How many pounds do you think you have added to your frame over the years? I guess that’s not a good question.
Do you feel that you are carrying 20 pounds more muscle on your frame, compared to if you never lifted weights? 30?
I have no idea really. I started lifting at 14, so it is hard to say what is from lifting and what is from growing up.
Would you be able to answer my question? I find answering questions with questions annoying, haha.
Well your question is bullshit dude. Fucking talk about annoying. You have progressed A LOT over the years and to ask me to look at where you are at now and recommend a style…
Actually I can, the style you’re doing
You could have told me that initially, no?
I felt your statement was intetesting, as it conflicted with everything I had previously read, and I wanted to give you an opportunity to demonstrate it. I apologize if you somehow took offense to that, as offense was not my intent.
Is this something you have the ability to demonstrate?
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To respond that way initially would not be right with you. You are an intelligent person and to just end it there wouldn’t be appropriate. Best to give you a question in return, so you understand that it shouldn’t have been asked in the first place and you are more than capable of answering that question yourself.
I take it the answer to my question about being able to demonstrate this is “no”?
I have a very strong ability of recognizing athletic strong points, and recognizing athletic ability.
Of course this isn’t a 100% effective.
Just off of memory of your videos. (So my memory might be off) You have an unusual gate about you. Something is off on how you move your body across a plane. Not terrible, but far from efficient or sniffing elite. You have a look from my memory that you are not fast. You are very powerful and strong. You are elite level in those areas if my memory is correct?
Power= parts strength and speed.
Yet, you did not grow up fast. You don’t have good speed. Which makes me think that you developed your power through speed of weightlifting. I don’t know dude, starting to get bored here
The ruptured ACL and torn meniscus might have something to do with that.
I apologize for boring you. Feel free to not engage if that is easier. I am more interested in the discussion on bodytypes and specific training of them myself.
It’s cool dude. It’s not the ruptured acl and torn meniscus though. I’ve had both myself.
Well my physical therapist disagrees with you 
For bodybuilding, yes, I think so.
Hey, that’s awesome. I appreciate you being willing to demonstrate it. I read @mbdix statement to be more about just training in general, but even knowing how to program for a specific bodytype for bodybuilding would be awesome.
These are some casual shots the Mrs shot at the beach
(I want to say, in my defense, I had eaten a 1lb cheeseburger right before these photos, haha)
And if sad attempts at flexing are better, I submitted this topic about a year ago with some photos (so I don’t have to fill up the thread with photos of me shirtless)
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You have a lot of upper body mass! I looked at your personal fat-loss threads.
You appear to be very torso dominant. I am the opposite, limbs-dominant. So, I would go with some of these tips if I were you and wanted a more symmetrical and bodybuilder-type physique.
Chest
As I said, you’re torso dominant and your chest shows this. I suggest stressing your upper pecs first in your workouts and definitely include isolation exercises for them. You can use pre-exhaust here with either a fly exercise or incline machine press. I don’t think you’re someone like me who needs dumbbells over barbells to feel my pecs working with basic exercises. So you probably do fine with barbell incline or flat bench presses.
Shoulders
I would suggest doing machine and/or dumbbell raises (including rear delts) BEFORE presses considering you’re torso dominant. It does not appear your delts or arms “pop” as much as your chest.
Back
You have a ton of muscle there, especially in the upper back, and considering you don’t have a waspy waist, I would emphasize lats over upper back for back workouts by doing underhand barbell rows, pullovers, and neutral grip pull-ups rather than emphasizing overhand rows and dumbbell rows.
Arms
Again, you’re not limbs-dominant. I suggest starting biceps workout with an exercise that targets the brachialis before barbell curls and the rest. For tri’s, I’d start with extensions before dips or close grip bench press.
Legs
You do need to bring up your leg mass for more symmetry. I don’t know what your current lower body training looks like, but in this area I just believe you need a standard bodybuilding training session of three exercises for hamstrings and quads each for 3 to 4 sets of 8 to 12 reps. I like starting off leg sessions with a leg curl or GHR’s and lunges or bulgarian split squats and then moving onto squats and stiff legged deadlifts and whatever else has to be done. Not so because I have lagging legs (they’re a strong point), but because I don’t desire to have heavy poundages on my back at this point while I can get the same or better results otherwise.
What does your leg training look like?
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Thanks for taking the time to do all of that dude. It’s a really cool breakdown, and something I agree with. My theory was that, as someone with long limbs and a short torso, I get more ROM out of a lot of movements, and since there is less on my torso to fill in, it just amplifies the problem even more. Torso fills out quickly, limbs take forever. But it’s just a theory.
To clarify, are you saying my bodytype is torso-dominant, or would you classify me within one of the somatypes on top of that? Your breakdown is akin to what I’d anticipate when it comes to training my specific weaknesses, or those weaknesses common to a torso dominant lifter. I didn’t know if there was a protocol that you felt was also inherent toward a somatype.
Leg training is a bit interesting these days, especially coming back from the injury. I squat twice a week, and I actually use a similar philosophy as you, in that I try to limit how much weight I can squat by training it at the end of the workout, mainly so I can save loading on my knee.
On Tuesdays, I’ll work up to a max single or triple on some squat variation (It’s been SSB and axle front squats for now), and then chase that with 1-2 back off sets for 10 reps. During warm-ups, I’ll hit 4 sets of reverse hypers and then 4 sets of standing ab wheel.
On Saturdays, I’ll perform a squat workout after working up to a topset of axle deadlifts/mat pulls with a back off set and 4 sets of weighted GHR sit ups. There is no rhyme or reason to the squat workout; it’s purely a mental toughness builder. It’s usually dropsets, rest pauses, 30-40 rep sets, anything like that. This is an example of one of my more common ones
Today I managed 30x230 on the buffalo bar, just because I’m a week out from a contest. Usually I’ll be limping until Thurs.
And then on Sunday’s I’ll perform a carry and drag medley, with the reverse sled drags really blowing up the quads. My legs would also get some training from some of the other conditioning work I do through out the week, but not the kind of attention necessary for size or symmetry. The left is finally starting to be about the same size as the right at least, haha.
Once again, really appreciate the effort you put into your post. I find the topic interesting, and bodybuilding especially is something very outside my realm.
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