I’ve added 50lbs to my deadlift since September and this weekend I did 100lb clean and press when I could barely clean 70lbs a few months ago. (not much but good for my size I think)
i lost 40 pounds because of illnesses and then gained it back…
so basically, im right back where i started :D!!!
except this time, I am noticeably leaner.
Took 3 months off, so strength fell a little then. But from july to late October I felt really good, all my lifts went up about 10%. Got rid of my knee problems, my ankle sprains are healing and and my shoulder didn’t pop out, not too bad a year for me.
5ft 6 - Up from 145 at easter to 175 now 
and still going…
Gained 50lb since Jan 1st when I started doing compounds. I suspect 30 to be LBM.
I’ve gained 41 lb since January.
ive gained like 10-20? no clue really but ive gotten bigger and stronger and im on a good streak right now so thats really all i care about.
I gained 39 lbs since April but suffered a bicep tear in July which meant that most of my pulling exercises took a hit. I could still do most pushing exercises and legs but should have dialed down my food intake to make up for the reduced volume because I did gain a lot of fat too.
Spent the last 1.5 month loosing around 13 lbs and getting down to a 36 waist. I am almost back to pre-injury strength and ready for another 3-4 months of hard training, gluttony and hopefully mostly lean gains this time around.
Above bulking phase was the first time I tried out DC and I will say that for the most part I am very impressed. There are a few muscle groups where I simply do not have the constitution to do it ‘DC style’ - legs being one of them (widow maker squats makes grown-up men cry) so I will be doing ‘normal’ set and rep ranges for legs during this phase.
For most of the other muscle groups I will carry on with heavy rest-pause sets, extreme stretches and of course smashing the logbook each and every time (!). Its no longer the DC routine but a mish mash of the things that worked for me on DC and the things that gave me results in the past. Some day I may graduate to the DC routine as its written.
This is an awesome thread.
Ive gone from 65kg in January to 80kg as of today (145-178)
Pretty happy with my progress considering ive slacked off on my eating a few times through the year, Gonna wait until im well over the other side of 200 before I even think of cutting.
This has been a crazy year for me.
------The Good------
Bulked to 194 in March.
Cut down to a fairly lean 174.
Started bulk in June.
Now I am at 225.
So basically I gained 50 pounds in about six months (I got back to 194 fairly quickly, and I assume some of that was water weight as I was low-carbing and I added them back in rather quickly). Although there is some fat around my lower back and stomach and my face is a little rounder, I look much better than I could have expected when gaining weight that fast.
I plan on dieting once the new year is here. It won’t take me too long to get lean again. I hope to be no less than 200 in good shape.
This has been my most productive year by far. My lifts have gone through the roof and many people have asked me about/accused me of using steroids, which I don’t.
------The Bad------
I hurt my lower back deadlifting this past summer, and have not yet gone back to them. I may never. I cannot leg press because of this either, since the slight rounding of my back at the bottom of the motion hurts. I have had to work around this problem.
I stopped doing dips and recently stopped doing decline presses, both due to what I think is tendonitis. It just hurts (not in a good way) when I do them. This sucks because I credit heavy-weighted dips for much of my chest and tricep strength/development. My chest workout is now just dumbell flat and incline bench followed by a couple fly variations.
------The Ugly------
I have been focused so much on training and eating that I am not going out and meeting as many girls as I once did, which means I was getting laid way more as a 158 pound skinny-fat kid than as a 225 pound man. I originally got into weight training to impress the ladies, so go figure.
Once I am done with my upcoming diet, I will be managing my time so I can have more of a social life again and I can focus a little more on school and personal/professional development (though not to the point of neglecting my physique or health; I’m not crazy).
I have been having a mixed year. On the plus side I got a 500 pound deadlift. In high school as a fatty I hit 550 on the trap bar, but few things in my life have felt quite as good as picking up 10 45’s and some change off the ground with a conventional deadlift.
The downside is that I can’t for the life of me figure out whats wrong with a muscle imbalance thats causing pain in my lower back and glutes. I haven’t been able to pull or squat in months because every time I do exercise that involved large movement like that with big weight the pain comes.
Not doing either is really starting to show. My traps and legs are notably smaller.
I can definitely see how one could want to substitute the deadlift with smaller exercises because it gets a lot more dangerous when when 500 or more pounds are on the bar. Doing enough work with that weight is risky.
Oh, one more plus I’m pushing 200 pounds at 5’ 7"
I had a SHIT January - July
Bad nutrition, bad training
Then I bought “The Ecyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding” as a high school graduation gift for myself and discovered T-Nation.
I started to do SQUATS!! and started to eat 6 meals a day.
I’ve gained 8 kg since July (not all lean mass) 
Still far from my ultimate physique and still lots to learn.
Last gains made the last months are good.
2009 and the rest of 2008 is going to be great!
16, 5’11 and went from 79 kg in March to 93 kg now, going from 21 to 17% bodyfat.
Good gains, but I still look like 80 or so kilos… I don’t even know where they’re going.
Guess I’ll keep bulking till I hit 110-120 kilos or something.
[quote]Sick Rick wrote:
16, 5’11 and went from 79 kg in March to 93 kg now, going from 21 to 17% bodyfat.
Good gains, but I still look like 80 or so kilos… I don’t even know where they’re going.
Guess I’ll keep bulking till I hit 110-120 kilos or something.[/quote]
That’s that kind of shit I want to hear from someone your age, got any pics?
[quote]Sick Rick wrote:
16, 5’11 and went from 79 kg in March to 93 kg now, going from 21 to 17% bodyfat.
Good gains, but I still look like 80 or so kilos… I don’t even know where they’re going.
Guess I’ll keep bulking till I hit 110-120 kilos or something.[/quote]
Mooie resultaten Sick!
Ook lekker jong begonnen en deze site ontdekt (veel beter dan dbb.com maar dat hoef ik jou niet te vertellen) zie ik.
For those who don’t speak dutch, Sick Rick and I are plotting to take over the Nation and turn it into T-Nation.nl
[quote]Erasmus wrote:
Sick Rick wrote:
16, 5’11 and went from 79 kg in March to 93 kg now, going from 21 to 17% bodyfat.
Good gains, but I still look like 80 or so kilos… I don’t even know where they’re going.
Guess I’ll keep bulking till I hit 110-120 kilos or something.
Mooie resultaten Sick!
Ook lekker jong begonnen en deze site ontdekt (veel beter dan dbb.com maar dat hoef ik jou niet te vertellen) zie ik.
For those who don’t speak dutch, Sick Rick and I are plotting to take over the Nation and turn it into T-Nation.nl[/quote]
Liar. I speak Afrikaans so I know what you’re up to. Mooi!
172 to 195lbs in a year, the big picture 148lbs to 195lbs equals 47lbs gained in all. pant size 32in waist.
i feel stronger but no where near done, my legs are coming up see you at 225lbs.
building a house, one brick at a time.
Well lets see, Started Lifting again in April,
Body Fat from 28% to 25%
Body weight from 210 to 220
Bench Up to 1X2 @ 225
Squat Up to 2X2 @ 335
Deads Up to 1X3 @ 425
So I would say good but next year looks to be freakishly good!!!
[quote]cyruseven75 wrote:
172 to 195lbs in a year, the big picture 148lbs to 195lbs equals 47lbs gained in all. pant size 32in waist.
i feel stronger but no where near done, my legs are coming up see you at 225lbs.
building a house, one brick at a time.[/quote]
Nice work, man.
I hear you on the “long way to go”, I’m gonna keep on till about 240lbs more or less by July 09, and then cut down to a leanish size. Ultimately I’d like to walk around at 220-230lbs, lean.