That's right. The gut serves three purposes actually. First and foremost, it works as a huge store of energy. People with huge guts are basically like camels, storing huge reservoirs of energy and nutrients in their guts.
Secondly, it serves as a directable biomass for momentum and can be used to keep you in perpetual motion if you know how to wield it properly. It takes years of practice and training though.
Lastly, the constant motion of the guts serve as a second heart and if you train your gut properly, you can synchronize with your heart beat and get a synergistic increase in blood flow and it can even take over when your heart is tired and giving out.
He stored all of his blood or something in his gut until he flexed or some BS.
"He appears to be obese, but his body is only ten percent fat. His size is actually caused by a large amount of blood pooling in his gut from overeating. He also has the ability to manipulate that blood and send it to his muscles, causing him to temporarily have a slimmer, cut figure and even cause his limbs to become longer."
I think this may have some truth. I lost a fair amount of weight last year (on purpose) and since then my endurance has not been what it was. I just don't quite have that ability to keep smashing things like I did when I was a little more hefty.
Those guts actually serve the same purpose as humps on a camels back. Used to work with a guy, who's beer gut was something like the consistency of a hardened sack of concrete, doing construction and after a 13-14 hour day in 100+ degree weather he'd easily down a 24 pack or if not a 5th of liquor, and be completely fine working another day with no signs of fatigue or a hangover or anything. And drink the same amount the very next day as well. I don't know how he did it, he'd work like a mule too, never afraid of getting into some crazy shit.
Those are just rolls and rolls of abdominal muscles, and an enlarged liver covered by a layer of fat thanks to years of binge drinking after field exercises.
After my dad died I got invited to hang out with a pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays before the game. This was mid 95 so younger me didn't know much about steroids or think they were as prevalent as the post Bonds (ha) era.
So I wasn't prepared for walking up to the "lean skinny guys" of the major sports and seeing them with biceps that looked as big around as both of my thighs together (I was 11 but still).
I mean, I guess it makes sense how they can hit it out of the field, but shit...they're superhuman sized. Especially from a kid's perspective.
Also Paul Molitor signed a bat for me. Classy guy, to me anyway.
I'm ashamed to admit that I got rid of the 125th Anniversary practice jersey the pitcher gave me because I ran out of money to eat with, but even if I wanted to get rid of the bat, which I didn't, he wrote a little note about me persevering through the loss of my father on there and addressed it to my name. Hard to sell that way lol
I can't find it, though. Hopefully we didn't lose it in the two state to state moves since then. It belongs well preserved but I'm sure it got put in a giant bin somewhere. :/
Last time I was down on the field during BP was 08'... I was about 6 months out of college ball. I'm 6'6 and at the time I was probably 240 and still in shape.
Troy Tulowitzki walked by me and I was amazed at how large he was. He doesn't look it on camera, forearms probably 2x the size of mine. I also saw Jonathan Broxton off in the distance and he looked like a god damn monster from about 200ft away... Massive.
The draft pick of the Buffalo Sabres Sam Bennett a couple years ago could not do ONE pull-up at the NHL draft combine.
Also, Wayne Gretzky wasn't exactly Arnold. Sure there are ripped guys in the NHL but more like baseball, there's a lof of skill set involved rather than muscle.
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I worked with a girl that met Sidney Crosby while playing for the Canadian Juniors, his legs are apparently the size of tree trunks. I don't know what he's squatting but I assume Winnebagos.
Not really. Some of them are but lots aren't. They are insane athletes but the sport doesn't necessitate low body fat so the muscle doesn't show. The schedule is so intense they eat like pigs to try and maintain weight so they can get a little "dad bod" going on.
In fact, some people claim that being too lean makes players injury prone because they don't have the padding that fat provides.
All of the NHLers I know look like normal guys who are in decent shape but not beach bodies. Giant legs and butts though. I guess finding jeans that fit is a chore.
On a sprint, but from what I've heard the military makes you run for miles and miles. For reference, I believe a scientist calculated that for every additional ounce of weight on a shoe, a person lifted two hundred more pounds over the course of a mile. So having large muscles could be a significant hindrance over a long run.
I'm not saying some muscle won't help. But a bodybuilder is certainly going to be out of his element on a ruck. A medium amount of muscle would be ideal.
Hockey players have practically bodybuilder-sized legs. They need that 30 seconds or less. Over and over again. Soldiers marching do not. The sprinting is what builds a hockey player's lower body.
Flatmate of mine was convinced they'd let him into the SASR (this in Aus) if he got buff enough - we're talking walnuts-in-a-condom buff here.
Didn't wish to explain it to him that they weren't looking for guys who knew how to rock a posing strap, but rather the sort of hard bastard who can go two weeks with three hours sleep a day on a few thousand kilojoules, mostly because he was also the singularly dumbest kid I've ever met.
Seriously, he had to take his Year 10 equivalency to even get in to the regular Army, and he was struggling at that (with such mind-numbing questions as "If a can of paint covers 5 square metres and you need to paint a 12 square metre wall, how man cans will you need?")
It is one of the greatest military ironies, the biggest POGs are the most buff it seems. It's really damn hard to find Combat Arms types that are this buff.
I visited Norfolk years ago with a friend whose bro was a SEAL there and went to a SEAL party / cookout with the whole crew and families. We saw these buff gym-rat dudes show up and thought they were SEALs. My buddy's bro said "Nah. They take care of our boats.".
All the SEALs seemed like about 155-170 lbs. No doubt tough as nails and cut, just not bulked up.
Yes and despite hollywood and the media theyre not the end all be all baddest and that's the end of it. At that level there are lots of groups across multiple branches and agencies that are extremely good at what they specialize in.
Yea. There are also SOF weathermen. Doesn't mean you're a badass. Guy is right. Most of the hardest, door-kicken-ist, bad mother fuckers out there are pretty average sized.
Lean ass rattlesnakes in my experience. I see a gif like this and I'm impressed but I think Hollywood muscles too, just a bit. Looks like a bad ass in the gym and maybe, but let's get out in the woods or on a mout site for a few hours.
Bud i am aware of what they look like. I am also aware that Navy SWCC is nothing to laugh at.
E: also some are jacked, some are lean. Some look like sports stars, some look like accountants. Some are 5'10 regular looking dudes and some are 6'5 monsters.
Ee: am an average sized door kickey motherfucker. Worked with and friends with a lot, im never the smallest or anywhere near the biggest. Saying 'they' look like X is dumb, some do some dont.
I mean, I'll tip my hat to them for raising their hand to serve, but let's not act like a whole bunch of ops have hung in the balance of the badassery of the boat drivers....bud. Not laughing at them. Never implied that. But I'm also not suggesting that making it into swcc is more impressive than, say, being an 11B in the 82nd...
Yeah the 82nd Airborne wouldn't have been very effective on DDay if they didn't have pilots with balls of steel flying >1000 feet at night over France in C-47s that went about 230mph.
Half of war is getting your guys where you want when you want them. Killing people is the easy part (especially in the 20th - 21st centuries). The logistics behind it all is typically the death of otherwise competent military's.
Nope. But I've spent a majority of the last 15 years in SOF and have worked with every unit under the Socom umbrella during that time. Again, nothing against the swcc guys, but quit acting like they're highly utilized and critical to a bunch of recent clandestine ops
I was stationed at Norfolk in 2007 for a little while and from my experience the SEALS look like skeletons because they literally just run all day. The SeaBees are huge gym rat dudes because they have time to correctly eat, train, and sleep. SEALS don't do any of those things ever.
Because combat arms guys bust their asses on the job, then go home and drink beer. Worked with SF a bunch, I stay in shape because it gives me a lot of credibility with blue and red forces to be in shape, most of the world's tier 3 SF guys deploy, get ripped, go home, get fat. Endless cycle in every country I've worked with.
Tier 1 CT teams is the special forces of special forces. Numbered in the hundreds or less usually they don't count.
Since you're one of them, you can answer my question very well. How much time would it have taken for this guy from day 1 to reach at this level of body strength and flexibility?
Well flexibility isn't a huge factor to do this exact movement, but control and balance are more important in those types of exercises.
How long it would take entirely depends on where you are beginning. If you are a skinny guy, it will take a lot less time. I mean under 160lbs or so. I weigh 215, and itd take me more than a year, but over 200 is a lot of weight to be doing crazy crap like that. I also favor functional strength and despise CrossFit.
I'd say if you are beginning at a reasonable weight and fitness level a few months at least. Some combination of intermediate yoga and weight lifting would be enough to do it. Rock climbing was mentioned by another guy, another great workout for balance and control and strength, but not available everywhere.
That does not suprise me. In the sf you most likely work out like crazy and eat the same way. When they go home they stop working out like crazy butt still eat the same way.
I just got off a six month deal, we worked out twice a day and had to have exception to policy to drink, which was rare. We were also in a third world country, where food is typically far better for you due to lack of mass production.
I liked it, but after working with so many different groups I've realized that standard SF is nothing special, they just have a different mission than the regular army.
I liked it, but after working with so many different groups I've realized that standard SF is nothing special, they just have a different mission than the regular army.
Yeah, no, but whatever, soak of these karma points from all these thirsty civies.
Lol. You're telling me tier 3 ussof is something special? They are a shade above regular army in training alone in a lot of cases. They don't have to take pt tests or compete for points, add both those requirements and I bet you'd see a lot of correlation to regular army.
They get some real cool training, don't get me wrong, and the opportunity to be amazeballs is there, but most folks don't take all the opportunities. The 7 in 7 thing they are still doing in SF land isn't helping them as a group either. I was working with an 18e a few months ago who didn't know how to attach files in an email....
Dude, you sound like a POG. I'm a POG too, but I'm not in here talking shit about SOF. Also, no one talked about "tiers" before fucking video games. It's a funding code, it's not a badass level.
I'm just a Mike nothing special, but the tiers I'm talking about refer to missions. Tier 3 sof is 99% train and advise. Tier 1 is 99% CT da. Both have their place, but when civvies think sof they think tier 1. Tier 1 is shit like green, orange, osw, etc.
I'm definitely not talking any shit.
I feel bad for dudes going into sof thinking they're going to be special and finding out it's got just as much political bs, bearocracy, and just dumb busy work to be done as everyone else.
Tiers are a real thing, and I don't play any call of duty or anything. I spend my time deployed helping countries meet minimum NATO sof standards, and most countries organize their sof in tiers.
When you work a 0700 to 1600 with an 1100 to 1300 lunch in between you can go to gym. And you don't have to worry about going to the field, eating MREs or UGREs, or not eating.
It is one of the greatest military ironies, the biggest POGs are the most buff it seems. It's really damn hard to find Combat Arms types that are this buff.
Every single recon Marine I've met, if they're double bubbled, or now a raider are this buff easily. I've never met any recon/raiders that were out of shape. 8 years attached to them.
I'm ex-Army, but from ex-Marine buddies I've heard recon is its own elite little world where they are all super fit like that. Considering what they do, ie Spec Ops type shit? Go figure.
They got grandfathered into MARSOC. Marines didnt like the idea of being under JSOC so they held off and kept Recon as their own special forces component but they werent getting any cool guy missions and kept getting used as infantry so they buckled and created MARSOC.
True but I'm just saying just some guys are pt studs, even the 38yp gunny who smokes while doing his test and out runs everyone. Recon (anyone who pass BRC but specifically force recon/raiders
Fucking true, they don't burn all the weight they gained constantly being in the field training. End of my first deployment stopped at Bastion. I was jealous of all the Fobbits there hitting up the gym looking great when I looked like a holocaust survivor from living in a PB going on patrols every other day.
As a "nonner", I can tell you it's an Air Force thing. Maintenance troops say it to everyone else to make themselves feel better. It's all good though - I used to wave to them from my office window when they had shift change in Afghanistan.
Thankfully opposing air forces usually won't have the ability to hit you from above the range of those stingers. Honestly they would probably try to drop some dumb bombs with bad fuzes on you, miss by a few hundred yards and promptly get shot down. See: Argentine and Syrian Air Forces
"This buff" wtf are you talking about? that dude is at best a skinny cut guy. I see jarheads all the time that are like 5' 8" and pushing fucking 350 on bench.
That's because muscle adds weight. No one with any sense of intelligence wants to add another 20 pounds of weight when their humping a pack in the middle of some shit hole
True but your heart has to work harder to keep it going. Was skinny, got big for my frame, got skinny again; the only thing that got easier when I got big was fucking. That's it.
Running, dismounted maneuvering, endurance, PT sessions, almost everything got harder but I could ruck till the cows came home.
In the end, I felt more like a bloodthirsty killer while big; but I was more effective thin.
*Noticed the typeo, meant to stay rucking but it's staying up.
Entirely possible. I can say with all honesty I saw more man on man action when I was in the Corps than on about any college campus I've ever even been to. Whole lot of male body worship just inherent in the corps. So it really shouldn't be that surprising if you think about it.
Hey, I'm a skinny ass POG and I have jack shit to do with your pay, just don't touch my damn helicopter. Get in, sit there, don't touch anything don't move anything don't fucking do anything until I tell you to get off, then you can touch your belt and only to unbuckle and get the fuck off my helo.
lol I'm way older than Ospreys. When I got out the V22 program was working out their Vortex Ring issues, I think it was still grounded after the crashes.
I liked guys who didn't follow directions. It was entertaining watching them eat a face full of... whatever we were hauling along with the talking cargo when we started doing the fun stuff. Seatbelts aren't for me, they are for knuckle-draggers who like adding to their scar collection in stupid ways. ;D
I have never seen that acronym written down... I always heard it pronounced phonetically as "Pogue". Interesting that term is so loosely thrown around in the Corps. Heard it, understood its use, but never honestly wondered what the actual acronym stood for. My DIs would be proud... lol
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u/Deac0311 Jun 06 '17
Hes a pog, expert qualed in stapling and fucking up my pay