So one week later, you think you look better than him? You're crazy.
When you enter a contest, you have to manipulate your water. You are watery until the day of the show if you do it right. Obviously he did.
You think you look better than him? You don't. You "greased" yourself up with flattering ligting. He didn't one week out.
One week later there's no question he's miles ahead of you.
besides that, he's going to break your so-called natural limit. He'll be over well over 200 pounds at 5'10" in a few years---shredded.
Address the point of the natural limit.
LAYNE DOES NOT MANIPULATE WATER!
I HAVE HIS PRE-CONTEST ARTICLE IF YOU WANT IT.
He talks about how bad it is to Manipulate water. HERE IS AN EXCERPT
This article will provide competitors information on diet, training, tanning, posing, and other competition related topics.
By: Layne Norton
Water
Many competitors practice the technique of water depletion. Water depletion consists of reducing one's liquid intake to practically nothing as they approach the contest. Not only is this practice very dangerous, it is also ineffective. Muscle tissue consists of 70% water.
If one restricts water intake drastically, they will lose muscle fullness and appear flat onstage. In addition, reducing water will increase the likelihood of muscle cramps while onstage (this happens quite frequently and is very embarrassing).
Some competitors believe water is what causes them to appear smooth. This is not the case. Water retention intracellularly (inside the cell) will cause one appear hard and full. Subcutaneous (under the skin) water retention however, causes one look smooth.
When the body senses a drastic restriction in water intake it will release anti-diuretic hormones that cause subcutaneous water retention. This makes physiological sense: the body senses it is not getting enough water and releases hormones that cause water retention to prevent dehydration. The result is muscles that appear look flat; from lack of water intracellularly, and soft; from retaining water subcutaneously.
The competitor's goal is to maximize intracellular and minimize subcutaneous water retention. Part of this can be accomplished via proper carbohydrate depletion and repletion as discussed earlier. However, to maximize the impact on the body's water distribution will require manipulation of sodium intake.
Most techniques are merely theory-based as there is little scientific literature about how to properly sodium load and deplete to maximize intracellular and minimize subcutaneous water retention. Since there is little "hard" data to rely on, I will resort to stating "trust me" and list a sodium loading/depletion routine that I utilized with great success.
15 Days Out - Begin sodium loading. Salt or season all meals and eat foods high in sodium.
10 Days Out - Reduce sodium to 4000 mg per day.
5 Days Out - Reduce sodium to 2000 mg per day.
2 Days Out - Reduce sodium to 1500 mg.
1 Day Out - Reduce sodium to 1000 mg.
Show Day - covered below.
By increasing sodium intake during the "sodium loading" phase, your cells' sodium pumps will become up-regulated (working harder than normal) and pump Na+ ions out of the cell to maintain the equilibrium ion gradient.
When you begin to drop sodium intake, your cells' pumps will still be up-regulated, but since sodium intake is low it will pump out more sodium than normal and with it, a lot of water will be excreted (water levels fluctuate in relation to ion concentrations). During this time (5 days out up until the day before the show) you will begin to flatten out and look smaller than normal due to less water being held. Don't fret, as the final days of this program will fill you out nicely.
