One year progress

[Diamhea]

Not new to the gym (off and on for 10 years) but I had taken a break of nearly four years before getting back into it starting March 2015. I could only diet and do cardio until I was cleared by doc to do full workouts. I was around 210 skinnyfat, and dieted to around 180 and began lifting again in September.

First pic is a year ago




And today




Just wanted to share, since I'm proud of how far I've come. I plan to stick with it this time.

[ernestyyli]

Good job dude, very impressive! Keep up the good work

[unplugged]

Holy **** great work man you look awesome! Delts and arms look savage

[Diamhea]

Thank you m8.

[Diamhea]

Here's a triceps pic taken at the same time as the other "after" pic

[unplugged]

Nice tricep detail/separation! Triceps are one of my best parts and I love training em. Dunno why biceps are so over rated, triceps make up 2/3 of the arm and make you look way massive not to mention they are way more functional then the biceps

[Stevebaby]

Great change

[Diamhea]

Nice tricep detail/separation! Triceps are one of my best parts and I love training em. Dunno why biceps are so over rated, triceps make up 2/3 of the arm and make you look way massive not to mention they are way more functional then the biceps

Being taller and having lanky arms, I was aware of this from the outset and always made a priority to train triceps, but I neglected stuff like close grip bench press and dips in favor of rope pushdown and skullcrushers. I'll be honest, these exercises didn't give me the mass on the back of my arm that I was really looking for to offset my long arms. It just gave me an exaggerated lateral head. So it looks cool from the back, but if you look at my arms from the side there isn't as much mass as I would have hoped for.

Thanks for the input and I hope someone can benefit from this mistake I made.

[Diamhea]

I took a back pic when I got out of the shower today