Like the great Bob Sapp, I learned by watching grizzly bears fight bee hives.
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For grappling that diet makes all the sense in the world.
For muscle building and mass, the greatest build in pro wrestling was Scott Steiner even before he was BPP he was a monster. He came from Grecko style college wrestling and he hated the weight class cutting stuff.
Can’t even look like his bitch boy on your diet for muscle building. He was also a powerhouse, he could throw around the road warriors.
Ok .
You just substantiated a position in a discussion with adults using wrestlers from late 80’s WWF.
I think we should all pause for a moment of silence. I don’t know what just died in this world, but it was necessary, and you killed it.
Im gonna duck & cover for a couple of days just to see how this ripples out.
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Man, I’m a little embarrassed that I was feeling kind of jazzed while reading that now.
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No harm was intended to bystanders/readers. We all get caught up in moments now & then. 
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Lol.
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Is this the result of restricted dieting?
I generally see this type of behavior in die hard fanatics.
Perhaps you should eat a few almonds to brighten up your day.
@OTay here is the back shot after lifting today.
Not perfect, some fat, but I’m looking for HORSE gains and that’s only 2-years of building, my first year I did only very very light very high reps-
*Greco
Steiner has 1 / 5000000000 genetics, too
In pro wrestling standards he’s actually a small framed guy, he’s generally the shortest and smaller guy in the crowd of other wrestlers, but he’s the thickest. He’s also light in the leg department.
No other wrestlers even witnessed his workouts in the gym, so it sounds like he went his own way in training and didn’t do what everyone else did.
I also wonder if he tore his biceps to get that peak look? Many whom have torn biceps have those freaky peaks. Certainly not recommended.
@zecarlo too, jacked back shot.
Your turn………
He claims he’s natty… no reason to not believe him
We had an Outback gift card-
I got a full rack of ribs, I had to eat that bread they give plus had a salad and some of the loaded potato and a big Fosters.
I consider that a recovery meal from my 1-rep max lifts today PLUS I’m STILL recovering from last weeks 485 lift.
I also ate a cinnamon raisin Dave’s bagel (half a bagel) w natty PB an hour before the Outback.
Now it’s Apple Cider and Bourbon and Halloween flicks!!!
Is this not an indicator for you there may be room to improve your nutrition?
I’m not advocating the carnivore diet for all, although it was a great intervention for me, and I’ve certainly been (and often still am) one to self-sabotage by underrating. If I hadn’t recovered from a couple high effort lifts after a week, I would personally consider either:
- My training load/ volume is out of control. I’m not exactly knocking out ultramarathons, so that’s less likely.
- I’m missing somewhere on my food. Whether it’s protein, electrolytes, total calories, whatever, something is off.
Sleep is in the mix, too, but it’s a little easier to point the finger if I haven’t slept in a week.
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I’m sure something could always be better.
But I believe in training everyday, no days off and the last thing I’m going to do at age 46 is take a day off.
I believe every workout I did this week has aided in me recovering a little better, in fact yesterday, our puppy woke me up too early (see, we can’t control all this recovery sleep man) and the gym I go to is not a public gym. I only have a 1.5 hour slot in the morning ( I can always train at home). I get there and I feel like going to sleep, but I get there IMO that is first step to being better.
I start doing zerchers and my recovery got better right away. The zercher is that magical lift. AND my top lift weight yesterday was 315, much much less than 485, it’s a different lift, but that’s part of getting better recovery, periodization.
If life gets in the way of rest and not being able to drink a gallon of milk a day, I will always use training for speedy recovery even if it’s much lighter weights.
It was worse when the puppy had the runs for 2-nights, every 2-hours in the middle of the night. You think that’s good for recovery? But that’s life…………
I still hit 3-PRs yesterday.
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Gotcha.
I do not, but I tend to only worry about trying to control what I can control.
Congrats!
Sorry to interject but periodization is one of my preferred methods. Switching lifts doesn’t aid recovery, it just changes the emphasis slightly on which muscles are recruited for a given movement pattern.
The varying intensity and frequency programming is what leads to recovery, and every legitimate periodized program utilizes rest days on a regular basis.
Many if not most of the strongest guys in the world have utilized some form of periodization, and they all rest. And….. they use PEDs, but still rest.
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Ok, good point, but IMO if I’m not recovered technically speaking via as science would have it……….
Would I really hit PRs in different lifts?
I don’t think I would, if I wasn’t truly recovering, I don’t think progression is possible. This goes for progression with lighter weights too. I think progressing with light weights and getting more and more reps is a sign that one is recovering properly?
“As much as I’ve ever lifted” does not equal “As much as I can possibly lift”.
Until you’ve established absolute max in a lift, you’re just doing the former, not the later.
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