Learning To Pose

[Greedy Ben]

Anyone got any links or good places to look? Everything online is such a minefield.
Obviously a posing coach is best but you have to pay and travel etc.
I'd just like to look less shit in pictures.

 

[Aleksandr]

Anyone got any links or good places to look? Everything online is such a minefield.
Obviously a posing coach is best but you have to pay and travel etc.
I'd just like to look less shit in pictures.

Greg Doucette has amazing videos on how to pose lol and Phil Heat

 

[pooley1810]

Anyone got any links or good places to look? Everything online is such a minefield.
Obviously a posing coach is best but you have to pay and travel etc.
I'd just like to look less shit in pictures.

Ideally you need someone in person
Even if its just 1 session
Watching videos and classes is fine to start off with to get the basics
But it really needs someone in person to watch and tweak things, give you pointers and put things right
Once you know how to pose it just takes practice
Its so much harder than you think to pose properly and it really takes it out of you
Its 1 thing that actually let's me down on stage because I haven't done this, my feedback was I would have placed higher with better presentation. next time I compete I will definitely use a posing coach

 

[pooley1810]

You can watch all the videos in the world and take on board what they say and show you
Putting it into practice is the difficult part
In your head you're getting everything right and following the advice but you're gonna be unaware to how it looks
Much better to have a person there to physically move you into position
That way you'll know how it feels to hold that pose, once you get that its just practice

 

[Greedy Ben]

You can watch all the videos in the world and take on board what they say and show you
Putting it into practice is the difficult part
In your head you're getting everything right and following the advice but you're gonna be unaware to how it looks
Much better to have a person there to physically move you into position
That way you'll know how it feels to hold that pose, once you get that its just practice

Makes perfect sense mate, we all move differently - my shoulders are really tight for example so just trying to do a side tricep is super hard at the moment

 

[noel]

plenty of good online posing coaches too...you will have to pay or find someone at gym who has competed a bit to help out - not full proof but better than you trying to copy online IMO

 

[Frank1985]

Anyone got any links or good places to look? Everything online is such a minefield.
Obviously a posing coach is best but you have to pay and travel etc.
I'd just like to look less shit in pictures.

I think arnold is a good motivater for posing, he spent many hours doing it and stretching also, I think the stretching itself gave him a edge also because no one else was doing as much, it gave him a softer, and more relaxed look, many just lifts heavy and get stiff, you should stretch alot and pose with confidence, just do it sort of, out with the arm like you`re something special, I think you look very good in pictures, defininatly way bigger than I`ll ever be, arnold did alot of balett also I think, but not sure if`s thats for you though

 

[Brian Multigym]

As others have said, you need someone experienced to watch and guide you with each pose. This may take a few times with the expert and then it is practice on your part. If you are going in a competition, practice your posing and the routine the poses are within regularly, you don't want to forget your routine when nervous on stage.