Today while I was up in the gym training a client, a guy sat across the room on the Lat pulldown machine. My client was resting between sets so I watched this guy perform a few reps, noticing he had very good technique not to mention impressive definition throughout his back, chest and shoulders.Then he stood up, and I saw that it all went downhill from his waist line. His shorts swam on his barely-there quads which have obviously never done a leg press, his ass was so flat he clearly hasn’t heard of a squat and I could have wrapped my thumb and forefinger around his ankle.
Sounding pretty harsh? Maybe. But one of my biggest pet hates in the gym is the “every day is upper body day bros”. You know the guys-they come to the gym and “wanna get big and ripped” but train arms, chest or back repeatedly and somehow fail to see how the lower half of their body needs to be paid some attention too.
Sorry guys but in my opinion (and I’m quite positive many others would agree) nothing is less attractive than having a beast upper body and looking down to see legs resembling those of a chicken. It looks nothing but unproportional and just plain ridiculous.
I once had a guy tell me (whilst I was training legs) that he didn’t train legs “Cause its hard”. I thought to myself, is it really that much harder than training your upper body? I train on a 5 day split and yep it all gets hard sometimes no matter what muscle group is targeted, but that isn’t going to be my excuse to skip a whole section of my body. It’s hard? I felt like telling him maybe he needed something HARD to HARDen up!
Wanna get big? Wanna get shredded? Wanna be a bodybuilder?Then allow me to let you in on a little secret… YOU HAVE TO TRAIN YOUR LOWER BODY TOO. The term body building refers to your whole body, not just half of it. You can’t be half man, half chicken. Well not unless you wanna look completely stupid. Aesthetics plays a big role in males going to the gym these days but you look at the most aesthetic guys out there and they have reached that stage because they train each part of their body as an equal. They hold complete proportion and to put it plainly they look damn good!
Nobody’s saying you have to get quads the size of Phil Green or big Ronnie Coleman but come on give them some love and attention at least!
Anyway that’s my rant for the week lol. In keeping with this theme Fit FREAK this week will be someone showing off an aesthetically pleasing body just to prove the point here.
In the meantime continue to eat CLEAN, train MEAN and liveLEAN and guys - give the chickens back their legs and grow some real ones!
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