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Vin Diesel's giant guns on the cover of Mens Fitness: hot or hilarious?
Vin Diesel’s giant guns on the cover of Men’s Fitness: hot or hilarious?
First of all, I’d like to apologize that we didn’t have a Hot Guy Friday this week. Both Kaiser and I are burnt out doing it every week, and while it is a nice stress reliever on one side, on the other it takes hours to do that post. You’d be surprised how much effort it is, and Kaiser does the bulk of it and doesn’t complain. This was basically my idea after the Royal Wedding last Friday and the insanity that was the Met Gala earlier this week. We’re bringing it back next Friday and HGF will be on an every-other-Friday schedule from then on, just to give ourselves a break. Plus we were running out of guys to do every week. Anyway check out the archives for HGF, they go back a few months and they should help you get this image of Vin Diesel’s robot arms out of your head. In no way am I suggesting this guy as a substitute for HGF, unless you’re into that, and in that case bless you.
So here’s Vin Diesel in all his bald-headed roided glory on the cover of Men’s Fitness. I’ll admit this made me bust out laughing. It’s the look on his face, which is supposed to be serious and kick-ass but just falls flat. Unlike Vin’s costar The Rock, he doesn’t make a bald head sexy and his muscles make him look more like some kind of centaur. Like don’t you expect to scroll down and see that no-neck torso attached to a non-human body?
Inside, Diesel talk about how he used to work as a bouncer in New York and how he first got super fit because “you have to decide at a young age whether you’re going to be predator or prey.†Unlike past Men’s Fitness cover boys, he doesn’t have a specific program he touts but just says he loves to mountain bike and that he switches up his routine to fit whatever character he’s playing. Here are some quotes from his interview:
On being predator or prey
“When you grow up in New York City, you have to decide at a young age whether you’re going to be predator or prey,†he says. “Especially growing up at that time in the city, especially being a little homeboy, especially when you were trying to f*#@ every girl int he city.â€
On being a bouncer in his late teens and twenties
“I learned so much in bouncing that I bring to these characters. You have to be able to read people. Speak with a New York City cop, and they talk about having to read people. Bouncing is like that but without the badge and the law. You’re a gunslinger for hire, basically. And you learn a lot in that field of work.â€
On being in fights as a bouncer
“I must have been in more than 500 fights. I fought every night, and I bounced for nine or 10 years. And these weren’t pretty fights.â€
How he trains for each character
These days, when it comes to staying in fighting shape, Diesel’s workout schedule is strictly dictated by his next role. Practicing a physical type of method acting, Diesel always commits to realistically re-creating the body and attributes his character would possess. If that means staying away form the iron and packing on a few pounds for a project, such as the 2006 movie Find Me Guilty (in which Vin plays an out-of-shape gangster who defends himself at trial), so be it. “I don’t do a service to myself if I succumb to serious powerlifting,†he says. “I have to be somewhat mindful of being typecast. I want to be the character and not just look built.†[For that movie] “It was ‘eat lots of ic cream and get as fat as you can.’ After being so fir from a young age, it was bizarre - and liberating.â€
“When I do a role like Riddick, I don’t want to look boxy. I want to be pantherlike, I want to be agile. I have to do yoga or Pilates because I’m trying to get a completely different movement with my body.â€
On his future as an actor
“I don’t really give a sh*t about my everyday stock. It’s not going to improve my self esteem. I just want to knock each role out of the park.â€
[From Men's Fitness, print edition, June/July 2011]
Well I find him surprisingly likable in that interview. He seems like a smart, together guy and I like his “whatever†attitude toward his career. The dude stays off the gossip radar too, you can say that for him. We’ve heard that he didn’t want to do press for his films and that he made out with Paris Hilton at some point eons ago, but that’s it. I think I remember reading that he had a baby too at some point in 2008, but that was all so vague and we didn’t hear much about it. He keeps his stuff under wraps, but not his big old arms. Those things are like two big slabs of meat hanging out. But I have to admit he’s growing on me a little.
photos courtesy of Men’s Fitness, where there are more. Photos below from PRPhotos
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43 Responses to “Vin Diesel’s giant guns on the cover of Men’s Fitness: hot or hilarious?â€
Way too much! Why do men think this is attractive?!!
GROSS. This guy is such a BUTTERFACE.
Third option: constipated?
That looks like a man in need of a fiber caplet.
I saw a video of him recently. He was (it looked like) in his teens - breakdancing! It was hilarious. I can’t look at him the same anymore.
The Rock is the man. The End.
Really not all that big. My dad was a powerlifter with 28″ biceps, now THAT was big.
Vin, VERY likable & proportioned!! *le sigh*
@KJ LOL!!!
Yeah, I love him *hangs head in shame* DON’T JUDGE ME, BITCHES!! I’d do him eight ways to Sunday, and then some!!!!!!!!! F*ck me! I dare you!
His mouth in that last picture!! Maybe the odd shape of his smile accounts for using the serious/constipation face so much instead. Oh, lord. I’ve never understood his appeal, and I never will.
he looks like a scrotum to me.
off topic: did i miss HGF?!
I like Vin’s attitude, hate his acting. The Rock on the other hand…love, luv, luvvvvvvvvvvv.
He does have a little girl name Hania Riley and she 3 .
http://www.blackcelebkids.com/2011/05/05/spotted-vin-diesel-and-daughter/
@original kate - they aren’t doing it this week 
Which brings me to my current post - a big BOOOOOOOOO on the HGF for every other Friday! I can understand this week and last week but c’mon! This girl needs her fix! And I give you the perfect headliner too…right up Kaiser’s alley
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There was a brief moment years ago when I thought he was kinda hot in a weird way, but now I don’t see it at all.
He does seem low key, but I think that’s mostly because his career isn’t much besides these car movies.
Vin is a nerd who got sorta famous and doesn’t look like a nerd. Just remember that he is a nerd at heart and most likely cares more about Duke Nukem Forever finally coming out than what people think of him.
I find him absolutely adorable. Hopefully he made out with Hilton BEFORE she contracted any of those nasty spider bite looking sores, yukk.
I used to love him, but after my husband compared him with the little man who plays mini me in the austin powers movies, I just can’t look him at the same…
I actually really like Vin Diesel. Most of his movies are moronic, but the ones he really wants to make are pretty interesting. He was quite good in Find Me Guilty, and he’s been working for years to bring a movie about Hannibal the Conqueror to the screenâ€"and you’ve got to remember a little more about ancient history than Julius Caesar, Marc Antony, and Cleopatra to pick Hannibal as your subject (great story, just not that well-known to most people).
Unfortunately the director who seems to be most interested in the project is Tony Scott, which pretty much dooms it to crap.
I got a soft spot for Vin after seeing Pitch Black so many years ago. He was a cutie then and I think he’s a cutie now.
cough-DOUCHE-cough
I like him too. He has a laid-back personality. His arms aren’t nearly as big as the hooks I see hanging off of most meatheads. Besides, I’d rather look at arms like his than the pale, doughy triceps that most businessmen seem to have.
Love him. It’s not the giant muscles. It’s the broad shoulders. It’s the voice. That giant smile. He just makes me want to do really dirty things. Anywhere. LOL I don’t normally got in for giant muscles. Besides The Rock. Love him, too. LOL
Ooooh no! I understand you’re a bit burned out from the madness of the last few weeks but I’ll def miss weekly HGF! It gets me through my monster Friday at work! I really do appreciate it, and if you can’t manage it every week, bi-weekly will have to do, but I vote weekly HGF!
I also have a new HG to request for next week, thus addressing the “running out of HGs†problem: Tom Hiddlestone, Loki in Thor.
love his voice!
CB and Kaiser, have you considered maybe just changing HGF into a one-dude-per-week thing? As someone who used to edit for a number of sites, I understand the workload involved in a post of HGF magnitude every week, but it would really lighten the load if it just became a highlight of one hot/adorbs/dirty-sexy or whatever guy every week. I would imagine that would still be a lot less work than a bi-weekly mega roundup.
When I saw the Vin article I thought pff, sorry substitute for HGF!!! Until I read your explanation, begrudgingly agree….
Couldn’t Kaiser just write some creative in the vein of the Daniel Craig/Javier Bardem chronicles for the HGF off weeks?
I loved him after I saw The Iron Giant yeaaars ago…
OMG, I hadn’t read the blog title; just glanced at the first pic and saw the photo of Vin Diesel and then off to the side in red, the D-I-E-S which was then cut off. I thought for a sec that Vin Diesel had died!!
hilarious.
he looks like a Rock’em Sock’em Robot.
I have found him attractive ever since Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick. The Pacifier was passable pablum but showed Vin’s self-deprecating side…..
Flame-eo.
I read some interview many a year ago about him growing up in some alternative hippy type family. He seemed so damned nice, so respectful and together and except for a brief moment of facesucking with parasite he’s been amazingly…normal. I also love how he refuses intentionally to address either to confirm or deny whether he’s down low.
cough meathead cough
2 requests for the next HGF:
Rupert Graves-where’s the love for LeStrade?!
Aidan Turner-from Being Human.
You wont be dissapointed looking thru photos of these two fine specimens!
I normally don’t like guys with huge muscles, but Vin is hot.
Oooh his voice! I do find him physically attractive as I like big buff fellas. BUT, his voice just makes me all wobbly and gushy.
Can’t say I’m a big fan of the guy, but I have to give him credit - he looks awesome.
Very nice physique - he’s really well-proportioned and while he’s ripped, he’s not over-big. Well done!
ugh, I love him, his only physical fault is being a few inches too short.
Realy?!? I think he looks great!
I really like Vin he seems like such a nice guy in interviews, the mag pics look kind of weird to me though, not sure what they did to his face. Anyways i LOVE his voice and hes hot.
I am all for HGF being a special occasion every other week as long as the dudes are really HOT
I appreciate that it was ALOT of work for you guys and I’d much rather you not phone it in.
Hahahahaha!!!
SpongeBob pops into mind in the episode where he slips on inflatable arms to try to compete with Larry the Lobster.
Quite seriously.
Ew. No. Nothing about this guy appeals to me. I hate this type of beefcake, testosterone fuelled, poor intellect, zero humour celeb. What amazes me is that he still has a market and can get work. Bleh.
I used to think he was all eewww and then a couple of weeks ago he was on the Ellen show, and he was so nice and sweet and charming. Ellen had him and 3 ladies from the audience play a game and those women COULD NOT keep their hands off of him. He’s hot!!
I won’t lie, I’ve always loved Vin. He seems like a genuinely nice guy and it really comes through when he does do interviews and press. It helps that I think he is one hot man, yum.
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First of all, I’d like to apologize that we didn’t have a Hot Guy Friday this week. Both Kaiser and I are burnt out doing it every week, and while it is a nice stress reliever on one side, on the other it takes hours to do that post. You’d be surprised how much effort it is, and Kaiser does the bulk of it and doesn’t complain. This was basically my idea after the Royal Wedding last Friday and the insanity that was the Met Gala earlier this week. We’re bringing it back next Friday and HGF will be on an every-other-Friday schedule from then on, just to give ourselves a break. Plus we were running out of guys to do every week. Anyway check out the archives for HGF, they go back a few months and they should help you get this image of Vin Diesel’s robot arms out of your head. In no way am I suggesting this guy as a substitute for HGF, unless you’re into that, and in that case bless you.
So here’s Vin Diesel in all his bald-headed roided glory on the cover of Men’s Fitness. I’ll admit this made me bust out laughing. It’s the look on his face, which is supposed to be serious and kick-ass but just falls flat. Unlike Vin’s costar The Rock, he doesn’t make a bald head sexy and his muscles make him look more like some kind of centaur. Like don’t you expect to scroll down and see that no-neck torso attached to a non-human body?
Inside, Diesel talk about how he used to work as a bouncer in New York and how he first got super fit because “you have to decide at a young age whether you’re going to be predator or prey.†Unlike past Men’s Fitness cover boys, he doesn’t have a specific program he touts but just says he loves to mountain bike and that he switches up his routine to fit whatever character he’s playing. Here are some quotes from his interview:
On being predator or prey
“When you grow up in New York City, you have to decide at a young age whether you’re going to be predator or prey,†he says. “Especially growing up at that time in the city, especially being a little homeboy, especially when you were trying to f*#@ every girl int he city.â€
On being a bouncer in his late teens and twenties
“I learned so much in bouncing that I bring to these characters. You have to be able to read people. Speak with a New York City cop, and they talk about having to read people. Bouncing is like that but without the badge and the law. You’re a gunslinger for hire, basically. And you learn a lot in that field of work.â€
On being in fights as a bouncer
“I must have been in more than 500 fights. I fought every night, and I bounced for nine or 10 years. And these weren’t pretty fights.â€
How he trains for each character
These days, when it comes to staying in fighting shape, Diesel’s workout schedule is strictly dictated by his next role. Practicing a physical type of method acting, Diesel always commits to realistically re-creating the body and attributes his character would possess. If that means staying away form the iron and packing on a few pounds for a project, such as the 2006 movie Find Me Guilty (in which Vin plays an out-of-shape gangster who defends himself at trial), so be it. “I don’t do a service to myself if I succumb to serious powerlifting,†he says. “I have to be somewhat mindful of being typecast. I want to be the character and not just look built.†[For that movie] “It was ‘eat lots of ic cream and get as fat as you can.’ After being so fir from a young age, it was bizarre - and liberating.â€
“When I do a role like Riddick, I don’t want to look boxy. I want to be pantherlike, I want to be agile. I have to do yoga or Pilates because I’m trying to get a completely different movement with my body.â€
On his future as an actor
“I don’t really give a sh*t about my everyday stock. It’s not going to improve my self esteem. I just want to knock each role out of the park.â€
[From Men's Fitness, print edition, June/July 2011]
Well I find him surprisingly likable in that interview. He seems like a smart, together guy and I like his “whatever†attitude toward his career. The dude stays off the gossip radar too, you can say that for him. We’ve heard that he didn’t want to do press for his films and that he made out with Paris Hilton at some point eons ago, but that’s it. I think I remember reading that he had a baby too at some point in 2008, but that was all so vague and we didn’t hear much about it. He keeps his stuff under wraps, but not his big old arms. Those things are like two big slabs of meat hanging out. But I have to admit he’s growing on me a little.
photos courtesy of Men’s Fitness, where there are more. Photos below from PRPhotos
Written by Celebitchy
Posted in Fitness, Photos, Vin Diesel
- Katie Holmes: pregnant, high or brainwashed? [Lainey Gossip]
- Woman speaks in English accent after surgery [D-Listed]
- Fug or Fab: Elizabeth Banks [Go Fug Yourself]
- Celebrity couples who remarried each other [Popeater]
- Sweet celebrity mom moments [Popsugar]
- Inside Rihanna's mansion [Bossip]
- Jessica Alba in a fug dress [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
- Penelope Cruz's hair caught on fire [Celebslam]
- Movies you've lied about enjoying [Pajiba]
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That looks like a man in need of a fiber caplet.
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Vin, VERY likable & proportioned!! *le sigh*
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off topic: did i miss HGF?!
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http://www.blackcelebkids.com/2011/05/05/spotted-vin-diesel-and-daughter/
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Which brings me to my current post - a big BOOOOOOOOO on the HGF for every other Friday! I can understand this week and last week but c’mon! This girl needs her fix! And I give you the perfect headliner too…right up Kaiser’s alley
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He does seem low key, but I think that’s mostly because his career isn’t much besides these car movies.
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Unfortunately the director who seems to be most interested in the project is Tony Scott, which pretty much dooms it to crap.
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I also have a new HG to request for next week, thus addressing the “running out of HGs†problem: Tom Hiddlestone, Loki in Thor.
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Couldn’t Kaiser just write some creative in the vein of the Daniel Craig/Javier Bardem chronicles for the HGF off weeks?
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OMG, I hadn’t read the blog title; just glanced at the first pic and saw the photo of Vin Diesel and then off to the side in red, the D-I-E-S which was then cut off. I thought for a sec that Vin Diesel had died!!
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he looks like a Rock’em Sock’em Robot.
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Flame-eo.
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Rupert Graves-where’s the love for LeStrade?!
Aidan Turner-from Being Human.
You wont be dissapointed looking thru photos of these two fine specimens!
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Very nice physique - he’s really well-proportioned and while he’s ripped, he’s not over-big. Well done!
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I appreciate that it was ALOT of work for you guys and I’d much rather you not phone it in.
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SpongeBob pops into mind in the episode where he slips on inflatable arms to try to compete with Larry the Lobster.
Quite seriously.
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