Coach Darian Bates

Coach Darian Bates Coach Darian Bates concentrates on developing rituals and routines to create a healthier lifestyle.
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18/06/2026

Pinning sucks, but so does acne and swollen ni***es

Noteworthy:
The relationship between testosterone levels and conversion isn’t perfectly linear. Aromatase has saturable kinetics, meaning at very high testosterone levels the conversion rate doesn’t keep increasing proportionally at the same rate. But within the context of what a general enhanced user is running the relationship is linear enough.

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17/06/2026

A lot of people spend years trying to grow their quads and glutes while overlooking one of the biggest rate limiters to force production: stability. The walking lunge doesn’t let you hide from that. Every step exposes how well you can control your pelvis and transfer force through a single leg.

From a hypertrophy perspective, that’s incredibly useful. Your quads, glutes, and adductors can only produce force as effectively as the pelvis they’re attached to. Improve the stability, and you often improve your ability to create tension through the muscles you’re trying to grow. In many cases, getting stronger at walking lunges isn’t just building muscle directly, it’s improving the foundation that allows you to train everything else better.

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16/06/2026

Muscle growth is far more forgiving than the fitness industry wants you to believe. People will spend 45 minutes debating whether 8-10 reps is “more hypertrophic” than 10-12 while simultaneously leaving 6 reps in the tank and wondering why they still look the same after 3 years. Incredible species. 

15/06/2026

Just because something happens during a lift, doesn’t mean it should be coached as the goal of the lift.
Hip rise in a squat is a perfect example.

A small amount of hip rise is completely normal, especially in heavier low-bar squats. The problem is when people take a compensation strategy and start teaching it as optimal technique.

The low-bar squat already increases hip extensor contribution through the bar position and torso angle. You don’t need to make it even more hip dominant by intentionally shooting your hips up first.

The goal isn’t to eliminate hip involvement it is efficient force transfer.

Hips and shoulders rising together = efficient force transfer.
Hips rising faster than shoulders = compensation.
Hips rising so much the squat becomes a good morning = failed compensation.

The fact that a movement pattern occurs under maximal loads doesn’t automatically mean it should be coached.

PS. I’m not a powerlifting coach but I’m pretty sure I’m atleast mostly correct 😂

PPS. In the DBC, I personally review your form checks, plus you get access to my program, education on PEDs, nutrition and I can even give feedback on bloodwork, comment DBC and I’ll send you the link

14/06/2026

Most people think a high-protein food is automatically a good protein source.
It isn’t.

A protein bar, collagen powder, chicken breast, and whey protein can all contain protein, but they’re not providing the same amount of protein per calorie, nor do they provide the same muscle building value once you eat them.

In this video I’ll show you the simple calculation that instantly changes how you read food labels, and why the protein number on the front of the package rarely tells the full story.

12/06/2026

I made a song about leg day… enjoy ☺️

11/06/2026

Your first rep and your last rep should not look the same.

If they do, you didn’t go where you needed to go.

The force velocity relationship is the most objective measure of training effort you have.

Typically we are aiming for a around a 50% involuntarily reduction in speed from the first rep to the last rep.

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10/06/2026

People love saying “Masteron lowers estrogen” because it sounds clean and simple.

Human physiology unfortunately refuses to cooperate with clean and simple.

Masteron is not an aromatase inhibitor. It doesn’t reliably stop testosterone converting into estradiol.

What it seems to do is create a more anti-estrogenic environment through increased androgenic signalling.
That’s a very different thing.

A lot of the confusion comes from people taking DHT research, noticing Masteron is DHT-derived, and then jumping straight to “so it basically works like an AI.”
Chimpanzees and humans share DNA, therefore your cousin throwing f***s at a wall technically makes him wildlife. The logic chain gets shaky pretty fast.

Hormones are about signalling balance, tissue response, receptor activity, and the overall hormonal environment.

Which is why some people can have “normal” estradiol on labs while still feeling low E2 symptoms on Masteron.

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10/06/2026

Drink a couple of litres of water and your InBody reading changes.

Use a different DEXA machine and your result changes.

Get a different person to take your caliper measurements and your result changes.

Body fat test aren’t like a paternity test. In reality most methods come with enough error to make the number largely a guess.

Every bodybuilding judge, every prep coach, and every photographer making a living from physique sports uses the same assessment tool: Their 👀

09/06/2026

The activity guidelines were never designed to get you peeled, jacked, or ready for a bodybuilding stage. They’re the minimum effective dose for “please remain alive and metabolically functional.”

The biggest health improvements usually happen when someone goes from doing absolutely nothing to doing something consistently. But people arguing online like Victorian scholars debating how many cardio sessions fit on the head of a pin.

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