Stephen had been training consistently for a period of no less than 4 years (and eating a good diet) prior to undertaking Paul’s 12 week program.  “This made Stephen my toughest challenge to date” says Paul.  Paul explains “Once an individual has been training consistently for a long period of time, once they’ve been eating well for a long period of time with muscle growth and fat loss as the goal, once significant gains in both have already been made, its very hard to spark new progress”. 

Although Paul already had previous experience with this in terms of strength through working with amazing lifters like Dan Burns and Ciaran Beattie, he’d never done it purely with aesthetic purposes in mind. “In a weird way I was also a victim of my own success with Stephen as I’d already been overseeing his training for the previous six months in the sport of powerlifting.  During that time he had won the national junior bench press title twice, but built some serious muscle thickness to boot, making him the most thickly muscled before pictures ever!" 

Paul had his work cut out as Stephen didn’t simply wish to cut up and maintain his already thick muscles, he wanted to get leaner AND bigger and he wanted it within 12 weeks!!

Before, Stephen weighed 12.5st at 16% body fat, after, he was still 12.5st but at 8% body fat meaning he’d lost exactly 14lbs of fat and built 14lbs of muscle in 12 weeks which is exceptional for an advanced trainee, well done Stephen!

Achievements:

2 time IDFPA Irish Junior Bench Press Champion (82.5kg category)

Professional Male Model