When you do a minimal amount of work for the bodyparts you’re not specializing on, the body has no choice but to stay relatively proportioned.
If I was to get back on squat every day my upper body would grow as well as I’d still be doing dips, chins, pushups, and the added leg mass would force added upper body mass.
While I do high volume dips my legs will have to add mass as they’re supporting, moving around with, and sometimes being trained with a bulkier upper body atop them.
If you do some stimulus for everything…You can’t get disproportionate!
It’d be pretty hard to specialize in anything, and be overall weak as the whole!
Exact proportions may float some, but it won’t get ridiculous in either the twig legged or bird chested manners as long as some stimulus is given to it all.
My pants may be looser right now, a minor effect of no heavy squats or deadlifts, but work proves they’re strong as fuck, and they ain’t tiny despite gym work being mostly upper body, skewed to pressing in general, and dips in particular right now.
Calisthenics for the upper body will keep it proportional to the legs in heavy training.
The legs supporting the body will keep them proportionate to the upper body while in upper body specialization.
I wrote this article in my brain as I was on the dip bar. Typed it up a few hours later with dinner.
-J
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