Hopefully that happens, but I would settle for better conditioning and movement.
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Forgot to add, weighed myself after training yesterday and was 85.2kg. A little up but not too much. Going to add a little more carbs this week and see what happens. Road to 100 !!
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Yeah!!! That’s about where I started this journey.
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100 would be a 15kg gain, no idea at this age if that is even possible without getting too fat !!!
I’m at 82 kg on road to 95 kg or thereabout.
From May last year I’ve gained 7 kg and to be honest that is not just muscles.
It might be an age thing, but let’s see where we end up.
What’s the timeframe to get to 100?
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Hadn’t put a specific time frame but I was thinking before Christmas. That’s 5 months !!!
I was 73kg exactly 2 years ago, so have added 12kg in 2 years. But I wasn’t really eating to add weight. Pretty sure if I try harder I can add weight quicker than that.!
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I just keep telling myself that power lifters who turned into bodybuilders have impressive physiques. You have to add some fat to add some muscle. I’m happy with my current weight; I just want more muscle and less fat at this weight. That’s why I’m going on to 260. Hopefully I can add the necessary muscle and then cut the fat to achieve my desired look and strength.
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So I cooked up the beef ribs on Sunday and OMG they were good. Ate so many I nearly slipped into a meat coma. Wifey and kids love they too but there were still some for left overs. I had them for my first lunch today, followed by spaghetti bolognese for second lunch and then a big bowl of chicken curry laksa for dinner tonight. Working hard on the road to 100 !!
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This is a little thing I made up when trying to explain eating to gain muscle to someone before, bit random but I think it sums it up.
Every day you are given a coconut (the coconut represents muscle) you obviously want to eat this coconut (build muscle).
Every day you have one shot at getting into the coconut, you have a few tools at you disposal. A very small hammer and sledge hammer.
If you take the small hammer, every now and again you may get a lucky shot, get the coconut and have very little to tidy up. But some days you will miss out.
Now if you take the sledge hammer, you will almost certainly be getting into the coconut. Your guaranteed to be doing all you can to make sure you get it, yes you may have a bit of tidying up to do afterwards but you will get the rewards.
You could use a medium hammer but that takes a lot more thought and planning!
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Brilliant analogy
Love It, time too get my BFH out
Obviously after so long in the coconut cracking business, when you have proved you can crack and also tidy up the mess. You have learnt most of what there is to know so you get gifted the medium hammer, like a 10 year service award. Lol.
It’s good fun to categorise people from the forum by which hammer they use. Unfortunately we get far too many beginners either using the small one because they are terrified of the mess (I don’t want to lose my sick abz) or switching between the big and small and getting nowhere!
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I really like that analogy, but I’m a bit thickheaded.
Could you spell that out.
I’m 54 years of age and everytime I start eating to gain, I end up weighing more, but it seems like all the weight is on the stomach 
Do you mean the little hammer is eating just a tiny bit over maintenance say I’m averaging 2600 cal a day and can keep my bodyweight there.
So eating 2700 is the little hammer and 3100 would that be a sledgehammer?
The sledgehammer puts on lots of muscles and weight including fat, that I will have to deal with later…
OR am I totally misunderstanding that.
I believe you have understood it every well my friend. Time to get your big hammer out and forget about the mess till later !!!
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haha Maybe not SHW but going up it is.
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Don’t leave me too far behind yeah? lol
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Yeah you understood it perfectly. I’ve been guilty in the past of falling into many of the traps regarding trying to build muscle.
First few years I trained my balls off, made zero progress in performance, scale weight and physique. I then decided I needed to bulk hard big hammer style and did that for a year, hit many of the lifting targets people aim for, looked much better and was 12kg heavier a little softer but not too bad. The smart guy would ride this wave, but unfortunately I wanted to be shredded so then the terrible cycle of bulk and cut started, I look at the 4 years of doing this as wasted years and wander how much more mass I would have now if I just kept on eating big. This past couple of years I’ve took a different approach to nutrition which I feel is working well.
I obviously do agree with people like Stu who advise a small surplus and not adding too much fat, in that instance everything has to be as close to perfect as possible but that’s difficult to achieve for most especially if you are new to lifting and nutrition. You obviously can’t force feed extra muscle growth past a certain point, the key is finding the right amount of cals to keep the scale and your weights in the gym slowly moving upwards without looking in any mirrors lol. In all seriousness though we all have that point at which we know we are putting on too much fat, I don’t think anyone needs to be shooting for morbidly obese.
Hope you don’t mind the lengthy posts in your log @simo74
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I fear that I may switch back and forth between a chisel and steam roller 
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Just remember the old saying…
You can’t make an omelette without steamrollering a few coconuts. No thats not it…
You can’t chisel a coconut. Still not sure that’s right, I think maybe it has something to do with eggs and pebbles though.
Forget it, just put the tools down and use coconut oil instead and eat lots of omelettes.
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