I'd agree with that. And 204?! Damn son!Damn everyone looking big and lean! Bum, Szu, Edge and black. Nice guys, keep up the fantastic work.
Here's a comparison of 228 Sean vs 204 Sean. I feel like I'm keeping my size in this cut and pretty much just losing from my stomach.
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Fitness |OT8| Dad Bods, Bulge Swelfies, and Wait...Do you even lift bro?
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BruceLeeRoy
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New workout has me burning fat and keeping the muscle. Feeling really good for only 3 weeks "back"
Bro those arms!! Dang man I can't wait to see a photo of your finished cut phase your going to look absolutely shredded. Your bf% already looks crazy low.
Good lord you guys your arms are so impressive. Edge your dedication has worked dividends for you my man you look so fantastic. Your shoulder to arm proportions are pretty much perfect.
Damn everyone looking big and lean! Bum, Szu, Edge and black. Nice guys, keep up the fantastic work.
Here's a comparison of 228 Sean vs 204 Sean. I feel like I'm keeping my size in this cut and pretty much just losing from my stomach.
Sean you got to do a shirtless pic soon, I can see how much more toned you are now. You have a great V taper starting to happen. Great job man.
Alright alright aright, I see whats happening here you guys all want me to feel self conscious about my arms don't you. You are absolutely beasting bro. The beard just adds about 10 levels of bad assadry to your overall look as well.
Szu you look good as always bro. You know you reached a new echelon when you can wear a pink shirt and still look like the toughest dude in the room.
Damn I am so motivated for chest & arms tomorrow after seeing all the swelfies.
I need a hyperbolic time chamber and a personal chef up in there
My #'s are getting better with the PHAT routine, still too caught up in my head about gaining weight after losing all of it but I suppose Im not doing too bad if my strength keeps going up.
I need a hyperbolic time chamber and a personal chef up in there
My #'s are getting better with the PHAT routine, still too caught up in my head about gaining weight after losing all of it but I suppose Im not doing too bad if my strength keeps going up.
MrToughPants
Brian Burke punched my mom
Coot looking like Superman ready to take flight on those muscle ups.
Made some progress on squats finally 385/395/405 x 5. Two sessions of pause squats has already helped so I'll stick with that now since I've done the volume phase. Back had a minor tweak after though, so sick of injuries...
Made some progress on squats finally 385/395/405 x 5. Two sessions of pause squats has already helped so I'll stick with that now since I've done the volume phase. Back had a minor tweak after though, so sick of injuries...
FallingEdge
Member
ty for all the kind words, friends
the quest to become wrestler big (and lean) never ends!
the quest to become wrestler big (and lean) never ends!
Just got my pair of Fat Gripz and tried them out on my back bicep day.
HOLY shit these things are fucking amazing. My forearms were pumped by the end of my workout. They definitely require you to keep perfect form and I was getting a sick pump on my bicep and really felt it in the back.
They also make you lower the damn weight, I usually do 385 x 3 for 3 sets, no straps or belt. I could barely lift 225.
Going to use these to strengthen my grip and then get back to deadlifts in a few weeks. Only thing is constantly switching them off the dumbells and barbells. But they're sick so far.
HOLY shit these things are fucking amazing. My forearms were pumped by the end of my workout. They definitely require you to keep perfect form and I was getting a sick pump on my bicep and really felt it in the back.
They also make you lower the damn weight, I usually do 385 x 3 for 3 sets, no straps or belt. I could barely lift 225.
Going to use these to strengthen my grip and then get back to deadlifts in a few weeks. Only thing is constantly switching them off the dumbells and barbells. But they're sick so far.
Psychotext
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HisshouBuraiKen
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Anyone else home gymmin' it these days? I deal with the florida heat by convincing myself I'm a total badass by enduring it. Gotta chalk like a motherfucker for almost every lift though.
This started as just getting stuff for my wife since she's pregnant and was tired of driving back and forth to the gym. Then work stopped paying for our memberships and I figured what the hell.
Cage with a chin bar, adjustable bench, some rubber mats for deadlifting, Oly BB, EZ bar, 400lbs+ in weight and DBs up to 35. The "TRX station" in the upper right is a set of tie-down straps hooked to the chain that held the old chinup bar.
I need some heavier DBs and maybe a lat pull/row station of some sort and we'll be set. All craigslist finds, spent about $400 so far.
This started as just getting stuff for my wife since she's pregnant and was tired of driving back and forth to the gym. Then work stopped paying for our memberships and I figured what the hell.
Cage with a chin bar, adjustable bench, some rubber mats for deadlifting, Oly BB, EZ bar, 400lbs+ in weight and DBs up to 35. The "TRX station" in the upper right is a set of tie-down straps hooked to the chain that held the old chinup bar.
I need some heavier DBs and maybe a lat pull/row station of some sort and we'll be set. All craigslist finds, spent about $400 so far.
After that mammoth cheat day Sunday I ballooned up to 184.6 on Monday. Here are the following days:
T-180.6
W-179.2
Th-178.4
Today-177.2 which is even lower than before the cheat on Sunday. What's even more strange is I bumped up my calories to 2500 yesterday and still dropped over a pound. Interesting stuff.
T-180.6
W-179.2
Th-178.4
Today-177.2 which is even lower than before the cheat on Sunday. What's even more strange is I bumped up my calories to 2500 yesterday and still dropped over a pound. Interesting stuff.
maximum360
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It's a challenge but you want to cut food with added sugar and food with flour as an ingredient. Those items will increase insulin levels that eventually makes you leptin resistant. Leptin resistance is what leads to a lot of the weight gain.
Eat whole foods - veggies, fruits, nuts, meat/poultry/fish and stay away from processed anything.
Cardio and weight training do help but diet is the most important thing.
Edit.
Also, keep track of your calories. You can still overeat even with healthy food. Potatoes, nuts, etc can be very calorie dense.
Fuck me
I was going for a PR on farmer carries. I managed to hold 200lbs per hand for 35 feet. I put them down and a couple minutes later some pain set in.
I always grip at the base of my finger so the pull on my ring finger literally ripped the skin on my palm.
Wasn't terrible until I washed it.....then put peroxide on it and HOLY SHIT it burned (I guess it was full of chalk, dirt and bacteria).
Have it wrapped with tape and anti bacterial cream now.
I was going for a PR on farmer carries. I managed to hold 200lbs per hand for 35 feet. I put them down and a couple minutes later some pain set in.
I always grip at the base of my finger so the pull on my ring finger literally ripped the skin on my palm.
Wasn't terrible until I washed it.....then put peroxide on it and HOLY SHIT it burned (I guess it was full of chalk, dirt and bacteria).
Have it wrapped with tape and anti bacterial cream now.
Haha 5' 9"
This is the best I've seen you look dude...well done
Sean, your progress is easily one of my favorite on here...
Thank you all so much! You're all so motivating and sometimes just posting a simple pic of your progress makes you want to get right back in the gym and keep going. Still have a ways to go but thank you all for your encouragement, it really means a lot.
Huh? You look at least 190. What kind of sorcery is this?
I haven't weighed myself in three weeks but I usually hover between 170 and 175.
Let's play "Guess Bum's Weight." I'm in for 176.5!
Another possible contributing factor to calluses ripping or your hand getting teared up is lack of diligent, proper, and consistent hand care. Justin Lascek uploaded a video on it last month.
MrToughPants
Brian Burke punched my mom
Sorcery indeed, has leg day been skipped Bum?
FYI, my bum weighs 176, an ever growing appendage of mass
Sorcery indeed, has leg day been skipped Bum?
FYI, my bum weighs 176, an ever growing appendage of mass
Definitely don't have Spirit's legs, but they fit my aesthetic
Thanks. I just tried lifting without gloves today and damn, it hurt like hell. That video will be put to good use. I imagine if I started off without gloves with lower weights, my hands would be conditioned enough so they wouldn't hurt at this stage.
Make sure you're gripping the bar properly for deadlifts and any pulling motion. Scroll down to the "Callus Pain" section. Otherwise your hand flesh will pinch, causing pain and callus development.
I just hate the idea of allowing them to grow. I guess that's just an inevitability.
My buddy is 4" taller, has a bigger upper body (arms at least), but doesn't do legs so he tops out at like 168 lol
Edit: very low body fat like 9% walking around
Things I learned while training today:
1. You can't always count on the squat rack and deadlift areas being available. Demand was up like 500% tonight! It was good to see.
2. After lifting fasted for the first time... food is optional. Your body stores a lot of energy.
3. I lift better when making videos for GAF.
Power Clean PR 145x3, please critique form:
http://youtu.be/0umzHQyO-Bc
1. You can't always count on the squat rack and deadlift areas being available. Demand was up like 500% tonight! It was good to see.
2. After lifting fasted for the first time... food is optional. Your body stores a lot of energy.
3. I lift better when making videos for GAF.
Power Clean PR 145x3, please critique form:
http://youtu.be/0umzHQyO-Bc
Dead Prince
Banned
it's like bad boy scars
Today was an off day for cardio. I guess skipping it a few days sorts got me all weird. Lol I tried treadmill at incline level 15. But put the speed at 6. Lol probably should have properly warmed up. But it was a good try. I'll try again next week.
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Cheap lifting shoes for those without.
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Psychotext
Member
Hmm... seem to have stalled on the weight loss this week. Though I guess my body could be doing all sorts of stuff after being sick. Definitely got my numbers right so I don't think it's diet that did it.
SilentSoldier
Member
Anyone here that may be starting a dedicated lifting program lift with your friends that have been doing it for a while and can lift heavier than you and making you feel all weak? Just me? Okay
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
I felt like I ate a bit too much today. But maybe I was just overthinking it. Doing the myfitnesspal thing, it came down to about 1900 calories. I didn't exercise. I don't like to eat too much on days I don't exercise, but 1900 seems alright.
Anyone dealt with DOMS before? I just started squatting for the first time with a mate who knows his shit (600lb+ competitive), he eased me into it (slow ramp up to 150lb max) and I felt fine. That was three days ago, my legs have been fuuuuuuuuucked for the last two days if I do anything. Bending over and climbing stairs feels like someone is punching my quads.
I know its only meant to last a few days, but damn it sucks balls.
I know its only meant to last a few days, but damn it sucks balls.
Psychotext
Member
Well that was an entirely new level of hell for training.
Up at 7am after four hours of sleep for morning training (which I hate). First was a particularly hard (fasted) one hour set of intervals on the turbo trainer. As soon as I'd finished with that, I started an hour and a half (still fasted) weights session. An hour in my numbers were dropping all over the place, and my grip had basically completely failed. Even using those sticky rubber pads couldn't really keep me from the agony.
Never trying that again. Horrible, horrible, horrible.
My leg DOMS last a week after each dedicated leg day I do. Two days after the workout I lose the ability to sit down without supporting myself, and my legs give way from time to time when walking. It's fun. All the while I have to try and keep up my cycling training, and for the first 15 mins of those workouts, each pedal stroke is agony.
Up at 7am after four hours of sleep for morning training (which I hate). First was a particularly hard (fasted) one hour set of intervals on the turbo trainer. As soon as I'd finished with that, I started an hour and a half (still fasted) weights session. An hour in my numbers were dropping all over the place, and my grip had basically completely failed. Even using those sticky rubber pads couldn't really keep me from the agony.
Never trying that again. Horrible, horrible, horrible.
My leg DOMS last a week after each dedicated leg day I do. Two days after the workout I lose the ability to sit down without supporting myself, and my legs give way from time to time when walking. It's fun. All the while I have to try and keep up my cycling training, and for the first 15 mins of those workouts, each pedal stroke is agony.
HisshouBuraiKen
Member
Keep squatting, it won't be as bad the next time. Try your best to get some brisk walking in or something light, the motion & blood flow will help it go away quicker.
Dead Prince
Banned
walk it off. some bike action helps stretch your legs out. i actually do cardio the following day lol.
FallingEdge
Member
looking fucking solid
but you and me both gotta work on our traps -_-
it would make us look so much better... fuckin genetics
ohhthegore
Member
Started working out with my friend whos been working out since high school since he did Football and Wrestling. He also did MMA for a while so he's in great shape. We started working out a few months ago and he assumes I'm as strong as him so that always makes me feel weak when he outlifts me easily
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Feel like I might be wasting my time and money.
Signed up at the gym across the street, total novice so I also paid for a 6 months trainer.
So last 3 weeks I meet up with her for Mon and Thur and so about 45-60min.
I'm about 6ft and 136lbs so its all strength. Trying to build me up to 150lbs by Dec.
Oh course I get the constant barrage of "You must eat eat eat and drink protein shakes" but its hard. I get sick feeling and tired. I'm trying tho.
Feel like I'm wasting my time only going twice a week and not being able to keep this "constantly eat" routine going.
Signed up at the gym across the street, total novice so I also paid for a 6 months trainer.
So last 3 weeks I meet up with her for Mon and Thur and so about 45-60min.
I'm about 6ft and 136lbs so its all strength. Trying to build me up to 150lbs by Dec.
Oh course I get the constant barrage of "You must eat eat eat and drink protein shakes" but its hard. I get sick feeling and tired. I'm trying tho.
Feel like I'm wasting my time only going twice a week and not being able to keep this "constantly eat" routine going.
entremet
Member
Shakes are just food.
There's nothing special about them other than they're cheap for a protein source and easy to make.
You can eat more whole food instead.
Also, most trainers kinda sucks. Personal training is a very low barrier of entry. You'd probably get better advice here.
I put on 15 pounds of muscle in a year following the advice here. A lot was fat too lol.
But as Arnold says, "You can't chisel a pebble"
There's nothing special about them other than they're cheap for a protein source and easy to make.
You can eat more whole food instead.
Also, most trainers kinda sucks. Personal training is a very low barrier of entry. You'd probably get better advice here.
I put on 15 pounds of muscle in a year following the advice here. A lot was fat too lol.
But as Arnold says, "You can't chisel a pebble"
Damn. Enjoyed upper body for the most part yesterday. Homeboy asked me to take progress pictures again. He showed me a picture from back in April he was fat as fuck like 240. Now he's down to 201 and straight beastmode. Only been lifting a year.
Then here's me, 190 and like 15% body fat, weak af and not looking cut. Started lifting when I was 18 (and weighed 135). I gotta stay consistent. And eat and sleep more.
Tweaked my shoulder benching though. 4x7@170 1x10. Finished my workout but it's a little sore today. Hopefully no issues deadlifting, plus I'm going to do a ton of pulling and foam rolling.
Then here's me, 190 and like 15% body fat, weak af and not looking cut. Started lifting when I was 18 (and weighed 135). I gotta stay consistent. And eat and sleep more.
Tweaked my shoulder benching though. 4x7@170 1x10. Finished my workout but it's a little sore today. Hopefully no issues deadlifting, plus I'm going to do a ton of pulling and foam rolling.
it happened when I locked out on the final rep my shoulder felt like it kind of gave way or something. only happened on the final rep of each set. and while it's kind of sore today, I have full range of motion without any pain. it was kind of where that knob of bone is that your trap connects to? I don't have to do any pushing motions until tuesday so we'll see how it fares then.
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