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ye fam

Beenis

>Going to the doctor
>ever

Are you even truly a man?

Everyone gets the bar marks on their backs from squatting heavy. Its common. I never got a bruise like that though. Perhaps you arent keepijg your upper back tight enough?

Also it's not a bruise. It doesn't hurt or anything, it's just there.

That's what I was hoping to hear. I think my worrying comes from the fact that I've been squatting for 2 1/2 years and I've never gotten any marks before. Then randomly a mark shows up.

Half of my weight problems were because I couldn't take Ridellin for my ADHD when I was youg, so the only equivelant makes you fat instead of skinny, so it made me fat and eat all the time. That was long ago though and luckily all those ADHD problems are gone and I have no excuses for my weight, which is why I did something, i'm 18 btw.

Im not fit, I'm just barely in the normal range according to my docotor. I still need to work on losing weight, I'm just glad I managed to lose 75 pounds in 2 years. I still go to the gym regularly for that reason. I'm still a little bit fat, so you're right, I'm just not obese anymore.

IMO you have the right idea with the progressive overload/diet philosophy but it seems a bit off from what I am reading in your posts.

Instead of just dropping calories a bit at a time to an arbitrary amount, you should find out your maintenance, take 500 off of it (or whatever you are trying to do), and continue to adjust your calorie consumption with your weight loss. As your rough maintenance calorie amount goes down, so should your calorie consumption.

This seems more in line with the progressive overload line of thought, where you perform some amount of sets and reps (lets say 3x8) of a movement and, when you are able to perform all 24 reps at a given weight, you put more weight on for the next session. The main difference I can see is that there is no definite marker of when to shift your calorie consumption, so you could do so at whichever time intervals you would like.


Also, is there any reason in particular you cut carbs? I've always found it to be much easier to eat high protein/carbs when cutting and still exercising frequently.

Utilizing progressive overload philosophy on a cut? That's new.

Can't tell if srs.

A lot of people don't realize that you have to leave room to progress with diet too. Immediately cutting calories too low is a great way to incur metabolic damage.

Also, I'm not criticizing you. I've just never seen a dieting philosophy that's like yours. Good luck, I'll be posting some deadlifting videos later for your viewing pleasure.

Well sure, if you want to continue to see weight loss, you need to remain in a caloric deficit. But in an ideal scenario you need to alter your diet to support your goal physique and size, so changing your diet in a manner that's sustainable long term is the goal. That goes for weight loss and weight gain both.

The main point is that you have to leave yourself room to progress. So if you maintain on 3000 calories, start your cut at 2800, a couple weeks later drop to 2500, then 2300, then 2200, 2100, etc. For me, since I fucking HATE counting calories, I just roughly drop carbs over the course of time, and manipulate my eating window - for instance, at a certain point I'm going to very strictly stop eating anything past 5pm, but for now it's more like 7pm. This also goes for activity levels. As my weight loss slows, I'm going to start incorporating sprint work and regularly going on walks.

See the first part is what I've seen. Manipulation of macros and eating times for weight loss is something I haven't seen. You could be eating zero carbs and still gain weight if your calories are high enough. You'd feel like shit, but you could do it.

Personally counting calories is pretty easy for me, so that's never been an issue. Have a vague idea and then incorporate some added cardio and you're good. Weight loss isn't complicated until you're trying to get to single digit percentages.

Right. Honestly there are a thousand different ways to lose weight successfully, this is what has always worked well for me. I'm surprised you've never heard of this approach though? Although I do suppose counting calories is all anyone ever talks about - aside from IFFYM.

But yeah, any progress is gonna be based off of progressive overload, this is just a different approach using the same principle.

Yeah weight loss is more consistency than anything. If you stick to any solid diet program it'll usually succeed. Keep us updated.

Is that fuckin Pauly D from Jersey shore talking to the guy in red behind you?

Good job, but usually going all the way up means your chin is at least even with you hands.

Join a gym with an assisted pullup machine. If you can't, then practice negatives multiple times a day.

Search negative pull ups on youtube, helped me so much

Try even if you don't pull yourself up that much you're still working out the back muscles. Hanging there for as long as you can also helps. Or just losing a lot of weight?

I will... eventually. let me get a lil' bit more lean/bigger.

Nvr b of shame. Post pics little son

it in ur life now. it ur time bud

u caut the cym autism.

Been feeding upon unclos milk, training for this day.

Good luck man.

So you only did around 30 reps during your whole squat workout? Are most of your lifting days this low in volume?

For squats, yeah. I typically squat 2-3 times a week though. Back days have a shitton of volume with lots of accessories, and bench days involve a lot of reps. I've never really had a need for leg accessory movements, so I just stick to a decent amount of squatting. I think my legs are doing okay.

I wasn't saying you need to do anything different. I was just asking.

I'm exactly the opposite. I have maybe 30 SETS on my leg day.

How are your DOMs and atrophy, bud?

Non-existent. I've actually seen amazing improvement.

Cool, bud. Let me know when you catch me, litle son.

Won't be long on deadlifts, got 395 last strength day, that's 30 pounds in 3 weeks. Might have you beat on rows already, I'll be trying for 275 tomorrow. Bench will be a bitch to catch you on, progress is much harder on that. We'll see 'bout squats.

I just fucking love high volume. Keeps me lean, and builds muscle like a motherfucker when I'm focusing on a particular body part, my shoulders have gone from lacking to a leading body part on me now since I've hit them for a while.

Did some cheater rows with 315 the other night. Got a set of 8 and a set of 6. Bare handed, too. I also have a legit shot at a 500 deadlift within the next month, so we'll see. You have me beat on deadlift mechanical genetics, but I've got you beat in back development. I think we'll be close because of that for a while.

I'll most likely always have you fukked on bench just because I'm built for it, and you're specifically not built for it.

Who fukin knows about squats tho.

You got lats on back, but I'd say that's it. We'll see..

And tfw no barrel chest plus long noodley arms. Won't hurt to try though.

Lats are the largest part of the back, and they're one of the most important muscles for deadlifting. Sure, maybe my 'mid back' or whatever the fuck is lagging a bit, maybe, but it's never once held me back. If you needed a strong 'mid back' for deadlifts, I'd have a strong 'mid back'.

u dont have barrel chest because ur lats and pecs aren't big enuf. srsreallysrs.

And clearly my lats haven't slowed me down. I just have never deadlifted consistently. Now I will be.

And a barrel chest is bone structure. A naturally large ribcage.

I don't know dude. There are plenty of skinny fucks that get giant after a bunch of years. I think is has a lot to do with both musculature and posture. I wasn't always barrel-chested (if you even consider me to be barrel chested now)

You can literally Google "barrel chest" and it'll tell you it's a naturally large rib-cage.

"Barrel chest generally refers to a broad, deep chest found on a man. A man described as barrel chested will usually have a naturally large ribcage, very round torso, large lung capacity, and can potentially have great upper body strength."

I don't pull this stuff out of my butt brother. Nor am I making excuses.

"usually"

u can get biggor, son.

Pause?

Of course

Sounds good. Get vids next time.

I go to a gym .-.

Good, get someone there to record it for you.

Real talk, there are literally thousands of people that go to commercial gyms, and still record their sets. No excuses, bud.

It's embarrassing. but next push day that I do my max sure I'lll record

Why would it be embarrassing

Because I'm not an autist, and my lifts aren't anything special to me.
Sure I'm proud of a 2plate bench.
Doesn't mean I'm going to want to film myself doing it, it's not as good as can be.

Smith machine?

free weights.
2 reps

Nice job.

Yeah I wasn't even expecting to but hell I felt like it was the right time and it was

For basic you'll just need to be good at running, pushups, sit ups, and pull ups. Navy has swimming too.

I know, but would there be any better/more efficient workouts to do instead if just doing a bunch of pushups and situps that you would recommend?

For getting stronger and more athletic? Yeah there are tons I'd do.

For preparing for basic training? Nah, just doing as many pushups/ situps in a minute then getting good at running 1-2 miles.

I'm a big lifter, and while I killed the PT testing during AF basic, I lost 30 pounds of mostly muscle mass there. The workouts they do are better for lean and athletic with good endurance. Other branches aren't much different.

I'm not trying to get that big or anything, just haven't been able to really work out anywhere since I graduated High School last May and wanna at least get myself back into a shape a bit. But even when i did workout, I just did the workout on the board or what football coach assigned so I have no real experience setting up or planning mine own workout. I'm not just doing it to pass the test, but to get in better shape overall.

It's pretty simple, a basic bro-split usually just consists of 1 or 2 compound movements then 3 or 4 complimenting isolation movements. So for your specific situation you could do a basic Bench-Deadlift-Squat split 3-4 days a week and do running, swimming, and other forms of conditioning on your non-lifting days.

Very nice squat

Looked good. Keep it up.

eat nothing
get on that intermittent fasting gravy train