Have you considered raising your body weight :)? It feels great to progress in strength/muscle size quicker, and steadily with a low to moderate surplus (250-500 surplus a day) and to be able to train harder with more energy.
^Yes offcourse I want to gain weight, I just suck at it LOL
I have gained 2kg the last month so I guess I am in a surplus right now. I train 4 times a week at the moment
and its a long time ago I had the energy for that and when I trained 4 times a week before the training weights where lower. Point being I have higher energy levels now then I had a month or two ago.
I suck at it too. My body likes to gain very quickly when I add calories, then stop to a near halt after about three weeks or four weeks later, and say “fuck you, you aren’t gaining anymore weight until you prove there is more food available”. I’ve actually lost weight before by accident (I suppose I leaned out a tiny bit and gained even more muscle/strength back afterwards) consuming the same amount of calories that had me gain weight. I’m something like 152 pounds/68 KG right now at 5"8’ and 15 years old with the lifts in my log.
This is how I look right now.
I feel the shape of my shoulder are looking better after 100 rear delt raises a week.
[quote]DSSG wrote:
I suck at it too. My body likes to gain very quickly when I add calories, then stop to a near halt after about three weeks or four weeks later, and say “fuck you, you aren’t gaining anymore weight until you prove there is more food available”. I’ve actually lost weight before by accident (I suppose I leaned out a tiny bit and gained even more muscle/strength back afterwards) consuming the same amount of calories that had me gain weight. I’m something like 152 pounds/68 KG right now at 5"8’ and 15 years old with the lifts in my log.[/quote]
I loose weight if I stop working out rather quickly. My body wants to be lighter than I am and I am pretty light from before LOL.
In your case though I think it have alot to do with you being just 15 years old. You are huge for being 15 and when I was 15 I was maybe 160cm and weighed maybe 40kg or even less.
I could not even bench the barbell. Come back to me when you are 27 years old. You are probably taller and way bigger then than what you are now IMO. ( + alot stronger )
I must also say that you are silly strong for your age( strong for any age really )
You probably lose weight when you stop training because your (likely already quite small) appetite diminishes as your body doesn’t feel the need for “fuel”. To remedy this, I recommend eating everything you can see, including neighbourhood pets and dangerous wildlife if there is any in your district.
[quote]panzerfaust wrote:
You probably lose weight when you stop training because your (likely already quite small) appetite diminishes as your body doesn’t feel the need for “fuel”. To remedy this, I recommend eating everything you can see, including neighbourhood pets and dangerous wildlife if there is any in your district.[/quote]
There is some truth to this.
Hah, I must have dem’ alpha genetics ;). My age might have something to do with it, I eat 4000 calories daily now to gain weight :).
Cycle1/Wave2/Session D.
11/04/2013.
After warm up.
DL: tm = 100kg.
40kg x 5.
50kg x 5.
60kg x 3.
70kg x 3.
80kg x 3.
90kg x 5. ( estimated max = 104,9kg )
Back Squat: 5x10 x 35kg.
Sit ups: 3x10 reps.
Comment:
Good workout.
Cycle1/Wave3/Workout A.
12/04/2013.
After Warm up.
Pull ups: 5x5 reps.
OHP: ( tm = 42,5kg )
20kg x 5.
20kg x 5.
20kg x 5.
30kg x 5.
35kg x 3.
40kg x 6. ( estimated max = 47,9kg )
Bench: 5x10 x 35kg.
DB row: 5x10 x 18kg pr arm.
Rear delt raises: 3x20.
Bicep curls: a total of 60 reps.
Comment:
Good workout ![]()
Cycle1/Wave3/Workout B.
15/04/2013.
After warm up.
Back Squat: ( tm = 70kg )
20kg x 10.
27,5kg x 5.
35kg x 5.
42,5kg x 3.
52,5kg x 5.
60kg x 3.
67,5kg x 4. PR ( Estimated max = 76,4kg )
Comment:
Cut the session short because the gym was crowded as fuck and the thought of BBB DL in a pile of people was not very inviting. Happy with 67,5kg x 4, its a PR and it beats my last squat session.
Possible Template for Cycle 2.
Not shure!
Ahoy Florelius! How long do you tend to run each template? And do you make big changes between accessories between cycles?
I like the look of this one… now to squeeze all 4 days into 1 week ![]()
[quote]panzerfaust wrote:
Ahoy Florelius! How long do you tend to run each template? And do you make big changes between accessories between cycles?
I like the look of this one… now to squeeze all 4 days into 1 week :P[/quote]
Hi Panzer ![]()
Well the template I run now is just for this cycle, then I will jump over to this. BBB bench and OHP is just to much volum for my shoulders, so I rather switch to a heavy upperbody pulling movement after the 5/3/1 sets/reps of bench and OHP. I am a strong believer in taking lats/upperback work as serious as chest/front delt work for long term shoulder girdle integrity and this template accomplishes that. Also 5x10 on everything is a bit too much in the long run especially when I do as many excercises on upperbody day as I do now. Besides that the blueprint of the template is exactly the same except I am ditching the BBB sets for bench and OHP.
The blue print:
Upperbody days:
OHP or Bench: 5/3/1.
Pull ups or Rows.
Rear delts.
triceps or biceps.
Lowerbody days:
DL or Squats: 5/3/1.
Quads or Posterior chain work.
Abs/Core work.
I might keep BBB squats and BBB Dl if Lunges and RDL are more boring or/and less effective, but will give them a try next cycle.
I have trained 4 times a week for two weeks now and hope I will be able to do that each week, but offcourse on weeks where I have to deliver a paper( like this week and the next ) or I am having exams, then I will drop down to 3 to 2 times a week. This one of the reasons I like this structure because its flexible and if I only get 2 workouts a week I am still hitting every fucking muscle and I am still able to follow the progression. Cliffs note: Goal is to train 3-4 times a week on a consistent basis except those weeks where life/school/work gets in the way.
Getting back to the back squat, very nice. I second eating neighborhood pets, or reindeer or whatever is in Western Norway! I was trying (they didnt end up taking international cards) to buy some protein a few weeks ago from proteinfabrikken or something like that and the website was in Norwegian, its amazing how similar swedish and norwegian are. Same language pretty much, minus the fact that you guys sound more weird.
[quote]americaninsweden wrote:
Getting back to the back squat, very nice. I second eating neighborhood pets, or reindeer or whatever is in Western Norway! I was trying (they didnt end up taking international cards) to buy some protein a few weeks ago from proteinfabrikken or something like that and the website was in Norwegian, its amazing how similar swedish and norwegian are. Same language pretty much, minus the fact that you guys sound more weird.[/quote]
If you think we sound weird, then whait untill you here the danish ![]()
But yes Norwegian, Swedish and Danish are similar and we understand eachother to some degree. Danish and Swedish people have a harder time understanding us than we have them, wich is weird because standard norwegian is almost without a accent, while the danish and the swedes have a stronger accent IMO.
Proteinfabrikken is okay, but it lumps easely or atleast it did last time I tried it + I myself get constipated from their whey and gainer.
Haha those videos pretty much summed it all up.
I went and saw jagten (jakten in Swedish) the Danish film, and understood maybe 40% of what they were saying but they had Swedish subtitles so I was fine. Intense as movie by the way, worth seeing.
[quote]florelius wrote:
Possible Template for Cycle 2.
Not shure!
[/quote]
Template under construction…
