Mark your calendars, prep your meals, and grab your lifting belt. The 3rd T-ransformation is on. What: A physique challenge. Start in some kind of shape on January 1, end up in even better shape by June 1. At the end, forum members will vote for the lifter who made the most visually significant pr…

In fairness, it was “run-” before being cut off. Coulda been moderate distance running, haha. Running can definitely be damaging if you let it be. Same with lifting. I’m thinking that impact was less the word the nurse was looking for, and more loading, especially as it related to the hips. In …

[image] Basement_Gainz: “Nope, that’s what I weigh, I lift a bit.” “You mean weights?” “Yep.” “That’s bad for your joints.” T-Nation: False. Being fat is bad for your joints (knees in the original quote). I work with a guy who is approaching 50 years of age. He used to be a pretty avid di…

[image] T3hPwnisher: In fairness, it was “run-” before being cut off. Coulda been moderate distance running, haha. I was already getting irritated, so I really didn’t wanna year whatever else she was trying to convince me of lol. I realize being difficult with nurses and doctors doesn’t get a…

[image] Basement_Gainz: Probably just luck of the draw, my real issue was the nurse in the story above warning about the dangers of weight training for connective tissue and then suggesting a high impact form of exercise to do instead. I really hate to sound like an asshat, but when someone e…

Medical doesn’t really mean anything. They test problems. They don’t prevent them. My favorite is cardiac specialist who are obese and smoke. You’d think they would be smart enough to not be that way since they see first hand what that lifestyle does to the body.

[image] planetcybertron: I just can fully wrap my head around how medical field professionals can’t extent a bit of understanding to those of us who compete or are althetic because we choose to be. At the same time, you gotta figure these medical professionals go to their forums and go “I jus…

Touché. Can’t argue there. If we all could meet in the middle, that would be nice though. I’m not well versed on how having too much muscle mass effects the body, but I can agree too much of anything isn’t good either. I think the nurse was trying, in a subtle way, to explain to me, how she think…

As a side note to that conversation, there seems to be a pretty dramatic “obesity” scale. I went for my medical DOT card, and was expecting to get flak for my weight, but they basically stopped everything and got stuck on my weight, almost prevented me from getting it. They said at 6’3" and 230lbs I…

Those stupid charts just don’t account for people who have a significant amount of muscle mass, and medical professionals who just consider the charts and not the individual are bad at their jobs. To be fair, though, I understand why the charts are the way they are, and I would wager that the large…

Official 2019 T-ransformation Announcement Thread

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Frank_C April 9, 2019, 1:32am 879

On the topic of the T-ransformation Challenge, I posted my weight gain and loss journey in my log today. I’m done cutting but I’ll wait to submit my AFTER photo. I took one this morning but I could still look better on June 1st so I’ll wait to officially submit it.

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