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Default Zach Update

    Okay kiddies, here is the poop:

    Zach Evetts
    March 1, 2010
    Bodyweight: 242
    Bodyfat % measured at 7 skinfold sites (equation detailed below): 20.95%
    LBM: 191.29 lbs.
    Bodyweight increase in 15.4 weeks: 25 lbs
    191.29 - 177.07 = 14.22 lbs. LBM increase
    14.22/25 = 56.8% of gain as LBM, .92 lb./week

    Equation: 1.112 - .00043499(x) + .00000056(x^2) - .0028826(age) = body density

    (4.57/body density - 4.142)100 = Bodyfat %
    Skinfold total: 162mm, 7 sites measured and marked

    Equipment used: Lange Skinfold Caliper (Cambridge Scientific)

    Current pictures below, without a shirt for those of you "into" this sort of thing.

    Now, it may be that I don't know how to use skinfold calipers, but you assume that at your PERIL. These pictures clearly show a male at about 20-22% bodyfat. It may even be that I shopped the pictures, but I know even less about that than I do lighting. The fact is that Zach has gained 78 lbs. in 6 months, 46 lbs. of which is LBM. His squat has gone from 145 x 5 to 345 x 5. Anyone who says otherwise is either calling me a liar or is saying that I don’t know how to weigh and measure bodyfat. That’s fine, and we can settle it whenever you want to. Anyone who says that skinfold caliper testing in the hands of an experienced operator is inaccurate compared to hydrostatic weighing is unfamiliar with the procedures. Furthermore, Zach is not taking steroids, and anybody who claims this is full of shit, as is anyone who says that X lbs. of LBM/year are the absolute maximum that can be gained. We do it here all the time, and you can too if you do the program correctly.

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Re: this is what those great natural gains actually look like in pictures
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2013, 03:33:19 PM »
no this is what gaining 78lbs in 6 months looks like...stupid idea

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Re: this is what those great natural gains actually look like in pictures
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2013, 03:36:28 PM »
no this is what gaining 78lbs in 6 months looks like...stupid idea
We do it here all the time, and you can too if you do the program correctly.



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Re: this is what those great natural gains actually look like in pictures
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2013, 03:39:55 PM »
200 pound increase in squat in 6 months is a bunch of baloney. 
follow the arrows

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Re: this is what those great natural gains actually look like in pictures
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2013, 03:42:55 PM »
200 pound increase in squat in 6 months is a bunch of baloney. 
they just do half squats

all ass and posterior chain

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Re: this is what those great natural gains actually look like in pictures
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2013, 03:44:56 PM »
I don't get it. What's the point of this thread again? Or you just showing some fat dude for fun?

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Re: this is what those great natural gains actually look like in pictures
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2013, 03:51:47 PM »
GOMAD

SQUATS

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5 x 5

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I've summed up the Starting Strength boards in that, now you've got no reason to go there. Seriously, don't go there, it'll rot your brain.

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Re: this is what those great natural gains actually look like in pictures
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2013, 04:03:45 PM »
Looks like a fat sack of shit