Ok so now a few years later, I've tried to bulk up with a smart but not super strict diet (I'd say it remained mostly at about an 8 out of 10 in terms of cleanness), but then this past summer I...
Ok so I've been involved in lifting since high school when I used to play soccer (I'm 24 now), but never really got into lifting seriously until my junior year of college. I was pretty scrawny back...
A buddy of mine right now can't afford a gym membership and just has a cheap 100lb weight set with a small bar, so obviously he can't do deadlifts with that.
Um, when I was 5'6"/128 my max squat was 325, max bench was 215, max deadlift was 355. I don't see why people don't believe this kid's stats, they seem pretty normal.
Exactly, that's the problem, the hypertrophy was mostly in the lower abs (though there was some in the upper abs as well) which gives an odd, fattish look . . .
I had the exact same thing happen, and weighted decline ab crunches were the culprit. I'd spent years just doing regular unweighted flat crunches and had ok abs (but a little bit of fat covering...
I should also add that one probable reason for my stalled progress is that my training program has become stale. On top of that, for the past 4 months or so I've only had some weights at home to...
Anyone else find that they pack on a good deal of mass on their ass from hitting the squats heavy? Obviously that's a logical byproduct of squatting since it works your glutes . . . I just get tired...
Well, I actually do seem to have stalled out a bit, but I also haven't really increased my calories much at all for the past two or three weeks, so that may have something to do with it . . .
I'm 5'6"/160lbs, Bulked up from about 140 or so. Do you think I should keep bulking up, or stop to do a little bit of a cut? I was thinking maybe continue bulking until about late February or early...
I'm in a very similar boat as you, it's largely just the way your waist is shaped (mine is the same), just one of those things you have to kind of get past mentally. I'm on the shorter side, so I...
On the contrary, while I was on creatine mono, I would constantly get muscle cramps (what he is describing) when, say, I'd reach for something. I'd extend my arm and my bicep would twinge/pull, a...
