Seriously love your traps!!!
just curious as to what you are cutting for? i don’t think you said
very important to feel good about yourself, but it’s just not the time of year to be in public with the shirt off i don’t think?
Why are you cutting, are you trying to disappear?
Nice work on the cut, after your done make sure you fill out your legs a bit more, more mass to shoulders and chest ~ that is where I’d start.
What is your cut look like? Diet/Cardio/Weight training?
“what are you cutting?”
“Why are you cutting, are you trying to disappear?”
“That side shot makes you look like a skeleton. Your lack of affect doesn’t help either”
Guys, I don’t want or need any of these negative comments. Keep it positive or don’t bother posting. Thanks.
To eveyone else (the majority) thanks for your constructive feedback.
Why am I cutting? The question should be “why have I been cutting?”. To get lean! At my biggest I was 100kg/225lbs. Reading a few Shugart articles woke me up. Yeah it’s great walking around big but who cares if your size is just viscular fat? I never really carried much subcutaneous fat which gave off the illusion of me just being a big guy when I was dressed as I wasn’t wobbly! Undressed I just looked doughy and smooth. My bodyfat was also not stored in any particular place but all over so this also disguised the fact I was carrying lots of bodyfat as I didn’t have a huge gut when clothed.
Now in the ‘real world’ I look like a fit and healthy person who obvioulsy exercises. I can build more size gradually over time. This is 100 times better than being bigger like I was before and carrying excess heart attack fat just to look big.
I was on th V-diet for the last 4 weeks. The next 3 or so weeks I’m reintroducing food and looking to get my metabolism back to normal. I decided to do the transition phase for 4 weeks. I think this is a better idea so i’m experimenting to see how much fat I gain back though i’m not expecting any.
I trained Waterbury 10x3 during this time.
I origanally started cutting last February. That’s one year on and off but each time during my ‘off time’ I used it just to get my metabolism back to normal before caryying on cutting. I also spent 3-4months just bulking again when I was at 180-185lbs which was when I hit my deadlift, front squat and powr jerk pb’s.
3 more weeks of transition then on to some lean bulking.
That makes sense… you should have been up front with all of that info before posting =)
Good job on the progress, lookin good. Mabye you should post some before pics when you were 225lbs?
[quote]slw86 wrote:
Guys, I don’t want or need any of these negative comments. Keep it positive or don’t bother posting. Thanks.
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I understand your frustration with negative feedback; however, you must understand that by posting your pics on a “Rate My Physique” forum, you have to be able to handle all sorts of feedback, including those that are negative. As I wrote on a different thread, we all have differing views on what a physique should look like; you will not always get positive feedback and you have to be able to handle all sorts of comments or maybe you shouldn’t be posting a thread on this forum. I am not being rude, just honest.
Although, I could’ve been funny and put it like this: “If you can’t take the heat get outta the kitchen.”
Just shrug your shoulders off.
Hi.
I have no problem with negative constructive feedback. I acually can learn something from it. Plain mindless negativity which can be interpretated as an insult is just rude and I don’t appreciate it (I guess it is the internet, but why that gives anyone anymore right to do it here?).
I got no negative feeling from your messages Venus just honesty and some advice which I appreciate. To the others who have posted in a similar tone to yourself, thanks!
I have a load of old photos on a cd somewhere. Unfortunately my HD got wiped last week. But I will go find some. I may just rob them from another site I posted on a year or so back. That’ll be quicker.
100kg this time last year
front. different house as well
and the side. Like I said my gut wasn’t particuarly massive so with a jumper or t-shirt I just looked pretty big and filled out.
Don’t take this the wrong way, but in the before pictures you just look undermuscled. Not too fat.
Granted you have done an outstanding job at getting shredded, but IMO it was necessary and actually counterproductive IF your goal is to muscle up. If your goal is to have the cover-model look then more power to you.
I respect Shugart as a writer, but the lean bulk method is inefficient to build significant amounts of muscle mass. For that you will have to gain a noticeable amount of fat. You just can’t “naturally” build lots of muscle mass and keep your six pack the way you have it. Unless you want to spend the next decade to gain 15 to 20lbs of lean muscle tissue.
my observation comes from the fact that you have worked for 1 solid year (on and off) with the goal of loosing the fat and may have become psychologically conditioned to see yourself with the 6 pack all the time. However I have been wrong in the past and will be wrong again in the future.
If you plan on lean bulking I suggest that you pay attention to your legs and back. Those seem to be the areas that would benefit the most from an increase in muscle mass.
Terrific job cutting the fat. Way to go.
Manorexia. 
[quote]slw86 wrote:
“what are you cutting?”
“Why are you cutting, are you trying to disappear?”
“That side shot makes you look like a skeleton. Your lack of affect doesn’t help either”
Guys, I don’t want or need any of these negative comments. Keep it positive or don’t bother posting. Thanks.
To eveyone else (the majority) thanks for your constructive feedback.
Why am I cutting? The question should be “why have I been cutting?”. To get lean! At my biggest I was 100kg/225lbs. Reading a few Shugart articles woke me up. Yeah it’s great walking around big but who cares if your size is just viscular fat? I never really carried much subcutaneous fat which gave off the illusion of me just being a big guy when I was dressed as I wasn’t wobbly! Undressed I just looked doughy and smooth. My bodyfat was also not stored in any particular place but all over so this also disguised the fact I was carrying lots of bodyfat as I didn’t have a huge gut when clothed.
Now in the ‘real world’ I look like a fit and healthy person who obvioulsy exercises. I can build more size gradually over time. This is 100 times better than being bigger like I was before and carrying excess heart attack fat just to look big.
I was on th V-diet for the last 4 weeks. The next 3 or so weeks I’m reintroducing food and looking to get my metabolism back to normal. I decided to do the transition phase for 4 weeks. I think this is a better idea so i’m experimenting to see how much fat I gain back though i’m not expecting any.
I trained Waterbury 10x3 during this time.
I origanally started cutting last February. That’s one year on and off but each time during my ‘off time’ I used it just to get my metabolism back to normal before caryying on cutting. I also spent 3-4months just bulking again when I was at 180-185lbs which was when I hit my deadlift, front squat and powr jerk pb’s.
3 more weeks of transition then on to some lean bulking.[/quote]
good work dude. your goals and achievements are something i can totally relate to, having been around the 200+ lbs mark myself a few years ago. congratulations on having the balls to post on the “slate my physique forum”. generally if your not “huge” or have a competition ready body when posting, you can be ripped to shreds by the usual suspects, who surprisingly, also not “huge” or in competition shape either.
Yes, skinny guys unite! That’ll show us big fatties.
[quote]GetSwole wrote:
what are you cutting?[/quote]
ROTF