Is It Possible To Change The Shape Of Your Muscles?

By performing certain exercises or by varying the angle at which you train certain muscle, Is it possible to change the shape of your muscles? The purpose of this Blog is to explain one of the most misunderstood subjects in strength training and bodybuilding.

Can we “shape” our muscles with certain exercises?

One of the most misunderstood concepts in bodybuilding is the belief that there are some exercises that shape or define the muscle and others that bulk it up. Unfortunately, the shape or form of a muscle is genetically predetermined and cannot be altered for example, your height or the colour of your eyes. There’s no such a thing as “shaping exercises.” But that doesn’t mean that your physique is predetermined. as Arnold put it in Pumping Iron. You need to look at yourself the way an artist would and decide where do you need more or less “clay”,.

Just to give you an example, we usually consider bench press to be mass building exercise for the chest. On the other hand, cable flyes we usually see as a ‘shaping’ exercise. While performing either exercise, however, the pectorals simply contract and relax. So where does this notion come from?