CALVES!
Still mindblown
Your opinion must have been formed by all the times youāve met me, right? All those hours we spent hanging out and getting to know eachother. Oh wait, that never happened, because you are full of shit! Im sure youll make up some bullshit about how you can read my character based on some random posts youāve found I made. Good luck with that, I think itās you who needs a reality check.
You people take this place way too seriously.
Flies off handle, ends post withā¦
lolz.
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Im just angry because you stopped hanging out with me. Now I have is this roll of bubble wrap I got from Home Depot and some old DVDs. My Friday nights wont be the same again.
I find the direction this thread has gone very easy to masturbate to. Keep up the fine work, gents.
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As others have been saying, it is all about the style of workout. When I first got into weights it was a football players power workout for the skilled positions. I worked out at the school and at a Golds gym. After 4 years of it, I was not half as big as the big boys at Golds. Nor did I have their stamina. But I was stronger than all but one of them over all (top 1% maybe). Stronger than everyone in squats and dead lift. Compared to my fellow ball players I was only top 20%. Your body does what you train it to do. Then there is genetics, but I think it is mostly the type of workout.
When of the best dead difters I ever knew was tall and almost skinny. That isnāt the norm but some guys are freaks.
Yes I have met such individuals as well. And the reason they do not look developed is a combination of leverages plus lower back/hip dominance. You also see this with good low bar squatters. Less developed good benchers are rare though.
I am questioning his logic because he wrote this:
and then proceeded to use himself vs his friend, who are both natties, as an example.
But I was not prepared for this:
CALVES???
Obviously, he was referring to the manās body parts in proper anatomical terms to refer to the segment of the lower extremity immediately distal to the thigh which includes the group of muscles commonly referred to as ācalvesā by uneducated peons. Because we, at T-Nation, believe in using proper anatomical terms to reduce ambiguity and sneer in our superiority at other, lesser bodybuilding sites that attempt to appeal to the masses by presenting their material as oversimplified pablum.
So, uh, circle-jerk, anyone?
Forgetting that a squat done with proper form you are pretty close to flat footed. Not using the calves for more than stabilizing
I donāt think anyone else mentioned this yet but all the guys in the first post look very lean. Most gym regulars who are fairly strong are not necessarily that lean so they appear bigger. If they dieted down they may look more like guys in the first post. This may just apply to the first pic, but he might have shorter arms than the rest so that would at least explain the bench.
I think Omar has a 550 squat but he suffers from no calves syndrome. As he trains in long shorts, he looks very tiny when standing next to other lifters.
But anyway, thereās a lot of factors besides just muscle size but all these guys are carrying muscle - not like theyāre skinny fat.
Having read through this thread, I am off to work on my calves so I can get my dead lift up over 700.
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