I think we all know harrypotter means bodybuilding.com when he says that people on this site are mocked an the other site he goes to.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I think we all know harrypotter means bodybuilding.com when he says that people on this site are mocked an the other site he goes to.[/quote]
Well then…with credentials like that, we should all be listening to him instead.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I think we all know harrypotter means bodybuilding.com when he says that people on this site are mocked an the other site he goes to.[/quote]
Well then…with credentials like that, we should all be listening to him instead.[/quote]
Lol.
Who are they mocking, anyway? Big guys with pretty good physiques who’ve managed to accomplish a lot over a period of years through hard work, study and consistency? Yeah, what a buncha loosers.
Just for fun, here is my original first post on this thread. The only editing I’ve done is to remove the blurb about my being assisted and the non-training-related portions. Please now try and find where the advice somehow does NOT apply to a natural lifter. Please. Somebody. Show me where I gave unfair or, God forbid, unsafe advice (to someone who is a borderline psychopath, anyway, lol).
[quote]Cortes wrote:
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.
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.
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[quote]Cortes wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I think we all know harrypotter means bodybuilding.com when he says that people on this site are mocked an the other site he goes to.[/quote]
Well then…with credentials like that, we should all be listening to him instead.[/quote]
Lol.
Who are they mocking, anyway? Big guys with pretty good physiques who’ve managed to accomplish a lot over a period of years through hard work, study and consistency? Yeah, what a buncha loosers. [/quote]
Building the big muscles isn’t good enough anymore.
You have to troll the internet and tell people that years of hard work and getting big don’t mean anything anymore.
And since this thread no longer belongs to you, Frank, haha…
@Consul, if you happen to still be reading, just wondering, does your screen name happen to be related to a certain character in a certain novel by Malcolm Lowry?
@ 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]Cortes wrote:
And since this thread no longer belongs to you, Frank, haha…
@Consul, if you happen to still be reading, just wondering, does your screen name happen to be related to a certain character in a certain novel by Malcolm Lowry? [/quote]
Nope :). It’s based on the Robert Harris novels about Cicero.
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Just for fun, here is my original first post on this thread…Please now try and find where the advice somehow does NOT apply to a natural lifter. Please. Somebody.
[quote]Cortes wrote:
…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.
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Staying the same weight, getting denser and getting leaner (all while maintaining visible abs) WHILE eating sloppier?
Not applicable to naturals IMO
[quote]gregron wrote:
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Just for fun, here is my original first post on this thread…Please now try and find where the advice somehow does NOT apply to a natural lifter. Please. Somebody.
[quote]Cortes wrote:
…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.
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Staying the same weight, getting denser and getting leaner (all while maintaining visible abs) WHILE eating sloppier?
Not applicable to naturals IMO [/quote]
Wow…so everyone in the NFL who can do this is on steroids?
Just asking…since you somehow know that no natural alive can do this.
lol @ a natural trainee eating worse than they’ll currently do and getting in better shape.
Lets take a hypothetical NFL RB using prof X’s scenario
Gets up to 220 @ 14% BF… Then he decides to start eating worse that he currently does and goes to 220 @ 10% BF.
Completely feasible as a natty.
LOL
This is not that hard.
If I have more muscle mass (i.e. denser muscle), I will be able to get away with a little less stringent adherence to my diet while maintaining the amount of calories I eat, because more muscle at a lower total percentage of body fat will result in a more efficient machine.
Again, I was talking about this on a scale of years.
If what you were saying was true, the only way anyone could ever improve would be to further and further restrict his diet. This is just not how things work.
There really is a reward for staying big for a long time. Steroids are not this magical substance without which it is impossible to achieve this.
I don’t disagree with some of the principals of what you’re saying in this post since you clarified things BUT in that other post you said (possibly not the way you meant it to come across?) that you were able to eat worse while gaining muscle AND losing fat. That’s not going to happen as a natural lifter.
What do you mean by your “if what you’re saying is true…” Portion?
I 100% absolutely did not say the only way to make improvements is to restrict your diet further.
What I did say is that as a natural there is no way a trainee is going to lose fat while gaining muscle to stay at the same body weight while earlier worse than they did to get to that initial BW in the first place. Not happening.
[quote]flipcollar wrote:
x2 on violin being harder. And it’s not even close. Mostly because of the intonation difficulty, and the complexity of the right and left hand performing totally different tasks simultaneously. These are the 2 instruments I grew up playing, and I always wished I had started violin earlier (was 8 when I started).
and x3 on getting an ID avatar!! I got cash money ID! Would love to commission an avatar.[/quote]
Just wondering… Frank is just playing a soundtrack here right? Does he really play the violin? Mee aayyballz suck
Yes, Frank really plays violin. He’s also an accomplished pianist and classical sculptor.
The dude a modern-day Renaissance Man!
[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?
[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]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]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.