What u think guys is growing or nope 
before
after
Your lighting got better for sure.
Its only been a month dude. Youāre doing it right, just stick with it.
^You know, the same thing everyone said hereā¦
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Dude, itās been ONE month.
Folks estimate we can add MAYBE 2lbs of dry muscle weight in a month.
Look at 2lbs of ground beef. Imagine taking that amount of muscle and applying it evenly across your body. Itās not going to register as a change.
This is a LONG game.
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Iāll be happy to look at your pictures and point out the changes I see.
I need you to take the pictures in the same place in your house, in the same light, unflexed, at the same time of day, each time.
Agree, but give me flexed all the time. I want to see if the muscle looks like muscle.
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Elbows need to be higher
no discernible difference, but then in 1 month I wouldnāt expect to see anything. Just keep training hard and eating right and check back in with us next year,
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Iāll echo what others have said, just to help drive home the two main points here:
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1 month is nothing. Taking pictures and keeping records for your OWN use is a good idea so you can see trends over a long period of time, but a ācheck inā like this is not necessary or even useful on a monthly basis.
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Going forward, if you want to track progress through photos, ALWAYS use the same lighting, same mirror, and same set of poses. Every. Single. Time. Thereās absolutely nothing to assess in the pictures you provided, they are far too different from each other with the lighting and angles.
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All of you are being extremely critical.
IMO, there is a good amount of improvement between the two pics. Maybe the lighting is quite a bit better in the second pic. But clearly the second pic guy looks noticeably better than the first pic guy.
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I thought that was the point of the original question?
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Who here remembers what āRate my Physiqueā was like back in 2006?
This is AMAZINGLY gentle.
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I guess it comes to this. IMO there is a noticeable visual appearance between the two pics. His delts show much better shape and fullness. Maybe it is the lighting.
I cannot believe that it isnāt obvious to anyone who critiques menās physique that the second pic is better than the first pic. I sure would cringe if I saw that person sitting on a judges panel in a show I was in.
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You are entitled to your opinion, my response to the OP had nothing to do with your comments.
In comparison? Yes.
But also, there were numerous cases where some VERY solid lifters with fairly good physiques were essentially pushed away from the forums by people looking to just tear people apart for not being an IFBB pro, rather than encourage a fledgling natural lifter.
I prefer how it is now.
Oh, I am not saying one was better than the other: more discussing the calibration of harshness
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I think its very difficult to compare the two without the same lighting, and that most visible difference could also be explained away with the lighting alone.
If weāre to judge progress using pictures as our ruler, letās make sure we use the same ruler.
@Gudix123, take note^
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I will always give a fair evaluation of anyoneās physique on this forum just like I gave every athlete that walked up on that stage.
All I had was the pics. And just because you cannot make significant improvement in your physique in one month is no assurance that someone else cannot.
Who is this comment aimed at, hard to know when you didnāt reply to a specific comment or quote somebody. I am pretty sure no one here made that comment. Seems like you just want to argue today. Well I for one donāt have the energy for that so Iām out of this thread.
OP regardless of what is said in here, you are on the right path, just keep working hard.
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A simple shot gun statement.
Probably based more on my evaluation than anything. OPās improvement looked like more than could be reasonably expected in one month.
I will admit I feel like getting on my soap box concerning physique pics.
well, ya, I think thatās obvious. I think the problem is that itās SO different in terms of lighting, focus and angle, that I personally canāt really tell if itās indicative of actual progress, or just a better picture. I could take a really shitty picture of myself, and then a good one on the same day, it wouldnāt mean I got bigger/stronger.
MAYBE he did make huge improvements in a month. I just donāt know, because he provided insufficient evidence with these pictures. Thatās why my comments were specifically directed at how to take pictures with the intention of using them as progress markers.
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