Exercises that enlarge your waist?!

[Skinnyrunt]

Just glanced at this article posted on the RX main site:

http://rxmuscle.com/blogs/the-traini...-a-winner.html

I quote:

" Key things I have been focusing on are tightening my waist and core. Some things that work against that are heavy lifting over your head whether its shoulder presses or even heavy squats and dead lifts."


I may very well be wrong, but this sounds bizarre to me. Is there any truth in this?

[Ryan Bracewell]

Didn't read the article bc I'm on my phone but those exercises can increase your waist when done really heavy, like a powerlifter or strongman would. When you perform those exercise with heavy weights you have to push your diaphragm(in stomach area) out to stabilize your body. Over time your diaphragm will enlarge and can give you a distended stomach look, even if your lean. If you look at skinny Opera singers they will have this too bc you sing with your diaphragm.

[ritch]

I can vouch that heavy deads made my waist larger, I would often do reps between 1-5 range c'ause, well... It's fun!

[Waylon]

I can vouch that heavy deads made my waist larger, I would often do reps between 1-5 range c'ause, well... It's fun!

It sounds crazy but I think it's true that some exercises grow out your gut

I think deads do so even more than most exercises because they make your core "gut" stabalize and push out, while your low lats or whatever back muscles are down there are contracting, stimulating muscle cell growth in the "love handles"

[Skinnyrunt]

Interesting. I've heard that training your obliques will give you a thicker waist, and that for a minority even heavy weighted crunches will make their waistline grow too. But this new to me. Kind of wierd though if you've got to do compound lifts to gain size, but if this is the case then going too heavy on them will ruin your V taper.

[ritch]

Interesting. I've heard that training your obliques will give you a thicker waist, and that for a minority even heavy weighted crunches will make their waistline grow too. But this new to me. Kind of wierd though if you've got to do compound lifts to gain size, but if this is the case then going too heavy on them will ruin your V taper.

true, I feel sorry for the fatasses I see training their obliques, don't train them! I would not do deads under reps of 6 and no higher than 10. Why? Most people's form goes to shit when they go over 10 reps.

I even did an experiment lately in regards to ab training. I said, I'll take the 10 minutes it used to take me to train them and do cardio instead. This method turned out to be superior. Add another 10 minutes of cardio, so say 20 on average and my stomach looked better than when I used to train abs! Anyway...

my physique looks better since I stopped doing deads, they took away shape from my legs as well, just made them look blocky. Plus my CNS is fresher on the ohter movements I do allowing me to go heavier on all the rowing excercises I like to to which are the true back thickness builders anyway...

I'm not anti deadlift at all, and yes, I'm well aware Ronnie did them, just stating what works best for me. The main reason why I don't like them is that they train so many bodyparts causing overlap in many muscle groups but don't isolate any well enough to cause enough local growth. Took me a long time to realize that...

[Skinnyrunt]

I actually train abs every workout - I do like 5-10 mins beginning of each session which doubles up as my warm up. I have wondered if this is in fact too much ab training and could be making my waist bigger?

But, yeah as for squats and deads etc making your waist bigger, that could be why you see a lot of pros wearing a belt during every workout, no matter what body part or what exercise they do?

[Waylon]

No ab workouts or cardio in a few years in this pic, my theory is abs are made in the kitchen! I do a little core now though too. Guys like Aaron Singerman never train core as well, and Iv heard Dex supposedly doesn't train them much either.

But I'd have to imagine this guy's done some heavy lifting in his day and has kept his core tight.

(Mariusz Pudzianowski 5x World Strongest Man)

[I Eat Therefore I Am]

Oh yeah, it's definitely squats and deadlifts, along with other heavy compound movements that make a blocky waist. It has nothing to do with copious amounts of food/calories, inflamatory foods, or exogenous hormones... Good God!

Do these exercises affect the midsection? of course. Do they determine whether or not the waist will be big and blocky? no.

I thought my waist was about as small as it'd be but one week I cut out grains from my diet and had to go in a notch on my belt loop. I've been doing deadlifts and squats for almost 10 years. In that time I have gained weight and strength and my waist is no bigger than when I started.

[Ryan Bracewell]

But I'd have to imagine this guy's done some heavy lifting in his day and has kept his core tight.

(Mariusz Pudzianowski 5x World Strongest Man)

first, he's a genetic freak

Second, he was also 330 at his biggest while being that lean so even though he still had a V taper his waist was still probably a good size.

[MiamiMadePunk]

So OP, are you doing Men's physique?

[•P®øD¶G¥•]

I cut out grains from my diet and had to go in a notch on my belt loop.

What do you eat for carbs now ? regular day, on/off, refeed, PWO, etc... ?