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[FallingEdge]

tfw looking at yourself in the morning is the leanest you look all day

tfw your leanest still makes you feel fat

tfw your leanest makes you feel skinny and weak

tfw you don't ever think you will reach your goals

rough monday, is it time to go to the gym yet?

 

[rando14]

tfw looking at yourself in the morning is the leanest you look all day

tfw your leanest still makes you feel fat

tfw your leanest makes you feel skinny and weak

tfw you don't ever think you will reach your goals

rough monday, is it time to go to the gym yet?

we're all gonna make it bro!

 

[Deleted member 47027]

tfw looking at yourself in the morning is the leanest you look all day

tfw your leanest still makes you feel fat

tfw your leanest makes you feel skinny and weak

tfw you don't ever think you will reach your goals

rough monday, is it time to go to the gym yet?

It is that time. Fix your broken image! FIX IT THROUGH POWER

 

[blackflag]

tfw looking at yourself in the morning is the leanest you look all day

tfw your leanest still makes you feel fat

tfw your leanest makes you feel skinny and weak

tfw you don't ever think you will reach your goals

rough monday, is it time to go to the gym yet?

I know this feel well but I'm starting to feel and see the changes and its sickkkk. If this continues I'm gonna be a happy happy man.

 

[abuC]

Had a monster workout this morning, one of the best I've had in ages, and I can't even understand why considering I got less than 4 hours of sleep.

 

[MrOogieBoogie]

Can someone tell me how a body like this is possible?

Without eating at a calorie deficit? Figured I'd try to find some information about Hemsworth's diet during his Thor shoots, and most sources claim he's eating as much as he can. But what the fuck, where's the gut? It's just confusing because he's so big.

 

[Chittagong]

Three weeks into Carb Nite and two of them under my belt, I am not entirely convinced it will help me drop weight.

It has, however, finally put me back into getting PRs in my SS routine, managed to break all big three today

Squat - 176lbs x 5 x 3 - operation Chicken Leg Slayer hits big milestone, Squat finally pulls ahead of Bench
Bench - 170lbs x 5 x 3
Deadlift - 292lbs x 5 x 1

I will see how much I weigh mid week, then do one more carb nite with a lower calorie and carb count and if my weight still doesn't budge then I'll come off it.

 

[abuC]

Can someone tell me how a body like this is possible?

Without eating at a calorie deficit? Figured I'd try to find some information about Hemsworth's diet during his Thor shoots, and most sources claim he's eating as much as he can. But what the fuck, where's the gut? It's just confusing because he's so big.

You need the blood of the gods, and by that I mean steroids.


Compare that to how small he looked in the Avengers, dat cycle.

 

[Ekdrm2d1]

Just had grilled aspargus last night. Delicious.

Having raw asparagus for lunch today. Also for dinner

I don't mind it raw. I've tasted way more gross veggies

 

[FallingEdge]

we're all gonna make it bro!

It is that time. Fix your broken image! FIX IT THROUGH POWER

I know this feel well but I'm starting to feel and see the changes and its sickkkk. If this continues I'm gonna be a happy happy man.

Can someone tell me how a body like this is possible?

Without eating at a calorie deficit? Figured I'd try to find some information about Hemsworth's diet during his Thor shoots, and most sources claim he's eating as much as he can. But what the fuck, where's the gut? It's just confusing because he's so big.

drugs

 

[Imm0rt4l]

Can someone tell me how a body like this is possible?

Without eating at a calorie deficit? Figured I'd try to find some information about Hemsworth's diet during his Thor shoots, and most sources claim he's eating as much as he can. But what the fuck, where's the gut? It's just confusing because he's so big.

I'm not saying a body like that isn't attainavle but hemsworth didn't attain that through natural means. He gained too much mass too fast, then he lost most of it after Thor. Steroids.

 

[Van Owen]

Thor is all natty.

 

[ToxicAdam]

I would love for one of the Hollywood trainers to write a tell-all. Not to name names, but just to detail the steroid cocktail/training program they put them through.

Build mass quickly, then strip away all the bloat with a medical diuretic.

 

[FallingEdge]

I would love for one of the Hollywood trainers to write a tell-all. Not to name names, but just to detail the steroid cocktail/training program they put them through.

Build mass quickly, then strip away all the bloat with a medical diuretic.

That would be a fantastic read. I'd buy a copy.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

Zefah, when doing Starting Strength you are supposed to do 3 sets of 5 across. That means that the weight stays the same for those 3 sets. Those are your work sets. Everything else is a warmup and volume should be much lower on those. It's not a problem now that the weights are light, but it'll be a problem once they get heavy.

As an illustration, suppose that your work sets for squats are 115lb for the day. So your squats would look like this:

Warmup

45lbx5x2 (2 sets of 5)
85lbx3 (1 set of 3)
100lbx2 (1 set of 2)

Work sets

115lbx5x3 (5 sets of 3 at 115lb)

Next squat session you'd add 10lb to your work sets, so your work sets would be 125lbx5x3. This applies to all the lifts, except the deadlift in which you only do 1 set of 5 as your sole work set.

I mention this because I see some novices making the mistake of doing too much work on their warm up sets. In Starting Strength it is the 3 sets of 5 across that constitute the meat of the training. Warming up is important but it's just that, a warm up.

Thanks for the advice. I'll be sure to follow that plan next time. Since this was my first time, I was having a hard time figuring out what weight I should be lifting. After doing two sets of what I thought was the right weight, I felt I could do more, so I put on a bit more weight. I'll definitely go in next time with target work set weights in mind, so I won't be screwing around as much.

Do you recommend always working up to the target weight by doing warmup sets as in your example?

I'm going to follow the second day plan in the OP, so now I need to find out what the hell a "power clean" is and how to do it. Also need to find out what constitutes "abdominal work."

I'm jealous that you're able to start out doing 8 pullups twice. Your weights may be starting out low, but they will increase very quickly. Enjoy the easy times because it's going to get harder quickly.

Thanks, but while it was my first time in the gym, I've had a pullup bar at home for the last year or so that I've been using almost daily.

 

[Ekdrm2d1]

I hate veggies so much. I like corn and carrots but they don't count, and otherwise brocolli is about all I can stomach, and that's barely.

Sucks.

I want to try different colored carrots. They're not that expensive, wonder why I put it off.

I heard purple and red/pink carrots have some better health properties over regular orange carrots.
I think there's even two types of purple carrots. Carrots with purple insides and carrots with regular orange insides.

 

[ZeroRay]

So how do you guys know you're squatting below parallel?

Had a rough day at squats today, had to deload by 10lbs and still couldn't finish my sets. I'm trying to go lower than I was before as I think I may have been slightly above/at parallel. Wish my phone could take vids, but alas.

Edit: Started going deeper two sessions ago, so my rough day isn't on account of me just starting to go below parallel.

 

[ToxicAdam]

I laid down a 400-500-brick patio (by myself) over this weekend and today my grip strength is wrecked. I can barely hold my pen. Guess it's going to be a legs day.

 

[Imm0rt4l]

Thor is all natty.

Natural test
Natural growth hormones

 

[Chittagong]

So how do you guys know you're squatting below parallel?

Parallel is the point where it really gets hard and you start to fear that you can't push yourself back up.

 

[ZeroRay]

Parallel is the point where it really gets hard and you start to fear that you can't push yourself back up.

Heh, probably that.

Fuck it, time for the box. I'm thinking I'm going TOO DEEP for low bar now lol.

 

[Szu]

I laid down a 400-500-brick patio (by myself) over this weekend and today my grip strength is wrecked. I can barely hold my pen. Guess it's going to be a legs day.

Yeah, but after your hands are rested, I expect you to do this to the extra bricks.

 

[SeanR1221]

The fuck? My lower back feels better now my upper feels really strained. This would normally be my deload week. Would it be bad to just take the whole week off and recover?

Thinking about it I haven't had a week off in 3.5 months

 

[abuC]

Yeah, but after your hands are rested, I expect you to do this to the extra bricks.

Bricks don't hit back though.

 

[HisshouBuraiKen]

After a month and a half of hard PSMF dieting, and a week of stomach-bug ruined intestines, it was so nice to just go into the goddamned gym and do a regular boring old BBB squat day. Legs feel like jelly and I could not be in a better mood.

Also the first egg i cracked this morning had TWO YOLKS! It's going to be a great week.

 

[andycapps]

Can someone tell me how a body like this is possible?

Without eating at a calorie deficit? Figured I'd try to find some information about Hemsworth's diet during his Thor shoots, and most sources claim he's eating as much as he can. But what the fuck, where's the gut? It's just confusing because he's so big.

It would take years of work bulking and cutting to get there, but like others said, he probably did steroids.

 

[cuevas. PhD.]

I so wish I could find a way to enjoy salads and veggies, it'd make it much easier to hit macros and stay satiated.

Grilled ? I like wrapping my beef patties in a bunch of lettuce with some tomatoes

 

[EviLore]

Guys, how does Kai Greene eat at a caloric surplus and get so huge while remaining so lean?! What are his nutritional secrets?!

 

[Kyaw]

Heh, probably that.

Fuck it, time for the box. I'm thinking I'm going TOO DEEP for low bar now lol.

TOO DEEP?

Ain't no such thing.

 

[HisshouBuraiKen]

Guys, how does Kai Greene eat at a caloric surplus and get so huge while remaining so lean?! What are his nutritional secrets?!

What am I seeing here, is this a natural vs. pro bodybuilder?

 

[Matugi]

Guys, how does Kai Greene eat at a caloric surplus and get so huge while remaining so lean?! What are his nutritional secrets?!

I've heard that young children are an excellent natural source of HGH, so he probably eats those.

 

[FallingEdge]

that pic still makes me lol.

And my lifting music these days is 90s boy bands.

tell me whyyyyyyy~
ain't nothing but a heart ache

 

[Van Owen]

Gonna start eating like The Rock.

I would probably throw up though.

 

[twofold]

I would love for one of the Hollywood trainers to write a tell-all. Not to name names, but just to detail the steroid cocktail/training program they put them through.

Build mass quickly, then strip away all the bloat with a medical diuretic.

Have you listened to Victor Conte's interview with Joe Rogan? It's pretty interesting. He talks a lot about the sorts of steroids athletes are on and the performance increases possible with careful and controlled steroid use. It's a good listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iWIhMG4woI&feature=youtu.be

What am I seeing here, is this a natural vs. pro bodybuilder?

If I remember correctly, the guy on the left is a pro bodybuilder from New Zealand. He's on the juice, too.

 

[Host Samurai]

I hate veggies so much. I like corn and carrots but they don't count, and otherwise brocolli is about all I can stomach, and that's barely.

Sucks.

Add hot sauce. Makes a world of difference

 

[Host Samurai]

Lets all get wheeeeeeysted tonight

 

[ToxicAdam]

Guys, how does Kai Greene eat at a caloric surplus and get so huge while remaining so lean?! What are his nutritional secrets?!

This pic reminds me, I've been thinking a lot about myostatin lately and just how big a part it plays in our development. How we shouldn't get too hung up on size and muscle growth. Because ultimately we are held back by whatever genes we have been dealt.

 

[Petrie]

Add hot sauce. Makes a world of difference

Taste isn't the issue. Texture is.

 

[Hypereides]

YESSSS

bench'd 47,5 kg with no hestiation!

I guess I slept and ate enough

And new PR's on other execises.

 

[Mully]

I haven't seen this number in a long time. Down to 191.5lbs. Just a couple of months ago I was at my highest of 218lbs during a bulk. Adding to that, I DL'd 275 for 7 good form reps today. I had to stop at 2 reps for the same weight a month ago because of bad form.

 

[SeanR1221]

I haven't seen this number in a long time. Down to 191.5lbs. Just a couple of months ago I was at my highest of 218lbs during a bulk. Adding to that, I DL'd 275 for 7 good form reps today. I had to stop at 2 reps for the same weight a month ago because of bad form.

Yeaaaaaaah buddy!

 

[Mully]

Yeaaaaaaah buddy!

I'm really pumped. How's life as a married man?

 

[Szu]

I found this on reddit.

Phhh, OHP with the smith machine. What a loser.

 

[SeanR1221]

I'm really pumped. How's life as a married man?

Since we've been living together for a year not much different. Biggest difference is being on her health insurance. It's way better than what I used to have so the peace of mind is really nice.

It's actually been a month today. Man, time goes fast.

So you guys have any input for me? Take the week off? I had to take a flexeril the pain was so bad :/

 

[Deleted member 47027]

I feel so goddamn fat. Was going to wait till 4th of July to cut but I might start tomorrow. I've packed on significant muscle. I should be fine.

 

[blackflag]

Guys, how does Kai Greene eat at a caloric surplus and get so huge while remaining so lean?! What are his nutritional secrets?!

Grapefruit

 

[Noema]

I'm not saying a body like that isn't attainavle but hemsworth didn't attain that through natural means. He gained too much mass too fast, then he lost most of it after Thor. Steroids.

B-bu-bu-t the Beachbody Body Beast infomercial told me I could put on 20lb of muscle in just 90 days and I don't even have to lift heavy weights!

 

[Vio-Lence]

So you guys have any input for me? Take the week off? I had to take a flexeril the pain was so bad :/

It sounds like you've made the decision to take the week off. As always listen to your body, you're going to be a better judge of things than anyone online.

 

[sphinx]

>_<

I've been doing 65 unassited pull-ups in five different sessions this month and I don't see back progress, maybe I am doing them wrong??? is it worth it to take video and ask for suggestions?

 

[grumble]

>_<

I've been doing 65 unassited pull-ups in five different sessions this month and I don't see back progress, maybe I am doing them wrong??? is it worth it to take video and ask for suggestions?

65 per session? Add weight or do more in a set. Or both!