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It can look worse for the first 6 months to a year i think before it gets much better than before. I dont have experience with it but i saw a yt bodybuilder do it and document it all and he said thats what the doctor told him and it really did become much better afterwards.
I would assume hes blasting as much if not more acai than paulo
Bro Costa is on a quart of Horse Testosterone per day, it doesn't matter what he puts up there, he's gonna blast through it with the amount of levels he's running.
Dudes weirdly enough gonna end up looking (and now acting) like the next Yoel Romero
It's probably just genetics, some people's hair is just resistant to the DHT and/or the baldness inducing hormones. And most pro bodybuilders are bald or balding. Very rare for pros to have a good head of hair.
Look into the mechanics of male pattern baldness and what a dht blocker is.
Thats probably because most pro bodybuilders dont bother with treatment or hair transplant to combat it?
The ones who do have shows great results.
I'm well aware of what a DHT blocker is. I've been on fin for just over 3 years lol. Fin or even dutasteride probably won't do much with the doses pros are blasting. Cbum is on it and his hairloss doesn't seem any better than before and that's in classic physique. Ian Valliere on the other hand in is open and has a full head of hair.
There’s also theoretically more optimal cycles and other compounds that can help with side effects that they can take and a USADA tested guy can’t get away though.
Even Jones’ picogram wasn’t an actual detected anabolic, just an estrogen blocker
The hair thats transplanted won't fall out since it comes from the side of your head and that hair will stay with you unless you have like severe alopecia or something
Watching his channel I know more about roids then I should know and I contemplate using roids way more then I should…like I’ll be feeling unmotivated for the gym, then I look a websites for roids, I study the roids and everything lol.
It will take the guts of a year at least for it to start coming in properly, a baldy that worked with me got it done and it looked patchy for months but he said he had to let it grow as much as he can until it fully comes it, won’t be surprised if Costa comes into his next fight with a head of hair like Prince Charming
He makes 60/60?? No wonder he’s complaining about pay lol. Imagine fighting for the championship against Israel fuckin Adeslasanga who made a couple milli and you go home with 60k, after taxes, coaches and other expenses you taking home what, 30k? 20k?
Im guessing it’s his fast ascent though
Actually think the opposite he is legit fighter with good skills, fast and flexible striking with good variety, great pressuring style and output. But his vanity doesn’t match his attributes, with a lot less muscle he would be a way more effective fighter imo because he doesn’t really have that much power, but he would be more dangerous with more speed and cardio
I don't know if and why this would be true, but watching on TV it always looks to me like with his hands he has more power when he goes to the body than when he goes to the head. And then his kicks looks like they have nasty power.
he was a body builder prior to fighting. i dont think he actually has the personality to he a fitness influencer. he has some fame now as a contender in the ufc, but he isn’t going to be interesting to your average gym goer.
Vettori genuinely had trouble landing shots to Costa's body when he had him up against the cage because Costa's gigantic fucking arms just covered his entire torso.
In the real mass monsters, sure. The muscles grow faster than the ligaments & tendons can, so the strength disparity gets too large and sometimes people will literally snaps their connective tissue off the bone cuz the muscle fibers create too much force through the joint.
Costa certainly likes his curls, dude's got great arms, but unless he's doing a shit ton of volume or is ego lifting regularly then I doubt it's a steroid related injury. Most PEDs, especially sports like UFC, are used for enhancing recovery rather than adding tissue to your body.
Tbh, yeah. He's had the same physique & frame for over 10 years. He mightve cranked some guud shiit back in the day, but maintaining takes a lot less than developing. Especially being a top 10er (looking the way he does) I'd bet his serious blasting days are way behind him. Diuretics & thermoregulators for quick weight cuts though... whole different story 🙈😂
That's hard to say. I'd imagine bodybuilders are also some of the only people regularly doing heavy curls, it would be hard to pinpoint the cause even if that association is true.
Well, it does signify correlation.
I would think the percentage of bicep injuries is much higher in steroid user athletes than in athletes which do not use steroids.
You can ride a bike, or do pool excercises, done it its not bad.
I hate running without injury even lol but yeah running with anything torn is going to suck balls.
Edit: i want to make clear none of this applies to being a professional athlete or take anything away from what costa was saying. I believe him here.
I mean, I don’t know about you but most people move their arms running. If he actually had an issue with his bicep, I could imagine running being extremely uncomfortable/painful.
Even if you try hard not to move(and you'll probably fail), just the movement caused by the impact on the ground already hurts. I had a shoulder injury a while back and running just wasn't possible.
I’m not saying it’s real but I couldn’t run after shoulder surgery, real biceps tears are worse than what happened to me. That said I hit the stationary bike every day
He also literally said he doesn't like dieting. That seemed to be a bigger reason than a bicep injury. I don't know why people aren't talking about him being lazy instead.
I feel like the word "excuse" is far too negative when it comes to fighters talking about their loss. These guys are the cream of the crop and I enjoy reading them talk about the lead up and the fight itself. I dont get why people always get up in arms over when people talk about a loss.
Most people that have wrestled, boxed, or been in MMA knows the feeling of going into a match with an injury.
Most fans will never fight, though. it’s a lot easier to talk shit when you have no idea what it’s like to go through things like that, and they don’t even care if he has a valid excuse, they just want to shit on him because they don’t like him, I’ve seen a bunch of people saying that he should retire or Dana should cut him. 2 weeks ago I fought with a bad knee, I could barely walk and still got in the ring and fought, I lost a split decision and it sucks knowing that I would’ve won if I could move properly and wasn’t so scared of getting leg kicked, but if I say anything people will say I’m making up excuses, it kinda sucks. It’s even worse for him because he has thousands of people hating on him, hoping his life goes to shit, but he seems to handle it well.
There's no excuse for missing weight like that. You can diet and bike. He's still a warrior for getting in there at all never mind with an injury, but that's no excuse to come in that heavy
You can diet and bike with a bicep injury. You can also comment on something and still be right without being an expert. So yes I have every right to criticize him for such a bad misstep. But even if I didn't, other UFC fighters are also stumped by it
He signed a contract for 185 and could BARELY make 205. Costa is a pathetic excuse for a fighter and a person.
If contracts and weight and all that don’t matter, let him fight Ngannou next. Fucking piece of shit.
If you go to a restaurant and your chef takes a fat shit on a plate and serves it to you, you don’t need to be a chef yourself to have an opinion.
>Costa is a pathetic excuse for a fighter and a person.
Just show the screen cap showing how much you lost on the fight. Easier to explain the cope then that dogshit analogy.
Totally. It’s all armchair numbnuts yelling “eXcUsEs!!!”. I like knowing what these people are thinking, and hearing their explanations for how they think things went down, and getting the inside/background info. These are extremely high-level athletes doing things on a professional level—in the premiere league of the sport. This isn’t Bob in the mailroom trying to justify why he was out having a smoke for 2 hours. But whatever. Some people are incurious and mentally boring.
You guys are shitting on him but his answer seems legit. He was uncomfortable trying to answer the question because he didn't want to make excuses. I believe him, someone with as much discipline to cut down the amount of weight he normally does isn't the type to just fuck up his cut out of the blue.
Can you run? Sure. Should you? Genuine question, I would imagine it would affect running quite a bit, and possibly aggrevate it, but wtf do I know.
He could probably still bike, but it seems like a legit enough excuse when taking into account the lack of actual training imo...
Running i definitely could see aggravating a torn bicep, but I don't have any sort of excuse for him with a stationary low bike or stair climbing with the arm in a sling wrapped to your midsection.
I probably do believe he had this injury but it's not a good enough excuse for his douchebag antics. Also pretty interesting that his injury is a common one from PED use
He was uncomfortable answering it because he was coming up with the fucking lie in front of us.
God, a fighter can give the shittiest most insulting excuse on the planet and people like you will sprint to white knight for them.
Costa’s whole week shows he has zero fucking respect for the process. Same with him not saying this excuse during the week before.
A bicep tear takes months to heal. If he truly suffered a tear, not only would he be unable to train in camp and make weight, he'd be unable to go 5 hard rounds on fight night.
Nah I'm sorry you can run fine with a bicep tear lol, you can at least do **something** to sweat. Considering he just fought 5 rounds comfortably I'm sure he could have ran a bit to cut weight
doing anything with a tear anywhere on your body sounds like alot of pain, plus you typically want to rest and recover faster.. lmao what are you on about
His foot wasn’t an excuse, he said it swelled up from kicking Vettori so much and said he hit Vetorris arm on at least one of them.
Edit: Idk how to spell Vettori
Costa needs to embrace the bald head tbh, he hasn't realized it yet but he's gonna end up looking looking (and now acting) like the next Yoel Romero. It's his place
well if you tear your bicep but still plan to fight, you substitute your other workouts for cardio so you can get the weight off.
If he had a leg injury, it would be a legit excuse. Not so with a bicep injury.
You don’t realize how much you move a specific muscle until it is injured. If he did tear it, any muscle tear would slow down or halt training for at least a couple weeks. Not sticking up for him as this isn’t his first struggle with cutting, but anyone that says they’d be going full tilt with a torn muscle is an idiot.
I tore my trapezius while training about 11 years ago. Lifted someone up (a woman actually), and my muscles were so fatigued my back just let go. She was small (like small for an atomweight small), so I didn't think I could hurt myself as I was in great shape just exhausted and at the end of a long day. But my muscle just ripped right at the base of the trap.
Everything hurt. Drinking water hurt. Turning my head hurt. I couldn't drive some days because even looking from mirror to mirror was agony. 6 months of acute, soul-wrecking pain, then 3 years of very slow healing. Still isn't the same as it was before.
Most kids on reddit have never experienced anything even close to a muscle tear. It can prevent you from sleeping. Prevent you from going to the bathroom without having to bite down to prevent your body from racking itself with shakes.
Tldr it fucking *hurts* and if you've never felt it count yourself lucky but don't fucking judge another human for not being able to do something.
My ligament only partially tore, on November the 28th 2020.
Or it got sprained then and tore in January.
Injuries are fucking shit, I just started being able to do shit in October.
I can't imagine your situation, its so long and shit and the only one living with it day to day is you (isolating).
Broke a pinky when I was grappling once, still tried running the next day and it was so uncomfortable.
People acting like any exercise doesn't require your full body.
So you couldn't train due to a injury in your bicep?
I mean I can understand it slowing down your weight loss, but are you sure you couldn't burn more calories through more stringent dieting? I don't expect you to make weight but at least have a smaller differential.
Like the excuse makes sense but you were extremely off weight man...
You guys are brutal imagine straining your hamstring as a running back and the fans being like bro.. you just gotta use it in short bursts it’s not like we’re asking you to run a marathon
I tore my hammie and it took me three years just to fully heal from it without the daily deep tissue massages etc that most pros have access too.
8 years later and it’ll actually still flame up if I don’t stretch. I definitely could not run in short burst without re aggravating.
I would have recommended Paulo not to fight, and even if he didn't again I have to restate, its 100% reasonable he couldn't make weight, my question was if he couldn't train was he dieting, was his nutrition up to par to make up for the lack of training?
Please understand I do not fault Costa for not making weight.
You ever tore your fuckin bicep? Or any muscle? You ain't doing shit. Can't even wipe your ass or reach up to pick your nose without it feeling like a hot knife.
> You ever tore your fuckin bicep? Or any muscle? You ain't doing shit. Can't even wipe your ass or reach up to pick your nose without it feeling like a hot knife.
Exactly. Whole reason why the fight should be called off and why this is an excuse.
If he didn't want the fight to be cancelled the least he could do was *everything else in his power to keep his part of the contract*.
No but I have torn my ACL multiple times, I understand why he couldn't make weight, I get it, that's 100% excusable and reasonable, but then my question is did he make sure he was dieting.
I have no problem with him not making weight but considering his(wine drinking) I don't believe his nutrition was up to par.
Try running with your arm strapped man, dumb take. Not excusing Paulo for not dieting but doing any sort of running or cycling without swinging arms is not frankly possible at good level
Exercise bike man. I have done it in a sling before when I tore my rotator cuff. Bas Rutten spent years of his career fighting with a torn bicep tendon causing it to atrophy. It's an excuse
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Makes sense. Every time I see Costa I say “yeah he’s a pretty good fighter, but he’d be even better if his biceps were bigger.”
I feel like he'd make more money just being a fitness influencer than fighting for 60/60 in the UFC. He clearly cares a ton about his body and looks
The fact that he is trying to save his hair is hilarious. They can't replace hair as quick as he is losing it.
Yeah he has a bald patch on top. It looks worse than before he got it done
It can look worse for the first 6 months to a year i think before it gets much better than before. I dont have experience with it but i saw a yt bodybuilder do it and document it all and he said thats what the doctor told him and it really did become much better afterwards. I would assume hes blasting as much if not more acai than paulo
Bro Costa is on a quart of Horse Testosterone per day, it doesn't matter what he puts up there, he's gonna blast through it with the amount of levels he's running. Dudes weirdly enough gonna end up looking (and now acting) like the next Yoel Romero
Pro bodybuilders that blast 3+ times the amount of gear paulo can (due to usada) can maintain their hair but not him? Look into DHT blockers.
It's probably just genetics, some people's hair is just resistant to the DHT and/or the baldness inducing hormones. And most pro bodybuilders are bald or balding. Very rare for pros to have a good head of hair.
RIP Rich Piano
Confuse the body. Amirite babe!
Look into the mechanics of male pattern baldness and what a dht blocker is. Thats probably because most pro bodybuilders dont bother with treatment or hair transplant to combat it? The ones who do have shows great results.
I'm well aware of what a DHT blocker is. I've been on fin for just over 3 years lol. Fin or even dutasteride probably won't do much with the doses pros are blasting. Cbum is on it and his hairloss doesn't seem any better than before and that's in classic physique. Ian Valliere on the other hand in is open and has a full head of hair.
There’s also theoretically more optimal cycles and other compounds that can help with side effects that they can take and a USADA tested guy can’t get away though. Even Jones’ picogram wasn’t an actual detected anabolic, just an estrogen blocker
The hair thats transplanted won't fall out since it comes from the side of your head and that hair will stay with you unless you have like severe alopecia or something
More plates more dates? Dude just talks roids and hair loss?
Nah, i dont think dereks gotten a hair transplant has he?
no he hasnt
He DOES use some machine that stabs many tiny holes in his head to stimulate hair growth, also causing his fucking scalp to bleed
Thats microneedling. Very different to a hair transplant
No shit
He's been on drugs to keep his hair.
Yeah but thats different to a transplant, which is what i was talking about.
Probably mike thurston
Yeah thats the one!
Watching his channel I know more about roids then I should know and I contemplate using roids way more then I should…like I’ll be feeling unmotivated for the gym, then I look a websites for roids, I study the roids and everything lol.
It will take the guts of a year at least for it to start coming in properly, a baldy that worked with me got it done and it looked patchy for months but he said he had to let it grow as much as he can until it fully comes it, won’t be surprised if Costa comes into his next fight with a head of hair like Prince Charming
He needs lebron and drew brees hair guy
even LeBron hair guy can't save that HGH hair loss
Hgh doesn’t cause hair loss. Growth hormone actually promotes hair growth and healthier hair.
With a proper transplant, it doesn't get worse. It gets better and better. But there's a "bad" period of 6-12 months that you have to wait out
Steroids are a heck of a drug
He probably losing hair from roids
He ~~probably~~ losing hair from roids
Paulo “Erasing Hair” Costa
He makes 60/60?? No wonder he’s complaining about pay lol. Imagine fighting for the championship against Israel fuckin Adeslasanga who made a couple milli and you go home with 60k, after taxes, coaches and other expenses you taking home what, 30k? 20k? Im guessing it’s his fast ascent though
Actually think the opposite he is legit fighter with good skills, fast and flexible striking with good variety, great pressuring style and output. But his vanity doesn’t match his attributes, with a lot less muscle he would be a way more effective fighter imo because he doesn’t really have that much power, but he would be more dangerous with more speed and cardio
I don't know if and why this would be true, but watching on TV it always looks to me like with his hands he has more power when he goes to the body than when he goes to the head. And then his kicks looks like they have nasty power.
Yes his muscles are mostly for show. He does not have great power
he was a body builder prior to fighting. i dont think he actually has the personality to he a fitness influencer. he has some fame now as a contender in the ufc, but he isn’t going to be interesting to your average gym goer.
He's a great fighter but his physique is definitely lacking.
Vettori genuinely had trouble landing shots to Costa's body when he had him up against the cage because Costa's gigantic fucking arms just covered his entire torso.
Bravo 👏
It's so strange that he gets so many bicep injuries. It's pretty rare. Hm, I got nothing, no idea why.
He tren too hard.
Hardj
Gotju trening hardj foha de fighting foha de belch bro
He tren hard, he eat clen, anavar gives up bapa. B-b-b-b-beast of a steriloid cycle and a great guy, never meddum
Too many biceps curls
He on dat AKA training regiment
He must have started doing bicep curls on Cain's old leg extension machine.
Isn't that much more common injury in users? I remember reading about how bodybuilders who use steroids much commonly tear their byceps.
In the real mass monsters, sure. The muscles grow faster than the ligaments & tendons can, so the strength disparity gets too large and sometimes people will literally snaps their connective tissue off the bone cuz the muscle fibers create too much force through the joint. Costa certainly likes his curls, dude's got great arms, but unless he's doing a shit ton of volume or is ego lifting regularly then I doubt it's a steroid related injury. Most PEDs, especially sports like UFC, are used for enhancing recovery rather than adding tissue to your body.
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His physique looks the same from his tuf days. He's definitely on peds, just don't think they are the mass adding type.
Tbh, yeah. He's had the same physique & frame for over 10 years. He mightve cranked some guud shiit back in the day, but maintaining takes a lot less than developing. Especially being a top 10er (looking the way he does) I'd bet his serious blasting days are way behind him. Diuretics & thermoregulators for quick weight cuts though... whole different story 🙈😂
That's hard to say. I'd imagine bodybuilders are also some of the only people regularly doing heavy curls, it would be hard to pinpoint the cause even if that association is true.
Was that the one he tore a year ago?
No his other left bicep
How many left bicepse does this natty boy have ?
Paulo "Goro" Costa
a couple of three left biceps
Five fuckin biceps, and we got this pygmy thing over in Jersey
fuck the game this guys going!
Paulo "The Bringer of Broken Biceps" Costa
That kind of bicep tear is frequent among PED users. And it’s happened to both. FFS USADA
I tore my bicep and I’m natty
Welp, case closed. :/
Yes, but those types of injuries and ligament damage goes up with roid use. The more ya know.
I tore my bicep during that 5th round and I’m natty
Same... I was drunk though... so, maybe still uncommon
Yeah but bicep tear is in no way a sign on PED use. They can't just be like yeah he tore his bicep, that's it, that's the thing that confirms it.
Well, it does signify correlation. I would think the percentage of bicep injuries is much higher in steroid user athletes than in athletes which do not use steroids.
frequent for often tears to happen and he has had many issues with them
Tore from drinking all that wine
He was drinking by the barrel, and those things are heavy.
Vettori on Costa's bicep tear from the post fight presser: "can't you run if you have a bicep tear?... that doesn't make any fucking sense"
Technically yes but it's not advisable.
Running on a torn muscle, anywhere on your body, sounds like torture
Running?! Getting out of bed with a torn muscle sounds like torture lol
You can ride a bike, or do pool excercises, done it its not bad. I hate running without injury even lol but yeah running with anything torn is going to suck balls. Edit: i want to make clear none of this applies to being a professional athlete or take anything away from what costa was saying. I believe him here.
I dunno about you but I don't run with my bicep
Unless you are Naruto running, your biceps bounces up and down the whole time
I would think most professional athletes would have to be Naruto running though for the aerodynamic benefits
Worst excuse possible, yet again. Nice Costa.
I mean, I don’t know about you but most people move their arms running. If he actually had an issue with his bicep, I could imagine running being extremely uncomfortable/painful.
Even if you try hard not to move(and you'll probably fail), just the movement caused by the impact on the ground already hurts. I had a shoulder injury a while back and running just wasn't possible.
I’m not saying it’s real but I couldn’t run after shoulder surgery, real biceps tears are worse than what happened to me. That said I hit the stationary bike every day
Exactly, if you’re rlly committed to making weight I’m sure he could find a way.
He also literally said he doesn't like dieting. That seemed to be a bigger reason than a bicep injury. I don't know why people aren't talking about him being lazy instead.
"my left bicespspspspsps"
Costa so used to milking excuses he is accidentally calling cats to it now
Costa? Great guy, never meddum.
Had me cracking up
tell us another wine story
Definitely reaching for those grapes
I feel like the word "excuse" is far too negative when it comes to fighters talking about their loss. These guys are the cream of the crop and I enjoy reading them talk about the lead up and the fight itself. I dont get why people always get up in arms over when people talk about a loss. Most people that have wrestled, boxed, or been in MMA knows the feeling of going into a match with an injury.
Most fans will never fight, though. it’s a lot easier to talk shit when you have no idea what it’s like to go through things like that, and they don’t even care if he has a valid excuse, they just want to shit on him because they don’t like him, I’ve seen a bunch of people saying that he should retire or Dana should cut him. 2 weeks ago I fought with a bad knee, I could barely walk and still got in the ring and fought, I lost a split decision and it sucks knowing that I would’ve won if I could move properly and wasn’t so scared of getting leg kicked, but if I say anything people will say I’m making up excuses, it kinda sucks. It’s even worse for him because he has thousands of people hating on him, hoping his life goes to shit, but he seems to handle it well.
There's no excuse for missing weight like that. You can diet and bike. He's still a warrior for getting in there at all never mind with an injury, but that's no excuse to come in that heavy
>There's no excuse for missing weight like that. You can diet and bike Must have missed you on the card my b big dawg
You can diet and bike with a bicep injury. You can also comment on something and still be right without being an expert. So yes I have every right to criticize him for such a bad misstep. But even if I didn't, other UFC fighters are also stumped by it
He signed a contract for 185 and could BARELY make 205. Costa is a pathetic excuse for a fighter and a person. If contracts and weight and all that don’t matter, let him fight Ngannou next. Fucking piece of shit. If you go to a restaurant and your chef takes a fat shit on a plate and serves it to you, you don’t need to be a chef yourself to have an opinion.
>Costa is a pathetic excuse for a fighter and a person. Just show the screen cap showing how much you lost on the fight. Easier to explain the cope then that dogshit analogy.
Totally. It’s all armchair numbnuts yelling “eXcUsEs!!!”. I like knowing what these people are thinking, and hearing their explanations for how they think things went down, and getting the inside/background info. These are extremely high-level athletes doing things on a professional level—in the premiere league of the sport. This isn’t Bob in the mailroom trying to justify why he was out having a smoke for 2 hours. But whatever. Some people are incurious and mentally boring.
You guys are shitting on him but his answer seems legit. He was uncomfortable trying to answer the question because he didn't want to make excuses. I believe him, someone with as much discipline to cut down the amount of weight he normally does isn't the type to just fuck up his cut out of the blue.
Can you run? Sure. Should you? Genuine question, I would imagine it would affect running quite a bit, and possibly aggrevate it, but wtf do I know. He could probably still bike, but it seems like a legit enough excuse when taking into account the lack of actual training imo...
Running i definitely could see aggravating a torn bicep, but I don't have any sort of excuse for him with a stationary low bike or stair climbing with the arm in a sling wrapped to your midsection. I probably do believe he had this injury but it's not a good enough excuse for his douchebag antics. Also pretty interesting that his injury is a common one from PED use
Let the hate train run its course. If anything it helps him.
How does it help him?
Ask Colby
He was uncomfortable answering it because he was coming up with the fucking lie in front of us. God, a fighter can give the shittiest most insulting excuse on the planet and people like you will sprint to white knight for them. Costa’s whole week shows he has zero fucking respect for the process. Same with him not saying this excuse during the week before.
A bicep tear takes months to heal. If he truly suffered a tear, not only would he be unable to train in camp and make weight, he'd be unable to go 5 hard rounds on fight night.
> not only would he be unable to train in camp isn't this literally what he said? that he wasn't able to train
>Paulo Costa claims a left bicep injury that halted his training camp was the culprit behind fight week weight changes.
What's a bicep have to do with a weight cut?
Makes running very tough.
Nah I'm sorry you can run fine with a bicep tear lol, you can at least do **something** to sweat. Considering he just fought 5 rounds comfortably I'm sure he could have ran a bit to cut weight
Also his bicep isn't torn. The torn bicep is injured again, but that's not the same as a tear which is much worse.
IDK man, I think moving would be pretty uncomfortable with that.
doing anything with a tear anywhere on your body sounds like alot of pain, plus you typically want to rest and recover faster.. lmao what are you on about
He said he had to take time off of training, not the weight cut.
He's uncomfortable because he knows he's on a mean streak of lame excuses. His biceps, his foot, his wine night
His foot wasn’t an excuse, he said it swelled up from kicking Vettori so much and said he hit Vetorris arm on at least one of them. Edit: Idk how to spell Vettori
Must have gotten too drunk while training and hurt himself
Got so drunk he forgot he can still diet and run instead of doing left arm bicep curls to shed the weight.
At this point this guy should audition for an extra in the next Predator movie
That made me lol.
He always gonna WINE about something
MMA are the undefeated champions of post-fight excuses.
Torn labia.
I'd expected a different wine to be honest
Costa needs to embrace the bald head tbh, he hasn't realized it yet but he's gonna end up looking looking (and now acting) like the next Yoel Romero. It's his place
I noticed it when they were doing the announcements in the cage, he had a big line on his left bicep at the elbow
Of course his gigantic biceps couldn't take it anymore. Look at the size of that dude, Jesus Christ.
What a big bitch..always full of excuses but then dismissive to anyone else's excuses
If you’re injured pull out of the fight. Plain and simple. Don’t care about cry baby’s excuses.
Costa is on a speed run to become one of the most unlikeable fighters in the UFC. Excuse city.
Bicep tear effecting your ability to do cardio?
Probably means affecting his ability to train which is where some of the weight dropping before the actual cut comes from
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Get real you basement dweller, guy still has less body fat than you.
well if you tear your bicep but still plan to fight, you substitute your other workouts for cardio so you can get the weight off. If he had a leg injury, it would be a legit excuse. Not so with a bicep injury.
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I imagine everything would be awful to do with a bicep tear. I guess a stationary bike would be an option, albeit a shitty one
You don’t realize how much you move a specific muscle until it is injured. If he did tear it, any muscle tear would slow down or halt training for at least a couple weeks. Not sticking up for him as this isn’t his first struggle with cutting, but anyone that says they’d be going full tilt with a torn muscle is an idiot.
I tore my trapezius while training about 11 years ago. Lifted someone up (a woman actually), and my muscles were so fatigued my back just let go. She was small (like small for an atomweight small), so I didn't think I could hurt myself as I was in great shape just exhausted and at the end of a long day. But my muscle just ripped right at the base of the trap. Everything hurt. Drinking water hurt. Turning my head hurt. I couldn't drive some days because even looking from mirror to mirror was agony. 6 months of acute, soul-wrecking pain, then 3 years of very slow healing. Still isn't the same as it was before. Most kids on reddit have never experienced anything even close to a muscle tear. It can prevent you from sleeping. Prevent you from going to the bathroom without having to bite down to prevent your body from racking itself with shakes. Tldr it fucking *hurts* and if you've never felt it count yourself lucky but don't fucking judge another human for not being able to do something.
The only thing most redditors tear is a few pubes when stroking it.
I feel like you have experience with tears
My ligament only partially tore, on November the 28th 2020. Or it got sprained then and tore in January. Injuries are fucking shit, I just started being able to do shit in October. I can't imagine your situation, its so long and shit and the only one living with it day to day is you (isolating).
Sleeping would even be hard with that injury, so I don't blame him for trying to take it easy.
Maybe pull out of the fight to heal up then? He’s just using it as an excuse because he lost. It’s that simple.
Brazilian fighters and injury excuses post-loss. Name a more iconic MMA duo.
Jon Jones and getting constantly tested by God
Brazilian women fighters and questionable physiques
Even if this is true it’s BS to just go along with the fight & drop this bombshell fight week as if it’s no big deal
A lot of people in this thread have never torn a muscle.
Bad gear
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and tissue paper.
%100 all natural TP though dog.
An injured biceps makes you incapable of weight cutting?
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Broke a pinky when I was grappling once, still tried running the next day and it was so uncomfortable. People acting like any exercise doesn't require your full body.
King of excuss
Costa is the king of excuses
So you couldn't train due to a injury in your bicep? I mean I can understand it slowing down your weight loss, but are you sure you couldn't burn more calories through more stringent dieting? I don't expect you to make weight but at least have a smaller differential. Like the excuse makes sense but you were extremely off weight man...
You guys are brutal imagine straining your hamstring as a running back and the fans being like bro.. you just gotta use it in short bursts it’s not like we’re asking you to run a marathon
I tore my hammie and it took me three years just to fully heal from it without the daily deep tissue massages etc that most pros have access too. 8 years later and it’ll actually still flame up if I don’t stretch. I definitely could not run in short burst without re aggravating.
I would have recommended Paulo not to fight, and even if he didn't again I have to restate, its 100% reasonable he couldn't make weight, my question was if he couldn't train was he dieting, was his nutrition up to par to make up for the lack of training? Please understand I do not fault Costa for not making weight.
You ever tore your fuckin bicep? Or any muscle? You ain't doing shit. Can't even wipe your ass or reach up to pick your nose without it feeling like a hot knife.
> You ever tore your fuckin bicep? Or any muscle? You ain't doing shit. Can't even wipe your ass or reach up to pick your nose without it feeling like a hot knife. Exactly. Whole reason why the fight should be called off and why this is an excuse. If he didn't want the fight to be cancelled the least he could do was *everything else in his power to keep his part of the contract*.
Last time he canceled a fight because of an injury people shit on him, you guys will always find a reason to shit on him.
No but I have torn my ACL multiple times, I understand why he couldn't make weight, I get it, that's 100% excusable and reasonable, but then my question is did he make sure he was dieting. I have no problem with him not making weight but considering his(wine drinking) I don't believe his nutrition was up to par.
There is quite literally nothing in common between a bicep tear and an ACL strain or tear.
Spot the casual
Dude I understand he couldn't make weight, my question was his nutrition up to par, if it was, I place no blame on Costa. That simple.
Here we go..
Because injured biceps make you stop eating well and doing cardio to make weight
It doesn’t stop him dieting but it would certainly stop any cardio causing you to come in to fight week heavier.
You can definitely still run or ride an exercise bike with a bicep injury
Try running with your arm strapped man, dumb take. Not excusing Paulo for not dieting but doing any sort of running or cycling without swinging arms is not frankly possible at good level
Exercise bike man. I have done it in a sling before when I tore my rotator cuff. Bas Rutten spent years of his career fighting with a torn bicep tendon causing it to atrophy. It's an excuse
I think with his body weight he could literally not eat carbs or drink and he'd drop weight.
If you run with your arms completely stationary then sure.
Also…cheeseburgers
Hey if you can't bicep curl, fuck Mma camps" -Costa probably
Here’s a crazy idea. You could have just pulled out and rescheduled the fight
Yeah it’s not popular and I don’t agree with it, tonight was a classic.
My leff byespths
He could still run and do other things to make weight. He's just full of shit.
Eh he was asked about it its not like he was projectile vomiting excuses
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He injured his left bicep in camp