If your deltoids re thin and weak, then the points of your shoulders will be bony, that is, you will be the kind of man of whom people say "Oh, he has shoulders like a hat rack" but if you develop the deltoids so as to make them as strong as they can be, you will at the same time make them each an inch thicker, and that will add a clean two inches to your shoulder breadth. The deltoid gets its rounded form because it covers the head of the upper-arm bone. Just figure for yourself how properly developed deltoids will affect the appearance of your shoulders. In a "Strong Man" they may be anywhere from an inch to two inches thick. Whereas in the non-athletic type the deltoids are only a fraction of an inch in thickness, and so little developed that it is impossible to trace their outlines.
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In a true "Strong Man" - be he professional lifter or otherwise - these deltoid muscles are of extraordinary size. In another book, "Muscle Building," I have given instructions for obtaining that development and so here I will merely explain that the width of the shoulders is governed not only by the size of your frame, but by the size and development of the deltoid muscles on the points of your shoulders. Therefore any man with broad shoulders I potentially strong that is, he has the possibilities of strength, which he may realize if he develops all the muscles of the shoulders. When speaking of a man who is very strong, it is customary to say "he is a broad-shouldered, big-chested fellow." If you have broad shoulders you have at least three distinct advantages: (1) the vigor which you derive from the extra-size lungs in your big chest (2) the extra room for muscle on and about the shoulders themselves (3) the greater muscular leverage which comes from the wide spread of the shoulders.
If you have a very small chest, it would be unnatural for you to have very broad shoulders, and vice versa.
There is, or should be, a relation between the size of your chest and the breadth of your shoulders. Having dealt with the subject of big bones versus small bones, this seems a good time to discuss other physical characteristics which are in themselves natural advantages to the strong man.īroad shoulders, for example, are a distinct advantage, simply because they are but another indication of a large and strong bony framework, which would be a good foundation on which to build muscle.