Reality vs Instagram | Foundational Body Aesthetic Manipulation | Pump Workout with Matt Tims

Matt and I had a long conversation in Summer 2022 about our training and nutrition behaviours in our 30s vs our 20s. We then got into what constitutes a realistic body image, and how the impression of body aesthetics online are not really based on reality.

As most people would expect, photo shoots and video shoot days are likely to be prepared using many different methods. Some are just obvious, like increasing training volume and reducing kcals. But this might be done to a level which is unsustainable for any mid-long term period, but ok on the basis that the target body composition only needs to be held for a day. You then get a pump (blood flow into the muscle), and we now have the natural method of maximising body aesthetics for a shoot.

Of course with YouTubers like @moreplatesmoredates and @gregdoucette now calling out covert steroid users as what are known as ‘fake nattys’, who claim to be walking around with very high muscle mass and low body fat all the time, more balance is beginning to take hold. But most of these guys are way outside of the regular gym user, so it’s a different world in some ways.

In my opinion, Matt has pretty much the pinnacle natural physique, in terms of his muscle mass, proportions and fat mass. I wanted to produce a video where a couple of guys without insane body types, with natural endocrine profiles and an achievable gym life balance show the immediate effects of simply pumping up the muscles.

In this video we didn’t use any creative and technical methods, we just behaved a bit better than usual for a few weeks, trained a little harder and I started my 5km rows after some time off from them. This video shows that even with already being in relatively good shape, simply doing some pump training and using flex and angles, you can rapidly enhance your body aesthetics. If you only saw the 2 guys at the end of the video, you might think we were a few levels up from where we are in reality. Enjoy.

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