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You see it all the time, my friend.

And especially in the Jims and online with most of these so called “health and fitness” or health and wellness coaches websites.

The picture of a person proudly showing off their arms in that pose where you hold up the lower half of your arm at right angles to the upper, and flex your “bis” as they like to call it.

Bis?

LOL.

Given the nuts prowling the internet (Schofield) that term may have a different connoation for them – but anyway, that aside, biceps.

Showing off their biceps, and often little else.

I dont know, but to me, this has always seemed facile and puerile, to be honest.

In “Over the Top“, the Sly Stallone starrer which had arm wrestling as the theme – a much derided movie in certain quarters (I liked it tho) showed Stallone in that iconic pose with a hawk and truck to the side of him, flying and driving full blast!

WHAM!

Much like “Big Daddy Cool Diesel” back in the day and his entrance music in the WWE (basically a mammoth TRUCK coming out – like the man himself, 7 footer and then some!) – it had an impact.

But to me, the Sly pose had the most impact.

It showed off massive, meaty forearms first and then the chest, biceps and anything else.

As you can probably guess, I’m not a huge fan of bicep flexing!

When I do and teach pull-ups, I do NOT teach you the chin up – I teach you the PULL-UP.

There is a huge difference.

Sure, you can do chins. They’re great, but they’re NOTHING in comparison to the supinated “fingers pointing away” (did Iget the term right? LOL I’m not huge on terms – I’m huge on the result!) pull-up . . . for reasons I’ve mentioned many times before, and in the books.

On THIS site, and the other one, you’ll see a headshot of me on the first page, and perhaps me doing a one arm reverse pushup – one of the toughest things for anyone to do.

But thats it.

No posing, preening, flexing, and the headshot was taken when I was far bigger than I am now (ie. FATTER. Hehe).

The “thick”comments that the truly “phat phocks” make about those pictures came because unlike most phat phocks, which I WAS back in the day, I still did pull-ups – which alone puts me into a rarefied breed, and contradicts my own advice on pull-ups in a way that “the heavier you are, especially around the midsection”, the tougher it is to do ’em, if at all …………..and it also puts YOU into a rareified breed if you take this advice and experience to heart, and do what I did!

(Dont get me wrong. I’m not advocating being fat, but if you’re currently still losing a few kilos around the tummy and what not, then START doing pull-ups – or TRYING – NOW).

(The ultimate result will be that much easier).

Back to poses.

The only other poses I show on my book covers as far as I know?

The famous and infamous “much trolled” cover on Shoulders like Boulders, which LOTS OF people LOVE!

“A superb book from an amazing writer/trainer!”

And even more hate (the numbers are legion and legion x 10. Hehe. So it should be!)

“This author doesn’t look like he’s ever trained!”

Well, Keith, my friend I dont know so much about that, but I sure dont pump, pose, preen and curl …

Anyway, enough on this – I dont know why I Felt compelled to share this with you?

I guess because the madness is just increasing, not going away as you’d think it would.

Anyway, pumping, posing, puffing, buffing, mirrors, chrome and fern aside.

Some of the best workouts I’ve had are with me and ….

… no dame, no training partner, no A/C, no nothing …

Just a WALL. And a FLOOR.

We all got that, I’d say.

And the two courses that I used the most – Pushup Central – and Animal Kingdom Workouts.

Jump on these now, and get started on some BRUTALLY EFFECTIVE training today.

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – If you’re looking for quick and dirty outdoor workout that are blazing quick in terms of dropping fat, go here.

(edit- I kinda like the pose I struck there, heh)