An Endo On a Conquest to CT

Bigger Stronger Leaner Competitive Bodybuilding
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Greetings T-Nation!

I’m a long time reader of the freakin’ good articles here at T-Nation, but something caught my eye. Or the lack of it actually caught my eye. I haven’t seen an article for true (cursed) endomorph’s like my self.

A quick summary of my background and a few stats:
*25 years old
*6’2 tall
*207lbs at the moment (about 19% bf)
*dieting at the moment (shooting for 188-186lbs before june and under 10% bf)
*have been lifting for 3 years (2 years serious)
*starting point was a puffy 240lbs of fat and sweat 3 years ago (bfp over 33)
*fuck this is starting to sound like a personals add…

The point of my post is that I have figured out what I have to do to get rid of the fat in my body. The problem with me lies in when I try to put more muscle into my 6’2 tall stick figure.

I’m now after 3 years just starting to understand my body a little bit. When carbs find me and my calorie intake goes above a 1000 kcal of my maintenance I blow up like a blimp. And fast. But the muscle gains are slow. That has been the problem with my diet during the past years. I love to eat and I fucking eat too much. Carbs really don’t suit me and I’m quite insulin sensitive. Dieting is slow and has to be spot on for me. If I stare a doughnut for too long I gain half a pound of fat (just kidding, I usually end up eating the damn thing).

From my basic diet I get 1 g protein per 1 lb of body weight. I don’t eat carbs in the evening and I do eat a good pro+carb breakfast. I usually eat 5 times a day. I supplement with fish oils, whey (and post WO drink), multivitamins and creatine. I drink about once every two months.

The other sticking point in my conquest to lean mean muscular physique might be my training.
The first year I started I got good results but so do most, regardless the type of training. For the past year I’ve been doing a lot of low volume training with heavy compound moves. My strength levels have steadily increased but muscle gains have been little. Fat gains have been plenty.

At the moment I’m lifting 250lbs for a few reps in bench, 310 for a few deep squats and 400lbs for a regular style dead lift single.

So how should a endo train when adding muscle?

I was planning to bump up the volume after my diet. Keeping the heavy compound stuff and adding more isolating moves for all muscle groups.

Thank you all who help me with your experience and wisdom.

Oh, and mind my English, after all I am a Finn.

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Huhhhh?

Carbs really don’t suit me and I’m quite insulin sensitive.

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post back when your doing “cutting” because your chasing two rabbits man, and im sure you know the rest of that saying. and stop blaming carbs…they are your friend

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[quote]u_mombooto wrote:
Huhhhh?

Carbs really don’t suit me and I’m quite insulin sensitive.[/quote]

Meaning that my insulin resistance is quite poor because of my fast food diet in the past, from 15 to 20 years old.

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[quote]Pipes06 wrote:
post back when your doing “cutting” because your chasing two rabbits man, and im sure you know the rest of that saying. and stop blaming carbs…they are your friend[/quote]

I am cutting at the moment. That’s the rabbit I’m after now and I’m catching up to it. I’ve caught it before and I’ll catch it again this time around.

What I’m looking for is advice on what to do after my cut. I’m not chasing that other rabbit yet but I want to make sure that my guns are ready for when I go after it.

If I eat high GI carbs ie. sugar, I feel like shit. Low GI carbs are ok for me. Oatmeal, whole grain pasta etc. around work outs and in the morning.

I’m not blaming them, I’m just saying that I have to keep my eye on them.

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I think what you mean is you are insulin RESISTANT, in that your body will overproduce insulin in response to high glucose, which results in fat storage, mood swings, energy highs/lows, and eventually diabetes.

Read up on how CT did his transformation. You might do well to cut out ALL carbs for a few months until you reach your leanness goal. This will increase your insulin SENSITIVITY, which is a good thing. Then you can chase the muscle demon a few hundred calories at a time, instead of 1000.

-Sab

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NO, you mean you are NOT insulin sensitive. Thts why I huh’ed.

[quote]Megatron999 wrote:
u_mombooto wrote:
Huhhhh?

Carbs really don’t suit me and I’m quite insulin sensitive.

Meaning that my insulin resistance is quite poor because of my fast food diet in the past, from 15 to 20 years old.

[/quote]

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Should you go and make a visit to John Berardi’s web site: www.precisionnutrition.com

He has a very complete program for guys like you !

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[quote]Sabastian525 wrote:
I think what you mean is you are insulin RESISTANT, in that your body will overproduce insulin in response to high glucose, which results in fat storage, mood swings, energy highs/lows, and eventually diabetes.

Read up on how CT did his transformation. You might do well to cut out ALL carbs for a few months until you reach your leanness goal. This will increase your insulin SENSITIVITY, which is a good thing. Then you can chase the muscle demon a few hundred calories at a time, instead of 1000.

-Sab[/quote]

Yes, this is exactly what I meant. The language barrier got in the way of my translation but yes I am insulin resistant.

I am planing to cut of carbs when my cutting starts to stagnate. At the moment my stress levels are so high that I can put 100% percent on staying carb free. Last year in college.

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[quote]u_mombooto wrote:
NO, you mean you are NOT insulin sensitive. Thts why I huh’ed.

Megatron999 wrote:
u_mombooto wrote:
Huhhhh?

Carbs really don’t suit me and I’m quite insulin sensitive.

Meaning that my insulin resistance is quite poor because of my fast food diet in the past, from 15 to 20 years old.

[/quote]

I stand corrected. Thanks.

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[quote]ourouk wrote:
Should you go and make a visit to John Berardi’s web site: www.precisionnutrition.com

He has a very complete program for guys like you ![/quote]

Thanks for the tip! I’ve read some of Berardi’s work and on the diet side it does seem very interesting. I’ll have to look more into it.

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On the training side I’m going to try out CW’s 10x3 FFL for a few months. Starting next week.

I have to admit that Waterbury’s programs seem very polished and very well thought out. On paper at least. I think I’m also going to try out more of his methods of training after my cutting cycle is over.

Any ideas or experiences on what would be a good CW program to start for an intermediate endo? The TBT and WM programs seemed interesting to me.