What's up guys? Derek more plates more dates.com. Today we're going to be talking about what 15

pounds of muscle actually looks like when it's added to a physique. So we've seen way too many

videos in this past year of guys claiming like even at a top level, a pro athletes, top

trainers claiming they're packing on 30 pounds of muscle in a couple months, 15 pounds of muscle

in a couple of months.

We have like DeCambo claiming he's gaining fucking heaps of muscle when it's like over half of it

is fat. We have guys claiming, you know, over a quarantine to gain 15 pounds in a month.

Just ridiculous stuff. So today I wanted to show an example of what 15 pounds of actual lean muscle looks like.

Because a lot of guys they look at weight on the scale and they think, oh, lean weight. Even if they think, oh, my abs are still visible. I didn't get that much visibly fatter. It must be all muscle.

Like they're not, when we talk about muscle, like actual contractile tissue, we're talking about if you were a depleted bodybuilder stepping on a stage at contest condition levels of body fat, this is where you'd see the visible change between what is actually that weight comprised of.

So I did a video a while back on November 22nd, 2019. It was day one to

IFBB Pro Transformation example of freak bodybuilding genetics. And this was showing one of my favorite

bodybuilders of all time, Antoine Viont. I basically followed his journey as a kid when I was

first getting inspired to get into working out. I used to watch his stuff all the time.

This was like OG YouTube days before any bodybuilders were vlogging or doing anything.

He was like one of the only ones doing it and he like vlogged becoming an IFBB Pro open bodybuilder

essentially.

And in the progression, you can actually see him recording his weight increments as he gains

muscle show to show. So it's not

like some guy who ate more food during quarantine and then added creatine in and did something

and like artificially inflated his weight maybe by like 15 pounds and maybe like two or three

of his actual muscle and then is, you know, walking out with some intracellular fluid in a full stomach and claiming he gained or three of it is actual muscle and then is you know walking out with some

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