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nclifter6feet6
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great job man, your upperbody has great proportions. big arms shoulders, your very symetrical. just keep doing what your doing
louden_swain
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Excellent work! Looks like you have built a solid foundation.
From the front, you look pretty good, but your back needs to catch up.
You could use more thickness and width in the back. The erectors look a little shallow and could use some strengthening. This can be accomplished by hitting tons of chins, barbell rows, deadlifts, and shrugs. More rear delt work is needed.
Back Routine:
Barbell Rows (45to70 deg.) - 4 x 10,8,6,5
Chins - 3 x failure
Seated Pulley Rows - 3 x 10,8,6
Deadlifts - 2 x 10 light sets, then 3 x 5 heavy
hyperextensions - 2 x 25
On the front side of your body, it looks like it is time to start prioritizing incline barbell presses in your routine. This will help bring some lift in your chest, plus it will develop muscle around the collar bone and sternal areas.
Start out with a cycle of reps for inclines:
cycle 1 - 3 weeks - 5 x 10
cycle 2 - 3 weeks - 5 x 8
cycle 3 - 3 weeks - 5 x 5
Your front and side delts are looking good. Just continue to pack on size. . . . heavy seated barbell presses and up right rows will accomplish this task.
Add:
Bent Dumbbell Laterals - 3 x 8
Arms are certainly a strong point. Focus on getting some extra tricep mass. I am sure your exercise selection is fine, so maybe switch up your routine a bit and include some incline french presses and tons of close grip bench presses. Be sure to have a spotter when your perform these exercises.
Overall, you can certainly see a good foundation, but at this point there is always room for improvement. From a bodybuilding perspective, if your bodyfat was a little lower, I am sure several of your muscle groups would look even better. Be careful about your waist. . . it looks like it has a tendancy to become blocky and bloated.
In the meantime, perform tons of squats. . . they are highly anabolic and will help release hormones.
I wish you luck!!
From the front, you look pretty good, but your back needs to catch up.
You could use more thickness and width in the back. The erectors look a little shallow and could use some strengthening. This can be accomplished by hitting tons of chins, barbell rows, deadlifts, and shrugs. More rear delt work is needed.
Back Routine:
Barbell Rows (45to70 deg.) - 4 x 10,8,6,5
Chins - 3 x failure
Seated Pulley Rows - 3 x 10,8,6
Deadlifts - 2 x 10 light sets, then 3 x 5 heavy
hyperextensions - 2 x 25
On the front side of your body, it looks like it is time to start prioritizing incline barbell presses in your routine. This will help bring some lift in your chest, plus it will develop muscle around the collar bone and sternal areas.
Start out with a cycle of reps for inclines:
cycle 1 - 3 weeks - 5 x 10
cycle 2 - 3 weeks - 5 x 8
cycle 3 - 3 weeks - 5 x 5
Your front and side delts are looking good. Just continue to pack on size. . . . heavy seated barbell presses and up right rows will accomplish this task.
Add:
Bent Dumbbell Laterals - 3 x 8
Arms are certainly a strong point. Focus on getting some extra tricep mass. I am sure your exercise selection is fine, so maybe switch up your routine a bit and include some incline french presses and tons of close grip bench presses. Be sure to have a spotter when your perform these exercises.
Overall, you can certainly see a good foundation, but at this point there is always room for improvement. From a bodybuilding perspective, if your bodyfat was a little lower, I am sure several of your muscle groups would look even better. Be careful about your waist. . . it looks like it has a tendancy to become blocky and bloated.
In the meantime, perform tons of squats. . . they are highly anabolic and will help release hormones.
I wish you luck!!
Kid Dynamite
New member
I'd say emphasize your back. Not too bad from everything else, but not as big in relation. Good job.
Lift Chief
New member
Looks pretty decent- i'd throw in some exercises to try and increase the peak of your bi- also a little work on the back. Pretty good tho.
gettinlarger
New member
Everyone, thank you. Very much. It is seriously, seriously appreciated.
CoolColJ, thanks again for hosting, and for your comments.
swain, thank you for such an in-depth post. I'm sure it will prove to be helpful.
needsize, hearing that you are envious of me of all people really makes me feel good. Thank you.
C-ditty, Haha. I'm in NJ. The sun does shine down on us, but the past two years I was stuck inside most of the time doing schoolwork. Graphic art school = no having fun anywhere else.
gonelifting, Hulkrow, I agree about my chest. It definitely needs to be bigger. I currently do:
Flat bench, 5x5
Incline DBs, 2x8-10
Incline Flys, 2x8-10
I vary it up, using incline bench, Flat DBs, etc. I think I'm going to take swain's advice and hit the inclines more. See how that works out.
jeremy, Fatty, nclifter, Kid D, Lift Chief, thanks for your comments. I know I gotta get my back growin too.
JoBu, I've been lifting for like ... 2.5 years now? I did it a little in high school, but not much. Really started getting serious about 2 years ago. Started getting REALLY serious this year ... Stats are 5'9, 183 lbs.
Again, thanks everyone. I'd still like to hear a lot more from everyone on this board. So, in your free time, throw me some criticism.
CoolColJ, thanks again for hosting, and for your comments.
swain, thank you for such an in-depth post. I'm sure it will prove to be helpful.
needsize, hearing that you are envious of me of all people really makes me feel good. Thank you.
C-ditty, Haha. I'm in NJ. The sun does shine down on us, but the past two years I was stuck inside most of the time doing schoolwork. Graphic art school = no having fun anywhere else.
gonelifting, Hulkrow, I agree about my chest. It definitely needs to be bigger. I currently do:
Flat bench, 5x5
Incline DBs, 2x8-10
Incline Flys, 2x8-10
I vary it up, using incline bench, Flat DBs, etc. I think I'm going to take swain's advice and hit the inclines more. See how that works out.
jeremy, Fatty, nclifter, Kid D, Lift Chief, thanks for your comments. I know I gotta get my back growin too.
JoBu, I've been lifting for like ... 2.5 years now? I did it a little in high school, but not much. Really started getting serious about 2 years ago. Started getting REALLY serious this year ... Stats are 5'9, 183 lbs.
Again, thanks everyone. I'd still like to hear a lot more from everyone on this board. So, in your free time, throw me some criticism.
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Big Jroy
Guest
Work on those abs a little, otherwise so far so good. Keep it up!
Lord_Suston
New member
Honest opinion
Strong points; good traps and lower pecs with some decent size on your arms, plus a good frame to put more mass on.
Weaknesses; Delt and upper chest tie ins are lagging and overall thickness and width in back are not up to potential.
Overall pretty good my key recommendations are really work on wide-grip chins and pullovers. ALso start with incline before flat bench to stress the delts and pec minor to work on the uipper portion of the pectoral girdle.... Looks good with some hard work you have a good ability to gain some mass....
Strong points; good traps and lower pecs with some decent size on your arms, plus a good frame to put more mass on.
Weaknesses; Delt and upper chest tie ins are lagging and overall thickness and width in back are not up to potential.
Overall pretty good my key recommendations are really work on wide-grip chins and pullovers. ALso start with incline before flat bench to stress the delts and pec minor to work on the uipper portion of the pectoral girdle.... Looks good with some hard work you have a good ability to gain some mass....
gettinlarger
New member
Big Jroy, thanks man.
Suston, thank you for the advice. As I told swain, I'm sure this will come in handy.
Bump for anyone else who wishes to comment. I'd really like to hear from bignate, ThaiBox, B Fold, spatts. I said everyone!! Haha. Thank you all again.
Suston, thank you for the advice. As I told swain, I'm sure this will come in handy.
Bump for anyone else who wishes to comment. I'd really like to hear from bignate, ThaiBox, B Fold, spatts. I said everyone!! Haha. Thank you all again.
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