[quote]pumped340 wrote:
[quote]Akuma01 wrote:
My weight gain is teetering =(. its taken me 3 1/2 weeks to go from 245 to 250 =(. This slow gain leads me to believe that the majority of it was muscle, but still, my planned comp isnt til march, so i still got plenty of time to gain![/quote]
5lb in 3.5 weeks especially at 250lb isn’t slow[/quote]
eh in retrospect, no not really. but when you weigh yourself every couple days or so and the scale isnt moving, you tend to get frustrated lol
a question for everyone in here bulking… do you have a set goal weight or just get as big as you possibly can?
I ask cause when i was in high school playing football and weighed 155 all I wanted to do was hit 170…
Then in college playing ball and finally hitting 170 all I wanted was to hit was 185…
and so on and so forth. I always had a goal weight and once I reached it I realized I wasnt satisfied and that it wasnt enough. Now i’m at 215 and its still not enough lol.
Is this just a never ending quest for everyone else in here?
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For now my goal is 200 or so because most novice strongman competitions cap out at 200 on the lowest weight class. After that I could always set a new goal.
[quote]gregron wrote:
a question for everyone in here bulking… do you have a set goal weight or just get as big as you possibly can?
I ask cause when i was in high school playing football and weighed 155 all I wanted to do was hit 170…
Then in college playing ball and finally hitting 170 all I wanted was to hit was 185…
and so on and so forth. I always had a goal weight and once I reached it I realized I wasnt satisfied and that it wasnt enough. Now i’m at 215 and its still not enough lol.
Is this just a never ending quest for everyone else in here?
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Yeah for me at least, I wanna hit 225. I’m sure when i do i’ll wanna gain more.
I hit 210 last night, I’m 5’8" with a 38" waist now, I really just want to put on the blinkers until I get to the strength level I want, but I may have to do some damage control and bring my waist down a couple inches first… blah.
[quote]gregron wrote:
a question for everyone in here bulking… do you have a set goal weight or just get as big as you possibly can?
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No I don’t have a goal number on the scale this year. Last year I did, and ended up sloppy as hell and needed to start damage control a lot earlier than I wanted to. Now I’m only off 5-7lbs from that weight, and at a much better composition, but lifts like my dead have completely tanked out.
So this year I’m not just eating up to a number on a scale. I’m focusing 100% on the mirror and will use my lifts to track progress. I will weight myself, just to know.
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
[quote]SkyNett wrote:
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
I agree with X, hamburgers are fucking delicious.[/quote]
Actually I think it was Steely D who said hamburgers were delicious.
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Ah, nevermind. It was a bad joke that I stole from other people on this site and I’m still chuckling about it. ;)[/quote]
If it matters Lanky, I got it.
[quote]gregron wrote:
a question for everyone in here bulking… do you have a set goal weight or just get as big as you possibly can?
I ask cause when i was in high school playing football and weighed 155 all I wanted to do was hit 170…
Then in college playing ball and finally hitting 170 all I wanted was to hit was 185…
and so on and so forth. I always had a goal weight and once I reached it I realized I wasnt satisfied and that it wasnt enough. Now i’m at 215 and its still not enough lol.
Is this just a never ending quest for everyone else in here?
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Yeah I think that’s the way it goes for everyone. My newest goal is 310.
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
[quote]SkyNett wrote:
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
I agree with X, hamburgers are fucking delicious.[/quote]
Actually I think it was Steely D who said hamburgers were delicious.
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Ah, nevermind. It was a bad joke that I stole from other people on this site and I’m still chuckling about it. ;)[/quote]
If it matters Lanky, I got it.
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It does matter, thanks nardo.
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
a question for everyone in here bulking… do you have a set goal weight or just get as big as you possibly can?
I ask cause when i was in high school playing football and weighed 155 all I wanted to do was hit 170…
Then in college playing ball and finally hitting 170 all I wanted was to hit was 185…
and so on and so forth. I always had a goal weight and once I reached it I realized I wasnt satisfied and that it wasnt enough. Now i’m at 215 and its still not enough lol.
Is this just a never ending quest for everyone else in here?
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Yeah I think that’s the way it goes for everyone. My newest goal is 310.
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damn 310 is huge! but you’re 6’5" or something right? I think I remember reading that in the Cheese Steak thread?
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[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
a question for everyone in here bulking… do you have a set goal weight or just get as big as you possibly can?
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No I don’t have a goal number on the scale this year. Last year I did, and ended up sloppy as hell and needed to start damage control a lot earlier than I wanted to. Now I’m only off 5-7lbs from that weight, and at a much better composition, but lifts like my dead have completely tanked out.
So this year I’m not just eating up to a number on a scale. I’m focusing 100% on the mirror and will use my lifts to track progress. I will weight myself, just to know.[/quote]
Yeah I’m kinda the same way. I’m not so much concerned with the scale weight cause obviously what I thought 180-200-215 looked like wasn’t the physique I was after. I think I’m close now to what I’d like to be… maybe by 225 or so I’ll be there but who knows. I’ll let the mirror decide when I’ve reached my “goal weight.”
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[quote]gregron wrote:
a question for everyone in here bulking… do you have a set goal weight or just get as big as you possibly can?
I ask cause when i was in high school playing football and weighed 155 all I wanted to do was hit 170…
Then in college playing ball and finally hitting 170 all I wanted was to hit was 185…
and so on and so forth. I always had a goal weight and once I reached it I realized I wasnt satisfied and that it wasnt enough. Now i’m at 215 and its still not enough lol.
Is this just a never ending quest for everyone else in here?
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I’ve set a goal weight of 300 lbs because it will force me to train hard and eat smart. I want to see what I am capable of doing, and setting goals seems to be a good way of encouraging progressive improvements.
My wife thinks I’ll want to keep gaining past 300. I told her I will have to evaluate how I feel/look like and what my blood work concludes.
It’s cool to hear everyone’s weight goals, but I can’t think in those terms. I broke 250 recently, certainly not a ripped 250, but certainly stronger than ever. Years ago I was a straight-up fat 240 and couldn’t lift shit.
I lost 70 lbs and started from there.
I say I can’t think in terms of “I want to be xxx pounds”. I think of it as, I want to be repping, say 405, by the end of the year. I don’t know what I will weigh, but I know I’ll be closer to the goal when I can do that. I say repping, because for me it’s not necessarily about the 1RM, but if I’m using 405 as a workset weight, I know I’ve progressed at least to a point.
Also, I think in terms of arm size and shoulder girth. I know when I hit 20" arms (probably smooth, but not all fat), I will have gotten closer to the ultimate goal.
I don’t know what I will weigh. I know I’ll be much stronger and much of that weight will be muscle. I’ll worry about ‘definition’ when I reach beyond those strength/size milestones.
Right now, it’s all about ‘building the foundation’ for me.
Currently I am working towards 205 (at 5’8). I wish I would have known what all this bulking nonsense was all about YEARS ago. Once I got my shit together last fall and started putting effort into my diet, things took off. Last summer I bottomed out at 165 pounds, now I am 192 and still gaining steadily. This is still around the same bodyfat, and my lifts have SKYROCKETED. It took me like two years to gain that kind of weight before.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
It’s cool to hear everyone’s weight goals, but I can’t think in those terms. I broke 250 recently, certainly not a ripped 250, but certainly stronger than ever. Years ago I was a straight-up fat 240 and couldn’t lift shit.
I lost 70 lbs and started from there.
I say I can’t think in terms of “I want to be xxx pounds”. I think of it as, I want to be repping, say 405, by the end of the year. I don’t know what I will weigh, but I know I’ll be closer to the goal when I can do that. I say repping, because for me it’s not necessarily about the 1RM, but if I’m using 405 as a workset weight, I know I’ve progressed at least to a point.
Also, I think in terms of arm size and shoulder girth. I know when I hit 20" arms (probably smooth, but not all fat), I will have gotten closer to the ultimate goal.
I don’t know what I will weigh. I know I’ll be much stronger and much of that weight will be muscle. I’ll worry about ‘definition’ when I reach beyond those strength/size milestones.
Right now, it’s all about ‘building the foundation’ for me.[/quote]
congrats on the total body recomp. Thats impressive man. I’m with you on the goals being weight lifted not weight on the scale. I’m the same way along with what I see in the mirror. If i’m looking better and lifting more weight than last time then thats what I’m after.
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300 Deat? How tall are you? Damn i wish I was taller than 5’11" 
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[quote]gregron wrote:
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
It’s cool to hear everyone’s weight goals, but I can’t think in those terms. I broke 250 recently, certainly not a ripped 250, but certainly stronger than ever. Years ago I was a straight-up fat 240 and couldn’t lift shit.
I lost 70 lbs and started from there.
I say I can’t think in terms of “I want to be xxx pounds”. I think of it as, I want to be repping, say 405, by the end of the year. I don’t know what I will weigh, but I know I’ll be closer to the goal when I can do that. I say repping, because for me it’s not necessarily about the 1RM, but if I’m using 405 as a workset weight, I know I’ve progressed at least to a point.
Also, I think in terms of arm size and shoulder girth. I know when I hit 20" arms (probably smooth, but not all fat), I will have gotten closer to the ultimate goal.
I don’t know what I will weigh. I know I’ll be much stronger and much of that weight will be muscle. I’ll worry about ‘definition’ when I reach beyond those strength/size milestones.
Right now, it’s all about ‘building the foundation’ for me.[/quote]
congrats on the total body recomp. Thats impressive man. I’m with you on the goals being weight lifted not weight on the scale. I’m the same way along with what I see in the mirror. If i’m looking better and lifting more weight than last time then thats what I’m after.
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Thanks. Not to say I don’t look at the scale. It’s a great way, in addition to clothes fit, mirror, and weights going up, to monitor progress. I just don’t think of it as a goal at this point.
I mean, if I hit 270 and I haven’t progressed, it tells me the food isn’t going where it should, so the number is misleading (If I only said “Hey! I hit 270!”).
Likewise, if the scale doesn’t move, but my bench goes up 30 lbs and I add a 1/4" to my arms and the clothes fit the same, I damn sure made progress but it’s not reflected in my scale weight (although I’d bet I recomped in that scenario).
Steely - I see where you’re coming from, weights and measurements are all pretty important, but scale weight is a big factor in my eating habits. The first thing I do every morning is weigh myself (well, after I go potty) and while I don’t expect the number to be higher every morning, I damn sure don’t expect it to be going down.
If I was more precise and exact in my diet I probably wouldn’t care so much, but I’m pretty loose with everything so scale weight moving up means I’m doing my job. Scale weight going down actually kind of makes me nervous, lol.
Maybe it’s all mental, fuck if I know.
Edit - and yes gregron (the guy’s got two first names), I’m 6’5".
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Steely - I see where you’re coming from, weights and measurements are all pretty important, but scale weight is a big factor in my eating habits. The first thing I do every morning is weigh myself (well, after I go potty) and while I don’t expect the number to be higher every morning, I damn sure don’t expect it to be going down.
If I was more precise and exact in my diet I probably wouldn’t care so much, but I’m pretty loose with everything so scale weight moving up means I’m doing my job. Scale weight going down actually kind of makes me nervous, lol.
Maybe it’s all mental, fuck if I know.
Edit - and yes gregron (the guy’s got two first names), I’m 6’5". [/quote]
Fuck, 6’5? Lol and here i thought you were just making fun of Bob saget with your name. Ugh, im 5’9…damn im 5’9 =(
high fives all the tall guys
pats all the shorties on their head
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Edit - and yes gregron (the guy’s got two first names), I’m 6’5". [/quote]
hahaha yeah first and middle name but two one syllable names smashed together sounds funny and has become my nickname.
[quote]JaX Un wrote:
high fives all the tall guys
pats all the shorties on their head[/quote]
what do you consider short?
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