This pic you can see he’s on the lankier side.
I think it’s important to look at or up to people one can relate to.
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I think I figured out the cause of my exhaustion. I have Pectus excavatum. Simply put, my chest is not flat like most but near the bottom it “dips” inward. According to wikipedia, this can cause exhaustion during exercise.
Now, I’ve been to the doctors before but frankly I’m not sure how they could have missed it, and even more perplexed how I never noticed myself. I literally thought my chest was normal till my cousin pointed it out last friday.
We’ve had our shirts off before but this was the first time he mentioned it so that is odd.
Anyhow, it is what it is. I’ll go to the doctor again to make sure there is no danger, and then proceed to work out harder.
@ All the “tough love” guys: I have no problem working hard (worked construction for 9 years. It’s not easy, especially in severe heat or severe cold) but I am not going to do anything that is risking my life.
Thanks BH. I agree. I want to model someone who is/was as close to my physical specs as possible, because training so far has been random. I definitely need a regimine or program to follow that I can believe in.
Earlier in the thread it was mentioned you need 6000 calories a day. You cut that down to 1785. Now, just how in the hell did you think that was going to work out?
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You never drive a car?
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Well, this just got weird…
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The good news is that exercises that improve your posture, or that develop your chest and back muscles, will help your condition. So that’s awesome.
Increasing your conditioning(lungs and heart that are in your chest) will help your condition.
Diaphragmatic breathing is frowned upon at the doctor’s office. But in the gym, we call it" bracing" and it’s good.
You should check out the work of old school body-builder John McCallum. He talks about the even old-schooler ideas of the breathing squat and pullovers to fix posture/breathing and bracing/overall mass.
And do close grip(v-bar) Pulldowns. Get that sternum up, and your shoulders down and back.
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You can keep looking for problems all you want but the real problem is obvious to 99.9% of people in this thread.
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That IS good news. Have you had this or know someone who does?
And thanks, I’ll check that guy out.
@ T3hPwnisher: No, I don’t even leave my house. sarcasm
@ kd13: Yeah bro, I don’t train hard enuff.
You are not in that 99.9% then
you are too scared of everything, this is toxic, that is toxic, I can’t eat that, I can’t eat this, I’m gonna eat 6000 calories, I’m gonna eat 1500 calories. This is wrong with me so I can’t train, that is wrong with me so I can’t train.
You have been given lots of good advice but instead of following it your coming up with reasons why you can’t.
obviously you won’t take all this on board, but if I suggested a medical condition that would give you an excuse you would pay attention.
I don’t really know much about the specific condition, I just googled it.
But lots of tall, slender dudes have bad posture and sunken chests. Many of the “Golden Era” bodybuilders, or “Old Time Strongmen” were big on expanding your rib cage, and raising your sternum with drills or exercises.
Even Arnold was big on Incline Bench. Look at all the old pictures of him puffing his chest up. And doing sternum chinups.
If you want to tag people, don’t put a space between @ and the screename. @SargeMaximus vs @ SargeMaximus.
I assure you that you risk your life far more often for far more trivial things than you ever will with training.
I didn’t know that, that’s cool. Raising the sternum is exactly what I need to do, so I’ll do those exercises. Any others you’d recommend for that specific purpose?
@kd13 Yeah I guess I’m not. In fact, my chest condition only happens in 1 out of 300-400 people so, not the majority eh?
Look I get it, I’ve got issues, I just don’t think you should care. If it bothers you that much, don’t read my topics.
I’m looking for solutions, not problems. It’s not like I made my chest grow this way just so I’d have a problem. As for the other stuff, well, I’m a little OCD. 
@T3hPwnisher Thanks for the tip. As for risking my life, well, training recklessly before fully understanding a physical condition is a LITTLE more dangerous than driving or doing anything else, I’m sure you can agree.
Only if we don’t consider statistics or facts.
I assure you that piloting a 2000+lb hunk of metal and plastic at over 60mph around a bunch of distracted lunatics doing the same is one of the most insane and dangerous things you could ever do.
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Your looking for problems and ignoring solutions.
I guess I was trying to help you address the real issues so you could finally start making some progress, but if you don’t care and want to self diagnose and waste even more of your time then go ahead.
I would say go to your doctor but you would just be taking up an appointment that an actual ill person would need.
good luck and I will try and ignore your future posts.
Remember, nobody is perfect. Look at the pictures Brick posted. Those dudes sternum and pecs are shaped weird too.
Check out this poor deformed kid.
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why are you eating like 1700 calories if you weigh a buck fifty?
edit: also, you’ve got quite an attitude on you for a kid who squats 120lbs…
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Maybe, maybe not. Point is: having a chest that is slowly crushing my heart seems more dangerous to me, call me crazy.
I will be going to the doctor tomorrow. 
Good luck to you too.
Thanks for the video and pics.
I’m not worried about the ugliness or anything, I’m worried about the danger of it.
Because I don’t weigh a buck fifty. o.O
I’ve put on weight, and with the weight came fat in my belly, hence why I’m cutting, because I want abs.
As for my attitude, thanks man. I take that as a compliment. 
Honestly, if we are allowed to use internet diagnosis, have you considered munchausen or hypochondria?
But I would believe it rude to call you crazy because of that. However, I would call you unlearned, simply going off the stats of those that die from pectus excavatum compared to cars.
Life is dangerous. In fact, it is fatal.
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You worked a strenuous job for years and you were cool.
Multiple doctors have seen you and didn’t sweat it?
You’re perplexed because You never saw this yourself?
You didn’t know about this until Friday, but you were OK before that?
I would not worry about it.
Do lots of pushups, and dumbbell incline presses.
Do Pulldowns with an underhand grip and pull your shoulders down.
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