LOVE IT...It's a relief to know that I'm exactly where the great Nunez says I should be about now...Not even a question I knew I had, but SUPER helpful info...Thanks for keeping up with these vids lately. Very valuable :)
I've been curious about this for the longest time. For a long time I was under the impression there is a direct corollary between weight and muscle gain. As I'm planning to compete next year I was unsure as to how much weight to put on before dieting (thinking the more the better). I couldn't find much information from pros, and I noticed you guys at 3DMJ are all pretty lean, even offseason, and that got me rethinking my original ideas. Good to have this perspective, thanks Alberto!
About 3 weeks into my reverse diet after my first show and this is very helpful. I'm actually the future graduate student example you gave lol Great information coming from this channel lately. Keep it up!
I was getting a little worried when Alberto said you should compete around your previous contest weight..because i competed in June at 165lbs and had very good 4 months offseason going to 187lbs and now i competing again having dieted 11 weeks and.. i am at 173lbs and bigger and in better condition than earlier this year. I was thinking maybe I needed to try to get lower until you you explained (1) I am now 20 (2) i am now training properly (3) i fixed loop holes in my nutrition. Lol
On that note would it not be fair to say that chris jones and matt ogus both consume too much protien that gets broken down and excreted as nitrogen and stored as fat
Where is an * when I need one. I will leave it at that when it comes to this. Think MLB and the recent splurge of HR records. I will leave it at that, and not question the work behind, it but surely some variables you are not informed about. -Berto
I would argue against competing at your previous weight. In my mind the whole point of the offseason is to gain muscle mass. If you're shredded 4% BF at 165lbs, and your plan next year is to come in shredded at 4% BF and 165lbs, there's no point to an offseason, but if you want to be shredded 4% and 175lbs, that's why you gain weight during the offseason, so if you consistently put on more weight in offseasons, you should be able to compete with more muscle mass at the same BF
Lets assume a bodybuilder has not reached their peak physical conditioning (I like to think that everyone has room to grow). Although I have my doubts, lets also assume that guys like skip la cour and jeff willet are natural athletes. La cour definitely didn't do his first competition at 225lbs and 4% BF, he progressively made muscle mass gains each off-season, as did Jeff Willet. Marc Lobliner has also made huge progress from when he competed at 150lbs.
You can disagree no issue with that. Show me a top natural pro that has gained significant weight to his contest weight before you expand on this idea.
I am 18 y.o. , i have been training for a year, 82 kg now, @ around 17-18 percent BF. i'll have a photo shoot in april-may, since I'm finishing 12th grade and I'd like to diet down to around 8-10 % BF... what bulking mentality/ aproach should I use? i thought about bulking until february, then take 2 months to diet down...will it be enough? i don't have much muscle mass, that's why i want to grow as much as possible during this winter.
