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Originally Posted by aikurushii
Why not? Have you seen his butt? People put on fat on different places. Besides, he didn't have a lot of LBM. I'm guessing that the trainer used calipers to check his bf%
In 2.5 years, he gained around 25lbs of LBM.. 10lbs a year.. How much muscle do you think people could gain a year? 30-50? Even Layne Norton or Derek Charlebois or other scivation bbers have trouble gaining more than 10lbs of muscle every year.
lol
So I think Mikey K did a good job.
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Get off their jocks dude. They're at a different physical level than he is - he's beginning, they're MUCH closer to genetic limits than he is.
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Originally Posted by BiggerGuns=LongerDrives
WTF are you talking about? Who cares about what you think a person can do in a given time.
I looked at his pics and in 2.5 yrs I dont see much more muscle mass than the original pics. PERIOD! Thats no disrespect to anybody, thats my critique.
Thats the problem with people on these boards.
Everyone likes to candy coat sh!t, "Looking good bro" or "You've got a good base".
I just spoke what I felt, an honest critique which was exactly what he asked for
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I can't knock him, Tommy because at least he made progress. Visibly, I could see three things: he got a tan, he needs a nap (lol bigmike), and personally,
I would prefer more mass and thickness.
With that being said, he appears to be a bit older than most of you/us, so 10lbs per year while losing approx 6lbs of fat isn't terrible. Sure, people put 20-40lbs on in their first 18 months of training and if a newb came to me, I'd expect the upper part of that range, but I will say that
I don't think he wasted his time at all. As I mentioned, I don't see a lot of "thickness" but that could very well be because of the angle of the picture.
Half these clowns on this board haven't made continual progress at all (while they hand out information from Google and recycle other sh!t from other boards), and few of them are much further than were they were a year or two years ago, so be proud of your progression for sure.
If it were me, I would say now is the time for you to increase your calories, reduce meal frequency (I'm assuming you eat 6-7x per day), and focus on heavy benching, deadlifting and squatting to really explode. Put 20lbs of LBM on in 2008.