Ha…maybe he got on TRT.
I always thought he chose to take a lower pay than he could, so that he could have a better team around him. Maybe that was just rumor though.
I get it and completely agree about Brady, I just don’t like it.
It’s the same with all things in life - feel underpaid/under appreciated at your job, go find another one at a different company…same same… I’m just going to miss watching him perform week in and week out for the Pats. It was one of those things I looked forward to each week.
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Honestly, though, Pats fans over the past 20 years have been more spoiled than any other fans in sports history – all good things must come to an end. Now the college-aged Pats fans are going to learn the harsh realities of fandom for everyone else, lol.
Lol! He’s definitely on 200mg/week
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Decided two weeks ago to start cutting down for summer. I’d been hanging in the high 180s, which is heavy for me, so I figured it’d take a while. I think my body was ready, though, because it’s come off quickly – I was at 176 this morning
I thought I’d be leaner at this weight, but I think Dr. Greg’s laser eye vision would still put me at ~12%. Guessing I’ll have to be sub-170 to really the lower abs showing.
It’s a bit discouraging, to be honest. Here was me around the same weight 11 months ago:
Clearly I was a little leaner. I’ve been lifting 5-6 times a week, hitting protein daily, on top of TRT, etc., and yet it doesn’t look like I’ve gained any size in the past year. Damn.
That said, when I look in the mirror, I can tell my arms are bigger…maybe chest, too. Just hard to accept that I’m in the mid-170s in both photos and was leaner a year ago.
Your chest looks fuller to me as do the delts, especially the lateral portion of them.
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Some guys have to eat a shit load of food when they bulk to put on strength and mass. You look like that type. I have the opposite problem.
What problem is that? You have to eat very little to cut down?
I don’t get it – I ate at a consistent surplus and put on 15 pounds, slowly, over the course of six months. I would’ve thought some of that would be good mass.
I appreciate the encouragement, brother – I hope you’re right! I feel that I look better in some places, but the scale weight is really weird.
Yeah - I’m 6’ 205 and have to eat <1700 cal to get any kind of reasonable cut. I can add muscle just fine at 2000-2,300, but my TDEE is supposedly 2,800+. Some of the guys I do strength training with are about 6’ 175 and have to eat >3,300 cal to add any strength at all. I know another guy who eats 4,000 and has a hard time still.
What kind of program are you running? People can talk all they want about high reps for hypertrophy, but what they’re leaving out is the fact that to build serious mass you still have to be lifting heavy. Light weight will simply not add mass. Hypertrophy at the top of competitive men’s physique classes is done at high weight, high rep. Supine pressing 400+ lbs for reps instead of whatever the training max is for 3. Shit like that.
Same thing with muscle for them, not just strength? That’s wild.
I think if you’re eating in a surplus (as I was, given that I was gaining weight), training consistently on a decent routine, and hitting your protein goal (with proper hormonal balance and sleep, of course), you should be gaining muscle. It kind of defies science to not gain muscle in those circumstances, right?
I’ve been running Mike Israetel’s 5-day men’s physique template with the chest/back emphasis. It’s a lot of volume, long workouts. Still not sure how I feel about it 3 months in. What do you do?
Not saying you’re wrong, but I think Dr. Greg would disagree with this. Here’s one video where he lays out his perspective. He also argues in this one that you don’t need to eat more.
Obviously he’s not all-knowing and there are flaws in anyone’s arguments – but I think he generally makes good points, and he has tons of experience.
I am currently on a 4-day 5/3/1 variant with a deadlift focus. I like it.
I’m not familiar with Dr. Greg. All I know is what I see proven out in the real world. Every indication is that the proven formula is caloric surplus, heavy weight, high reps. And of course anabolics.
Go look up videos for Mike’s leg days or Brandon Hendrickson’s chest workouts and see for yourself what the pros do.
This may be some of your issue. You may respond better to heavy, short stimulus with lots more recovery time.
You gotta find what works for you.
This just simply isn’t true. It’s all about making the muscle fail. You make the muscle fail, and give your body the proper nutrition, it will rebuild them stronger and bigger (assuming you give the body enough time to rebuild them before you tear them down again of course). There are techniques to make the muscle fail with light weights, and it’s much safer on the joints…That said…
Some people just add mass faster (respond better) to one method over another. Both will add mass if done properly, but depending on the individual, one will show the results faster than the other.
To add…I don’t think the difference in how some people respond to one method over another is so much just individual regarding body makeup or genetics, I think it’s more about the individual’s lifestyle outside of the gym, and level of daily activity.
If you are very active outside of the gym, I think you would benefit more from the shorter heavy workouts. Muscle adaption is a bitch…
I also think that most people that try to use the lightweight fail method actually do not truly push the muscle to failure, coupled with the fact that they do not understand that “light” weight is NOT feather weight. Light, strictly in terms of BodyBuilding, is really more “light to medium”, and is typically somewhere in the 65%-70% of 1RM range.
Covering up this sweet piece?:
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I’ve had similar issues in the past when I lose weight too fast and end up looking like I did previously at the same weight because I lost too muscle. Especially with someone like you who is naturally super lean. That said I think you look more muscular so it may be in your head.
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Better believe it!!! Nah, I got the tattoo when I was 18 but actually don’t regret it — I just don’t want to be identified on this forum by someone who knows me like my college students, lol.
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Say you work a desk job but also get 10K steps — that’s not “very active” in your book, right? I always hit 10K but still would consider myself moderately active. I see 20K as “very.”
This is how I feel about it, too. I think if heavy weight were the answer, Dr. Mike of all people would have heavy weight in his programs. Instead, he keeps things (relatively) light. In the program I’m following, most sets are in the 6-10 rep range. There are some exceptions, but I never go heavier than 4 reps.