Flabby soft muscles?

[Pugilistic]

I assume this has been asked before but I haven’t found satisfactory answers. Despite training boxing for more than 6 years and lifting for several years as well, I seem to perpetually have “soft” muscles. Even when I cut weight for fights and look pretty shredded, if one feels my arms or abs, they feel pretty soft. There’s also quite the disparity between when I contract my muscles and don’t, both in terms of “hardness” and definition.

One of the answers I’ve gotten from the internet and youtube is that lifting high weight and low reps would be lead to more muscle hardness. But I almost never lift for reps and I usually don’t go above 5 reps per set for most of my lifts, yet there hasn’t much change in my muscle “density” over the years.

In contrast, there are guys I know who can’t lift as much as me, but feel solid. So my softness doesn’t seem to have a correlation to my actual strength or athletic performance from what I could gather. Or does it?

I guess my question is: does it matter? Is hardness a reflection on potential athletic performance/strength, or is it simply aesthetic? Is it something that could be changed or mostly genetic?

 

[LatFlare]

hardness is definitely an indicator of potential performance.

 

[Demogoblin]

hardness is definitely an indicator of potential performance.

wow i never seen you actually make a serious post

 

[DrBdan]

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I guess my question is: does it matter?...

No.

 

[NurseKnuckles]

My wife would say hardness is a definite sign of potential performance.

 

[JimRussel]

Probably have bad genetics, OP. You should quit.

 

[KILL KILL]

Is he asking why his muscles are hard when they contract and why they aren't when they're not?

 

[LatFlare]

wow i never seen you actually make a serious post

Probably bc you only look at threads about muscle flab

 

[Pugilistic]

Is he asking why his muscles are hard when they contract and why they aren't when they're not?

Haha no. I guess softness of my muscles when I’m not contracting them has been weird to me. Relative to other people who seem to have more hardness. But if it doesn’t matter, then it doesn’t matter.

 

[KILL KILL]

Haha no. I guess softness of my muscles when I’m not contracting them has been weird to me. Relative to other people who seem to have more hardness. But if it doesn’t matter, then it doesn’t matter.

Your muscle will remain relatively soft unless contracted. Even more so the higher your bodyfat percentage. It's not something you should worry about.

 

[Pugilistic]

I meant mine seemed to be even softer than other people’s and seemed so even when I cut and had lower body fat percentages. I’ll see if they are as soft as I remember when I cut again. If possible, I wanted to change it if it had repercussions for athletic performance. It is also a bit embarrassing when a girl feels my body in the dark and she goes, “I thought you worked out?”

 

[Marfa]

As I understand the brother wants some sarcoplasmic (?) hypertrophy, so he always looks swole.

 

[ripskater]

It's more about the kinetic chain in athletics. It's not the bodybuilder look that makes you athletic.

 

[j123]

As I understand the brother wants some sarcoplasmic (?) hypertrophy, so he always looks swole.

 

[EddieLovesYou]

Need pics. Lots of pics.

 

[JauntyAngle]

As I understand the brother wants some sarcoplasmic (?) hypertrophy, so he always looks swole.

There is also such a thing as "passive muscular activation". TS ain't got none, apparently.

 

[daken7]

Probably have bad genetics, OP. You should quit.

Deadpool 's hilarious laugh:

 

[Queen B]

Did you know fat powerlifters have flabbier muscles than bodybuilders who cut down to 6% bodyfat?

 

[Pugilistic]

There is also such a thing as "passive muscular activation". TS ain't got none, apparently.

Shit. Anyway to train this?

 

[Chungungo]

I meant mine seemed to be even softer than other people’s and seemed so even when I cut and had lower body fat percentages. I’ll see if they are as soft as I remember when I cut again. If possible, I wanted to change it if it had repercussions for athletic performance. It is also a bit embarrassing when a girl feels my body in the dark and she goes, “I thought you worked out?”

Take the flabinees flag with pride and tell those damn girl that the only hard part they should care is between your legs !
Seriously I am a little bit the same except in my fat gluteus and quadriceps when I contract them but I´m also very flexible so nobody expects the fat softy guy kicks high and hard .
Sadly we flabby guys are not as fast as some of those cut hard stiff guys-.