Andrew Huberman· PhD
So I went in, no diet, no steroids, nothing. It was the first time as contest. I still got the pictures, but the two guys that I was competing, they came second and third. I won. But both these guys were already on stuff.
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So I went in, no diet, no steroids, nothing. It was the first time as contest. I still got the pictures, but the two guys that I was competing, they came second and third. I won. But both these guys were already on stuff.
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So that was with nothing. I got up to 210. >> So I just looking back uh because we did some social media posts with my early training. Yeah. So I'm benching three plates aside for like three or four reps and I want to go now into the IFBB and compete. Yeah. Which I know everybody's using, right? So I was 210
So I started in 83 earlier in the year uh I was 180 185 but very lean you can see some pictures of me >> when you have those thick joints I mean you're you have an athletic >> I got very low body fat as well naturally uh my son and my daughter they both like had abs and like when 11 years old, very very lean, pale skin, low body fat, thin skin, uh type of thing. So you wouldn't say, "Wow, look at that guy. He's big." But you would say, "Wow, he's he's really cut this guy." That's how I started, 180. So, uh, after 6 months, I think I was 195