The push muscles easily lend themselves to bulking. That has been my experience.
My best muscles, most easily grown, and the strongest mind muscle connections I have are to my chest and quads.
While it may be imbalanced, lots of work for the two is a very easy way for me to gain weight.
Over the lockdown I was muscling up from pushups and riding my bike.
Back at pf, the growth is continuing, with standbys of burpees (contains pushups), pushups on the side, slow and controlled leg extensions, abs, wall sits, and machine curls.
After I shower up, I’ll drip dry in the changing room while stretching, hands interlocked reaching for the sky, elongating the spine.
Bulking, especially if the growth comes from the front muscles, is not necessarily a good thing for posture.
Without conscious notice, and the stretching, to have perfect posture at rest, I need more glute and upper back work.
Hip thrusts and seated rows would be a posture centric method for me.
At present I’m allowing the imbalanced growth, as it’s easy for me to muscle up like that, and my body is primed to grow.
I look at my natural proportions and see a few things :
•my upper body is naturally large in proportion to my lower body
•my quads are medium sized compared to the upper body
•my glutes, while powerful, are smaller in proportion to my quads, tight assed
•my chest grows easily, and my chest and triceps have better mind muscle connection than my back and biceps
So, when I need to focus on posture :
•Glutes
•Upper back
•Stretching
The push muscles however bulk very easily. You see this in kushti wrestling.
Victory pose regularly can be enough stretching to keep good erect posture.
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