Vascularity, does it come with age?

[Zoomster]

Another consideration is the amount of water that you naturally hold.

That's why some BB's prescibe to diuretecs before a show.

Don't overlook that factor.

 

[Triple J]

You look great in the pic.

When I competed I found a proper carb deplete / carb load would make my veins explode. You just have to be careful to time it right and avoid the spillover.

 

[M56M]

You look great in the pic.

When I competed I found a proper carb deplete / carb load would make my veins explode. You just have to be careful to time it right and avoid the spillover.

What do you do to avoid the spillover?

I try to count the exact amount of calories, keep it clean, and space your meals out.

what do you do?

 

[bmit]

congrats bro you must have worked hard to look that sick

 

[crmdogg]

great symmetry dude, you could go far in bbing

 

[Triple J]

What do you do to avoid the spillover?

I try to count the exact amount of calories, keep it clean, and space your meals out.

what do you do?

Basically I just got very depleted so when I loaded up, my body went into a state of overcompensation, sucking all water into the muscle with the glycogen. I was too worried about spillover for the competition, because it was not until the day after and my post-competition pizza, that the veins popped in a really freaky way. Even my abs had veins standing out.

So as I recall, the key is to not be afraid to get very flat a couple days out. Then two days prior start with the simple carbs and I would shoot for a calorie surplus the day prior or morning of. Drink plenty of water. If you are in a state of super-compensation spillover should not be a problem.

But shit that was a long time ago so these days I am kind of out of the loop. Plus vascularity was never a weak point for me. I wish I had your full muscles.

What was your routine going into the competition?

 

[baza]

I think it's a lot to do with genetics as well. My arms get vascular even around 12%, usually when I'm "on".

 

[TooJacked]

Thanks guys,

Protein sources were chicken,egg whites, tuna, and salmon(occasionally). Also Iso-Pure until 4 weeks out. Only Carbs I ate wer oatmeal, yams and br.rice. Fats came from Flax oil, olive oil and whatever came from the protein sources.

I basically followed a 12 week diet.
Week 1- P=400g C=200g F=<40
Week 2- P=400g C=175g F=<50
Week 3-7- P=400g C=150g F=<50
week 8-10 P=400g C=100g F=<50
Week 11- P= 400g C=75g F=<60

Week 12 went as follows, if i remeber correctly
3 days carb depletion at 10-20g day
3 days carb load; day 1 200g;day 2 250g; day 3 300g.

During the Carb loading days I ate 8 meals/day spacing out all carbs evenly throughout each meal. Ate the same carbs I ate throughout diet, Brown rice, Yams, Oatmeal.
Water intake was 2 gallons a day throughout diet until last week. Cut water down to 1 gallon on first day of carb load, then to 1/2 gal on day 2 then down to less then a quart the day before the show. Stopped drinking at 5 pm. Also cut out all sodium during carb load days.

This is not 100% accurate but is the best that I can remember.

I trained Hard and Heavy, 6 days a week/one bodypart a day, all the way till the last 2 weeks. At that point with such low carbs I was shot, but went as heavy as I could. Never went crazy with reps, no more than 8-12/set

Next time I plan on being much more precise with my diet and trying a new training routine.

 

[ripper2]

young guys have thicker skin = less vascularity

 

[Stillgoing]

I think age definitely helps, or, better said, muscle maturity. A mature muscle is larger, more seperated and more defined, thus more likely to be veiny. Muscle maturity only comes with time.