Time To Grow (pics pg16)

Violating the Sabbath!!!

Im chuffed for you fellow. It's always great to see a trainer start to reap his training harvest! Those numbers are fleshing out well now huh.

I am Ripper... Tearer... Slasher... Gouger. I am the Teeth in the Darkness, the Talons in the Night. Mine is Strength... and Lust... and Power!

Thanks Val, yeah the increase in weights is taking away the waist-line issue, so my cheesey grin is slowly coming back.
Don't seem as bloated today but still not liking the look.

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Got weighed this morning and still dead on 100kg (15st 10lb) and strength is on the up and up.  Not really sure what to make of this though, yes I'm well happy with the numbers progress just can't stand looking like I've never lifted a weight!!!

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RACK

...just can't stand looking like I've never lifted a weight!!!

Give over.

"...those aren't the roids you're looking for..."
"...those aren't the roids I'm looking for..."


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LOL, ok I'm a biggish unit, just need some difinition

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LOL, ok I'm a biggish unit, just need some difinition

Don't we all - IB it up! Get XL then aaccchhhttt! Fat comes off and reveals the mass

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Thanks Val, yeah the increase in weights is taking away the waist-line issue, so my cheesey grin is slowly coming back.
Don't seem as bloated today but still not liking the look.

What did I tell you mate??

Keep at it, some good lifting there mate and climbing fast.

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PB's:
Squat - 160kg x 6
Deadlift - 220kg x 4
Bench - 140kg x 6

Cheers guys
Val, I'd love to have the mind set of IB and to just get HOOOOOOJ, but I'm not sure I could.

Wprk is absolutly mental at the min, and have hardly time to even get on forums (yes it's that bad!) had some urgent rails turn up for testing so had to miss calves today but they will be done later or added to next session.
Pleased again as more progress has been made and once again a very very ill feeling after leg pressing, which I kinda enjoy

Quads/Hams and calf’s:
Leg extensions - Pg17x15,15,15,15 (up 1pg)
Hack Squat - Pg15x10,9,8,8 (up 1pg)
Leg press - 175kg PScarb styleeeeee! (up 5kg)

Lying leg curl – Pg10x8,8,8,8 (up 1 pg)
Stiff leg deads - with DB – 32.5kgx8,8,8,8 (up 2.5kg)

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What are PScarb style leg presses?

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PB's:
Squat - 160kg x 6
Deadlift - 220kg x 4
Bench - 140kg x 6

now then mate.
 
Just been reading the past few pages, sounds like your head is all over the place when it comes to your weight and how you look.  How tall are you mate?

i have to say, i dont envy the struggle you have with the fat gain, BUT when you eventually find the sweetspot you should get good gains.

how often you drinking mate?  reason i ask is that i know you like a drink, and even if your having things with little cals ie voddy and diet coke, the alcohol affects all kinds of things, such as estrogen and test levels.

the tiredness is down to having low test, and being in PCT, pretty normal, just have to ride through it.  Recovery would be quicker if you can live without the drink though mate.  In fact progress all round would be better without the drink,  might not be a possibility for you though?

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@Tuffy, Load the leg press up, do 10 reps wait 10 secs then do 10 reps and repeat until 6 sets are done mate.

@Dazc, hi mate I'm 5ft 9in, yeah the head is my worst enemy.  I like how my strength is coming along but look like sh1t. I'd love to be able to do what Aaron did and just keep on bulking and bulking but coming from being a very fat cnut I just can't do it.  The differnce from before I went on holiday to now is crazy, I don't even look like I train at the min and just look big.

I've probably had 3 nights on the beer since I got back from holiday.  Strange thing is I was t total for weeks before holiday but yes I do enjoy going out and getting "on it" as they say, but again it's going to have to be knocked on the head.  It's very possible mate, not just for progress reasons but financial too, £100 for a night of hazy memories of me doing stupid stuff isn't the best way to keep hold of my cash.

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honestly mate, i think all you would gain by letting yourself get massive would be alot of extra fat to diet off.  Aaron, for all that he gained alot of fat, also has some very good genetics for piling on the muscle, so if your comparing yourself to him, its always going to mess with your head.  It does mine mate, given i have been bodybuilding and very strict with it for years and years, and still nowhere near the mass i want, despite being on for a long time.  Then someone comes along and blows what little mass i have out of the water bigtime in just a few months!

all you can do is work with what you have mate, trying to do anything else just fcuks your head up, trust me on that one!

put some cardio into training routine mate, 30 minutes straight away after weights at about 110-130bpm.  Will help keep you trim, and improve fitness, and as i found out mood as well!

ignore the weight, im half an inch shorter than you, and have never weighed more than just over 15 and a half.  im sat at just over 13 stone at the moment mate, and everyone, and i do mean everyone is commenting on how good i look.  Its taken me nearly ten years to finally be able to ignore the numbers on the scales, but i feel like im free from the shackles of fat that i was holding to keep the numbers high/move them up. 

anyway, i better find some porn or something to post up, restore the manlyness of this post! haha

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Sounds brutal, what % of your normal 10RM do you work at? I will give them a go on my next legs session, I currently do 3 sets of 15, so it'll be a bit of a shock I imagine.

Ps. Great post Dazc.

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PB's:
Squat - 160kg x 6
Deadlift - 220kg x 4
Bench - 140kg x 6

@Dazc, that post was fantastic mate and much appreciated it's really put things into perspective for me.  I've started to be more strict on cardio now and am doing between 30-45mins a day.  I can't do it after weights as I train at lunch time.
What I'd like to do is once and for all strip away all the fat, get to single digit bf% then see what there is to work with, but to do that so soon after pct would be silly as  the muscle I'm now gaining woulg go to waste.
P.S.  Spankwire is your friend hahaha!!
 
@Tuffy, it's the best and worst feeling in the world.  As for weights, I just started with 160kg which isn't that much but on about the 4th set you're crying "WHHHHHYYYYYY!!!!"  I did 175kg yesterday and that's only the 3rd time doing it.  Just find a weight you can only just finish on mate.
 
Legs have started tightening up today so I know tomorrow will be murder.

Was sat down last night having a quick read and spotted a quote that gave me a mahoosive kick up the rear
"One cannot actualize his goals until he visualizes them clearly in the mind's eye" - Mike Mentzer

This is something I've been lacking in the last week or so. I feel like I've simply been going through the motions and even at one point thought about sacking the gym off (I shall go and wash my mouth out now!), and for what........ Because I don't look like I want to? Lowest bf% I've ever been in about 15% and that's pretty sh1t for someone who's trained a fair bit. But it's the mind set I get in that stops me progressing further and the ability I have for getting the face on.
At this moment in time I have one of the best trainers I could hope for in Pscarb, a gf who is into training too and about to start kicking ass in the gym again (she had abs not so long ago) and you lot on here kicking my @ss every day (for which I'm grateful).
So the switch has been flicked back to "ON" and it's back to having a cheesy grin.

Not sure if any of the above was needed to be wrote down or even made sense though lol

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So the switch has been flicked back to "ON"

Like this?

Always good to get your head on straight. A lot of people seem to be finding it a weird time at the minute. There is no motivation to get in shape for summer clothes/holidays and the prospect of Xmas blowouts in just a couple of months means it really doesn't make a whole heap of sense to cut at the minute. The lads were talking about more or less exactly this in the gym last night. Both training partners are keen to cut up a bit but are just resigning themselves to being patient and waiting for the new year.

"...those aren't the roids you're looking for..."
"...those aren't the roids I'm looking for..."


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Good to see you back mate!

Ive known your mindset was a little off over the last few weeks, hence my posts about pyschobabble.

We are fortunate in our ways my friend. Sometimes, like now, we come to realise this.

Roflcopter @ Jedi's blasphemic post, somewhere in the clouds, a bearded man has his fist clenched and teeth gritted!

I am Ripper... Tearer... Slasher... Gouger. I am the Teeth in the Darkness, the Talons in the Night. Mine is Strength... and Lust... and Power!

@Jedi, LOL!!  I hear the xmas thing.  Upto xmas I've planned 4 big things going off (1 is my bday weekender) so it's going to be tough but managable.  It's the usual thing of coming back from holiday though and realising how much fun I have when I'm drunk, although a hangover, fuzzy memories and an empty pocket aren't much fun the day after.  I've just put my gf in touch with OoOGazOoO and she's very keen to get back into training so this will be a good push for me too, so everything is on my side.

@Val, yep I'm back on it like wallace and grommit as my little mate Antz says.

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Woke up feeling good again this morning, quads are tightish but hams are worse than yesterday.
Spoke to Paul and from tonight (after last meal) I'll be doing 45mins cardio and then 45mins each morning, tbh I'm pleased with it in a way as I like to be up early in a morning to get all my food preped for the day (I could do it at night but it's far nicer and fresher if done in the morning) and have a little time to chill before work.
Took a pic last night to see how my back was going (it's been deleted now though), sod all definition and some muffin top action but it's looking a lot wider and the "V" is coming good even with a bit of "()" at the bottom. A couple of weeks of morning cardio should see these going down.

Looking forward to chest and bi's today.

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You need some Creatine mate, did I mention I had some?

It's hard to be humble when I'm so great...

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize...Muhammad Ali

That's straight in with quite a lot of cardio.
Then again, if you're looking forward to it you crack on
Is it a temporary measure do you think?

"...those aren't the roids you're looking for..."
"...those aren't the roids I'm looking for..."


Link to training partner's blog
Mark Jackman and The Great Right Hope