Volume, definition, symmetry, proportions. In a bodybuilding competition, the athlete needs to show that, based on these criteria, his physique is better than that of his opponents. However, all the work that this competitor has done to achieve these results can become meaningless if he does not know how to perform the poses in the best way possible.
“A good pose hides your flaws and highlights your strengths. Bodybuilding is a game of illusion”, highlights athlete and musician Marcus “Blanck” Fernandes.
Throughout his career in the sport, the bodybuilder has been awarded as the best poser in the championship twice. In an interview with the column, he criticizes his colleagues who don’t have posing training in their routine: “Most of them only train posing from a month before the competition. It gets to three, four weeks before the big day and then they start training. I think the most correct thing is to train all year round. This has to be natural for the athlete.”
Using himself as an example, Blanck highlights that a well-executed pose has the potential to make the competitor appear larger than they actually are. “Many people see me in person and say that I look much bigger when I’m on stage”, he points out.
According to the bodybuilder, the best way to activate a certain muscle on stage is to “remember the sensation” that is caused by the contraction of that muscle: “The secret is to memorize the sensation you feel when you manage to contract a certain muscle. I know that, if I do a certain movement, I activate a muscle. And that’s how the athlete needs to know himself.”
Blanck also guarantees that well-balanced poses can eventually make a difference in a competition: “I’ve never been the biggest athlete on stage (…) I have to win in detail. Sometimes, very big athletes don’t have as much mobility and end up having difficulties when posing.”
The secret, according to the athlete, is to identify which variations of the poses best fit your own physique. For this, however, it takes a lot of training: “I decide the pose based on what looks best for me (…) Before my first championship, I trained posing for 20 weeks.”
Who is Marcus Blanck
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Blanck has been competing in bodybuilding since 2014. Since then, he has faced relevant names in the national sport, such as Vitor Porto, Wellington Nescau and Douglas Silva, and climbed the most important stages on the planet, such as the Arnold Classic Ohio. In total, there are three titles in his career.
With origins in music, the bodybuilder explains how his roots in the artistic world helped him in the sport: “The fact of being on a stage never scared me (…) Being familiar with the act of rehearsing what I’m going to do one day on stage also helped me a lot when I started competing. Even though I was shy, I got used to pretending not to be. The background of music taught me how to draw attention to myself on stage.”
“When I started watching sport, what caught my attention the most were the athletes’ choreographies (…) As I came from music, I was already familiar with dance and choreography in general”, he adds.
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