Seeing the other pics really reinforces my earlier thinking. Keep going. I’m certain in another year or two, you’ll be looking back at these pics and laughing at how impressed you were at the time. You’re very solid looking, and if you continue to pack on lean size, while focusing on your lower half, I can see your bringing a very symmetrical and proportioned physique to the stage, event at your height.
S
Smaller body parts are always trained with a lot higher volume
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Agreed. I train my penis with a lot of low volume.
But seriously, this is such great work. Soon you’ll look like you could fly if you spread the lats.
Good job mate, how long was ur cut? Keep up the good work
This guy did it… Now just keep doing it. Awesome work man, great job.
Your first pic had me think your only chance was as a senior.
Great work. If you might answer a question from someone who knows nothing about BB why no smile?
My mind says to win you should look like a winner, smiling would be a plus.
Great athletes make it look easy.
All the best!
[quote]Chrispy61 wrote:
Good job mate, how long was ur cut? Keep up the good work[/quote]
Thanks mate the cut was 14 weeks in total
Here’s a pic before I started it
Maybe the low calories had something to do with lack of smiles 
[quote]Lonnie123 wrote:
This guy did it… Now just keep doing it. Awesome work man, great job. [/quote]
Thanks Lonnie I’ve been admiring your work from afar on here. Same goes for you
Great progress, on gaining and the cut in such short time. you should tell us about the cut sir.
[quote]lemony2j wrote:
Short term goal to grow some damn calves!![/quote]
when you figure that shit out let me know as well!
[quote]dudsman wrote:
[quote]lemony2j wrote:
Short term goal to grow some damn calves!![/quote]
when you figure that shit out let me know as well![/quote]
I dream I have these calves !
Mathieu
Is that first picture Magalluf?!
[quote]paulieserafini wrote:
Great progress, on gaining and the cut in such short time. you should tell us about the cut sir.[/quote]
Thanks man, this was the first time I had ever attempted any kind of weight loss having always been a bean pole. I pieced together lots of contest prep threads that I had seen from Tim McBride, Stu, and Waylander among others.
I have never counted calories or macros but I have a good idea of how much I need to be eating to gain/maintain weight so for the first few weeks I just replaced all starchy carbs with veg except for pre-workout where I would have a small portion of rice and post-workout where I would maybe have a sweet potato or rice instead and would also have oats mid-morning. For the first 5 or so weeks my daily diet looked roughly like this:
6:30 - 4 Eggs and half a tin of baked beans
10:00 - Bowl of oats and protein shake
12:00 - Chicken breast and yoghurt
15:00 - Small portion of rice and chicken
16:00 - Train (Protein Shake Peri-workout,2 Scoops)
17:30 - 2 Chicken breasts with Sweet potato/rice)
19:00 - Salmon and veg
21:30 - Cottage Cheese
For the second half of the diet I decided to try out my own version of Intermittent Fasting as the weight loss had dropped off. The way I did this was to have a protein shake at breakfast, a small amount of chicken and maybe a yoghurt for lunch, train, and then eat the rest of my day’s worth of food after training with the only source of non-veg carbs being oats after a leg or back or session.
I allowed myself a re-feed once a week or so depending on my weight.
The only cardio I did was a 10 minute walk at 3mph on a full incline after training and 30 minutes of the same, fasted, on off days.
The above probably looks retarded to a lot of people but I feel the muscle-loss was minimal.Overall I dropped 30 lbs. Once I got used to training after a day with hardly any food I got used to it and actually started to enjoy it though I understand this is not for everyone.
For the start of my bulk I am going to maintain this principle with carbs by consuming a large part of them peri and post-workout and take it from there.
[quote]ChrisWaddle wrote:
Is that first picture Magalluf?![/quote]
Yes, you have some serious observational skills!
That is amazing, good job bro!
Very nice, man. You look years younger now.
Update - I have spent the ‘off season’ focusing on putting on muscle with legs and particularly calves being a priority.
I just wanted to share my excitement that I have managed to grow some calves. It doesn’t look like much but I’ve added 1.5" since September so I’m on my way. Also legs are thickening up, I’m still trying to obtain a quad sweep but it seems genetics has me limited in that department.
Plans for now are a 6 week cut starting tomorrow. May last year I was 240lbs, dieted down to ~210lbs by September. I’m now at 230lbs, I put on a bit more fat than I probably needed to but the upcoming diet should take care of that.
great job! you’re definitely where I want to be a year from now. I definitely agree on that ectomorph usually means a large frame to fill out. I think at our height a pretty lean 240-250 would look awesome
