Luckily for you your a bit shorter than me. I’m 5’11" and everyone in my weight class was much shorter. I figured i’d need another 20lbs of stage weight to “fit in”. I put on 8-9lbs of stage weight last after that show through december. Got up to 223. After that i took a break and did a small cut from decemver to end of march for vacation now my cals are coming back up preparing to hopefully put another 8-10 lbs of good tissue on again this year. Show will be in april either Mr. Buffalo again or Detroit pro. Will be looking at a 20 week prep.
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Yeah, I love how you kept this going after the show. Shows intent, commitment and the fact that you aren’t done man. Honestly, from what I’ve seen tall guys need more time to get that mass on (early on in the process). Even following the big Olympia pro guys. You see it with dudes like Samson who is for sure making strides and getting closer and closer, but then you have guys like Walker coming up and he’s much shorter, dense (and a freak of nature to boot). My fav bodybuilder is Grimes, and he’s kinda been in that boat having competed in lower weight divisions, and has been building size for years. He’s playing the long game (and also being a social media icon). But, again, it’s that height, eating, filling out to compete with the smaller guys.
ANYWAY. Off topic. Just saying I feel like that’s a common theme I see out there casual perspective. I have been lifting for 10 plus years off and on (but pretty damn consistently), so I feel like I do have quite a bit of mature muscle mass, and have the height going for me. I knew the biggest struggle was going to be coming from obese, down to stage lean. And I should have been this intense start of prep, but I had some doubts in the back of my head that I had to shut down. Now, I’m locked in. Just a matter of keeping the pedal on the floor, and giving it everything for 12 some odd more weeks.
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How tall are you?
EDIT - see you are 5’11", competed at 178?
I was 164 pre breakfast on show morning.
I had to lose more weight than i thought originally as i have never bee that lean. The biggest issue i had was that i was so depleted that i couldn’t fill back up before the show. I looked better at 1.5 weeks out(post 140) in the black posing trunks at posing practice.
Legs completely fell apart in the last week.
Lessons learned though.
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We are seeing that with Quint right now. Looks amazing standing alone but when compared he looks much smaller.
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Monday morning QB man. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. The first go round is about best you, second is improving upon the base and foundation. You laid the bedrock. Excited to see your next journey brother. Always work to do!!!
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Agreed. I’ll say that just getting on stage was huge for me. I have a very hard time being in front of groups. I struggle to give a short presentation to 10 co-workers that I’ve known for years. Extremely proud of myself just from that aspect.
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Yep, auto correct.
5’9 about 210lbs
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Dude that’s amazing to overcome so much man. I’m a Communication Major in a service industry job (Higher Ed., staff), so can’t relate. But, I have helped others in my leadership area (and staff I oversee) get past that fear and launch their own respective careers. So, I applaud you greatly for breaking the barrier down dude. Huge work.
That’s really all this is for me too dude. Legacy. My son competes in baseball (10 years in), and starts/started on his high school team at Catcher as a sophomore. He was the kid in Little League everyone looked past because he was a bit bigger, a bit slower, didn’t have the arm. Then I got him in the gym and into Powerlifting and he took off. Now, he’s a leader on the field, and he’s energized me so much. Now, I’m pouring that same effort into all I do. My love for watching him play these years just lit a fire in me.
And in turn he loves watching my journey. I also help strength train the boys on the team in the offseason (coaches asked me to assist as I did the USPA stuff and the kids needed to get some size on). And we crush the weight room. It’s so much fun.
In any sense, I just want to make an impact and show I got it at 40 man. The kids look up to me a lot. But, they don’t know how much it means to me to be a part of something like that. I owe a lot of what I’m doing to them.
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I am very doubtful of this.
I’m between 25 and 26 FFMI and only a few % lower than OP, if his stats are correct.
No disrespect, but we do not look the same.
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None taken man. I came here for feedback and constructive criticism. My numbers I share are based off In-body. I know there is a margin of error. I’m sure I could be higher % wise. I’m not dense, LoL!
I appreciate everything ya’ll are tossing out at me as I’m just trying to take it in and learn brother.
You’re good.
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Inbody is tough as it is based off body impendence which is greatly affected by many things including water intake.
It’s a tool that will help to see if you are going the right way but i would not put stock in hard numbers it is spitting out.
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Makes sense brother. Been trying to use it as a tool. Best I have access to. Mirror is the best tool obviously, and we aren’t close yet. Just means harder intensity wise. Intent in all I do with training, every rep, every minute of cardio, strict to macro, etc.
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Kind of my point. You’re 5’11", @Sindrik8x is 5’4".
Competitive bodybuilding is def a shorter persons game.
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Yeah, kind of my point.
I think you’re around 18-20% BF, no offense, I could be way off.
Let’s say you are 20% - that is a 25 FFMI - the max for Natty’s.
What do you think would be a competitive weight for you?
Hard to tell because I’m still fat, but I’d guess 185-190 considering stage lean is 5-6%
At 5’9"?
Yessir
Makes sense. That would put you at 26 FFMI - clearly you are enhanced, you have been open about that and I appreciate that.
This dude is 190 class. He is 5’2".
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