
That.
I’d been skinny throughout my whole life and at 37, I decided to just read how it was done and train to put on mass.
I did it. Focused hypertrophy muscle-training. Macronutrient counting. Blasting my body with protein, fats, carbs in the recommended ratios. Great. My bench press eventually went up to 280 pounds. and my weight increased by 20 pounds. It was cool for a couple of years.
But eventually work got busy. A loved one passed away. I changed my diet for various reasons, and so on and so on. And one day I woke up and realized that ‘holy crap! I think that is a bunch of fat on me!’ hahaha. I had achieved the impossible.
Well, anyway, your own desired body is personal to you. So, this is just a personal sharing from somebody else’s life.
But when I think of training now, I prefer functional strength. There was a guy Frank Medrano who I’d like to emulate.
Anyway, yes to what Raphael said. You probably want to change your body because of the confidence and power you associate with that change. Nothing wrong with that. But it might be better to just skip the body change and go straight for the confidence and power.