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Just to note: He is going back to training...he loves it. Just needs to clear the cobwebs and get his physical stability back. But i have been running the full court press campaign hard at him for the last week. The blessing in disguise is his waist has gotten tiny during these events and that is the one positive in all the negatives....so i have been bombarding him with "low food intake, liquid meals, getting away from exercises where there is a large amount of weight over the midriff/waistline, staying away from the heavy deadlifts, heavy rows" and going toward machine work and things that will keep his waist down. 99% of bodybuilders have to do those heavy basic movements to put on the muscle mass on their way up to be elite but he has 15-20 years of hardcore heavy slag training history in the books and he has been bed ridden for 4 weeks so its atrophied but still there (but dormant). So its not "building it" but reactivating it....and its a heck of a lot more detailed than this but im trying to steer him in that direction with low volume of food intake/ low carb intake + EAA drinks etc...I think he is embracing it. I dont think he will ever compete again but if he plays his cards right this could end up incredibly impressive due to a history of muscle mass already built that cannot be erased. Its like i told him "if roelly winkler ruptured his esophagus, was bedridden and lost 60-70lbs and his arms went from 23 to 16....do you really think if Roelly started lifting hard for 6-8 weeks and doing everything else but took in minimal amounts of food + EAA drinks that his arms would stay 16 inches? No they would go up to 21.5 because of all that muscle memory. The older bodybuilders who disintegrate in this sport are the ones who do one of two things (or both)
1) stop lifting forever
2) let their endogenous Testosterone levels go to crap
1) stop lifting forever
2) let their endogenous Testosterone levels go to crap