Your assessment of JJ with too much glycogen stored sums up my insulin argurment perfectly, IMO, fine offseason, but one miscalculation and you immediatly spill. With insulin comes carbs with carbs comes glycogen..too much and you spill. Too difficult to peak or get really really shredded, Hide was an exeption......and speaking of Hide, you guaranteed 20lbs of muscle and he supposedly came in at 175.....was he 155 before
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Too much glycogen and you spill?
Where will you find glycogen INSIDE or OUTSIDE of cells?
I didn't mean AT ALL that JOJ spilled over...as he would be first one to tell you - he was dry and happy with his condition...
But, being that for the first time ever - we were going ALL OUT and storing as much glycogen as we could (being that at Olympia you have to have something extra special in order to make your mark) - and Johnnie just have SOOOOO MUCH MUSCLE...by the time we realized how full he was - he was ready to explode...
Some people are better off being somewhat "flat" as they would appear sharper...while others are exactly the opposite.
In his last comparison JOJ was close to being exactly the way I would have want him to be...and another 2 or 3 comparisons would have made him 1998 version of Ronnie (as similar happened to Ronnie in 1998 Mr. Olympia - who appeared softer in the beginning of the show - thus he wasn't even called out with the top six...but after few comparisons he started to get tighter and tighter and by the end he was absolutely superb - winning the show as complete underdog with absolutely spectacular condition...)
In Montreal JOJ was little under-carbed and thus didn't really seem as muscular is he really is...In AC we did present bigger package and many people realized how dangerous JOJ could be...so normally for the O we were going "all out"...I will post some photos later to show what I mean by dry but overloaded with glycogen...
As far as danger of using carbs to get super-shredded - as I said on the radio - easiest thing in the world is to bring competitor on the stage DRY...but being dry is not ONLY requirement.
Deplete into the show - and you will be dry...very, very easily...
Just about everyone does it still at the world championships and other amateur shows world wide..
But, when you try to get the best condition on the stage with:
1- most muscles earned and hardly any lost in process of dieting
2- super low body fat
3- as much intracellular water
4-least amount of extracellular water
5- As much GLYCOGEN (as NOW I am even more convinced - is NOT necessarily the truth - as some look better semi-loaded with glycogen..)...etc...etc - things get little bit more complicated.
Anyway...as far as Hide - he was at his all time best - no question...and mentioning some ridiculous weight of 175 lbs - shows how much you pay attention to everything...