get the V taper physique like Jean Claude Van Damme and Chris Evans

training to get that V shape or V taper to your physique is very important and what bodybuilding is all about really.

In training Both Weight and Non-Weight Trainers will do many of the same exercises. and the Wide-grip chinning exercise is one, like grabbing hold of the lateral on a goal post and chinning off of it like when a kid.

This is a great exercise to get the v shape from, and will build fantastic arms and an unbelievable back. It develops the lat muscle located just under your armpit on your back, which will flare out your lats which also has the effect of making your waist look thinner in comparison to your lats and shoulder muscles.

This is one of the easiest muscles to develop and with back exercises of course, a fundamental exercise being chin ups, or pull-downs in the gym if you do not have access to something to chin up off like a lateral bar,

also training shoulders is important to get that wide look, along with some trap work as well, and this gives you that wide-shouldered, narrow waist look, a V shape! your training should focus on all muscle groups, but put a special emphasis on this muscle to help you create a great looking body, train everything but also train for the illusion as well, with exercises that bring out the bodybuilder style look, one example above to get the wide look to your physique.

this is what people like Chris Evans follow in there workouts to get that wide shoulders look, the same with Jean-Claude Van Damme as well who was known for his physique and set the stage for the hollywood muscleman look really.


the actors like chris evans use lots of tricks in there workouts


look to train upper chest and also get a good stretch in the pecs to get that full wide look, also important for the wide look is to train shoulders well as well, train all 3 heads of the shoulder muscles the front, side and back lateral muscle heads of the shoulders, as can be seen in this picture of chris evans, he has emphasised chest and shoulder development


Jean Claude Van Damme of course was one of the original muscle men along with sylvester stallone and arnold schwarzenegger they pretty much broke the mould when it came to hollywood muscle men, you can check these 3 out in the upcoming movie expendables 2 in 2012 as well.

Jean Claude Van Damme


Jean Claude Van Damme of course started in martial arts, but do not be mistaken he was also a keen bodybuilder as well, and so trained for the V look to his physique, wide shoulders and a thin waist, which he pulled off to a great effect through his workout training

Jean Claude Van Damme picture

some top gym built physiques modern day shape of men and women?

is this now the archetype or modern day shape of men and women, with all these city type people and a gym training culture are we promoting the "perfect" physique as being all important, at the expense of other things?.

now i work out, but i do not allow it to be the be all and end all of what my life is about, i use training to stay healthy and try and get stronger, and yes, to try and make myself look a bit better as well, so i have been caught up in this modern fitness style movement myself as well, but i would say do not let fitness dominate your life at the expense of everything else.

here is a look at the modern physique, compared to say a hundred years ago, peoples bodies do look to have changed even if that is just down to diet and training alone there is a real change in the way people look nowadays then the way they looked 100 years ago.

the modern female fitness physique jodie minear

Amanda Latona

Rachel Mclish

Lenda Murray

Jamie Eason

will weight training make women bulky or shapely and fit?

today weight training and bodybuilding have gone mainstream and are excepted as excellent means of shaping the body and keeping it in shape, in the past like the 1950's and 1960's coaches would warn that bodybuilding will make you "muscle-bound" and did not doing anythign for cardiovascular fitness.

lifting weights old coaches would say will make you slow, stiff and unathletic, they also warned that it could damage the heart.

today though we know that was utter nonsense, because proper weight training makes you stronger, leaner, more flexible, more athletic and even increase cardiovascular ability, if performed quickly, with little rest between sets, still many people especially women who fear developing huge muscles shy away from weight training.

they perform endless aerobics that do little to build muscle or shape the body, just jumping up and down and waving your arms around is not going to give you a shapely body, sure your raising your heart rate and getting fitter, and burning a few calories, but building muscle, no, and without muscle you cannot shape your body, even jane fonda finally admitted that using small hand and ankle weights made aerobic activity much more effective.

if women workout they are not going to end up looking like a bodybuilder,

because it is other things as well as working out that cause that extreme look, but if women want to build some muscle size and shape then some weight lifting, and cardio is the right way to try and make these things happen.

and just try to get a athletic weight training look to a women body

jpain and gain movie mark wahlberg dwayne rock ohnson

2013 pain and gain movie with mark wahlberg and dwayne "the rock" johnson, well in this previous post pain and gain mark wahleberg i named the movie "no pain and no gain" (easy mistake) but the film is actually called "pain and gain" and it is going to be something that is a rarity, a bodybuilding film, or a film all about the sport of bodybuilding, though of course with a action storyline.

and to do the story justice mark wahlberg really does look like a bodybuilder, he looks to have been doing some serious bodybuilding training to get into the right shape for this film pain and gain.

also the rock wayne johnson is bulked up to look like a bodybuilder as well, so this is quite a novel film, there are not really any films made about bodybuilding for the most part.

some more pictures of the rock wayne johnson and mark wahleberg in 2013 pain and gain

here is a picture from the movie pain and gain dwayne johnson

pain and gain mark wahlberg

dwayne johnson pain and gain

mark wahlberg did his most intense training workouts to date for pain and gain

why we train and go to the gym and workout look like jay cutler or arnold schwarzenegger in 2011?

sometimes you find yourself lacking drive to go to the gym and train or train at home if you have a home gym like me, one of the things i have found as motivation is to look at muscular physiques like that of bodybuilders to get some inspiration and drive to train in my gym.

jay cutler



now we might not exactly want to look like a bodybuilder, or even is it possible for most of us to get that massive bodybuilding physique look anyway, but the idea is still the same to get in shape and build some muscles, maybe not to the degree of professional bodybuilders but build a nice toned physique is still possible for your average trainer.

the massive muscles of pro bodybuilder and mr olympia jay cutler



now this also goes the same for women as well, you can look at top female fitness models to get some inspiration for your gym training, and say i will TRY and look like that, obviously might not get to that level but if you aim for the top, at least you will get somewhere close by trying to get there you will improve over your own levels of physique.

top female fitness figure model jennifer nicole lee



jennifer nicole lee actually came from being very obese and needing to lose weight years ago into this kind of fitness figure shape believe it or not!.



and lets not forget arnold schwarzenegger who has been a inspiration for many people to work out in gyms or with weights for the last 40+ years!.