Super uncommon to not drink, even though you rarely drank anyway. Great to face those inner feelings of discomfort, leaning into them and sorting it out. Appreciate the honest videos, as always
@@platogenova9573 not shying away from the feeling. Fight or flight sort of thing. Rather than give in to something that makes you feel uncomfortable, you face it, and sort it out so the discomfort doest come back next time
My take on it is that not drinking alcohol or engaging in other lifestyle habits that are health deteriorating, and focusing on optimizing health is one of the overlooked keys to unlocking new gains particularly as one becomes more of an advanced lifter. Best wishes 🙏
I’m new to your channel I love the fact you’re cooling it on the alcohol 🍷👍🏿 I’ve been sober (100%) for 14 yrs…..👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿 Sobriety saved & changed my life !! Good stuff Stay natty !
Seeing Paul’s sweet face after he dropped a dukie made me 😢 a bit. I just got my first dog at 41 years old. If you never owned a dog you “don’t know till you know”.
When i had no alcohol for the first 4 months last year i made the best physical changes kept me consistent with training 6x aweek. This year i plan to have no alcohol for 6 months or more while i go through this bulk phase 2023
I swear the synchronicities are CRAZY. I have been chewing on WTF it would look like to eat at maintenance AND train at maintenance volume or 3x a week. I literally cannot imagine (as I’ve never trained less than 4 days a week and I’ve been balls deep in some sort of prep or improvement season since 2019) The thought of a true maintenance life is so foreign to me. I cannot wait to see how this plays out Way to inspire me “Less is more”
I’m digging the “I don’t drink” flex😂 I really dig how much it’s opened my schedule for other responsibilities, and how much more mobility I have to move my days to when it’s more convenient for me from a recovery standpoint
Hey Alberto! Been excited to see an update for post prep as I have recently went through myself as well. As you have covered most of the training game plan, I was wondering what’s the weight/nutrition trajectory for this post recovery/off-season? Would you continue to recover and gain weight at a faster pace to a sweet spot range of body fat(how many lbs above stage weight?). After that what would the rate of weight gain be and for how long are you planning your off season? Lastly what is the max weight you would allow yourself to gain during the off-season before feeling it’s unnecessary fluff and uncomfortable and want to perhaps do a mini cut? Basically whats too fat in your opinion. Would love your thought process on this! Thanks!
Hey , Berto! Awesome video as always. Wanted to ask something: 1) Can you reference the studies regarding the lengthened position and it's effect on hypertrophy? 2) Now that you train 3x/WK do you eat a bit more on TD and less on NTD?
1) Some easy to ready cliffs www.strongerbyscience.com/rom/ 2) Lifting kinda burns jacks sh!t calories so I hardly factor that in really. I don’t change a thing
Good idea with no alcohol. I like wine too much unfortunately. Have you ever dealt with elbow tendonitis? Is it a case of just dropping press and/or direct tricep volume and maybe bring in BFR wraps till it heals?
Suprised your elbow feel better when doing low volume with higher weight. Those cabel rows looked heavy as hell given your range of motion and reps. Im total opposit. Tennis elbow all the time until i went with just bumping up volume and lowering weight and focusing more on 1-2 second pauses in full stretch/flew.
I learned about this after I purchased these and I don’t think I will anymore going forward. On that note how do you feel about AI generated training, and nutrition?
@@Team3DMJ thank you. Terrible. Taking jobs from everyone. However the few I’ve seen look somewhat basic I’m not sure how good it actually is. That being said there are some people saying it can write code as good as people who’ve done it for 20 years and I think it even passed a really hard college test or the bar. Crazy stuff.
