Brad Pilon and I were discussing all the different sizes/bodyweights we have been at over the past 10-15 years…so I decided to create a quick graph to show you how much I’ve weighed and how it’s changed over the past 15 years.

My bodyweight has been all over the place in the past 15 years

In 1994 I started at university at approximately 180lbs, I’d already been weight training for about 3 years at this point (little did I know I was already closing in on my golden AI ratio)…it’s kind of depressing/embarrassing to look back and realize I was almost at my best proportioned body 15 years ago, only to mess it up for the better part of the next 14 years, and to finally return back to it this past year.

During university I started experimenting with steroids and my bodyweight shot up to 250lbs. At this point I was really big and blocky…I wasn’t concerned at all about carrying a higher percentage of bodyfat, I just really liked how big I was…I had no conception of proportions or aesthetics, all I was concerned with was being BIG.

Over the next few years I stopped using the drugs and tried to be big without them…my bodyweight slowly dropped until I hit a low of 186lbs when I was in florida. During my stay in florida I wasn’t exactly happy with my situation and I took up running! Yes running…I know I can’t believe it myself. My weight training workouts fell back drastically and I didn’t have what I would call very good proportions at all.

When I returned from Florida I started training with the powerlifting team and started to get heavy again (of course in my head I was telling myself this was all muscle mass…but it was mostly fat)…I went back up to abou 225-230lbs for about a year…during this time my joints and muscles always hurt…I needed regular Active Release Therapy just to make it through each week of powerlifting workouts. I knew this wasn’t a sustainable way of living/training so I ditched it.

This was right around the time Brad Pilon and I started researching body proportions and came up with the Adonis Index workout system. I started testing the system out in 2007 and have been working out on it ever since.

A few weeks ago I did a 5 day fasting experiment when my bodyweight dropped all the way to 176lbs while maintaining a golden AI ratio of 1.6.

Today I currently maintain around 181lbs or so.

So there you have it 15 years later and I’m right back to where I started at 180lbs. And this is easily the best I have looked throughout all of that time, I’ve got better proportions and less bodyfat now than at any point throughout the past 15 years.

Better late than never!

John

As you can see from the comment section in my previous post there is a huge disparity in opinion of how much I weigh.

The answer is 188lbs.

As I am writing this post (wed dec 16th) I’m 184lbs. <– normal fluctuation in water/food content.

The point of this exercise is to show you how pictures can be deceiving and how bodyweight is a difficult thing to picture for many people when viewed online or in a magazine. Things like lighting, posture/pose, and skin tone can all affect how someone will appear in a picture.

Think of magazine ads or websites that promote before and after pictures…you really can’t tell how big or small someone is without seeing them in person.

Proportions also play a big role in determining how big or small someone looks.

For a given height and bodyfat percentage each person will have a very predictable bodyweight based on weight training experience and given a known food/water intake at the time of the picture. (I was 188lbs in this picture which was taken sunday evening after a good day of eating, as of monday evening after a day of fasting I was down to about 185.5lbs)

So when people say the scale doesn’t matter they are wrong. <– incidentally this argument is usually only made by people who don’t like what the scale says (on both the high or low end)

The reality is that the scale is a very good predictor of health/size/proportion at any given height.

For those of you that asked, I don’t know my bodyfat percentage and don’t bother using any calculators to find out. I’m just interested in the look/proportions.

Thanks for participating and as I drop even further I will update more pics.

John