I used to do what I would call handstand pushups. Because balance isn't that good, I'd do a handstand with back facing the wall and the backs of feet just barely touching the wall, then lower myself down and back up again. I've thought about starting this exercise again, and wanted opinions of those...

You provided a lot of info on Exercise-to-Exercise Ratios topic

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I thought I was way out of balance, and your info not only confirmed that but is helping me revise what I'm doing when I work out.

Ouch. Ok, np, I need criticism. That's part of the reason I'm here. When you say lop sided shoulders, I assume are referring to posture and not the actual development of those muscles? Or both? If you think that image was bad, you should have seen it before I tried to correct the image rotation! :oo...

Note - I've edited this a bit to include more recent pics for comparison purposes, rather than starting a new thread. Can't report significant gains, but at least I seem to have lost a little fat and have improved posture somewhat. Then again, I'm really taking time with this. After all, what's the ...

Thanks to everyone for their input! Packard - I do not disagree with what you're saying. However, because I am fairly new to this, I want to do what I can to make sure I don't start off on the wrong developmental track. Because this is a somewhat slow/incremental progress, and because I am kind of d...

Is there a guide or any advice regarding what ratios should be used when trying to gain muscle mass in order to achieve desirable proportions? I mean, I don't want to come out of this looking like Popeye, so I assume bench press should be more than what I could do for wrist curls (just an example), ...