Do you collect "goal pics"?

[Pseudonym]

I recently rediscovered a stash of photos I'd started collecting when I first began bodybuilding. They were images from various forums of people that had my goal physique. I'd tried to keep it aspirational, but achievable, so they're of people with a similar frame to mine, but much more developed muscle.

Then I forgot about them.

Going back over them years later, it's really interesting to compare them to where I'm at now. And what my goal is now - because it's changed.

I'm thinking about starting a topic where we can compare your current physique to your early goal photos. How many of you have early goal photos?

[FellowshipOfTheRon]

that's interesting that you tried to keep it realistic i wonder how many others done that? personally i kept it so very unrealistic (and still do) but never the less gives me the motivation i need. the only one i collected was the famous 'king ronnie' one which most probably already know, i believe from his final Mr. O win (2005)

[karm015]

bruce lee was mine growing up

now i aspire towards becoming a rodent capable of perpetual bicep curls

[AZIDE]

actually srs. he has good body...enough muscle, lean and good proportion. looks better in other pics

[Optimass]

Rory Leidermeyer when I first started out and knew nothing of genetics and hormones :pfft: .... Failed miserably :cry: :grin:

[dogg196]

dunno about goal but ideal shawn ray 97-99

[Dinahlady]

I've only been interested for a few years but when I first started getting interested it was in the look of a lot of the bikini girls and like Jaime Baird or Leigh brandt or Alex zerega and that "tight and tiny" look and I mainly liked the model shots rather than on stage pics. I was also more concerned with how flat my stomach/ love handles were and didn't really care about the shape or muscle in my other body parts.

But I quickly realised that I already had more muscle than those girls and that a lot of it is about body type as well as the fact that I liked weight training heavy and lower reps way more than i liked cardio or circuit training and moved away from following bikini competitors as that was all they seemed to post about.

I then started understanding the pictures of girls i thought were more "muscular" like some of the figure girls or the frahn sisters etc. I then started focusing on muscle mass and on certain body parts like delts or glutes that i wanted to improve.

Now I'd love to have heaps of muscle almost like some of the physique competitors (but don't wanna be not natty). But most of all I don't really want to train for aesthetics but for strength and health/flexibility and really look up to people like camille le-blanc bazinet (or whatever it is ) the canadian crossfitter as she has heaps of strength and flexibility and can do oly style lifts (not so much the actual cross fit though - its more the ease of like she trains for improving her strenght/speed/time and its not just about how she looks - not saying that all bodybuilders just train for looks but with someone who is actually an "athlete" it definitely appears to be less of a focus) or even the fitness competitors like okshana grishina (however you spell it)

I guess your right in that you can aspire to look in competition like the person who has roughly similar body type etc, as a competitor in figure for me would be erin stern - not because she's number 1 but because she's a fellow jew and has roughly similar muscle insertions and roughly my height.

I also have like a guilty want to look like eva andressa who clearly is very gifted in the glute department as well as obviously having had some work done up top - i can dream though!

Too lazy to upload pics sorry.

[Gym rat]

I have a pic of Aron Noble on my phone which I got off Muscle imaging and I hope to look like Aron Noble when I hit the stage at the Pan Pacific champs

[Pseudonym]

now i aspire towards becoming a rodent capable of perpetual bicep curls

Well, of course - who wouldn't?!

Azide, if you were serious about the photo you posted being a goal, don't delete it. Plenty of people would agree that's an excellent goal - myself included.

Oh well, maybe I'm in the minority in choosing "achievable" goals. I can accept that!

The interesting thing about it for me is that it gives me a milestone indicator of my progress. The point I'm at now is not that far from some of my old goal pics, so it's quite a cool thought that when I first started, I would have looked at my current physique as my then-ideal physique. Of course, now I have new goals and the bar has been raised... :grin:

Anyway, here's a few of the goal pics I'd collected back then.

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[karm015]

Oh well, maybe I'm in the minority in choosing "achievable" goals. I can accept that!

you telling me i can't be a rodent capable of perpetual bicep curls?

that last pic is awesome, potentially a new goal physique for me, too

[AZIDE]

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[I Declare War]

goal = to look like a monster hob goblin

[Shutupandsquat]

[Android]

[jimmybro1]

goal = to look like a monster hob goblin

Is this photo shopped?

I'm sure Branch doesn't look this good...

[jimmybro1]

Jeff Alberts

Frank McGrath

And of course Frank Zane

[BeastBuilder]

Bearmode Engaged..

When will it be my turn..

[I Declare War]

goal = to look like a monster hob goblin

Is this photo shopped?

I'm sure Branch doesn't look this good...

I think it's from around the 2012 Arnold Classic

No idea if it's shopped... might just be a good shot of him. It's obviously not from the posing in that video as there's no number on his trunks in the pic.