Freshman C Colin Castleton has gained 15 pounds in 6 weeks
https://twitter.com/CampSanderson/status/1026880600844763136
Jon Sanderson has already started working his magic on freshman Colin Castleton. In 6 weeks since Castleton has been at Michigan, Sanderson has gotten him up from 212 pounds to 226.8 pounds. That's pretty crazy and you can already see a physical difference in Castleton's body. I think given this trend I think it's pretty likely we see Castleton get some minutes this year, especially since I don't think it's unrealistic for him to be up to at least 235 by the time the season starts
I'd be happy to give him the last 8.2 lbs.
Oh sure, but when I do that, I have "self-control issues"!
He looks like he has the frame to add a lot more.
same
Sanderson works miracles. Dude is legit.
I can knock that out in a weekend with an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet, but I'm betting his is "good" weight gain
This is MGoBlog, fergodsakes, all weight gain is good, as well as all weight loss.
Even for non-athletes, just mgoblog users?
Especially for Mgoblog users.
Pizza is good therefore your weight gain is good.
Water weight from creatine
#Frosh15 strikes again.
That's a bad sign. No matter how skinny you start at, you cannot gain 15 pounds of muscle in 6 weeks. Hopefully it's all water weight.
I'm sure it's not all "good" weight per se, but this kid needed any meat he could get on his bones, and he does visibly look more muscular, so I'd say this is nothing but a good sign right now
Someone as skinny as he was could use some filling out. I don't see this as a bad development.
I don't think Sanderson would be promoting it if all that he gained was a double chin and an expanded waistline.
It can be done and I am proof of that. Went off to boot camp at a 6'2" rail thin 165 lb. weakling. Three months later I was 6'3" and 198 lbs. having gained 33 lbs. of muscle.
Username checks out.
But I am starting to feel uncomfortable - does anyone have the contact for the HR dept of Mgoblog?
I'm sure it is. An increase in working out and eating will result in his muscles storing more glycogen and water (2:1 ratio I believe) and also retaining fluids in the form of inflammation around micro-tears in the muscle fibers. That coupled with creatine = 15 lbs on a 7ish footer easily.
I doubt it’s all good weight, but the ability to gain weight at that size is still a good sign. I’d be more concerned if he couldn’t gain any weight
It's not a bad sign. Unless you're bulking incredibly clean it's par for the course to gain fat while putting on muscle. He can cut later. I'm sure they know what they're doing.
I’m sure they know what they’re doing
Nah, probably not. Lol
I remember reading something about some MSU center who couldn’t gain weigh and didn’t play much because of it
He'll probably gain another 5 pounds devouring paella in Spain.
Ahhh, why'd you have to go and mention Paella? Now I'm starting to drool. My one goal in wanting to go to Spain is not to see the sites but to have real paella.
Where's Big Boutros? Pretty sure he can gain 14 lbs in a trip to the buffet and lose 24 after a trip to the bathroom.
Speaking from personal experience, I presume? I’m not judging. I’ve been there myself. I had this creation at the cafeteria last week called “the bean bowl.” That did a number on me. 24 pounds is only a slight exaggeration.
You crazy Californians and your weight loss schemes...
He discovered the Moe Wagner Chipotle Meal Plan.
So with a redshirt year, at this pace when he first hits the court next year he will be about 375 pounds!
Damn I would love to have the benefit of having a professional strength coach to get me into shape.
I used to say this, now at work we have fitness coaches that do daily 1 on 1 with you for free and you can take 1 hour off work to go to the gym and get paid for it, they even develop nutrition plans and everything.
But here I sit, eating my 10th cookie from a Subway day old package, while my gym bag gathers dust under my desk where it has sat for the last 2 weeks unmoved.
My have no control over my life.
But at least you’re happy eating the yummy stuff.
Asking for a friend, does anyone have a shirtless picture of him that I can put next to my shirtless Ricky Doyle picture? I mean his Ricky Doyle picture.
I must be your friend and you must be my friend.
Hi friend!
But where are the OMG Shirtless pictures?
I'm asking for a friend....
235 lbs is too much, too soon. For now, be happy with 225 and work on getting that into more muscle, instead of just mass. He's going to play, regardless, but you don't just start throwing around that much new weight so easily, or at least, you shouldn't.
Pfft, big deal. I could eat at Chipotle 3 times a day for 6 straight weeks too!
Blimpy burger is a helluva drug.
Shit if these guys wanna know how to gain weight I will be happy to teach that class at no charge
He had subs, it was crazy.
I’m glad to see they’ve begun to install the adamantium.
I would love to be 226...
Again...
I thought this kid was a FOOTBALL center who had snuck by my recruiting knowledge and all I could think was "Damn, that lanky motherfucker has a long ways to go..."
It made so much more sense when I pieced it together.
No soy milk for that boy!
So... when any of our guys gain 20 in an offseason, it's "definitely roids" but this guy gains 15 in a month and a half and it's just *schwing!* *heart eyes emojis* #HisFrameCanTakeMore *swoon*
Never change, Michigan fans. Never change.
That's quite a straw man you've put together over there.
I'm pretty tuned into PED stuff and I am reasonably free with implications about it, but I don't recall having seen much in the way of PED implications towards MSU at all.
You give us Michigan fans too much credit: We don't have much in the way of attention spans, and we get too distracted by all the players taking the field/floor for MSU against whom there is credible evidence of domestic abuse and sexual assault to have any attention left for vague allegations of PED use.
August 7th, 2018 at 11:37 PM ^
There is literally a PED implication made by one poster or another in every single thread that references MSU in even the most tangential way. It is honestly part of the very reliable narrative on MSU here. It's like when Trump repeats the same absurd and shameless lie again and again until eventually it fades into background noise, but somehow becomes part of the fabric of the conversation.
I don't think the things tRCMB says about Michigan fans are literally true. I know that because, being from Michigan, many of my friends and family are UM alums. They're alright on the whole. :) That said, the prevailing stereotypes about Michigan fans (arrogant, highly impressed with yourselves, compelled to remind yourselves and everyone else about how superlative UM and its alums are at every opportunity) are fairly mild and y'know, (hate to say it) rooted in a kernel of truth. You guys ARE extremely pleased with yourselves.
The stereotypes I see repeated here as fundamental truths, ad nauseam, are a) startlingly nasty, and b) pretty divorced from reality. I really really really hope my UofM friends and family don't secretly think I'm a rapist, 'roiding example of walking, talking human excrement too intellectually feeble to hold a conversation without drooling — certainly, it's clear that's what this group would instinctively think of me before reading a single word I posted.
I'm forced to observe, with a measure of real surprise, that this blog is creepier and crazier than the RCMB. The vitriol is off the scale. Truly not what I expected. I know that online comment sections and message boards are like our collective id — we often show the worst, most unhinged aspects of our personalities here, unfortunately. But man... this place is an eye opener. Is this a result of the last ten years? I wonder... if this board existed in 1999, whether the tone would be the same.