Transformations - Transformation Of The Week - Josh Hopkins.

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In the beginning I got started because I was not happy with the way I looked or felt. The more I learned about dieting and training the more I loved it. See how I managed to change my life and how I now maintain it.

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[deanosumo]

Congratulations losing the fat, but you should gain some more muscle before you compete again. You're too thin.

[tregun]

Amazing transformation! One of the most remarkable I've ever seen. Big Ups to you for persevering. Keep up the good work!

[LightCrow]

Good work, but how can you hope to compete and win with 14" arms? Honestly, you look like Christian Bale in "The Machinist."

[hell24keeper]

One of the most amazing transformations I have ever seen!!Great job..

[Geeper]

Great job!

[str8flexed]

absolutely astounding. One of the best transformations I've ever seen!

deanosumo: he can compete if he likes, in natural contests he'll fair fine. Not everyone is looking to use the sauce and be 250 onstage. I'm sure after losing all that bodyfat he wanted to top off his experience by doing a show.

More power to him.

-Layne

I think you have done an excellent job. Congratulations!! If I were you I would pay no attention to the others that are thowing anything negative your way. I am sure you know what you want or need to do. Your transformation is great. I would be interested to know how old you were when you started your transformation. Again, great job and keep up the good work.

[deanosumo]

Originally Posted by str8flexed

absolutely astounding. One of the best transformations I've ever seen!

deanosumo: he can compete if he likes, in natural contests he'll fair fine. Not everyone is looking to use the sauce and be 250 onstage. I'm sure after losing all that bodyfat he wanted to top off his experience by doing a show.

More power to him.

-Layne

It's bodyBUILDING Layne. I didn't mean to be too negative, but you have to have some muscle. And you certainly don't need gear to get bigger. I give him credit for losing the fat and probably saving himself from an early death, but he's no bodybuilder.

[str8flexed]

look bro, he's a bodybuilder. He lives the lifestyle obviously and he got onstage. Do we only consider people in the major leagues baseball players? Is a beginner not a baseball player?

-Layne

[deanosumo]

Originally Posted by str8flexed

look bro, he's a bodybuilder. He lives the lifestyle obviously and he got onstage. Do we only consider people in the major leagues baseball players? Is a beginner not a baseball player?

-Layne

Okay, point taken, though from my point of view he doesn't have the level of muscle mass yet to step onto a stage, even an amateur natural one.

Josh, if you are reading, I am going to offer you some advice. You can take it or leave it, but I've been training for 15 years now, starting off very skinny, and I have gained about 75 pounds of muscle in my estimation. I have average to poor genetics like yourself. There are a million theories in this game but some things about what you wrote are glaringly wrong.

Your program needs re-vamping. You are doing far too many sets to failure. Most strength coaches out there now recommend you stay 1-2 reps away from failure on each set. This actually will increase the total volume and poundage you can do on your successive sets and will not thrash your CNS like your current program is. No doubt you are overtraining at present.

Get rid of most of your 'shaping' type exercises. Focus on compound movements almost exclusively. Spend 6 months to a year focusing on strength. Then when you come back to more of a bodybuilding-type program you will be able to handle bigger weights, recruit more muscle fibers, especially IIB fibers, and elicit more hypertrophy.

Do an internet search on 'Westside', or try a program by Joe De Franco, or Chad Waterbury, or Christian Thibeaudeau. They seem to be the strength coaches on the cutting edge and they actually use research to back up their programs. Your program looks like it was copied from a pro-bodybuilder, who, if you didn't know it, has great genetics and uses truckloads of gear.

Add 500 calories per day to your off-season diet from previously. As a FFB (former fat boy) keep 90% of your meals clean.

Good luck

JMHO

[str8flexed]

Originally Posted by deanosumo

Okay, point taken, though from my point of view he doesn't have the level of muscle mass yet to step onto a stage, even an amateur natural one.

Josh, if you are reading, I am going to offer you some advice. You can take it or leave it, but I've been training for 15 years now, starting off very skinny, and I have gained about 75 pounds of muscle in my estimation. I have average to poor genetics like yourself. There are a million theories in this game but some things about what you wrote are glaringly wrong.

Your program needs re-vamping. You are doing far too many sets to failure. Most strength coaches out there now recommend you stay 1-2 reps away from failure on each set. This actually will increase the total volume and poundage you can do on your successive sets and will not thrash your CNS like your current program is. No doubt you are overtraining at present.

Get rid of most of your 'shaping' type exercises. Focus on compound movements almost exclusively. Spend 6 months to a year focusing on strength. Then when you come back to more of a bodybuilding-type program you will be able to handle bigger weights, recruit more muscle fibers, especially IIB fibers, and elicit more hypertrophy.

Do an internet search on 'Westside', or try a program by Joe De Franco, or Chad Waterbury, or Christian Thibeaudeau. They seem to be the strength coaches on the cutting edge and they actually use research to back up their programs. Your program looks like it was copied from a pro-bodybuilder, who, if you didn't know it, has great genetics and uses truckloads of gear.

Add 500 calories per day to your off-season diet from previously. As a FFB (former fat boy) keep 90% of your meals clean.

Good luck

JMHO

i agree with most of that, but failure does have it's place in a program when used properly.

-Layne

[z_silversurfer_]

Remarkable. I get so pumped when I see transformations like that. I can just imagine how much that guy's life has changed...for the better.

Hi there all,

Originally Posted by deanosumo

Okay, point taken, though from my point of view he doesn't have the level of muscle mass yet to step onto a stage, even an amateur natural one.

Josh, if you are reading, I am going to offer you some advice. You can take it or leave it, but I've been training for 15 years now, starting off very skinny, and I have gained about 75 pounds of muscle in my estimation. I have average to poor genetics like yourself. There are a million theories in this game but some things about what you wrote are glaringly wrong.

Your program needs re-vamping. You are doing far too many sets to failure. Most strength coaches out there now recommend you stay 1-2 reps away from failure on each set. This actually will increase the total volume and poundage you can do on your successive sets and will not thrash your CNS like your current program is. No doubt you are overtraining at present.

Get rid of most of your 'shaping' type exercises. Focus on compound movements almost exclusively. Spend 6 months to a year focusing on strength. Then when you come back to more of a bodybuilding-type program you will be able to handle bigger weights, recruit more muscle fibers, especially IIB fibers, and elicit more hypertrophy.

Do an internet search on 'Westside', or try a program by Joe De Franco, or Chad Waterbury,

JMHO

Chad Waterbury hmm, I have been looking over his posts, all seem very arbitrary, looks could go on the internet with a good body and a head for writing and pop out a few articles, he said once to do 10 sets of 30% of your one rep max, for 10 reps, wow this would be easy, however the best part was he did not STATE how long to have in-between, now that would be the main issue with this kind of training routine, but he stated no time, come on.

What strength coaches out there are now recommending you stay 1-2 reps away from failure on each set ???

Wayne

[AJbuilder]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi there all,



Chad Waterbury hmm, I have been looking over his posts, all seem very arbitrary, looks could go on the internet with a good body and a head for writing and pop out a few articles, he said once to do 10 sets of 30% of your one rep max, for 10 reps, wow this would be easy, however the best part was he did not STATE how long to have in-between, now that would be the main issue with this kind of training routine, but he stated no time, come on.

What strength coaches out there are now recommending you stay 1-2 reps away from failure on each set ???

Wayne

Waynelucky is it you? Seriously, are you a troll or what? Your ignorance is astonishingly amazing to me. Chad Waterbury NEVER in his whole life stated to do 10 sets of 3 with 30% of max. In his AOW and ABBH programs it is actually 10x3 with a 5-6RM. And then it would go to 10x4 and 10x5 in the following weeks while you have the 5x10 with an increase in load on following weeks as well. And yes he clearly emphasized how long to rest in between both in frequency and rest periods per set. They are respectively 60-120s per set depending on the program.

Did you even read his stuff????

[hoppi_20042005]

hello all this is Josh from the transformation. I appreciate all the comments from everyone positive and negative. I just want to say that there is no doubt i am a bodybuilder. A begginning bodybuilder no doubt. For everyone who says i need to get bigger up top i am well aware of that, and you can bet your bottom dollar that i am busting my butt day in and day out getting bigger. Thanks for everything Layne and i just want to say to everyone i garantee you will see more of me bigger and leaner as the years go by, of couse without juicin. Merry Christmas to all and God Bless