If you're taking a chest measurement, say for a suit, and you work out a bit, and therefore have some development in the lats region, what's the best thing to do?
Do you lift your arms up and measure right around your lats at their full width, in order to get an accurate chest measurement, or do you just lift your arms slightly like anyone would?
I was just thinking that if you have developed lats, the degree to which you lift your arms may or may not make a proportionally bigger difference to what measurement you get, and therefore how well your clothes fit.
If you're taking a chest measurement, say for a suit, and you work out a bit, and therefore have some development in the lats region, what's the best thing to do?
Do you lift your arms up and measure right around your lats at their full width, in order to get an accurate chest measurement, or do you just lift your arms slightly like anyone would?
I was just thinking that if you have developed lats, the degree to which you lift your arms may or may not make a proportionally bigger difference to what measurement you get, and therefore how well your clothes fit.
You're not thinking this through. Your lattisimus dorsi muscles are fully contracted with your arms down, not up.
You measure for a suit jacket at the broadest part of the chest, regardless of where that is. The most strain on the jacket from well-developed lats will be the strain on the back seam when you reach out forward and somewhat downward.
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If you're taking a chest measurement, say for a suit, and you work out a bit, and therefore have some development in the lats region, what's the best thing to do?
Do you lift your arms up and measure right around your lats at their full width, in order to get an accurate chest measurement, or do you just lift your arms slightly like anyone would?
I was just thinking that if you have developed lats, the degree to which you lift your arms may or may not make a proportionally bigger difference to what measurement you get, and therefore how well your clothes fit.
You're not thinking this through. Your lattisimus dorsi muscles are fully contracted with your arms down, not up.
You measure for a suit jacket at the broadest part of the chest, regardless of where that is. The most strain on the jacket from well-developed lats will be the strain on the back seam when you reach out forward and somewhat downward.
