Why Bodybuilders Try But Fail - How to Fix Your Bodybuilding Problems - Bodybuilding Podcast Ep. 80

All right, welcome back to the next episode of the podcast.

This is your host, Dan.

The first thing that I wanted to talk about today is why bodybuilders try but fail to get big over time.

So this is something I noticed my first few years in the gym actually when I went away to university and then I came back.

I was going to Gold's Gym San Francisco and I noticed that most of the people in the gym were the same size when I went to university and then came back and they were lifting the same weights, doing all the same things.

And this was kind of shocking because I had been making gains while I was away and it was kind of shocking to kind of come back and see That things, people were plateaued.

And of course, later in my own bodybuilding, I experienced plateaus and figured out more about that.

I started weightlifting when I was 17.

So I was still in my hadn't really plateaued super hard phase yet when I went away to school.

But people have to understand how extreme and abnormal and unreasonable an activity that bodybuilding is.

And when you're thinking like you're gonna be able to do like normal things and then achieve the look of a bodybuilder, that's just completely unrealistic.

in order to be a bodybuilder and achieve the look of a bodybuilder you have to be totally relentless and willing to sacrifice everything and willing like this is what you are doing and whatever it is that is going to take in order to get that you are going to do that so the people who have that attitude are successful and the people who are not willing to go there make every single reason not to do it.

And so really a lot of it is that people want this re-comp thing, okay? So that is not the standard way that bodybuilding is done, re-comping.

There are certain people with certain genes who have an ability to do this more than others.

But it really still is not that effective.

The effective way and like we've discussed before in the podcast is that you must know how to make your body weight go up and you must know how to make your body weight go down in order to be successful in bodybuilding.

This is so critically important to be able to have this ability.

So a lot of times guys they're worried about getting fat, right? They want to be lean, they want to look good, but they have this like big grand goal of being this big, strong bodybuilder, okay? And maybe they're working on it for years, like working on it for three years, working on it for five years, and they really haven't made a lot of progress.

And what I have to say is that a lot of times this is because of switching between bulking and cutting or trying to do re-comps.

And when I mean switching between bulking and cutting, I mean doing that quickly.

Trying to do an eight-week bulk and thinking you're gonna have any kind of accrued protein muscle gains that are gonna stick on your body after that bulk.

I mean, eight weeks is just barely enough time to even get performance gains, significant performance gains.

Cause like, look, if you're bench pressing 185 pounds or 80 kilograms in the gym for 10 reps, okay? You must be doing 100 kilograms or 225 pounds in the gym for the same amount of reps and the same amount of sets.

You must have moved to there before you're gonna make significant gains in your musculature that's gonna be able to move with you from cycle to cycle, okay? So people get confused and they think like, oh, he said bench press.

Okay, I used that as an example.