Venom from Spiper-Man. I was playing with his action figure as a little kid and swore to get a set of calves and a back like that… also started high school 6’1" at 155 pounds and quite goofy. Needless to say things had to change.
When I first started it was to get stronger for sports. Then it was for the womenz. Then it was for the food. Then it was for sanity. Now it’s to stay strong and mobile. I see too many people who think they’re old before their time. Training is the fountain of youth, and it makes me feel fuckin awesome.
There are only two valid reasons for a man to lift weights: to be ready to fight, and to be ready to fuck (hopefully, not the same person).
All else is vanity.
[quote]mattyg24 wrote:
To make things even worse, I saw the same girl who dumped me after not seeing her for 4 months, after putting on 15 pounds of muscle and she says to me, “Hey, I thought you have been lifting weights” as if she did not see any difference in my body.
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Bitches be crazy!
[quote]wannabebig25 wrote:
ha thats hilarious, because i also sort of “gave up” 2 weeks ago. started only going 2-3 times a week, eating a ton of food (clean and non-clean), and all of a sudden im smashing PRs and gaining clean weight again. funny how things work out when you stop caring and just go with the flow instead of analyzing every last detail of your diet and training. feel a million times better not constantly pounding my body in the gym day in day out too.[/quote]
Recovery’s where you make your gains. Sounds like you were going at it a little too hard for a while there, and your “giving up” turned out to be a “de-load” for you. I think you just found your cycle.
Carry on.
Exactly what I was thinking ^
[quote]SuperFast wrote:
[quote]wannabebig25 wrote:
ha thats hilarious, because i also sort of “gave up” 2 weeks ago. started only going 2-3 times a week, eating a ton of food (clean and non-clean), and all of a sudden im smashing PRs and gaining clean weight again. funny how things work out when you stop caring and just go with the flow instead of analyzing every last detail of your diet and training. feel a million times better not constantly pounding my body in the gym day in day out too.[/quote]
Recovery’s where you make your gains. Sounds like you were going at it a little too hard for a while there, and your “giving up” turned out to be a “de-load” for you. I think you just found your cycle.
Carry on.[/quote]
[quote]its_just_me wrote:
Exactly what I was thinking [1]
so you guys think that if i go back to a normal split that id continue to make progress for another 6-8 weeks, since ive done a “deload” and let my body rest up?
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[quote]wannabebig25 wrote:
[quote]SuperFast wrote:
[quote]wannabebig25 wrote:
ha thats hilarious, because i also sort of “gave up” 2 weeks ago. started only going 2-3 times a week, eating a ton of food (clean and non-clean), and all of a sudden im smashing PRs and gaining clean weight again. funny how things work out when you stop caring and just go with the flow instead of analyzing every last detail of your diet and training. feel a million times better not constantly pounding my body in the gym day in day out too.[/quote]
Recovery’s where you make your gains. Sounds like you were going at it a little too hard for a while there, and your “giving up” turned out to be a “de-load” for you. I think you just found your cycle.
Carry on.[/quote]
[quote]its_just_me wrote:
Exactly what I was thinking [1]
so you guys think that if i go back to a normal split that id continue to make progress for another 6-8 weeks, since ive done a “deload” and let my body rest up?[/quote]
I’d say yes. Although if the amount of sets/exercises was too much to start with (your gaining momentum only lasts 3-4 weeks), despite eating enough calories to gain weight and enough protein, then you need to tweak volume (and/or not do too many maximal sets…maybe tame the intensive techniques on most lifts like absolute failure training/forced reps/drop sets/rest pause etc).
It varies, sometimes you just need to take a day or two off, sometimes it’s just due to lack of sleep/excessive stress. But if you’ve been stagnating on most lifts for some time, despite maybe gaining weight…and the best sign of all, is if you’ve lost the will/motivation to train (your force/drive is gone), then a de-load may do you well. But not before all the basics are covered first (ESPECIALLY enough calories), you shouldn’t have to deload too often - don’t get into the habit of lowering weights/volume etc every single time you feel a bit under the weather haha.
It doesn’t necessarily follow an exact pattern (although for me, around 5-6 weeks is often when things slow down a lot and I lose intensity…it depends how hard I’ve been pushing the progression and other things).
Shhhh, don’t tell anyone I told you all that ^ , bodybuilders aren’t supposed to deload, especially if you’re under 280lbs 
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I started exercising when I was 11 for a Boy Scout requirement. After that, to my mind it was never really an option to stop and be weak. So I assed around for the next 6 years or so doing around an hour a day of pushups, pullups, and situps (and crunches and flutterkicks and leg levers and reverse situps and twisting situps and special OMG elite situps). And running…
I found T-Nation accidentally while looking for info on Neanderthals, read a few articles, and realized that this here weight training thing would be just a little bit better at accomplishing my goals.
So Boy Scouts and Neanderthals sparked my desire…
[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
Fat, very insecure with self image self worth even though back in the day I would have lied about that and said to look like ahnallld.
Then from there because I have OCD with perfecting things got pretty addicted to getting stronger.
Now to look good, get strong as fuck, stay healthy, attract women. Totally over the bull shit that haunted my mind in my youth. [/quote]
x2
[quote]its_just_me wrote:
[quote]wannabebig25 wrote:
[quote]SuperFast wrote:
[quote]wannabebig25 wrote:
ha thats hilarious, because i also sort of “gave up” 2 weeks ago. started only going 2-3 times a week, eating a ton of food (clean and non-clean), and all of a sudden im smashing PRs and gaining clean weight again. funny how things work out when you stop caring and just go with the flow instead of analyzing every last detail of your diet and training. feel a million times better not constantly pounding my body in the gym day in day out too.[/quote]
Recovery’s where you make your gains. Sounds like you were going at it a little too hard for a while there, and your “giving up” turned out to be a “de-load” for you. I think you just found your cycle.
Carry on.[/quote]
[quote]its_just_me wrote:
Exactly what I was thinking [1]
so you guys think that if i go back to a normal split that id continue to make progress for another 6-8 weeks, since ive done a “deload” and let my body rest up?[/quote]
I’d say yes. Although if the amount of sets/exercises was too much to start with (your gaining momentum only lasts 3-4 weeks), despite eating enough calories to gain weight and enough protein, then you need to tweak volume (and/or not do too many maximal sets…maybe tame the intensive techniques on most lifts like absolute failure training/forced reps/drop sets/rest pause etc).
It varies, sometimes you just need to take a day or two off, sometimes it’s just due to lack of sleep/excessive stress. But if you’ve been stagnating on most lifts for some time, despite maybe gaining weight…and the best sign of all, is if you’ve lost the will/motivation to train (your force/drive is gone), then a de-load may do you well. But not before all the basics are covered first (ESPECIALLY enough calories), you shouldn’t have to deload too often - don’t get into the habit of lowering weights/volume etc every single time you feel a bit under the weather haha.
It doesn’t necessarily follow an exact pattern (although for me, around 5-6 weeks is often when things slow down a lot and I lose intensity…it depends how hard I’ve been pushing the progression and other things).
Shhhh, don’t tell anyone I told you all that ^ , bodybuilders aren’t supposed to deload, especially if you’re under 280lbs :)[/quote]
im actually using the methods i saw in skips longevity dvd. a 3 day push/pull/legs split. ramping up the volume during the 5 weeks and then deloading the 6th week. i think itll work best for my body. upped my protein slightly, keeping carbs around 150-175g depending on what bodyparts that day, and fats 60-80g.
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^^^ Excellent coach (skip)