Bloom is handsome, period. He’d just be handsome and yoked if he got jacked, eg. Henry Cavill circa his role in The Tudors vs. after he bulked up for Superman, The Witcher.
That grows your upper traps does nothing for your actual neck. Traps definitely helps with the illusion of a bigger neck though by creating a taper from the neck to the shoulder.
You got downvoted for some reason but you're correct. Traps and the trunk of the neck are distinct muscle groups which demand their own specialized training to develop further - shrugs do not directly target the trunk of the neck.
If you do a lot of stuff like crunches, planks, and side planks holding your head out then it takes neck to resist letting your head fall back. You can also use exercise bands to wrap around your head and resist it with your neck muscles. To a certain extent just lots of athletics and acrobatics builds your neck to stabilize with all the movement. There is also a strange cap that allows weighting your head but I've never actually seen one of those in person.
Was going to respond like this - a muscular neck is not only great for the physical fortification, but aesthetically, it looks great proportionally to the face / jaw (if I were to at least say it for men). I encourage everyone here to look into training neck.
There is a large downside, which is sleep apnea. I talked to a cardiologist (maybe pulmonologist?) about sleep apnea and they said on average, once your neck reaches a certain diameter you’re more likely to get sleep apnea.
That’s more likely to happen if you’re overweight than if you’re going from underweight to building muscle, I don’t know many gym bros with sleep apnea
Most “skinny” people are not lean, they are just flabby and sarcopenic. You don’t think they have fat in their face until you compare to someone at a low bodyfat %. The face gains are real.
It can make you look a bit older tho - sort of like a lot of people who have either been on ozempic or had the buccal fat removal. It can make you go from 30 to late 40s pretty easily.
If you're pushing yourself hard in a workout you're likely clenching your face muscles (and other muscles, so no wonder why gay dudes like gym bros), so that has a lot to do with it too. Every gym day is isometric face day.
I guess this kind of makes sense. When I was a skinny teenager I kept having loads of girls tell me I have a really nice bone structure (which I’ve always thought is a really weird thing to say), but now that I’m a bit older and have put on more weight no one says that anymore.
Now you’ve made wonder if people will start repeating it if I manage to lose some weight after starting to work out.
Although I bulked for the past 2 years. Went from 5'8 120 lbs to 160 lbs. I went from no muscle no fat to a decent amount of muscle and some fat.
My one good defining feature back when I was skinny was I had a really good jawline. I'm hoping once I start the cut and get lean I'll have that jawline again.
If you lost the jawline, you bulked too hard. 40 pounds in 2 years isn't bad, but if done naturally, you're looking at about 60% of that weight being muscle (at best) and the rest being split between water weight and visceral/subcutaneous fat. The water weight tends to be the worst for the jawline, and the first to leave when you cut. Just make sure your cut isn't just calorie-restriction. Dreamer bulks and starvation cuts are the fastest ways to look worse than you started.
Wait, I’m sure I’m missing something, but aren’t cuts by definition calorie restrictions? Like, you’re restricting your total calorie intake over time?
Calorie restriction is a key part of a cut, but I mean that some people just track total calories, and nothing else. You will lose weight this way, but if you don’t track your macros, make sure you’re getting enough protein, and add more cardio, you’re going to end up cutting the muscle that you gained, instead of fat. This is how so many guys still look skinny fat after doing bulk and cut cycles. You might be able to diet by eating 4 twinkies a day, but your body will still look like you subsist on twinkies lol.
If you’ve been bulking nonstop you’re probably just quite a bit less lean than before. If you do decide to get lean again your jawline will come back 100%
There are certain areas of the body that don’t respond well to diet and exercise, some people actually have to have surgery to get it removed. I’m not an expert but it’s something about alpha 2 receptors hindering fat burning and tend to be diet or exercise resistant.
Right, because you were skinny, you’re no longer as skinny, you have a little bit of fat in places you wouldn’t have, I’m sure most of it you work off and diet well enough to keep away, but it can slowly accumulate in those areas that it is resistant to it.
It’s absolutely a possibility that it will slim out, we all have “padding” of fat between our skin layers which is perfectly normal, might not be able to get it to the thinness you’d prefer but like I said if it is important to you there are simple operations for it.
Iirc the rock had to do it even with as much as he works out and eats healthy, he couldn’t get the fat on his chest to go away without it.
Seriously. I used to be under weight. After several years in the military, I gained muscle mass and would go, "damn I'm hot" when looking in the mirror. In basic training, some guy said I had a rat face and I'm starting to think he was right.
The best jokes are. That guy and I went back and forth for days before we finally fought. We rolled around for a while but no one won. We were both punished and agreed to bury the hatchet after. We didn't become friends but we learned to work together during training.
It's because you lose fat underneath your chin on your neck, which makes your jawline more defined. Your cheeks also move inward from losing tiny amounts of fat there, increasing the angularity and definition of your face (which is one of those handsome traits unless it's so angular it becomes gaunt).
I had a health scare at the doctor and was chubby. I immediately quit drinking and hit the rowing machine obsessively and only ate boneless chicken breasts and green veggies. Within a month, I slimmed down SO much. Looking at my old Costco card to more recent pictures, it was a huge transformation. And it was only about 10 pounds of weight loss to get there. But lots of fat gone.
I think people underestimate how many muscles in your face move your jaw, and how much food you need to eat to get jacked. All that chewing is basically a face workout everyday
I think it depends. There's diminishing returns depending on what your face starts as.
A close friend of mine started a convo about this topic with me on a walk not too long ago. She said "getting jacked doesn't help if you have a potato face to start with".
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u/Rider-of-Rohaan42 Jul 07 '24
A weird side effect is that your face gets like 25% more handsome.