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It is difficult to prove someone’s mindset. Claiming what you did what you are accused of but it wasn’t illegal can be a strong defense. Pretty good chance he walks on the most serious charges with a white Wisconsin jury.
The simpler point that driving across state lines with a gun literally looking for trouble flies in the face of self-defense education.
God you’re dumb.
No clue where the inbetween is, dude. It wouldn’t be IronGarm if things didn’t go off the rails.
Layne Norton makes the same point about genetic potential. Why would you want to know if you were working with a lower ceiling instead of always trying to push for that little bit of improvement?
I just think it’s an interesting conversation but I wouldn’t want to hit my genetic potential. At my short height, my max potential may be something like 193 or something and I’m already a sturdy looking guy. I wouldn’t be able to move because there isn’t enough frame to spread that mass across.
Maybe your workouts are helping it? Keep tracking what you’re doing, sometimes we inadvertently stumble on something helpful 
The updated FAI Fix program is more comprehensive and does a better job of testing areas of pain, stiffness, hyperlaxity etc. It’s really just an approach to improving overall hip function through mobility and fairly simple strength work, along with tissue work and static stretches.
It’s interesting to me how many joint issues are alleviated by opening up the surrounding tissues so the joint can function like it’s supposed to.
<p style=”text-align: left;”>Lyle’s little, but he knows his stuff.</p>
But remember we’re talking about bodybuilders here. It started with a recent Olympia winner dying.
People have a ton of reasons for not reaching genetic potential, but those people don’t usually compete in physique sports.
Your trainer buddy and competitive bodybuilders aren’t in the same ball park.
One doesn’t work hard enough, probably doesn’t eat enough, and I’d bet his sleep sucks and he has some other lifestyle gaps.
For the guys that live and breathe the sport, who have coaches, meal prep like crazy, supplement intelligently… they’re very likely near their natural genetic potential.
Most of us aren’t anywhere near our genetic limit for muscular bodyweight, but as time goes on, gains slow more and more. A guy in his late 20s that started lifting at 15 or whatever is probably at the point where he’s able to gain 2 or 3 pounds per year if he’s a technician with everything.
Lyle McDonald published this and most of the calculators seem to be in agreement.
YEAR 1 — 20 – 25 lbs of muscles (2 pounds per month)
YEAR 2 — 10 – 12 of pounds (1 pound per month)
YEAR 3 — 5 – 6 of pounds (0.5 pound per month)
YEAR 4 — 2 – 3 of pounds (and then it tapers off)
Joe I had a consult this week with an older, experienced sports physio with a bit of a medical background. Deliberately sought him out as I don’t want someone like me or younger.
He diagnosed me with hip muscle tightness that may have contributed to an adductor pull. I swear I thought I’d done a labrum but apparently not. He did speak about the surgeries and their outcomes. Made me think of you. Have you gone the conservative route?
Thinking of your nuts.
Thank you for thinking of my nuts. On a related note: I’m taking fadogia agrestis, which will often visibly enlarge the testicles. I’ll put that rundown in the hrt/trt thread I think I have here.
re: My hip. Yes, I’ve tried to go the conservative route.
For a while, I thought I’d torn a muscle in my groin like a high adductor tear or maybe even a gracilis tear, but I had zero hip pain. Then, I started getting pain that made me think maybe an inguinal hernia. After having 2 hernia exams in one day, by my primary/GP, and then a general surgeon, I had an ultrasound which showed nothing, and then an MRI. MRI showed a mild impingement, labral tear and maybe a “shallow” hip socket, but not dysplastic.
Over time, my hip function declined and I started getting more of the classic symptoms.
Following the FAI fix, and being much better about lifestyle choices has me feeling much better in the last couple of weeks. Most of my lower body work right now is sled work, FAI Fix workouts, and trap bar or rack pulls. Staying out of deep hip flexion has reduced the pain from like a 5 or 6 out of 10 to a 2 or so.
Outcomes for the surgery for labral tears and impingement, either CAM or pincer, are so all over the map that I’d rather wait for a hip replacement. I’ve looked into it, and it seems like it’s 50/50 for whether people considered it worth it, with a lot of the “not worth it” camp saying it made their pain worse.
A lot of people have returned to full activity by improving hip function and strength. Haven’t heard anyone who’s been a Starrett person getting back, but I’m sure there are some.
It’s pretty hard to put on actual contractile tissue. I don’t remember the ratios, but I remember seeing something that showed that for “every pound of muscle”, some large percentage was water and glycogen, and the actual tissue accrual was miniscule.
When we’re all 15% BF or less (hopefully, but most of these slobs around here are mouth breathing for a reason), it’s a lot different than someone who’s peeled and depleted to stand on stage.
By the time they’re dieted down to 4% or 5% BF, there’s not much left of what filled them out. Even with carb ups to look fuller, there’s not much there to overshadow the muscle.
The Shelby Starnes rabbit hole is crazy.
Look into it.
Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about that. I saw a YT video where some client of his was talking about what he puts his female competitors on and it was nuts.
I had to look up Eric Helms.
That guy looks like he follows a good diet, does cardio, and lifts weights.
But he’s not in the same realm as the ‘roided out Godzillas. It’s like…I dunno…tee-ball vs. the majors. You don’t need to do steroids to win at tee-ball. But you might in the majors. And it’s a bit hard to compare the two.
Yup. Helms seems like a good dude. He was working as a trainer and put himself through grad school in his late 20s to eventually get a PhD. Lifelong natty, and he’s been open about the struggles of adding legitimate tissue once you hit a certain point.
I remember he talked about a FB post from like 12 years ago, after a year or two of competing, where he said he was setting his goals at something you would have to have Herschel Walker genetics to attain and he didn’t come close to getting there over a decade later.
Natural bodybuilders will often talk about how much they have to work over the course of a year to gain 1-2lbs of muscle, and then the untested competitors will come in like 5-10lbs heavier from 250 to 260 or whatever.
I’m always interested in whatever people completely devote themselves to. I think it’s interesting to hear their reasons, what immersed them into the path etc. With modern bodybuilding, at least without legitimate drug testing, I don’t really get it.
I get the Eric Helms types. They’re in love with the process of what makes muscle grow and how to maximize FFM, it satisfies their need for competition, and they’re likely not shaving decades off of their lives.
I don’t get the other guys. We see liver damage, cardiac remodeling, a number of compounds are pretty psychoactive (Tren)… I mean, Trenbolone is the breakup steroid for a reason.
I just remembered about some of the goofy stuff Poliquin used to talk about. I think there was even a thread over on the Performance Menu forums where people said they alternated between thinking he was a genius, and that he was batshit.
That used to be Paul Chek, too but now he’s just batshit from what I can tell.
Not really. His whole program is more concise than piecing YT clips together, but I don’t think there’s anything new in there.
I heard him on the Power Project again and I think his hip reco was split squats. Thought it could have been more involved; guess not!
It’s actually pretty straight forward. You need a lot of equipment, like slant boards, a bench, barbell, rack etc, to do anything but the “Zero” program, but it’s all pretty simple in terms of programming for reps and sets.
I’d like to note that while he fashions himself a Poliquin disciple, I’ve never seen him recommend scap jacks or whatever that combo was where you do pushdowns with one arm and curls with the other and match the failure point for each.
Investing how and for what duration? If you’re investing for a longer period of time on a monthly basis a crash might help.
He’s not wrong. If you’re like a lot of investors, you’ll be fucked, but if you’re a consistent investor into a diversified portfolio, index funds etc, you’ll be happy again once the crash is over. That could be a stressful time, but whatever you put in when the downturn happens will probably come with a pretty significant return.
A bunch of people made a ton of money off the recovery from the crash back ~2009. A few made a ton from the crash itself, but there’s a reason there are books and movies about them and not the rest of us.
I think that the fed will continue to pump as long as they can and keep the party going. If our markets continue, then London, Sydney, the Japanese Exchange Group etc should hold up for a while too, I’d guess.
But printing cash is a lot like doing cocaine: A little is fun for a while, and a lot at once sounds like a good idea, but the next day you’ll have the worst hangover of your life. So I’ve heard.
On top of the supply chain problems, tensions in East Asia, OPEC+ not wanting to pump and US energy being kneecapped by an 80 year old man with dementia, I’d expect an egregious buttfucking is coming for all of us outside of the very rich.
Add in other fun tidbits like the average age of a farmer in Japan (67), or in the US (57), and what’ll happen when BigAg comes in to buy those farms as the old guys can’t do the work anymore and we’re in for a fun ride.
Which is why I buy silver regularly. I can’t really afford gold, but I can hedge with silver to an extent and try to ride the tail end of the gains.