me at my lightest at 169 lbs.

Impressive, I'm going to struggle when it comes time to cutting my tubby tub. I am scared of being weaker and losing muscle mass.

the way you cut actually seems to make sense to me.

Since when you lift you tear down your muscles and need food to build them back up, but if you dont eat enough then you would lose more strength than if you didnt lift and left them where they are.

Its not nearly as bad as you think, a big part of initially feeling like that is the lack of carbs, you wont really burn too much muscle until your BF% is pretty low.

SEOINAGE


Impressive, I'm going to struggle when it comes time to cutting my tubby tub. I am scared of being weaker and losing muscle mass.

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 impressive pictures guy, keep up the good work. Any lat pictures?

"Lifting is not a comfortable activity, so get out the
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Pretty impressive pictures guy, keep up the good work. Any lat pictures?

unfortunately no, my lats are my biggest weakest point, im just not motivated to get them bigger, the pump i get doesnt feel good, like working chest, legs, arms, etc

update! 8/3/09

maxes and goals
bench - need to remax
goal bench - 405

squat - need to remax
goal squat - 500

deadlift - need to remax
goal deadlift - 500
weight -174.8 8%bf 

it matters what your doing or it doesnt matter what your doing your doing it right your ripped looks greatttt.

DONT BLAME THE PITBULL TRAIN THE PITBULL .BAN THE DEED NOT THE BREED.... OH YES MY GRAMR AND SPELNG SUCK AZZ...I KNOW.. THERE ARE NO BAD DOGS.JUST BAD OWNERS...

You are ripped.. I wonder how your back looks though.. if your close to 5% you should have alot of seperation and smaller muscles coming out.  your just starting to get the surrations in the chest and you could be more vascular.. 
 
You know honestly I think if you cut 10 more lbs you might look insane and even bigger.   But from where you are now if you bulked you could stay fairly lean.   I noticed this second time around when i bulked up I stayed pretty damn lean.  I personally am striving for 6% BF right now but the dieting is really hard. 


Good Luck dude! Seriously though you look great!

IBendBarbells


You are ripped.. I wonder how your back looks though.. if your close to 5% you should have alot of seperation and smaller muscles coming out.  your just starting to get the surrations in the chest and you could be more vascular.. 
 
You know honestly I think if you cut 10 more lbs you might look insane and even bigger.   But from where you are now if you bulked you could stay fairly lean.   I noticed this second time around when i bulked up I stayed pretty damn lean.  I personally am striving for 6% BF right now but the dieting is really hard. 


Good Luck dude! Seriously though you look great!

ill take a back pic, i think i might be closer to about 8%, this upcoming week, im going to try that "get shredded in 6 days" thing, n flush my water weight, im trying to be ripped this weekend, i wish i could bulk up, but i gotta stay in the 160's for boxing

update! 8/3/09

maxes and goals
bench - need to remax
goal bench - 405

squat - need to remax
goal squat - 500

deadlift - need to remax
goal deadlift - 500
weight -174.8 8%bf