Teenagers who are willing to get kinda fat while lifting big and eating big end up the biggest and strongest dudes around.
It’s not pretty, but if you’re around 6′, training hard, you can get to the 250+ area, and build more muscle by college graduation age, than the dudes who never do this ever will.
There are countless examples to be found online of those getting to around 300lbs, then looking crazy at around 220lbs.
Without that dirty bulk they’d never even get to 220lbs.
Having walked around at about 250 most of the time from 17 onwards, I’m confident I’d have abs at 220.
There’s a legion of 160lbers caught up in this. They may have visible abs, but they’re never gonna do so at 220+.
I knew a kid who benched 500+, and first hit 500 at 19 or 20 years old.
You should have seen him eat!
I remember him eating donuts during his 5-10 minute rest periods, and generally would bring a big ass bag of mcdonalds in with him ready to go for a postworkout meal complete with oreos.
This is probably the most extreme and successful example I’ve seen of a young man dirty bulking. Kid was 5’8″ at best, naturally super stocky (some have made the steroid argument for many at this particular gym, though that takes away from the goldeness of the principles of this example), and ate more calories than I’ve ever seen a person eat before or since.
8000 calories daily on average isn’t hard to believe here.
This factors in that at 17 for half the summer I averaged about 7000 calories when I first got past 250, and that my buddy, four years younger than I, hit about the same in calories and bodyweight (“dude, we both dirty bulked to 253 at 17”) during his dirty bulk just before his high school graduation.
Sumo wrestlers are said to carry more muscle than pro bodybuilders.
I believe the leanness is the bigger effect of going past genetic potential with ped use.
A natural willing to carry some bodyfat is capable of carrying more muscle than what most say is possible.
Nothing like being a natural with more lean body mass than military weight regs, and the weight classes you wrestled at (which are normal healthy athletic adult sizes).
Being willing to carry bodyfat puts an entirely different, much larger number to the so called genetic limitations.
The ceiling is raised very far.
Those who believe in the natty lean body massage standards as found online (limitations not to be mentioned here) as their personal excuse to suck cried.
Those who dirty bulked flourished.
Sumo bulking/dirty bulking is the fastest way to get swole.
If this alone is so anabolic, just how much muscle could be gained with gear on the same massive eating protocols?
We all know the picture of off season Lee Priest.
Did you know he’s only 5’4″?
By eating he therefore has significant mass.
You up your calories and you’ll find out how anabolic eating can be.
Many feel it’s more anabolic than gear.
Kill it in the gym, and crush it at the buffet.
You’ll get big friend.
-J