You need:
A: A larger chest/delt area, which has already been covered.
B: If you are eating to grow its likely your stomach is just a bit distended from large food intake. Try digestive enzymes if you feel like you have digestion problems.
C: Some foods tend to bloat people. Figure out what foods bloat you and work around it. That’s called learning to listen to your body, it’ll help you in the long run.
D: You probably have some anterior pelvic tilt if you’ve been lifting very long, as this is very common among weightlifters.
E: These are listed in order of importance.
[quote]GetSwole wrote:
You need:
A: A larger chest/delt area, which has already been covered.
B: If you are eating to grow its likely your stomach is just a bit distended from large food intake. Try digestive enzymes if you feel like you have digestion problems.
C: Some foods tend to bloat people. Figure out what foods bloat you and work around it. That’s called learning to listen to your body, it’ll help you in the long run.
D: You probably have some anterior pelvic tilt if you’ve been lifting very long, as this is very common among weightlifters.
E: These are listed in order of importance.[/quote]
Truth. You most likely have these other things that you should be worrying about and need to address. Having said that, you should still be doing vacuums and hanging pikes as part of your training.
Many people have underveloped transversus abdominis and overdeveloped rectus abdominis. I see people loading up the weight and doing heavy ‘weighted crunches’ when they can barely properly contract their abs and properly do more than a few unweighted crunches. Foolish. The transverse abdominis is the ‘weight belt’ that you are born with.
It acts as an internal corset when properly developed and keeps your stomach flat. An overdevloped rectus abdominis and underveloped transversus can give you a distended look no matter how full or empty your belly is and no matter how developed or underveloped the rest of the body is.
[quote]Joe Joseph wrote:
IMO, the abdominals when hypertrophied DO stick out some. In everyone. This is one of the reasons the vacuum and power breathing(?) were so popular with zane/arnie eras… It is a forgotten art and while we all know how to pull a side tri, we hardly ever learn to really “suck that gut in”
I think that could be the problem. If so, it IS a “weakness” in the TVA… easily remedied by sucking in the abs for timed periods and contracting them - like arnold advises in his encyclopedia… This is believe is the power breathing mentioned above?
Joe[/quote]
personally i prefer a big oval shaped pack of abs to the the sucked in gut look. its probaly the only thing i prefer from the new gen of BBers as far as aesthetics versus stage appearance.
thsi dude doesnt have an anterior tilt or any of this other crazy shit, all it is is having an enlarged stomach from food in it. i cant believe you actually posted this like it was something serious. its very common and youre kind of a tard for not knowing this on your own.
Of course. Food is the only possible explanation. It couldn’t be a combination of problems, since people with pelvic alignment issues don’t eat.
Considering how important posture is to health, and that most people these days spend most of their time sitting, it would be irresponsible not to at least suggest a check for pelvic tilt, since his complaint of abs ‘sticking out’ is a typical manifestation of such. If that’s not the case, I wasted a few minutes posting, and the OP, if he listens, will waste at most a few minutes checking.
To the OP: Here’s a fairly simple diagnostic that covers both contingencies.
If your stomach is enlarged because of the food you’re eating (either because of quantity or bloating), it seems like it should be noticeably less so when you are fasted first thing in the morning. If you can’t tell with the naked eye, take full body profile shots first thing in the morning and then later in the day and compare.
If you do end up taking profile shots, take two seconds to look at your waistband just in case you do have some APT.
Well I know it isn’t from having a small chest, because while my chest isnt exactly HUGE, its very proportional to my body. My abs don’t stick out that much father than my chest, just a little bit. I think that the best explanation is either my stomach is large fromt he huge food intake, which someone mentioned, or that I need to work on my inner abs with the power breathing, vaccuum pose, etc.
I’ll try workin my abs from the inside and see how they improve. It isn’t a large issue, but something I’d like to fix.
I just wanted to say that there is some great info here