Muscling up is easy.
I know it to be true, though a decade ago, at age 15/16, I wouldn’t have believed it.
Researching programs tends to have a hamstringing effect. You leave the lifting forums thinking “what works”, instead of more accurately “what doesn’t work”.
That’s a 20/20 hindsight that would’ve been huge to know at 13 years old.*
See it all works. That’s my experience. It can be yours.
Take any method, put heart into it for a decade, and it trains you into having the best genetics.
As a teenager you may struggle to get big, but by your mid 20s it’s more difficult to not make gains.
At 20/21 something changed in me.
While I credit the million pushups and loads of isometrics I was doing at the time in part, at 20/21 I also gained some man strength overnight.
I’ve seen the same happen with at least one friend. The sarms don’t explain all of what I saw happen there.
A decade of consistency makes you a whole different person… physiologically.
16-21, that’s 5 years. It very well likely only takes 5.
The body is far more pliable than people realize.
Give the body credit. It’s amazing. It has potential without limit.
Once upon a time you’re struggling to get over 200lbs, “dirty bulk” for long enough, with God tier training consistency having good effort, and abs at 250lbs is very plausible.
My lifetime goal of 275lbs with abs is realistic from where I’m at now.
The method of training doesn’t matter.
It’s the consistent effort that does.
-J
*As I was reading up on lifting well before having access to weights via the high school weight room.