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aaron_lohanIcon...27-05-2016 @ 11:53 
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Post Edited: 27.05.2016 @ 11:53 AM by aaron_lohan
LessThanLuke said:
Pretty much. My body composition has taken a bit of a hit but I am just as strong not worrying about it. I doubt I get 200g of protein a day nowadays.


Your attitude has changed, I remember the days when you were talking about doing absolutely everything you could to become good regardless of the health risk. I am not knocking you for this but you did have a go at Fatpete when he suggested you should think differently and it got quite personal.
LessThanLukeIcon...27-05-2016 @ 11:54 
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Post Edited: 27.05.2016 @ 11:54 AM by LessThanLuke
aaron_lohan said:
Your attitude has changed, I remember the days when you were talking about doing absolutely everything you could to become good regardless of the health risk. I am not knocking you for this but you did have a go at Fatpete when he suggested you should think differently and it got quite personal.


I was young and stupid Happy things change.
aaron_lohanIcon...27-05-2016 @ 12:00 
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LessThanLuke said:
I was young and stupid Happy things change.


Good for you and I do mean it, I tried to quit powerlifting because I was unhappy with it earlier this year and lasted a week. In recent years I've often dreamed of retiring but it wont happen, ive given up many things for the iron game and it all happened so gradually I hardly noticed.
MikenetoIcon...27-05-2016 @ 12:00 
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Post Edited: 27.05.2016 @ 12:04 PM by Mikeneto
I did 6 weeks of dieting before(cut down carbs and alcohol)....it was boring and made my life worse. I became lean, no one gave a f**k including me. I then went back to default bodyfat pretty soon after.

15% bodyfat is a happy healthy life
10-12% is a boring miserable life.

I think if you do 3 days of clean eating and lower carbs the bloat goes and you tend to look good anyway.

Well for me at least.
AaronJIcon...27-05-2016 @ 12:32 
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Regardless of whether you're competitive or just a hobby lifter, if you want to obsess why not?

We all know people who do lots of things half heartedly - how boring are they? No one cares whether you lift 100kg or 200kg or 300kg, but equally no one cares about any other aspect of your life, so if lifting makes you happy do it to the best of your ability, and obsess all you like.

If you feel it's getting to a point where it makes you unhappy and you no longer enjoy it, well that's another question altogether, and then maybe it's worth cutting down on.

There is no black and white answer. Do it as much or as little as makes you happy - that doesn't need to directly correlate with the results you get.

For example - even if I knew for certain that I would never put another kg on any of my lifts, I'd still go to the gym because I just enjoy the very act of lifting itself. That's not necessarily correlated to the results I get out of it. Equally, I hate the eating part, so I eat like s**t and accept the consequences.

If being "the strongest I possibly could be" or "the most competitive lifter" made me happy, then maybe I'd take the eating more seriously, because I'd recognise the need to sacrifice in one area to make myself happy in another, but instead I've found a happy medium that works for me.

If lifting taking over your life makes you happy, then there's nothing wrong with that.
matthewvcIcon...27-05-2016 @ 13:26 
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Post Edited: 27.05.2016 @ 13:26 PM by matthewvc
Mikeneto said:I did 6 weeks of dieting before(cut down carbs and alcohol)....it was boring and made my life worse. I became lean, no one gave a f**k including me. I then went back to default bodyfat pretty soon after.

15% bodyfat is a happy healthy life
10-12% is a boring miserable life.

I think if you do 3 days of clean eating and lower carbs the bloat goes and you tend to look good anyway.

Well for me at least.


agreed. the difference on mood and strength getting to single figures from even 12-13% is amazing.
hormones like test, thyroid and growth plummet and cortisol,leptin rise, making the whole experience miserable.
humans are not designed to be muscular, yet lean with abs.
FAT_SAMIcon...27-05-2016 @ 13:59 
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matthewvc said:
i've come to conclusion that glycogen+intramuscular water retention are of more importance strength wise.
it's no surprise that anything that increases this - be it mild with a legal supp like creatine
or strong with an illegal roid like oxymetholone (anadrol), also elicit big strength gains.


This sums it up.
Bloat = strength
Oxys and salt for life!
FatpeteIcon...28-05-2016 @ 17:34 
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LessThanLuke said:
Happy things change.


If I recall correctly, that was the point I was making
scruffmcbuffIcon...28-05-2016 @ 18:26 
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FAT_SAM said:
Oxys and salt for life!


Thats the real bulk! Grin
LessThanLukeIcon...28-05-2016 @ 19:10 
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Fatpete said:
If I recall correctly, that was the point I was making


Yes it was.

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