Two weeks post contest

[Primemuscle]

What is your off season ideal weight?

[Coach is Back!]

What is your off season ideal weight?

225-230 give or take

[efanhowz]

Coach

Do you have a standard bodybuilding split with regular lifts?

Or do you throw in any lifts/movements you have your athletes do?

Any specific injury prevention and supportive movements?

[The RedMeatKid]

Coach

Do you have a standard bodybuilding split with regular lifts?

Or do you throw in any lifts/movements you have your athletes do?

Any specific injury prevention and supportive movements?

Uh-oh

[Primemuscle]

225-230 give or take

Are you concerned the yo yo diet routine might negatively affect your health? 230 lbs. is a lot of weight for someone your height and age to carry around. It can be very taxing on your heart. -Makes little difference if the weight is fat or muscle, it's still not good for heart health. Wouldn't you be better off maintaining a lower weight?

[Kwon]

Coach

Do you have a standard bodybuilding split with regular lifts?

Or do you throw in any lifts/movements you have your athletes do?

Any specific injury prevention and supportive movements?

[Coach is Back!]

Are you concerned the yo-yo diet routine might negatively affect your health? 230 lbs. is a lot of weight for someone your height and age to carry around. It can be very taxing on your heart. -Makes little difference if the weight is fat or muscle, it's still not good for heart health. Wouldn't you be better off maintaining a lower weight?

What yo yo diet routine are you referring too? The goal is to add 12-15lbs of muscle by this time next year.

[deadz]

....off-season started on Monday

What place did you finish?

[Rambone]

Looking good, Joe!

[The RedMeatKid]

Are you concerned the yo yo diet routine might negatively affect your health? 230 lbs. is a lot of weight for someone your height and age to carry around. It can be very taxing on your heart. -Makes little difference if the weight is fat or muscle, it's still not good for heart health. Wouldn't you be better off maintaining a lower weight?

Good question.

[Coach is Back!]

Looking good, Joe!

Thanks, appreciate it

[Coach is Back!]

What place did you finish?

Overall Masters Cal, controversial 4th in the open Lt.hvy but it is what it is.

[Tbomzisback!]

The goal is to add 12-15lbs of muscle by this time next year.

I bet you can put on more than that. 

[Coach is Back!]

I bet you can put on more than that. 

I probably could but it would make no sense being that I'll be a month short of 58 next year at the time of the Nationals. I'm a Lt. Hvy, going above 225-230 wouldn't help and would put me above 11-12%.

[Henda]

Had no idea coach was 57 always just guessed mid 40s looks great for any age but makes it more impressive

[Coach is Back!]

Almost a 30-year difference between the two of us. I think he was around 28. 4th vs. 2nd

[Bevo]

Are you concerned the yo yo diet routine might negatively affect your health? 230 lbs. is a lot of weight for someone your height and age to carry around. It can be very taxing on your heart. -Makes little difference if the weight is fat or muscle, it's still not good for heart health. Wouldn't you be better off maintaining a lower weight?

I already posted that if coach was around the 180’s range, year round, lean and athletic, he would look much better imo

Stan mcquay is the same height, weighs 175 competing and 190’s off season, he is in his mid 40’s

But I know coach doesn’t like the lean off season low weight look, each their own

[AbrahamG]

Almost a 30-year difference between the two of us. I think he was around 28. 4th vs. 2nd

The fellow of color looks like Chris Webber in the face.

[oldtimer1]

What happens after a contest? Do you taper off the drugs or just quit?  Do you use stuff like clomid, anti estogens and HCG after the contest?  Do you shoot straight testosterone after to keep from losing the muscle?  Not up on this stuff.

 Just remember back in the day around contest time guys would make drastic changes in two to three months but seem to lose it just as fast when they went completely clean. The protocol back then was to completely stop using soon after the contest so hopefully their own testosterone would eventually kick back in and it would make you more responsive next time you took drugs. Guys that took drugs on and off year round seem to lost their response to the drugs so it was common for guys to go completely off for many months. I remember most just geared up for one contest a year.

[Primemuscle]

What yo yo diet routine are you referring too? The goal is to add 12-15lbs of muscle by this time next year.

You were at your off-season weight and lost a chunk to become shredded. And now, after you gain 15 lbs. of muscle, you might decide to enter another competition and you'll likely want to lose some "water weight". This cycle goes on and on. You're too enmeshed in it to recognize what you are doing. Gain weight...lose weight...gain weight again and most likely lose weight again too. This is the very definition of a yo yo diet routine.

[Coach is Back!]

You were at your off-season weight and lost a chunk to become shredded. And now, after you gain 15 lbs. of muscle, you might decide to enter another competition and you'll likely want to lose some "water weight". This cycle goes on and on. You're too enmeshed in it to recognize what you are doing. Gain weight...lose weight...gain weight again and most likely lose weight again too. This is the very definition of a yo yo diet routine.

I don’t even know where to begin with this ridiculous assumption of a “yo yo” diet. You do realize this is bodybuilding and not some fat soccer mom trying every “diet” imaginable to lose weight...right? But for the sake of argument I dieted consistently on pretty much the same calorie and macro range for the entire 17 weeks until the last week of depletion. Btw, unless I die, I’m doing the Nationals this time NEXT YEAR and it will take almost a full year to gain that 15.

Please do some research

[AbrahamG]

I don’t even know where to begin with this ridiculous assumption of a “yo yo” diet. You do realize this is bodybuilding and not some fat soccer mom trying every “diet” imaginable to lose weight...right? But for the sake of argument I dieted consistently on pretty much the same calorie and macro range for the entire 17 weeks until the last week of depletion. Btw, unless I die, I’m doing the Nationals this time NEXT YEAR and it will take almost a full year to gain that 15.

Please do some research

Send him a dick pic.

[Coach is Back!]

Send him a dick pic.

Lmfao 😂😂😂😂

[Joe Valentino]

Coach is doing a really good job this year.

57 with that look. Awesome work

[AbrahamG]

Coach is doing a really good job this year.

57 with that look. Awesome work

Agreed.  I'm going to assume and give him the benefit of the doubt in so far as doses and protocols are concerned as well.