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Old 08-06-2008, 07:50 AM
Andrew.cook Andrew.cook is offline
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I still say that you need a goal that suits your particular endevour. Look, you may like the way that triathelete A is built, but you are not him. Added mass isn't going to benefit you, and your genetics simply might not support what you are looking for. I work out with some guys that are absolutely ripped for strongmen. I also work out with guys that look tubby and lazy. The truth is that both body types do well in my chosen sport, in fact I would almost give the advantage to a little extra body fat. I'm somewhere in the middle. However, I'm not going to attempt to get single digit body fat because I like the way it looks, and I'm not going to try and get fat because I think it MIGHT help performance. I'm built like I'm built and I'm training to get as good as I can be given the cards I was dealt. There is nothing to say that being ripped would help, or that being fatter would help. I could play around and find out, but I feel good where I'm at, and I know from experience that while carrying less weight might make me more agile, I tend to feel weak at lower body fat. Conversely, having been fatter than I currently am, I know that I may be marginally stronger, but that I will have the cardio endurance of a hippo on hagen das.

So while I understadn your envy of said role models, and I would certainly encourage self improvement, I would say that it would greatly benefit you to focus in on what you can do.

Where did you get your current training plan from, for your Tri stuff? A coach, the internet, made it up yourself?

As an aside, lifting three times a day isn't likely to get you far.
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