That's hysterical! I'd always been pretty suspicious of those before/after photos in the ads, but this proves just how easily they can be manipulated.
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ha ha that last photo I bet he was thinking can I breathe yet!
May have to try some of those tricks on my last photo shoot in Spetember but my trainer will boot me in the nads if I do! Bar steward never lets me tense the muscles even and will only take the piccy when Im relaxed!!!!!!!!
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A great one for getting the 6 pack really showing is to have someone make you laugh like a loony when they are taking the piccys! Your stomach gets more of a conraction than any work out will give you
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"The time for talking has passed, actions are speaking louder than words."
many magazine photos are retouched, especially the cover photos for one magazine that i know. most touch-ups you don't notice unless you study the photo.
but again, the transformation i did above was a 2 minute job...we didn't put any effort into lighting, tanning, oil, photoshop, etc.
ALSO - this gives you a good reason to walk with good posture at the beach when your shirt is off!
Craig, what did you do differently between the second and third picture. It's pretty obvious that posture and lack of flexing is the main difference between the first one and the others, but what about between 2 and 3. It looks like you've pulled your shoulders forward somewhat in the 3rd and flexed more. Is that it?
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Rob, he could've done some reps to pump the muscles, too. Bodybuilders do high reps sets behind the stage prior to entering the competition on the stage. That's what i can think of. Craig obviously knows the best how to pump his muscles.
Actually I didnt' do any reps or pumping...that certainly would have made the transformation photo more vascular.
Honestly, it was weird enough taking these photos, so it would have been too weird to have done the pump-up part. If you know what i mean. The person taking the photo was already making me fun of me...
K-Court - what i did in the 3rd photo
1) I did a bit of a traditional bodybuilding pose (you know the one where the abs are flexed hard and biceps are flexed - i think its actually called the 'most muscular' in bodybuilding posing). You kind of crunch your body forward, to get the abs flexed.
2) then i straightened up and really pulled the shoulders back.
Thanks, Craig. I understand. I really don't want you showing me bodybuilding poses! :p
I also noticed that in the second photo, you are a little further away from the photographer than in the first and third. This has the illusion of making you look bigger in the third versus second, because you fill up more of the frame. I'm not sure if this was intentional or just a fluke.
PS I'm really enjoying your Beach Muscles program. It's definitely a challenge, especially with the add-on sets you recommended to laxcdn last year.
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many magazine photos are retouched, especially the cover photos for one magazine that i know. most touch-ups you don't notice unless you study the photo.
but again, the transformation i did above was a 2 minute job...we didn't put any effort into lighting, tanning, oil, photoshop, etc.
ALSO - this gives you a good reason to walk with good posture at the beach when your shirt is off!
CB
I knew someone in the biz and their take was that almost EVERY picture was touched up in some way. They take out blemishes, lean up waist lines, increase boob size and roundness.........he said that the job was to SELL.......so they make that happen in any way possible
A good photographer is worth his weight in gold. I had a girl in my grad school class who wound up in the Women of Enron issue of Playboy. For the sake of science I looked through the issue and past her twice before I found the picture because she looked so different.
Her pictorial versus real life couldn't have been any more opposite. All because the photographer angled her in the best possible manner.
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Wow. Anyway, Craig's body is also showing the reflection of his TT programs.
Of course i mean the 3rd picture .
Yah, these photos are from last November. At that time it was all lifting, and eating properly. Up until the last month, I wasn't doing any interval training at all. Now I do 2-3 times per week, training to improve my mile time...which is something I am copying from Adam Campbell's blog.
So for those photos, it would be Body by TT for Mass.
So for those photos, it would be Body by TT for Mass.
Always the marketer, Craig. (That's a compliment, btw! )
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"UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr. Seuss
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." - George Bernard Shaw
Honestly, after i saw those pictures, i have a lot more faith in TT. I always think that one shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but now i can judge TT from Craig's body.
Unless Craig's real body is the first picture, & he was straining as hard as he could for the third picture .. just joking, man .. we all believe u .
Cool! I'll be waiting. I have all your TT programs in Men's Fitness & Maximum Fitness. Once i get my back problem fixed, there'll be a long list of TT to be done .
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