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[bleat]

Well I decided I was being *slightly* hypocritical at my frustration towards you lot for not posting more pictures so I took a few.

I'm 6'3'' @ 75-80kg, not sure of bodyfat.

Geez clicking that "Add Attachment" button is more daunting than I anticipated!

Please excuse my sad attempt of a back shot, cameras aren't my thing

You'll notice in the bleat_03 attachment my leftside is bigger, which I can't work out why. I've swapped to dumbells to even it up for a while now but it doens't seem to even up. Hopefully it just needs more time.

Any comments, or pointers would be appriciated. BULK/EAT EAT EAT is an obvious one I'm working on it!

Cheers

[Pseudonym]

Firstly, that cool pose is very cool... but here's a few things that could make it even cooler:

The pose is designed to show off your narrow waist and obliques - so I think you've got the perfect build for it. Stand with your hips side-on to the camera, but twist your upper body round so your chest faces the front (think Egyptian art, and you won't go wrong). Exhale and tense your abs, then use your obliques to tilt up the hip facing the camera. Flex everything else, and smile.

Practise all that, then show us another shot, and you'll be nearly as cool as me. (Not quite, of course, but you'll be getting close) 8)

Other random thoughts:

- Your back shot looks like you've got a good V-taper going already.

- You're looking nice and lean, which is good. But if you've been trying to bulk, the daily McD's maybe haven't been enough! You've probably got a lightening-fast metabolism, so start adding a wee bit more to each meal.

- It could be the camera angle, but it looks like you're holding your left side higher than your right, which would explain some of the difference between sides. Practise your posing - it's trickier than it looks! (You're doing the right thing by using DBs too)

[jono]

looking real lean man.

ps: to take better pics you could rest the cam on something and put the timer on. that way you dont have to hold it

[jono]

Firstly, that cool pose is very cool... but here's a few things that could make it even cooler:

The pose is designed to show off your narrow waist and obliques - so I think you've got the perfect build for it. Stand with your hips side-on to the camera, but twist your upper body round so your chest faces the front (think Egyptian art, and you won't go wrong). Exhale and tense your abs, then use your obliques to tilt up the hip facing the camera. Flex everything else, and smile.

Practise all that, then show us another shot, and you'll be nearly as cool as me. (Not quite, of course, but you'll be getting close) 8)

Other random thoughts:

- Your back shot looks like you've got a good V-taper going already.

- You're looking nice and lean, which is good. But if you've been trying to bulk, the daily McD's maybe haven't been enough! You've probably got a lightening-fast metabolism, so start adding a wee bit more to each meal.

- It could be the camera angle, but it looks like you're holding your left side higher than your right, which would explain some of the difference between sides. Practise your posing - it's trickier than it looks! (You're doing the right thing by using DBs too)

lol that shot you're talking about Pseudonym, i reckon i could kill most people in it :grin:

[bleat]

Cheers guys, I'll practise that pose and present it again when I hit my goal of 90kg, hopefully have a bit more to show

[DumBelle]

Is it the angle that your picture is taken at or are you referring to your right trap as being smaller than the left. If so it does look noticeably smaller. Is that due to something in particular or don't you know why that's happened?

*Sorry to jump right in on the first post, I did some browsing first and started in the picture gallery but that looked notably different.

[DumBelle]

Well I'll go right ahead and post as if you have imbalances in muscles and advise what I think you should be doing to balance them out.

To me if your getting an obvious imbalance in one side of the body, then I'd tend to think that in your line of work, your using the one arm/hand far more than the other. Because muscles are getting over worked, they don't get the same time to repair that they would in the other arm. So the first thing to do is remember to try and involve the other arm in the job that your doing as much as possible to avoid that happening. The cure I feel is to avoid working the over developed side for a few weeks and just concentrate on the under developed side. But when I say concentrate I mean hit that area once per week really hard and then leave it for 6-7 days to fully recuperate. Growth won't happen unless you rest.

I'd actually continue doing that until you see more balance.

Of course there could be some medical reason why you have an imbalance and I may have just jumped in and advised you to correct something that you know cannot be corrected, but I thought I'd just mention a few things that may help you to correct it just in case it is a muscle imbalance.

I think the exercise that most helped with traps for me was

Shoulder Press

Arnold Press

Shrugs

and then to balance it do some pull related exercises. Do the workout intense enough that you have DOMS in the shoulder the day or so after and then just rest that side completely and do not hit it again until you have completely recovered.

To balance it something like

[bleat]

Cheers for your input *mam'. I've been putting a lot of effort lately into making sure I have the same form for both arms and it's paying off. Definatly more balanced now, but still have a way to go. Can never be too symmetrical

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