Bodybuilder Will Tennyson Detailed His 'Skinny to Muscle' Body Transformation
In a new video on his YouTube channel, bodybuilder and fitness influencer Will Tennyson breaks down the training and nutrition advice that he found most helpful in his mission to pack on muscle and go from skinny to jacked. "It is sad but it is true, it is 80 percent diet, 20 percent training," he says.
Tennyson's first tip is to introduce a variety of protein into your diet if you haven't done so already, including eggs, fast-cooking steaks, Greek yogurt, fish, turkey sausage, and cheese. "Back in the day it was pretty much chicken and turkey breast only," he says. "The more red meat I eat, I have noticed my body composition changes for the better."
He goes on to demonstrate how to prepare a macro-friendly breakfast burrito with egg whites, turkey sausage and avocado. And this leads into his second point: whatever your allotted number of daily calories is, eat that throughout the day. "I used to be so obsessed with keeping the calories during the day, going extremely low in fat and saving all of my calories for night time," he says. "I felt like shit during the day, all I wanted to do was binge, so I have found personally, the more evenly I space my calories out during the day, the less I want to binge, and the better my workouts are. You don't have to have a massive meal, but spread it out a little more evenly, don't save it all for night time, and you will notice some performance increases."
Moving onto training advice, Tennyson explains that as he has learned more and more what works for him personally, he has ditched the barbell back squat entirely in favour of the hack squat. "You're able to put more volume on your quads and push closer to failure without having to worry about risking injury, especially on your lower back," he says. Similarly, he adds that he has been favouring the Smith machine bench press over the traditional bar version.
In his one-armed rows, Tennyson likes to make the most of the negative portion of the rep by performing a deadstop variation, bringing the barbell to a stop on the ground at the bottom of the movement in order to make the concentric movement more difficult and maximise the stretch reflex.
While he takes a lot of supplements to support his gains, Tennyson only really recommends creatine monohydrate. "A lot of people who are on it don't even notice a difference, but try going off it," he says.
Finally, Tennyson advises keeping on top of your cardio. In addition to hitting his 10,000 steps a day, he incorporates rowing workouts into his routine. "The last thing you want to do in the gym is fail that lift because of your heart, not the actual muscle that you're training," he says. "I find that by doing just 20 minutes a day, not that much, when I get to later parts of my workout and later parts of my sets, I'm able to stick with it much longer, therefore more volume and more muscle growth."
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