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Originally Posted by Hagar
No wonder your wife doesn't mind you spending so much on Astro gear. If you ate like this guy when you were in training I guess Astro gear is cheap.
He is one big boy.
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Nah these bodybuilders have very finicky dietary protocols, mostly over kill in my opinion, the good thing about Strongman was that I could just..?..
eat and I did
having very low body fat wasn't a requirement. Ronnie looks even bigger because his muscle bellies are large in comparison to his joint insertions. Comparing each other in our best shapes, and considering he and I are similar heights (I am perhaps a little taller) and similar weights but Ronnie would have looked significantly bigger simply because of his proportions, hence his huge success in the World of Bodybuilding, had I stood on stage with just my trunks on next to him I would have looked rather ridiculous...of course had we both been asked to lift 320kg and carry it as far as possible he would probably have looked ridiculous too
Strength increase is a neural improvement, muscle mass certainly does increase too but it is the efficiency, timing and coordination of your muscle fibres and groups of muscles that generates high force out put, so in a nut shell your muscles can be trained to favour getting stronger (and faster) rather than much larger and my training did exactly this. This is something that I tried hard to convince women of (with mixed success) as they are usually not against getting stronger but unfortunately loathed to getting larger muscles, they are different things.
Of course throw in steroids and they act purely on muscle tissue
size and have no neural effect, the strength increase is a result of the increased cross sectional area of the muscle but this plays a proportionally lesser role in force output compared to neural improvements.
Mike
heck even I did once, Ronnie would need a camping store to do his 
