chances of that physiqe being acheivable naturally is top 1-5% genetics, in terms of size, not bodyfat an dryness, most people dont get much bigger after their second year of proper training and nutrition, if they do, its cos their nutrition and/or training wasnt very good, warranting them to gain a bit longer.
only slight improvement can be made during the years afterwards. the longer you train, also warrants for how much muscle you will retain when getting down to competitor bf levels. For instance, that 5lbs you gain in your 3rd year of training, will go down the drain when getting to such body fat levels, on your 4th year, youll be slightly bigger at those levels. so unless you find some sort of philosophical/spiritual satisfaction out of doing it naturally (which if you have been seeing average results for 2 years, means that there will usually be some sort of satisfaction in training (not limited to natural training of course), you are better off jumping on dat der after 2 years of natural training, as you will probs have about 10lbs of muscle growth yet before you get to your limit, which will probs take you about 3-4 years to gain, due to diminishing returns. you only really start to look decent (not big per se') once you get to that 2 year mark, naturally.
unless you have that top 5% genetics (muscle building, not insertions or bone structure genes), you probs wont reach aesthetics until the 6th or 7th year mark when you can finally be 7% bodyfat where you can retain enough mass to be classified as aesthetic, unless you have top teir insertions and bone structure, in which will take you 4-5 years.
But you can look good after 2 years on average with average genetic, those top 5% can look good after 1-1/2 years. most of those top 5% wont be on forums though, as they can do the Bro'est split ever doing 20 sets on chest and their entire body grows (exageration, but you know what i mean) as they generally dont take weightlifting as serious as most do here, so they do acheive aesthetics, faster than the average who spend hours learning how to eat, how how to program for optimal results, now some of the 5% do spend hours learning correct nutrition and how to eat, now these guys, due to how serious they take it, end up competing in untested events, as even though they can acheive a higher degree of aesthetics than most, realize to get somewhere in untest events they need to take something to acheive that "next level" aesthetics.
now some "athletes" (if you want to call them that, although they are more beauty pageant contests than anything, look completely different in different pictures due to what they are on, different 'supplements make them more pumped, drier etc. depends on timing of when these supplements are taken.
for instance:
look at him on stage, being dry, and still shredding, vs when bulked. Hes probably done more sets on the first picture, and an hour of training, vs about 5min of pumping up, before stage, his delts and back look completely blown up on stage (yes hes flaring lats, but when flaring lats, your shoulders look the slightest bit smaller usually)
Jeff is king of physique manipulation in terms of looking so different in such short periods of time, through "supplements, angles and posing
jeff is top 5% for sure.
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