What could Divock Origi’s workout plan have been?

Divock Origi put on so much muscle this season that he actually went up a shirt size. What could his workout plan have been?

I couldn’t tell you the last time I went up a shirt size. I’ve strictly been a medium since I was probably like 13, despite all the times the carrot of “growth” was dangled ahead of me.

When I was first brought into a weight room, I didn’t much anticipate moving up a shirt size. Quite honestly, I wouldn’t want to because that wouldn’t change my diminutive body frame.

But that’s what happened with Divock Origi over a period when he was injured and couldn’t train, he added so much bulk that he actually needed to change his kit size. And he’s not even swimming in that, it seems to fit rather naturally. So this is real.

Look at this picture! He goes from an innocent kid finding his feet in a big city to a chiseled veteran that’s spent hours in the gym pumping out frustration from an unforgiving world.

I guess I could never really discern the difference. Remember when he looked like Bambi aimlessly running around and slipping against Tottenham in Jurgen Klopp’s first match in charge? At some point since then, he’s really turned into a man.

At Rush The Kop, we’re prone to hypothesize the odd workout plan, so here are a few explanations we have concocted.

Disclaimer: steroids aren’t an option that was considered even as joke. So if you’re disappointed when you scroll down and don’t find it, c’mon. Have some blind trust in a world that doesn’t deserve it.

Anyways.

1. The Kristaps Porzingis Plan

Right. As a fan of the New York Knicks (which is even worse and more heartbreaking than being a Liverpool fan for those who are uninformed) the first thought when Origi put on weight was Porzingis. You see, Porzingis was this basketball unicorn: to most fans, he was some random 19-year-old from Latvia who had shooting range like he was 6’3″ but he was 7’3″ but might literally be skin and bones. All elbows.

He’s the prized possession of the Knicks, he’s truly their only hope right now. He’s looked promising in his first season, but it didn’t take a dietitian nor a sports scientist to figure out he needed to bulk up to bang around with guys his height but a significant weight advantage. He claimed that he gained 11 lbs (5 kilos, like Origi)

Porzingis eats THREE steaks a day! Sorry we took so long to get to that. A lot of foundation had to be laid for these two worlds to collide. Yeah, so could Origi be chomping 5,000 calories a day and evolving into a carnivorous goal scoring lovable mad man? It’s possible.

Just imagine Origi getting three steaks placed in front of him. He grabs them with his hands and starts violently biting into them (save your Luis Suarez jokes for another website, thanks) with Klopp looking on, smiling with an evil cackle. It’s so beautiful.

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2. Origi sleeps in the weight room every night, on the bench press

Maybe there’s a sports scientist that’s discovered a person gets bigger quicker just by sniffing in the weight and the bar and the bench and just the general stench of the gym in a state of sleep all night. Who knows, I’m no doctor.

3. Origi took up sumo wrestling

Baptism by fire. Thrown into the deep end to find out if he could swim.

4. Origi takes spinach that immediately bulks him up, like Popeye

This would be way too cool for Origi.

5. Old fashioned hard work

That’s no fun.

Whatever it was, unless it’s old fashioned hard work, I want in. Let’s do this.