If these pictures are at 215lbs and your “goal” weight (not sure why you would even need a goal weight?) is 260 (45 MORE pounds than you are in these pictures!), I’m just being honest with you dude, but there is NO WAY you can reach that weight without adding a BUNCH of extra fat/water retention. No way. I seriously hope you know more about the physiological realities of adding lean muscle tissue than this. Not even young guys, on their first ever cycle can add that amount of LEAN muscle mass, or for that matter even lean muscle mass AND fat/water retention, on a cycle…much less taking just test and dbol in the amounts you are. And NO, please do not read into this as a signal to simply take even more AAS.
You are saying that between today, 9/21/23 and 12/1, roughly 9 weeks or so, you plan on going up 45 pounds? You need to stop worrying about what the scale says if you are in fact going to be competing and pay more attention to how your actual physique looks in the mirror!
I think much of this obsession with size/weight nowadays is due to everyone wanting to “be in the superheavyweight” class, or to “be one of the big boys” onstage, but forget weight and numbers if your ultimate goal is a show. You need to aim to be always at the very high end of the weight class you can fit into WHILE also being extremely lean/conditioned. At your height though you should be a Heavyweight or Superheavy BUT not simply big due to pounds at the expense of possessing lean muscle and not fat.
If you’re interested, critiquing what I can see of your physique, in addition to obviously continually adding more mass on all around (and I’m gonna go out on a limb here, haha, and say that since you are wearing sweats your legs are probably nowhere near show ready or very big, sorry) you should focus on: triceps, CHEST, Back thickness. You do have some pretty big shoulders and also biceps. Your back is looking pretty wide, but you need a lot more thickness on your back to really give it that 3-D look. And from looking at your front biceps/rear biceps pose, your triceps need much more mass so they have that sizable “droop” and not look straight like a line. Chest overall, you gotta really pound it not only with weight, but really work on pumping it up during your workouts and expanding it as it is quite flat.
Last, I know these were probably some casual poses you took at the gym, but, again, if your goal is to compete then you need to present yourself as such in pictures. Meaning, you need to really work on the mandatory poses and be able to really showcase your physique, not some casual throw up both arms and squeeze your biceps. Practice, practice, practice the mandatories! In addition, doing so will also make your muscles even harder/denser if you are really focused on flexing ALL of your body’s muscles when you hit each pose…I hope you know that when you’re for instance hitting a front double biceps pose, you don’t just squeeze your arms but you are flexing your lats, abs, LEGS, etc…in every bodybuilding pose you flex your entire body. That’s why posing is actually WAY harder than most people realize. Going through all the mandatories several time, holding each pose for a minute at least, is a workout in itself!
Good luck and please stop worrying about your weight, your focus should be on your diet, your training, posing. Oh, last, if you are training to be a bodybuilder, none of that low rep shit. You need to be training in the 10-12 rep range, and for legs, the secret is high weight, high reps!!! not so much on back squats for safety reasons, but leg presses, hack squats, leg extensions/curls, you should be doing sets with 20-25 reps AND using heavy weight! Yes, you will need to pause sometimes a few times during each set to grab your breath and let the burning go down, but you must get all the reps. That’s how you build big legs. It’s not really just squatting super heavy. you have to really pump the legs full of blood.
