Im afraid science tells you that simply isnt true, after adolescence once your size is fixed its not possible to expand your ribcage
do you think Al Beckles could have made his arms look like Larry Scotts with exercises?
Just google "expanding ribcage" and you see, that it isn't my idea. Point is that it is quite easy to try by yourself, but those who argue against it, doesn't bother to do so. Yes, Beckless would have different pair of biceps, if he would have been training them differently. And you don't believe this because you have tried it by few times, and it didn't do nothing for you?
I have seen this thousands of times: Let say I have knowledge about these things by experience, by study, by reading hundred of books. Not really, but just say so for the argument. I tell the bloke A. how to do preacher curls proper way. I show him, I draw him a picture about it etc. and after a week, I find him to do it completely wrong way. Why?
Because it is so fking hard to understand, that knowledge overrules beliefs what you have been carrying through your life. If you don't see some instant miraculous improvement on your muscle, you go back to your old technique, because it make you feel good. But if that bloke continue to do what I tell him to do, there will be change in the muscle. It doesn't happen overnight, it take some time. How do I prove this? I can't, because you have your prejudices, which tell you that it can't be done. So simple.
But how about this: You have only one pair of pecs, but to get them grow, you do flat bench, incline, decline bench with barbell, dumbbells, you do flyes with dumbbells and cable etc. etc. to hit the muscle at different angles, and make your upper chest grow. It is one muscle, and you believe that you can train only upper chest to make it more visible? And you can, just same reasons why you can make lower lats grow by chancing your approach to the training. Difference is that it is easy to do with pecs, and difficult to do with lats. What I mean is if you can do the bench presses, you can do all the variations, because they aren't so much different. How about back? If you know how to pull chins, will it guarantee that you can do proper T-bar row? Nope. So different angle, so different grip, so different technique and range of motion. So if you have perfect technique for chins and T-bar, you are still missing plenty of angles you should be able to hit to make your lats grow to their full potential.
And by my empirical study of +30 years, that is too much for something like 95% of bodybuilders. We are just apes, we tend to do what comes easy, and what make us feel good. Most of us measure development just by weight added to the load we lift, while it is completely wrong viewpoint. It isn't about weight, it is all about what the weight and technique, range of motion will do to your muscle..If you use good technique and full range of motion, you can't lift so much, but it works far better to build muscle. In the other hand, if you use insane weigts, grunt and yell while lifting those ridiculously short reps, amateurs and fools think you are more masculine, and that tickles your ego nice way. So you choose that over the time consuming and fking hard work you need to accomplish to make your lower lats grow.
And that my friend, that is what modern bodybuilding is all about: Finding easy way to accomplish same goals what old shcool bodybuiilders did the hard way
