Natural vs Enhanced Training - What Are The Differences?! My Response To John Meadows

you have to train hard you have to do sets to failure you have to do that not only does it say train hard because uh the hardest subjective thing you have to do sets to failure coach rigged and today

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I'm doing is I'm going to review a video of John Meadows titled

natural

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enhanced

how to train, so

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I'm going to do is watch the video and explain whether what he's saying makes sense or not, if you don't know John. Meadows has three hundred thousand followers, he's a very smart guy, he has an IFBB Pro card and he trains a lot of people, so he's like me, only he's even older and potentially has more coaching experience than me.

I have competed. Against him, he's a great bodybuilder, he's huge and has practical real world experience, not just stupid studies and everything I read in a study, he actually walks, talks, talks and has muscles, he's ripped all the time and I. I like watching his stuff, okay now, if you want to know a little more about what he's like, he's like me, only nice, so he'll basically tell it like it is, but without ruffled any feathers, so to speak, very interested in see your opinion. This is because I have had a lot of strong opinions about the improved

natural

horse, so we will see if I agree or disagree with what he says, we will see if we are on the same page or not, and believe me if No, I will to say why, so let's see, I don't think any of us have any doubts that extra peds help, obviously, it's this 2020 who will say that they don't work, obviously they work, so then he starts talking. about a study and it's the same stupid study that irritates me and makes me angry every time because no one seems to know how to read the study other than me, ok, so he immediately jumps into this study and I don't understand it.

I think he does understand it, but he chose to present it in a way to lead people to believe something that is not actually true. What's this about steroids building muscle without

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people who didn't exercise and took a placebo? they didn't do the test they did what they thought maybe they were tests they had no change in their muscle mass the group that took the tests and didn't exercise still gained seven pounds of muscle now here's where it gets interesting the people who took the placebo so they were still natural and they exercised they only gained four pounds, so they worked for ten weeks and gained four pounds of muscle, but the group that took tests and didn't even exercise gained seven pounds of muscle, so people say Wow, everything we need. what you do is you take tests you don't even go to the gym we will build more muscle than those natural guys and then the final groups basically took tests and trained and gained 13 pounds of muscle so according to this study if you don't I don't know what you're talking, you'll say yes, you don't need to go to the gym.

You can just chain tests together and you'll gain seven pounds of muscle because the study shows it, but it shows azido. we have 43 participants not all of them were doing everything there are not 43 in each category there are 43 participants in total if you do the test it is like taking a device to inflate water it is like taking salt and water it is like being bloated the test swells you then when you won 8 pounds, it's not 8 pounds of muscle, if you gained 4 pounds, it's not 4 pounds of muscle, maybe it's half, maybe if you're lucky, then the group that gains 7 pounds of muscle, might actually have gained a pound of muscle.

They may have gained 0 They may have gained 7 pounds of water retention Testosterone will increase estrogen in the body, causing it to store more water. Weight, everyone knows it. Swollen moon, doughy bulb, poof, swollen, water intensive, the swollen steroid look you can almost see. oh, you're taking something, now you're bloated, taking the test doesn't make you look thinner, in fact, when you take testosterone it makes you look, Leslie, you look bigger because maybe your glycogen stores your water, attentions, but it's not So. look so thin if you want to look thinner you eliminate the test if you're on a bunch of tests and stop taking them you'll actually look better without the test you'll get thinner so a lot of people think oh you're on the test you say you're so marked, that's stupid, it doesn't make sense, so you're actually using this study for me incorrectly by saying the test is to build muscle without

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, now when I say without training. means a training stimulus if you're literally paralyzed and can't get up, no no, you're paralyzed, we know what that means, you're not going to build your leg muscles by taking tests, you can't just go. on a test and trend cycle and develop massive quads if you're paralyzed you need a training stimulus, but the group didn't go to the gym and they gained seven pounds.

Did they sit on the couch and not move the entire time? they went to play basketball tennis maybe they went to work they were lifting wood at work they were construction workers layers of Bricklin cement what jobs they had exactly was their job completely sedentary to the point of not lifting anything the entire time they were just laying down sleeping and without moving or they had a labor intensive job if you're a lobster fisherman like I did for a while in the past and you're lifting traps all day you can't tell me that if you took testosterone and went to that job you wouldn't develop muscle even without going to the gym, half of the people who fish for lobster don't have time to go to the gym, it's hard work, you're lifting all day. not training you're lifting all day hmm lifting all day that's training lifting is training but you were in the single digits so just because they didn't follow some damn approved training program RP whatever they need and the whole split I don't care what they did doesn't mean you don't actually build muscle or build muscle you can't use this study as proof of anything it doesn't prove that muscles are built without training it doesn't prove that muscle isn't built without training it doesn't, it's just not right , so don't use this study at all anymore to prove or disprove something, it doesn't make sense to me, okay, I don't want to discuss this topic anymore, but move on to the next one.

If you're a natural and you don't have all the advantages, you really need to train very hard because it's harder for you to create the adaptation that you need to train very hard, you can't go in there and just mess around and do something. The bombs outside are waiting for a big boom, he just said it. We are one hundred percent on the same page. This is what he expected you to say if you're natural, stop using being natural as an excuse not to train her if you're natural. It's natural, it's harder for you to build muscle, it absolutely is, but it's not an excuse to start training like oh, I can't train hard because I'm natural or, oh, if you see someone in the gym training hard, must be running. no, that's stupid, John is pointing that out, he's saying that if you're natural you have to train hard to build muscle, maybe not in the future you'll have to, since in order to build muscle you need a strong stimulus for that muscle to want. grow not an RPM five and oh, I can't train hard and maybe in six weeks I will train hard because no, you train hard if your nature trains it how much harder than the last time, that's how hard you should be the tree. looking at him, he's singing, he literally agrees with me, he sings naturally, you should train hard, you have to train hard, you have to do sets to failure, you have to do that, he doesn't just say train hard because, the hardest goal, you have to take series to failure.

That's being very specific because the only thing you guys can discuss is this, so I was tough, I went to our afternoon. three, I only had three tank reps, that's really hard because it's not natural to fail, you have to take a few sets to failure, you fail when you can't do any more reps and then I can't do it, that's failure, you need to do it. training to failure doesn't mean you train like an idiot and do cheat reps, it means you train park to failure, not every set, but you need some of that, look there's a lot of this going on, you're going to have a lot .

A lot of people tell you exactly how many sets I do, but you are all very different, we all recover differently, there are a lot of factors involved, so I want you to experiment, but I'm just giving you some guidelines, so start there, just start with a series. when every exercise is a failure which I also believe in, you can't just make a plan and just say: do every set to failure, do exactly five to failure and dude, you don't know what I'm doing or what he's saying. to do. it's using pain as a measure of how hard you really trained inside if you win and start and when you first join the gym now it might not be what he suggests when you first join don't go crazy go with calm. make it really easy at first I don't care how hard you train if you've never trained before even an easy workout is hard your body just isn't used to it it can hurt, it would be like going for an hour walk and you've never walked before.

It's a hard exercise. You don't want to start running, so take it easy at first. If it doesn't hurt the next day, you can endure more and try harder. How harder than last time? How often? If you're doing this workout right, you can do all your muscle protein synthesis 24 to 48 hours after your workout and all that, but it's going to come down to how long it takes to recover and how long it takes to feel like yourself. You can return to the gym not only physically but also mentally. You may not want to train your chest every 24 hours, even if protein synthesis is ready in 24 hours.

Yes, I don't want to train chest all seven days, so you have to be mentally and physically able to do it too, many of you are only training one body part per week, you can't just go from one body part per week to another every other day, so my advice here is to train your entire body twice a week. If you want, you can also do it three times a week, maximum two or three times a week, which means chest two or three times a week biceps two or three times a week reach the point shoulders quadriceps two or three times a week set up a Split of three days, for example, train your whole body in three days and then take a day off and then repeat it and continue, that will be the right thing to do or you could do your whole body in two days, let your body go into, for example, the lower bar of the upper body. whatever, half and a half, two days, take a day off and repeat one of those programs should be fine for most people if you're super advanced, crazy, that's all so hard that you're doing it so boring, so intense that you will need to rest.

Furthermore, you may be in a four-day split. On this list, but don't do a seven day split where you only hit the chest once a week, that's just not proper training, it's not scientific, so three day split, two day split. come in and train and don't train so hard that it hurts so John is saying don't pass don't pass how many sets pass how did you feel how did you recover if you're sore? I don't do an extra set to failure, but if you're not flying you're fresh as a daisy, you didn't train harder to do another set to failure, so depending on where you are in your training, if you never do any sets to failure failed. failure and you're like you're just a half-training like you're just a half-training whatever just go a little harder a little closer failure don't start failing all the time so work harder than the last time and keep getting closer to him, but if you naturally realize that you still need to train hard enough to fail, it will have to come not in each set, but in warming up, getting to the last set and then doing that last set hard, we go through phases. where we don't want to have the intensity we want, maybe just not go crazy, so in that case we use the ad to turn up the volume a little bit if you don't want to train hard all the time because it's like a mental break. he doesn't say take a deal, oh he says you know, just change your training, maybe try not to do any of the sets to failure, but just do a little more volume, but not all the time, no You say, oh, I'm just never doing cardiac training.

I'll just train with more volume from now on because that's easier to do and it's easier to never fail and just do a few extra sets. The teacher presented 10 easy sets and then 5 really difficult sets. that's how it works, you know, he's, you know, I think the big popular thing now is, I think it's a fad, personally, he just trains everything every day, he's very respectful here, so he basically just said there's this kind of stuff like that. There's this trend on the internet to train like you're inside his body every day, so basically, without saying what I'm saying, don't train like Jeff Nippert, he just said don't train like Jeff Nippert now if you did it all the time. time.

With all thishigh volume training, it's probably going to be harder for you as a naturally developing muscle because, again, all the cortisol release and all that stuff, he never used his name because he's too nice. I will NOT tell it like it is, no. trains like Jeff Nipper, he just said it's a fad, whatever it is, he doesn't believe in it, he just won't call anyone else, he's too nice a guy to do it and let me make this pitch and remember it's a natural thing. for you. You're probably gaining three to five years of our training.

You hate it when you reach your peak. I don't think that's true at all. I'm surprised he said that. I don't think it actually did, but maybe it just spread. Tell him, you know a lot of these videos are not planned in advance, they just say things, you might say something off guard. I don't think John thinks you're at your genetic limit in three to five years of natural training, but that's what he's saying, he's saying your limit in three to five years too. You know you can train your whole body every day, but there is no way you can train hard every day.

You just can't. None of you did. every day there is no way, so for naturals I know the latest thing at the moment is to do total body training. Personally, I don't think it's the optimal way to play. I'm not saying that you can't gain muscle, I'm just saying that it may not be the most optimal way to gain muscle as you progress into the advanced intermediate level, if you are a beginner, sir, train your whole body every day, do the Whatever she wants, if you're a beginner, you could come in and just play. with weights and doing every body part every day, well I agree with that, but if you're advanced you're not and it's funny because the scientific literature that Jeff Nippert was pointing to said that if you're advanced, the more advanced you are. the more you should train each body part every day and beginners should only train it once a week, that's all they needed to stimulate muscle growth and I thought that's the opposite of what I would have said anyway.

Basically, John is not criticizing anyone, he sees nothing against anyone, but he is clearly saying don't train like Jennifer, so I say it for him, don't train like Jeff Burton, but if you want to and you don't care. maximize muscle growth, you're just looking for something fun to do in the gym, which is totally cool, so do it like I'm not against working out just for fun, like just go watch girls, play in the gym, and relieve the stress. get away from the house and the kids and just go and train every day, everyone, there's nothing wrong with that and I'm not even being sarcastic like you probably think I'm being sarcastic like everyone.

I don't even understand sarcasm anyway. It doesn't matter if you want to train that way, just enjoy the training, just as I can go cycling outside, it doesn't mean I have to run and push myself hard. I can just go out and look at the amazing scenery, it's fun. Get on it and Joyride, you go to the gym and have fun, you don't need to be so tough. I'm going to compete. No, 95% of the people I train don't compete, so the competitors are the most annoying anyway. I hate training. competitors in general, I'm being honest, half the competitors are screwed in the head, believe me, so if you don't want to compete, that's cool, I'm NOT encouraging you to just, oh let's all compete, if you want to compete, that It's amazing and I'll help you, but trust me, it's annoying and it's very, very challenging, I do it myself and obviously I like it, but I know the dangers involved in what happens when you use the Xer group and those carbs can also be calming, especially when It is combined with amino acids, those two together can calm the cortisol

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He says it is beneficial to take it during exercise. I think it won't hurt. The

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are very insignificant, if any. We are talking about that 1% difference. I think so. If you're not on a diet and you eat a lot, it won't really benefit you, especially if you just ate before the gym yet fasted or if you're not eating enough meals during the day when you're eating two or three meals a day. day or training Fassett, all of that, I absolutely think it would be beneficial or if you're on a diet and you're in a deficit and all that and that's wrong, so I think it's the same for both groups, so take what you want .

That's what I think it doesn't depend on what life you need it, but if you're on a diet or if you're fasting and doing all that kind of stuff and skipping meals it will certainly benefit you, it's a natural thing. I tend to have people around. gram per pound of body weight may be a little more if you are dieting. My people who are

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can be 1.25 grams per pound. I mean, I think here at that stage I'm about one for anyone, there's no benefit to consuming 2 grams. per pound or increase protein too high and honestly unless you're really dieting you don't even need 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight, if you're bulking or something you don't need even that much it won't be like that .

The reason is more beneficial because the other foods you are eating have a nutritional partitioning effect on the other nutrients, so if you eat a lot of carbohydrates in fat, there is not much danger of the protein being used for energy. If you are eating tons of carbohydrate protons in fat, the protein will be used to do what it needs to do, which is build muscle. If you are on a diet, a lot of protein will be used for energy and therefore you could benefit. because of more protein, the reason I use a high protein diet is to quit smoking, so it's more when I eat chicken breast it fills me up more than if I eat rice.

Carbs make you crave food more, it's not often that someone says oh me. I binged, ate 19 chicken breasts and couldn't stop, or wow, once I started with egg whites and tuna, I just couldn't stop, ate 50 egg whites in a row, okay, 15 cans of tuna, no, I ate candy, chips, ice cream. pizza sushi, whatever it is, it's those types of foods that drive you to keep eating, you can't stop, so on a diet, proteins, a lot of proteins, it's not to build muscle, it's more to be full and not have food cravings and not overeating because you're on a diet, so that's what I say regarding protein.

I think we are on the same page. He's around that gram, maybe a little more. I generally take more than a gram of protein per pound. It doesn't matter if you're on a diet or not, but I'm also eating a lot, when you eat more than three thousand calories a day, you probably have one gram of protein per pound of body weight. The math is simple, but if you diet and yourself eat 1200 calories 1 gram of protein per pound, there will be a lot of protein in your diet as a percentage that is not too mathematical for you improved will add a lot of calories, like if you were to go over 3000 calories at 5000 and Honestly, some of them can get away with a lot, but if you try it naturally, you will gain a lot of fat.

Many naturals believe the opposite of what we are both seeing, they are natural and they think I am natural, the only way I can gain muscle is if I have a large surplus. I need so many calories, that's why I'm natural, so I'll eat a lot and I have people's phone consoles. all the time and they made that mistake, they think they need to eat eat and they gain 50 pounds and it's mostly fat, probably 95 percent fat and it's unfortunate, so if you're natural you don't think you need this huge surplus, how many calories? you should eat enough to have energy and feel good if you have enough energy and feel good then that is the amount you need if you are fatter than you want to be just slowly lower your body weight to where you want Don't think you need to gain weight volume and gain weight just because you're natural, if it doesn't improve you even Dean, you need 15% body fat for men, it's pretty healthy, 25% for women is pretty healthy, so if you're thinner than that and you're hungry, Well, why not gain a little more weight?

That won't hurt you, but if you're already at 20 percent body fat, there's no reason to gain more fat; Expecting to build more muscle, it just won't help you, one of the things about dieting when you're natural is that it's very easy to lose muscle, so think about this logically, if you put on a ton of fat, think about how hard it is. You will have to work to eliminate that fat and you are already at risk. of losing muscle because you're at a quart deficit for so long, we totally agree on this and I've been preaching this for years, if you bulk up you're going to have to bulk up longer and when you diet you're obviously going to be at higher risk. of losing muscle, especially if you're natural, so why bulk up if you're natural when you're going to have to diet even more to lose weight, since when you're on a diet, that's the chance that you're going to lose muscle is that your If cortisol levels are high, you're basically going to be fighting not to lose muscle on this extended diet, so if you have two people, both have 10% body fat and want to get shredded, eventually one goes to a bulk and they go up from 50 to 25%, they get really fat and get all this muscle, then they have to diet for 30 weeks to lose fat, compared to the guys on the 10% chart, who will go up to 12, go up to 12.

I didn't really gain much. weight, but then we have to diet for a few weeks to gain it back. I can't escape who you think will be better in the long run, the guy who had to diet for 30 weeks in a deficit to try to get to where they were or the person who is in the 12 percent who doesn't have to die much, so yeah, it sure is easier when you're gaining and eating a lot of food and getting stronger and everything. that, but then it's the opposite of easy or hard when you're dieting, so it bounces around, so just from a health standpoint, why force your body to get fat and obese and all that when it's not? necessary?

It won't be beneficial for building muscle in the long run, so these bulk sand cuts are stupid and John literally agrees with me on this. Where is the natural? You don't take that risk of not gaining strength as quickly as to take that risk so you can get away with a little more compound movements that, as you know, they've been putting in place for a long time, you have to be very careful not to blow up. something when you're getting better, you're getting too strong. too quickly, there are so many PEC tears that occur in injuries from bicep tears etc., and if you choose to go natural, the chances of suffering a devastating injury like that are much lower than if you were improved so well by being natural, you know that en It will be more difficult to build muscle, of course, but you have less chance of getting injured and the muscle you build you can keep if you are improved.

Hey, that's your choice, it's not like I didn't choose it, you have more dangers to overcome, the muscles will come faster. but you have a lot to deal with psychologically when you lose that muscle where your hormones and your health are and the dangers of muscle tears and so on, subscribe and click the bell button because you want to receive a notification so you can access watch it again immediate comment first quick comment and do it often watch more of these videos and I'm going to post a video here and another there Greg Doucet comm to train Greg who said I'm from Instagram follow me and I'm about to I'm eating French toast again number two because I've been awake since 4:00 a.m. m., it's now 7:00 something like that and it's time to eat French toast again, part two.

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