The ABC’s of Bodybuilding | Anabolism, Body Recomposition, Cutting
August 5, 2015 By John Doe
I’m going to talk about the ABC’s of bodybuilding.
What are the ABC’s of building an incredible physique?
Anabolism, body recomposition, cutting.
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#1. ANABOLISM
Let’s talk about anabolism. By definition “anabolic” means to build something, or to be in an environment to build muscle.
You may consider yourself “skinny-fat” or maybe just skinny at first, and this is because there is no anabolic environment.
What creates this anabolic environment?
The first step is increased food intake!!
Most guy’s simply just don’t eat enough to grow, and they don’t eat enough to grow muscles!!
I know I may sound like a broken record here, but food, food, and more food is what it takes.
The second step to anabolism is intense training. When you go into that gym (or home workout) you need to kill it!!
I don’t mean kill it by spending hours and hours in the gym, but I mean “kill it” by putting in all of your effort to start throwing up weights. I mean blocking out all the bullshit in your world and focusing 100% on busting your ass to grow.
My mentality when I’m in that gym is warfare. It’s me versus weights, and damnit I’m going to win!! If the set starts to become painful then good, bring the pain, I’m ready for it.
When I take a set to failure, failure to me is absolute failure.
It’s not when it hurts, it’s not when the bar starts going up slower…..it’s when I physically cannot do any more. If someone took my son and put a gun to his head and told me to do 3 more reps or they’d kill him, I’d do 4 more reps!! This is the type of intensity I’m talking about.
Every fucking day we exist to live in a world where we are told to conform to social normality. I do not find that exciting and I do not find floating through the motions exciting.
When I’m in the gym I am in my world. I am away from the bullshit and I have stepped into a world where I exist for me. Pouring out blood, sweat, and tears as you lift weights is your true character coming out. I can tell right away whether someone is a fighter who will do it, or if they are a bitch who will quit.
I will do whatever it takes to get to where I want to go. WHATEVER IT TAKES.
I’m the guy who will eat 24 egg whites a day, 6 cans of tuna fish a day, and be up at night half asleep cracking more eggs.
It’s all business and in my world there is no room for weakness. WHATEVER IT TAKES.
Fuck television, fuck facebook, and fuck texting some stupid bitch 35 times a night back and forth. There is work to be done and I’m a worker.
Let me win everyday, EVERY FUCKING DAY!!
If you aren’t growing then you’re doing something wrong and my guess is it all boils down to being a bitch.
There is a big difference between the guy drinking the shakes all day and the guy cooking chicken, beef and rice.
If shakes were all it took we’d all be monsters. Stop looking for the easy way out and start putting in the work.
#2. BODY RE-COMPOSITION
The “B” of bodybuilding is body re-composition. Re-composition is what goes hand in hand with anabolism.
When you begin packing on muscles your body will begin operating on a different level. You will no longer be a slug who cannot digest all of 500-800 calories a meal, your new muscles will turn you into a fat burning machine.
The transition into eating enough to grow can be an uncomfortable one.
Basically what your doing to your body is feeding it enough to accommodate a frame that is already 20 lbs more massive.
To gain mass you need to eat like someone who is already larger.
What sense does it make to be 150 lbs and eat just enough for someone 150 lbs? You won’t grow this way, no way and no how!!
What a lot of you think of as “bulking and fattening up” will actually turn into body re-composition at the same time you’re growing and building new muscle.
When I was in my first year or two of weight training, there was a summer where I ordered a large pizza to my house almost every single night.
The result? It only helped pack on muscle and I did not get fat!!
Nobody ever said to me “Hey, you’re fattening up huh?” All I ever heard was how huge I was getting, and I knew that something that I was doing was working.
What magazines and internet videos show you is the hype of the lifestyle.
No magazine is ever going to disclose the fact that a bodybuilder is eating a pizza and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in order to get his calories up over 6,000 a day!!
Nope, they are going to show you what they want to show you.
And guess what the answer is when it comes to the hype of the life? More supplements!! If you didn’t know any better then you’d think that supplements were the reason these guys are as massive as they are.
With all of that being said, are there supplements that can put you into a more anabolic environment? Absolutely!!
But I would never suggest anybody who isn’t putting in the work and food intake to take jack shit!!
Think of your body and food intake as the car and SOME supplementation as the bigger engine that just got dropped into the car. Without the car what good is the engine?
I always believed in taking the least amount possible to continue to make progress.
If you’ve already packed on 20-30 lbs of muscle with just food and hard training, then try creatine and protein powder (to supplement protein intake, not replace enough REAL FOOD!!)
I usually do 1-2 shakes per day myself, but this is more for cost purposes and not effectiveness. It’s expensive enough eating meat and eggs 4-5x day, and protein powder per gram of protein is more affordable for me.
I do not recommend the most expensive supplements. I’m not going to bullshit you with some sales pitch for fancy creatine, just regular old creatine monohydrate is all you need!!
I have already explained the benefits of this in a previous article, but for cost and effectiveness this vitamin is very effective because it includes so much in it that other similarly priced vitamins do not. It not only has all of the essential vitamins per serving, but includes a joint complex and performance based complex as well.
Those supps would be the route I’d go if I needed an edge, BUT ONLY IF PROPER NUTRITION AND HARD WORK IS THERE!!
If you’re training like a bitch and eating like a bird, don’t even waste your money.
#3. CUTTING
Let’s talk about the final element in bodybuilding, and one I’ve listed last for a good reason – CUTTING!
YOU CANNOT GET SHREDDED WITH MUSCLES YOU DON’T HAVE YET!!
You aren’t going to be some bean pole guy who begins cutting right from the jump, and ends up looking the way you probably want to look. If you take this approach you’re going to look like a crackhead when it’s said and done.
First comes anabolism, then comes body re-composition, then finally we carve the diamond!!
This is when you’ve put on enough muscle mass to spare some extra lbs in the process of dropping body-fat.
Basically you have to have enough extra to play with when you begin cutting up. It makes no sense to be someone who is only consuming 2,000 calories a day and then wants to cut.
You are missing a giant piece of the puzzle here!!
Where do you go from this point? Down to only 1,000 calories a day?
Well here is a newsflash for you; it takes a minimum of 1,200 calories a day to even be considered a balanced diet, and most females need somewhere between 1,700- 2,300 calories a day when starting a fat loss diet.
WHEN YOU CUT YOU WILL GET WEAKER.
Get used to this as you’re cutting.
The food intake is no longer there and to think you’re going to be pushing the same 300 lbs you were pushing when you were eating like a maniac is not realistic.
The goal here is muscle retention while in a fat loss phase.
This also falls in line with body recomp and I have found that a lot of times I will be getting more and more shredded without the scale really dropping respectively.
The biggest reason for this is everything becomes more frequent and regimented. Macros are taken in more consciously and meals are usually hit more frequently.
So just because the scale isn’t dropping a few lbs every week doesn’t necessarily mean you aren’t cutting.
Honestly speaking, I never even started to cut up until I was already 5+ years into my training and 225 lbs at 5’9″.
Everything before this was geared towards gaining size, and holding it!!
This isn’t something most people are going to do for only 6 months and then try cutting up to look like Arnold Schwarenegger.
This takes years and years!!
When it comes to cutting this is where certain supplements DO PLAY A BIGGER ROLE.
If you can keep your hormones elevated and take any products to help retain muscle and whatever strength you can, this is when taking on a different look besides just a smaller version of what you were is much more possible.
These products are the newest and most efficient products that I know of because they don’t knock you down and out once you come off them.
You see, when you take steroids or prohormones you can actually REGRESS once you discontinue usage.
As soon as recovery becomes an issue and the compound is no longer in your system then reality hits, and reality bites hard!!
I’m not going to come on here and tell you I’m natural because I am not.
However, when I was using these supplements I reverted to a normal testosterone replacement dosage just to see how I’d respond to Anafuse and Osta-shred, and the results were that of me staying stronger and larger while in caloric deficit.
I was pushing weights that I normally wouldn’t be able to handle when I was just replacing testosterone that my body no longer produced. So I can say with full confidence that the products do work!!
No, I’m no scientist or Doctor. I didn’t go to college for 8 years, but I’ve been attending bodybuilding college for nearly 20 years.
I’ve been doing research and self-experimentation for nearly 20 years, so listen to whoever you trust more.
You will hear a lot of talk out there about products like these (SARMS) being a lie.
You will hear guys talk about SARMS being nothing more than a marketing pitch to hide the fact that they do cause the same massive suppression that steroids and prohormones cause.
I do not believe this and there simply isn’t enough research to prove this.
But I know for a fact that people who take these have great results without feeling in the dirt upon discontinuing them.
I work with bodybuilders and athletes all over the globe, and nobody has ever reported back to me that products such as Osta-shred and Anafuse cause any sort of recovery issues when they came off them.
So again, believe whatever you want, but I’m certainly not here to hurt anyone.
All of these bogus claims of suppression are coming from guys who have absolute shit physique’s to begin with and couldn’t get results on ANYTHING THEY USE!!
SIMPLIFYING THE BODYBUILDING PROCESS
The biggest problem with bodybuilding nowadays is how everyone has over-complicated the process.
Go take a look at bodybuilders of the Golden era who knew only a fraction of what we know on nutrition and supplementation now!!
Did you ever stop and think that maybe as a culture in general we have gotten weaker and used to life’s luxuries? I think this is definitely a possibility.
With every new supplement to hit the market, there are another 10,000 weak bitches who want the easy way out.
There is no easy way out!!
I would recommend ZERO supplements to anyone wanting the easy way out. Nothing you take will work if the building blocks are not there!!
If you missed step #1 and step #2 in this article, then you may take any product on the market and claim it’s worthless. But put in the work and food intake and I promise you there are things that work!!
So let’s recap what I’ve talked about here;
If you’re new to working out, take nothing!!
If you have already put in the work to pack on at least 20 lbs of mass, then I’d say try a couple thing and see if they don’t give you an edge.
If you’re seasoned and looking to finally carve that diamond, then take your diet seriously and if you need to use something to help retain muscle while cutting, then try it out.
It’s 95% food guys, it’s all food intake!!
There is no way around this and you are what you eat. But you cannot have a food phobia when you’re trying to build muscle mass.
It’s no coincidence when your lifts go up and you ate a few peanut butter and jelly sandwiches the few days prior…or a pizza…or a burger.
I live by the 80/20 rule when it comes to growing. Eat 80% clean and 20% for extra calories.
No, I never said in this article to eat junk non-stop.
I simply stated that behind the hype of what you see, there is the underground reality of what really works.
I’m giving you the underground reality, not the glitter and glamour.
TO BE PRETTY, SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA GET UGLY!!
Until next time, train hard!![/size]
August 5, 2015 By John Doe
I’m going to talk about the ABC’s of bodybuilding.
What are the ABC’s of building an incredible physique?
Anabolism, body recomposition, cutting.
[size=14pt]
#1. ANABOLISM
Let’s talk about anabolism. By definition “anabolic” means to build something, or to be in an environment to build muscle.
You may consider yourself “skinny-fat” or maybe just skinny at first, and this is because there is no anabolic environment.
What creates this anabolic environment?
The first step is increased food intake!!
Most guy’s simply just don’t eat enough to grow, and they don’t eat enough to grow muscles!!
I know I may sound like a broken record here, but food, food, and more food is what it takes.
The second step to anabolism is intense training. When you go into that gym (or home workout) you need to kill it!!
I don’t mean kill it by spending hours and hours in the gym, but I mean “kill it” by putting in all of your effort to start throwing up weights. I mean blocking out all the bullshit in your world and focusing 100% on busting your ass to grow.
My mentality when I’m in that gym is warfare. It’s me versus weights, and damnit I’m going to win!! If the set starts to become painful then good, bring the pain, I’m ready for it.
When I take a set to failure, failure to me is absolute failure.
It’s not when it hurts, it’s not when the bar starts going up slower…..it’s when I physically cannot do any more. If someone took my son and put a gun to his head and told me to do 3 more reps or they’d kill him, I’d do 4 more reps!! This is the type of intensity I’m talking about.
Every fucking day we exist to live in a world where we are told to conform to social normality. I do not find that exciting and I do not find floating through the motions exciting.
When I’m in the gym I am in my world. I am away from the bullshit and I have stepped into a world where I exist for me. Pouring out blood, sweat, and tears as you lift weights is your true character coming out. I can tell right away whether someone is a fighter who will do it, or if they are a bitch who will quit.
I will do whatever it takes to get to where I want to go. WHATEVER IT TAKES.
I’m the guy who will eat 24 egg whites a day, 6 cans of tuna fish a day, and be up at night half asleep cracking more eggs.
It’s all business and in my world there is no room for weakness. WHATEVER IT TAKES.
Fuck television, fuck facebook, and fuck texting some stupid bitch 35 times a night back and forth. There is work to be done and I’m a worker.
Let me win everyday, EVERY FUCKING DAY!!
If you aren’t growing then you’re doing something wrong and my guess is it all boils down to being a bitch.
There is a big difference between the guy drinking the shakes all day and the guy cooking chicken, beef and rice.
If shakes were all it took we’d all be monsters. Stop looking for the easy way out and start putting in the work.
#2. BODY RE-COMPOSITION
The “B” of bodybuilding is body re-composition. Re-composition is what goes hand in hand with anabolism.
When you begin packing on muscles your body will begin operating on a different level. You will no longer be a slug who cannot digest all of 500-800 calories a meal, your new muscles will turn you into a fat burning machine.
The transition into eating enough to grow can be an uncomfortable one.
Basically what your doing to your body is feeding it enough to accommodate a frame that is already 20 lbs more massive.
To gain mass you need to eat like someone who is already larger.
What sense does it make to be 150 lbs and eat just enough for someone 150 lbs? You won’t grow this way, no way and no how!!
What a lot of you think of as “bulking and fattening up” will actually turn into body re-composition at the same time you’re growing and building new muscle.
When I was in my first year or two of weight training, there was a summer where I ordered a large pizza to my house almost every single night.
The result? It only helped pack on muscle and I did not get fat!!
Nobody ever said to me “Hey, you’re fattening up huh?” All I ever heard was how huge I was getting, and I knew that something that I was doing was working.
What magazines and internet videos show you is the hype of the lifestyle.
No magazine is ever going to disclose the fact that a bodybuilder is eating a pizza and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in order to get his calories up over 6,000 a day!!
Nope, they are going to show you what they want to show you.
And guess what the answer is when it comes to the hype of the life? More supplements!! If you didn’t know any better then you’d think that supplements were the reason these guys are as massive as they are.
With all of that being said, are there supplements that can put you into a more anabolic environment? Absolutely!!
But I would never suggest anybody who isn’t putting in the work and food intake to take jack shit!!
Think of your body and food intake as the car and SOME supplementation as the bigger engine that just got dropped into the car. Without the car what good is the engine?
I always believed in taking the least amount possible to continue to make progress.
If you’ve already packed on 20-30 lbs of muscle with just food and hard training, then try creatine and protein powder (to supplement protein intake, not replace enough REAL FOOD!!)
I usually do 1-2 shakes per day myself, but this is more for cost purposes and not effectiveness. It’s expensive enough eating meat and eggs 4-5x day, and protein powder per gram of protein is more affordable for me.
I do not recommend the most expensive supplements. I’m not going to bullshit you with some sales pitch for fancy creatine, just regular old creatine monohydrate is all you need!!
I have already explained the benefits of this in a previous article, but for cost and effectiveness this vitamin is very effective because it includes so much in it that other similarly priced vitamins do not. It not only has all of the essential vitamins per serving, but includes a joint complex and performance based complex as well.
Those supps would be the route I’d go if I needed an edge, BUT ONLY IF PROPER NUTRITION AND HARD WORK IS THERE!!
If you’re training like a bitch and eating like a bird, don’t even waste your money.
#3. CUTTING
Let’s talk about the final element in bodybuilding, and one I’ve listed last for a good reason – CUTTING!
YOU CANNOT GET SHREDDED WITH MUSCLES YOU DON’T HAVE YET!!
You aren’t going to be some bean pole guy who begins cutting right from the jump, and ends up looking the way you probably want to look. If you take this approach you’re going to look like a crackhead when it’s said and done.
First comes anabolism, then comes body re-composition, then finally we carve the diamond!!
This is when you’ve put on enough muscle mass to spare some extra lbs in the process of dropping body-fat.
Basically you have to have enough extra to play with when you begin cutting up. It makes no sense to be someone who is only consuming 2,000 calories a day and then wants to cut.
You are missing a giant piece of the puzzle here!!
Where do you go from this point? Down to only 1,000 calories a day?
Well here is a newsflash for you; it takes a minimum of 1,200 calories a day to even be considered a balanced diet, and most females need somewhere between 1,700- 2,300 calories a day when starting a fat loss diet.
WHEN YOU CUT YOU WILL GET WEAKER.
Get used to this as you’re cutting.
The food intake is no longer there and to think you’re going to be pushing the same 300 lbs you were pushing when you were eating like a maniac is not realistic.
The goal here is muscle retention while in a fat loss phase.
This also falls in line with body recomp and I have found that a lot of times I will be getting more and more shredded without the scale really dropping respectively.
The biggest reason for this is everything becomes more frequent and regimented. Macros are taken in more consciously and meals are usually hit more frequently.
So just because the scale isn’t dropping a few lbs every week doesn’t necessarily mean you aren’t cutting.
Honestly speaking, I never even started to cut up until I was already 5+ years into my training and 225 lbs at 5’9″.
Everything before this was geared towards gaining size, and holding it!!
This isn’t something most people are going to do for only 6 months and then try cutting up to look like Arnold Schwarenegger.
This takes years and years!!
When it comes to cutting this is where certain supplements DO PLAY A BIGGER ROLE.
If you can keep your hormones elevated and take any products to help retain muscle and whatever strength you can, this is when taking on a different look besides just a smaller version of what you were is much more possible.
These products are the newest and most efficient products that I know of because they don’t knock you down and out once you come off them.
You see, when you take steroids or prohormones you can actually REGRESS once you discontinue usage.
As soon as recovery becomes an issue and the compound is no longer in your system then reality hits, and reality bites hard!!
I’m not going to come on here and tell you I’m natural because I am not.
However, when I was using these supplements I reverted to a normal testosterone replacement dosage just to see how I’d respond to Anafuse and Osta-shred, and the results were that of me staying stronger and larger while in caloric deficit.
I was pushing weights that I normally wouldn’t be able to handle when I was just replacing testosterone that my body no longer produced. So I can say with full confidence that the products do work!!
No, I’m no scientist or Doctor. I didn’t go to college for 8 years, but I’ve been attending bodybuilding college for nearly 20 years.
I’ve been doing research and self-experimentation for nearly 20 years, so listen to whoever you trust more.
You will hear a lot of talk out there about products like these (SARMS) being a lie.
You will hear guys talk about SARMS being nothing more than a marketing pitch to hide the fact that they do cause the same massive suppression that steroids and prohormones cause.
I do not believe this and there simply isn’t enough research to prove this.
But I know for a fact that people who take these have great results without feeling in the dirt upon discontinuing them.
I work with bodybuilders and athletes all over the globe, and nobody has ever reported back to me that products such as Osta-shred and Anafuse cause any sort of recovery issues when they came off them.
So again, believe whatever you want, but I’m certainly not here to hurt anyone.
All of these bogus claims of suppression are coming from guys who have absolute shit physique’s to begin with and couldn’t get results on ANYTHING THEY USE!!
SIMPLIFYING THE BODYBUILDING PROCESS
The biggest problem with bodybuilding nowadays is how everyone has over-complicated the process.
Go take a look at bodybuilders of the Golden era who knew only a fraction of what we know on nutrition and supplementation now!!
Did you ever stop and think that maybe as a culture in general we have gotten weaker and used to life’s luxuries? I think this is definitely a possibility.
With every new supplement to hit the market, there are another 10,000 weak bitches who want the easy way out.
There is no easy way out!!
I would recommend ZERO supplements to anyone wanting the easy way out. Nothing you take will work if the building blocks are not there!!
If you missed step #1 and step #2 in this article, then you may take any product on the market and claim it’s worthless. But put in the work and food intake and I promise you there are things that work!!
So let’s recap what I’ve talked about here;
If you’re new to working out, take nothing!!
If you have already put in the work to pack on at least 20 lbs of mass, then I’d say try a couple thing and see if they don’t give you an edge.
If you’re seasoned and looking to finally carve that diamond, then take your diet seriously and if you need to use something to help retain muscle while cutting, then try it out.
It’s 95% food guys, it’s all food intake!!
There is no way around this and you are what you eat. But you cannot have a food phobia when you’re trying to build muscle mass.
It’s no coincidence when your lifts go up and you ate a few peanut butter and jelly sandwiches the few days prior…or a pizza…or a burger.
I live by the 80/20 rule when it comes to growing. Eat 80% clean and 20% for extra calories.
No, I never said in this article to eat junk non-stop.
I simply stated that behind the hype of what you see, there is the underground reality of what really works.
I’m giving you the underground reality, not the glitter and glamour.
TO BE PRETTY, SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA GET UGLY!!
Until next time, train hard!![/size]
