Essential Random Gym Thoughts Revisited...
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Biscayne
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Which is why I prefer working out at the gym, than working out at home. Because the gym has dumbbells already pre-sized, while the dumbbells I have at home have to be adjusted to the weight you want. Too much work.I really hate having to load plates on the barbell. Walking around asking folk if they're using it, finding the clipper, doing the warm up then having to remove it again and add more plates, etc shyt is just
Even more tiring than the workout itself
Biscayne
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So I lost a little too much weight, too fast in this cut. And I lost more mass than I wanted to. So I've been doing a quick carb-up/bulk-up. Man, I fooled myself into thinking I bulked up enough to cut and still look "not-small".
I swear working out, got me walking around with that prison dikk. shyt is night and day when I slay puss....
No machinesHoly fukk, it's amazing how much of a difference 500kcal can make
NOW I feel like I'm cutting. And it's HORRIBLE
Thinking about getting one of these for the crib
Barbells or die.
I don't trust myself with that method. Plus I feel like power cleaning into position is more practical.
I feel like such a fraud. I have well built physique that looks like I'm really strong yet I'm weak as fukk.
nikkas never listen to me.....Strength + being lean + well built is the way to go....
You'll get back there in no time breh....So I was trying to bulk to 180 or even 190 and was at 175 but I got really sick back in April. I'm now down to 160 and still haven't kicked whatever was making me ill. I still get nauseous out of nowhere and I get cramps after about 30-45 minutes of lifting heavy. All the other symptoms stopped. Blood work was fine. X Rays were negative. Ultrasound showed nothing wrong. Just went to a new doctor and got blood work to test for gluten intolerance. I haven't been able to train as hard as I was before nor eat as much. Strength took a dip. I definitely lost some muscle mass especially in my shoulders. They're pretty flat now and I had some nice front delts.
I'm probably going to deload and just do some push ups and see if I feel better. I'm an ectomorph and putting on weight is tough so to lose 15 pounds after I worked so hard has me depressed
Machines are good enough for IFBB prosNo machines
Barbells or die.
The muscles don't care. Just thinking when we have this kid and we're sleep deprived.... not gonna have the focus for BB squats. But I don't wanna let my gains gooooooooooooBiscayne
Ocean air
It was hard enough for me to get to 168lbs. I kept weiging myself on the weighing machines that they have at Rite-Aid(there was one next to my job) and I saw my weight at 168lbs, with a BMI of 25.19 or something along those lines. I noticed I was looking bulkier/more muscular up top(shoulders, upper-back, chest,) but that lower back fat and lower ab fat that I gained was bothering me. I hated looking at that lower part in the mirror. I figured, since it took me a year to bulk up to 168lbs, and that my BMI and weight were high enough/large enough at my small stature, I figured it was time to begin my cut. And after 2 weeks I remembered how fast my metabolism is, and how easy it is for me to lose weight, and I ended up losing too much too soon. I was looking small as hell these last two weeks. Maybe I should've bulked up to 175-180....
I want to look good aesthetically, but I also want to look somewhat big. I started my bulk March of last year when I was 129lbs. So when I bulked to 148lbs back in Sept, my body looked the best it ever did(I still got pics on here). But I still wasn't satisfied because I felt and looked too small for my liking. That's why I continued to bulk past the 150lbs threshold.
I found it very comfortable
and once you get to the heavier weights the cleaning takes a lot out of you so you can't put 100% into the pressing.