MY friend does still compete, hes a natural deadlifter, short with long arms.
I'll give you a more detailed version of my story:
I was into bodybuilding and would do anything to get big and strong (except steroids). I took so many supplements and even did the gallon of milk a day challenge. Doing that I gained 20lbs in a month. I was chunky at 200lbs at the end of that month. My weight stabilized at 200 for a few months, and after that I got fed up with the extra weight. At the time I was a personal trainer and the people I worked with were all crossfitters into the paleo diet. I got on the bandwagon and in a matter of 3 months went down to 160. I did lose a lot of strength, but what I lost in barbell and dumbell, I gained in bodyweight exercises. I began to transition from bodybuilding to martial arts and functional bodyweight strength training. I went from doing 10 full pullups with 45lbs to 10 full strict pull ups with 80lbs. That proves that my pullup strength increased even while I lost the 40 lbs. I was thrilled with the new strength I had with body weight stuff like dips, pullups, and rope climbing, I just didnt care about bench any more. I still love squats and deads though. I pretty much stick to these exercises now:
Martial arts
rope climbing
pull ups and chin ups
deadlifts
squats
dips
They give me all the strength and size I need. I also began to study biodynamics and found that dips and pullups are the most functional upper body exercises. Chin ups work over 70% of the upper body muscles if done correctly! Anyway, back to the food. Even though I lost weight and loved my new look, something was missing. I was always lethargic and had insomnia every day for years, which also caused me to have low testosterone. Some how my strength and muscle gains continued even though my T was low, interesting. While doing my new cooked paleo diet, I attained a passion for nutrition and realized that orthodox nutrition and medicine were totally wrong. The challenge of proving myths wrong in nutrition became my new thing. I did my research and made speeches in my school and at nutrition clinics about how the cholesterol theory is bullshit and cholesterol is not bad. Anyway, I saw the ripley's believe it or not about Aajonus and was intrigued. That was the first time I ever even thought about raw food. I began searching the net and realized that many people were successful with this diet. I followed gurus such as daniel vitalis and Nicholas gonzales (an doctor who uses raw food) I read books like Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, and Pottengers Cats, and Aajonus's books We Want to Live and Recipe for living without disease.
So I started this diet 5 months ago and can tell you I have felt a whole lot better. Sleep normalized. I fall asleep right away and wake up refreshed. I am rarely fatigued, unless I dont eat enough or go to bed late. I got blood tests and my testosterone increased and for the first time in my life I am now growing a good amount of chest hair. I wanted to gain weight and so I ate 2lbs of meat a day and a lot of suet plus raw milk and vegetables. I now get a lot of attention from the ladies, but only a little more than when I was on cooked paleo. I finally figured out that women like tone and lean men the most. I didnt get any turning heads when I was 200lbs, but now since I lost the gut and have abs I get plenty. I am now roughly 170 to 175 at 5'10" and hope to get up to 180 and maintain that weight. How do I feel now? well, lets just say I still have a bit to go to feel optimal, but I am on the right track now. Almost all of my issues have cleared up. Tyler said he always had a stuffed up nose until he stopped drinking all milk. I have the same issue so I stopped it a few days ago. The issue is a serious one because if you cant breath right, you cant function right. Well theres my story, you asked for more detail so thats what I did. Good luck with your eating, stick to it.
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