Well im just wondering what the next phase of knowledge and training is from those that have been there and done that. Ill explain.
My first phase was ego workouts and bicep curls
Second was a bodybuilding diet, rice and tuna as well as training many excersizes per bodypart on a 4 day split.
Third was a reintroduction of foods in order to gain the calories I was missing from my veges lean meats and oats diet, and the reduction of sets and alteration of workouts to push pull type stuff.
Fourth was the realisation that I need even more calories and at 21 I can eat damn well what I like, the avoidance of analysing my workouts so much and just really hitting the iron, real increase in intensity, focussing and imagining every lift and how it will go beforehand.
Recently ive incorporated ideas from the perfect rep, all my warmups are explosive with maximum effort placed into my movements.
Whats next is what im really after or am I on the right track until a specific goal needs to be met? Im 5’10 192lbs and id guess an honest 18% bodyfat just trying to get bigger and stronger for now. Lifts are about 280, 370, 450.
And while im at it, any tips for us that work the 12 hour nighshift?
I would think you should just keep training and eating. Keep increasing your weights, make sure you’re gaining quality weight…business as usual.
Unless you were looking at doing a show or something, why would you not just keep doing what you’ve been doing?
As long as it’s working - and since I don’t see any photos I couldn’t tell you if it is or isn’t, that’s up to you to decide. But if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it…
People are going to evolve in there training differently.
This is not a linear thing.
You want some of the more experienced guys to give you a shortcut? of course they can give you advice but something that is a revelation to them may not do you any good if you haven’t done the same hard yards before hand.
By the sound of it you probably already know what you need to continue to improve. Any further refinement of your training and lifestyle will come from experience and trial and error unless you plan on doing something drastically different that you dont know much about such as competing like skynett said.
Thankfully you haven’t been obsessed with your abs and thus limited growth (e.g. endless cycles of mini bulks/cuts and or not eating enough).
Next phase may be to try a decent cut, see how you respond to that so that you know where you stand next time you need to cut (this takes the fear factor out of bulking/gaining because you know that it’s a straight forward and clear road to cutting since you’ve “been there and done that”). Spend about 12 weeks to lose about 15lbs of bodyweight.
All going well, and you maintain your strength (or even gain some) - you’ll maintain muscle and drop mostly fat. This should bring you to roughly 10-12% bodyfat at about 175lbs bodyweight.
Do this, and you’ll experience both ends of the bodybuilding story
