Spring Cutters Crew Vol. 37: The Shredz! Acquire or Acquire Not

[fishnbrah]

From this...

I have faith that you can do it!

Would take an atomic bomb to keep me from reaching dick skin right now.

[fishnbrah]

I woke up leaner than I’ve been all cut, but 5lbs heavier than Sunday. I think it’s sodium idk.

[fishnbrah]

I have a torn labrum in my shoulder and I just have been working around it ... had to remove a few lifts for now that aggravated it but I seem to have a good system in place that keeps me working out while I heal. The gym is my therapy I can’t do without it.

My arms are up to 19.75” with a pump. Just need a tiny bit more meat on legs and back/chest ... that + getting to 5% BF and it’ll be joocy o clock.
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Good lord, arms looking huge!

[deltpecx]

Would take an atomic bomb to keep me from reaching dick skin right now.

[deltpecx]

I'm starting to feel more inspired than I have been the past few weeks.

My Tuesday session was traps and delts.

Everything went well with very little shoulder pain.
Lateral raise are out for now but I found that wide grip BB upright rows worked well.
It hits the side delts and I didn't have any pain or difficulty.

Today was arms and abs...yes abs!

I am determined to get as close to this condition as possible before I reach the big 70!

[deltpecx]

Good lord, arms looking huge!

for others to see just how HUGE they are.

[fishnbrah]

I am determined to get as close to this condition as possible before I reach the big 70!

team dick skin.

[NickelArse]

i'm not as close to shredz as some of the others ITT but I'm getting there

[fishnbrah]

youre not that far from making it brah

[NickelArse]

thanks brah, I hope so. Plan is to drop another 2kg/4.5lbs and assess aesthetics from there. Happy to drop further from there if necessary tho.

[GaryRidgway]

I had a good two week run, now I'm drinking everyday again. On the plus side a drunk guy at 7/11 asked me if I'm on steroids today. I finally made it.

[mccoy19]

I had a good two week run, now I'm drinking everyday again. On the plus side a drunk guy at 7/11 asked me if I'm on steroids today. I finally made it.

Lmao I don’t know why, but I always find that so enjoyable to hear. It makes me laugh and tells me I can’t be that small looking lol.

I’m fighting a cold or something which has my kidney numbers looking a bit out of wack ... hoping they bounce back once I get over whatever this is ... if they do I’ll continue pressing forwards with the goal of an August classic physique show. If they don’t cooperate I’ll shut down this plan and be content looking relatively juicy and being healthy. My goal was to put on a bit of size and get shredded ...

5’10.5 205lbs 8% BF 19.75” arms with a pump and 27.5” quads with a pump. Just need to drop 3% BF and ideally keep these dimensions

[fishnbrah]

I have 16” calves and 24-25” quads fml

[NickelArse]

when you finally find a room with lighting that makes it look like you have abs but it's a $400 a night hotel room... fml

[fishnbrah]

would definitely pay extra for unnatty lighting.

[deltpecx]

would definitely pay extra for unnatty lighting.

The anabolic lighting in my gym is in the spin room.
We also have a few anabolic mirrors.


Seek and ye shall find.

[deltpecx]

when you finally find a room with lighting that makes it look like you have abs but it's a $400 a night hotel room... fml

[codefreeze]

in and happy to see fish and delt still around

[blistex]

In. Turning 30 hit me like a truck. Have always had a fast metabolism and struggled to bulk but all of a sudden the abs just melted into my torso wtf.

So I'm doing my first ever cut this sht sucks lol. Counting macros is fking annoying! Is this really the rest of my life if I want to be lean??

[fishnbrah]

In. Turning 30 hit me like a truck. Have always had a fast metabolism and struggled to bulk but all of a sudden the abs just melted into my torso wtf.

So I'm doing my first ever cut this sht sucks lol. Counting macros is fking annoying! Is this really the rest of my life if I want to be lean??

i like it.

[fishnbrah]

switched to chicken breast and broccoli last night. gonna run that for a couple weeks and see how much leaner i get. only eating like 1600 cals now. i did 25 minutes stairmaster last night.

[deltpecx]

In. Turning 30 hit me like a truck. Have always had a fast metabolism and struggled to bulk but all of a sudden the abs just melted into my torso wtf.

So I'm doing my first ever cut this sht sucks lol. Counting macros is fking annoying! Is this really the rest of my life if I want to be lean??

It's not so much the age but that you might not be as active as you were yet you're still eating the same amount of food.

More movement
or
Eat less food.


pick one.

[fishnbrah]

i like eating the same stuff everyday srs. when im doing stuff i just want to go home and eat oatmeal dead fkn srs

[blistex]

It's not so much the age but that you might not be as active as you were yet you're still eating the same amount of food.

More movement
or
Eat less food.


pick one.

You're probably right. I went back to school and am sitting a lot more often. But if I'm less active, shouldn't I have a smaller appetite?? I feel like I can eat more than I ever have before in my life.

brb eating one hamburger and feeling like I'm gonna starve to death an hour later

[NickelArse]

switched to chicken breast and broccoli last night. gonna run that for a couple weeks and see how much leaner i get. only eating like 1600 cals now. i did 25 minutes stairmaster last night.

<1600 cals with >150g of protein is the ticket to the shred train

[mccoy19]

I personally enjoy tracking my macros and having the will power to eat exactly what I need to for my goals. Most are too mentally weak and unwilling to do what it takes.

My kidneys have been a bit ****y this past week I got a cold and it caused my disease to flare up, but it’s starting to calm down hoping my test strips look good again by end of today. I’m 5’10.5 206lbs here. Still gunning to try to do a fitness show by august if my body cooperates.

Trying to do images from my phone is a pain in the ass lol did this work?

[MrJensenn]

This thread pushed me back into getting shredded.
Down 11 pounds in a month and a half.

First did only caloric restriction.
Saw mccoy19 mention IF, searched up fasting research and went down the rabbit hole.
Lots of interesting research with lots of benefits.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31881139/ - Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/ar...l.pone.0209353 - Safety, health improvement and well-being during a 4 to 21-day fasting period in an observational study including 1422 subjects

[NickelArse]

This thread pushed me back into getting shredded.
Down 11 pounds in a month and a half.

First did only caloric restriction.
Saw mccoy19 mention IF, searched up fasting research and went down the rabbit hole.
Lots of interesting research with lots of benefits.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31881139/ - Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/ar...l.pone.0209353 - Safety, health improvement and well-being during a 4 to 21-day fasting period in an observational study including 1422 subjects

Just an FYI it's not all beer and skittles from an endocrinology standpoint, IF is known to raise SHBG and estradiol while dropping free T. There's not a lot of scientific literature on the subject (did find this study which shows "Testosterone and insulin-like growth factor 1 decreased significantly in fasting group, with no changes in normal diet group" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5064803/) but anecdotally there's heaps of guys posting their bloodwork on reddit who are keto and/or fasting with sky high SHBG and low free T

here's an example
https://www.reddit.com/r/ketogains/c...s_problematic/
there's more with this google search if you're interested
site:reddit.com fasting "SHBG"

When I last got bloodwork done after 3 months of strict keto and IF (16/8 everyday with weekly 24 hour fasts) my SHBG was so high my doctor asked if I was taking steroids (result was 98 nmol/l ref range was 15-50). How much of that can be put down to keto and how much can be put down to IF... who knows.

Thing was I felt awesome at the time I got these tests done and I'm strict keto IF now too and feel awesome. I would imagine I've probably got borderline hypogonadal free testosterone levels at present so the fact I feel awesome is pretty strange. People like Shawn Baker (carnivore dude) like to say that keto/carnivore/fasting increases androgen sensitivity so the body has no need for sky high free test but I don't think there's any scientific literature to back that up.

[fishnbrah]

fuark, mirin size mccoy.

[simpson54]

In again and weighing about 216. BJJ tournament next weekend. Might water cut to 200 not sure yet but feelsweirdman being this size and natty after spending 6 years 260+ and not