Heavy deads+heavy squats= thick midsection?

[Freak Show]

what's your opinion? Ever since I started training legs with my buddy who's a powerlifter(several months now), I've noticed being thicker around the middle. This, despite having leaned out a couple pounds. I'm lookin leaner everywhere but there. Its not like I look fatter, just thicker or "girthier." Hey, its a word.

 

[edgecrusher]

It is a definate posibility, when you squat and dead, your obliques have to work to support that load. Your obliques being a muscle, like anything else, can and will hypertrophy.

 

[OMEGA]

squats yes.

deads no.

deads make my waist smaller

 

[sysopt]

squats yes.

deads no.

deads make my waist smaller

could you elaborate???.....learn something new everyday

 

[the People's Champ]

bump

 

[endpoint]

do bicep curls make your arms smaller?

 

[Freak Show]

do bicep curls make your arms smaller?

who are you directing this to?

 

[McLurch]

Yeah power lifters seem to be "heavier". If you do sqauts and deads like power lifters it might make you bigger. But has your diet, or ab routine changed in the past seven months, or has it stayed the same?

 

[endpoint]

who are you directing this to?

i was directing it too omega.

as for your question.

the whole midsection is used in both exercises. to stabalize pull hold etc etc

very effective trunk exercises

 

[Imnotdutch]

could you elaborate???.....learn something new everyday

Yeah I'm thinking WTF too!! Your midsection does a similar job in both lifts so they should have the same effect. How the hell do you get smaller by doing deadlifts???!!!