Steroids lol

[275bills]

Deal, I’ll drive over to a gym in the next week or so and knock it out

You dont have a regular bar at home ?
Haha all good either way man just having fun

 

[Virtuous]

You dont have a regular bar at home ?
Haha all good either way man just having fun

I have a stiff bar and no bar jack, and my gym has both lol.

I like deadlifting with an actual DL bar, and I hate loading plates (my trap bar has a built in jack), so I don’t straight bar dead at home

But yeah lol I know man. All good

 

[Mufasa123]

I have a stiff bar and no bar jack, and my gym has both lol.

I like deadlifting with an actual DL bar, and I hate loading plates (my trap bar has a built in jack), so I don’t straight bar dead at home

But yeah lol I know man. All good

Once I got a bigger space for a home gym, first thing I did was get a full size jack. Yeah, awkward piece to store without giant box commerical gym walls and essentially a luxury item but what a great luxury.

 

[pickapeck]

I posted this in another thread, but wanted to throw it out here.

Air Force pic is me at 20, lifting 4-5 week, eating 150g of protein at around 160lbs. I think I actually trained/lifted more often than I do now, pretty much all I did was lift in my free time.

It’s important to note that my frame in that pic is the body frame of everyone in my family - very skinny. Endurance athletes, everyone does ultra marathons or distance cycling.

Other pic is me now, 220 lbs, after a decade of gear. I can still bang out a 6 minute mile in a pinch, but I also can pull a 600+ lb deadlift cold any day of the year, and am generally strong as hell.

Just funny how transformative this stuff is.

Inb4 “you coulda done this natty”

Yeah, I know, but I’d be weaker, fluffier, and had less fun.

Looking great brother. nic decade long work.

 

[psychor]

You could've accomplished the same thing with just Cell-Tech(eod), HotStuff and a little Deer Antler Velvet! Steroids...smh! Really bro...really!?

 

[Virtuous]

You could've accomplished the same thing with just Cell-Tech(eod), HotStuff and a little Deer Antler Velvet! Steroids...smh! Really bro...really!?

Damn, I was dosing the Cell-Tech e3d, that’s where I went wrong

 

[Drax]

6 min mile in a bodybuilder!?! And a 6 hundo+ deadlift! Thats the difference between a true athlete, and everyone else lol

Dude, I can't do anything for 6 mins straight without a break and a sandwich. Just ask my wife! And I'm just a little guy at a whopping 198 lbs...lean and muscular sure, but dollar menu lung capacity like the 300 lbs manager over at Dunkin Donuts...

...i like that guy. He knows his donuts.

 

[Virtuous]

6 min mile in a bodybuilder!?! And a 6 hundo+ deadlift! Thats the difference between a true athlete, and everyone else lol

Dude, I can't do anything for 6 mins straight without a break and a sandwich. Just ask my wife! And I'm just a little guy at a whopping 198 lbs...lean and muscular sure, but dollar menu lung capacity like the 300 lbs manager over at Dunkin Donuts...

...i like that guy. He knows his donuts.

I played soccer for about 15 years, that shit will hang a set of lungs on you. Still do 30-60 of cardio daily too, I keep that athleticism up because once it slips… it’s gone lol.

 

[Drax]

I played soccer for about 15 years, that shit will hang a set of lungs on you. Still do 30-60 of cardio daily too, I keep that athleticism up because once it slips… it’s gone lol.

Soccer players = exemplary lung capacity and usually excellent calves too

 

[Cv215]

Nice work dude

 

[alfresco]

Soccer players = exemplary lung capacity and usually excellent calves too

This young man I am working with plays soccer, played at the collegiate level.

Exceptional endurance and extraordinary calves, perhaps the best I have seen.

Cause or effect?

 

[Virtuous]

Soccer players = exemplary lung capacity and usually excellent calves too

This young man I am working with plays soccer, played at the collegiate level.

Exceptional endurance and extraordinary calves, perhaps the best I have seen.

Cause or effect?

It’s an effect of soccer.

Years and years of tempo runs, sprints, plyo.

Shitty soccer teams run themselves ragged, but with quality teams that know how to play you see the players casually jogging around the field, with occasional redline sprints and jumps. It’s HIIT for 90+ minutes.

 

[alfresco]

It’s an effect of soccer.

Years and years of tempo runs, sprints, plyo.

Shitty soccer teams run themselves ragged, but with quality teams that know how to play you see the players casually jogging around the field, with occasional redline sprints and jumps. It’s HIIT for 90+ minutes.

Then why doesn’t everybody who does the above, have exceptional calves?

That fasted runners in the world do not have calves in proportion to their accomplishments.

Playing devils advocate, sort of . . .

 

[Virtuous]

Then why doesn’t everybody who does the above, have exceptional calves?

That fasted runners in the world do not have calves in proportion to their accomplishments.

Playing devils advocate, sort of . . .

Fair point. You’re right. No idea.

 

[Performance Based]

Regarding the development of calves and running... For years I trained my calves utilizing every modality, scheme, "how to" guide out there and could not get them to develop nicely this is in conjunction with a substantial amount of running in my earlier years and throughout my career. Runs were typically mid and long slow distance in nature.

About two years ago I got onto the speed train working towards a 2 min 800. When I am prepping for speed based events my calves literally engorge for the duration of the "camp" become incredibly dense and hyper vascular. Then I made the transition to zero drop shoes while running and almost another level of development (after a few injuries) came through with the increased strain on the soleus/gastroc from the mm drop difference.

 

[Performance Based]

Dug through some old photos, tried to get as close to one year apart as possible.

May 15 June 2005 - holding the condoms (116 pounds at 5’11)
May 17 June 2007 - riding the kiwi (210ish)
May 22 June 2008 - poodle skirt (225ish)
May 19 June 2010 - Deployment (190ish)

 

[TheRoid]

Then why doesn’t everybody who does the above, have exceptional calves?

Probably for the same reason two guys follow the same excellent, well engineered training program and one grows like weed while the other barely makes some minor gains.
The beloved genetics always rules.

 

[juggy38]

During football IN-season, my calves would always grow. I guess sprinting/stopping/sled pushing humans with 20lbs of gear on you for 4 months 5 days a week will do that

 

[Virtuous]

Dug through some old photos, tried to get as close to one year apart as possible.

May 15 June 2005 - holding the condoms (116 pounds at 5’11)
May 17 June 2007 - riding the kiwi (210ish)
May 22 June 2008 - poodle skirt (225ish)
May 19 June 2010 - Deployment (190ish)

Damn man huge transformation

 

[qbkilla]

I played soccer for about 15 years, that shit will hang a set of lungs on you. Still do 30-60 of cardio daily too, I keep that athleticism up because once it slips… it’s gone lol.

Now this is impressive. I'm assuming you don't have any BP issues?