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Anonymous
How the fuck did he not get stretch marks? Or we just can't see them clearly?
>> Anonymous
It HAD to be longer than 2 months in which that happened...
>> Anonymous
He bathed in cocoa butter?
>> Anonymous
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provide a link for your claim. NAO
>> Anonymous
>120 -> 190
>in 2 months
And that's when I realized that this was fake.
>> Anonymous
This is what you get when you can afford a hollywood dietician and trainer

It's truly amazing, he was actually less than 120 pounds in The Machinist; Although it took longer than 2 months....More like 10-12 months
>> Anonymous
>>314031

Search Christian Bale on bodybuilding.com
>> Anonymous
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Begins
"Bale hired a personal trainer to help him gain 100 pounds (45 kg) in the span of only a couple of months to help him physically prepare for the role. He first went well over the weight required and created concern over whether he'd look right for the part."

So he actually gained more than that.
>> Anonymous
>>314036
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/dark_knight_training.htm

6 weeks to be exact!
>> Anonymous
>>314044
HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE SOMEONE EXPLAIN PLEASE
>> Anonymous
BRIX SHATTENED
>> '02GT
It was only a couple of months, srslly.

He apparently just ate a lot of protein rich food and did light workouts, and it just all came back. Shits crazy.
>> Anonymous
>>314045

Like i said.......this is what you get when you can afford a hollywood dietician and trainer.

this is what he did EVERYDAY

he lifted and ate, ate, ate
>> Anonymous
more like 6 months

he focused on getting to his normal weight just for the screen test 6 weeks later so he gorged on everything

then the rest of the time he focused on gettin dat mussle
>> Anonymous
It's called anabolic steroids.
>> Anonymous
>>314055
But seriously, SEVENTY POUNDS IN TWO MONTHS?!

Your average person would have to train extensively for TWO YEARS to get those kind of gains. I'm really interested in his specific daily routines and whatnot, because that's just insane. It's almost inhuman.
>> sasuke !h003Xy2vOk
Well, you guys need to know he went on an anorexic diet to be in the movie The Machinist. He only ate tuna (or an apple) per day, or something crazy like that.

So when he got a contract for Batman he regained his weight quickly, because he ate until he'd feel sick. He regained his -normal- weight by pumping food in his atrophied body. That was how he gained a lot of weight.

Then he bulked up over the course of a few months for Batman.
>> Anonymous
>>314060

See
>>314059
>> Anonymous
>>314059

You have a good point.....Im sure there were some "supplements involved"

But he had to have worked his ass off.......No doubt about it. Not to mention eating every waking second of his day.
>> Anonymous
>>314060
CHRISTIAN BALE IS NOT HUMAN
>> Anonymous
>>314076
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
>> Anonymous
>>314064
Oh. Well then...
>> Anonymous
he must have drunk a lot of milk
>> Anonymous
It's because he was pretty big to begin with. He stopped eating to get skinny for the machinist, but when he regained the weight, he had already been that big and it's easy to regain muscle, but hard to get bigger that what you naturally are. Not to mention his skin didn't shrink in the two months he was 120, it could easily stretch out again. It's when you have been skinny and suddenly get fat or muscular.
>> Anonymous
>>314121
Are you talking about him not having stretch marks? If so, isn't it the skin stretching that causes them.. or skin adapting to new unfamiliar shapes?
>> Anonymous
>>314129
stretching over parts of the body when they get bigger is what causes stretchmarks. But as it needs to, skin gains elasticity, Otherwise, if you got fat you would explode out of your skin.

If christian bale was 180 pounds, lost it to 120 pounds, and then back up to 190, it would have kept it's maximum elasticity and just shrunk down to fit his smaller size. When he regained it, it still kept all it's flexibility and had no problem readjusting to his previous size.

Skin is amazing stuff.
>> Anonymous
It took longer than two months for bale to regain his size, and he actually got pretty fat (for him, not general population fat) before getting back down to his batman begins size.
>> Anonymous
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>>314142

Yeah, amazing enough to look like total shit after weight loss for most people. Pic related.
>> Anonymous
>>314045
hes the goddamn batman, thats why!!
>> Anonymous
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My leg Recently has been locking up on me, i mean, it locks up, i cant stand, it hurts to move it and its stiff as fuck. On the back part of my left leg on both sides of the back the tendems? suddenly tighten and create a L shape with my leg and causing it to lock in that possition for about 20 minutes and it recently happened ( as in 5 minutes ago) Should i get this checked out by the doctor? it has also happened while Downhilling which resulted in a cracked rib.
>> Anonymous
It's important to note that the pictures are from the set of batman begins, which was filmed much later. The 6 weeks were between the end of filming of The Machinist and the SCREEN TEST for Batman Begins. I'm sure he kept training for months and ended up like you see in the pics. I'm sure he didn't look like that in 6 weeks.
>> Anonymous
>>314018

You mean antistretch marks
>> Anonymous
I want to fuck Christian Bale.
>> Anonymous !ErY2TknG0w
Why does everyone think they'd keep his stretchmarks visible in either film?

Srsly.
>> Anonymous
>>314062
Well I doubt he ate only tuna and apples, since he's a vegetarian.

Which makes me wonder - what the hell did he eat to put on so much weight? nuts and tofu?
>> Anonymous
>>314556

well he did, it was mentioned in a variety article by Bale, fucking moron
>> Anonymous
>>314076
thats right hes batman
>> Anonymous
>>314576
LOL so much hostility. Looks like somebody is butthurt about idolising a vegetarian.
>> Anonymous
>>314579
This isn't the playground now.
>> Anonymous
>>314054

MUSCLE MEMORY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_memory

Bale was pretty built in American Psycho before shedding the weight for The Machinist. Hence he was able to regain muscle much faster than if he had never trained before.
>> Anonymous
>>314593
Muscle memory refers only to the ability to automate and easily retain skill in specific actions like riding a bike (hence "it's just like riding a bike") and not to one's ability to regain muscle mass. Even your wiki link says that.
>> Anonymous
>>314593
you don't need an article to tell what you memory is

but YOU do, and you failed at that too. Just fucking kill yourself.
>> Fatman Anonymous
> Due to his part in Maquinista, El (2004) (aka The Machinist), Christian Bale was vastly underweight (about 120 pounds on his 6 foot+ frame) when he was under consideration for the part. After being cast, he was told to become as "big as you could be" by Christopher Nolan. Bale underwent a dietary and exercise regimen and ending up weighing about 220 pounds (about 40 pounds above his normal weight). It was decided that Bale had became too large (friends of his on the film's crew dubbed him "Fatman") and he quickly shed about 20 pounds to have leaner, more muscular frame.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0372784/trivia
>> Anonymous
NANANANANANA FATMAN!
>> Anonymous
>>314598

i.e: Not having to waste time to relearn how to properly perform squats.

Bale had done intense exercise prior, hence his ability to regain muscles so quickly.
>> Sensitive Troll !!SOJTvLiutsP
>>314661
oh wow.
>> Anonymous
Muscle Memory: Scientists May Have Unwittingly Uncovered Its Mystery


By Bryan Haycock, MS

Anyone who has lifted weights, on and off, for several years is familiar with the concept of "muscle memory". Muscle memory in this context refers to the observation that when a person begins lifting weights after a prolonged lay off, it is much easier to return to their previous levels of size and strength than it was to get there the first time around. Even when significant atrophy (muscle shrinking) has taken place during the layoff, previously hypertrophied muscle returns to its previous size more quickly than usual.

A recent study looking at fiber type conversions during muscle hypertrophy may have uncovered a possible mechanism for this phenomenon. For those of you not crazy about scientific lingo bear with me. Towards the end you will see what I’m getting at with this study. In this study the distribution of myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoforms, fiber type composition, and fiber size of the vastus lateralis muscle were analyzed in a group of adult sedentary men before and after 3 months of resistance training and then again, after 3 months of detraining. Following the period of resistance training, MHC IIX content decreased from just over 9% to 2.0%, with a corresponding increase in MHC IIA (42% to 49%). Following detraining the amount of MHC IIX reached values that were higher than before and during resistance training, over 17%! As expected, significant hypertrophy was observed for the type II fibers after resistance training, and even remained larger than baseline after 3 months of detraining.
>> Anonymous
>>314664
cont.

Myosin heavy chain isoforms, or MHCs, refer to the types of contractile protein you see in a given muscle fiber. MHCs determine how the muscle fiber functions. MHCs are what make a fiber "fast twitch", "slow twitch", or something in-between. Certain MHCs are known to undergo a change in response to resistance exercise. In this case, fibers that contain MHC IIX are fibers that aren’t really sure what kind of fiber they are until they are called to action. Once recruited, they become MHC IIAs. So, fibers containg MHC IIX proteins serve as a reservoir of sorts for muscle hypertrophy because the can transform themselves into fibers containing MHC IIX which grow easily in response to training.

Like any great study, these researchers found what they expected as well as a little extra that they didn’t. I think this study caught my attention because it showed a long-term alteration in skeletal muscle following resistance training. It has been this long-term change that has been the focus of my own training philosophy, which incorporates what I call "strategic deconditioning". This study showed that resistance training decreases the amount of MHC IIX while reciprocally increasing MHC IIA content. This was expected and has previously observed with changes in fiber type after resistance training. What they didn’t expect was that detraining following heavy-load resistance training seems to cause what they refer to as an "overshoot" or doubling in the percentage of MHC IIX isoforms, significantly higher than that measured at baseline. What does this mean? It could mean that there are more fibers available for hypertrophy (growth) after a lay off from training than there are before you start training. This could very well explain the "muscle memory" effect many of us have experienced ourselves. It may also have implications for natural bodybuilders looking to overcome long-standing plateaus.
>> Anonymous
>>314666
cont.

There are a few questions that this study did not answer. For instance, they waited until 3 months after they stopped training before they took final measurements. It would have been nice if they had taken measurements regularly so that the optimal period of detraining could be identified corresponding to peak MHC IIX levels. Because it takes 3-4 weeks for these contractile muscle proteins to turn over, it would take longer than one month and probably less time than 6 months (previous research). Still the optimal time remains to be elucidated.

Also, how would these guys respond to the same training regimen after the detraining period? Would their quads grow to their previous trained size, or even further? How long would it take? These questions, if answered, may add a new twist to typical training regimens. It may very well be that extended breaks from training may actually allow greater growth over a 12-month period than if training is uninterrupted. For serious athletes and bodybuilders, this would be important information and could significantly extend their competitive careers.

http://www.thinkmuscle.com/articles/haycock/muscle-memory.htm


FUCKING CHECK MATE MOTHERFUCKER
>> Anonymous
>>314664

This article is stupid. Everyone fucking knows that muscle memory already refers to something else. It's one of the most used words in MMA for a reason.

Take careful note that your article says "In this context, muscle memory means etc."

So you didn't checkmate shit. You just used a brand new meaning for an old term created when some pencil neck scientists pulled it out of their asses without doing proper research on a term already well in use with an established meaning.
>> Anonymous
CITATION NEEDED
>> Anonymous
>>314670
You're... You're a fucking moron.
>> Anonymous
>>314670
>pencil neck scientists
Yeah, fuck pencil neck scientists!
They're almost as bad as accountants!
>> Anonymous
>>314018

SQUATZ
>> Anonymous
>>314556

One apple, one can of tuna and a skinny latte.
>> Anonymous
So he stopped working hard to stay starved and dehydrated and he returned quickly to normal.

WOOWWW!!!! That's fucking incredible!!!!

That means even though I'm naturally lean I can gain 100lbs in 2 months!!!!

Durrrr.....
>> Anonymous
Bale-rific!
>> Anonymous
>>314044

It's on the Internet, so it must be true.

...right?
>> Anonymous
>>314680
No, he's right. Muscle memory refers to brain - muscle neural pathways. Such as the way you learn to walk. The neural pathways that coordinate the muscles become strengthened and synchronised until you don't even have to think about it in your first years.
>> Anonymous
You're all so fucking gullible.
>> Anonymous
>>314044

That doesn't even detail his real training. BB.com always does shit like that... they're sneaky. If you notice their wording, they keep saying that this is what they MIGHT have done, not what they DID do.

The exact methods that actors in Hollywood use to transform their bodies are carefully kept secrets. People pay these trainers tens of thousands of dollars to look a certain way. And I'm sure for Bale to go from concentration camp survivor to looking like fucking Bolo from Bloodsport, he was taking some baseball juice too.
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This is what he looked like as Fatman.

It's amazing how body fat % can influence the way you look. At that body fat level, he looks just like anyone you'd see at the grocery store or waiting in line at Burger King. Fuck, he looks like a fat Brazilian kid I went to high school with.

And yet, when he cuts down to ripped levels, he has gorgeous, model-like good looks.

I think this pic is more motivational for cutting than any pic of abs... ever.
>> Anonymous
>>315776he was taking some baseball juice too
I guarantee he was. But its fine when you can pay for the finest personal trainer complete with androgen biochemistry knowledge
>> Anonymous
>>315790

Shit, that looks like any guy that works in roofing. Hard to imagine that's patrick bateman.
>> Anonymous !ErY2TknG0w
>>315790
It's also a press photo taken when he's obviously in low-maintenance mode (unshaven, casual clothes).
I think that has more bearing than the BF
>> Anonymous
>>315790
Fat is a cloak, yeah.
>> Anonymous
>>315798

Uh... brah, that pic was taken at the premier of The Machinist.

...I think he knew he was getting his picture taken.
>> Anonymous !ErY2TknG0w
>>315807
Are you trying to say he looks like he put effort into his appearance?
>> Anonymous
>>315823

No. What I was saying was that his body fat level matters more than anything else, even more than his clothes or whether he was shaven or whether his hair was messy. If he was at the body fat level he was in when American Psycho was being made and he was wearing that exact same outfit, facial hair and uncombed hair, he'd look suave. But because his face is all fat and puffy and his body is expanded past its natural proportions, he looks like a fat slob.

That's what I meant.
>> Anonymous !ErY2TknG0w
>>315832
Ok then. You're right but the look doesn't help.
>> Anonymous
>>314681
HEY! I'm an accountant you dickwick! And I've kicked the ever loving shit of many a scientist. Why just last week I bitch-slapped Steven Hawking's astrophysicist ass down 4 flights of stairs. The only scientist I can't defeat is Remington Douglas......He's one badass Professor.
>> Anonymous
>>315841
Dickwick, thanks. I gotta use that.
>> Anonymous
>>314670
>some pencil neck scientists
Says the computer user. Or did you make yours out of SQUATZ?
>> Anonymous
>>315790

...jesus fuck
>> Anonymous
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>> Sensitive Troll !!SOJTvLiutsP
>>315790
antimotivator.