I love it! So much great advice!
I’d have to admit that I did get my greatest muscle gains from running bodybuilding splits at the beginning of 2015. While my strength has skyrocketed since then, I haven’t had any noticeable muscle gains doing purely 5/3/1.
For comparison, this was for a 3-month challenge on another bodybuilding site (Jan 1 - March 31, 2015):
I’m not going to even pretend the lighting isn’t more favourable in the second one, better angles, flexing, etc. But clearly there was noticeable muscle gain in those 3 months, and not much since in nearly 2 years, maybe even slight size regression since then…
I used the programs from Jim Stoppani “Shortcut to Size” and “Shortcut to Shred” for this transformation.