When is BIG, big enough?

[Benches505]

I remember being a 200lb senior in high school working out and saying to myself "If I can ever get to 220lbs I'll be big enough"

A few years passed and I was 220 thinking that if ever I can get to 230 I would be big enough. A couple of more years went by and I was 230 and 100% sure that if ever I could get up over 250lbs I would be satisfied.

Well tonight at 267.5 lbs wearing the same waist size I did at 220....I'm not big enough!! WTF

[l2elapse]

i dont think we can ever be big enough in our eyes, no matter what anyone tells you

[SMAN12b]

called, motivation and determination and never settling when you know you can do more.....

In other words ......ME !!!.....lolol

I am sitting at 245 right now, thinking I will be happy breaking 250 on this cycle, wonder how I will feel at 250 looking at 270???....lolol and I started at under 200

[Benches505]

I thought about just throwing in the towel on getting big and just worry about getting cut and looking good. But size is an addiction

[muaythaiguy76]

it will never end for me at least ...and im sitting at 266 rite now

[MuscleScience]

I said I would stop at 215, well Im there now and im not stopping.
Muscle Dysmorphia, I blame the media. LMAO

[chest6]

id be happy at 300 and 14/15% I'd say by age 26 or so...

[odix]

were opposites of anorexia...but healthier.

[RuhlFreak55]

you're never big enough...i know i'll never be big enough anyway

[gixxerboy1]

were opposites of anorexia...but healthier.

Why do you think its healthier? Most bigger guys aren't that lean. Also do you think carrying around and extra 100+ lbs is really healthy?

[gixxerboy1]

I'm happy in the 185 and lean range. I don't want to be any bigger. I'm also 5'6. Being really big and saying I'm 275lb is more trying to impress other men in my opinion. Just like saying i can bench 300+. I'd rather impress woman

[Hoggage_54]

I'm 6'5, I used to be 140lbs before I started working out. I'm sitting at 230 right now and I want MORE!

[Hackamaniac]

I'm 5ft9 and I would be happy with a shredded 230.

[Benches505]

I'm happy in the 185 and lean range. I don't want to be any bigger. I'm also 5'6. Being really big and saying I'm 275lb is more trying to impress other men in my opinion. Just like saying i can bench 300+. I'd rather impress woman

I don't think a 300lb bench is impressing anyone these days.

Some of us are hooked on the strength that comes along with the size, if I had to pick one or the other it would be strength.

I do feel what you are saying, babes are into the lean and cut look more than the bulky and powerful.

[mavsluva]

Anyone with some meat on their bones and some might in their heart can be big and strong. However, it takes a whole new level of dedication to be big, strong and LEAN.

[MFT81]

Ill be big enough when people stop asking me if I play football and start asking me if I bodybuild.

[gixxerboy1]

I don't think a 300lb bench is impressing anyone these days.
Some of us are hooked on the strength that comes along with the size, if I had to pick one or the other it would be strength.

I do feel what you are saying, babes are into the lean and cut look more than the bulky and powerful.

I meant dumbells

[lucabratzi]

i started at bout 165lbs and i wanted to get to 220 and that would be it...i got to 255lbs in about 4 years, 1 of which was actaully seriuos to diet and training...i wasnt satisfied..i def. had muslce dysmorphia...but i learned i would never be satisfied with how i look no matter how big i got..so i relaxed and enjoyed what i had...i stopped gettin down on myself if i didnt eat enough and train hard enough..

[sigmatro11]

I'm by far much smaller than most of the people on this board in just plain bulk. But I work on staying ripped up and trying to bulk while ripped, which most on here will know is a real challenge. I personally believe when you get to a certain size you will be happy. Its just we under estimate what 30 more pounds of muscle will look like on us. I have an image of a size I want to be in my head and its a size that girls wont look at and say damn he's too big thats nasty. I want them to look and say damn he's ripped, but still not to muscle bound. Of course for everyone this will be different though.

[63190]

When I look like superman, that'll be big enough.

[Chitown Raider]

Last June I was 155lbs at 5'9, now I'm 185lbs. I told myself I wanted to get up to 185lbs then rip it up. But now my goal is to hit 195lbs. I have a funny feeling by the time I get to 195lbs I will want to reach 205lbs.

[F4iGuy]

I remember wrestling in highschool at 135, same height, 5'6". Now I'm at 180 and still want more. Every day I consider joining the dark side in my quest to break 200, but then again everybody tells me I'm already a beast so I hold off... but there's always that what if isn't there?

[K.Biz]

I said I would stop at 215, well Im there now and im not stopping.
Muscle Dysmorphia, I blame the media. LMAO

+1

[Dangerdan]

I'm like the original poster. I weighed 95lbs when I started high school, about 160 when I graduated at 6'1. I'm wanted to be about 180, then I got there and thought 190, then 205. . . Right now I think that 225 with 10%bf would be great, hopefully by next year, I'm not too far off now. Of course then I'm sure I'll want to add another 10-15lbs.

I do believe that its really a mindset. I look in the mirror and dont see myself at 218. If I look at a picture of another guy who weighs the same amout I do, I dont realize I'm that big, if that makes sense.

[K.Biz]

i agree. many people ask me advice in the gym.. and stupid questions like "what do u take" blah blah blah... but i dont see myself as a person big enough to be asked those questions. seems just plain odd to me. but ohh well its a compliment

as far as am i big enough. haha never ever ever. I will coninue to bulk and cut and bulk and cut until i cant move cause im to old. haha

[K.Biz]

[K.Biz]

[K.Biz]

i tripple posted... when the hell does that ever happen....

[xlxBigSexyxlx]

im 5'10''

i think a ripped(8-9% BF) at 230, give or take a few pounds, I would be satisfied, or so thats what I tell myself.

Im sitting at 200 now. hit 230, and work for strength, speed, and endurance....I wanna be a machine.

[WelshWarrior]

Ill be big enough when people stop asking me if I play football and start asking me if I bodybuild.

LOL, I get exactly the same - haven't done sport other than weights for 10 years and everyone always says smugly "who do you play rugby for".

Some funny posts here.

For me it's muscularity, not weight that I hunt.

[WelshWarrior]

I always feel kinda guilty and embarassed when someone says "you're big" etc. I always think they are wrong. There's so many people much bigger/much better shape out there I feel like I don't deserve it!

To put it in other terms I can think of a few ex's who had big tits. I've seen bigger and better, but theirs were still awesome and impressed me. (Excuse crudeness!)

[Schmidty]

I know ill never be big enough

[RuhlFreak55]

Get Big Or Die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kaberle_15]

You can never have enough money and you can never be too big!

[Schmidty]

I dont ever wana stop getting bigger. I wonder if ill ever get sick pf the pump, I dont see it happening. I go crazy if i dont get 5 days a wk of good workouts

[Timm1704]

im 5'9 and have said many different things over the years. when i started i had no particular idea of weight etc, when i got to 14/15 years old i wanted to be a ripped 250lbs without using steroids lol. now i know better, my more realistic goal is 210-220lbs at 10% bf or lower. i want to achieve this before im 26, so that gives me just over 4 years, if i can afford a good supply of GH by then lol

[WEBB]

started at 6' and 199 now i am 6' and 295...not even close to big enough...but one day i will be big enough...prolly not....

[UpstateTank]

started at 6' and 199 now i am 6' and 295...not even close to big enough...but one day i will be big enough...prolly not....

holy bloody hell i didnt realize you were that big webb!

[Vegas1973]

I'll honestly be content, not happy when I'm 220. I'm 200 now and 6'

[Archetypes]

Supposedly there is such thing as Muscle dysmorphic disorder (bigorexia)... I say hogwash...but then again I am not big enough yet. :-)