Basically any word or short phrase I can think of to mean “a lot of muscle” also implies skinny or almost no fat. Fit, or lithe bring to mind more a track athlete’s body, and buff, ripped, jacked, muscular, ect. generally are though of more like a body builder. The closest thing I can think of is dad-bod but thats obviously still pretty far off as well as being male-specific. Is there even an English word for this?
Bulk day, every day.
Fit and padded. I think if you call it a powerlifter build that’s a good description in itself.
Unit
“built like a brick shit house”
“Off-season body builder”
“strongman”
My friends and I like to say “built like a shit brick house”
The correct term is
Stocky is what I’d use
Beefcake
Stocky, stout, barrel-chested? I’d say “buff” would fit, too, it definitely allows more leeway for bodyfat content than words like “athletic” or “ripped”. Also just the good old “very strong”.
“Dad-bod” seems like the worst of these, it can mean anything from “off-season bodybuilder” to “some guy who is kind of fat and isn’t particularly strong”.
Beefy
The english word for it is power-lifter
Chonky. Not chunky, chonky.
bara
bear
Bear only implies that they are large and hairy. Not necessarily muscular.
“Yoked to the max”
(Or just “yoked”)
There’s a lot of words for it. Bulked is the one that floated through the gyms in my area. Even body builders do bulk cycles, which is essentially all that power lifters do. So the term is about having increased muscle mass, with no other factors involved.
I’ve seen beefy used plenty, as well as built. Both get used as a generic term for having big muscles, with the exact usage being variable between a more ripped look and the more massive look. But I see beefy used more for the body type you’re asking about than for body builder types where cutting fat for competition or personal preference changes the appearance of the body. Built rarely has a specific connotation in my area when referring to men.
Terms shift though. Buff, jacked and muscular can fit depending on where you are and when you are. For example, muscular was a pretty common description of a generally athletic build that was less focused on size but still had size, like how boxers and wrestlers (as in not “pro”) get as they go up in weight class.
Bulky
