Show Muscles That Make You Look Big

Show muscles that make you look big

If you just want to get bigger, eat more, but if you want to have a larger, more muscular-looking physique. It’s not quite that simple. Now I'm not a big guy, but when people look at me I want them to be able to tell I lift. This should be a natural side effect of getting into shape, but there are specific muscles that, when developed, will make us stand out, giving us the appearance of being larger than we are.

Before we go any further, I need to emphasize the importance of posture. This is the very foundation of what we are building muscle on, and if our foundation isn’t right, we aren't going to look right.

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No matter how much muscle we build, if our shoulders are rolled forward and our upper back makes us resemble the hunch back of Notre-Dame, we’re not going to look impressive.

To fix our upper body posture, I would recommend face pulls. These can be done with dumbbells while lying on an incline bench, with bands or on a cable machine. One thing you need to make sure you are doing with a face pull is to pull your shoulder blades back and together with each repetition.

Face pulls fix our posture by strengthening our mid traps, rhomboids, external rotators and rear delts.

This brings us to the first muscle group that makes us look big, our shoulders. Developing all three heads of our shoulders is essential. Most people who are weight training regularly have good anterior delts, which is the front of the shoulder and all our pushing movements, bench press, shoulder press and push-ups, work them pretty hard.

The back of your shoulders or your posterior delts gets worked with your pulling movements. Although I find they need more work.

For the extra work, I recommend chest-supported rear delt flyes. The bench is set lower for this movement, and you perform it by raising your arms at 90 degrees to your body. If you have trouble feeling it in your rear delts, try lowering your arms just below 90 degrees as I feel it more in my delts this way. Just don't go lower than 45 degrees, as your lats will start to take over.

Our lateral delts virtually always could use more work, and once again, we can use chest support flyes to accomplish this; we just have to raise the angle of the bench to 75 or 80 degrees. This will shift the emphasis onto the lateral delt, and by leaning on the bench, it improves our form keeping us from using momentum to swing the weights up.

Another exercise I like is the full range of motion lateral raise what this one does is as your arms move above the shoulder, it becomes a upper trap exercise.

The next muscle group that makes us look big is arms. When I asked my wife what body part she thought made a man look bigger, she right away said arms.

The biggest muscle group on the arm is the triceps, it’s best to hit it in both the stretched and contracted position. For the stretched position, I like overhead triceps extensions. This can be done with cables or bands. This position emphasizes the long head of the triceps, which is the largest head providing our arms with more size than any of the other muscles on the upper arm.

For the contracted position, I am going with triceps rope pulldown; with the rope, you can extend your arm back farther than you could with a straight bar. Giving you a better contraction.

When viewing your arm from the side, most of the size is the triceps, but the last portion is the bicep, with the long head being seen from the side. A great exercise to hit the long head is the dumbbell drag curl. With this exercise, you bring the dumbbells straight up alongside your body, and as you raise up, your elbow moves farther behind you, creating a strong peak contraction in the bicep.

From the front, it's the short head of the bicep that gives it its width and thickness, creating a larger-looking arm. The two ways we can emphasize the short head is to do curls with our arms slightly in front of us like when we do a spider curl.

The second way is to use a wider than shoulder-width grip when you do curls. I combine the two movements when I do a squatting cable curl. To put as much stimulus on the short head as possible.

The body part that got the second most votes was the chest. At first, It made sense as no matter how wide you look from the front, if when you turn sideways, you disappear, you're not going to look big. A muscular chest adds thickness to the upper body.