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mayanxn Posts: 3 Joined: 2002/05/31	2002/06/06, 12:18 PM Hey guys, this is my first post and i just joined this site. I have a question about my body, okay, i am 6 ft 3 in. and Skinny. When I walk i have a slight slouch in my upper body. KInda like Quasimodo...why is it like that...is it the muscles, there are some tall people i know who arent like this...so what can i do to correct my posture and walk upright instead of being slouched??
skinnyguy Posts: 86 Joined: 2002/05/03	2002/06/06, 01:11 PM Im about 6'2" and I don't seem to have an extreme slouch, but I know what you mean. I sometimes catch myself slouching when I sit down and have to correct. Some people look like they are slouching but its just because they have little amounts of muscle to cover there chest and body. Your shoulders may look foward now ,but they will fill out and look normal with muscle gain on pecs and delts. Good Luck -------------- Vaya con Dios... Keith
Boddhisattvha Posts: 1,226 Joined: 2002/03/07	2002/06/06, 01:24 PM This just sounds like a bad posture problem. You may not even notice it. -------------- And my soul must be iron, because my fear is naked. I'm naked and fearless.
Philia2 Posts: 4,078 Joined: 2001/10/19	2002/06/07, 02:24 AM Open up your chest with pull overs, dumbell flyes etc and work your lats and trapezius. Secondly it's in your head as well..... You have to THINK about keeping yourself straight. Follow a FT program. Good luck! -------------- - Nina :o) La vie est toujours aussi belle.....
rpacheco Posts: 3,770 Joined: 2001/12/13	2002/06/07, 10:27 AM I think when you begin to accumulate upper body muscle mass, you will want to walk up straight so that the ladies can take notice!! -------------- **_Robert_** Pain is temporary; glory is forever!
Boddhisattvha Posts: 1,226 Joined: 2002/03/07	2002/06/07, 03:08 PM What exactly is a pullover? ft doesn't use them. -------------- Practice does NOT make perfect. Perfect practice does.
ischjli Posts: 408 Joined: 2002/03/13	2002/06/07, 03:20 PM These are great Cain. OK, imagine you are holding a db above your head like you would when doing a Tricep DB Extention. Now, instead of sitting upright or standing, you lay perpendicular across a flat bench with the bench running underneath your shoulders/ to mid-upper back. Let the DB down slowly towards the ground and then pull it back up over your head like you are going to chuck it (but keep it slow). Concentrate on expanding your chest. I love these. Oh, this might be a good time for the fencing mask. -------------- Ischjli "Seven days without exercise makes one weak."
ischjli Posts: 408 Joined: 2002/03/13	2002/06/07, 03:21 PM BTW, it has been part of my 8 week mass-chest rountine since I began at ft. Haven't you done an 8 week mass program?
fireloard Posts: 665 Joined: 2001/03/27	2002/06/07, 03:31 PM With pullovers I THINK that if you keep your arms straight through the whole pullover then that works your chest more and if you bend your elbows and keep the weight lower and closer to you through the pullover that will help your back more.. but its only something I heard and never really confirmed... I usually only use straight arm pullovers...
Boddhisattvha Posts: 1,226 Joined: 2002/03/07	2002/06/07, 04:16 PM I'ver reviewed every exercise ft offers in targeting and done a mass program. I selected chest mass during my first program. I have never seen one of these. Also if they are in the muscle targeting than I had to have missed them. -------------- Practice does NOT make perfect. Perfect practice does.
ischjli Posts: 408 Joined: 2002/03/13	2002/06/07, 04:26 PM Yes, as Fireloard says, always straight arm. Interesting Cains, well, I DID NOT target my chest in the mass program. So, maybe it isn't one thrown in when targeting the chest? I targeted my legs, calves and shoulders (wide). An aside, man oh man, the sets of side laterals that I have been doing have really broadened my shoulders. I think if I had to pick one area that has been affected the most by the ft program- as far as what reactions i get- it would be the wide shoulder targeting. It has made my BI's look HUGE. I never had that cap on top of my shoulder, now I do and it really emphasizes the BI!
Boddhisattvha Posts: 1,226 Joined: 2002/03/07	2002/06/07, 04:33 PM Yeah I know what you mean. I currently have wide shoulders and chest mass selected, and I have never had my shoulder slope into my bi before. Weirdness -------------- Practice does NOT make perfect. Perfect practice does.
rpacheco Posts: 3,770 Joined: 2001/12/13	2002/06/07, 04:58 PM Pullovers are listed under ft's muscle targeting section. Under chest, it is on the very bottom listed under Rib Cage Expansion. -------------- **_Robert_** Pain is temporary; glory is forever!
Boddhisattvha Posts: 1,226 Joined: 2002/03/07	2002/06/07, 05:13 PM Figures I missed it. -------------- Practice does NOT make perfect. Perfect practice does.