My video about height - youtube.com/watch?v=j5Y6u53lVJM

My video about Arnold - youtu.be/eM0X_KyIYb8

"In most cases bodybuilders are just drug addicts - nothing more, nothing less. It's not to put myself above them, it's just how it is" - Nasser El Sonbaty (RIP)

*Look at reflection in car window and flex every time crew*
*Use half the roll to wipe after a poo crew*
*Fart in the gym and blame rotten smell on faulty ventilation crew*
*Fart at home and blame it on the dog crew*
*Watch neutron-star density poop mock me as water flushes around it and it stays put crew*
*Drive 2 minutes in the summer and back of shirt gets completely wet crew*
*Coffee black as midnight on a moonless night crew*
*Fat shame my cat on a daily basis crew*

My video about height - youtube.com/watch?v=j5Y6u53lVJM

My video about Arnold - youtu.be/eM0X_KyIYb8

"In most cases bodybuilders are just drug addicts - nothing more, nothing less. It's not to put myself above them, it's just how it is" - Nasser El Sonbaty (RIP)

*Look at reflection in car window and flex every time crew*
*Use half the roll to wipe after a poo crew*
*Fart in the gym and blame rotten smell on faulty ventilation crew*
*Fart at home and blame it on the dog crew*
*Watch neutron-star density poop mock me as water flushes around it and it stays put crew*
*Drive 2 minutes in the summer and back of shirt gets completely wet crew*
*Coffee black as midnight on a moonless night crew*
*Fat shame my cat on a daily basis crew*

6'3 Krew

My video about height - youtube.com/watch?v=j5Y6u53lVJM

My video about Arnold - youtu.be/eM0X_KyIYb8

"In most cases bodybuilders are just drug addicts - nothing more, nothing less. It's not to put myself above them, it's just how it is" - Nasser El Sonbaty (RIP)

Originally Posted By jamiejammer⏩

I gotta get the surgery too at some point, I actually wonder how different it would look if I got shredded. Stan Efferding always said that people who are serious about powerlifting or bodybuilding could easily become a millionaire if they took that same discipline and applied it to business. How old are you btw?

Yeah, the face difference when you get lean is usually very dramatic.

Mid 30s. It's also quite motivating that every year, I push it in terms of being in my best physical shape. If I compare myself at this age to when I was 18, I looked like an absolute slob back then. Muscle maturity is also really interesting over time. I'm really curious to see what I'll look like in another 30 years. Hopefully like Kaz, our resident samurai

*Look at reflection in car window and flex every time crew*
*Use half the roll to wipe after a poo crew*
*Fart in the gym and blame rotten smell on faulty ventilation crew*
*Fart at home and blame it on the dog crew*
*Watch neutron-star density poop mock me as water flushes around it and it stays put crew*
*Drive 2 minutes in the summer and back of shirt gets completely wet crew*
*Coffee black as midnight on a moonless night crew*
*Fat shame my cat on a daily basis crew*

---Chicago Crew---
♒Morning_Workout_Crew♒

Originally Posted By Uber_Dad⏩

GJDM...Love hearing about the road you took...Can you talk more about the Mike Mentzer, Dorian Yates stuff you did? Did you quit alcohol to get the cut?

Yates' blood n guts DVD was a massive turning point. That intensity and different approach to lifting were large motivators and revelations for me. From that point on, I switched out of really high volume and started implementing a 'heavy duty' or 'high intensity' approach. I roped my best bud into lifting and we trained together for many years, often imitating the videos without being as loudWe'd push each other past the point of failure on the exercises we did. High intensity, lowered volume. I then read that Yates' approach was largely built on Mentzer's heavy duty approach and found this one series of videos where an older Mentzer is training a German dude and demonstrating his approach. I'll post some videos off Youtube in this post.

I've never really been a regular drinker. I'll admit, my friends and I binge drank, and a lot of it. But we were weekenders. We'd get together on a Friday evening after a school or work week, make a bonfire in the woods or in a backyard, let off some steam, have a bunch of beers, get loaded, have fun. I've actually never drank daily. I had 1 beer the other day on my cheat day and I realized I hadn't had a drink in around 2 months. It was a 10.2% tripel too so it hit me like a fuking ton of bricks. I was sitting on the couch trying to chill for a half hour because I generally never stop moving and I had trouble getting up (lol). Evidently, if you want to cut properly, you're definitely going to have to stop consuming alcohol. I've cut in the past and had a bunch of beers with buds on the weekend but not regularly. You could treat it like a cheat meal in a way.

Here you go:





^^^ Imagine having a training partner like that lol. Now I'm getting all nostalgic and sentimental for the years my friend and I trained that way. Made some solid gains too. He's my childhood friend and we came up together in many ways. We live many hours from each other now and really don't see each other too often. Maybe twice a year.

Mentzer really clicked with me. He implemented a really well-thought out, intellectual, and scientific approach to lifting and the philosophy of bodybuilding that I liked a lot. It was really refreshing to hear him speak.

*Look at reflection in car window and flex every time crew*
*Use half the roll to wipe after a poo crew*
*Fart in the gym and blame rotten smell on faulty ventilation crew*
*Fart at home and blame it on the dog crew*
*Watch neutron-star density poop mock me as water flushes around it and it stays put crew*
*Drive 2 minutes in the summer and back of shirt gets completely wet crew*
*Coffee black as midnight on a moonless night crew*
*Fat shame my cat on a daily basis crew*