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As you know, the male and female facial structure are heavily different from eachother. Testosterone can aid shifting facial structure shape, but you should not be reliant on that. Sometimes it doesn't happen, you'll wind up with a feminine face with facial hair, and no one wants that.

Jaw exercises, as mentioned in the previous reblog, are crucial to helping you pass in the face in addition to cardio, here is a list of links and resources that may help.

Facial Exercises for Men - Livestrong

Facial Exercises for Men - Buzzle

Have you ever noticed that a lot of people who get on T look... awkwardly shaped or still don't pass? One theory is probably because they have really small shoulders (this isn't always the case but it is for this article) that look really bizarre against their changing body. In an XY body, regardless of body type, generally the shoulders exceed the hips in width. Contrary to the XX body, where the hips are usually wider than the shoulders.  

Now bear in mind, testosterone does cause the muscles in your shoulders to widen. That's one part of male puberty, but testosterone doesn't do enough. Since we are born with an XX structure, our frames are generally smaller than a prepubescent boy's, at least usually. To help this problem there is one simple solution, shoulder exercises. Widening your shoulders and tightening your hips (which will show up in a later article) can help you pass a lot more. 

Both the deltoids and the traps are important to be exercised. Again this isn't saying you should beef up necessarily. It is saying that if you give some mass to this area that it will help you, that's all. Stop looking for reasons to accuse us of "body idealism", haters!

Here are some exercises for the delts and the traps. Don't start with too heavy of weight if you're a beginner, it isn't smart and can damage your body. Find a comfortable number of sets and reps as well. I generally do 3 x 15 (three sets of fifteen reps) but you may want to do less if you're new, like 2 x 10. Work your way up! 

Trap Exercises (Get ready for a lot of shrugging).

Barbell Shrug

Barbell Shrug Behind the Back

Dumbell Shrug

Standing Dumbell Upright Row

Deltoid Exercises

Alternating Deltoid Raise

Arm Circles (No weights on this one.)

Arnold Dumbell Press

Barbell Rear Delt Row

Dumbell Shoulder Press

Protein is a wonderful thing, and everybody needs it to benefit their health. However, since a lot of us take extra protein supplementation to compliment our strength training (if we do that) then we need to watch our livers. 

The issue with protein is that with excessive amounts (and I'm talking excessive), your kidneys can suffer. It increases the amount of blood your kidneys processes, called the glomerular filtration rate. This means that too much blood is going through your kidneys and it just strains them really badly.