This guy is the only example I've found that works...
How much of a fatass can you be until your weight starts to significantly impair your combat abilities?
It's possible to be a fatass and still be tactical and cool?
This guy is the only example I've found that works...
How much of a fatass can you be until your weight starts to significantly impair your combat abilities?
jesus christ just go to the gym
I've already lost a lot of weight and now I'm at my healthiest weight in over 10 years.
I'm asking this because one year ago I bought a PASGT helmet and the chin strap kept pressing my double chin.
It was so embarrassing that I've promised myself I wouldn't wear any tactical equipment until I was slim enough.
There's nothing more sad than a fat person using tactical gear.
No, do your cardio and strength exercises. The military is cardio intensive, so that fat will definitely impair you.
>b-but cardio will kill gains
Shut the fuck up.
yes, but only for manual labor strongfats who deadlift 6plate
couch potatos will never be tacticool
Yes
Have Israelis gotten darker or some shit? I remember seeing pictures of IDF guys as a kid and they all looked like Slavs with some stereotypical nerdy israelite guys. Every video and picture I see now is full of guy that look straight out of southern india, like darker than Arabs or Hispanics even.
Arabs make up 20% of the population and a not insignificant percentage of the IDF, anon
Is the era of young, healthy soldiers over? I know conscription and all but even compared to WW2 israelites, Vatniks and Ukrnigs seem to have a massive percentage of fat and old troops.
>young healthy
Soldiers in every era look unhealthy as fuck. Pre 1980s troops were often borderline anorexic.
These guys in your pic are healthy.
They aren't fat and they have a healthy and practical amount of muscle.
They're also not dependent on psychiatric medication as Valium, Ritalin or Zyprexa.
>healthy and practical amount of muscle
My dude, they are skinnyfats. Meaning they have some form of muscle loss.
Lol "practical amount of muscle" my ass, none of those guys in that pic could bench more than 135lbs or squat more than 200. "Functional muscle" is a meme, there is no downside to naturally gained muscle mass unless you're talking about distance running 15+ miles as fast as humans possible without carrying anything
These guys didn’t need to be benching bodyweight or squatting 2x BW atg. They’re built for going long distances on foot in the jungle while carrying a ruck and a carbine, not kicking doors down in one hit. For the standards of their time, they’re completely adequate. Endurance is valued over raw strength in the armed forces. All your special forces selections test your physical endurance not your 1rm bench. SEALs, Delta, they’re assessing you on hundreds of miles of marching. Not your deadlift max. That’s what the deciding factor is. Doesn’t matter if you’re not benching 1pl8 if you’re dead weight after 2 days of advanced pace cross country rucking.
Those dudes look healthy af man
Not necessarily, all of them look like they are suffering from atrophy. Which makes sense since they are special forces and are probably burning more muscle than fats.
The Ukrainian military is effectively at total war. Any able bodied man is capable of serving. Meanwhile, the US only drops recruitment requirements because they're unwilling to actually pay troops a competitive wage. Why join the military when you can play sport, do Instagram, or even work in tech for way more?
Subhuman vs human mentality. The idea that the sick and old should be able to rest and do what work than realistically can do is pretty much relegated to Western Europe and the US (somewhat). Same reason the west has Social welfare where as anywhere else you just die on the street. Say what you want about retarded liberals but it’s better than Arab, Slavic and (most) Asian nations that are ran by people who are identical in mentality to your avg 90iq autistic /misc/cel. Also no Israel, Ukraine are shitholes also just like Russia one just gets flooded by American money and the other one is being forced to act more Western so they can get military assistance.
My favorite scene in the whole movie is during the final battle, he is missing for about the first 80%, and then as they’re retreating he pops out from behind a broken wall holding a bazooka and has a look of mild confusion on his face, as if he had been unaware until that moment that there was a giant battle going on. I like to imagine that his character was holed up in the bathroom taking a massive shit and due to the magnitude of this dump he was genuinely unaware that there was a gun battle going on involving his entire squad and 100 German soldiers.
He’s literally me.
You took a dump during a firefight and lost consciousness?
No. If you're not fit you're gonna die.
Sorry anon, in order to look cool as a fatty you gotta lean hard into the sleaze look.
If you were cool you'd lose weight