Who Else is Getting Results?

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Shit, I’ve been too busy to post on here for a while, I guess that’s life, but training has been great. I Put on maybe 10 pounds sitting just below 240, my chest and arms have grown alot and my legs have ballooned as well. Chest grew an inch this past month sitting around 48 inches and my arms are 17.5 cold. Eating is like second nature now stuffing my face throughout the day is very common for me. Ive been training at the gym when I can get there and at home when I cant. All in all shit going pretty good.

Question is who else is seeing some major results. I know most people are full of excuseidis and I’ve even found myself that way for a period of time, but when you just keep pushing forward leaving the past in the past and only focusing on what you are going to become training gets much easier.

I compare my training to making a good investment. If you purchase a few stocks you are bound to see ups and downs but as long as you profit it was a succsessful venture. When your training your going to have your ups and downs, your going to have off days some times but if you push past that you’ll be better from it. Get stronger day to day, but I’d feel accomplished as long as I’m bigger and stronger year to year. It takes so much time to get crazy big and I plan on taking it as fast as I can but if I’m not making huge leaps it’s not going to effect me.

Like Arnold said, once you can control your mind you’ll be that much better, and that is so true. This is a huge mental game and strong will power is such a good tool. If I go to lift and have a negative attitude my lifts suffer, my workout collapses, and I’m demoralized, but if you have the attitude of “I’m giving it my best and all I have to give, if I can only lift X weight for X reps then thats all I can lift, I can’t change that now, but next week I’ll try for more,” that’s a successful attitude. No idea why I went on this rant, I just felt it needed to be thrwon out there.

Anyways, whos’ gaining, who’s not and whos’ just plain determined to be the best. I’ll say it first, I want to to be the best, I’m going to be the best.

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Congrats and of course, keep on trucking. I’ve had some pretty solid 7-8 weeks. I’ve been trying to put on as much size as I can for the last two months and have been doing well. Im about 170 in my latest profile pics and Im now about 214 on an empty stomach. Although not as lean, just slightly fatter than my first profile pic. Im 5’ 10" and realize I need ALOT of filling out to do. I didn’t really make any muscle group a priority, but my goal was to build up some wheels because they were pathetic to start. I’ve been hammering my legs, but to only a small change in size. My back, Chest, Shoulders, and arms have been responding well. I’ve implemented a log book and I’ve beat every workout so far. All my major lifts have gone up (although I’ve only tested my deadlift max, 565 now!).

Im eating a minimum of 4,200cals a day, going up to 5,700cals on leg & back days. Im planning on sizing up until atleast March, then decide what Im doing then.

*P.S. Hey Austin, whats your leg routine look like?

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[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
Like Arnold said, once you can control your mind you’ll be that much better, and that is so true. This is a huge mental game and strong will power is such a good tool. If I go to lift and have a negative attitude my lifts suffer, my workout collapses, and I’m demoralized, but if you have the attitude of “I’m giving it my best and all I have to give, if I can only lift X weight for X reps then thats all I can lift, I can’t change that now, but next week I’ll try for more,” that’s a successful attitude. No idea why I went on this rant, I just felt it needed to be thrwon out there.

Anyways, whos’ gaining, who’s not and whos’ just plain determined to be the best. I’ll say it first, I want to to be the best, I’m going to be the best.[/quote]

So true. I gained a good amount of weight since July but weight and strength stagnated through December. Now I’m back at it and have finally broken through some strength barriers. I had a lot of negative energy from not being able to hit my goals the past month, but I had to just focus my mind and overcome them. It seems very easy to be psyched out on bench and squat with all that weight is threatening to crush you.

Like you, I’m determined to be the best. I got the time, and I can’t make any lame ass excuses either. Just gotta continue giving it my all.

The Brotherhood of Iron thread seems to be populated with some posters who are certainly kicking ass.

Congrats on your progress, and good luck. I used to enjoy reading your posts/progress and it’s good to see you back. It’s encouraging.

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Nicely done I wish I was at 240.

Since my last profile pics in August I am up from 195 to 225. My body has really responded well to my first real bulk. My diet isn’t the cleanest and I have been gaining some body fat but I know the muscle gains have been well worth it. I abandoned straight sets at that time too and now am ramping to a top set and this has really helped my strength as well.

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I’ve gone from 170 to 211+ at 5’10 since last summer. (Definitely not all lean gains, but not bad either) My arms have grown an inch in the last month alone as well.
If things keep going the way they are, I hope to hit 18" arms before the end of this year. (And to think Professor X was making fun of me for having 14" inch arms just this last September… :P)

My chest has also gone from 45" to about 48.5 in the past few months.

Oh, and in a year my pull has gone from a 300lb deadlift to what will hopefully be a 700lb rackpull sometime before my 19th birthday in February.

So yeah, I’m getting results. :smiley:

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Right now, wrestling season has just forced me to maintain weight and get better conditioning.

I can’t wait to stuff my face all the time after the season.

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Steady gains so far. I’ ve only started lifting since June 16th, from the impressive weight of 155.5 lbs. This morning, on an empty stomach I weight 184. 6 lbs. I’ m 6’ 1’’ so I’ m a twig. My arms ar about 15’ 7’’ cold, the chest is 44’1’’ and the legs are 24’. No wonder I would post pics after six years, not months of training.

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Nice progress man! Definately agree about the mindset. I haven’t made any progress because I’ve been experiencing alot of injuries, but of course now I am realising the importance of stretching and mobility exercises for joint health. At the same time I don’t think I’ve gone backwards.

My workout partner is in a similiar situation, and is really stressing out about his lifts and arms going down and is getting really angry in workouts which I can see is doing more harm then good.

Recently started the anabolic diet and my body is responding to it really well.

Still as focused as ever, if not more so to test my limits and be the best I can be.

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[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
Question is who else is seeing some major results. [/quote]

AB- Nice work!

I’m sitting at about 17.5 cold-- that’s 3.25" since Spring '08. Sure, it’s not a ‘ripped’ 17.5" but it ain’t “a slab of fat hanging off my shoulder” either(with a nod to Mighty_Stu).

Broke 405 in my squat and close with deadlift (this is post injury 2 years ago).

I have no idea what my bench is but I’m working with the 110’s for DB Presses-- that’s up considerably in the the past year. The shoulder is feeling better so I would like to start benching again-- I think that’s going to help the arm growth as well.

My log:
http://www.T-Nation.com/free_online_forum/sports_body_training_performance_bodybuilding_senior/shut_up_n_lift_dimeos_log

Certainly nothing impressive, but the gains/results have been consistent. That’s all I can ask for. I look at it like this-- this is a game for the long haul. Huge gains may not be obvious in the short term, but if they are consistent, when you look back after a few years, you really see the reward.

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i’ve been stalling. Too much shit going against me right now and my mindset sucks.

It’s tough to bulk when your income goes to shit.

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[quote]Terrace Lad wrote:
Steady gains so far. I’ ve only started lifting since June 16th, from the impressive weight of 155.5 lbs. This morning, on an empty stomach I weight 184. 6 lbs. I’ m 6’ 1’’ so I’ m a twig. My arms ar about 15’ 7’’ cold, the chest is 44’1’’ and the legs are 24’. No wonder I would post pics after six years, not months of training.[/quote]

Dude… your arms are 15 feet, chest is 44 feet and legs are 24 feet?

That’s pretty big.

I gained 65 pounds total in about 1.5 years.

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80 pounds in the past two years. Less then an inch taller

I looked at my log and I was wide stance box squatting(can use much more weight) about two plates at about this time last year. I’m over three plates in the regular squat now.

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Hey austin, good to hear you have things well under control, lifting-wise !

Shoot me a mail brother…
Rumor in Germany’s dark back alleys has it you were buried under so many hot chicks that you just couldn’t reach the keyboard. :wink:

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going well, finally hit 200lbs, 203lbs currently, i was 173 in July, so 30lbs since the summer. 148lbs in 2006 so a total gain of 55lbs since 2006!!! BF is up but not too much, still under 15%.

if my shoulder, trap, scapula situation would amend itself i’d be even happier.

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may 2008, 130-140lbs
june 2008 to dec 2008, 140lbs-165lbs

january 2009 - weighed in this morning at 170lbs

I foolishly set 170lbs as a goal in november when I was 160, thinking it would take forever. Now I’m looking to get to 190 by may 2009. No noticable BF either.

Also gained 1/2 an inch on my arms this month. Benched 200 for the first time a about a week ago.

That’s about it.

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12Kg in the last 6 months (from a pretty bad starting point.)

Pretty much all of it lean mass. Biggest change that has started things moving better is eating more. People say it over and over but it wasn’t until I started logging what I ate that I started to really see the gains.

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[quote]elusive wrote:
*P.S. Hey Austin, whats your leg routine look like? [/quote]

Well I used to do a lot of squating but my legs never really responded well, maybe it’s because I’m 6’2" but I could never get them to grow well. So due to that, and a kneee injury I dropped squats out of my routine. I found hack squats and the plate loaded squat machine hit my quads much better. My routine looks something like this.

All sets are pyramided, last set is about 4-6 reps.

Hack Squats
Plate Loaded Squat Machine
Leg Press
Leg Extensions
Goodmoring/GHR
Leg Curls
Single Leg Standing Leg Curls

Then for calves (my worst bodypart)
Seated raises
Standing Raises
Donkey Raises
Leg Press Calf Raises (that’s the only way I know to explain them)

It’s been going pretty good so far. I can use over 700 pound on the plate loaded squat machine, and 400+ on the hack squat. My legs are much better than they’ve ever been.

Now I’m alittle jealous of that deadlift. Deads have always been a strong point, but until injury (due to poor form) I haven’t done deads seriously in around 8 months+. Whats your dead/back routine look like, I’d really love to get my numbers back up.

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[quote]Sick Rick wrote:
Terrace Lad wrote:
Steady gains so far. I’ ve only started lifting since June 16th, from the impressive weight of 155.5 lbs. This morning, on an empty stomach I weight 184. 6 lbs. I’ m 6’ 1’’ so I’ m a twig. My arms ar about 15’ 7’’ cold, the chest is 44’1’’ and the legs are 24’. No wonder I would post pics after six years, not months of training.

Dude… your arms are 15 feet, chest is 44 feet and legs are 24 feet?

That’s pretty big.

I gained 65 pounds total in about 1.5 years.[/quote]

My bad, I’ m used to kilos, metres and centimetres. Pounds, feet, inches are not used where I live.

You get the message anyway. :wink:

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[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
elusive wrote:
*P.S. Hey Austin, whats your leg routine look like?

Well I used to do a lot of squating but my legs never really responded well, maybe it’s because I’m 6’2" but I could never get them to grow well. So due to that, and a kneee injury I dropped squats out of my routine. I found hack squats and the plate loaded squat machine hit my quads much better. My routine looks something like this.

All sets are pyramided, last set is about 4-6 reps.

Hack Squats
Plate Loaded Squat Machine
Leg Press
Leg Extensions
Goodmoring/GHR
Leg Curls
Single Leg Standing Leg Curls

Then for calves (my worst bodypart)
Seated raises
Standing Raises
Donkey Raises
Leg Press Calf Raises (that’s the only way I know to explain them)

It’s been going pretty good so far. I can use over 700 pound on the plate loaded squat machine, and 400+ on the hack squat. My legs are much better than they’ve ever been.

Now I’m alittle jealous of that deadlift. Deads have always been a strong point, but until injury (due to poor form) I haven’t done deads seriously in around 8 months+. Whats your dead/back routine look like, I’d really love to get my numbers back up.[/quote]

Thats interesting. I’ve been back squating, front squating, wide stanced and narrow stanced, to no luck. I always wondered if I don’t respond as well to them, as I would to say, hack squats. I work out at home and have been planning on investing in a leg press/hack squat.

Until then I gotta deal with my glute/ham dominate squats. lol. Anyways, thanks for the routine, its something I will definitly implement once I get all the equipment I need.

As for my back day. I do 4 exercises for my back, with 4 sets per exercise.

1)Deadlifts (450x12)(450x12)(475x6)(500x4)
2)BentOver BB Rows (235x10)for 4 sets
3)ChinDowns(supinated lat pull downs) (170x12) for 4 sets

  • I pull these down to my chest, with a close grip.
    4)Low Rope Pulls(Dante mentioned these on the DC thread)
    (110x12) for 4 sets.
  • I might sub in Rack chins or one arm dumbell rows here.

That was my last back day and so far I’ve managed to add more weight or reps to each workout. I don’t like going past 12 reps, so I up the weights on the sets I did 12 on and aim for at least 6-8.

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Training for me is always on fire. I enter with the same mind set all the time… break down muscle fibres so that they’ll grow. The only reason im lifting is to build beautiful muscle.

You do good when your there consciously to build muscle (that may same obvious but trust me, the more conscious you are of building muscle the better you’ll lift) On a 16 week bulk at the mo. After that, keep bulking or little cut and go again. Entering first show in September. It will be a first timer category, i wanna get my feet wet.