2005 Jr nats

BuffD · Sep 9, 2005

Ok here's me at the 05' Jr Nats. I placed 5th in the Heavies. I weighed in at 206lbs (I'm just a tad over 5'8"). My next show will be the 2006 Nationals. Need to take some time to get thicker and bring my chest up more. Let me know what ya think.

Big A · Sep 9, 2005

You don't have any glaring flaws in the body, but LEARN HOW TO POSE!

Seriously, you are doing yourself a great injustice.

Side chest inhale, because the way you are doing it in that pic you are making your chest look small.

Front lat spread - don't hunch your shoulders together. You truly are making yoruself look much smaller than you are.

Back - try to make it even - hips are misaligned, unflexed leg is truly unflexed (flex it!), spread the back more.

Your lower back and hams need to be dryer. Arms could be bigger, especially obvious in the front lat spread but not in the front bis, so looks like a thickness issue.

I think if you look from the back the way you look from the front (lean, dry, separated), and posing PROPERLY, you will find your placings greatly increase!

BuffD · Sep 9, 2005

Cool thanks. I've been trying to work on my posing. Usually I do inhale when I do a side chest pose (not sure why I didn't in that pic). I was actually told by an NJ judge to try hitting my front lat like that to make my chest look better. I'll go back to the way I use to do it. I can't seem to hit my rear poses without my hips going like that. Any tips on how to correct that? This year me and my nutritionist were trying to keep me full for the stage. I think in doing so my conditioning, mainly from the rear, suffered some. Hopefully we'll nail that next year at Nats. Thanks for the critique.

Dwarfs-R-Us · Sep 10, 2005

obviously your chest size is your weakness. but don't try to hide it so much. just makes it looks more obvious.
how do your hips feel when you put the other foot back?

BuffD · Sep 10, 2005

Dwarfs-R-Us said:
obviously your chest size is your weakness. but don't try to hide it so much. just makes it looks more obvious.
how do your hips feel when you put the other foot back?

They feel the same. I was looking at some pics I have of me from a show back in 2002 and I didn't do that with my hips. I can't really tell what I was doing different. I'm gonna have to really work on that. I've been trying to build my chest up for a long time now. I've tried a bunch of different things. Currently I'm trying to hit pecs twice a week. I'll do that for a while and see how it goes.