Larry Wheels Gained 53 Kilos in 5 Days After Ending Second at 2023 Beginner Olympia

Put up-contest physique modifications present the facility of correct vitamin.

Written by Stephen Sheehan, CPT Final up to date on November 10, 2023

Larry Wheels could have appeared leaner than ever within the leadup to the 2023 Amateur Olympia, however it didn’t take lengthy for him to maneuver the needle in the wrong way after falling wanting securing his IFBB Professional League card.

Coming off a formidable efficiency on the 2023 NPC Final Warriors during which he gained his Basic Physique debut, the uber-popular powerlifter-turned-bodybuilder nonetheless needed to trim a number of inches off his sizable body. Sadly for Wheels, his peak week efforts to go from 240 to 232 kilos didn’t end in a first-place end in Orlando, FL, as Ejike Enwereuzor Jr. captured the Beginner Olympia Basic Physique championship on Nov. 2, 2023.

Lower than per week later, nonetheless, Wheels’ physique appeared vastly totally different than it did when he stood on stage on the Orange County Conference Heart. On Nov. 5, 2023, a noticeably bigger model of the versatile strength athlete shared a video on his YouTube video detailing how he gained 53 kilos in 5 days after competing within the Beginner Olympia. Not solely did Wheels focus on his use of diuretics, however he additionally delivered a whole breakdown of the cheat meals he consumed that contributed to such a considerable leap.

Having final stepped on stage at round 265 kilos, Wheels went on a severe lower to get contest-ready for the Basic Physique class. In addition to severely lowering his energy and primarily eliminating carbohydrates from his food plan for a number of weeks, his weight-loss course of additionally concerned using diuretics, which bodybuilders usually use throughout peak week to cut back muscle water retention, improve urine output, and excrete sodium to current a extra aesthetic physique. (1)

“This was my first time getting totally depleted for a present,” Wheels defined. “I did use diuretics to make weight and to have that dry, arduous look on stage.”

Regardless of falling wanting his objective of incomes his IFBB Professional League card, the record-setting powerlifter-turned-bodybuilder actually proved how highly effective combining diuretics with a calorie-restrictive diet could be for rapidly reworking your physique. But after tipping the scales at 231.4 kilos throughout weigh-ins on Oct. 30, 2023, and competing within the Beginner Olympia at 238 kilos two days later, Wheels shocked himself by ballooning as much as 284 kilos by Nov. 4, 2023.

“I don’t assume I’ve consumed sufficient fluid and strong meals so as to add as much as 40 kilos,” he mentioned. “I don’t perceive the place all the load got here from.”