excellent. your deadlift is awsome and inspirational. its’ great when someone gets called out on a lift and then delivers. good work.
[quote]animalmj wrote:
Keep up the great work! When I think of 5’10", 165 I think skinny…you’re not skinny, you look solid and are certainly strong for your “size”. Great pull btw… What are your current goals? If it is to gain more overall mass, how are you manipulating your calorie/macro intake? Supps? [/quote]
I plan on hitting landing between 180-185 at my current bodyfat. Deadlift wise, I want to pull either 620 at a bodyweight below 165 or 715 at a body weight of 181lbs.
Squat is anything above 400+ easy and bench I want to land some where above 375.
These goals should be attainable, I just have to make sure my shoulders and back are in good shape as I progress.
How am I manipulating my calorie/macro intake… 
I just try to get enough protein for my body weight and i play around with the carbs until i feel like i’m barely getting enough , then i bump it up a little bit.
As for supps: optimum nutrition protein, BCAA, glutamine, creatine ester , and animal paks.
Any good ideas?
[quote]All2ez wrote:
how does your back feel after the D/L…
anyways lookin good man, i’d say work on legs and arms. good luck man,look forward to seeing more from you in the future[/quote]
surprisingly, it feels great. I don’t really don’t have a problem with it hurting or getting sore anymore. I’ve never really had any pain after doing deadlifts…only when I F*** up.
Thank you for the advice.
[quote]Knight33 wrote:
animalmj wrote:
Keep up the great work! When I think of 5’10", 165 I think skinny…you’re not skinny, you look solid and are certainly strong for your “size”. Great pull btw… What are your current goals? If it is to gain more overall mass, how are you manipulating your calorie/macro intake? Supps?
I plan on hitting landing between 180-185 at my current bodyfat. Deadlift wise, I want to pull either 620 at a bodyweight below 165 or 715 at a body weight of 181lbs.
Squat is anything above 400+ easy and bench I want to land some where above 375.
These goals should be attainable, I just have to make sure my shoulders and back are in good shape as I progress.
How am I manipulating my calorie/macro intake…
I just try to get enough protein for my body weight and i play around with the carbs until i feel like i’m barely getting enough , then i bump it up a little bit.
As for supps: optimum nutrition protein, BCAA, glutamine, creatine ester , and animal paks.
Any good ideas?[/quote]
I like the diet set up. Mine is somewhat similar.
Those #'s are attainable. Keep working hard and you’ll be there in no time.
Im curious, how old are you, since you’re solid now (in more than 1 aspect), and you’ve only been lifting seriously for 12-14 months.
mmm…your video made me happy after getting full of piss and vinegar reading about super newbs bashing everyone in other forums. thank you kind sir…good lookin too
[quote]douglas16 wrote:
Knight33 wrote:
animalmj wrote:
Keep up the great work! When I think of 5’10", 165 I think skinny…you’re not skinny, you look solid and are certainly strong for your “size”. Great pull btw… What are your current goals? If it is to gain more overall mass, how are you manipulating your calorie/macro intake? Supps?
I plan on hitting landing between 180-185 at my current bodyfat. Deadlift wise, I want to pull either 620 at a bodyweight below 165 or 715 at a body weight of 181lbs.
Squat is anything above 400+ easy and bench I want to land some where above 375.
These goals should be attainable, I just have to make sure my shoulders and back are in good shape as I progress.
How am I manipulating my calorie/macro intake…
I just try to get enough protein for my body weight and i play around with the carbs until i feel like i’m barely getting enough , then i bump it up a little bit.
As for supps: optimum nutrition protein, BCAA, glutamine, creatine ester , and animal paks.
Any good ideas?
I like the diet set up. Mine is somewhat similar.
Those #'s are attainable. Keep working hard and you’ll be there in no time.
Im curious, how old are you, since you’re solid now (in more than 1 aspect), and you’ve only been lifting seriously for 12-14 months.[/quote]
Sorry for the delay doug. I’m 27 right now. I have been ‘working out’ for several years but it doesn’t even compare to what i am doing now. Within the past 12-18 months things changed alot when I sat down and thought about the princibles and what the body really needs to transform itself. I’m currently waiting to get a pic of me before it all started.
hey haha i see you at my gym a lot. crazy lifts. keep it up dude!
Strong. You’re making the UC Riverside kids look bad :].
What are you studying as a grad student?
[quote]shffl wrote:
hey haha i see you at my gym a lot. crazy lifts. keep it up dude! [/quote]
lol, thanks. Small world huh? Say hello sometime, it would be cool to meet a fellow T-member at UCR
[quote]RockmanX88 wrote:
Strong. You’re making the UC Riverside kids look bad :].
What are you studying as a grad student?[/quote]
I’m working on my ph.d in physics. (Don’t ask how i find the time for the gym)
[quote]Knight33 wrote:
Two things that I eliminated from my diet completely were high fructose corn syrup and MSG. As soon as I removed the first of those things, I swear the fat started to drip off my abs.
Also when I had really big meals I took a small swig of apple cidar vinegar.
Last but not least my meals were either protein and fat or carbs and fat. I stopped mixing protein and carbs like I use to. Meaning I didn’t overdo it like I use to where I would have chicken and a ton of rice. I would have chicken and a small amount of rice. I got more carbs later in another meal.
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Interesting. Like you, I don’t really combine proteins and carbs at all. I also use apple cider vinegar with big meals. Do you read Vince Gironda’s stuff?
I used to poerlift at a “lighter” weight class also. Lot of similarities…
Nice work by the way.
haha definately.
interesting idea with your carb/fat meals. any reasonings behind it? how come u dont use pro/carb?
whats so great about apple cider vinegar? i hear a lot of ppl use it but i never found out why…
looking great man!
I think it was already mentioned earlier but try close-grip bench press and dips for your triceps. That’s the only area where you’re really “lagging”, if you can even call it that… anyways I find these exercises work really well for me. And the close-grip benching could help bring you closer to your benching goals.
Interesting diet btw, I’m going to think about tweaking some of my meals now!
nevermind about the dips, I guess you do those. I just looked back over that part of the thread…
how the hell are you so lean?
great work knight keep it going
Great deadlift. I would definitely get that squat up. Get those wheels bigger and some heavy bench work.
Great work.
Actually, I don’t read Vince Gironda’s stuff…the name sounds familiar but thats about it.
To answer the next post, I use the apple cidar vinegar for a couple reasons. First, it seems to help with digestion when I eat really big meals. I heard it is a more natural replacement than taking HCL tablets, which is/was recommended by Franco in his 'Nutrition for Bodybuilders" book.
Second, some people say that it helps with the digesition/break down of fat. Not sure if I believe this completely, but since this is something that is more natural I figured I would give it a shot.
And last, it actually starts tasting pretty good after awhile. 
[quote]VON_Ballack wrote:
looking great man!
I think it was already mentioned earlier but try close-grip bench press and dips for your triceps. That’s the only area where you’re really “lagging”, if you can even call it that… anyways I find these exercises work really well for me. And the close-grip benching could help bring you closer to your benching goals.
Interesting diet btw, I’m going to think about tweaking some of my meals now![/quote]
I do have a question about the dips though, and please forgive me for being stupid but I have to ask just to make sure nothing it up.
I use to dip like no tomorrow and my triceps never got sore or even tight. Even when I was dipping with 130 attached to me, my triceps felt fine.
Now when I do it though, the pain during each rep is intense as hell and it feels like my triceps are super tight while doing the exercies.
So my question is, can you think of any reason why this would happen, meaning that now the triceps have become really tight when in the past I had no problem?
(My guess is this: since I am focusing on bench (its on Tues), my arms are not completely recovered friday so that is why they are still tight as hell) Sound good?