[quote]tmay11 wrote:
So is the plan to still go to 200-205? Are you holding as much muscle as you thought you were? You said that you wanted to get to 7/9% ; do you think you will achieve this at 200lbs?
Great progress. I was very impressed by your strength gains. [/quote]
I want to hit 200, if I lose the remaining 7 or so lbs that I have left to get there, and it’s all fat that I lose, then I’d be down another 3.5% from where I am now. I feel like I’m holding on to most of the muscle, my lifts honestly haven’t suffered that much at all over the course of this cut. I don’t think I could bench 340 again, but I could probably still hit 320. My squat & deadlift maxes have probably gone up at this point. So basically I’m aiming for 200 at this point, and then I’ll re-evaluate what I want to do.
your abs are coming through. just wanted to say i’ve enjoyed this thread a great deal. good on ya for posting the pics. hope to follow in your footsteps one day. learning a lot about the process.
[quote]blake2616 wrote:
Goddamnit dude, with those pictures I’m actually thinking “hope my wife doesn’t glance over and see me looking at this.” I wouldn’t care if she glanced over and I was browsing the Vixen thread, mind you.
Wife: “What are you looking up on the internet, honey?”
Husband: “Oh, just some man-ass.”
[quote]blake2616 wrote:
Goddamnit dude, with those pictures I’m actually thinking “hope my wife doesn’t glance over and see me looking at this.” I wouldn’t care if she glanced over and I was browsing the Vixen thread, mind you.
Wife: “What are you looking up on the internet, honey?”
Husband: “Oh, just some man-ass.”
[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
lol god those ass pics! Good progress man. Front looks good but your back is very far behind. I would make that your main focus.[/quote]
You should’ve seen my back pre-bulk! I may have to dig up the pictures. This is actually a night & day improvement just to get it to this level lol
I’m going to continue focusing on it, at this point I’m doing pullups 4x-5x per week, along with deadlifting, rowing several times per week, etc. Would you say I need more width, thickness, or both?
Wow man u really coming down allot, but quit the rear pics, they are unnecessary lol. But you gonna be way bigger than b4 and have good overall balance IMO.
[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
lol god those ass pics! Good progress man. Front looks good but your back is very far behind. I would make that your main focus.[/quote]
You should’ve seen my back pre-bulk! I may have to dig up the pictures. This is actually a night & day improvement just to get it to this level lol
I’m going to continue focusing on it, at this point I’m doing pullups 4x-5x per week, along with deadlifting, rowing several times per week, etc. Would you say I need more width, thickness, or both? [/quote]
Well good, progress is progress!
You need both width and thickness though. It’s your most obvious weakness so keep making it your focus.
So I was doing some calculations today for macros/caloric intake for after my cut is done, and it dawned on me…when I use Fitday I always select cooked meat, but the weight I enter is the raw amount. So for instance for my dinner, I select “Chicken Breast, Skin Not Eaten, Broiled” and then for amount I put 8 oz. The problem is that I wasn’t eating 8 oz. of broiled chicken breast, I had weighed out 8 oz of raw chicken, which loses significant weight after cooking. What I needed to select was Chicken Breast, Skin Not Eaten, Raw (Yield when Cooked). The difference is significant. When eating one pound of chicken per day 262 less calories, 6 less grams of fat, and 49 less grams of protein. I’ve also been doing the same for steak. Fuck. The same applies to steak which I was eating like a pound of per day on the bulk. I was probably taking in about 500 calories less per day on the bulk than I thought I was before.
So for instance on the last stage of this cut I thought my macros were at 2341 calories, 69f/144c(33f)/290p. They were actually: 2013 62f/144c(33f)/229p. That protein number HURTS. But on the plus side as long as I’ve been calculating I’ve been overestimating how much protein I’m taking in. So all the records I broke on this recent bulk were with way less calories, and way less protein than I thought I was taking in. Now I can see what I can do when I actually take in the amount I think I am.
I also just realized I have to recalibrate how much calories/fat/protein I need when bulking and cutting, because I was under the impression that I was taking in about 15% more of each than I actually was for the last several years. I KNOW how my body reacts to 16 oz. of raw chicken that has been broiled. Just kind of fucks with my macros/calorie calculations since I was under the impression that I knew how much I needed to cut/gain, and I follow some templates for carb cycling, and all that goes out the window now. What I may do is cook my chicken breast after weighing out 8 oz. of it for dinner tonight. I’ll then see what it weighs after I cook it and then change the numbers I had been using for the Broiled Chicken entries on my diet. I don’t cook meat as thoroughly as others, so the generic yield after cooking numbers in fit day may not apply to me, the drop they put in may be more drastic, so I’m going to have to see.
I just wanted to post this as a cautionary tale for anyone else using Fitday, or anything else for calculations in your diet. Make sure you are using yields when cooked, or making sure you select raw if that’s how you weigh your meat.
Didn’t realize it had been so long, I’ll take some in a day or two. I’m looking quite lean. Still got some ass on me though. That may just be a permanent fixture at any bf % above 8 though, since I don’t carry it anywhere else.
These are by far the BEST shots I’ve ever gotten of my back.
It was 105 with the heat index today in Boston, I did my workout, then came home, hadn’t had AC on in my room all day, so it was stifling. I’m glistening in all these pics
Also, again I sweeeear my lats are wider than they come out in those back double bi pictures. I had a few friends that have seen me pose live look at them, and they agree. There’s something about holding it for a picture that I just can’t seem to get right.
