Some folks must not get out much. Amateur athletes are participating in very demanding sports in huge numbers. My son is a multiple time Ironman has a family and successful dental practice. He is 6' and 180 lbs w/ 7% body fat. No steroids involved.
Go to a Tough Mudder event and watch "normal folks" perform very difficult tasks for hours. Most elite Ultra endurance events are requiring a resume of achievements to qualify to enter a lottery to participate. Strength and fitness are part of the lives of many people from all walks of life. It is odd that anyone would consider that actor's physique to be exceptional.
#bodybuildlersaren'tathletes
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Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that. Craig Douglas ECQC
Have you read the Reacher books? He is 6ft 4in and 235 lbs The show is modeled from the series
In the book do they explain how he's a drifter with a physique like a finalist in a 1970s Mr. Universe contest?
In several books he is described as a genetic freak, born as a large baby. As he grew, he was much larger than kids his age. Unnaturally strong and muscled. A genetic freak. So yes, like a 1970s bodybuilder.
The show is about an Army MP officer who's the biggest badass on the planet, and can literally fight off multiple attackers in hand to hand combat 5 times a day, and the thing not realistic enough for you is the dude's build?
Have you read the Reacher books? He is 6ft 4in and 235 lbs The show is modeled from the series
In the book do they explain how he's a drifter with a physique like a finalist in a 1970s Mr. Universe contest?
The author that created Reacher said he was a mesomorph. Kind of naturally blessed with low fat body content. With low body fat, muscle is more defined. It's Hollywood anyway.
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I’ve lived out of my car before for some months while travelling around New Mexico and doing day labor, and I’ve done the long bicycle trip thing, so I’ve travelled light.
But IIRC travelling around like Reacher does in just his street clothes buying new ones when they get dirty strains credulity.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
Just watched the first two episodes. My issue is that he has the chiseled physique of someone who spends hours a day in a serious bodybuilder gym, is on a highly specialized diet, and is taking a concoction of anabolic steroids. He looks rather like a finalist in a 1970s Mr. Universe contest. That doesn't match up with his character being a drifter without a home base.
They need to do a better job of explaining that. Like in Walking Tall, they explained The Rock's physique by him being recently retired from professional wrestling.
Otherwise, the show is pretty good, but that is a glaring problem.
Lotta folks giving TRH the gears about this...?
Seems like a legit question to me. The actor guy IS pretty jacked, and since he's playing a drifter who refuses to stay in one place or meet anybody else's expectations, it seems odd that he looks like he lives in a gym and has a staff of nutritionists and personal trainers. But that's OK by me. The show is mildly entertaining, and the wife thinks he looks great with his shirt off, which gets her feeling frisky, so I got no real complaints.
"I'm gonna have to science the schit out of this." Mark Watney, Sol 59, Mars
I guess I'm more sheltered than I was aware of. Never seen any of it or heard of it before this here.
Just looking at the confuser, it would appear to me that the main character is like a conglomeration of John Rambo and Lone Wolf McQuade and Frank Martin, seasoned with a sprinkle of Jim Phelps.
Must be on cable or satellite or something that I don't have My superhero reading has been limited to Ben Raines and John Rourke
Hawkeye; Good morning or likely it's afternoon for you already sir, I hope the last Friday before Christmas is treating you well.
Way back in dinosaur times, we'd occasionally head south to tropical paradises such as Minot, ND to pick up ag equipment. I believe we made it to Fargo once, but it might have been Minot too.
Speaking of Fargo, when my wife and I first saw that movie we just howled because we'd been around enough folks from North Dakota to recognize the accent. Nobody else in the BC theater seemed to think it was that funny, but we did...
I'm "fairly" sure I've not been to Grand Forks, which is where the actor who plays Jack Reacher is from. He seems to be able to hide any residual North Dakota accent reasonably well as far as I can hear.
The thing I recall most about those forays into North Dakota was being served potato chips as a side dish for breakfast. Perhaps that was just a local thing? Not sure, but on our side of the medicine line we didn't eat potato chips at breakfast for the most part.
As to your thoughts about him looking big, since I used to be a towering 5'6" on a tall day - when I was younger and before I started to shrink with age - well pretty much everyone looks big to me Hawkeye.
Anyways Hawkeye, mostly I just dropped by to wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Thanks for stirring some memories from long, long ago too.
It's just a damned TV show. Why all the vitriol over a minor criticism??
Because some people get on here to spew vitriol.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
