Gaining 35lbs of muscle (I’ll assume that it’s mostly muscle because you don’t look fat) is VERY good. In fact, and this will suck to hear, but for the majority of the population the potential for muscle growth is right around 40-45lbs. YES there are some outliers who can gain more. But around 75% of the population has the potential to gain 40-45lbs over their normal adult body weight. This means that a) you did a good job b) you might simply not have the genetics to be huge (which doesn’t mean that you can’ build a very good physique).
That last point is important: people don’t seem to want to accept that not everybody can be huge and muscular. We do accept that some people are born to be taller, Some are born to be smarter.Some are born prettier, etc. But for some reason we can’t accept that we can’t all be super muscular. We think that. its just a matter of finding the right program and working hard enough. But the reality is that without steroids you cannot transform a poodle into a pitpull.
Photos are deceiving. They blur definiton and make you look smaller because you lose the 3D look and the light can wipe out definition. Unless taken by a professional with great lighting, almost everybody look worse in pictures.
I’ll now experiment with other programs too and find the best one for me (I know it’ll stop working after 8-10 weeks). I’ll keep switching things up after every 8-10 weeks.
Here’s some interesting thing that i see in the gyms. The guys who are changing workouts almost every week and changing exercises are getting better results than those who are trying to find THAT “Best program” aren’t moving up.
Sticking with exercises for a long time, but occasionally changing reps, sets will be better at actually getting stronger. Stronger leads to more muscle.
The guys who don’t stick with exercises aren’t doing squats for example with big weight. The guys who do a lift like squats with big weight are usually big for their potential.
Go to the ‘Bigger Stronger Leaner’ section of the forums. Start a new topic. then click the drop-down menu for Bigger Stronger Leaner, and scroll down until you see ‘training logs’. This will put your training log in the right place, and you’ll have access to it going forward.
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I think the key with that program is “planned rotation”. You come back to those exercises every three weeks, with the two weeks in between hitting the muscle with a different exercises.
I don’t think you have to do the same exercises for eternity. The key is progressive overload. It is tough (not impossible) to do that while switching all the time (as in program hopping, or not using a program and not being consistent, which is different than planned rotation).
With DoggCrapp training, you could progress each lift every three weeks, but you’d also be progressing the next weeks lift three weeks after that. If you just progressed the weight linearly with each lift, you’d be doing it at 1/3 the rate as if you only used one lift. It would give you time to grow between each little jump in weight.
Now that I’ve thought about that progression, it might be worth trying.
This is an example of one of those “programs that worked so well I stopped doing it.” I really don’t know why I’ve never revisited it - it’s fun, leaves you time for other things, and you can’t argue with getting stronger.