mass is good but dont neglect PROPORTION thread.

[Imnotdutch]

You must have led a sheltered life if you truly believe this.......

I personally oculdnt give a damn about proportions.......I lift for strength.

now, nothing is more unpleasant to the eye than an unproportional physique.

 

[Thaibox]

Think you mean someone else, I haven't posted in this thread till now

Sorry man, I guess I meant satchboogie

 

[Thaibox]

GYMANLAX7..........

lets get back to this idea above as we have
2 schools of thought on lagging body parts.

1) train them first thing in your workout,
then proceed to other muscles.

2) focus on those muscles for 3 consecutive
workouts and maybe throw in a few sets on
other muscles, and once every few weeks
hit up the other muscles hard. then back to
the 3 consecutive workouts etc. etc. etc.




lets look at the bottom line..

if you had a lagging body part, which option would you
choose to follow. 1 or 2?

Neither...

Option #3. Continue to train for overall size and strength and not waste time focusing on one little bodypart whose focus would take away from truly productive workouts.

 

[Imnotdutch]

You must have led a sheltered life if you truly believe this.......

I personally oculdnt give a damn about proportions.......I lift for strength.

now, nothing is more unpleasant to the eye than an unproportional physique.

 

[spatts]

My proportions are bigger than your proportions, so there!

What a waste of bandwidth. Yet another thread where we all have different goals, all do something different to meet them, then attribute it to genetics. If you want symmetry, train for it. If you don't, don't. As someone else said, "Common sense."

 

[BlkWS6]

Originally posted by spatts
My proportions are bigger than your proportions, so there! Image: http://dov.ods.org/icon/bigtng.gif




What a waste of bandwidth. Yet another thread where we all have different goals, all do something different to meet them, then attribute it to genetics. If you want symmetry, train for it. If you don't, don't. As someone else said, "Common sense."

I don't know if that "attribute it to genetics" is directed towards me. Like I said at the end of my post, Im not using genetics as a cop out, but plain and simple if the muscle just isnt there (ie. length of the muscle belly) you can train for symmetry until you are blue in the face and you still may not be proportional. My calves are just about 18", but with a high insertion and being 6'1" they will never look all that proportional to my upper body. I wish it was just that easy as "train for symmetry" If that were the case I would have Matarazzo calves by now!!!

 

[spatts]

I was simply pointing out that all these threads usually end up in the same place. I didn't mean it in a derogatory way at all. Sure it's all about genetics, at some level. It just baffles me as to why we can't determine that 100 posts before we do. In other words, the logic pattern to the argument is redundant, but not incorrect.

 

[Thaibox]

I didn't mean it in a derogatory way at all. Sure it's all about genetics, at some level.

It made me cry

 

[spatts]

...better?

 

[Thaibox]

yup yup