You can go into most gyms and watch people that train their abdominals and a common trend will usually emerge. Abdominals are usually trained with a large number of fast repetitions. I personally believe when it comes to getting great abdominals the old saying couldn't be more true "Quality over quantity." I don't feel that you need to perform sets of 100's of reps to produce quality abdominal muscle. In fact I believe that when you perform high volume sets like that you more often than not tend to actually shift focus away from your abdominals...
Do you ever notice how many times in life we feel like the world is against us and our backs are up against what seems to be an immovable wall? We feel that we will never get out of our current situation and wonder what it is that we have done or not done to end up here? Yet there are those moments that we feel like we are soaring above it all and will never come down no matter what is brought up against us?..
I first became interested in bodybuilding when I first saw Arnold almost three decades ago in “Conan the Barbarian”. To me, he exemplified the ideal male physique. The perfect proportions, nothing too monstrous, at least not by today’s bodybuilding standards with everything symmetrically perfect in harmony.
By the time I was in my late twenties I’d reached a body weight of 315 lbs. as I was trying to “keep up with the Jones’” in the new age of bodybuilding. Seemingly gone were the body types I’d looked up to, the Schwarzennegers’, Zanes’, or even later, the Bob Paris’, or the Barry Demay’s were only the things of the past. In this “new” age of bodybuilding those physiques wouldn’t even get a top 10 call out.
First I would recommend not asking your friends. 90% of your friends are going to tell you that you should have won and you looked perfect. The first person I recommend asking is your contest prep coach since you have put your trust into them to lead you in the proper direction. If they are a good coach it’s in their best interest to help you improve and to be brutally honest with you...
You may not know this but fitness modeling is VERY hard work. We are often bringing thousands of dollars of camera equipment into some of the most inhospitable places, not to mention bringing models that don’t know what to expect, placing them in the most awkward settings. Now here’s where the fun begins.
In this photo, we have a great model poised for the camera, ready to make a kind of grungy urban shot. What you don’t realize is that our location is in the back of a downtown nightclub behind the dumpsters. Our model is standing barefoot on a series of rusty pipes that run the length of the building. To make matters worse, the overpowering smell of urine is causing our valiant model to gag between shots. In addition he has to keep balancing himself against the dumpster which is also making an attempt to challenge the urine for which is more gross...
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