Wanna_be,
Thanks for posting pics.
I am not sure what your goal is? I understood you want to eat more, but don’t really see the reason…
Because I want to grow new muscle. Unless you are absolutely rand new to working out, you’re not going to grow muscle without eating more/enough to grow.
To be honest it is not at all that obvious. The typical signs and symtoms can be found by Googling it.
I had a weight loss patient who did everything right in terms of diet/calories, sleep and - as he thought - excercise. He had made fine progress, but came to a standstill since a couple of months back - for no reason. The hypothesis was that he most likely trained too much (6 days a week). We added another day of rest - and behold - progress continued. Unf I have not been able to follow up for the past year due to a change of jobs.
It sounds like your patients goal was to lose weight. AKA restrict calories and be in a deficit. He wasn’t over training, he was under eating.
If your racecar runs out of gas on the drag strip, it’s not a shitty performing car that was worked to the point of failure, you just didn’t fill up its damn gas tank.
You didn’t give it what it NEEDED to perform the task YOU ASKED IT TO perform.
Where do I find this t-ransformation challenge…i tried googling it with no luck
Stand by and I’ll tag you.
Edit:
For every one else. It’s a great challenge and a lot of fun! More of y’all should join!
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Might be. We checked calories, and if I’m not mistaken I think he was at 1600 cal a day when I first met him, which we elevated gradually in order to increase metabolism. Can’t remember to what extent though, probably just below his basal metabolism… This was prior to the decrease of excercise.
But, this is just sort of ONE case study, which doesn’t prove a thing… LOL
Exactly. Read my analogy again. He wasn’t over training. He was under eating.
That’s a tough call because so many of us fall into that catagory and don’t know it. It’s like runners who run many miles every day . Their muscles don’t get much bigger but they can run everyday because they aren’t pushing to failure . The muscles get used to the load and maintain themselves. Supposedly if a bodybuilder was to train everyday his system would burn out and he’d start plateauing or stagnating and feeling worn out, tired and start getting injuries. It sounds like what you are doing is working so if it works keep at it !
Scott
So I might be over training, but we don’t know what over training is?
Personally, I’m with you. I need lots of food to grow. Currently making progress with HIT and about 3500-4000 cal a day. Next bioimpedance early february.
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Yea the food is the worst part. Working out is definitely the easiest part of the equation BY FAR.
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I see good leg development and your arms look bigger, but I can’t know for sure. I see a slight decrease in the BF in the abs. I see slight upper chest development too. Mostly it looks like you brought your legs up.
Thanks?
If you’re looking for a study that goes into technical detail I can’t give you that . With a few exceptions I typically don’t waste my time on studies. I just know from experience that when I’m over trained I feel more tired , blood pressure might be up , do not sleep well, not making progress , more prone to injuries, short fused , joints might ache more, not able to use the weight I used last time etc . If you can train as you say to failure and beyond everyday you must have one hell of a recovery system.
As for the food issue , I have never found more or less good food effected my workouts in any way. I’ve eaten like a pig and starved with no change. At least for most of us the protein thing is way over blown. Maybe you are that one in a million bodybuilder!
Scott
I’m trying to be honest here and not trying to put you down but the main difference I see between the transformation picture when you are your heaviest to the others when you are thinner is weight lose . The muscles are already there , they just show better because you are thinner. I’m not seeing the result of all the year and a half weight room work you’ve done?
Scott
Fair enough.
Since you are on Dr. Darden’s forum…why not take a week or two off of training and then start a new training program of Dr. Darden’s full body 30-10-30 program for about 6 weeks…see if you progress any, what do you have to lose
I might this summer after the challenge is over. No way I’d consider it right now.
Understood…if you try it, you may win the challenge, 