It takes only 10 minutes for your physique to look much better than usual. Sounds like something from a really bad advert you’d find online, doesn’t it? Well, what you believe to be awesome reality can sometimes be an illusion that you can create in just a few minutes. That is one of the things that bodybuilder, prankster, and YouTube fitness personality Connor Murphy wanted to show in his transformation challenge video.
According to Murphy, there are a number of small things you can do to make you look much better and far fitter when you pose for photos, for example, if you want to look great for your Instagram account. Murphy reveals that, on the one hand, what you see online isn’t always as real as you think; on the other hand, it’s easy you improve how you look, if that’s what you seek.
Connor Murphy showed how several small steps can make your physique look very different
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Of course, the Texan’s advice works best if you’re already fit, but a few minor changes can make all the difference when we want to look our best online.
Step 1, according to Murphy, is shaving your body hair
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Murphy’s transformation challenge video got more than 2.26 million views and his advice is as pertinent now as before. One Redditor recently created a collage of Murphy’s tips for looking better and got more than 34,900 upvotes in just two days for his efforts.
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Murphy says that shaving your body hair, flexing your lats and abs, leaning forwards, having a high camera angle, adding lighting from above, using instant tanner, pumping your chest muscles and delts, and oiling yourself will have awesome effects for your next photos.
You can watch Murphy's transformation challenge video right here
The fact is that bodybuilders look much better for their photo shoots and tournaments than they do in their everyday life. I remember the first time I learned this, I was disappointed that what we see isn’t what we get. Call me naive, but I live believing that people are honest about who they really are. Sometimes I still lay awake at night hoping that Arnold Schwarzenegger is secretly Conan the Barbarian who is only pretending to be a bodybuilding legend from Austria.
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Bodybuilders purposefully dehydrate themselves (kids, don’t do this at home) in order to look more ‘ripped,’ ‘toned,’ ‘buff,’ or whatever you youngsters call it these days. They also remove salt from their diets about a week before the big show for the same reason. Sure, these things might make you look good, but they can have negative consequences for your health. Stay hydrated, dear Pandas.
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