Bodybuilding Contest Preparation Posing Guide - Side Relaxed Pose

Here's How:

1. Start with one of your sides facing towards the audience. Your legs will be together and your arms by the side with the face facing forward; not towards the audience or the judges.
2. Bend slightly at the knees in order to engage the thighs and hamstrings. By doing this, you will display leg definition.
3. Keep the stomach in and the chest high.
4. The arm facing the audience should be well flexed, close to your torso, and straight down but slightly moved backwards so that you can show your small waist.
5. The arm not facing the audience should be flexed also, with a slight bend at the elbow, and with the shoulder slightly rotated forward in order to engage the pectoral muscle of that side.
6. Breathe through the nose at all times.
7. Hold the pose for 30 seconds for practice purposes. In the contest, you will keep this pose until the judges advise to do a quarter turn to the right. When that happens, the next pose will be the back relaxed pose.

Tips:

1. Make sure that the legs and the feet are close together. There should be no space in between.
2. Do not bring the arm not facing the audience too forward as the judges do not like that.
3. Refrain from looking at the audience at this time.
4. Remember to smile!
5. This pose is the same for the other side.