was dieting I fit into alot of clothes better, I have one pair of pants that are kinda tight but they were falling off of me when i was dieted down

**str8flexed** · 10-20-2002, 04:59 PM

that's good, that means you are close to contest ready. If you look great without clothes on but small in clothes then that means your almost peaked.
Peace

**Illmatic** · 10-21-2002, 11:50 AM

Bump to str8...

Every time I've dieted down I've had people I know act like they think I'm anorexic ("you're too thin", "what happened?"), until I lift up my shirt up... then just "wow". Hehe..

Perfectly normal, bro..

**tweeter37** · 10-21-2002, 12:01 PM

Yeah, I've actualy had to show people the pictures I've taken just to prove I'm not skin and bones! It gets old, but oh well.

**Illmatic** · 10-21-2002, 11:34 PM

Originally posted by tweeter37
Yeah, I've actualy had to show people the pictures I've taken just to prove I'm not skin and bones! It gets old, but oh well.

Yeah.. I also hate it when girls ask to see your stomach, when you tell them you workout. It gets annoying, even when I am in single-digit BF %. What do I have to prove to them..?

**Sexual Mustard** · 10-26-2002, 11:26 PM

When people look at my face and start thinking that I'm an AIDS patient, then I know I'm gonna do well in a show!

**Illmatic** · 10-27-2002, 10:11 PM

Bump...

**Bobsgotabs** · 10-29-2002, 02:24 PM

Just for the plain fact that most bodybuilders are not endomorphic people, we tend to look like average people in normal clothing. Even the greats looked somewhat average in normal clothes. But. its when we shed our clothes that the bodyfat percentages, and more so shoulder to waist ratios pop out and scream, hey, I'm a bodybuilder! But, on the negative note a lot of bodybuilders HAVE to wear muscle shirts, clothes that are extremely tight, and walk around like their lats are causing their amrs not to come down. Do yourself and bodybuilders in general a favor, do not give us a bad rap by walking around with ILS ( Imaginary Lat Syndrome ), and wear normal clothes. There should be more to you than your muscles.

Bob H

**Illmatic** · 10-29-2002, 02:34 PM

Originally posted by Bobsgotabs
Just for the plain fact that most bodybuilders are not endomorphic people, we tend to look like average people in normal clothing. Even the greats looked somewhat average in normal clothes. But. its when we shed our clothes that the bodyfat percentages, and more so shoulder to waist ratios pop out and scream, hey, I'm a bodybuilder! But, on the negative note a lot of bodybuilders HAVE to wear muscle shirts, clothes that are extremely tight, and walk around like their lats are causing their amrs not to come down. Do yourself and bodybuilders in general a favor, do not give us a bad rap by walking around with ILS ( Imaginary Lat Syndrome ), and wear normal clothes. There should be more to you than your muscles.

Bob H

It's amazing how people who do not work out have no concept of what athletic bodies look like. I've been 190 lbs with a %8 bodyfat and still had people go "Oh... you workout?". <shrug>
It's probably because I'm not one of those tight-as-hell shirt wearing guys.

**Jackt4Ever** · 10-30-2002, 01:33 PM

It's perfectly normal. I felt tiny in clothes. But felt like a bad ass without them.

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