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hey that's going on megan here the tier list are back
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the og of the tier list is back this time what
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is the most aesthetic muscle slash body part not just for my opinion
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but also what the ladies think three years ago i did
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one on uh the best muscles for looking as big as possible
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So this time we're going to focus just on aesthetics, right?
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I know you guys are big into the whole classic physique, aesthetic body, Frank Zane, Serge Nubre type of physique these days.
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When I was growing up, we just wanted mass.
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It was all about being as big as possible.
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But a lot of you guys have been requesting this forever.
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So here it is, the most important muscles for aesthetics.
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I'm only going to use one criteria this time, right?
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which is both men and women have to agree that
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that muscle is aesthetic
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so i'm going to use both the opinion of women in my 20 plus years of doing this shit
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and the opinion of straight niggas straight dudes all right all right
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so let's go uh i'm about to nut category you guys
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remember that's best of the best that's s tier fucking amazing
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that's a tier nice to have you know that's right there
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in the middle bad meaning it really doesn't help with aesthetics at all
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and pure garbage meaning it actually destroys it actually hurts your aesthetics
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if it's too overdeveloped right all right so let's start at random right
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so let's start with triceps guys i really didn't want to do this list
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because it's almost the opposite of the mass tailors right the the most important ones is for looking big
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which is all i cared about back when i was into
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when i was heavy into bodybuilding um
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but as far as the status goes guys i'm gonna put
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triceps are bad keep in mind it's for aesthetics this is
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not for this is not what i think right it's not what i think about the muscles
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that a man should have my list is completely different as far as uh the muscles
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that i think every man should you know should actually develop
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this is just for having a nice aesthetic physique not for
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classic bodybuilding you know just just to be a stack just
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to go to the beach you know just to uh just to look just to have
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that v-taper you know triceps whether you have big triceps
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or not that's not really gonna help with aesthetics trust me
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most girls actually the funny thing is most girls don't even
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know what the tricep is you know unless they obviously work
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out you'd be surprised most girls are like wait triceps huh back arms what uh
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so as far as the status go i'm putting triceps is bad
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and keep in mind i love triceps right i love triceps
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so stay objective abs yeah you guys know as far as
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the status go uh you know again fucking amazing right um
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and you can tell by my voice i'm not too excited about
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that because i think abs are one of the most overrated muscles in bodybuilding you know uh it's
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so overrated trust me i used to trace abs
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when i was you know in my early days you guys remember the old videos
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when i was obsessed with being lean the reason why i hate i fucking hate abs now is
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because abs is keeping 90s small i made a whole video about
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that most 90s have an ffmi under 21 some some even 18 after years of lifting
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because they're so obsessed with their six pack if you're natural abs are going to keep you small Most guys with abs,
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they look good on camera They look good on a photo
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But you see them in real life And it doesn't look like they lift It's all an illusion, it's all the pump and the lighting Whatever The more shredded,
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the more defined your abs look And you're natural The smaller you are, that's a fact
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Unless you have King Kong Elite genetics
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You'd be surprised at how many naturals are behind um are
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far from their genetic potential their maximum genetic potential for muscle size
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because they're so obsessed with staying under 10 body fat
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but i digress this video is for aesthetics i gotta be
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objective right as far as aesthetics go yeah you gotta have abs right you're not gonna have a gut
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and be like oh look this motherfucker's
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so aesthetic um next biceps once again believe it
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or not biceps are not that important for aesthetics i'm gonna put
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that at nice to have um and again this is the opinion of men
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and women combined right not just my opinion just from surveys
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and personal experience most people do not care about biceps as
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far as having an aesthetic physique goes right you can have 20 inch arms but
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if the muscles on the i'm about to not category underdeveloped
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you're not gonna look aesthetic at all uh next calves believe it or not
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i'm gonna put calves at man this one is tough this
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one is tough i'm gonna put calves are bad man yeah i'm gonna put calves about yeah
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if you got chicken legs obviously you know the girls are gonna troll you they're gonna make fun of you
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but no one looks at your calves and goes oh my god he's
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so aesthetic no you know it doesn't work like
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that uh next chest yeah this one is gonna upset a lot of people
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but once again i'm gonna put
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that a nice to have right it's nice to have you know nice big chest
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but it's not really going to add to your aesthetics keep
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in mind this is aesthetics including um with a shirt on
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and with a shirt off right
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if your shirt is on trust me a chest is not going to add a lot to your aesthetics um
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if your shirt is off obviously that you know they will
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but we have to look at the whole um next neck
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you guys know i'm a big oh this one's gonna be tough
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because you guys know i'm very biased
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when it comes to neck you know i think neck is one of the most alpha muscles ever
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but um for aesthetics uh this one is tough man this
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one is tough to be honest i'm gonna get a lot of hate for this
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but i'm also gonna put this the nice app right um i want to put it higher trust me guys
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but i have to be objective this is for aesthetics this
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is not for this is not what megan wants this is not what megan likes this is not for mass
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or power you know a girl will rarely come over to you
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and say oh my god you
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so aesthetic look at your nfl player neck you know look
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at your lamar jackson neck no no you know now again
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that does not mean you should not train neck
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that does not mean you have a pencil neck it just means
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if you grow your neck uh to max proportions right it's
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not gonna do a lot for your aesthetics that's another reason
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why i'm not big into you know the whole aesthetic movement
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because look you know a lot of my favorite muscles score
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so low you know um
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and you'd be surprised you don't believe me ask most girls man
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if you have a full again obviously
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if you have a nice neck you know a decent size neck they're gonna be like oh nice
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but if you have a football player neck
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if you maximize neck hypertrophy by the way all the muscles here i'm referring to
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when they maximize most girls don't care you know in fact
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some of them think you look like they're like oh my god you have no neck
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and i'm always like fuck off all right next forearm again
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forearm is nice to have trust me guys you guys overhype forearms
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when it comes to aesthetics when it comes to how your entire body flows.
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Yeah, you want them to be developed, but over developing your forearms is not gonna do anything for your aesthetics.
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Next, hamstrings, get the fuck outta here, guys.
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Oh my God, this guy has amazing hamstrings.
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He's so hot.
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Not one girl ever fucking said that shit, right?
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And also, not one nigga ever looked at you and said, look at your hamstrings please show me your workout program is
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the hsp training never right um now keep in mind i gotta keep i gotta keep saying this over
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and over again
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that does not mean you shouldn't train those muscles you should train all of your muscles right um
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but as far as the statics go trust me you don't
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want to spend a lot of maximizing hamstring hypertrophy it's not
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going to do much next lots i'm about to nut category
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guys having wide lats i'm talking about back width not thickness right
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is gonna do wonders for you say what number one you're
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not gonna have a v-taper without a white back right it's
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impossible to have a v-taper without a wide back unless you have a wide ass
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clavicle right unless you have very broad shoulders it's gonna be very hard to have
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that nice v-taper without a wide back right
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so that's the first of my soul i'm about to nut category
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when it comes to aesthetics quads i'm gonna put quads oh man i'm gonna put quads uh
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aesthetic physique aesthetic physique you're trying to have that frank zane look
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i'm gonna put quads are bad man i'm sorry
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if you look at some of the most aesthetic bodybuilders from
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back in the days they had chicken legs you know all know
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that chicken legs until later in his career frank zane had
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chicken legs surgeon of braille didn't really have chicken legs but But, you know, if you zoom out far enough, it looked like he had chicken legs.
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And yet these motherfuckers were still aesthetic.
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So it's not something that if you overdevelop your quads, it might even hurt your V-taper.
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You know, because remember, the V-taper is all about having, again, that upside down V.
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You know, so it involves chicken legs somewhat.
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You still want your legs to be trained.
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But, you know, now if you want an X-taper, that's a whole different story.
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Right.
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But this video is not about having an X-taper.
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It's about having a V-taper.
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next back thickness so thick back
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so that's your wrong boys it's your mid traps your lower
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traps your spinal erectors uh that's not gonna do jack shit
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for your statics guys most girls don't even know the muscles in your back right it looks nice right
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so in a different category i'm gonna rank it higher
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but as far as the status go i think a lot
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of you guys don't even know what frank zane's back look
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like he was known as the king of aesthetics yet a
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lot of people don't even know what his back look like nobody give a fuck right nobody cared
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so i'm gonna put i'm not gonna put that bad um
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so i'm gonna put
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that nicer man this is tough i'm gonna put a nice
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to have to be honest i should have put triceps
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and nice to have as well
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but um no we'll just stick with my with my initial choice next oh this one is
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so painful this one is so painful guys
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because you know the og subs know why this is gonna hurt me
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so much upper traps as far as aesthetics go man this is i'm so sad
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i'm gonna put it at bad man i'm gonna put
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that bad yeah yeah guys you know again this is why
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this is why i hate this this tearless you know uh
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because like i said time
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and time again the aesthetic physique is literally the opposite of the physique that i grew up admiring the brawley physique,
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the Napa, the big mass monsters.
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The reason why I got into bodybuilding, it was for the big necks, big traps, overpowering chest type of physique,
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but that's not the Frank Zane physique, guys.
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That's not the aesthetic physique.
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And believe it or not, most girls, I remember back when I was deep, deep into bodybuilding, and I would just ask most girls, and trust me, they hated all the muscles
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that I wanted they didn't care about traps they didn't care about neck they didn't care about triceps
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they cared about this shit right here which i didn't give a fuck about
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but yeah yeah upper traps
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if you over develop your upper traps it's not really going to do much for your v-taper
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if anything is going to make you look um more narrow
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right whereas the v-taper the aesthetic physique used to have you know again
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that illusion of width so yeah this is very painful
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but i'm gonna to put that at bat
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and um i mean just look at frank zane man this
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motherfucker had like no traps man it looked like somebody just
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took a hammer just kept beating down his traps flattening out and last
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but least i'm joking guys shoulders go into the very top
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of i'm about to not man get the the very top of i'm about to not category i repeat
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and this is case closed both women agree and niggas agree
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if you want to have the most aesthetic physique non-negotiable you
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got to have nice shoulders you got to have shoulders shoulders are everything
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and no i'm not saying that because i'm biased with shoulders
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because i also am you guys not biased with neck traps and shoulders
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but this this is me being as objective as possible across
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all cultures from asia to africa to north america to south america you look at hunters
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and gatherers fucking hasda tribe whatever you ask men and women what
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that thing the most impressive the best looking muscle group saw
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nine out of ten times they're gonna put shoulders at number one
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and i can make a whole separate video explaining why why we
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so obsessed with shoulders but shoulders are everything especially your side delts
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and your real delts right you gotta train those uh you gotta train those delts always guys
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if you want to have that aesthetic physique you gotta have big nice wide shoulders especially
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if you have a narrow frame if you have narrow clavicles
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and you got to train shoulders even more
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but uh that's it guys that's the tier list i'm about
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to know a category starting with shoulders especially side delts
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and real delts your lats right you got to get
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that width your abs unfortunately then you got the nicer halves right
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which is biceps chest neck forearms back thickness you got the bad
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so if you have overdeveloped triceps calves um quads
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and traps it's kind of hard it's going to hurt the aesthetics a little bit right
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because believe it
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or not the smaller your arms the bigger your lats appear to be from the front um
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and obviously you got hamstrings
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which is like you know what the fuck is it doing
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here all right that's it guys again the tail list are
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back let me know what you want me to go over
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next time join the discord comment below let me know what
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This C1 speaking lesson is built on the video “The ULTIMATE Aesthetic Muscles Tier List (Beginners' Guide) 😤”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: aesthetic, muscle, neck, physique, shoulders. This video has 229 sentences and 2794 words to shadow. The speech runs for 14:03. The speaker talks fast, about 199 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| aesthetics noun | /ɛsˈθɛt.ɪks/ | The study or philosophy of beauty. |
| aesthetic adjective | /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/ | Concerned with beauty, artistic effect, or appearance. |
| physique noun | The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person. | |
| taper verb | /ˈteɪpɚ/ | To make thinner or narrower at one end. |
| triceps noun | /ˈtɹaɪ.sɛps/ | Any muscle having three heads. |
| quad verb | /kwɑd/ | To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out. |
| calf noun | /kɑːf/ | A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo. |
| bodybuilding noun | /ˈbɑ.diˌbɪl.dɪŋ/ | A sport in which the aesthetics of muscular development is the basis for competition. |
| forearm noun | /ˈfɔːˌɹɑːm/ | The part of the arm between the wrist and the elbow. |
| hamstring noun | /ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/ | One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh. |
| biceps noun | /ˈbaɪ.sɛps/ | Any muscle having two heads. |
| obsess verb | /əbˈsɛs/ | To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion. |
| lat noun | /lɑt/ | A coin or bill of either currency. |
| overdevelop verb | To develop to an excessive degree | |
| maximize verb | /ˈmæksəmaɪz/ | To make as large as possible. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. | |
| beat down verb | To forcefully diminish the power or influence of; to quell; to squash. | |
| go over verb | To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze. | |
| zoom out verb | /ˌzuːm ˈaʊt/ | To decrease the focal length of a zoom lens in order to obtain a reduced magnification of the image, or a wider-angle view. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to trace · used to have |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be developed · be trained · was known |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 123 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: aesthetics /ɛsˈθɛt.ɪks/, aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/, thickness /ˈθɪknəs/, width /ˈwɪtθ/, thumb /ˈθʌm/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: illusion /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/, negotiable /nɪˈɡoʊʃəbəl/
- Long words — get the stress right: bodybuilding /ˈbɑ.diˌbɪl.dɪŋ/, hypertrophy /haɪˈpɜɹ.tɹə.fi/, overrated /ˌəʊvəˈɹeɪtɪd/, bodybuilder /ˈbɑ.diˌbɪl.dəɹ/, criterion /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like aesthetics, aesthetic, physique.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.