Ask fifty different fitness influencers or personal trainers, and it’s likely you’ll get fifty different responses relating to the absolute best way to go about training.
Some may favor a cardio-heavy approach, others will tell you to focus more on strength training. Others still will require that you incorporate both into your weekly routine… and that’s not to mention those who engage in experimental plans that leave most of the internet scratching their heads.
The truth is that if you’re going to work out, there is literally no end to the ways you can go about it. The long and short of it is that you’re putting your body under some sort of physical strain in the hope of inducing a positive transformation.
And yet I think the majority would agree that training just one body part over and over again (and potentially neglecting every other muscle group there is) might not be the best way of attaining a new figure.
That hasn’t stopped one 19-year-old TikToker, aptly named @thecrookedman10, who has gone viral on social media for only exercising his trapezius muscle, a large muscle group in the upper back and neck. Making things even more bizarre, he’s focusing solely on one side.
Images of the content creator in question led to people wondering just why the left side of his body looks markedly different from his right.
He explained: “Why does the one trap guy work out one trap? It’s pretty simple. I was scrolling TikToks in my Ferrari, and I kept getting these looksmaxing TikToks.”
“Looks maxming” is a TikTok trend encouraging users to “looks their absolute best” and “maximise their physical appearance” by attending the gym seven a days a week and undertaking a crazy morning routine.
The Crooked Man continued: “And they were like, ‘Do this, do that. You’ll look more attractive. You’ll get more women’.”
“And it’s like, people have that problem? I have the opposite problem.
“I get so many DMS, I don’t even have time to get through them all.
“So I was like, ‘If I have the opposite problem, then I need the opposite solution. What’s the opposite of looksmaxing? Looksminimizing’.”
In a bid to position himself against the aforementioned TikTok trend, he said: “What was the best way to looksminimize? Become more asymmetrical.
“Work out one trap, it solved my problem. And man, it has worked like a charm.”
You might struggle to find an ‘expert’ who advocates for the benefits of this specialized regime, but each to their own.
What do you make of his physique and training? Let us know in the comments.
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