I was out last night and overheard someone say (have heard this in the past when I worked out hard 2007 - 2008) ‘that guy looks good but has no lats.’ Or soemthing like that.
Not that I look BIG, but I was wering a sleeveless t (wife better) shorts and am a fairly handsome chappy luckilly, and have a decent ‘slim but athletic’ look in shorts and tshirt or naked.
Truth is I DO have lats and my back grows in thickness but gettting that v sweep from waist to shoulder is damned hard for me a natural ectomorph.
I started working out a month ago. I will post a before and after pic. First was July 6th, 2nd where you can see gains in the arms and deltoids and some in the chest.
As you can see, I’m making gains. Not bad at all for 17 days Now I know I’m still a skinny B compared to most of you guys, but I AM working and eating and resting hard.
It annoys me that my damned calves seem to grow just by looking at the calf press. They do what b’building is supposed to do - work them out, eat well - they visibly grow. Shoulders too and arms. And thighs.
You can see I have decent traps too from the back shot I’ll post next, I have a good visible kite shape and some lat thickness for a restarting beginner less than a month in. Even have some rear delts which is rare for beginners. AGAIN - I’M NOT SAYING IT’S GREAT AND I’VE ONLY BEEN WORKING OUT FOR A FEW WEEKS.
But same happened in past. Worked out heavy and ate well etc for 6 months and got in great shape - all bar the damned lat flare.
I’m doin my deads, wide grip pull downs and rows hard, with intensity and good from but the lat width alludes me.
I’m tempted, out of being pissed off to selectively overtrain them by doing chins at the local park on off days. I once read that Arnold used to be embarrased about his disproportionally slim claves and secretly trained them every day to ge tthem to catch up. In the past being narrow shouldered, I have done this with my side delts which were lagging and it worked - they got bigger from selectively doing side delt iso work 2 x a week (this was back in 08.)
Name me some exercises to try and super stress or isolate that part of the pat that gives the width, name me a rep range that is best for lats, advise me if i should maybe experiement with differing grips on pull downs, or do something nuts like 6 x 8 for them instead f 4 x 8 like I do for other compounds.
Damned lats.
Edit - just gonna do a training log instead.