The Great Bulk.

I want to hit 240 pounds and then cut.  This is the road to 240.

I may start a new routine soon, so no point posting my current one.

I'll be having 7-10 meals a day, depending on what day it is, for about 9000 calories.

Current Stats:
5'7
202 pounds
~15% bodyfat.

Look down and me and you'll see a fool.  Look up at me and you'll see your Lord.  Look straight at me and you'll see yourself.

Hit the gym before, was a good workout.

squats 5x5
overhead press 5x5
 deads 5x5
skull crushers 3x8
calf raises3x8
lateral raises3x8

Got about 6500 cals already today, and 3 meals left, maybe 4.

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Dam bro good luck. 9000 calories is a lot and I'm lucky if I get half of that when I'm bulking.

Get big bro. I;m bulking too, its hard to get lots of clean calories, whatever good luck .

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing." Friedrich Nietzsche

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted" John Lennon

I get the calories, it's not too bad.  I have to eat a little dirty.

Did some lateral raises after practice today.

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Got the majority of my calories in.

Good workout today:
Squats 5x5
Bench 5x5
BB Rows 5x5
Dips 2x8 bodyweight+55lbs
Pullups 2x5 bodyweight+25lbs

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Powercleans 8x1
Lateral Raises 2x8

Killer workout. Diet is good today.

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8x1 = 8 sets of 1?

Since power cleans are a power movement I guess it makes sense for the 8 sets of 1 rep for a power clean. Damn I'm surprised you doing 5x5 of deads after doing 5x5 squats that's crazy. I stuck with 5x5 everything before but deads 1x5. Good luck on the gains!!!

"When your strength gains plateau, if you been training exclusively for limit strength/power, you'll need usable muscle mass to progress further."

NBSFighter


8x1 = 8 sets of 1?

Correct.  It takes me about 45 minutes to do them all.

Rest day today.

Yesterday was tits.  I dominated as usual, went to a party after.  Got a decent buzz on, scored some trout and found $200 outside the house.

Good day.

Got about 2k cals in right now.  About to have my next meal soon.

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Good workout today.

I need to figure out a way to stimulate my traps better.  I'm shrugging 405 right now and my grip won't let me go much higher and my traps are lagging.  I may try dumbells.

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Did good today.  Still moving up in weight.

squats 5x5
overhead press 5x5
 deads 5x5
skull crushers 3x8
calf raises3x8
lateral raises3x8

Got about 4500 cals in me now.

Look down and me and you'll see a fool.  Look up at me and you'll see your Lord.  Look straight at me and you'll see yourself.

In a rush...

Diet's good.

Workout was good.

I got some new goals for Jan 1.

Squat 545x1
Bench 385x1
Deadlift 445x1

If I keep progressing the way I am I'll hit them.

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There's something about Americans having very high bench presses. Most of the time you will walk into my gym and find someone doing around 110 lbs.

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

Erich Fromm

I hate benchpressing.  I wouldn't do it if I didn't have to.

Hurt my shoulder yesterday evening.  Nothing serious, just a sharp pain if I move my arm too fast, or go to lift something.  So I'm gonna take it easy for a few days.

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Shoulder is good.  Calories are good.  Played fantastic yesterday as usual.

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We've been doing something new using the pool.  We have to tread water for one hour with a zro, five, or ten pound belt on, depending on how long you can tread for.

It's very exhausting.

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Powercleans 8x1

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How's it goin big guy...BW goin up? Lifts? BF goin down?

Every Saint has a Past. Every Sinner has a Future.

It seems so odd to me how honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us. Honestly, it's astonishing.

It's going alright, I'm satisfied with my progress so far.  Stuck between 204-206, my bodyfat is going down though which is good, I got up to about 16%, I'm around 15% now and dropping.  Strength is going up massively.

Look down and me and you'll see a fool.  Look up at me and you'll see your Lord.  Look straight at me and you'll see yourself.

I like your workout, mainly the Power Cleans day... May just adopt that when I start bulking up properly again.

Great job. Keep it up.

Wyrms


I like your workout, mainly the Power Cleans day... May just adopt that when I start bulking up properly again.

Great job. Keep it up.

Power clean day is by far my most taxing and longest workout.  I rest about 7 minutes between each set.

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Good workout.

Did something different with pullups.  Did 8x2 bodywight+55 pounds.  My hands hurt more than anything from that.

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On the bus right now on my phone.  Didn't workout today, I want to stay fresh for tomorrow.  That's about it, bored off my ass.

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Changing my routine a little bit.  Every third workout I'm going to up the weight by thirty pounds.  Only for that workout though.  For instance

First workout A-regular
Second workout A-regular
Third workout A-+30 pounds
Fourth workout A-regular

By regular I mean regular progression which is +5-10 pounds each week.

I'm going to do as many reps as I can with a maximum of five reps.  Less isn't a big deal, I just want to start getting accustomed to the weight to prolong any stalling that may be coming up.

Weighed in this morning at 208, I think a lot of it is water though.

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Workout was good.  Work was good.  School then practice in a few.  Bleh.

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In class right now doing nothing.  Good workout/diet.

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How much do you power clean Yet? I find if you really try to ''explode'' at the beginning of the movement you can get the heavier lbs up easier.

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

Erich Fromm

I'll be doing 295 this week.  I try and explode in all my movements.

Actually with Power Cleans I had a lot of trouble and was stuck around 135 for a long time.  It was too light, I was exploding too much and was borderline losing my balance, I threw on 50 more pounds and it's been going good since.

Look down and me and you'll see a fool.  Look up at me and you'll see your Lord.  Look straight at me and you'll see yourself.

295 is going to wait until next week.  I forgot that this is my week off.  Maybe I'll take the opportunity to read some Faust.

Look down and me and you'll see a fool.  Look up at me and you'll see your Lord.  Look straight at me and you'll see yourself.