That has a lot to do to the fact they've forgone dedicating themselves to extremely high quality nutrition, and relied on the juice -- which is like setting a video game's difficulty from Expert to Novice. (Puts on nerd glasses) What they need to do is support that muscle with a certain amount of calories and quality protein. Doesn't matter how the muscle got there, if you don't over train and you feed the muscles correctly, it will live. Problem is that when you want to build a crapload of muscle naturally, it takes a massive amount of time, dedication and focus. All day, every day, you must eat correctly, rest correctly, and work out on a finely-tuned regiment to seriously build your physique.
Speaking of finely-tuned regiment - That is something that had me paranoid about Overeem's incredible muscle gains. All the sparring, pad work, grappling, running, high-paced circuit training and general cardio MMA training entails. In order to build a lot of muscle, you're supposed to lift very heavy weights for roughly 2 hours a session. Then you need to rest the muscles you trained for a few days. It was questionable how Overeem was able to lift so heavily while training as a top flight mixed martial artist and kickboxer. It has over training written all over it...unless perhaps he was using PEDs.
Overeem seemed to know about building muscle and maintaining it naturally, after hearing his daily protein regiment in that famous horse meat interview. He also spoke about his strict sleeping schedule, and was shown in videos powerlifting huge amounts of weight. It started to seem like he was legit, yet it was still hard to accept how fast Overeem bulked up. No matter how strict your exercise regiment is, and how great your diet is, gaining muscle is a slow process. Overeem blimped in a span of two or three years. Either he's a miracle or, well, he was cheating.
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I personally don't think Overeem's body was ever meant to be that big naturally which is why I believe he kept using whatever he was using. I don't believe his body is capable of handling that much muscle.
yeah, dude looked good at 205, and probably could do well at 225-230, but 265 of muscle is way too big for him. Even my ex GF commented on when she first saw him at the bigger weight (she thought he was handsome at 205), and was shocked to see him that big saying he doesn't look good now, he looks too much like one of those "bullfrog like" roid freaks you see in the club with no shirt on.
Here's hoping he has one heck of a lawyer and by some miracle, the B sample comes back clean, cause I don't want to see JDS vs. Mir, I just don't like Frank.
He was probably mad as hell when he found out about that random test.
I'm sure he's accustomed to having timed his cycles just right.
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DC Sports: The Curse Is Real
It sounds crazy but I wouldn't mind seeing Mark Hunt fight JDS.
As much as I love Hunt, he can't get that shot.
DC Sports: The Curse Is Real
Alisteroid Overroid's positive test was only a matter of time. It actually makes me respect Brock Lesnar more for going into the octagon against him after such a long, severe illness-induced layoff without the aid of performance-enhancing drugs to help even the odds. (Which, in retrospect, were impossible for Brock to overcome.)
I get the feeling Hendo's going to get the shot.
Not sure how I feel about it though.
DC Sports: The Curse Is Real
If Hendo snuck that right hand through, somehow caught JDS, I'd officially retire from being a sports fan out of complete satisfaction. Good luck, Redskins, happy trails Wizards. I'm good.
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