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?
Stout.
Fit and padded. I think if you call it a powerlifter build that’s a good description in itself.
“built like a brick shit house”
“Off-season body builder”
“strongman”
My friends and I like to say “built like a shit brick house”
Unit
Chonky. Not chunky, chonky.
Bulk day, every day.
Stocky is what I’d use
bara
bear
Bear only implies that they are large and hairy. Not necessarily muscular.
The correct term is
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
Beefcake
Bulky
The english word for it is power-lifter
“stout” is the first that comes to mind and isn’t immediately discarded. But because those other forms are so easy to call to mind I’d rather describe the power-lifter as they differ from those norms.
“He was no body-builder. Powerful, yes, but he had traded aesthetics for even more strength. Muscles built upon muscles like layers of a brick house, and nearly as solid.”
