How To Get Good At Fitness Modeling
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How To Get Good At Fitness Modeling
Dan will enthusiastically outline the main ideas that go into fitness modelling form. You will be told which groups need to be matched for symmetry and balance, which should really help your fitness or career goals. You will also be encouraged that there is room in the business for all types of body types or forms, so you needn't think you don't have a chance in this profession, if this so happens to be a favorite interest of yours.
If you want to get into fitness modelling, there are two things you need to do. Firstly, you need to get into good fitness model shape, which we'll talk about in a second, then after that, then you need to kind of work out which area you want to go into. Is it for certain magazines, is it for competitions? Yes, you need to know this because fitness modelling is a huge kind of area, some are more body builder-y, some are kind of conventional modelling, hence what a body you want to train for and what you want to achieve.
So, if you want to get back into fitness model shape, if you're a man, you need to get your body fat levels down to around about seven, eight percent, to even have a hope of doing any modelling. You also need to get good muscle definition and also, good muscle size. Whether you are a man or a woman you need to have good muscle definition and low body fat levels.
For a man, you're looking around about seven, eight percent body fat, or less, for a woman around about twelve percent or less for any hope in competing or doing campaigns and magazines. In terms of muscle size, male or female, you need to have a six pack, you need to have 'pecs', you need to have big 'quads', you need to have 'glutes'. Be like a body builder, but not so extreme.
You need to actually see where all the muscles are. You also need to have good muscle symmetry. There is no point in having a massive upper body and a rubbish lower body or really big biceps and tiny triceps, there needs to be symmetry across your whole body, a nice balance between antagonist and agonist muscles, say, for example, a nice balance across the chest and back, quads and hamstrings and also a balance in upper and lower body.
Symmetry, muscular balance, it's really important. Now, let's assume you are already in fitness model shape. So, you look pretty similar to the people you see in magazines.
That's fantastic. Now, you need to work out which direction you want to go. This is where you need to get some specialists' advice.
Talk to people who are in the industry, agents, people with the magazines, to find out whether you need to get bigger for more of the body building type modelling, or, maybe even leaner, for the more kind of model-y, sort of editorial, sort of type of this modelling. Like I said earlier, it's a big subject in this modelling. People in all different kinds of types all sorts of shapes, all different heights, competing.
One really nice thing in this fitness model industry is that you don't have to be absolutely beautiful, you can have fantastic bone structure like editorial modelling or fashion, or catwalk modelling, anyone pretty much can do it. Of course, it's bound to help what your body is. So, if you train hard, and you eat well, then it's to going to show up as being a successful fitness model. .