And since I'm seriously considering closing this thread (seeing how dumb these arguments can get), I'll sum up my stance on this:
If you guys believe that zach did in fact
a. gain 33 lbs of muscle
b. increase in squat in good form in that time frame
More power to you. Perhaps Starting Strength is better than anabolics in terms of hte gains it can generate. But I doubt it. Just imagine if you stacked it with Anaconda.
Perhaps Zach did make strength gains pretty much no human has ever made before without having technique fall apart. It's possible. But that doesn't make it likely.
Without video, it's all guessing and I'll simply say again: I love being proven wrong, video is easy, so why haven't we seen it? You can keep making apologist excuses but that's the ultimate question. Why haven't we seen proof of this squat? Because, I tell you what: if I had a success story like that, I'd put up video on every page of this site to show how awesome I am.
It would be trivial to show this awesome squat and we haven't seen it? Why not? Until you can answer that, you have nothing useful to say.
Because I've been on the internet a LONG time and seen a lot of claims. And somehow the more absurd ones never seem to get proven. Instead you get a lot of verbiage a lot of excuses for why someone can't get a video, can't upload it, can't seem to prove their claim. Why is that? I'll tell you why: because it's easy to claim something. And harder to prove it. Yet, somehow Rip gets these amazing passes (same as CT got for his idiotic claims in I-bodybuilder) becuase he's Rip. If he says it, it's true. And if you dare suggest that perhaps he isn't 100% correct....well check out the thread his bozo followers started on his forum about me.
And I'm done with this thread. Keep it civil and feel free to keep arguing but I'm not interested in arguing about this any further. I can say factually that the claimed LBM gains are false. He might have gained more than six lbs but he didn't gain 33 lbs. PERIOD. The squat, show me video or stop making excuses or assuming that b/c he's at WF it must be a certain way. I've been in gyms for 15 years and seen what really goes on in gyms even under 'good' coaches. What they say and what you see don't always mesh.
Bottom line: Show me the video but spare me the excuses and apologism.
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