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What are the limits?
People have done amazing things. Strength,endurance, willpower, survival.
But I’m thinking bodybuilding here.
Powerbuilding is actually a better term as far as what’s in my head. To be big, fairly lean, and rugged, more like a lean strongman, the type with manhandling strength.
But what would be the natural limit? I say it’s far further than is commonly accepted, and probably further than where a bunch of steroid users are at.
But really what’s on my mind is not just the long term, but the short term.
Take an already built natural with average genetics, how far could they go in say a 12-16 week sprint following the Barbarian Brother’s mantra of ” There is no such thing as overtraining, just undereating and undersleeping”
3 or 4 months of obsessional lunatic training and big eating.
What’s the line you could push til?
The hardest part in my mind is eating the amount necessary here, which brings up another point;
Why is it that you have to get fat?
5000 calories that’s outtrainable.
6000 ditto, remember this hypothetical is looking for steroid like strength gains and recomp, and the starting point is already fairly big.
10000 calories seems ridiculous, but I bet it can be consumed.
8000. I like this number, it is both semi-ridiculous,and far past 5000, yet I feel sustainable.
8000 calories a day for 3-4 months, and training to burn it off.
How to hit 8000 you ask?
~3lbs ground beef,whatever you mix in with the beef(cheese, onion,rice,etc), a gallon of milk, and 8-12 eggs blended with whatever(peanut butter,banana,ice cream,etc) into real protein shakes.
Get all that down to hit 8000.
Now to the training.
Daily or damn near daily marathon sessions, and I’d say multiple sessions as well.
Morning cardio and calisthenics.
Evening weights.
The morning is more to keep healthy and athletic while adding volume in an easy way.
Walking,jump rope, a bunch of calisthenics, then end with some 40s.
The evening?
Oh boy. We have a lot of work to do.
This is about rugged strength so high rep pump work would be minimal, and besides already covered in the morning session.
Full body training is a must here, and giant setting push, pull, and legs would be beneficial.
Lots of sets of 4-8. We want hypertrophy and strength here.
This is a recomp and a mad dash towards scariness, we don’t want to be simply puffy and pretty.
The tonnage per session would be awe inspiring.
I’d say that this experiment breaks all the gym rules. I can already hear the “natty bros” screaming steroids, overtraining,and you’ll get fat.
Why not send a nice middle finger the naysayers way and prove the fuckers wrong.
You’ll be physically far more robust for it.
-J