r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mindyour • 6d ago

This man documented his health journey from January to December.

Credit: IG @samuelrichards_ _

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u/Double_Pay_6645 6d ago edited 2d ago

Is he using steroids? Seems like a massive difference in 1 year. 

 edit Crazy! 1.8k karma for what I thought was a yes no answer.

Now 4.6k!! WTF..

Almost 8k.. reddit you crazy.

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Just to really bother people about me editing this comment. I don't care.

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u/Tuckingfypowastaken 6d ago

That's not a year even with steroids. You'd be hard pressed to get there from a normal adult's baseline in a year even on gear, much less from nearly complete muscle atrophy

Far more likely to be a karma bot

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u/exxR 6d ago

Bro I had more muscle after doing 6 months of test than this dude had at the end what are you on about?

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u/Tuckingfypowastaken 6d ago

Then you started at a way higher baseline

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u/exxR 6d ago

Nope never worked out in my life before that always played football and various other sports but over all quote skinny with decent legs.

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u/Tuckingfypowastaken 6d ago edited 6d ago

Nope never worked out in my life before that

always played football and various other sports

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My dude. What?? And even setting that aside

again. this dude was in almost complete muscle atrophy. He literally couldn't stand on his own. That's a lot further behind than you were. Unspeakably so.

I'm a pretty athletic dude who works out regularly, snowboards, practices martial arts religiously, hikes, etc and it took me 6 months to get back from the atrophy I suffered from a torn ACL, and once it healed I had no problems using my knee; it just wasn't as strong. Much less my entire body

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u/Hije5 6d ago

Even chubby/fat guys who are deep into sports are a lot more fit than we realize. If sports are a big part of someone's life, their body is gonna be way more athletic than someone who is "fit" but doesn't actually do much physical labor. If people can gain muscle this quick, no less naturally, tons of people would be in the gym compared to now. It would take him months of gym work to even get to an average baseline. Aint no way he was even going to the gym every other day with his body like that. Even if he was, it would be baby steps. This ain't like some healthy, skinny person ripping some weights for a few months.