[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Even your ass got huge, Frank.[/quote]
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]digitalairair wrote:
[quote]csulli wrote:
Hey Frank, love your body transformations. Your video is pure gold lol.
Here’s something for you to chew on though. I’ll give you that violin is harder than piano, but you’ve obviously never tried playing the horn!
In a contest of instrument difficulty when performed at very high levels of virtuosity, I put the horn at the top of that list every time! I’m sure I’m biased… but I think many people would agree with me.
Playing that instrument professionally is like driving an 18 wheeler through the eye of a needle.[/quote]
Yes playing an instrument at an advanced level is all hard… but some require more practice. My violin teacher’s husband is a horn player and her daughter plays wind instruments as well. She told me that wind instruments in general don’t need that much practice (2 hours a day on average as opposed to 3-6 for the strings). Maybe you can shred some light on this?[/quote]
With a horn or a woodwind, there isn’t as much going on as with the violin. The way that you use the valves on a horn doesn’t require the same sort of finesse or power that pressing on strings requires. The different techniques are in the way the fingers move speed-wise and the way a player’s embouchure is.
I think drums are pretty hard for the same reason, plus there are four limbs involved instead of just one with the horn and two with the violin. With drumming, there is the added responsibility of doing so with perfect time. Pretty much any other instrumentalist can get away with stretching and compressing the rhythm slightly due to poor timing and it still sounds pretty good.
But it’s really, really obvious when a drummer doesn’t have that innate sense of timing and feel. A tendency to lag slightly or speed up slightly at certain parts only goes unnoticed for the most part if the band as a whole is so fucking good they’re that in tune with each other and can immediately adjust to the slight shifting in rhythm (see: “Immigrant Song” by Led Zeppelin).
Plus, like the violin or the guitar, the drummer can hit every drumhead in a variety of different ways within a beat to produce different sounds, such as ghost notes played on the snare or bass drum, accented notes on anything, flams (which can be played loose or tight), drags, double strokes, triple strokes, etc. rim shots and so on, plus there’s all the different inflections possible on the hi-hat, especially when opened and closed. There’s 1/16th notes accented on the 8th notes, swung notes, triplets, claves and so on. A really creative, skilled drummer with very good feel (John Bonham) can produce a shitload of different sounds with the same basic, single-bass-pedal, 5-piece, one ride, two crash cymbals and a hi-hat type of kit.
Overall, I’d say the drums produce as wide a selection of inflections and sounds as any instrument. Of course, the drums are multiple instruments, but that’s what makes playing them harder than almost any other instrument, in my never-very humble opinion, since a drummer is really playing a bunch of different instruments all at once.[/quote]
As experienced as I am with violin, i Don’t think i can ever be great at drums. Rhythm is always my weak point when it comes to playing musical instruments. Too much of a right brain thinker, I guess.
[quote]Nards wrote:
Frank I was serious. I was wondering if you got it in Taipei as I need one.[/quote]
I got it off of the internet, i guess this is too late? What did you end up being for Halloween?
[quote]csulli wrote:
[quote]digitalairair wrote:
My violin teacher’s husband is a horn player and her daughter plays wind instruments as well. She told me that wind instruments in general don’t need that much practice (2 hours a day on average as opposed to 3-6 for the strings). Maybe you can shred some light on this?[/quote]
Well here’s my take on it. You can’t put horn in the same category with other wind instruments. (I know this sounds pretentious, but it’s all in good fun lol)
Woodwinds except for maybe oboe and english horn are remarkably easier. I mean, you put your fingers down and there’s the note! I’ve found other brass instruments to be amazingly easier as well. The partials are so much wider that it felt like all I had to do was get in the ball park and the instrument would center the note for me. It was like having a spotter helping you lol.
I suppose it depends on your definition of difficult. I was thinking that the instrument with which it is most difficult to simply get it to do what the composer asks is the horn. The partials are so amazingly close that it takes the most infinitesimally small lip movements to change notes, anything more and you have missed a partial or cracked a note. The lips were never designed to be as dextrous as the fingers. And yet the muscle control required in the embouchure is so precise that if you were able to see through the mouthpiece and observe my lip movement while changing between two adjacent notes, the shift would be imperceptible to the human eye. This makes playing the horn accurately practically an oxymoron.
Here’s where I think you’re right though. There are way more violins than horns, and positions are far more competitive. This means that if you want to succeed professionally at violin, you have to get as early a start as possible and put in as much practice as possible, because you have A LOT of competition. In this way it could be said that the violin is the most difficult instrument, because the level to which you must master craft is higher than perhaps anything else.
As far as just mechanically with which instrument is it most difficult to do what the composer wishes it to do though, I still maintain that it is the horn :)[/quote]
This was mind blowing! Thanks for the information. Maybe you can make a video response to my violin difficulty video by showing us the tiny undetectable muscle movements of the mouth in close up.
[quote]digitalairair wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Hey Frank, you are looking good and as entertaining as always. I’m always happy to see you’ve posted a new thread.
Also happy to hear it looks like you won’t be spending any time in jail for your stunt, err, living art installation. Please take care of yourself. Life is fun and every day is a gift, unless that life happens to be inside a Chinese prison.
If the only thing keeping you from bulking up further is a worry about your insulin levels, then please stop worrying about them. There is a pretty big difference between a planned, executed bulk and just becoming a sloppy, sedentary fatass with type 2 diabetes. If what you are doing is working for you and you are happy with it, keep going. If you want to lean out and see where you’re at, do that. I have found that the longer I stay at a higher weight, the better “quality” of muscle I seem to have. That’s a weird way to put it, but I have been the same weight for a long time now, yet I continue to make changes toward an ever better physique, am far more dense than I used to be, much leaner year round (always have visible abs now), and I can eat sloppier while maintaining and even continuing to improve my physique. And my blood work always comes back looking great. Granted, I am assisted, but I don’t think the underlying principles are so different.
In any case, I’m positive that if I’d decided to lean out every time I got a little bigger than I ever had, I would not be nearly so far along as I am now. Patience and perseverance win this game.
Oh yeah, and jaw harp is the hardest instrument, you bunch of pussies. [/quote]
Great post. Agree 100%.
Most of the people talking about insulin levels don’t seem to be basing their comments on actual science anyway.
I would like for one person to prove that insulin levels are somehow driven into the negative as a direct reaction to body fat levels in everyone no matter how fat they are or their activity level or age.[/quote]
This is great ! thanks i will keep bulking, but slower and cleaner now that my bodyfat percentage is at an all time high as well! 205 - 210 and ill report back and a new thread for cutting[/quote]
Drop carbs and work on shorter rest between sets (minor conditioning). Evaluate after about two weeks.
You have already made more progress than most of the people here “loling” at people who got bigger than them.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]digitalairair wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Hey Frank, you are looking good and as entertaining as always. I’m always happy to see you’ve posted a new thread.
Also happy to hear it looks like you won’t be spending any time in jail for your stunt, err, living art installation. Please take care of yourself. Life is fun and every day is a gift, unless that life happens to be inside a Chinese prison.
If the only thing keeping you from bulking up further is a worry about your insulin levels, then please stop worrying about them. There is a pretty big difference between a planned, executed bulk and just becoming a sloppy, sedentary fatass with type 2 diabetes. If what you are doing is working for you and you are happy with it, keep going. If you want to lean out and see where you’re at, do that. I have found that the longer I stay at a higher weight, the better “quality” of muscle I seem to have. That’s a weird way to put it, but I have been the same weight for a long time now, yet I continue to make changes toward an ever better physique, am far more dense than I used to be, much leaner year round (always have visible abs now), and I can eat sloppier while maintaining and even continuing to improve my physique. And my blood work always comes back looking great. Granted, I am assisted, but I don’t think the underlying principles are so different.
In any case, I’m positive that if I’d decided to lean out every time I got a little bigger than I ever had, I would not be nearly so far along as I am now. Patience and perseverance win this game.
Oh yeah, and jaw harp is the hardest instrument, you bunch of pussies. [/quote]
Great post. Agree 100%.
Most of the people talking about insulin levels don’t seem to be basing their comments on actual science anyway.
I would like for one person to prove that insulin levels are somehow driven into the negative as a direct reaction to body fat levels in everyone no matter how fat they are or their activity level or age.[/quote]
This is great ! thanks i will keep bulking, but slower and cleaner now that my bodyfat percentage is at an all time high as well! 205 - 210 and ill report back and a new thread for cutting[/quote]
Drop carbs and work on shorter rest between sets (minor conditioning). Evaluate after about two weeks.
You have already made more progress than most of the people here “loling” at people who got bigger than them.[/quote]
Thanks X. I heard some lifters talking about “reverse” dieting where they basically try to slowly reverse the process from bulk to cut…meaning that I probably need to cut as long as I bulk, with carbs in the beginning and very slowly dropping them as time goes by, with more cardio. Does this sound like a good plan to you ?
Loved your violin vid! I actually was thinking about making a video response lol. Who knows.
Do you play in any orchestras where you are locally? Is it something you are pursuing as a career?
[quote]666Rich wrote:
@ Frank.
You are certainly a unique dude, props for being yourself. You seem to set goals and achieve them. Good for you. Being well rounded and strong in mind and body is a quality that is ignored these days.
Samurai in feudal japan were also artists and calligraphers. People in western society see muscles and mind as not correlated, which is a shame.[/quote]
Even the Greeks connected the body and the mind…the warriors and fighters were known to take music and dance lessons as part of their training. I think I put the blame on Descartes.
[quote]csulli wrote:
Loved your violin vid! I actually was thinking about making a video response lol. Who knows.
Do you play in any orchestras where you are locally? Is it something you are pursuing as a career?[/quote]
I was planning on playing the violin professionally before I turned into an artist that likes to combine everything, which is why i haven’t quit the violin yet. I do teach a few students though. I used to play in a lot of youth orchestras in high school and also in college. They were pretty good ones too because we got to perform in Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and traveled to Vienna as well.
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Yes, Frank really plays violin. He’s also an accomplished pianist and classical sculptor.
The dude a modern-day Renaissance Man![/quote]
For his career where would he be most successful ID?
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His own over-the-top TV show. He’d be a huge hit in Asia, and a novelty here in the states. [/quote]
That may be successful monetarily now but not successful as an artist, No? [/quote]
Depends on how the art community responds. If he sells himself as a “performance/concept artist”, he could be golden. Otherwise, he’d have to put all his eggs into one basket and focus on one artform to get any credibility. [/quote]
But isnt Asian TV/Movies pretty out there as it is, wouldnt his brand be pretty much more of the same? Seems to me higher chance of a flash in the pan type career.[/quote]
You’re right. But that crazy Asian stuff is still popular there. Frank would bring a new intensity to it.
Compare Nards’ description of the average Asian gym rat. Now look at Frank.
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I agree, but I see things in a business sense (meaning to me make the money now) however as an artist and creative person (which I am very, very far from being), I always wonder if the art is more important. [/quote]
It’s all about how you sell yourself these days. Damien Hirst and all the young British artists are rich as fuck, and they, like Warhol did before them, knew how to market their stuff and sold not skills, but commands and concepts.
Not sure if I want to be in the art world anymore though.
Becoming a Youtube partner with bigger checks coming from google every month, my goal had changed a bit. In my perfect world, I would be a massive internet troll/celebrity who calls himself a bodybuilding artist who does whatever he wants as long as he stays within the confine of the Youtube community guidelines and be able to earn enough to support his lifestyle.
The money I earned can also but put into videos that are higher in production value. For instance my music video:
I am starting to think about selling my sculptures and photographs over the internet, too on top of t shirts and maybe supplements after I look good enough to put my naked body on a bottle.
[quote]punnyguy wrote:
Am I the only one who thinks that Frank doesn’t really need advice?..or is that assistance? 
I personally think he was “asking” just to be polite. It’s an Asian thing. Oh wait, I think that was racist…
[/quote]
I was really asking for advice, I got some good answers and have decided to keep bulking, but I don’t seem to grasp the whole picture of what you guys are arguing about LOL.
Cool thanks for posting that Frank
[quote]DSSG wrote:
Frank, can you please explain the purpose of this video? Frank Yang - Suicides (Sprinting while eating 20 bananas and a gallon of milk) - YouTube For mental toughness, humor, or did it serve some type of purpose that isn’t obvious? Also for some odd reason that made me hungry…[/quote]
it was one of the pieces of my graduating thesis at the Maryland Institute College of Art. I wanted to show people how absurd, painful and self-inflicting and denaturing athletes are when they try to push their bodies beyond what’s useful for survival. Then i thought about it more, it could also have an existential theme, rolling rocks back and forth without purpose.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Love this thread, Franky.[/quote]
professor X has the same thing going on as I have. A huge muscular man operating on tiny teeth is a sight that is extremely surreal, breaks the stereotype and very much in the likes of what I am doing with the violin. Are there any other huge brain surgeons, musicians around here?
[quote]digitalairair wrote:
I was planning on playing the violin professionally before I turned into an artist that likes to combine everything, which is why i haven’t quit the violin yet. I do teach a few students though. I used to play in a lot of youth orchestras in high school and also in college. They were pretty good ones too because we got to perform in Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and traveled to Vienna as well.[/quote]
Well I was a terrible teacher lol. If you enjoy private teaching though I do know a few guys who make their living off that full-time, with some gigs thrown in there obviously. Hell you could give violin lessons and be a personal trainer lol. Unfortunately actual orchestra positions are drying up around the US. There’s Broadway of course, I know a girl who makes her living playing there, and studio playing in L.A. if you have the balls for it lol. It’s a shame the jobs in the field are so uncertain and risky.
I have also performed in Carnegie Hall 
I remember it feeling ridiculously golden on the inside. Also it had a lot more resonance than pretty much anywhere I have ever played before or since.
[quote]digitalairair wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]digitalairair wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Hey Frank, you are looking good and as entertaining as always. I’m always happy to see you’ve posted a new thread.
Also happy to hear it looks like you won’t be spending any time in jail for your stunt, err, living art installation. Please take care of yourself. Life is fun and every day is a gift, unless that life happens to be inside a Chinese prison.
If the only thing keeping you from bulking up further is a worry about your insulin levels, then please stop worrying about them. There is a pretty big difference between a planned, executed bulk and just becoming a sloppy, sedentary fatass with type 2 diabetes. If what you are doing is working for you and you are happy with it, keep going. If you want to lean out and see where you’re at, do that. I have found that the longer I stay at a higher weight, the better “quality” of muscle I seem to have. That’s a weird way to put it, but I have been the same weight for a long time now, yet I continue to make changes toward an ever better physique, am far more dense than I used to be, much leaner year round (always have visible abs now), and I can eat sloppier while maintaining and even continuing to improve my physique. And my blood work always comes back looking great. Granted, I am assisted, but I don’t think the underlying principles are so different.
In any case, I’m positive that if I’d decided to lean out every time I got a little bigger than I ever had, I would not be nearly so far along as I am now. Patience and perseverance win this game.
Oh yeah, and jaw harp is the hardest instrument, you bunch of pussies. [/quote]
Great post. Agree 100%.
Most of the people talking about insulin levels don’t seem to be basing their comments on actual science anyway.
I would like for one person to prove that insulin levels are somehow driven into the negative as a direct reaction to body fat levels in everyone no matter how fat they are or their activity level or age.[/quote]
This is great ! thanks i will keep bulking, but slower and cleaner now that my bodyfat percentage is at an all time high as well! 205 - 210 and ill report back and a new thread for cutting[/quote]
Drop carbs and work on shorter rest between sets (minor conditioning). Evaluate after about two weeks.
You have already made more progress than most of the people here “loling” at people who got bigger than them.[/quote]
Thanks X. I heard some lifters talking about “reverse” dieting where they basically try to slowly reverse the process from bulk to cut…meaning that I probably need to cut as long as I bulk, with carbs in the beginning and very slowly dropping them as time goes by, with more cardio. Does this sound like a good plan to you ?
[/quote]
That’s what I did. I was working on size for a long time after I got out the military and held my heaviest weight for about two years. I also held my lightest weight for about a year after dropping.
Much of this just comes down to learning your own body…which takes time. My body holds a leaner condition now without much effort or attention to diet. Most of that is because it took so many calories for me to put on that much weight in the first place. I can’t eat like that “by accident”. It takes true effort to eat every 3-4 hours on the dot for several years without fail.
I don’t need to eat that often to maintain my size now.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]digitalairair wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]digitalairair wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Hey Frank, you are looking good and as entertaining as always. I’m always happy to see you’ve posted a new thread.
Also happy to hear it looks like you won’t be spending any time in jail for your stunt, err, living art installation. Please take care of yourself. Life is fun and every day is a gift, unless that life happens to be inside a Chinese prison.
If the only thing keeping you from bulking up further is a worry about your insulin levels, then please stop worrying about them. There is a pretty big difference between a planned, executed bulk and just becoming a sloppy, sedentary fatass with type 2 diabetes. If what you are doing is working for you and you are happy with it, keep going. If you want to lean out and see where you’re at, do that. I have found that the longer I stay at a higher weight, the better “quality” of muscle I seem to have. That’s a weird way to put it, but I have been the same weight for a long time now, yet I continue to make changes toward an ever better physique, am far more dense than I used to be, much leaner year round (always have visible abs now), and I can eat sloppier while maintaining and even continuing to improve my physique. And my blood work always comes back looking great. Granted, I am assisted, but I don’t think the underlying principles are so different.
In any case, I’m positive that if I’d decided to lean out every time I got a little bigger than I ever had, I would not be nearly so far along as I am now. Patience and perseverance win this game.
Oh yeah, and jaw harp is the hardest instrument, you bunch of pussies. [/quote]
Great post. Agree 100%.
Most of the people talking about insulin levels don’t seem to be basing their comments on actual science anyway.
I would like for one person to prove that insulin levels are somehow driven into the negative as a direct reaction to body fat levels in everyone no matter how fat they are or their activity level or age.[/quote]
This is great ! thanks i will keep bulking, but slower and cleaner now that my bodyfat percentage is at an all time high as well! 205 - 210 and ill report back and a new thread for cutting[/quote]
Drop carbs and work on shorter rest between sets (minor conditioning). Evaluate after about two weeks.
You have already made more progress than most of the people here “loling” at people who got bigger than them.[/quote]
Thanks X. I heard some lifters talking about “reverse” dieting where they basically try to slowly reverse the process from bulk to cut…meaning that I probably need to cut as long as I bulk, with carbs in the beginning and very slowly dropping them as time goes by, with more cardio. Does this sound like a good plan to you ?
[/quote]
That’s what I did. I was working on size for a long time after I got out the military and held my heaviest weight for about two years. I also held my lightest weight for about a year after dropping.
Much of this just comes down to learning your own body…which takes time. My body holds a leaner condition now without much effort or attention to diet. Most of that is because it took so many calories for me to put on that much weight in the first place. I can’t eat like that “by accident”. It takes true effort to eat every 3-4 hours on the dot for several years without fail.
I don’t need to eat that often to maintain my size now.[/quote]
Liar! You can’t do that without steroids!
[quote]Cortes wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]digitalairair wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]digitalairair wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Hey Frank, you are looking good and as entertaining as always. I’m always happy to see you’ve posted a new thread.
Also happy to hear it looks like you won’t be spending any time in jail for your stunt, err, living art installation. Please take care of yourself. Life is fun and every day is a gift, unless that life happens to be inside a Chinese prison.
If the only thing keeping you from bulking up further is a worry about your insulin levels, then please stop worrying about them. There is a pretty big difference between a planned, executed bulk and just becoming a sloppy, sedentary fatass with type 2 diabetes. If what you are doing is working for you and you are happy with it, keep going. If you want to lean out and see where you’re at, do that. I have found that the longer I stay at a higher weight, the better “quality” of muscle I seem to have. That’s a weird way to put it, but I have been the same weight for a long time now, yet I continue to make changes toward an ever better physique, am far more dense than I used to be, much leaner year round (always have visible abs now), and I can eat sloppier while maintaining and even continuing to improve my physique. And my blood work always comes back looking great. Granted, I am assisted, but I don’t think the underlying principles are so different.
In any case, I’m positive that if I’d decided to lean out every time I got a little bigger than I ever had, I would not be nearly so far along as I am now. Patience and perseverance win this game.
Oh yeah, and jaw harp is the hardest instrument, you bunch of pussies. [/quote]
Great post. Agree 100%.
Most of the people talking about insulin levels don’t seem to be basing their comments on actual science anyway.
I would like for one person to prove that insulin levels are somehow driven into the negative as a direct reaction to body fat levels in everyone no matter how fat they are or their activity level or age.[/quote]
This is great ! thanks i will keep bulking, but slower and cleaner now that my bodyfat percentage is at an all time high as well! 205 - 210 and ill report back and a new thread for cutting[/quote]
Drop carbs and work on shorter rest between sets (minor conditioning). Evaluate after about two weeks.
You have already made more progress than most of the people here “loling” at people who got bigger than them.[/quote]
Thanks X. I heard some lifters talking about “reverse” dieting where they basically try to slowly reverse the process from bulk to cut…meaning that I probably need to cut as long as I bulk, with carbs in the beginning and very slowly dropping them as time goes by, with more cardio. Does this sound like a good plan to you ?
[/quote]
That’s what I did. I was working on size for a long time after I got out the military and held my heaviest weight for about two years. I also held my lightest weight for about a year after dropping.
Much of this just comes down to learning your own body…which takes time. My body holds a leaner condition now without much effort or attention to diet. Most of that is because it took so many calories for me to put on that much weight in the first place. I can’t eat like that “by accident”. It takes true effort to eat every 3-4 hours on the dot for several years without fail.
I don’t need to eat that often to maintain my size now.[/quote]
Liar! You can’t do that without steroids![/quote]
Lol, no its genetics and I am sure other people are better informed on this X than you
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]digitalairair wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]digitalairair wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Hey Frank, you are looking good and as entertaining as always. I’m always happy to see you’ve posted a new thread.
Also happy to hear it looks like you won’t be spending any time in jail for your stunt, err, living art installation. Please take care of yourself. Life is fun and every day is a gift, unless that life happens to be inside a Chinese prison.
If the only thing keeping you from bulking up further is a worry about your insulin levels, then please stop worrying about them. There is a pretty big difference between a planned, executed bulk and just becoming a sloppy, sedentary fatass with type 2 diabetes. If what you are doing is working for you and you are happy with it, keep going. If you want to lean out and see where you’re at, do that. I have found that the longer I stay at a higher weight, the better “quality” of muscle I seem to have. That’s a weird way to put it, but I have been the same weight for a long time now, yet I continue to make changes toward an ever better physique, am far more dense than I used to be, much leaner year round (always have visible abs now), and I can eat sloppier while maintaining and even continuing to improve my physique. And my blood work always comes back looking great. Granted, I am assisted, but I don’t think the underlying principles are so different.
In any case, I’m positive that if I’d decided to lean out every time I got a little bigger than I ever had, I would not be nearly so far along as I am now. Patience and perseverance win this game.
Oh yeah, and jaw harp is the hardest instrument, you bunch of pussies. [/quote]
Great post. Agree 100%.
Most of the people talking about insulin levels don’t seem to be basing their comments on actual science anyway.
I would like for one person to prove that insulin levels are somehow driven into the negative as a direct reaction to body fat levels in everyone no matter how fat they are or their activity level or age.[/quote]
This is great ! thanks i will keep bulking, but slower and cleaner now that my bodyfat percentage is at an all time high as well! 205 - 210 and ill report back and a new thread for cutting[/quote]
Drop carbs and work on shorter rest between sets (minor conditioning). Evaluate after about two weeks.
You have already made more progress than most of the people here “loling” at people who got bigger than them.[/quote]
Thanks X. I heard some lifters talking about “reverse” dieting where they basically try to slowly reverse the process from bulk to cut…meaning that I probably need to cut as long as I bulk, with carbs in the beginning and very slowly dropping them as time goes by, with more cardio. Does this sound like a good plan to you ?
[/quote]
That’s what I did. I was working on size for a long time after I got out the military and held my heaviest weight for about two years. I also held my lightest weight for about a year after dropping.
Much of this just comes down to learning your own body…which takes time. My body holds a leaner condition now without much effort or attention to diet. Most of that is because it took so many calories for me to put on that much weight in the first place. I can’t eat like that “by accident”. It takes true effort to eat every 3-4 hours on the dot for several years without fail.
I don’t need to eat that often to maintain my size now.[/quote]
Liar! You can’t do that without steroids![/quote]
Lol, no its genetics and I am sure other people are better informed on this X than you[/quote]
Genetics, steroids and fluoridated water!
Hell, he’s a dentist. He’s probably huffin’ that shit!