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enz660

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Forgive the lighting, my room has crap for lights, but yeah, end of sept. to end of march (taken a few days ago, yes, I shaved my chest for the first time ever too!) Here we go!

September (6 months ago) - started lifting 2 months before this...
Weight ~165ish

December 12
Weight ~180ish

(Started cutting Jan. 22)Today...
Weight ~170ish (Goal: 160-165, 5-7% Body Fat)

I believe I can reach my goal in about a month or two, its getting very hard to lose fat at this point though...
 
you look great man.

Why do you want to cut down? Are you a bodybuilder? Are you just planning on maintaining your current muscle at this point? Or do you plan to gain more?

If you do plan to gain more I would keep bulking up, your already lean as hell.
 
I want to cut more to see muscle fiber clearer and mainly to attain those last two lower abs that are not as defined as the top 4. I know its kind of superficial, but it was my dream to have a 6 pack when I started this whole thing, now that im close to getting there, im not stopping.

I plan to stay very lean through the summer though. The bulking will begin mid-summer, this time around, creatine, bcaa's, pre-workout supps will be added unlike before.

And HELL YES I would love to go into natural bodybuilding. Not ready just yet though, probably need another year's worth of lean muscle mass.
 
Hey. How tall are you mate? And what kind of workouts are you doing to get those results? Awsome progress.
 
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

(B Shaw)

You have it together, brotha. Fantastic Progress. You have been consistent and persistent. You have put a history of hard work behind you, which will lay the groundwork of progress ahead of you. No road blocks can challenge you or stop you. You are in fact: Unstoppable.

Hold you head up high and be proud of what you have accomplished.


Best wishes today, and everyday, in all that you do in life and within fitness,




Chillen
 
Woodt said:
Hey. How tall are you mate? And what kind of workouts are you doing to get those results? Awsome progress.
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I am 5'10"

Since I was a beginner, I took advantage of the quick muscle recovery because my CNC was not developed yet. I mainly did 3 full body workouts mon, wed, fri. Some weeks I mixed it up, just to give the muscle a "shock" in order to keep growing. I sometimes threw in an extra 4th day on Saturday because I had nothing better to do.

MOST IMPORTANT is that I ATE like hell. I work at a restaurant (Cosi) So my post workout meal consisted of either a very very large sandwhich, two sandwiches, or an entire pizza with three types of meats. In addition I had 50g of WHEY directly after workout ALL the time. You gain fat yes, but a TON of muscle at the same time.

Cutting is what really shines the light on muscle because you dont look big until you contrast the huge muscle with low body fat, cutting fat in the end is KEY!
 
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At 180 you dont look like you put on much if any fat, how many calories did you take in usually?

good job though, wish i could just eat and not worry bout fat gain when i bulked.
 
Phate89 said:
At 180 you dont look like you put on much if any fat, how many calories did you take in usually?

good job though, wish i could just eat and not worry bout fat gain when i bulked.
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I never counted how many calories I had, I just made sure I ate often, and a lot. My post workout meal was around 2500 calories. My breakfast, which was usually 4 eggs, 8 strips of bacon, two packets of oatmeal, whey protein, some veggies, fruits, fish oil, massive cup of coffee, and probably some other small foods mixed in. Breakfast and Post-workout meals were always massive.

I have thick bones in my legs, just a large lower body in general, which takes up A LOT of the 180lbs... :(


For some reason, even though my upper body is leaning up, my quads and my glutes have a surplus of fat around then, especially the glutes. I don't know why it wont BUUUURRRNN!!! :mad:


Nowadays, for burning fat, I intake a little over 2000 calories per day
 
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enz660 said:
I never counted how many calories I had, I just made sure I ate often, and a lot. My post workout meal was around 2500 calories. My breakfast, which was usually 4 eggs, 8 strips of bacon, two packets of oatmeal, whey protein, some veggies, fruits, fish oil, massive cup of coffee, and probably some other small foods mixed in. Breakfast and Post-workout meals were always massive.

I have thick bones in my legs, just a large lower body in general, which takes up A LOT of the 180lbs... :(


For some reason, even though my upper body is leaning up, my quads and my glutes have a surplus of fat around then, especially the glutes. I don't know why it wont BUUUURRRNN!!! :mad:


Nowadays, for burning fat, I intake a little over 2000 calories per day
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Your a hard gainer. If i hate a 2500 calorie post workout meal + what you eat for breakfast and nothing else i'd still gain too much fat LOL

What did your full body look like, and have your lifts improved and how much?
 
Yeah dude that is a huge ass pwo meal, I would be such a fatty if I ate like that. Congrats on the progress.
 
Phate89 said:
Your a hard gainer. If i hate a 2500 calorie post workout meal + what you eat for breakfast and nothing else i'd still gain too much fat LOL

What did your full body look like, and have your lifts improved and how much?
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Back when I first started, I didn't know much about what to do, I totally neglected abs, lets, shoulders. I mainly did bench, seated cable rows, concentration curls, rope pulldowns, basically anything that I LIKED doing...

this created an imbalance of course..

Around a month before the second progress, shots, I added DB shoulder
press, Squats, Leg press, and only the ab machine..

clearly, this was still not a complete routine

Right now im cutting, so I do a 3/4 day split and cardio every day. As for my particular movements, im trying to widen my lats by starting to do chin-ups (sadly, i can only do about 7:bncry:) I'm also doing brachiallis, front delt, upper pectorals, abdominals (lots of different weighted ab workouts). Basically improving my weak points.

I mainly concentrate on these exercises:

-DB/BB Flat Bench
-Chinups, Lat Pulldown
-Close grip Bench (half range motion as to not hit the pectorals), finishing off with Pulldowns dropset
-DB Shoulder Press
-EZ Bar curls (always proper form), Reverse Preacher curls
-Squat, Leg press
-LOTS OF DIFFERENT AB MOVEMENTS, since I learned that abs are very adaptive, I try to mix it up on them a lot. Keep the weight heavy.

-I never do direct forearm or trap work, have always had those pretty big, they seem to come in naturally.

I an a HUGE fan of agonist/antagonist training (especially for bicep & tricep). It saves a lot of time, keeps the heart rate up, and eliminates boring waiting periods.

I am also a HUGE fan of strip/drop sets, gotta love the burn! Do a heavy set of DB Flat bench, run over to the cable crossover machine to polish those pecs up some more.

I never did cardio while bulking, hate it, only for cutting fat :D

Again...most important thing is to train like you are preparing to fight a polar bear, and eat as if there were a famine the next day.

People say that its 80% Eating, 20% Training.

Let me tell you, its 110% Mind.

If your mind wants it, it will get it, both the training and eating. Start off in the head, your body will follow the image you have set in your mind. I don't really like listening to people who say "yeah only train for one hour at a time, don't train the same muscle group in a row etc etc..." If you FEEL like you can do it, as long as you EAT, you will grow. Try anything and everything to shock your body, force it to adapt.

I read every day for at least an hour all my favorite bodybuilding sites, gaining as much info as I can

I look up to Arnold (the oak) as inspiration for my weight training, he truly is the man. When he first started training, his post workout meal was a whole chicken, and beer. If thats not badass, I don't know what is. The video of him that really gets me super pumped for lifting is this one:



ok ok, enough with the rambling...
 
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