Heres another thought....the year you were with Palumbo you competed at 213 correct.....I then trained you and we got too heavy and too doughy (but I was trying my best to get a 5'10" guy into the superheavies where he belonged) because there are 5'7" guys at the national level competing at 225 and 5'10 213 doesn't cut it.....so you went up to a very big but smooth 278 to 283 with me and came down (and it was hard to come down no doubt about it...brutal...but when you did you were 244 five weeks out in damn good shape and looked like you would have competed at 228 to 233) so in a years time a roughly 15 to 20 pound gain on your onstage weight (and I still have all those pics of that journey)...........it sure as hell aint always pretty but sometimes.....EXCESS works.......
how much shit does this guy below get daily? Probably alot
Offseaon 280lbs!! - Muscular Development Forums
That sure as hell aint freaking pretty...or comfortable but I'll tell you what....I admire a guy who decides to put 20 pounds on his contest stage bodyweight in a years time and make some major changes.
That guy used food for his anabolic....and yep he got big and doughy but he is going to be onstage even larger than these pics from last year show......
This sport is tremendously tough in deciding what you want to do with it....do you want to be club guy who looks in shape year round but gains hardly anything from year to year.
or do you want to make major changes, throw caution of bodyfat to the wind, and suffer while coming down?
(I think there is a middle ground and thats what I would prefer)
but I like people who "get after it...and go for it"......this guy wants to look different to the judges than he did last time and is going to
this is what he looked like last time he did this.....Chad Nichols takes him in