So there was this guy i used to train with towards the end of highschool(and no he didn't go to the same highschool as me). His name, we will just call him Jim. Now Jim was possibly one of the most genetically gifted freaks ive ever met. Jim was a 5'11" white guy weighing 228-235lbs his senior year of highschool. However, with his frame and muscle shape he looked easily a muscular 240-245. Bodyfatwise i dont know, but it probably wasnt over 17-18%. Now this guy Jim not only had 18" arms but his quads were huge and his calves were about 17.5-18". This was at the age of 17. And also not only was Jim huge, but he was also freakishly strong. I remember spotting him one time our senior year while he cranked out 315 for 12 reps on flat bench and then could have done more but just stopped because he was getting tired lol, he could also bench 405 his senior year which i witnessed one time and it was pretty ridiculous. Jim would also do alternating dumbell curls with 80lb dumbells for a minimum of 12 reps each arm with fairly good form. Jim also loved to do cardio and would go on 3 miles runs several times a week.. Now at the time we started training together senior year i didnt know nearly as much as i know now about training and nutrition, but i still had good size for my age and was very lean, because i atleast was obsessive about eating clean, staying consistent with my meals everyday, and always getting the right amount of protein. Now jim was alot stronger and more muscular than me but he admired that i was very lean and he kept asking me questions all the time. "Dude, what do you eat?" And, "how come you dont lift very heavy, but youre ripped?" I told him what i knew at the time about nutrition and training and how i had noticed results from doing what i had read about on bodybuilding websites and in books. Jim didnt want to hear any of it. He said, " dude it has nothing to do with diet all that 5meals a day is bullshit, its all about just training harder." At the time jim told me he only ate 2-3 times a day, some times his dinner only consisted of a salad with no protein what so ever... This is why this guy has to be one of the most genetically gifted bodybuilders ive ever met. I mean i have no idea how this guy had the muscle size and stregnth at that age eating this little. And if you want to ask if he was taking steroids? no this was not the case at all. Jim knew that i knew more about bodybuilding than him and often times due to the lack of results he was getting, would ask me if i knew what steroids he could take, or if i knew where to get the steroids that would help him reach his goal. Which, basically at that time was just to drop about 15lbs of bodyfat and look ripped, or atleast look leaner. I told Jim that he definitely did NOT need to take steroids to reach his goal, but he seemed to think this was his only option. I told him he needed to fix his diet and eat more, more protein, more meals, but he just didnt want to listen. He kept thinking because he was already so big and muscular and was eating so little that his only option was to eat LESS in order to get leaner.
I kept training with him for a period of 5 months towards the end of highschool and after we graduated. Towards the end of that time Jim still had not obtained the results he wanted and was pretty confused. I told him he needed to fix his nutrition, but again he wouldnt listen. Sometimes he would laugh at me when i told him this because he could do so much more weight than me on pretty much every exercise. And to him, because he was so much stronger than me meant that i didnt know how help him.. Do you get what im saying about this guy's logic?
So lets fast forward 3 years to when he and i eventually would meet up at golds gym in mountain view where i had been training since i was 13. I was leaving the gym when i heard, " Hey Brandon!" I looked around and saw a massive person approaching me in the parking lot, but i couldnt tell who it was. As he got closer i realized it was Jim. Jim had put on about 15lbs and looked fucking massive but his bodyfat had noticeably gone up. He had just come out of togos and just happened to see me. He starts talking about training and blah blah blah. By this time i had put on some size since the last time we had seen eachother but was still lean. So Jim notices this and of course goes back to asking me the same questions he was asking me back when we were 18, "dude what do you eat?" "Should i train with lighter weights like you did back in the day?" Lol. And im just standing there thinking, "no matter what i tell this guy, hes not going to listen.."
So Jim keeps talking and goes on to tell me he took some prohormones while he was in college and noticed it had "helped" him. Now when he told me this the first thing i thought was, " wow what a fucking idiot." The guy still didnt know how to eat correctly, had great genetics, already had an insane amount of muscle, and then decides to take prohormones which he probably didnt know how to use and then the end result was him getting more muscular and fatter. Which was not his goal...his goal was to get leaner and look more defined.
End of part 1.(im going to make this story 2parts because its taking to long to write this right now)
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