sofageorge, what happened to your thread?

[SofaGeorge]

you won't make any friends with this first post!

He's the banned cyber stalker. He comes back for all my posts.

He also didn't get to see all the other photos that went up where I flexed and everybody told me how jacked I was.

I had posted heavily back then about taking my weight down from 240lbs to under 210lbs. I don't value size. I'd much rather look ripped any day.

The only reason I've taken my weight back up now is I wanted to see how high I could go and still stay extremely cut. I'm at 240lbs now... and pretty sure I will have to drop to 220lbs to hold that look.

The strange thing about it is 220lbs cut looks much bigger than 240lbs holding 11-12%.

 

[c3bodybuilding]

Khemix, if thats you in your avatar, then it looks like you need to start eating, and not think about steroids, let alone a cycle like that.

 

[c3bodybuilding]

I don't know why this newbie (mugs) is hating on sofa. Even if he was still in the same shape he was in those pics now, he is over 40. For a man to even be in shape at that age, let alone have muscle is incredible. Most men his age, hell even my age don't have the balls to keep up with it, let alone do some of the balls to the wall workouts Sofa does.

 

[Stillgoing]

He's the banned cyber stalker. He comes back for all my posts.

He also didn't get to see all the other photos that went up where I flexed and everybody told me how jacked I was.

I had posted heavily back then about taking my weight down from 240lbs to under 210lbs. I don't value size. I'd much rather look ripped any day.

The only reason I've taken my weight back up now is I wanted to see how high I could go and still stay extremely cut. I'm at 240lbs now... and pretty sure I will have to drop to 220lbs to hold that look.

The strange thing about it is 220lbs cut looks much bigger than 240lbs holding 11-12%.

Sounds like you are jacked. Good work Sofa....

 

[Stillgoing]

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[SofaGeorge]

I don't know why this newbie (mugs) is hating on sofa. Even if he was still in the same shape he was in those pics now, he is over 40. For a man to even be in shape at that age, let alone have muscle is incredible. Most men his age, hell even my age don't have the balls to keep up with it, let alone do some of the balls to the wall workouts Sofa does.

Bro, you missed my notation. Muggs is my cyber stalker. He got banned months ago and comes back under one handle after another. He has a obsessive disorder. He really can't overly help his behavior. The Mods ban his new handles as soon as he makes them.

You also make the comment "even if he was still in the same shape he was in those pics now." Bro, I'm not sure what you thought looking at one pic of me fully clothed... but I considered myself in incredible shape in those photos. I was the only guy that day who was willing to flex for the camera. I worked very hard to get down in size so I would be that jacked. I posted about this heavily last summer... and my reasons for wanting to take my size down instead of up.

I'm at 240lbs now... and waltzing towards 250lbs. I don't remotely think I look better carrying this extra muscle. Being big doesn't compare to being cut.

This is a concept that seems to be lost in modern bodybuilding where everyone wants to be a mass monster. I would much rather look like Frank Zane than Dorian Yates any day of the week.

I've also seen a pattern. When I was holding between 210-215lbs and I would walk to the gym without a shirt on... people would pull their cars over to tell me how great I looked. Since I tipped past the 220lbs mark and started walking up to 240lbs... I don't get the same kind of response.

In real world asthetics - size loses to quality every time.

 

[c3bodybuilding]

I think you got me wrong! I meant that he is going by how you look in those pics, and he thinks you look bad. I was saying you look great! I remember you posting how you wanted to cut down on size, and have a more 'quality' build. I remember the pics from that meet up, I remember you doing a bicep shot, I think. Your arm was very vascular, with a great peak. I guess I mean, if you looked good then, I could only imagine how you look now, nearly 50lbs heavier. I'm sorry if it came across as anything less than a compliment, because thats all it was.

 

[SofaGeorge]

I think you got me wrong! I meant that he is going by how you look in those pics, and he thinks you look bad. I was saying you look great! I remember you posting how you wanted to cut down on size, and have a more 'quality' build. I remember the pics from that meet up, I remember you doing a bicep shot, I think. Your arm was very vascular, with a great peak. I guess I mean, if you looked good then, I could only imagine how you look now, nearly 50lbs heavier. I'm sorry if it came across as anything less than a compliment, because thats all it was.

Sorry to seem hyper sensative... but I worked hard to get in that king of shape and still hold my strength.

My hair has started graying and truthfully there is a huge sense of pride in being in that kind of condition when you've got gray on the sides. I don't go into the gym and see anybody else my age who is really doing it. (I used to see a couple at Gold's Venice.. but I literally only mean a couple.)

It was also a hard choice to look at taking my size down. I had always enjoyed clocking in as a heavyweight... and dropping down to cruiser took a lot of thought, but I realized that pushing into my 40s carrying the extra size probably was NOT going to have long term health benefits. I may try to push my weight up a bit more... but by the time I'm 50 I don't think I will want to carry more than 220lbs on my frame.

I've been an experimental life extensionist for 20+ years... definitely on the radical edge of anti aging science. It's going to be very interesting to me to see how much I can really stave off the clock and maintain peak shape. On my 44th birthday this year I was able to set PRs that week on every single lift... and I've been gaining on some lifts since. Chemical science does give us an edge... we've just got to learn how to fully use it.

 

[c3bodybuilding]

That was another point I was trying to make. I never see guys in theirs mids 30's, early 40's at the gym, and if they are, they certainly aren't doing the type of workouts you are! It's usually a round of raquetball, and then some of that walking around in the locker room with out a towel workout. LOL

You are one of the few lifters that I look up to on the boards. Very few people are my height (nearly 6'4), and into the old school lifting. You are both, and how you still have passion for training after all these years, is something I want to maintain. I always say that I am in it for life, I just turned 22, and I hope when I turn 44, that I am hitting pr's, and still loving it all.

 

[SofaGeorge]

That was another point I was trying to make. I never see guys in theirs mids 30's, early 40's at the gym, and if they are, they certainly aren't doing the type of workouts you are! It's usually a round of raquetball, and then some of that walking around in the locker room with out a towel workout. LOL

You are one of the few lifters that I look up to on the boards. Very few people are my height (nearly 6'4), and into the old school lifting. You are both, and how you still have passion for training after all these years, is something I want to maintain. I always say that I am in it for life, I just turned 22, and I hope when I turn 44, that I am hitting pr's, and still loving it all.

Bro, if you ever make it out to LA... I want to take you out to the beach. There is a little circle of old men... guys in their 70s and 80s that still sit together on the benches each day, watch the cute girls on roller blades, and shoot the breeze. Some have to walk on canes to get to the benches.

Most people don't know who they are. They are the Muscle Beach Alumae Association... the lifters from the '30s, '40s, and '50s that made Muscle Beach a legend.

Then, after you've seen them sitting on the beach - come to Gold's Venice as 5:30am and see some of them still in the gym, still training all these years later... even though they need their canes to walk to the machines.

It was a very cool crowd of people that made the heyday of Muscle Beach something great.