Would you rather be built like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Bruce Lee?

[Blond Beast]

I've done both. I'm naturally lean but at one point wanted to see how muscular I could get. I got 60lbs above my natural weight. About the same weight and height as Arnold in his bodybuilding days. I felt like shyt. Blood pressure was high. Everything in life became awkward. I was constantly eating. On the juice. I had satisfied my curiosity and decided to taper back down. Now, I just focus on being healthy, staying lean with good muscularity in the chest, shoulders, and back.

Right. Wilder shows that legs dont matter.

[abracada]

From the perspective of aesthetics, form and function which would you choose?

Bruce Lee pic is photoshopped.

He was no where as near that size.

I pick neither.

[MartialMind]

Bruce Lee pic is photoshopped.

He was no where as near that size.

I pick neither.

Bruce at his biggest had some mass on him

[ShoulderRoll]

Aesthetics? Arnold, hands down. While both have low body fat %s, Arnold looks like he hit the weight room while Lee looks like he just did calisthenics. Not saying Arnold is superior and Lee is inferior, but Arnold's is the body I want.

Supplement answer: I would rather have the ambition of Arnold than Lee. To be a world class body builder as a teenager, to come to the US not knowing a lick of English, get into movies without knowing any English, to be a movie star, marry into American royalty, become a governor of a major state, to have that kind of motivation and drive is admirable. I bet Arnold's name has inspired more people and be more legendary than Lee's. Lee wanted to be a movie star and became that. Arnold wanted to be a movie star, did it, and aimed even higher than that.

Arnold looks like he hit the steroids which he obviously did. Not a healthy aesthetic at all to my eyes.

Bruce Lee unfortunately died very young. We don't know what his ambitions would have pushed him to accomplish had he lived as long as Arnold.

[MartialMind]

Arnold looks like he hit the steroids which he obviously did. Not a healthy aesthetic at all to my eyes.

Bruce Lee unfortunately died very young. We don't know what his ambitions would have pushed him to accomplish had he lived as long as Arnold.

I think he would have jump-started the action movie star craze about a decade before Arnold and Stallone did.

Arnold's superstar breakout really only happened at 37 years old with The Terminator.

Lee died at 32 and had arguably achieved more than Arnold up to that same age.

[tonysoprano]

Bruce at his biggest had some mass on him

No, he's weighing around 135 lbs in those pics. He was extremely lean, and had a very wide back (for his size) which made him look bigger in photos.

[MartialMind]

No, he's weighing around 135 lbs in those pics. He was extremely lean, and had a very wide back (for his size) which made him look bigger in photos.

In those pics he was more like 141 lbs which is what he is noted to weigh right before his death.

Either way you are right he had very little body fat but his lean muscle mass combined with fast twitch fibers, was certainly well above average for a typical 5'7" man. He'd have looked somewhat bigger with an extra 15 lbs of bodyfat but the function of that would be negligible.

[tonysoprano]

In those pics he was more like 141 lbs which is what he is noted to weigh right before his death.

Either way you are right he had very little body fat but his lean muscle mass combined with fast twitch fibers, was certainly well above average for a typical 5'7" man. He'd have looked somewhat bigger with an extra 15 lbs of bodyfat but the function of that would be negligible.

I don't think he was 141 around Enter the Dragon which was right before his death. His wife is on record saying how much weight he had lost during that movie as he was working so hard. I'd say he was around 130 right before death.
141 may have been his healthy weight but as we know he was far from healthy at the end of his life.

[VegasMichael]

Bruce was near 130 when he died. He had experimented with weights and his body weight got up to 160 or so but he felt he wasn't as fast or agile at that body weight so he backed off on the weights. Also, he seriously injured his lower back while weight training and that might have scared him away from the weights as well. Would have been interesting to see how his career would have progressed had he not passed so soon. He was such an icon.