Before and after pics: 220 to 175 lbs.

Hey, I know I've been posting a lot of pics lately, but this is the last time I'm gonna post for awhile, because I'm probably going to maintain for a while.... Anyway, here is the results of my cut from 220 to 175:
 
Before:
 

 
After:
 

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Dude, that's awesome!!  Good work!  :)

nice. no homo.

It's a good thing you said "no homo" Perrynaytor, otherwise I would have been worried, lol.  Thanks guys.

Time to get fat again!!! (I don't think that's possible with this MMA s*** I'm doing though).

"True genius, in many fields of human endeavor, is often revealed in elegant simplicity."

- A smart man

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Bri I'm willing to say you're officially "ripped" now.

5'11" 175lbs, you skinny bastard.

You'd be in a good weight class with MMA though seeing your strength to size ratio. Your deadlift is still over 400 for low reps isn't it?

ACE-CPT, NASM-CPT, AFPA-Nutrition Consultant 

Crom on a cracker!  That's impressive!

You wouldn't happen to have a half-way pic, would you?  Somewhere around 185?

My home away from DBB

I actually have a bunch of progress pics, but they are on my home computer Veg.  I'll post them later. 

Yes, MVP I can still deadlift about 410 lbs. for about 3 reps.  I'm trying to get my squat back up to 315 too!

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bri I think you should shoot for addin another 10lbs and 7-8% bf and you'd be rockin it.

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That's bad ass! But your totally covering **** up..  Shave the hair boy! I got alot of hair also but I hit it every day with soap and water, only takes me 20min to do it.   Sometimes 15min.   The very first time you shave it though it takes a couple hours so you want to use shaving cream on the most of it then touch it up in the shower with soap. 

You take off that hair and your going to look damn near where I am at right now.  Just cut off maybe 5 more lbs your going to look insane.  Then clean bulk 15 and cut back 7 or so.  You get the point stay in the range where you still have abs.


Great Job! :)

he actually isn't that much smaller.  He is taking a shot on the cell phone in one picture and the other picture he is using a wider lense camera.  Cell phone pictures always make you look a bit smaller. 

When that hair is gone he will look savage.  The forearms are no doubt ripped and have veins in them but you can't see them cause of the hair. 

LOL yeah I agree shave the hair and go about 5 lbs lower and you'll look bad a$$!

Impressive cut none-the-less. 410lbs X 3 with good form at 175lbs raw is an impressive deadlift.

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Damn Brihead. Nice job. Starting to look like a Mike Brown, or a GSP. :)


(No homo)

Red PittBull's Log.

Haha you can tell that you work out now.

working on explosive phase
vertical: 35
weight: 206

Big 3: 300/440/515

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

LoL *bUMP* I was thinking the  same thing about my self my first cut.  WOW IT LOOKS LIKE I WORK OUT! hahaha!!  People who didn't know me had to ask Do you work out?  Now they just touch me and ask me how often lol.   It's so different! hahaha

175 Jesus Christ.

''If one is after quick results one never learns an art.''

Erich Fromm

That really is an impressive cut bri, huge difference.

6'3"  @213

Squat 1x20x275

press:200, Deadlift:475, Bench:300, P.clean:235, Squat:385

"The only failure that is final is to stop trying to improve"

pretty awesome cut. you're not a fat slob anymore :P

Looking great man. I wonder when to do my first-ever cut. I still need quite some size on my frame.

Probably I'll start cutting once I hit 183-185lbs. I am in the 168-169 range now.

5'8.1"
Age = 20 
started in February 16th 2007: 58kg (127.6lbs)
current : around 79-80kg (173.8lb-176lb)

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Looking great man. I wonder when to do my first-ever cut. I still need quite some size on my frame.

Probably I'll start cutting once I hit 183-185lbs. I am in the 168-169 range now.

Yeah, at your height cutting from 185 - 190 would be dope.. You could look pretty beastly.  Cutting from 220 to 180 - 185 would put you in the light heavy weight body builder type range... That's pretty freaking big, depending on how lean you are at 220.   Either way you can be a seriously impressive 160 - 165. 

Thanks for all the comments everyone.  I do look like I lift now, haha.

I don't really wanna shave my whole body.  I just manscape every few weeks with an electric razor, otherwise I start looking like teen wolf, lol. 

I'm liking the way I feel like this.  I never lifted weights to impress girls before (to be quite honest, my friends on this forum and another one that I go on are my main motivation, haha), but there is definately a huge difference with the way chicks are towards me now.  It's kinda cool.

I may go to gain another 15 lbs. or so, but MMA is my main hobby right now, and extra weight has no benefit in that.  So I'll probably just maintain.

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- A smart man

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Really good job Bri!

brihead301


Thanks for all the comments everyone.  I do look like I lift now, haha.

I don't really wanna shave my whole body.  I just manscape every few weeks with an electric razor, otherwise I start looking like teen wolf, lol. 

I'm liking the way I feel like this.  I never lifted weights to impress girls before (to be quite honest, my friends on this forum and another one that I go on are my main motivation, haha), but there is definately a huge difference with the way chicks are towards me now.  It's kinda cool.

I may go to gain another 15 lbs. or so, but MMA is my main hobby right now, and extra weight has no benefit in that.  So I'll probably just maintain.

How have your lifting numbers suffered from the cut?

Thanks Harddog!

Squat 5RM 325 --> 275
Deadlift - same
Bench 1RM 260 --> 235
OH press 1RM 160 --> 145
Power Clean 3RM 170 -->160
Rows - same
Weighted pull-ups - increased the amount I can do with 45 lbs. attached

Basically only the pushing exercises went down, the pulls stayed the same or got stronger.  And I just plain suck at doing power cleans, but I still love them.

"True genius, in many fields of human endeavor, is often revealed in elegant simplicity."

- A smart man

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how long it take you to cut???

I think if you really wanted to you could still drop a few lbs and become super cut ...

Anyway looking good ... time to do a clean bulk

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. - Frank Sinatra

the more cut and the bigger you are.. Not too big though, the women seem to like it.  Esp if your tall.  

Yeah your going to notice alot more attention, I am telling you though if you shave that attention will double.

i say keep the hair. Maybe thats what makes forrest griffin a great fighter haha

IBendBarbells


the more cut and the bigger you are.. Not too big though, the women seem to like it.  Esp if your tall.  

Yeah your going to notice alot more attention, I am telling you though if you shave that attention will double.

I don't walk around with my shirt off though, so how would it make the attention double by shaving, lol?  By the time I do have my shirt off, well it's pretty much on already :).

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brihead301

IBendBarbells


the more cut and the bigger you are.. Not too big though, the women seem to like it.  Esp if your tall.  

Yeah your going to notice alot more attention, I am telling you though if you shave that attention will double.

I don't walk around with my shirt off though, so how would it make the attention double by shaving, lol?  By the time I do have my shirt off, well it's pretty much on already :).

you don't walk around with your shirt off? holy hell thats all I ever do when I get lean. I'm about to have to cut to where you are. school has started and there are oh so many women.

At least shave your arms, there are so many little muscles and veins you can't see with hair on them.  Do it once, if you don't like it tell me to STFU lol.    I never wanted to do it, then i got into stripping etc.. had to shave everything and it all looked sick as hell

Here's one for you IBB, and this is serious, how do you shave the downstairs without getting razor burn? My upper legs and man region always gets it bad, but everything else is fine.