You weigh how much???

[Tomgrass]

Was listening to an Andy baker podcast he was talking about alot of guys, bad genetics, by the time they hit 200 they look like a cab of ham, 225 an even bigger can of ham...the bigger they get the poor proportion (genetics, torso dominant physique) stand out even more. Basically, you can get bigger by adding lbm...but possibly look worse if it just further throws off proportions.

Yes if you have a shitty structure it will show even more

 

[Big A]

how do most guys today actually train? im kinda in my own little bubble when it comes to bodybuilding.

That's what I was thinking too, then saw the other post about machines? Really? I suppose that it has to do with the environment/gym that you train in, but for me it was heavy free weight compound movements. Anything else, you were a pussy.

 

[hawkmoon]

That's what I was thinking too, then saw the other post about machines? Really? I suppose that it has to do with the environment/gym that you train in, but for me it was heavy free weight compound movements. Anything else, you were a pussy.

I'm halfway I guess.

I used to train heavy and with higher volume

I now train almost as heavy but with lower volume and higher frequency, mostly with machines, especially plate loaded machines.

I feel the machines allow me to push harder with less risk. Of course machines have gotten better over the years, though I'm using basic Hammer stuff 90% of the time.

 

[BrooklynBB]

To everyone who posted pictures, ya'll look great. Keep going.

When I was 270 and posted pictures, people said I looked small.

When I was 218 and seen in person, I was accused of being 240 and was asked to get on scales to prove my weight.

Now I'm around 230 on a good day, and get accused of being 240 because I'm fat. LOL.

3 questions for the man BIG A: What a fantastic thread. Glad you started it. And you look incredible.

What is your diet like these days?

When you say 250mg, are you only taking 250mg test a week?

And that one day you train, what are you doing for lifts?

 

[specter]

Usually at the times where i was in good shape ppl thought i was heavier then when i was bulked up and bloated, also due to the way my body is "shaped" short legs, long torso, long arms, small waste and wide lats, i look taller in pics then i actually am, wich has made some women sad

 

[rAJJIN]

For 20 yrs I’ve been 5’10 225-230.
I joked with guys in the staff area that if you ever want to figure out how to look exactly the same for decades I have that shit figured out.

The “look changes. As I got older and less active I started getting the smooth insulin resistance look snuck in on me. Still the same strength but smooth and no veins or pop to the muscle.

So even for “ me same
Weight can have a different look depending on some variables.

 

[silvaback]

when i was natty people always thought i weighed more cause i looked big

but now that im on the sauce im 230lbs at 5’7’

 

[silvaback]

Golias is still around. Still the same size.

he aint the same size as he was in his prime back in 2011-2012… he trains at the same gym as me sometimes in vegas

back in 2011 he looked liked a real life cartoon in person i couldn’t believe what i was looking at tbh the most freakiest human i ever seen

 

[Big A]

3 questions for the man BIG A: What a fantastic thread. Glad you started it. And you look incredible.

What is your diet like these days?

When you say 250mg, are you only taking 250mg test a week?

And that one day you train, what are you doing for lifts?

Thank you, but you know how it is. Once you used to look a certain way, anything less makes you depressed. And even when you looked great, you compare yourself to the best. Not long ago, I was sitting down with Sigmund Roid looking at my last pro show with him commenting how great I looked. Then I split the screen and put Dorian next to me going through the same poses. Talk about realising how shit I actually was.

My 250mg/w was mispelt. It's actually 275mg/w. It consists of 150mg tren e and 125mg test undecanoate.

I train once a week, whole body:

- incline presses (warm-ups and 1 work set)
- flat flyes (1 work set)
- millitary press (1 warm-up, 1 work set)
- lateral raises (1 work set)
- rear delt machine (1 work set)
- lat pull downs (1 warm up, 1 work set)
- bent over rows (1 work set)
- nautilus pulls (1 work set)
- skull crushers (2 work sets)
- standing db curls superset with hammer curls (2 work sets)
- rock bottom squats (warm-ups and 1 work set)
- leg curls or stiff leg dead lifts (whatever I feel like)(1 work set)
- calf raises (1 warm up and 1 work set)
- crunches (1 work set)

less than 1hr workout, minimal rest, tempo always 2:1:1, stretching and contracting at the opposite ends of the movement. Higher reps now (20 or so) compared to when I was young and keeping between 4 and 8.

 

[Alzadosghost]

How was first weeks? Must been hell , right now nothing? Like zero- no trt in a future?

Iv came off for years at a time several times since I started using them. I felt fine. I feel much better than I did on gear at any dose now. I even gained back alot of my weight without even going to the gym. I see no point in using try if my numbers are good like they are and I’m feeling ok. Those drugs all put a lot of stress on your body and mind. Didn’t really realize how shitty I actually felt until I came off.

 

[UnholyAlliance]

180 soaking wet.

 

[Starchild1]

Some of you guys don't even look human. That's awesome in the best way possible.

 

[maxtrax]

It has alot to do with muscle bellies, insertion and joint size. My training partner Joe Romine won his card at North Americans and lost the overall to Dallas McCarver by one placement. He weighed a womping #209 at 5'9". As a matter of fact the most he ever weighed was #245 but having great muscle bellies and small joints he looked #265 in the off season. The illusion of bodybuilding is crazy.

 

[Knight9]

235-240 @ 5'9
150mg e5d
42yrs old and havent done a cycle since 2016 and before that, 2011.

 

[chooch]

They probably aren’t being totally about their weight. I’m a small guy, 5’4” and roughly 190lbs at the moment so I have no room to talk lol. But a good friend of mine is 6’ and just a tad under 310lbs (308 last I knew) with 24” arms. He’s undeniably fkn huge. I don’t believe you can have that much mass and not appear huge to literally everybody. He stays covered up most of the time, typically in XXXXXXXXL (slight exaggeration) football type jerseys, and it’s still impossible to hide his size or not look massive to literally everybody. People have to be either stretching the truth about their size or taking absolutely horrible pictures.

 

[Siggy]

They probably aren’t being totally about their weight. I’m a small guy, 5’4” and roughly 190lbs at the moment so I have no room to talk lol. But a good friend of mine is 6’ and just a tad under 310lbs (308 last I knew) with 24” arms. He’s undeniably fkn huge. I don’t believe you can have that much mass and not appear huge to literally everybody. He stays covered up most of the time, typically in XXXXXXXXL (slight exaggeration) football type jerseys, and it’s still impossible to hide his size or not look massive to literally everybody. People have to be either stretching the truth about their size or taking absolutely horrible pictures.

Um, yea 6ft 308 lbs, we are now legitimately in Ron Simmons territory.....

 

[bbxtreme]

As @TheOtherOne55 pointed out, this quickly turned into a pic of stats with no pics.

Let’s change that as @Big A set the standard. I’m 209lb 5,7 in this pic a few weeks back on vacation in FL as this thread was made. Playing with my dog here. I always think I look small. Do I look my weight here? Maybe. But my cycle at the time vs @Big A - he looks much better on less.

Cruise here, 750mg test weekly. Let’s see what everyone else’s current pics look like with their weight. To be clear- do I think my look matches my dosage? NO.

Let’s have some fun with this thread.

 

[BrooklynBB]

Thank you, but you know how it is. Once you used to look a certain way, anything less makes you depressed. And even when you looked great, you compare yourself to the best. Not long ago, I was sitting down with Sigmund Roid looking at my last pro show with him commenting how great I looked. Then I split the screen and put Dorian next to me going through the same poses. Talk about realising how shit I actually was.



less than 1hr workout, minimal rest, tempo always 2:1:1, stretching and contracting at the opposite ends of the movement. Higher reps now (20 or so) compared to when I was young and keeping between 4 and 8.

I just looked back at some of my pics. Now I know how you feel

Thanks for answering everything, just two more:

- About the diet: Do you still go for high protein or do you enjoy yourself more these days? Looks like you're still keeping everything good from those pics. I've let myself go. Alot.

- That training routine is something I am going to try. When you say 20 reps, is that last one failure or just going for the pump?

 

[Tomgrass]

I think i look for my weight , usually people think that i am heavier then i really am.

 

[Big A]

I just looked back at some of my pics. Now I know how you feel

Thanks for answering everything, just two more:

- About the diet: Do you still go for high protein or do you enjoy yourself more these days? Looks like you're still keeping everything good from those pics. I've let myself go. Alot.

- That training routine is something I am going to try. When you say 20 reps, is that last one failure or just going for the pump?

Every day I make a tuna/avocado dish. 2 x 440g cans of tuna in water and 3 large avocados. All chopped up, mixed together and I add balsamic vinegar for taste.
I eat 200g of that mixture per meal. I try to eat that every 2hrs.
It doesn't bloat me, doesn't give me the runs or any indigestion. The balsamic vinegar gets rid of any sick feelings from eating the same tuna over and over and it's also great to stop cravings.

That is my base, what I anchor my diet to. If I have any proper cravings (bread, cheese, fruit, etc), I have some afterwards. But because I am already pretty full from the tuna/avocado, I don't eat much of the bad shit when I crave it. And that is it, every single day. Not much variation at all, unless I am out at social dinners, and then I pretty much let it rip - seafood, steak, desert, etc.

If it's time to get lean, it's exclusively the tuna/avocado. Maybe a little apple afterwards.

20 reps to failure.