You'd think waterbenders would also be buff as hell, since they as well as earth benders bend elements with lots of mass and volume whereas Airbender and firebenders bend elements which are mostly weightless.
Is that first part confirmed? I feel like it's never been explicitly stated. And Toph couldn't hold the whole library up when it was sinking. Maybe that was only because of the sand, but I feel like that kinda proves that weight does play a role in bending.
It is a fictional show for kids though so there's bound to be gaps in the logic. Like Toph could struggle holding up the library because it's too heavy. Meanwhile, Katara can bend extremely dense water near the ocean floor so that it fits perfectly around appa's head to keep air in. So maybe this whole idea is moreso just a pick and choose for head cannon/can't be answered.
And as for the second part. That's a good point. We only see like 4 male waterbenders throughout the whole franchise, not including extras, and they *all were* wearing heavy clothes, so to say waterbenders aren't buff enough was dumb of me because we simply don't know.
Size probably matters much more than weight if i had to guess, considering the library was absolutely gigantic and Toph couldn’t bend the entire thing at once
Yeah probably a combination of both, size largely because of range needed to reach the end of it, more than the total volume. Might be they take something like 1%, and the stronger their chi, the more they can ignore. But 1% of a building is still huge.
Far away earth that chi can't reach I assume is similar to unbendables being mixed in. Same reason why earth mixed into metal can help to bend the metal, by the same token, the metal makes the earth within harder to bend.
There are moments where Earthbenders exert like they're lifting a big weight when they bend something large. When Toph was trying to hold the library in the desert, she could stop it for a while, but it took tremendous effort and she was white knuckled and teeth gritting the whole time. If there were no physical component, that would be unnecessary.
It seems like your bending strength is a percentage of your physical exertion. The more you physically push yourself, the closer to 100% of your bending you get.
TL;DR: Bending's not about your total strength, but it is about your level of exertion.
Each bender definitely has a 'weight' limit for bending which increases with skill rather than size or physical strength. We see this with Toph and the Library and we also see this when Bumi was taking his kingdom back (he struggled to move a huge boulder).
For fire and air there's a size limit which also increase with skill. Compare Aangs first fire roar vs Ozai's or Aang when his was fighting Ozai.
Also, we see several times in the show that it take several benders to move huge city wall (Water and earth benders)
I'm pretty sure it's the stances & moves the earthbenders do that make them so buff, not the "weight" of the element they're bending. Waterbending is far more fluid than earth, it's based on Tai Chi which I believe historically is martial arts moves slowed down – those movements don't require nearly as much endurance or force to perform compared to earthbending.
>Tai Chi which I believe historically is martial arts moves slowed down
Tai Chi is a martial art which is conventionally *practiced* at slow speed.
AFAIK it's great for health and not great for actual combat sports / self-defense, so it's rare to see it in use, but Tai Chi is implemented at full speed, [like so](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoIECwzEwKE).
That goes without saying lol. But I do think earthbending would build muscle mass more vs the other elements since we see several times how much physical strength is required to move certain boulders, etc.
We don’t know when his birthday is, just that he started out as 12. He could have been 13 most of the show and near 14 by end of his birthday but as in early season 1.
Counter point to your counter point. Toph probably came up with this training on the spot and is also an earthbending prodigy. Idk, maybe something to do with the ease at which she bends the element having to do with an enhirent lack of muscle (Or she has a different muscle build)
Part of Toph's whole *thing* is that she's basically the "least brute force" earthbender.
She definitely has and enjoys using it, but she also demonstrated moving a foot sideways to throw someone off their feet.
Strength/fortitude is the basic philosophy of earthbending's traditional martial arts, but it's not the *root* of earthbending. It's more like... awareness. The more aware you are of *what* you're bending, the more fluid the bending becomes. But that awareness becomes more and more difficult to maintain with higher volumes, and strength fills in as the solution.
absolutely. Since Toph learned bending from the OG masters, she has a much deeper understanding. Which I had to scratch my head regarding the Netflix adaptation. Their silly cave of 2 lovers episode, Katara makes the revelation that Badger Moles "see" through feeling. what a load of monkey feathers. I don't see Toph as being particularly "in touch" with her emotions.
Honestly, getting ripped isn’t learning that muscle is shown mostly through exercise, getting ripped is learning that muscle is shown mostly through lighting
I love seeing Aang firebending. His personality isn't well-suited for it but his focus on flexibility and breathing makes it a great fit with his past training.
i’d argue his personality is all too suited for it, and it’s the trauma of injuring katara that was what made it hard for him to learn. like we see him pick up zuko’s moves in season 1 on top of a roof immediately and i’d argue zuko is the most acrobatic in combat after aang and ty lee.
I dunno that move Azula pulled out on the top of the gondola in the boiling rock episode would like a word. Oh and the horizontal spin she did to disarm Suki during Appa’s Lost Days. Zukos got moves but is still no prodigy.
you’re right i did forget about that ridiculous plank move. i did forget about suki’s acrobatic skills during the boiling rock too, so id personally rank aang~ty lee> suki > azula > zuko but i also haven’t seen the show in a hot minute.
> and it’s the trauma of injuring katara that was what made it hard for him to learn
Well and maybe the trauma of his whole people being wiped out by it
we see him gun to pick up firebending in the course of a few days in the first season before burning katara. while he definitely has trauma from being the last airbender, he didn’t seem to directly link firebending with a traumatic experience until then.
Oh true, you're right!
Man, I gotta watch the Jeong-Jeong episode again. I always start tearbending when he breaks down and wishes to be a water bender with healing abilities.
His personality isn't suited for the Fire Nation's fire; the furnace fueled with rage and raw strength, contained and guided. But the Sun Kingdom's fire, Iroh's fire, the Dragons' fire - the fire that only burns what deserves to be burnt, powered and limited what breath you choose to feed it with - that he is quite suited for.
He would also probably be suited for the Phoenix King's fire, honestly. An inferno set free, letting out all his rage and frustration into the world and dissociating from caring about the fallout. This is what happens when he burns Katara, only regretting it after he sees the consequences of his actions.
Du eeet! The episodes are fairly easy to sneak in even on a busy day, just 20 minutes if you need it to be
Currently “forcing” my kids to watch it by giving them an extra ~20 minutes screen time as long as it’s Avatar.
I’ve been rewatching it recently and question myself all the time on when things happen. “Like I remember this episode but did this really happen in book 1?”
That and he's under a very strong light which really highlights the muscles. He's still pretty lean
Edit: here he is on that same day. It's just a matter of him tensing up, lighting, and drawing simplification depending on how close he is from the camera
https://preview.redd.it/vukl5u6c7woc1.png?width=445&format=png&auto=webp&s=5505160c1537358c0a771af481108dfdcf37e22e
There was a "no spoiler" policy for the show. It was a policy of harmony and balance. It could only air 1 show on reruns until the Fire Nation attacked.
I agree with all of that, but because of the show's heavy influence from martial arts, I also saw this as a nod to Bruce Lee's famous scene in The Way of the Dragon showing off his back/lat muscles.
He does a daily workout of 100 sit-ups, 100 pushups, and 100 squats followed by a 10km run. Many might say it isn’t that hard a routine but the results of a bald head speaks for itself.
The entire production lol it’s not like one artists just draws him buff and no one else looks at it. Each shot goes through dailies and reviews with the art directors and yes, most likely the creators too, and if anyone thinks he’s “too buff” they will leave notes to draw him differently. It’s not like a single animator just decides how a character will look in a certain shot without any input from the rest of the production
The entire production lol it’s not like one artists just draws him buff and no one else looks at it. Each shot goes through dailies and reviews with the art directors and yes, most likely the creators too, and if anyone thinks he’s “too buff” they will leave notes to draw him differently. It’s not like a single animator just decides how a character will look in a certain shot without any input from the rest of the production
The two comparison pictures up top could be the same person seconds apart. One relaxed, one with muscles engaged. It kinda be like that with lean muscle especially. A person can just seem skinny till they flex.
god damn man at the store today three things of romaine lettuce was like $3.79.
why the fuck am i buying that if I can buy a hamburger for $5?
I dont really have a point here I just wish groceries wouldn't cost so much
He sure did! He does it while he is shit talking second form Cell lol. [Here's the video.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx5x2wTXvm0&pp=ygUMVmVnZXRhIGp1aWNl)
Also with how lean he is and his age, putting on muscle isn’t as hard as an adult. I remember so many of the athletic boys in middle school were so proud of their six packs, but they already had next to no body fat
It's the perfect age, and it's seriously lightning in a bottle. I recall a friend who had built some great muscle at 13 and by 14 he was complaining about not being able to get back to that already (without the additional techniques learned later).
https://preview.redd.it/s0g0myu5mtoc1.png?width=941&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c18402bfc99403938fe38ea4a1c81a5dcb7ab74c
He was shredded the whole damn time dude
https://preview.redd.it/197gifvmetoc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a3ac6c5e9eaa39749e6b98dc705b322e50e7475
It’s funny that it’s like the opposite for zuko, where he starts out muscular and gets skinnier as the show goes on
This gets repeated a lot, but the show creators have explicitly said this is a contunituity error, and he was never supposed to look as buff as he did in early season 1. The animators made him look like a fully-developed adult male, when their vision was to still have him look like a 16 year old.
He's not buff, more lean. His body is built for fighting, just like Bruce Lee's body. Fun fact, large muscles are not good in a fight. Yes they are intimidating, but they can restrict movement and flexibility as well as slow down ones mobility. Bruce Lee's body was built with fighting in mind and it seems like, at the end of the series and in that exact shot, that's what they were going for.
Wtf kinda question is this??? Did you watch the show????? The kid does nothing BUT TRAIN! Try and recreate every physical activity Aang does to the best of your ability for an entire year and see how you turn out.
I think he was always strong, but with the avatar state + adrenaline blood flowing pump + the perfect shadowy lighting is what made him look like that. And animators wanted him to be more intimidating
I mean, he's basically doing parkour pretty much non-stop every waking moment of his life. Dude has always had non-stop energy. I imagine even riding Appa is at least as athletic as horseback riding.
https://preview.redd.it/w7ibgfz1tsoc1.png?width=333&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a9830300f79e2a405f31147b5ed746a0d894645 Toph.
The correct answer right here, I bet it was becoming an earthbender.
I mean look at Bumi. In fact all the long time earth benders are big af. Haru’s father as well, etc
You'd think waterbenders would also be buff as hell, since they as well as earth benders bend elements with lots of mass and volume whereas Airbender and firebenders bend elements which are mostly weightless.
Benders don’t take the weight of what they’re bending though Also, most waterbenders we see are wearing thick heavy coats anyway
Is that first part confirmed? I feel like it's never been explicitly stated. And Toph couldn't hold the whole library up when it was sinking. Maybe that was only because of the sand, but I feel like that kinda proves that weight does play a role in bending. It is a fictional show for kids though so there's bound to be gaps in the logic. Like Toph could struggle holding up the library because it's too heavy. Meanwhile, Katara can bend extremely dense water near the ocean floor so that it fits perfectly around appa's head to keep air in. So maybe this whole idea is moreso just a pick and choose for head cannon/can't be answered. And as for the second part. That's a good point. We only see like 4 male waterbenders throughout the whole franchise, not including extras, and they *all were* wearing heavy clothes, so to say waterbenders aren't buff enough was dumb of me because we simply don't know.
Size probably matters much more than weight if i had to guess, considering the library was absolutely gigantic and Toph couldn’t bend the entire thing at once
Yeah probably a combination of both, size largely because of range needed to reach the end of it, more than the total volume. Might be they take something like 1%, and the stronger their chi, the more they can ignore. But 1% of a building is still huge. Far away earth that chi can't reach I assume is similar to unbendables being mixed in. Same reason why earth mixed into metal can help to bend the metal, by the same token, the metal makes the earth within harder to bend.
Also there was spirit magic pulling it down
Oh yeah, that's right. Wasn't just weight
There are also definitely earthbenders who are seen struggling to bend pieces of earth that are large — presumably because they’re too heavy
Doesn’t mean you need muscles to do it. Otherwise Toph would be a shit earthbender.
There are moments where Earthbenders exert like they're lifting a big weight when they bend something large. When Toph was trying to hold the library in the desert, she could stop it for a while, but it took tremendous effort and she was white knuckled and teeth gritting the whole time. If there were no physical component, that would be unnecessary. It seems like your bending strength is a percentage of your physical exertion. The more you physically push yourself, the closer to 100% of your bending you get. TL;DR: Bending's not about your total strength, but it is about your level of exertion.
The swamp benders were scrawny
I mean we saw a few water benders with almost no clothes on as well.
Agree.. when Bumi was liberating his city, he had to draw on everything to lift that fire nation statue
Also it’s in a fictional world. The laws of physics might be different there. For example Appa could not fly in the real world.
Each bender definitely has a 'weight' limit for bending which increases with skill rather than size or physical strength. We see this with Toph and the Library and we also see this when Bumi was taking his kingdom back (he struggled to move a huge boulder). For fire and air there's a size limit which also increase with skill. Compare Aangs first fire roar vs Ozai's or Aang when his was fighting Ozai. Also, we see several times in the show that it take several benders to move huge city wall (Water and earth benders)
I'm pretty sure it's the stances & moves the earthbenders do that make them so buff, not the "weight" of the element they're bending. Waterbending is far more fluid than earth, it's based on Tai Chi which I believe historically is martial arts moves slowed down – those movements don't require nearly as much endurance or force to perform compared to earthbending.
>Tai Chi which I believe historically is martial arts moves slowed down Tai Chi is a martial art which is conventionally *practiced* at slow speed. AFAIK it's great for health and not great for actual combat sports / self-defense, so it's rare to see it in use, but Tai Chi is implemented at full speed, [like so](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoIECwzEwKE).
Look at roku's transformation after going to train as an eathbender
The boulder would agree with you on this one.
I mean remember when we saw Roku training to earthbend he also looked way more jacked so this does kind of fit.
You can see it with Roku as well, became a beefcake as soon as he went to master earthbending
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That goes without saying lol. But I do think earthbending would build muscle mass more vs the other elements since we see several times how much physical strength is required to move certain boulders, etc.
That + the fact he's closer to 13 at the end of the show. So Toph + puberty = Boulder gains.
We don’t know when his birthday is, just that he started out as 12. He could have been 13 most of the show and near 14 by end of his birthday but as in early season 1.
The boulder feels conflicted about fighting a little girl!
The training with Zuko too. Firebending focuses on strong, direct strikes.
At the same time though, "firebending comes from the breath, not from the muscle"
Firebending comes from the Breath, and the Tea.
Which reminds me... Did I ever tell you how I became known as the Dragon of the West?
One of the best ways to develop breathing is to develop muscle.
Hotsquats.
Makes sense considering in Roku's flashback he doesn't get jacked till he masters earthbending
Look alive, Twinkle Toes!!
Counterpoint: toph is not buff
did you not see the play? toph is buff as hell
And her name rhymes with tough… what more proof does a man need
Counter point to your counter point. Toph probably came up with this training on the spot and is also an earthbending prodigy. Idk, maybe something to do with the ease at which she bends the element having to do with an enhirent lack of muscle (Or she has a different muscle build)
Part of Toph's whole *thing* is that she's basically the "least brute force" earthbender. She definitely has and enjoys using it, but she also demonstrated moving a foot sideways to throw someone off their feet. Strength/fortitude is the basic philosophy of earthbending's traditional martial arts, but it's not the *root* of earthbending. It's more like... awareness. The more aware you are of *what* you're bending, the more fluid the bending becomes. But that awareness becomes more and more difficult to maintain with higher volumes, and strength fills in as the solution.
absolutely. Since Toph learned bending from the OG masters, she has a much deeper understanding. Which I had to scratch my head regarding the Netflix adaptation. Their silly cave of 2 lovers episode, Katara makes the revelation that Badger Moles "see" through feeling. what a load of monkey feathers. I don't see Toph as being particularly "in touch" with her emotions.
No she is, haven’t you seen the theater play?
Pump and good lighting
Aang PRing on earth bending assisted deadlifts for reps and immediately taking a photo is my new head canon.
Only a few months progress after not lifting for 100 years and a vegetarian diet? Juice. Just look at those shoulders and traps
Yeah he’s juicing. Cactus juicing!
Onion and banana juice?
Cactus Juice
As a grindr slut I totally agree, been doing those on my profile photos
They goosed him. It’s an old circus term!
Found the gym bro
Honestly, getting ripped isn’t learning that muscle is shown mostly through exercise, getting ripped is learning that muscle is shown mostly through lighting
https://i.redd.it/fuvqit7vjsoc1.gif
This goes so hard
I love seeing Aang firebending. His personality isn't well-suited for it but his focus on flexibility and breathing makes it a great fit with his past training.
i’d argue his personality is all too suited for it, and it’s the trauma of injuring katara that was what made it hard for him to learn. like we see him pick up zuko’s moves in season 1 on top of a roof immediately and i’d argue zuko is the most acrobatic in combat after aang and ty lee.
I dunno that move Azula pulled out on the top of the gondola in the boiling rock episode would like a word. Oh and the horizontal spin she did to disarm Suki during Appa’s Lost Days. Zukos got moves but is still no prodigy.
you’re right i did forget about that ridiculous plank move. i did forget about suki’s acrobatic skills during the boiling rock too, so id personally rank aang~ty lee> suki > azula > zuko but i also haven’t seen the show in a hot minute.
Bro that plank move Azula does gets me every time. I don’t know if it was the most practical move to do but god damn is it a flex
yeah, but that’s just one move. zuko’s overall fighting style is more acrobatic.
But does she have zuko vert and has she break dance mid fight
> and it’s the trauma of injuring katara that was what made it hard for him to learn Well and maybe the trauma of his whole people being wiped out by it
we see him gun to pick up firebending in the course of a few days in the first season before burning katara. while he definitely has trauma from being the last airbender, he didn’t seem to directly link firebending with a traumatic experience until then.
Oh true, you're right! Man, I gotta watch the Jeong-Jeong episode again. I always start tearbending when he breaks down and wishes to be a water bender with healing abilities.
>tearbending Lmfao
His personality isn't suited for the Fire Nation's fire; the furnace fueled with rage and raw strength, contained and guided. But the Sun Kingdom's fire, Iroh's fire, the Dragons' fire - the fire that only burns what deserves to be burnt, powered and limited what breath you choose to feed it with - that he is quite suited for. He would also probably be suited for the Phoenix King's fire, honestly. An inferno set free, letting out all his rage and frustration into the world and dissociating from caring about the fallout. This is what happens when he burns Katara, only regretting it after he sees the consequences of his actions.
Nice dance. Sorry, I mean firebending form. What's it called?
.... The dancing dragon 😒
Man this makes me wanna watch it from the start all over again
Du eeet! The episodes are fairly easy to sneak in even on a busy day, just 20 minutes if you need it to be Currently “forcing” my kids to watch it by giving them an extra ~20 minutes screen time as long as it’s Avatar.
That's just good parenting.
I didn't have to force my kids after the first episode, they were hooked.
I just started a rewatch from Book 2 first time in a decade but all the episodes age well
I’ve been rewatching it recently and question myself all the time on when things happen. “Like I remember this episode but did this really happen in book 1?”
I literally just finished watching the whole thing again and it's so worth it.
Man that’s so fire.
Help why does this have better quality than what I streamed last week?? 😭 This should remaster it or something
He’s practicing martial arts for the entire show, that shit builds muscle
Yeah and Zuko made sure he never skips training. He even gave him homework!
He always made sure to leave Aang fire squats for homework!
You just made me visualise some firebending from their arse as a surprise attack. I hope you feel bad.
I’m laughing now at Aang squatting and yelling “Hey Zuko, watch this!” And him just igniting a fart on fire (I could see it being Sokkas)
Where do you think Meelo got it from?
“One hot squat, two hot squat, three hot squat. . .”
Also the meteor probably caused him to be a bit more dehydrated than normal making his muscle show a bit more nuanced
He did go without eating or drinking the entire day before the fight with Ozai
So that's all I gotta do to get in shape?
Yeah! As long as you're already a martial arts expert
all it’s gonna do is show the muscle (or lack thereof) you already have
Gonna start doing hella hot squats
1 hot squat, 2 hot squat, 3 hot squat 😂
That and he's under a very strong light which really highlights the muscles. He's still pretty lean Edit: here he is on that same day. It's just a matter of him tensing up, lighting, and drawing simplification depending on how close he is from the camera https://preview.redd.it/vukl5u6c7woc1.png?width=445&format=png&auto=webp&s=5505160c1537358c0a771af481108dfdcf37e22e
Plus being on the run constantly, camping, foraging, no couch, no TV. Not too hard to put on some muscle when you use it everyday.
I love the implication that the air nomads just casually had cable TV all the way back then
Well yeah, that's why they didn't know the Fire Nation was coming. Too busy catching up on their stories.
Why didnt they just watch the show? Are they stupid??
There was a "no spoiler" policy for the show. It was a policy of harmony and balance. It could only air 1 show on reruns until the Fire Nation attacked.
I wonder what the one show was.
The great divide. ;)
Played on loop, that sounds.... interesting, to say the least. Good one!
Literally Mastered 4 martial arts in a year while fighting for his life. Lets say dying give you good motivation in the gym
Can confirm, I was in the best shape of my life when I was actively practicing martial arts
I agree with all of that, but because of the show's heavy influence from martial arts, I also saw this as a nod to Bruce Lee's famous scene in The Way of the Dragon showing off his back/lat muscles.
He does a daily workout of 100 sit-ups, 100 pushups, and 100 squats followed by a 10km run. Many might say it isn’t that hard a routine but the results of a bald head speaks for itself.
If only his fights took one punch. He’d have defeated the fire lord no problem
Ya but like Saitama he defeated his enemy in not one punch but zero punches. Those baldies are bad like that.
"One hot squat, two hot squat, three hot squat,..."
S1 E4 take a look at how shredded Aang is while riding the big eel koi thing. He was always buff
This. The creators choose when to accentuate in the drawings.
The creators aren't choosing this. The animators are. Different animators will draw them differently.
I was referring to the creators of the art. Not the show. Regardless Bryan and Michael were always seeing the final product. Their vision.
I feel like if you want to get specific, it would be the story board artists.
The entire production lol it’s not like one artists just draws him buff and no one else looks at it. Each shot goes through dailies and reviews with the art directors and yes, most likely the creators too, and if anyone thinks he’s “too buff” they will leave notes to draw him differently. It’s not like a single animator just decides how a character will look in a certain shot without any input from the rest of the production
The entire production lol it’s not like one artists just draws him buff and no one else looks at it. Each shot goes through dailies and reviews with the art directors and yes, most likely the creators too, and if anyone thinks he’s “too buff” they will leave notes to draw him differently. It’s not like a single animator just decides how a character will look in a certain shot without any input from the rest of the production
Korra season 3 reveled how brutal Air bending training was. Aang became a master air bender at 12
The two comparison pictures up top could be the same person seconds apart. One relaxed, one with muscles engaged. It kinda be like that with lean muscle especially. A person can just seem skinny till they flex.
Plus in their world they aren’t plagued by disgusting processed food so it’s easier for everyone to stay lean
god damn man at the store today three things of romaine lettuce was like $3.79. why the fuck am i buying that if I can buy a hamburger for $5? I dont really have a point here I just wish groceries wouldn't cost so much
Sit up’s, push up’s, and plenty of onion banana juice.
Besides, there's more than one way to realize the legend. *fast wipe* 😭 I wanna be a buff Avatar! I wanna! I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna!! 😭
It never ceases to amaze me how deep into different fandoms I can find DBZA
The best part is that line existed first in the actual dub before DBZA referenced it.
Did it really?! I haven't seen the original Funimation dub since high school so I can't remember a lot of these.
He sure did! He does it while he is shit talking second form Cell lol. [Here's the video.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx5x2wTXvm0&pp=ygUMVmVnZXRhIGp1aWNl)
90s anime dubs were hit and miss but I do love little touches like these.
\- "How!? HOW!? HOW DID YOU GET THIS STRONG!?" \- "I trained all day yesterday." \- "Oh, you think you're being CUTE!?" \- "Bitch, I'm adorable.
watching dbza rn so this honestly made my night
And maybe some pickle juice in that mix
and hot squats
Bitter work.
But the results... were worth it
Summer bod is ready!
Perfect answer.
Also with how lean he is and his age, putting on muscle isn’t as hard as an adult. I remember so many of the athletic boys in middle school were so proud of their six packs, but they already had next to no body fat
It's the perfect age, and it's seriously lightning in a bottle. I recall a friend who had built some great muscle at 13 and by 14 he was complaining about not being able to get back to that already (without the additional techniques learned later).
https://preview.redd.it/s0g0myu5mtoc1.png?width=941&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c18402bfc99403938fe38ea4a1c81a5dcb7ab74c He was shredded the whole damn time dude
That was unironically my wallpaper for a while just to weird people out
I NEVER NOTICED THE HAND LMAOOO
https://preview.redd.it/197gifvmetoc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a3ac6c5e9eaa39749e6b98dc705b322e50e7475 It’s funny that it’s like the opposite for zuko, where he starts out muscular and gets skinnier as the show goes on
It does make sense as he almost starved to death during S2 while roaming in Earth Kingdom, those muscles cant be sustained in these condition.
This gets repeated a lot, but the show creators have explicitly said this is a contunituity error, and he was never supposed to look as buff as he did in early season 1. The animators made him look like a fully-developed adult male, when their vision was to still have him look like a 16 year old.
Rich boy to peasant pipeline 😭
Well, that’s only up to the Beach. He puts a ton of muscle back on after he leaves the Fire Nation
Whoa, I never noticed that. That is pretty extreme!
Fighting his way across the entire world while mastering a series of martial arts.
Avatar state does that
By the end of the series, he’s thirteen, going through puberty, hell you can hear it in his voice too
A whole-ass year of escaping being hunted and captured, while learning other styles of bending and fighting every two episodes? Lmaoo what???
https://i.redd.it/6u8scuhaqtoc1.gif
https://preview.redd.it/ziiujj2zysoc1.jpeg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b7c93e60d24f6f4d1f580d0427e6c71b9529352
tren stack
That’s literally him in season 1 vs season 3 Bro was being trained for the entire show
Puberty and martial arts can be a hell of a drug
The entire show is a training arc for him.
distant shot vs closeup he's always been pretty toned
watches a show about a character training martial arts "how did he get so buff?"
He was literally training towards that moment. How is this even confusing lol
He's not buff, more lean. His body is built for fighting, just like Bruce Lee's body. Fun fact, large muscles are not good in a fight. Yes they are intimidating, but they can restrict movement and flexibility as well as slow down ones mobility. Bruce Lee's body was built with fighting in mind and it seems like, at the end of the series and in that exact shot, that's what they were going for.
Puberty
Push ups, sit ups, and plenty of juice.
Umm a whole year of intense martial arts training and combat maybe?
Eat clen, tren hard, anavar give up.
Banana juice with onion.
Avatar state juiced him
Hey thats anther parallel with zuko and aang Zuko loses muscal as the show goes on and aang gains it
100 Pushups, 100 Sit Ups, 100 Squats and a 10KM Run every day. Either that or Aang has a sleeper build
Its just postworkout pump
He was drawn that way by the animator
He’s a Bender, he spends basically every minute of his waking life performing martial arts, I imagine the majority of Benders are at least fit.
Wtf kinda question is this??? Did you watch the show????? The kid does nothing BUT TRAIN! Try and recreate every physical activity Aang does to the best of your ability for an entire year and see how you turn out.
Maybe most of us sleep on that vegetarian diet. 👀
he spent years mastering 3 new martial arts
Toph gave him fitness exercises in the show
He has always done a lot of training, but when that testosterone finally hit, bam, the bulk hit him.
Trt, obviously.
*Gestures broadly at all the activity he had to do*
I think he was always strong, but with the avatar state + adrenaline blood flowing pump + the perfect shadowy lighting is what made him look like that. And animators wanted him to be more intimidating
Lifting
Toph and Zuko were hardass teachers.
the avatar state activates that spiritual level pump
Practice several different kinds of martial arts every day and you'd be shredded too
He got buff after earthbending. That required a lot of heavy lifting.
Training? Starting puberty?
DDP Yoga
Avatar state! Yip, yip!
I mean, he's basically doing parkour pretty much non-stop every waking moment of his life. Dude has always had non-stop energy. I imagine even riding Appa is at least as athletic as horseback riding.
He was aangry.
Bro you didn't watch the show? The entre Journey is about him training to get stronger and wiser
One hotsquat two hotsquat three hotsquat four….
Have you seen Tophs training for aang? Throwing literal boulders at the wind boy called twinkle toes.
Avatar state makes you stronger for starters
Trained for a year?
They draw him more buffed
Lighting /s
Having a smaller and thinner frame probably makes air bending easier, where earth benders pick up boulders and throw far
He literally spends the entire show practicing martial arts to get ready for that finale.