Ryan Hall is Jacked

When I was running 70mpw I nearly got divorced because I wanted to have sex with my wife about once a month. I left running due to injury and started doing basically everything else for variety. I look a lot better with extra muscle, but more importantly the sex drive is back. I'm sure it doesn't happen to everybody but running killed mine for years.

XFIT guy is nuts. No Crossfitter is anywhere near the "strongest athlete known to mankind". The strongest athletes carry a significant amount of fat. Watch any of the World's Strongest Man competitions. None of those guys look like a Crossfitter. CrossFit is nothing like the Decathlon. The CrossFit games are just some BS event where points are awarded for who can do the most pullups, box jumps, carry a heavy ball across a mat, etc. Interesting? It is boring as hell to watch.

All the competitors are in love with themselves and got into CrossFit because they couldn't hack it at a real sport. They just made exercising a competition and packaged it to sell to unathletic people. Nothing more than a fade. You want a real athlete, try a Decathlete. While they aren't "shredded" like the CrossFit dopers you worship and who constantly make false claims about how strong and fast they are, Decathletes are far better all around athletes.

Can't run and now is a stud in the gym

Never see the reverse lol

Nobody, especially runners on the this site want to admit this but running distance reverses any attempt to build muscle. Except for a couple of freakish guys who carry muscle while running 60 -100 miles a week. 99.9 % lose muscle mass, sometimes quite quickly. That being said, Hall still should run 10-15 miles a week to help with his training.

asdfasd wrote:

It's fine he wants to try something else now his running days are behind him, but I think posting on social media in this case, and in general, is dumb.

He's rationalizing his decision to quit running...he needs to convince himself that he made the correct decision...but he's insulting quite a few people ("quest to manhood") in the process. Prob not good for him or Asics.

Former low T wrote:

When I was running 70mpw I nearly got divorced because I wanted to have sex with my wife about once a month. I left running due to injury and started doing basically everything else for variety. I look a lot better with extra muscle, but more importantly the sex drive is back. I'm sure it doesn't happen to everybody but running killed mine for years.

The norm right here. A little test replacement on high mileage makes a huuuge difference. Dr. Brown definitely a big advantage.

dlk wrote:

I've lost respect for Ryan Hall.

He claims he had Testosterone issues, yet he starts lifting and gains major muscle.

He didn't have a T-issue. He had a motivational issue. He could no longer dig deep and work hard and recover as he aged. He was pretty much burnt out comparing himself to his past self.

Why would Asics still want him?

+ 1. I have low t (Hashimoto's disease -> hypothyroid). I can't put on muscle, and my DR indicate that this is typical. It's unusual for a low t person to put on that much muscle in such a short period.

And yes - not sure why Asics would want him...he's promoting running as "dangerous" and "feminine" and lifting as "healthy" and "the process of manhood."

I like Ryan, but I don't understand it.

Swole and yoked wrote:

C'mon man, he went to Stanford, he must be smart.

Terrible reasoning. I'm an academic - there are tons of idiots at the top schools (both faculty and students).

dorky bored dude wrote:

Ginger Runner is barely tolerable but he had Ryan Hall on his show a few weeks ago so I listened and Hall talks about what he is doing now. He talks about his weight workouts a little bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOPhk8_IZT4

Thanks for posting. That was actually a good interview.

this is where a "like" button makes sense.

How could anyone not realize Ryan is a huge winner based on the reality he gets to drill Sara? stupid on every level

rjm33 wrote:

Highly Bekelaselassie wrote:

Kiprop would be lucky to be twice as fast as me, I still have both nuts, and have a body worth considerably more than barely holding a bib in place.

Lance Armstrong tried that and it did not work at all.

*Snort*

POTY.

I am glad there's always someone willing to be XFIT_BRO. May he never die.

Hahahaha you're an idiot. "nice chunk of BULK". You sound like a typical fat delusional teen who doesn't have a clue about bodybuilding but thinks he knows it all because he's researched the subject + worked out for 5 months lol.

"Bulking" without drugs like steroids just adds FAT and there is NO REASON to EVER do that. Bigger muscles = more HORMONES. No point in eating more if your muscles can't get any bigger (due to lack of hormones/drugs) and if you just get fatter.

If he were to keep going, he would just get fatter.

ALL drug-free people are "hardgainers". Only juicers can put on muscle fast + a lot. And only fat delusional permabulkers say/THINK they can put on muscle fast, when in reality they just put on more fat. They eat like pigs, drink protein shakes they don't need, measure their fatceps after 3 months and see they added 1.5 inches to them and think it's muscle lol. "I have 17.5 inch biceps, all natural, all muscle" lmao. Yeah okay fat boys. Diet down to 10%bf THEN talk.

Then you have the dumb teens wasting all their money on completely useless supplements who are STILL GOING THROUGH PUBERTY - NATURALLY STILL GROWING and think "natural bodybuilding" works/exists because their arms and chests have grown and have gotten stronger (as all healthy people do when going through puberty - without bodybuilding) + seen 1000's of FAKE natural bodybuilders on youtube and 1000's of juiced up females online and on tv, who they THINK aren't juicing and wonder how those females are bigger than them. Oh brother.

MUSCLE

FAT

WATER

Learn the difference.

Hahahaha you're an idiot. "nice chunk of BULK". You sound like a typical fat delusional teen who doesn't have a clue about bodybuilding but thinks he knows it all because he's researched the subject + worked out for 5 months lol.

"Bulking" without drugs like steroids just adds FAT and there is NO REASON to EVER do that. Bigger muscles = more HORMONES. No point in eating more if your muscles can't get any bigger (due to lack of hormones/drugs) and if you just get fatter.

If he were to keep going, he would just get fatter.

ALL drug-free people are "hardgainers". Only juicers can put on muscle fast + a lot. And only fat delusional permabulkers say/THINK they can put on muscle fast, when in reality they just put on more fat. They eat like pigs, drink protein shakes they don't need, measure their fatceps after 3 months and see they added 1.5 inches to them and think it's muscle lol. "I have 17.5 inch biceps, all natural, all muscle" lmao. Yeah okay fat boys. Diet down to 10%bf THEN talk.

Then you have the dumb teens wasting all their money on completely useless supplements who are STILL GOING THROUGH PUBERTY - NATURALLY STILL GROWING and think "natural bodybuilding" works/exists because their arms and chests have grown and have gotten stronger (as all healthy people do when going through puberty - without bodybuilding) + seen 1000's of FAKE natural bodybuilders on youtube and 1000's of juiced up females online and on tv, who they THINK aren't juicing and wonder how those females are bigger than them. Oh brother.

MUSCLE

FAT

WATER

Learn the difference.

Hahahaha you're an idiot. "nice chunk of BULK". You sound like a typical fat delusional teen who doesn't have a clue about bodybuilding but thinks he knows it all because he's researched the subject + worked out for 5 months lol.

"Bulking" without drugs like steroids just adds FAT and there is NO REASON to EVER do that. Bigger muscles = more HORMONES. No point in eating more if your muscles can't get any bigger (due to lack of hormones/drugs) and if you just get fatter.

If he were to keep going, he would just get fatter.

ALL drug-free people are "hardgainers". Only juicers can put on muscle fast + a lot. And only fat delusional permabulkers say/THINK they can put on muscle fast, when in reality they just put on more fat. They eat like pigs, drink protein shakes they don't need, measure their fatceps after 3 months and see they added 1.5 inches to them and think it's muscle lol. "I have 17.5 inch biceps, all natural, all muscle" lmao. Yeah okay fat boys. Diet down to 10%bf THEN talk.

Then you have the dumb teens wasting all their money on completely useless supplements who are STILL GOING THROUGH PUBERTY - NATURALLY STILL GROWING and think "natural bodybuilding" works/exists because their arms and chests have grown and have gotten stronger (as all healthy people do when going through puberty - without bodybuilding) + seen 1000's of FAKE natural bodybuilders on youtube and 1000's of juiced up females online and on tv, who they THINK aren't juicing and wonder how those females are bigger than them. Oh brother.

MUSCLE

FAT

WATER

Learn the difference.

At this rate, dadbod in 2 years lol

outsiderunner wrote:

[quote]Xenostreams wrote:

I too like the new Ryan Hall.

Definitely looks better.

I like runner guys but a little muscle here and there doesn't hurt. ;-)

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but perhaps he needs to get stronger and more muscular in order to get better--in order to shake whatever had been plaguing him for the past two or three years. In any case, all the best to Ryan...and I would like to see in run again.

This is so painfully obvious to everyone in the world of running...*except* Ryan. How could he not have figured this out? I blame his "coach". He hasn't stopped running that long, and already he looks vastly different, no doubt with a much improved hormone profile.

All he had to do was take off 1 year, maybe only 6 months, and do next to nothing and his t levels would have improved radically. But he was greedy (or was it OCD) and ran himself into the ground.

If he hadn't adopted a pile of kids, he would probably get bored and the have the time to start running at a high level again.

Finally, Ryan can beat the East Africans...in a UFC match.

Only commenting because he publicly put this out there on social media.

IMO, before picture looks better. And possibly healthier. Doesn't carrying all that muscle increase blood pressure too?

Good for him though for doing what he wants. He's got nothing to prove.