Maybe his drugs, training, and diet regime are the same... but now, he isn’t getting enough sleep each night
In FLEX Magazine, sleep was often mentioned as the overlooked “key” in “unlocking” muscle growth
Excellent outlier variable beyond the normal data set {drugs, training, diet}, Royalty. Falling asleep on the value of sleep turns waking life into a catabolic nightmare. Also, in addition to physiological reasons for Ben's diminution, maybe there are also psychological hindrances. For example, perhaps at the conceptual level. It's possible that Ben can no longer
conceive, and hence cannot
believe that he will
achieve. As Sun Tzu wrote in the remaining fragments of his long lost training manual,
Generals of the Squat Rack: "Every battle is first won in the mind, enhanced with the drugs, forged in training, honed through the diet, and claimed on the stage." Conceptual visualization is the first,
sine qua non, step to victorious thonged battle -- it is a must!