2 words throughout the whole video!
I was just looking at Week 1 and Week 6 pics and you really are like whoaaa
What I wanna know is - how is he able to do that?
I know genetics/muscle memory but what is it about his genetics that allow him to do that? Like does he have higher levels of certain hormones, etc…?
[quote]taleb wrote:
I was just looking at Week 1 and Week 6 pics and you really are like whoaaa
What I wanna know is - how is he able to do that?
I know genetics/muscle memory but what is it about his genetics that allow him to do that? Like does he have higher levels of certain hormones, etc…?
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He isn’t the only person who can do that. You just haven’t seen many people with decent genetics lose that much muscle on purpose and then video themselves as they gain it back. There is nothing more to it. Your body’s goal is survival. If you train hard for 20 fucking years and then suddenly lose the muscle, your body is going to adapt to heavy load again very quickly once you add the stimulus back in.
This isn’t some guy who trained off and on for ten years. This is someone who trained his body harder than most here will EVER do.
I am still not sure why this is so shocking.
[quote]taleb wrote:
I was just looking at Week 1 and Week 6 pics and you really are like whoaaa
What I wanna know is - how is he able to do that?
I know genetics/muscle memory but what is it about his genetics that allow him to do that? Like does he have higher levels of certain hormones, etc…?
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The word you are looking for is:
Super responsiveness.
I know it is hard for the average person to comprehend but when you train at elite levels and expose your physicality/physiology to high and repeated levels of sustained effort your system becomes hardwired to be super responsive.
Once you stop exposing your organism to those levels of stress there is no longer a need to sustain those results and the physiology changes to accommodate average levels of functioning.
If you don’t want to look average then don’t live at average levels.
Elite athletes only look elite because they eat, sleep and train at maximum effort. If they go back to an average life style than they too look average.
[quote]B-Man wrote:LevroneReport.com •Transformation, Week 7, Legs - YouTube
2 words throughout the whole video!
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Exactly!
I love when he is like this.
Utter, ubber, sheer focus.
It is that killer look which signals: don’t interfere with my workout/concentration/aspiration.
The ultimate athlete trains like this. In the zone 100%. And like he said
“That’s it”.
There is nothing to it really but your total commitment.
Someone said in the other video he was kind of down, maybe this is what they were referring too, I mean, it is not a chat show. And his job is not to motivate by talking but to show us exactly what it means to be in the zone of achievement.
I think that was Levrone at his best.
If I am not mistaken, in his competition days, I think I saw a video where he used to train at night when everyone was gone?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
He isn’t the only person who can do that. You just haven’t seen many people with decent genetics lose that much muscle on purpose and then video themselves as they gain it back. There is nothing more to it. Your body’s goal is survival. If you train hard for 20 fucking years and then suddenly lose the muscle, your body is going to adapt to heavy load again very quickly once you add the stimulus back in.
This isn’t some guy who trained off and on for ten years. This is someone who trained his body harder than most here will EVER do.
I am still not sure why this is so shocking.[/quote]
You know I should really think sometimes
I could’ve answered my own Q if I gave it enough thought.
When you put it like that, yeh makes sense.
I’ll shut up now
you know he thought it out the week before or something
“i need to do a session away from my happy mood and say nothing and give evil eyes to make everyone think im so focused maaan”
i know a gimmick when i see one. and im not saying he doesnt train hard regardless.
It’s something with his myostatin gene, or lack thereof?
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
you know he thought it out the week before or something
“i need to do a session away from my happy mood and say nothing and give evil eyes to make everyone think im so focused maaan”
i know a gimmick when i see one. and im not saying he doesnt train hard regardless. [/quote]
My thoughts exactly, come on I like the guy, and like what he’s doing, but he is an “actor” now. Maybe he wanted some serious stuff for his portfolio.
I’m waiting for his catchphrase
I mean come on who else has one? [besides ronnie]
I actually tried to get Phil Heath to adopt one, here’s me asking him to say “yeee buddy”
then I spoke to him asked if he had a catchphrase and he goes “no but it’ll probs be something I say accidently and it sticks” - I suggested he say “witness da fitness”
so if you see Phil say that in the future - it came from me.
[quote]Therizza wrote:
It’s something with his myostatin gene, or lack thereof? [/quote]
Every big bodybuilder is now missing a myostatin gene?
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Therizza wrote:
It’s something with his myostatin gene, or lack thereof?
Every big bodybuilder is now missing a myostatin gene?
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Please delete myostatin from everyone’s thought process. This is a relatively irrelevant gene in the big scheme of things. What they’ve done with rats and cattle had been very specific, and can’t be replicated in a human model. Even then, the importance of myostatin has been shot down. Stem cell and satellite cell proliferation is where it’s at.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Therizza wrote:
It’s something with his myostatin gene, or lack thereof?
Every big bodybuilder is now missing a myostatin gene?
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Levrone is/was the most physically gifted bodybuilder ever? Are you insinuating Levrone is just another ‘big bodybuilder’? I think he’s something quite different than that.
[quote]Therizza wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Therizza wrote:
It’s something with his myostatin gene, or lack thereof?
Every big bodybuilder is now missing a myostatin gene?
Levrone is/was the most physically gifted bodybuilder ever? Are you insinuating Levrone is just another ‘big bodybuilder’? I think he’s something quite different than that.[/quote]
I think I would put Ronnie Coleman and possibly even Michael Lockett above him in terms of “who has the best genetics”. Not to mention that you have been duped if you jump to “myostatin genes” every time you see someone who has well above average genetics.
I am saying this because I had someone tell me that I might have the same issue…and I am nowhere near as big as these guys are.
Kevin looks that way because he worked hard. He may be one of the few who can “diet up” for a contest, but that does not mean he is a mutant.
Genetics is not a level playing field. There are people at all points in the spectrum.
Kevin doesn’t look like that by accident. He looks that way because where he is in terms of diet and training is far ahead of where 99% of the people on this site are.
Prof. X,
My response was to taleb, who asked specifically what about Kevin’s genetics allowed him to grow muscle so efficiently, be it in the past or currently. That is why my statement about the myostatin gene had a question mark, indicating it has SOMETHING to do with why elite bodybuilder’s look the way they do, since myostatin is in charge of releasing muscle growth factors, is it not?
Ergo, when stating someone has superior genetics for bodybuilding, that would include muscle bellies, insertion, and the propensity to grow(myostatin?), would it not?
[quote]Therizza wrote:
Prof. X,
My response was to taleb, who asked specifically what about Kevin’s genetics allowed him to grow muscle so efficiently, be it in the past or currently. That is why my statement about the myostatin gene had a question mark, indicating it has SOMETHING to do with why elite bodybuilder’s look the way they do, since myostatin is in charge of releasing muscle growth factors, is it not? Ergo, when stating someone has superior genetics for bodybuilding, that would include muscle bellies, insertion, and the propensity to grow(myostatin?), would it not?[/quote]
That whole “myostatin gene” has been a hoar of the supplement industry and not much else. I would not expect the flowing lines and symmetry of a bodybuilder on someone who truly was lacking that gene.
Superior genetics in bodybuilding means greater responsiveness and adaptation to training. More efficient use of protein substances and calories in general and the ability to grow larger muscles than most of the population. The mysostatin gene doesn’t even need a table at the conference most of the time.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Therizza wrote:
Prof. X,
My response was to taleb, who asked specifically what about Kevin’s genetics allowed him to grow muscle so efficiently, be it in the past or currently. That is why my statement about the myostatin gene had a question mark, indicating it has SOMETHING to do with why elite bodybuilder’s look the way they do, since myostatin is in charge of releasing muscle growth factors, is it not? Ergo, when stating someone has superior genetics for bodybuilding, that would include muscle bellies, insertion, and the propensity to grow(myostatin?), would it not?
That whole “myostatin gene” has been a hoar of the supplement industry and not much else. I would not expect the flowing lines and symmetry of a bodybuilder on someone who truly was lacking that gene.
Superior genetics in bodybuilding means greater responsiveness and adaptation to training. More efficient use of protein substances and calories in general and the ability to grow larger muscles than most of the population. The mysostatin gene doesn’t even need a table at the conference most of the time.[/quote]
Mea culpa. I was under the impression the myostatin gene regulated all muscle building activities, such as your aforementioned greater responsiveness and adaptation to training/ larger muscles. More reading to be done on my part.
[quote]WS4JB wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
you know he thought it out the week before or something
“i need to do a session away from my happy mood and say nothing and give evil eyes to make everyone think im so focused maaan”
i know a gimmick when i see one. and im not saying he doesnt train hard regardless.
My thoughts exactly, come on I like the guy, and like what he’s doing, but he is an “actor” now. Maybe he wanted some serious stuff for his portfolio. [/quote]
You both may be confusing him with Arnold.
I would like to think Levrone has more authenticity than this - he doesn’t need to fake greatness in order to be crowned the best, these are Arnold tactics.
If Arnold had one bone of authenticity in his body he would have not become a politician.
I would be more disappointed in Levrone for becoming “Hollywood” than if I actually found out he was cheating with drugs.
[quote]Alpha F wrote:
WS4JB wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
you know he thought it out the week before or something
“i need to do a session away from my happy mood and say nothing and give evil eyes to make everyone think im so focused maaan”
i know a gimmick when i see one. and im not saying he doesnt train hard regardless.
My thoughts exactly, come on I like the guy, and like what he’s doing, but he is an “actor” now. Maybe he wanted some serious stuff for his portfolio.
You both may be confusing him with Arnold.
I would like to think Levrone has more authenticity than this - he doesn’t need to fake greatness in order to be crowned the best, these are Arnold tactics.
If Arnold had one bone of authenticity in his body he would have not become a politician.
I would be more disappointed in Levrone for becoming “Hollywood” than if I actually found out he was cheating with drugs.
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Kevin Levrone is an actor, just not a good one. he was obviously trying to be all super hardcore by not saying anything in his vids to show how serious he is when just a week ago he was all happy go lucky. i mean its not hard to spot bad acting and that was bad acting.
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
Alpha F wrote:
WS4JB wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
you know he thought it out the week before or something
“i need to do a session away from my happy mood and say nothing and give evil eyes to make everyone think im so focused maaan”
i know a gimmick when i see one. and im not saying he doesnt train hard regardless.
My thoughts exactly, come on I like the guy, and like what he’s doing, but he is an “actor” now. Maybe he wanted some serious stuff for his portfolio.
You both may be confusing him with Arnold.
I would like to think Levrone has more authenticity than this - he doesn’t need to fake greatness in order to be crowned the best, these are Arnold tactics.
If Arnold had one bone of authenticity in his body he would have not become a politician.
I would be more disappointed in Levrone for becoming “Hollywood” than if I actually found out he was cheating with drugs.
Kevin Levrone is an actor, just not a good one. he was obviously trying to be all super hardcore by not saying anything in his vids to show how serious he is when just a week ago he was all happy go lucky. i mean its not hard to spot bad acting and that was bad acting.
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OR, he was acting previously and is now finally getting into the mindset he had when competing. He was pretty serious when he trained on his videos and even when Shawn Ray and he were training.