PFT: Ricky Looks Good

[Coral Reefer]

It's different if your muscles are already use to being that big. Your body has good memory in that if you've been 235 pounds of lean muscle within the past couple of years, age notwithstanding, you can probably get back to there a lot quicker than a guy who has not been at that weight yet and is trying to reach it.

In the case of Ricky's ascent from 190 pounds to 215 pounds within a month or two, he was only down to 190 as a result of sickness (I heard it was some kind of infection). He slid right back up to 205 pounds in no time, probably even was able to do that within a week or two, and slide up to 215 pounds in the remaining 3 or 4 weeks. Getting to 225 will go slower, but 3 months is practically a lifetime for a guy who has been 235 to 240 pounds of solid muscle within the past year or two.

That is dead on Parrot.
A lot of people don't know that.
There is an old weight training saying that muscles have memory and like you pointed out, it is MUCH easier for someone to regain strength and muscle tone they built once before than it is for someone to build new strength and muscle tone levels.

 

[WILLIS21]

Funny, when PFT is bashing Nick Saban everybody is up in arms about what a garbage site PFT is. When Something good about the dolphins is said on the site it's taken as gospel. Having said that Ricky does look like he is in shape from the pictures.

 

[byroan]

Guys... All of this is pure speculation. Although I am certainly biased towards Miami, I think the best proven tandem in the NFL has to be Staley and Bettis!!!! Ronnie Brown has yet to play a down. Ricky has been on hiatus. Now, do I think we eventually will have the best? Yes. But you guys cannot deny Staley and Bettis.

The 2002 version of Ricky is better than Staley and Bettis combined. That's not including Ronnie. We will have the best RB tandem in the league.

 

[Al13]

here is what mckinney had to say about him :

"In the team meeting, he did what he had to do," McKinney said. "He's a man about it. We're all being men about it. Nobody is holding any grudges. We all want him back. He's a great player

this is from espn Link