March 2009 - 190lbs
[quote]pro-a-ggression wrote:
March 2009 - 190lbs[/quote]
Keep it up, man. You have a shit load of steaks in front of you to get to where you need to be.
A lot of guys who aren’t overly developed just yet get overlooked because they’re not posting progress pics all over this site. If you feel like you’re serious about this, simply PM one of the sheriffs [PX is not the only sheriff, I know he probably intimidates you pansies ;)]. A brief lookup of your posting history will prove you are serious and the sheriff you contacted probably won’t hestitate to invite you to Alpha nation.
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
A lot of guys who aren’t overly developed just yet get overlooked because they’re not posting progress pics all over this site. If you feel like you’re serious about this, simply PM one of the sheriffs [PX is not the only sheriff, I know he probably intimidates you pansies ;)]. A brief lookup of your posting history will prove you are serious and the sheriff you contacted probably won’t hestitate to invite you to Alpha nation.
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I just sent you a PM, I don’t know if it worked.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]pro-a-ggression wrote:
March 2009 - 190lbs[/quote]
Keep it up, man. You have a shit load of steaks in front of you to get to where you need to be.[/quote]
Hey, aggy!
Steak is cool, but I’d like to let you in on a secret: QUARK.
Be seeing you.
pumped, show some pics. I really can’t imagine you’ve got nothing to show after a few years of training. Hard.
Lanky! Yo, Lanky!
Where you been, man?
The forum floors don’t mop themselves!
Judging by the crap floating around here lately it looks like I’ll be working overtime. 
Anyone have a listing of the sheriffs? I recall them being:
Prof X
Tiribulus
Aragorn
I think there was 1 more but I can’t recall.
Pony tails and Mr X posted his old pic…a world of revelations on this thread
Chimera - I tried responding to your PM but apparently it didn’t work. I guess you can’t receive PMs or I can’t sent them.
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Chimera - I tried responding to your PM but apparently it didn’t work. I guess you can’t receive PMs or I can’t sent them. [/quote]
This explains a lot. Apparently I had PMs disabled.
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Chimera - I tried responding to your PM but apparently it didn’t work. I guess you can’t receive PMs or I can’t sent them. [/quote]
This explains a lot. Apparently I had PMs disabled.[/quote]
HA HA HA
Shit man, how many months did you just think we were all giant pricks and ignoring all your PM’s?
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
And regarding your comment about having trained for 5 years and not being a lean 200lb. yet, after how many years would say you that should have been accomplished? Rough estimate.
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I’ve been bodybuilding/bulking for one year now exactly (lifting for two). I’ve gained 40lbs this past year. I fell just short of my 50lb gain goal. I weigh 220lbs now. The goal is to reach 250 by the end of next March. To be honest I can’t imagine not being a fairly lean 200 as of right now if I were to cut down.
[quote]Ironfreak wrote:
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
And regarding your comment about having trained for 5 years and not being a lean 200lb. yet, after how many years would say you that should have been accomplished? Rough estimate.
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I’ve been bodybuilding/buling for one year now exactly (lifting for two). I’ve gained 40lbs this past year. I fell just short of my 50lb gain goal. I weigh 220lbs now. The goal is to reach 250 by the end of next March. To be honest I can’t imagine not being a fairly lean 200 as of right now if I were to cut down. [/quote]
Good job.
Just to be straightforward, if you started this as a skinny guy with a goal of being really big eventually, that is the kind of effort you need to be putting into this. The guys talking about they plan to “gain slowly” or “slow bulk” and then weigh just 5lbs more every year will never get that big. Your body is not going to passively become huge. It is not economic for your body to carry around the extra muscle. It uses more calories on a daily basis and takes effort to maintain. A gain like that has to be forced.
And to others who act like every big guy they see was born that way…NO, many of the big guys you see in the gym were NOT big from the start. You also wouldn’t know that without asking them especially since everyone seems to think I was always big for some reason like they can’t comprehend someone making a change like that.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Ironfreak wrote:
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
And regarding your comment about having trained for 5 years and not being a lean 200lb. yet, after how many years would say you that should have been accomplished? Rough estimate.
[/quote]
I’ve been bodybuilding/buling for one year now exactly (lifting for two). I’ve gained 40lbs this past year. I fell just short of my 50lb gain goal. I weigh 220lbs now. The goal is to reach 250 by the end of next March. To be honest I can’t imagine not being a fairly lean 200 as of right now if I were to cut down. [/quote]
Good job.
Just to be straightforward, if you started this as a skinny guy with a goal of being really big eventually, that is the kind of effort you need to be putting into this. The guys talking about they plan to “gain slowly” or “slow bulk” and then weigh just 5lbs more every year will never get that big. Your body is not going to passively become huge. It is not economic for your body to carry around the extra muscle. It uses more calories on a daily basis and takes effort to maintain. A gain like that has to be forced.
And to others who act like every big guy they see was born that way…NO, many of the big guys you see in the gym were NOT big from the start. You also wouldn’t know that without asking them especially since everyone seems to think I was always big for some reason like they can’t comprehend someone making a change like that.[/quote]
Agreed. I don’t think people realize just how hard this truly is. I grew up as a fat kid. This was mostly due to my shitty diet as a kid (mostly due to my living conditions). I then lost a significant amount of weight, and was skinny-fat at 160. My first year of “full-body” training was with the intention of purposely not trying to gain weight, because I was a “fat kid”.
Since I started bodybuilding/bulking this past year, I am now literally in debt due to the amount of food I was buying. Food many would consider “junk”. I was eating McDonalds combos, whole pizzas, taco bell, basically anything I could get my hands on, several times a day. This coming from a kid who previously thought gained weight too easily. I can’t imagine doing this the “slow way”, especially if you’re naturally skinnier. In fact, since New Years I’ve been cutting back on purchasing food due to the tight budget, and since then the weight gains have come to a grinding halt. I’ve actually lost a few pounds, although I feel was mostly fat.
With all that being said, if you don’t train INTENSELY, you’re most likely just gonna end up fat.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Ironfreak wrote:
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
And regarding your comment about having trained for 5 years and not being a lean 200lb. yet, after how many years would say you that should have been accomplished? Rough estimate.
[/quote]
I’ve been bodybuilding/buling for one year now exactly (lifting for two). I’ve gained 40lbs this past year. I fell just short of my 50lb gain goal. I weigh 220lbs now. The goal is to reach 250 by the end of next March. To be honest I can’t imagine not being a fairly lean 200 as of right now if I were to cut down. [/quote]
Good job.
Just to be straightforward, if you started this as a skinny guy with a goal of being really big eventually, that is the kind of effort you need to be putting into this. The guys talking about they plan to “gain slowly” or “slow bulk” and then weigh just 5lbs more every year will never get that big. Your body is not going to passively become huge. It is not economic for your body to carry around the extra muscle. It uses more calories on a daily basis and takes effort to maintain. A gain like that has to be forced.
And to others who act like every big guy they see was born that way…NO, many of the big guys you see in the gym were NOT big from the start. You also wouldn’t know that without asking them especially since everyone seems to think I was always big for some reason like they can’t comprehend someone making a change like that.[/quote]
This is great advice.
Your body doesn’t want to break weight barriers, it’s not natural for it, you have to go the extra mile and break it by overeating. I have recently stalled at between 220-223, up from about 200-205 in september. Upping calories, eating 4-5 sweet potatoes at a time, pounds of chicken/steak a day, and essentially eating uncomfortable amounts of foods is necessarry to make good, and more importantly, consistent progress. It’s about waking up every day and taking eating as seriously if not more as your training because it’s just that important. It takes this kind of dedication to reach a goal that won’t come overnight, thats what I keep telling myself.
Eating tons of good calories, and training until you don’t have anything in you, then going some more WILL get you progrss, you just have to see if you are doing absolutely everything it takes and then stick with it.
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
Why not? How does more days in the gym, more calories burned and more muscle stimulus for growth NOT sound like a better use of calories if you gain fat easily?[/quote]
it’s already hard to get in 4x/week so 5x will have to wait until summer),
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[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]chimera182 wrote:
[quote]LankyMofo wrote:
Chimera - I tried responding to your PM but apparently it didn’t work. I guess you can’t receive PMs or I can’t sent them. [/quote]
This explains a lot. Apparently I had PMs disabled.[/quote]
HA HA HA
Shit man, how many months did you just think we were all giant pricks and ignoring all your PM’s?[/quote]
Only since I made my account!
I still don’t understand how anyone would gain fat pulling a sled 3x a week and lifting at least 3 times the other days.
The math just isn’t working in my head. Were you eating icecream & milkyways for lunch?
[quote]Loudog75 wrote:
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
Why not? How does more days in the gym, more calories burned and more muscle stimulus for growth NOT sound like a better use of calories if you gain fat easily?[/quote]
it’s already hard to get in 4x/week so 5x will have to wait until summer),
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Even though you left out any text…I agree, there is no way in hell someone is training at the level of intensity I am referring to with that mentality.
I trained as much as I needed to…during finals, mid terms, board exams and many other life crisis.
If you want it bad enough, you make it happen.
If you don’t…you make up random excuses and pretend you have tried everything.
POST A PHOTO OR STFU
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Loudog75 wrote:
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
Why not? How does more days in the gym, more calories burned and more muscle stimulus for growth NOT sound like a better use of calories if you gain fat easily?[/quote]
it’s already hard to get in 4x/week so 5x will have to wait until summer),
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Even though you left out any text…I agree, there is no way in hell someone is training at the level of intensity I am referring to with that mentality.
I trained as much as I needed to…during finals, mid terms, board exams and many other life crisis.
If you want it bad enough, you make it happen.
If you don’t…you make up random excuses and pretend you have tried everything.[/quote]
x 2
Whatever my situation may be, I find a way to train and I always do with the same intensity. IMO, there are very few legitimate excuses for not training, and none for not training as intensely as possible when doing it.