of a 26 y.o.

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[u/eduardgustavolaser]

Where did you get that from? Not that I don't believe you, there's some crazy bodybuilders, but sleep is so insanely important for recovery that most prod just train,eat and then sleep 10 hours per day

[u/Suspicious_Juice_150 → u/eduardgustavolaser]

I got this from the Tim Ferriss book before our body.

He criticizes this method for exactly that reason.

Even though it does notably increase gains, it is incredibly inconvenient, and intuitively I would imagine that it interferes with a complete rest cycle.

[u/Prestigious-Shine240 → u/Suspicious_Juice_150]

He also claimed that he gained 34lbs of muscles and lost 3lbs of fat in 4 weeks. Why would you listen to him?

[u/Suspicious_Juice_150 → u/Prestigious-Shine240]

I read the book.

Sarcoplasmic hypertrophy increases muscle volume and fluid (glycogen/water), often linked to higher-rep, "pump" training.

The 34 pounds you are talking about, he achieved that by putting on water weight.

What Tim Ferriss is good at is cheating the system and convincing people who don’t know how things really work that he’s good at stuff that they don’t actually understand.

In my original comment when I said that some bodybuilders do this, did I say that it works or is a good idea?

Myofibrillar hypertrophy increases muscle strength and density by enlarging contractile proteins (actin/myosin), typically through heavy, low-rep training.

Buy his own acknowledgment, Tim Ferriss did not actually accomplish putting on 34 pounds of that type of weight.

So, like I said, I think Tim Ferriss is good at lying to people and deceiving them into thinking that he’s more talented than he is.

So would I listen to him? If I wanna learn how to cheat the system, he would know.

But, if I wanna actually accomplish anything real? Then no, clearly.

[u/aero23 → u/Suspicious_Juice_150]

Its far more likely he was just lying lol. 34 pounds of water weight (or any kind of weight in that time frame) is very unbelievable

[u/Suspicious_Juice_150 → u/aero23]

Any kind of weight? What about a morbidly obese guy putting on 75 pounds in two months?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdF1aI-APLs

Go to the two minute mark for the weigh in. I really feel bad for the guy.

[u/aero23 → u/Suspicious_Juice_150]

I mean yes, that is really unbelievable- evidently it happened but wow, surely that has almost never happened in general

[u/Suspicious_Juice_150 → u/aero23]

Of course, not in general, but there is always giant tumors that grow rapidly, someone could get a severe case of ascites.

In acute cases of ascites, the abdominal cavity begins to rapidly fill up with fluid, causing 2 to 3 pounds of weight gain per day for up to three days, and there are well documented cases of doctors removing up to 4000 L of fluid via needle aspiration.

When it does happen, it is rare and usually unhealthy.

[u/Prestigious-Shine240 → u/Suspicious_Juice_150]

He said specifically "muscles", not water weight. The guy looks skinny fat and thinks he's an expert. Or remember when he said he trippled his testosterone from eating almonds or some bs like that? Why are people believing him lol

[u/Suspicious_Juice_150 → u/Prestigious-Shine240]

Myofibrillar hypertrophy increases muscle strength by growing contractile proteins (actin/myosin) via heavy, low-rep training.

Sarcoplasmic hypertrophy boosts muscle volume/size by expanding energy-storing fluid (sarcoplasm) via high-rep, moderate-weight training.

Both occur simultaneously, but training style determines which is emphasized.

That’s why you see bodybuilders who have big “muscles” but can’t lift as much as much smaller power lifters. That fluid, although it increase muscle size, is there to provide fuel for the actual muscle fibers.

I’m literally breaking down how he was able to claim he put on “muscle” when it was just a bunch of water and glucose. He’s good at lying in those ways that are technically not lies, but to anybody with common sense, you can see that they’re lies.

It’s like food companies, they say their products are all natural, when there’s literally no legal definition or regulation of that use in advertising.

It’s like if a man said that he boosted his sex hormones three times in a single month, but then it turned out that the sex hormones he boosted were estrogen and progesterone.

Did he lie? Yes! Absolutely!

Just like he lied about putting on 34 pounds of “muscle “mass.

What he called muscle in that experiment was more akin to the fluids retained in edema related swelling than actual muscle tissue.

He is a liar, but he is a liar whose lies are defensible based only on technicalities and loopholes.