| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 10/15/2008 6:58:39 PM |
this is not athletic:
http://frillr.com/files/images/CAETANO_PADIAL2.preview.jpg
At his age, he could very easily be a soccer player, tennis player, runner, BMX'er.
There is nothing in that picture that indicates non-athleticism. | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 2/21/2009 8:26:06 PM | There seems to be a difference of opinion regarding the definition of 'athletic' between folks that try to sculpt their bodies for a defined look, and those who define it in terms of performance parameters, and don't give a rat's patootie about physique.
I'm kinda curious about that, as I'm contemplating whether to change my description to 'athletic.' I can run a 10K with no problem, can bike a century tomorrow, and can hike a 4-mile, 3400' vertical mountain trail in 90 minutes. But I still have 'average' in my profile. And it just doesn't quite fit. | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 2/22/2009 6:09:52 AM | Well if you look at all the options it goes in order...
Thin
Athletic
Average
A Few Extra Pounds
Big and Tall/BBW
my interpritation is if your not thin but your not really average and have some definition of muscles but not being skinny then your athletic. Also going to the gym most days would probably help with the choice too. | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 2/22/2009 6:51:06 AM | | I would normally define someone as athletic if they were in good enough shape to seriously compete at an amateur/professional level in any sport or fitness related activity. I guess as a selection on POF, it would be a little more lax, just having a physique that is toned/muscular. That's just my interpretation though. | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 2/22/2009 7:37:05 AM | | I agree with that definition....runs marathons, body builder, or gym rat and shows in body type...I have seen a few that run half marathons and still their body types are a "few extra pounds"...I assume it is from their poor diets.... | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 2/22/2009 11:12:32 AM | I can't believe this has run on for three pages.
Listen, the category is 'Body Type'. The choices are all adjectives to describe what someone's body looks like. Lifestyle is irrelevant - although for most people to acheive the althletic look they would have to exercise and watch their diet.
Put another way, if you walked in on someone robbing your house and they were muscular, what adjective would you use to describe that person to the police given the same choices available on POF? The police want a description so that they can narrow their search for the culprit fitting the description. They don't care if the perp lifts weight, runs marathons, plays tennis, whatever... they want a physical description.
Simply put, if your body shows muscles, you're athletic. If it doesn't, pick one of the other adjectives. | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 2/22/2009 4:52:42 PM | | Being athletic should be be defined as how one's self is, how active are they, what leasurely activities do they participate in and continuiosly do on a weekly basis. | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 2/22/2009 5:56:23 PM | "I can't believe this has run on for three pages."
and it will keep on going by people that continue to list it even though they arent | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 2/23/2009 6:57:59 AM |
Being athletic should be be defined as how one's self is, how active are they, what leasurely activities do they participate in and continuiosly do on a weekly basis.
Wrong, you're describing lifestyle. The category is 'Body Type', nothing else.
"Athletic" is an adjective used to describe one's body, not whether they're active or not.
Ask yourself this, why should "athletic" be used to describe lifestyle when "thin", "average", "a few extra pounds", and "bbw/m" is used strictly to define how one's body looks?
The purpose of "Body Type" is to paint a mental picture of one's physical appearance. Someone who is "active" and participates in "leisurely" activities on a weekly basis may be thin, or average, or carry a few extra pounds, or may be obese. Or, they may be muscular (athletic). | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 2/23/2009 10:36:41 AM | "Athletic" to me usually suggests someone with shoulders wider than their waist---definitely not a pear-shaped body and not rail-thin either, but certainly no rolls of fat. In men's clothing, "athletic cut" shirts or suits usually means less room around the waist.
If a woman lists herself as "athletic," I hope that means she's got nice strong shoulders, muscled arms, and solid well-defined legs. But in the back of my mind there's always a voice that says, "hmm, I wonder if she's just using "athletic" as a euphemism for "chunky?" (I'm sure that voice speaks to women as well.) In that case I keep my fingers crossed that she's firm-chunky as opposed to flabby-chunky...or as a friend of mine used to say, "the kind of girl you could throw around the room safely during sex." LOL
On the other hand, a lot of athletic women I knew in college (softball, field hockey and lacrosse players especially) tended to have a distinctive shape: sort of chunky square hips but normal legs and upper torso. A sort of sturdy, strong peasant-type body. Which I didn't particularly mind, since they usually had very energetic and vivacious personalities to go with it.
Have to agree with Jumbie that "athletic" in a PoF profile refers to body type rather than lifestyle. However, one's body type is usually a reflection of one's lifestyle. | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 2/23/2009 12:38:38 PM | Yeah, it's no mystery that under the Body Type category, that Athletic describes, uh, BODY TYPE. Not physical talent, not sports involvement, not physical activity, but purely the way you look.
Even with appearance alone, it can be defined differently, but I think a flat stomach is a constant across the board. | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 5/22/2009 3:51:10 PM | | The definition of "Athletic" can be very subjective, but one thing I am SURE of is that Athletic means NO BEER GUT. I'm amazed at how many guys with pooches call themselves "Athletic." I mean, if they are going to lie about something that blatantly obvious, heaven only knows what else are they are gonna lie about... Be warned ladies of Faux Athletic Guys!!! | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 5/22/2009 3:58:03 PM |
Wrong, you're describing lifestyle. The category is 'Body Type', nothing else.
So exactly how could a person achieve an athletic body without having such a lifestyle? | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 5/22/2009 6:25:56 PM |
They don't care if the perp lifts weight, runs marathons, plays tennis, whatever... they want a physical description.
Simply put, if your body shows muscles, you're athletic. If it doesn't, pick one of the other adjectives.
Amen!
I know too many recreational "athletes" whose muscles haven't seen daylight EVER. Sort of an athletic lifestyle, but not even close to an athletic body.
Also, "athletic" differs from perception of "muscular". Unfortunately, muscular gets attached to the bodybuilder profile. Athletic is a good word - just too many users (men AND women) list it when their bodies aren't athletic. | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 5/23/2009 10:27:07 AM | Athletic is in the body type section so I don't define it by how often a person exercises. I define it as relatively low body fat% with relatively high muscle mass relative to "ideal" average and gender. Compare that to Thin which would be relatively low body fat% with proportional amount of muscle mass ex. Alicia Keys
This is complicated by people with exceptionally low muscle mass and thus have high body fat percentages without being considered fat. I think these people are refered to as "skinny fat" | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 5/23/2009 12:48:15 PM | This is a really good question.
I would define someone that is Athletic as being able to bench press at least 1.5 times their weight (so someone 150 lb. could bench press 225 lbs.), run a 17 in under 1 minute, 12 % or less body fat, and very flexible or good with stretching. | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 5/23/2009 1:53:36 PM | | ^1.5 times BW on the bench as a minimum is quite extravegant. I think half that should be the minimum, good would be 100%, 1.5 times would be impressive/great better than that would be amazing/elite | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 5/23/2009 6:01:23 PM | | Its hard to say. Its really up to the person reading the profile to decide if they think the person is athletic or not. Do they prefer running backs or track stars. Both are athletes, but will have very different builds even though both would have an athletic build. I could put athletic for mine, but I don't have the sterotype football player athletic build. I've got a cyclist build, which is thin and athletic, so to avoid anyone saying that I was being misleading I just put thin. | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 5/23/2009 7:00:22 PM | | When you know what your max heart and vo2 max is i would assume that you are an athlete. Having said that there are people out there that pack on an extra 20 pounds and are still athletic and can jog for miles. I suppose in terms of what we think is the definition of the word athletic we tend to think of greek statues that show defined muscles and a severe lack of body fat. I ride my bike at least 4 times a week and put on somewhere around 250 miles a week so i tend to think of myself as looking athletic as my muscles are very defined, not big but defined, and i could use some more body fat. But the trouble with body fat and bike riding is that you will need to carry that up hills. So many people are obsessed with the latest trends in bike technology when they don't realize that the greatest weight saving they could make is to lose their own bodyweight as opposed to getting the latest titanium crank bolts. Sorry...got a bit off topic there :) | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 5/23/2009 8:12:44 PM |
So, being a dating forum....and that most individuals want to know what a potential date looks like...
be fair...look in the mirror....do you LOOK athletic
My issue is that clothed, I look slim. In just shorts I look athletic. Not to toot my own horn, but I've over heard female friends telling other girls when going to a pool party or the beach to just wait until he takes his shirt off. | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 5/23/2009 8:28:47 PM |
When you know what your max heart and vo2 max is i would assume that you are an athlete. Having said that there are people out there that pack on an extra 20 pounds and are still athletic and can jog for miles. I suppose in terms of what we think is the definition of the word athletic we tend to think of greek statues that show defined muscles and a severe lack of body fat. I ride my bike at least 4 times a week and put on somewhere around 250 miles a week so i tend to think of myself as looking athletic as my muscles are very defined, not big but defined, and i could use some more body fat. But the trouble with body fat and bike riding is that you will need to carry that up hills. So many people are obsessed with the latest trends in bike technology when they don't realize that the greatest weight saving they could make is to lose their own bodyweight as opposed to getting the latest titanium crank bolts. Sorry...got a bit off topic there :)
I hear ya. I got comments all the time on my glutes when I was putting the miles on every week. I'm hoping to get back into it, but its rained almost every day for a week now, and isn't supposed to stop until atleast Thursday. Nice name btw. I'm sure you get a few emails asking about it. I used to be able to go with whatever wheel set I wanted, but now that I'm hitting the gym hard, I'm probably going to have to get away from the radial lacing, because I'm heavier and also a hard rider. | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 5/24/2009 9:42:53 AM | | what about someone who is considered a "natural athlete", are they just athletic by default? | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 5/24/2009 7:24:43 PM |
When you know what your max heart and vo2 max is i would assume that you are an athlete.
LOL, I've always measured you as the subject of someone's experiment when you know those numbers...
I think someone is an athlete when he no longer has to care about those numbers, but just gets the job done and looks out from the top of the podium  | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 5/25/2009 4:10:01 PM | I have seen enough profiles on this site to come to a firm and unarguable definition of "athletic'. It is as follows:
Athletic: adj.; A quality possessed by anyone with a profile on POF, regardless of actually physical condition, weight, activity level or ownership of a mirror. | |
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| How do you define Athletic?
Posted: 5/25/2009 5:54:57 PM | ...I think someone is an athlete when he no longer has to care about those numbers, but just gets the job done and looks out from the top of the podium...
I bet there is not an athlete that competes on a world stage that does not spend some time focusing on those numbers.
...How do you define Athletic?...
It is meant to describe the way you look not the way you live.
Yes there are people that are Athletic that do not look it and there are also people that look Athletic that are not.
They are exceptions to the rule.
So for those people I would suggest they use that text box below the photos to clear the air.
Edit: People perceptions of their own bodies may differ from what others may think. Same way that when you hear your voice recorded it never sounds like your own voice. People see them selves in mirrors differently that others view them. The amount varies from person to person. | |
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