[quote]Diluted56 wrote:
No ways he’s natty lol but the thing is i cant believe how THICK his “upper shelf” is! Shoulders, chest and traps are insane! looks like he’s gonna split his skin apart! Hope he gets an Olympia qualifying position! He would bring some mayhem to the 202 showdown![/quote]
I call that the “shoulder pad area”… everything covered by football pads: shouldes, traps, chest and upper back. He is amazingly thick in that area. But we worked hard on it. At one point he was having 6 back sessions a week and over the past 2 weeks he was having 6 shoulder sessions per week.[/quote]
Thats alot of volume! haha but I mean like you said with your Olympic training background where the atheletes gun the conditioning to handle that amount of volume, Daryl must have come out of it alive
I just love the fact that people always love to say how unfunctional Bodybuilders are because of their size, but after watching all these videos its really cool to see someone as big, ripped and thick as Daryl put that comment to rest!
It’s interesting to note that the original idea behind the 202 class was for the ‘smaller’ competitors, but at heights of 5’7 in some cases, that encompasses a lot of the ‘regular’ olympia competitors as well. I know Cutler is only 5’9, Yates was 5’10, I THINK Coleman was 5’11, Haney was 5’11… so guys like Yates and Coleman are the ‘taller’ competitors, with the other guys (except for the occasional freak like Freeman or Wolf) falling in the ranges of the upper 202 guys.
I wonder at what point the 202 will (if it indeed does) collapse on itself as more and more competitors who should be competing above 202 find ways to slip under the upper limit. It’s been said before, but maybe a height cut off would have been a better idea (just my thoughts this morning).
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
It’s interesting to note that the original idea behind the 202 class was for the ‘smaller’ competitors, but at heights of 5’7 in some cases, that encompasses a lot of the ‘regular’ olympia competitors as well. I know Cutler is only 5’9, Yates was 5’10, I THINK Coleman was 5’11, Haney was 5’11… so guys like Yates and Coleman are the ‘taller’ competitors, with the other guys (except for the occasional freak like Freeman or Wolf) falling in the ranges of the upper 202 guys.
I wonder at what point the 202 will (if it indeed does) collapse on itself as more and more competitors who should be competing above 202 find ways to slip under the upper limit. It’s been said before, but maybe a height cut off would have been a better idea (just my thoughts this morning).
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Well, I do believe this is a first in competition where someone loses as much size as English does just to compete in a lower class…but since it works for him and he keeps winning, I doubt he will change that until he starts losing.
I don’t know of any other people dropping 50-60lbs of pure muscle to compete because that fucker must be the biggest 5’6" bodybuilder in the off season.
[quote]Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
At one point he was having 6 back sessions a week and over the past 2 weeks he was having 6 shoulder sessions per week.[/quote]
What does that even look like? I mean that frequency-- how does that break out daily? Is that several of the same movements 6x’s or a different variation every time?
[quote]Christian Thibaudeau wrote:
At one point he was having 6 back sessions a week and over the past 2 weeks he was having 6 shoulder sessions per week.[/quote]
What does that even look like? I mean that frequency-- how does that break out daily? Is that several of the same movements 6x’s or a different variation every time? [/quote]
There are many ways to break that down… here is what we did.
DAY 1 AM Back width workout
DAY 1 PM Eccentric-less back work (basically a circuit of several blast straps and sled pulling exercises)
DAY 2 AM Traps and lower back
DAY 2 PM Eccentric-less back work
DAY 3 AM Back thickness
DAY 3 PM Eccentric-less back work and biceps
Hey guys, Sorry for the delay on jumping in, but I have not had much time or energy to get on the internet. Like I mentioned previously these workouts are so much more functional then traditional bodybuilding workouts, but yields the same end result.
Thank you so much for all the positive feedback and if you have any questions for me post them here.
Awesome to have you here on T-Nation Gee!!!
Been a fan since I saw your photoshoot in the November 2009 Muscular Devlopment magazine. Lol its the only MD mag I got becauase here in South Africa thy are DAMN expensive! haha
But just want say congrats on everything you have achieved so far!
Blows my mind your on T-Nation though, like actually talking and sharing your knowledge!
Well a question for starters, how was your transition of gaining weight at your height when you first started competing to what you weigh and look now, done? I mean your thick as tank and just hold so much mass on your frame! Was it hard for you to gain weight to what you hold now?
Also just something that’s been on my mind since the training lab, how did you become part of the project???
Dropping all those lbs of muscle to compete in a bodybuilding contest has to be pretty hard on the kidneys. All that myoglobin has to pass through the kidneys…
Diluted: I know it may not look like it but I am a hard gainer. Getting lean and conditioned has always been easier then putting on size. When I first competed back in 2003 I was a lightweight and weighed in at 149 lbs. The next time I stepped on stage wasn’t till 2005 but as a middleweight weighing in at 169 lbs. Then I didn’t step on stage again till 2009 still as a middleweight but at 173 lbs. So, as u can see I didn’t make any drastic gains in weight over a 6 year span.
Mytch: I have never used a fat bar til I got here. I did do forearm training about twice a week regularly before I got here.
Frozen: I maybe a bit bias on this one because we focused so much on bringing up my back width, so my answer is definitely going to be back
Thanks for replying Daryl! At 173lbs you look ALOT heavier! Awesome physique and I hope the Olympia qualifier goes amazing and you get the opportunity to step onto that legendary stage!
