Naa you slightly mis intrupreted what I meant when I said awesome genetics. Those lifts are absolutely necessary if you wanna be successful in bodybuilding I didn't mean don't do them. What I meant was unless you have some awesome genetics you need to spend a significant amount of time training those lifts like a powerlifter. Very low rep range, long rest periods, and abandon bodybuilding type training for a long time. As opposed to doing those lifts in the traditional bodybuilding rep ranges you know like 8-12. Lifting in the stregnth range promotes myofibular hypertrophy which is and actual increase in the muscle fibers as opposed to the bodybuilding rep ranges, which gets you big faster but the primary increase in size is through an increase in the size of the sacoplasm which basically just store glycogen. (sacoplasmic hypertrophy). So the sacroplasm just gets bigger and can hold more fluid which gives you a soft look. It's basically fluff beach muscle. Myofibilar creates dense hard muscles but would also take you 10x longer to achieve the size you need to be competive in bodybuiling, bjt it's real fucking dense hard functional muscle. You need to have this base of muscle to look good on stage. And I'm dealing with it now on some bodyparts. Like my chest and legs are dense and hard as hell because for the firs two years I lifted I always started with my big lift like squats, bench or dead and utilized the real low rep ranges. But for arms I always lifted in the higher rep range and it really shows. They have no density to them and they look and feel soft. So I've been doing the same thing with them now and doing my first lift like bb curls or close grip bench in the real low rep range and it's been really helping. I've seem a huge increase in density. So bottom line is you need to incorporate phases of powerlifting into your routine.

And ya I don't like phil at all, he trains like a pussy. And he just doesn't have that hard grainy dry look that guys before him did. It's a shame kai will never win due to his past. He's so humble and I think his physique is much more impressive then Phil's. And bro wtf is good with the way branch trains? Your right he's intense, but it looks like at any minute he's gonna tear his shoulder to pieces benching the way he does. I'm suprised he doesn't break his sternum bouncing 315lbs of his chest so damn hard. But I guess it works for him. Kinda makes me wanna speed up my reps a little bit so I can up the weight but for the last 6 months or so I've really been focusing on slow reps, feeling it through the entire movement and really squeezing and holding and squeezing the contraction. Only person I see who trains like me is dorian. Everyone else seems to just try to throw up as much weight as possible as fast as they can.

Damn didn't realize this was so long lol. My bad I love talking about this stuff and get carried away sometimes.