You are at the gym ready to go mentally and physically as you begin your weight training.  The protein shake in your left hand ready for you to consume after a high intensity workout with the music player in your right pumping you up.  Unfortunately you may be missing out on the biggest downfall that most men make when starting out in the gym to lift weights, and something which will surely affect your entire body.

When most guys, especially teenagers, begin to develop more muscle mass which areas do they focus on first?  What do all the television shows, magazines and the general media portray as the alpha male figure?  Typically we see a big, muscular man with rock hard abs, great big biceps, equally massive triceps and in some cases even a strong neck.

What exactly is missing in this picture?  If you haven’t figured it out by now it is the lower half of the human body!  All too often most men simply neglect the other half of their own bodies to go for the ever elusive bigger biceps instead.  While there is nothing truly wrong in this mentality, however, by entirely neglecting the lower body you may end up as horribly disproportionate.