Mac & Cannoli

I actually started doing strength training and have gone on a strength diet (which sucks) so I understand more now how hard it is to make and maintain muscle, so I thought about it a lot here.

Part of muscling up — as my trainer keeps telling me — is you need adequate sleep for your body to repair and rebuild that muscle and Loid, according to canon, only sleeps an average of two hours. So he's kneecapping his bodies' ability to grow muscle adequately.

I've been finding it hard to build muscle on my unsteady sleep schedule so I don't know how he does it... Just pure grit and time in the game.

Though, he's more lean than meaty.

He has enough strength to block Yor or counter her. I never see it talked about but when Fiona challenges Yor to a tennis match, early on, Loid tries to warn Fiona that it's not a good idea.

Yet he'd been training with Yor. So he knew Fiona could not hold a light to Yor's strength but he himself had been training with Yor so could, to some extent, counter her at that point.

I use Yor because I think she's the physically strongest character revealed so far.

On a pure one on one, she would decimate him. And I think he knows, acknowledges and likes how strong she is.

When he saw her boot one of his "patients" after their second meeting, he laughs and genuinely smiles.

However, I also think Endo has been drawing him meatier and bulkier. I think him living a family life might force him to sleep a little more and eat much more so he may be stronger now than he was, but we haven't seen that expressed.

(though that ulcer is more of an issue as ,realistically, to heal his diet and habits will need to change.)