Been here longer than you am here more than you and have read everything there is in the stickies. Trained for the past 12 years took around half a year off and my body went to complete shit.
Referring to you, ya. You want to be a bitch and call little names well its as easy for me to do as well. I simply want the best for KJ. Hes a good guy and I am just making him aware of what happened to me. I was passin a worse case scenario. Simple as that. Take care of myself? Yeah I do very well for myself. But whenever someone gets complacent with themselves and everyday life things like what I went through CAN happen. And until you experience it you cant talk about it. Worked 60-75 hours a week and ate whatever I could to get by. Was swamped with work, 2 kids, wife, and trying to keep up with family things that were happening at that point, shit was tough. The stress at work is always tough so I was making him aware.
Do I care if I am ever in the minority? Not at all. Many of the people who have commented have done so with no experience of going through something like this. I know because it happened to me.
I once was a competing bodybuilder. Took steroids (which I regret), competed on stage, had better eating habits than probably 98% of IM. While my eating habits are still good now, during that 6 month stretch they were crap. Not crap to the point that I shouldve gained that much weight, but my lifestyle was so non-active!
And like its been said here and in KJ's journal we both are simliar in many ways!
Then you should have stated that was a worst case scenario.
Were you on steroids right before you had to take the break? If so, then the whole argument, you can just throw it out.
But even if you weren't, you'd have to do some major shit work to get "horribly" worse.
Since, like I have mentioned, I moved out so I could go to college.
Before, I ate very well. Trained 4-5 days a week. Including excessive cardio and weightlifting. I had trained this way for 2 years, and before that 3 years of doing it the wrong way, but I was still lifting weights.
Now, because of all the big changes, college, new job, new friends, etc.
Along with not being able to afford a gym membership, I worked out over the last year maybe 6-8 times and I ate whatever I wanted whenever I wanted.
So what happened?
I got weaker. I gained about 15 pounds. And I probably lost some muscle. If I had to guess I would say 3-5 pounds tops.
That is in one year. And yes I am a hardgainer.
I drank a lot and smoked (pot) a lot.
But yet, I still didn't get
that bad.
So If it only affected me that much after a year, then i doubt 6 months for KJ would be that bad. If he keeps his diet in check, he shouldn't gain much if any fat...and keep his muscle loss to a minimum.
And like I said muscle memory will help with that.
And speaking strictly about health. That comes from 80% diet anyway.
All this being said, I apologize for the name calling. It was out of line and maybe if I had, had a better day, I wouldn't have resorted to immature behavior.
Hopefully we can just agree to disagree.
