>>77318768 >thinking such height approximations are anywhere near accurate Please tell me you don't actually believe this shit. Please tell me you don't watch those dumbass internet "sleuths" with their utterly retarded height truth bullshit or that other retard that thinks he can find people from a single picture, blurts out some science-babble bullshit, and everyone just accepts it as real. Please tell me you're not that much of a fucking sheep!
Here are other exercises he does: Bench press (90kg) / Incline bench press Smith Machine (60kg) / Dips (machine, 60kg) / Shoulder press (machine, 30kg) / Lateral raise (10kg). I don't understand how he's so good-looking while his lifts are very low?
This dude looks like he only trains his show muscle serious and seriously neglects back and legs, he also has manlet proportions and likely weighs 150lbs. Progressive overloads works for everybody for growing your muscles, you will never have a big chest benching 135. How aesthetic you appear depends on how your body is actually put together, and the angle of the light/how pumped you are for your photo.
>>77318768 This. He probably weighs like 150 but just looks big on camera because he's lean, the Tristyn Lee effect.
I have a buddy who looks absolutely yoked out of his mind in all his Instagram shit but looks tiny when you see him in real life, and his 1rm bench is 185. When you're shredded the camera seems to add 30lbs
>>77318809 Not awful numbers desu, that's better than most guys in the gym can do. But absolutely weak for his physique
>>77318971 This, especially if his form is good and he's doing full depth. I'll never understand the guys who quarter rep on machines... At least this guy is honest about his numbers unlike the gay fake weights using influencers all over social media
>>77318978 >>77318996 These dudes are probably correct that he actually doesn't weigh a lot but manages to look huge on camera. Angles and lighting make you like 3x bigger when you got definition like that
>>77319013 I don't do bench press with the free bar, I do it on the Smith Machine. That's the only exercise where I can concede his numbers are decent. However, for everything else, I'm sorry but it's way below what one would expect based on his top-tier physique.
>>77319013 He's probably fat. I have a 3pl8 bench but my chest hardly shows because I'm fucking 25% bf lol. That anon is probably in the same boat as me and needs to cut before his chest will really show
>>77319026 As you can see, even pumped, my body is way below his body. >>77319019 I'm 73kg 175cm, so I'm not fat and since I'm shorter than him, I should look muscular more easily, which is not the case as you can see
>>77319056 If you don't admit that my body is trash compared to his, then you're not being honest. The "garbage setup" is indeed true, but I don't want to cheat my pictures. The guy I've shown is cheating on many of his pictures, but even in "normal" ones he looks way better than me
>>77319068 I'm already lifting more than him, that's what I don't understand. I was told progressive overload was the main driver of muscle hypertrophy!
>>77319105 You just want to cling desperately to the myth of meritocracy in lifting and the idea that “the stronger you are, the more muscular you are”
>>77319106 that's called causality man, its a fundamental law of the universe, you can't deny that, yes the more you get stronger, the more muscle you will build
>>77319146 Yes but there are outliers: some people manage to get muscular without being that strong, and some people struggle to build muscles even though they are strong.
>>77319169 >>77319169 I can show you people who lift heavier weights than the guy that I've shown and yet look less muscular: me. I'm not saying I deadlift 650lbs or bench 400, though.
>>77319146 the correlation coefficient between strength and hypertrophy is only like 0.6-0.7. it's not a 1:1 thing >>77319042 i compared a fair pic of that guy's physique in the link you posted to yours here. you have comparable arms, comparable traps, and comparable delts. he's not actually that big, he just has an admittedly great-looking chest for his strength level and a much better chest circumference to waist circumference ratio (which is largely a function of lats and bf%).
>>77319172 >0.6-0.7. You realize how significant that is if we consider 0 or 0.1 to be the lowest possible coefficient aka someone at 0.1 ratio gets minimal hypertrophy from lifting x2 bw bench vs 0.5 same metric x2bw bench x 3 deadlift or whatever meme measure you came up with
>>77319183 >AI >Elbow flexor training Man go fuck yourself you deserve to have every single finger of your slowly cut off and your kneecaps crushed before being thrown in the middle of the atlantic
>>77319194 They trained them for 8 weeks and had them regularly deload to reach some convulted autistic 12 rep mark no matter what without progressively overloading To think this the "most cited" paper subject on this matter is eye opening. I was a skeptic now i cant take sport soience seriously at all anymore
>>77319196 No one got it right in the thread, the answer is leverages. You simply have better bone lengths for certain positions and exercices which gives you a massive advantage and requires way less mucle mass to lift the same weight.
>>77319221 I don't think so. The only thing I can mention is that I have a long torso, more specifically a long abdomen. Maybe this has an impact on how I look, on my ability to lift heavy?
>>77319244 yes it is, obviously you described it yourself, some people are pretty muscular yet, their lifts aren't impressive at all, while another seemingly skinnier guy can lift more than the muscular guy, that's all leverages, its by far the most important factor for lifting heavy.
>>77319285 I don't know if I have long arms though, I know that my forearms are quite long compared to my humerus but I don't know if the overall length is long or short
>>77319290 Well its easy to determine that by measuring your wingspan and compare it to your height, if your wingspan is longer that your height you have long arms, if its lower you have short arms.
>>77318809 That's 90 for 10, followed by a few sets of 95 for 7 and 8. Basically high volume bench. That puts him probably at anywhere between a 130-140 bench press which isn't too bad.
Guess his lower body sucks since he's not a powerlifter though.