[quote]herbs wrote:
“For the ladies not interested in becoming the Hulk”
I wouldn’t believe that anyone who knows about training would come out with such a stupid statement[/quote]
The statement is only a reflection of a verifiable fact. The only thing stupid about it is the very thing which it describes - women and their attitude towards training.
The vast majority of women can associate with a statement such as, “not interested in becoming the Hulk”. That’s why it and similar statements are used to market fitness products and information.
The pictures are different unless the guy was on HGH, the after picture sports a guy with a lower eyebrow bone and more defined as well as a jawbone that is more square, neither are results of just working out. Also there is not a 34 pound difference between the two, maybe 10-15.
[quote]Mr300 wrote:
The pictures are different unless the guy was on HGH, the after picture sports a guy with a lower eyebrow bone and more defined as well as a jawbone that is more square, neither are results of just working out. Also there is not a 34 pound difference between the two, maybe 10-15.[/quote]
[quote]Mr300 wrote:
The pictures are different unless the guy was on HGH, the after picture sports a guy with a lower eyebrow bone and more defined as well as a jawbone that is more square, neither are results of just working out. Also there is not a 34 pound difference between the two, maybe 10-15.[/quote]
[quote]Professor X wrote:
There are grown men with 12" arms?[/quote]
Yes, dude, they do exist. There are MANY. I started at 12.5.[/quote]
Yeah, when I started lifting at age 30, my arms were either 12.5" or 12" (I recall that the calves were one of these figures and the arms the other, but with time have forgotten which was which although most likely the calves were the even-smaller of the two.)
And that was not in any ripped condition. At least 15% bf.
Actually I think you’d find a lot of men like that, unfortunately. Though it is probably a poorer starting point than average, particularly for someone who was 6’.
I love Tim Ferriss’s material. He’s nothing less than a genius when it comes to the business world, and he’s a millionaire MANY times over from his book and various business investments… which is something ANY of us would envy.
That being said, I find his fitness advice and claims to be suspect at best. He puts such an emphasis on the speed of his results that it becomes very hard to believe. It’s not just this claim of 34lbs of muscle in 4 weeks, but also things like ‘increased shoulder range of motion 40% in 2 days’. His articles seem to be aimed a less gym-savvy crowd so he can get away with it. He also supposedly logs every workout he does, and takes blood samples (among other tests) of himself regularly.
For those who don’t follow him… his next book is called “Superhuman” and it is completely based on these rapid types of training strategies and supposedly has many case studies to back it up. I’d wait till that comes out before I completely discredit his advice, but as I imagine that many guys on here are more jacked than he his, I understand the aversion to his advice as opposed to say a guy like CT’s.
First, from my observation, thats not even the same guy, more like brothers or two dudes who look a like.
Second, the after photo isn’t that freakish or jacked, but average at most.
Third, 34 lb difference? I got a hard time to believe so.