Unexpected side effects of weight training

I no longer fear wearing tank tops that display my batwings of arm flesh, but even I am not bold enough to venture into public with little bushes of arm hair. I realized if I wanted to wear my black tank top this weekend I needed to crack down on the stubble with my electric razor. I was being lazy, so I only raised my arm out sideways like I was doing the chicken dance. As I shaved up and down I realized the slope of my armpit was much steeper, like you could fit the La Brea Tar Pits under my arm and throw in a pterodactyl too without trouble. What was going on here?

Then I realized, my pectoral muscle has gotten larger! It forms most of my upper chest, but with my arm out side ways it was hanging out there forming the front of my armpit too. Looking at diagrams of the muscular system, I kind of assumed the muscles would just stay close to the skeleton, but the pectoral sort of [...]

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