the GAINS thread

[Patriam1066]

Originally Posted by Llandris [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I see no pull-ups in there and I'm extremely disappointed

Originally Posted by Llandris [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

also, DEADS

I do pull-ups on my arms day. I do a triceps-biceps-forearm day that includes 5 sets of pull-ups. I'm not doing deadlifts until I get a trainer and that hasn't been a priority with 4 grandkids around and a 5th on the way (and a 30 y/o son being a bitch currently). I'll get there.

Can you explain the advantage of deadlifts? I really don't get it as far as a BACK exercise. Definitely hits a lot of muscles though

[skarlorn]

The only rec I can give u is to change your reps to higher or lower, inverse of what you've been doing. Also, find different back exercises if you can. Not sure about your tightness although I do recommend yoga and swimming as a solution for any tight muscles. Get a massage

[Jimjam]

different stretches and icebath?

[Jimjam]

So, thanks to this thread I am up 8.6 kilos, BMI just shy of 24 and body fat at just over 22%. Disappointed it wasn't 10 kilos, but happy with those other figures. Perhaps should have been more pro active in picking up heavy things!

[skarlorn]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So, thanks to this thread I am up 8.6 kilos, BMI just shy of 24 and body fat at just over 22%. Disappointed it wasn't 10 kilos, but happy with those other figures. Perhaps should have been more pro active in picking up heavy things!

god bless dude

i'm disappoitned i didn't hit 200lb

the CUTS are real;

i swam 2 km eysterday and the same before that

eating less

i miss cinammon rolls

[Patriam1066]

Chest today

Getting swole. GAINS

[Vheran]

always struggled to keep weight on. i do body weight work outs and run, thanks army, a lot but ive never been big. i was 120 when i was 18 and went to boot camp, and was one of the only people to put on weight by the end of the three months: weighed 140 (i inhaled the nuts and cheese at the salad bar because i swear to RZ I was never not hungry those three months). when i came back home after active and went in reserves i lost all the weigh i'd gained. became a CO like three years ago, for over a year, and hit the lifting every day and got up to 175. thicc af. but after going to school and working a desk job for a long time i'm back to 140-145.

anyways no one cares. point is, im going to leave this cubicle job and i told my wife i was going to hit the lifting hard again instead of just cardio and body weight when im back in school. its a long story but im living next to my university for the first time after attending there for 3 years. so going to use their sick ass gym on the reg.

I wanted to document it here because Im not prideful enough to put it somewhere on its own, and really itll just get buried here but maybe some outside motivation and a community within a community im already in on the way will keep me going strong

EDIT: i gave weight, but in perspective, I'm 5'11. low body fat

[Mead]

Originally Posted by Vheran [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

always struggled to keep weight on. i do body weight work outs and run, thanks army, a lot but ive never been big. i was 120 when i was 18 and went to boot camp, and was one of the only people to put on weight by the end of the three months: weighed 140 (i inhaled the nuts and cheese at the salad bar because i swear to RZ I was never not hungry those three months). when i came back home after active and went in reserves i lost all the weigh i'd gained. became a CO like three years ago, for over a year, and hit the lifting every day and got up to 175. thicc af. but after going to school and working a desk job for a long time i'm back to 140-145.

anyways no one cares. point is, im going to leave this cubicle job and i told my wife i was going to hit the lifting hard again instead of just cardio and body weight when im back in school. its a long story but im living next to my university for the first time after attending there for 3 years. so going to use their sick ass gym on the reg.

I wanted to document it here because Im not prideful enough to put it somewhere on its own, and really itll just get buried here but maybe some outside motivation and a community within a community im already in on the way will keep me going strong

EDIT: i gave weight, but in perspective, I'm 5'11. low body fat

I care. There's some good info and motivation in this thread. I also have to fight my genetics to stay big. If I stop lifting I lose weight pretty quick. You just have to put in the work and eat right. It sounds like you want to. You just have to get in there and put in work. Then come back here and post your progress.

[Patriam1066]

Keep at it filbus and vheran

Leg day earlier this morning. I'm starving, could eat a 20 oz steak. GAINS

[Patriam1066]

Originally Posted by skarlorn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

WEWLADS

got the legs SORE today boys and the shoulders too.

Tonight i'm GAINING chest and triceps strengf

Swimming report: now that i can easily swim a mile freestyle nonstop i've made some big shoulder strength gains. Without lifting a weight i increased my deltoid raises from 10s to easy 15 lbs with high rep. I'm not really sore in my shoulders today, so it tells me i actually need to go higher.

swimming = good

I do 20s on those raises. Do you military press as well? I'm over 135 in that department (as in what I rep). I'm soon to military press more than I incline. Pisses me off

That's pretty legit though bud. I would die trying to swim that nonstop