There’s an epidemic. Strength training has infiltrated bodybuilding because strength-focused individuals won’t stay in their lane and yet we don’t really see bodybuilding infiltrating strength training. Why? Because strength training offers tangible progress in numbers which is addictive, and it’s a…

[Album] imgur.com [imgur.com] 5’7.5”, 170lbs, 18 in. arms, lifting 15 years, competed in 2012

[image] Nyseto: 18 in. arms Surely you have a better picture of those 18” guns.

Feeling. Training at or close to failure.

[image] FlatsFarmer: defined optimal? Whatever my favorite influencer says that yours doesn’t

[image] FlatsFarmer: Have we ever even defined optimal Not really, because [image] Andrewgen_Receptors' First Competition (Prep Log) We (myself included) spend so much time trying to quantify ‘optimal’ that we stay small.

Which fed and weight class at the time out of curiosity ?

[image] Nyseto: 5’7.5”, 170lbs, 18 in. arms Lol no

[image] FlatsFarmer: Have we ever even defined optimal? As a huge nerd I love defining things. And optimal is the ideal of training. Ideal where everything is where it should be all the time. It’s of course just an ideal. Nothing that can be ever achieved. Maybe your training is optimal, bu…

I get the impression your questioning that messurment at that weight height and leaness . Or am I mistaken?

Why the mantra "get stronger to get bigger" is bad advice and how strength training infiltrated bodybuilding

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anon6371718 October 9, 2025, 9:05pm 47

Not really, because

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