When you start a diet for the competition, you have to start somewhere and your weight before the diet can significantly influence its success. This seems obvious, but many bodybuilders do not understand a simple truth: the more you stay lean all year round, the easier it will be to sit on a strict diet. Some people like to put on weight in between competitions. They call it "swing" and think that because they not only become stronger for the more severe and hard training, but also accelerate the process of building muscle. Also, from a psychological point of view, many bodybuilders just like to feel huge. After all, when you go to a T-shirt around town, who cares about the bump of your muscles?
Indeed, when the buildup you get stronger, at least because of the increased volume of muscles of your hands and feet, which gives them an advantage in a purely mechanical exercise. And of course, you need to consume enough protein and other nutrients to ensure muscle growth. But for weight gain have to pay a price. The more fat you accumulate, the more long and strict diet you need to get rid of them, along with the fat you will inevitably lose some of the acquired muscle.
This happened to me many times. In the 1960's, when I was young and enjoyed the feeling of self-massiveness, I allowed myself to gain a lot of weight between competitions. Looking at the photos of the time, I can see that even while dieting, I was much more "smooth" than a few years later, when I learned how to control your body weight throughout the year. Remember, your success depends not on how big and strong you feel and how you look on stage during the event.
Of course, many bodybuilders who take the stage with a weight of 230 pounds, and in the intervals between competitions are gaining up to 280 pounds or more, may argue that they do not "fatten" and just become massive. Indeed, the athlete with the amount of muscle mass can increase quite a bit of fat and at the same time does not appear to be "bold" in the conventional sense. Tight muscles masks overweight, but fat nonetheless remains in place, and have to get rid of him to step up to compete in top form, with a maximum relief and insulation.
In addition, as we have said, the longer you have to stay on the diet and the more weight you drop, the more muscle mass you will lose in the process. It is impossible to lose a lot of weight and still be in great shape. Of course, Dorian Yates has had a distinguished career and was famous for what he could gain enormous weight between competitions, and then quickly drop it, but it is much more difficult. In my experience, the participation in the competition itself is hard work.
In fact, the methods of dieting for competition have undergone a significant change during my career in bodybuilding. The more I competed, the more learned about how to achieve and maintain a high effective fitness. At some point, even the pendulum has swung too far. If the builders of the 1960s looked too "smooth" on the stage, in the 1970s, many of them looked so exhausted that it seemed they were about to drop from exhaustion. I saw a massive bodybuilders who usually practiced at weight 240 pounds without too much fat, appeared on stage with the weight 195 pounds, with each of them must have been similar to his own grandfather.
Indeed, when the buildup you get stronger, at least because of the increased volume of muscles of your hands and feet, which gives them an advantage in a purely mechanical exercise. And of course, you need to consume enough protein and other nutrients to ensure muscle growth. But for weight gain have to pay a price. The more fat you accumulate, the more long and strict diet you need to get rid of them, along with the fat you will inevitably lose some of the acquired muscle.
This happened to me many times. In the 1960's, when I was young and enjoyed the feeling of self-massiveness, I allowed myself to gain a lot of weight between competitions. Looking at the photos of the time, I can see that even while dieting, I was much more "smooth" than a few years later, when I learned how to control your body weight throughout the year. Remember, your success depends not on how big and strong you feel and how you look on stage during the event.
Of course, many bodybuilders who take the stage with a weight of 230 pounds, and in the intervals between competitions are gaining up to 280 pounds or more, may argue that they do not "fatten" and just become massive. Indeed, the athlete with the amount of muscle mass can increase quite a bit of fat and at the same time does not appear to be "bold" in the conventional sense. Tight muscles masks overweight, but fat nonetheless remains in place, and have to get rid of him to step up to compete in top form, with a maximum relief and insulation.
In addition, as we have said, the longer you have to stay on the diet and the more weight you drop, the more muscle mass you will lose in the process. It is impossible to lose a lot of weight and still be in great shape. Of course, Dorian Yates has had a distinguished career and was famous for what he could gain enormous weight between competitions, and then quickly drop it, but it is much more difficult. In my experience, the participation in the competition itself is hard work.
Diet strategies have become much more sophisticated and scientifically accurate, than it was when I came into the world of bodybuilding. Once I discovered that giving up sweets and desserts, butter and wine with dinner during intense workouts on a double split system allows me relatively easy to acquire tournament form. But what was considered a relief and dense musculature twenty years ago may not be so highly quoted in modern bodybuilding, given the increased competition between athletes.
In fact, the methods of dieting for competition have undergone a significant change during my career in bodybuilding. The more I competed, the more learned about how to achieve and maintain a high effective fitness. At some point, even the pendulum has swung too far. If the builders of the 1960s looked too "smooth" on the stage, in the 1970s, many of them looked so exhausted that it seemed they were about to drop from exhaustion. I saw a massive bodybuilders who usually practiced at weight 240 pounds without too much fat, appeared on stage with the weight 195 pounds, with each of them must have been similar to his own grandfather.
