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Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy
To a point, yes. The big changes happen though when you clean up the diet. You can't out train a shitty diet.
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That's the truth.
I think that whole "dirty bulk" thing is horseshit. Now there's some steriods for you right there.
Cutting out the alcohol was the single biggest change - at least for me as I have always ate pretty well (no fast food, lots of whole grain fiber, minimal sugars/transfats, etc.). It's amazing how that shit holds you down when you are trying to train/lift/build.
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A three-week study that had men and women consume 30-40 g alcohol per day, showed a 6.8% reduction in testosterone for the men and none for the women at the end of the study-period. That's three beers a day for three weeks and a measly 6.8% reduction in testosterone for the men. What kind of an effect would you think a few beers on an evening once or twice a week would have? Hardly any.
For alcohol to significantly lower testosterone, you need to do some serious drinking. ~120 g alcohol, the equivalent of 10 beers, will lower testosterone by 23% for up to 16 hours after the drinking binge. If you drink so goddamn much that you are admitted to the hospital, you get a similar effect with a reduction of about -20%.
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http://www.ncbi.
.nih.gov/pubmed/15166654