Yes. Natural. I spend the whole day preaching natural stuff to my patients so I have to practice what I preach. I think I spend too much time cutting out the calories (slow metab) and not enough time increasing mass. I have a rehab clinic that I work out in primarily using a cage and some other good equip. We have sun 10 months out of the year here. For that reason I tend to not want to put on too much fat. Anyone have a guess as to my BF percentage? That is probably the reason for not steadily increasing in size. Maybe it's impatience.
I train four days per week. Low reps primarily 5-8. Lots of barbell and dumbbell compound movements. I'm just now getting to the point where I'm training my legs properly (squatting harder and deeper). I do around 10-12 sets for large and 8-9 for small. I havn't done many supersets, negatives, etc. Also, I train alone.
Diet is clean right now. Protein is probably 200-250g daily. Six-seven meals. Lots of whole grain stuff. I use whey isolate, carb supplements, creatine, BCAA & glutamine. Multi vits & Udo's oil(recently). Typical food for me is oatmeal, whole grain breads, nonfat cottage and milk, peanut butter, lean steak, beans, chicken breast, pastas, tons of grain cereal like Puffins, protein shakes, weekly pizza, fish.
It's hard staying 100% natural knowing that my age may be working against me soon and progress is probably going to be slow because I started late and had no muscle as a teenager. My nickname was often associated with my absence of a chest or muscles.
I appreciate any comments, suggestions, advice on the plateau, or maybe some diet/supplement suggestions.