Building the Monolith-
Squat:
165x5 190x5 210 5x5
Press:
75x5 90x5 100x5 75x11
14 chinups 86 lat pull downs
Facepulls-100
Dips-50
Went to the gym with my brother and I did what I could. I switched from chins to lat pulldowns cause I was doing chinups in sets of 1-4. Couldn’t do 100 dips.
Depends on how much more muscular you’ve actually gotten. Up for posting progress pics? If you’re significantly more muscular and leaner at the same bodyweight, then you’re in a good place to build upon and you saw the kind of good recomp teen guys can see when they train consistently and eat decently.
If you’re being generous/optimistic with your self-assessment, then it’s an indicator you’ve been slacking on the diet side of things, which you’ve done before, and reinforces the need for you to be more consistent with logging what you eat.
But I keep circling back to you saying your eventual physique goal requires 30-40 more pounds of quality size. So at some point, the scale’s going to have to move steadily upwards if that’s still the goal you want to reach.
I’ve said a few times in different threads what I suggest for nutrition, most recently here in your log back in October. Wendler also has pretty straight-forward, simple food guidelines for his programs.
As a side note, and this has already been mentioned above, Wendler has a specific set of recommendations for building the monolith.
I took the liberty of throwing together a side-by-side. Let me know if you want it taken down.
They’re slightly different angles and slightly different poses/flexing, but I’d say to step up your nutrition game. Seems like you’ve gotten into the groove of pushing it in the gym, so paying even better attention to diet will be a huge difference-maker. If you’re running Wendler’s program, follow his advice. It’s simple, inexpensive, and has been shown to work.
It’s a Tuesday afternoon right now. What’ve you eaten so far today and what’s for dinner?
@tlgains just to clarify: you’re getting free coaching for a proven, professional trainer here. People pay good money for this service, I can’t recommend highly enough that you take advantage of it.
Breakfast: bowl of cereal
Lunch: general tso chicken with rice, broccoli, and a pack of carrots (couldn’t finish chicken veggie soup)
Dinner will probably be some stew with beans and chicken with some cornbread
There is never a bulk of protein sources for breakfast. Sometimes my dad brings yogurt home sometimes my mom buys sausage. There’s eggs but If i eat them all up I won’t have a breakfast protein source for the week considering my brother is home.
Edit: nvm that’s bs there are enough eggs. This is rare tho. How many should I eat for breakfast
Building the monolith carries a recomendation of a dozen whole eggs and 1.5lbs (?) Of ground beef a day.
I can afford enough eggs for 6 weeks (Close to a hundred dollars if if buy from walmart). I did the math, but I need to save my money. I don’t have a job yet I plan on getting one in the summer. Let’s just say I have about $400 from allowance. The ground beef I’m sure I can work around that with turkey burgers. My mom doesn’t allow beef in the house.
Edit: Welp i’m screwed
@Chris_Colucci @dagill2 what should I do. Just eat 4 meals a day?
Deadlift
215x5 245x5 275x5 275x5 275x5
Bench:
135x5 150x5 170 5x5
Db rows 5x10
Could only do required work. Back in the weight room.
A dude offered to spot bench on my last set so I was like why not better safe than sorry. He wrapped his hand around the bar the last set. I didn’t feel any power from him, but it’s whatever. I was taking breathes so I didn’t want to waste any telling him how to spot.
Dozen eggs is a dollar (79 cents for me, but I’m rounding up), 3 lbs of ground beef is ~10 bucks, but I’ll round up to $4 a pound, that’s $42 in eggs and $252 in ground beef, $294 dollars.
If we’re talking Walmart, here’s 60 eggs for $3.30
As for ground beef, here is Walmart selling 5 lbs of ground beef for 14.48
188.24 + 29.7 = $217.94.
Good news, you already have nearly twice the money required to do this. That took me all of 3 minutes, by the way.
Why no beef? Just curious.
I think @flappinit just answered your question, but to reiterate(/plagiarise) his point: It will be a valuable life skill for you to honestly and earnestly commit to solving your own problems before giving up and asking for support. You’ve started doing this more often with regards to training which is good to see, but you need to apply the same mindset to nutrition as well.
The only thing I can think of is eating other foods that will add up to equal the amount of protein in 1.5 ground beef and 12 eggs.
Or just do what @flappinit suggested and buy them cheap. I assume you can substitute the ground beef for another meat for a similar price in the states.
63 lbs of ground turkey, this is a 3 lb package, you need 21 of them at $7.97, $167.37. Plus the $29.70 = $197.07.
Good news.
It’s cheaper.
Do you know how to use the internet?
I need to save my money for college/future.
I need pocket change while in college.
Is there any way around it?
Yeah, don’t do Building the Monolith, and plan ahead in future.
@dagill2 @Chris_Colucci
Should I quit
Quit what?
Building the monolith? Or training in general?
