Is Nate Diaz skinny or muscular?

[FutureBwChamp]

I think some of these guys are bigger than you think and some are smaller than you think. Diaz looks like a muscular guy, not Usman muscular be he isn't no twig.

 

[CBohl]

WTF is this thread?

 

[hohner]

So do you think he is more or less skinny than you think he is?

 

[Jose Beehive]

I thought Nate was the reason for the coined term Skinny-Fat.

 

[BluntForceTrama]

Ban illiteracy

 

[Arm Barbarian]

Skuscular?

 

[Mangar]

 

[Willy Knuckles]

 

[Fatback96]

Is that good or bad?

 

[sakaimma]

He looks scrawny but he isn’t at the same time.

 

[Druken_Vovchanchyn]

Lmao I love how he posts a pic of Nate at 170 later in his career.

the term your looking for is lean. When he’s in shape he’s lean.

 

[CallMeCasual]

skinny fat

 

[Portland8242]

He looks scrawny but he isn’t at the same time.

He's all bones and tendons. Doesn't have a lot of muscle but not exactly a small guy either.

 

[bad mojo]

The guy is built exactly like you would expect an endurance athlete to be built. I'm sure Nate is a strong guy relative to his weight, but his strengths lie elsewhere.

 

[Paynebringer]

He's just above averagely fit in build...

 

[No Skill Gap]

Nate is what you would call an "ectomorph" build. The term ecto-meso-endo -morphs is a bit unscientific but has some application.

Much like a basketball player. You don't really see many brick-fucking house dudes on the court. Sure there's some guys who play PF/C that might be thicker and even some guards like Felton/Barrea, etc. But the majority of basketball players are built like WRs/CBs in the NFL,

and Nate Diaz is basically an unathletic (by comparison to NBA/NFL) version of that. He's like a Lonzo Ball type build. Nate probably does not lift weights at all, just boxes and does BJJ / MMA training. So here is the long response to a really dumb question.

 

[LZD]

Nate is what you would call an "ectomorph" build. The term ecto-meso-endo -morphs is a bit unscientific but has some application.

Much like a basketball player. You don't really see many brick-fucking house dudes on the court. Sure there's some guys who play PF/C that might be thicker and even some guards like Felton/Barrea, etc. But the majority of basketball players are built like WRs/CBs in the NFL,

and Nate Diaz is basically an unathletic (by comparison to NBA/NFL) version of that. He's like a Lonzo Ball type build. Nate probably does not lift weights at all, just boxes and does BJJ / MMA training. So here is the long response to a really dumb question.

There's a lot of vision of him lifting.....

 

[Local Plata]

Both Diaz bros are taller than average and pretty muscular. They just aren't super athletic in the traditional sense of like agility and quickness.

 

[LZD]

In my experience, most of these guys look a LOT bigger in real life than on TV (goes for other athletes too btw).

I've seen some featherweights who look like mini tanks IRL.

 

[No Skill Gap]

There's a lot of vision of him lifting.....

Okay, link the video please.

And before you even do, I'm not going to count women's pilates level circuit training with 20lb dumbbells and some up/downs sprawls then battle ropes as "lifting".

By lifting I mean heavy deadlifts, squats, pressing, weighted pull-ups/chin-ups, dips and sure some heavy isolation work. Every NFL player does this. Some MMA fighters do this seriously, GSP was into PL and then Oly lifting. Jones obviously did powerlifting. And I'm not necessarily arguing the benefits of doing it, for HW I think it's undeniable personally, but I am simply saying Diaz doesn't do it and it shows aesthetically.

I could be wrong so I'll wait for the footage.