• CanadaPlus@futurology.today
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    1 month ago

    He’s mid-flex while running hard. Runners are slimly built (although sprinters less so), but what is there is pure muscle.

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      1 month ago

      What you are describing is being ripped, not jacked. He is indeed very ripped irl, but not jacked

      Being ripped: Having low amounts of bodyfat so your muscles have visible striations and vasularity

      Being jacked: Having lots of muscle mass, regardless of definition.

      Having so much upper body mass would be a disadvantage for a sprinter

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        1 month ago

        TIL they aren’t just synonyms, as slang.

        A quick image search turns up kind of the same thing in every running shot - at the very least his shoulders are huge - and you can see it a bit as he does his signature pose, as well. It makes sense to me - he, and sprinters in general use their arms quite a bit. Running has to be a whole-body process to be efficient; a cyclist couldn’t do it the same way.

        He does look pretty thin around the midsection in everything, though. And yeah, this image might be AI, or just photoshop.