Andy's first bulking cycle

[letsrun4it]

Everyone on here likes to talk about how diet is so important so I thought I would make a post about my diet.

I think oatmeal, tuna, skinless chicken, thats all well and good...but I cannot do more than 2000 calories a day of that kind of food. If I threw in a ton of peanut butter I could but who wants to eat tablespoons of all natural peanut butter?

Right now I'm eating at least 5000+ a day and some days much more than that. My theory is that I'm working out as hard as I can and I'm on a decent amount of gear so if I have caloric excess a good amount of it will be muscle.

My protein sources break down approx like this:

65% ground meat... I go through 1.3-1.8 pounds per day of ground beef or turkey
20% whey protein... 1 shake a day, usually a double or a triple
15% other...can of tuna, hot dogs

speaking of hot dogs today I found at the store a quarter pound hot dog with 32g of fat. why do i look for things high in fat? foods low in fat dont add up fast enough.

I'm at 207-208 pounds right now, I will continue to eat everything in sight until I am ready to start toning it down, which I think will be at the 215-220 range but we'll see when I get there.

 

[letsrun4it]

So today I finally reached the 210 pound mark. +33 pounds in 5 weeks + a couple of days. Yes a bunch of it is water but if I go +45 in 12 weeks I'm pretty sure some of it is muscle haha.

 

[letsrun4it]

212 today...wtf

 

[letsrun4it]

214.6 I'm pretty sure its safe to say Liquidex at 1mg a day does absolutely nothing to prevent bloat. I don't know how much is muscle, fat, and water...but theres a lot of all of them.

I have no bench update because this is spring break for the kids I coach and I work out with them and use them for spotters. So this week I'm working out alone and certainly am not going to max.

Today I'm going to go do my shoulder/upper back workout. I normally do some straight leg deadlifts to hit the lower back but I'm pretty sore in my lower back right now (I have chronic back pain) so I might either go real light or do some full motion seated rows with some medium weight. Maybe even avoid the lower back all together.

My sleep has suffered badly the last couple of nights with the introduction of a new puppy into my family

 

[letsrun4it]

Today I had nobody to spot me since my lifting partners (the kids I coach) are on spring break but today I busted out 10 reps at 225!

285 shouldn't be a problem on monday.

 

[medi3val]

Awesome read man. Great progress! I'm just did my first injection last Wednesday, and started Dbol, and am waititng for the effects myself.

As far as the bloat... is it obvious? I mean does it make your face look bad?

 

[letsrun4it]

Awesome read man. Great progress! I'm just did my first injection last Wednesday, and started Dbol, and am waititng for the effects myself.

As far as the bloat... is it obvious? I mean does it make your face look bad?

Naw my face isn't showing any bloat at all, it does look like I'm sorta pudgy and while I've gained some fat...I certainly have 15 pounds of water in me that will make a big difference when I come off the test. I look at it as a game of end results, I don't think I necessairly look better than I did 36 pounds ago, but I will after I cut up at the end. I have quite a bit of bloat in my stomach and combined with it always being stuffed with food, its not ideal looking...but hey the finished product is going to rock.

 

[letsrun4it]

My weight seems to have leveled off at 214, I'm having some problems eating. My body is telling me "stop eating so much it hurts" so I'm reducing calories to maintence for a couple of days.

Anyway...I benched 290 today and failed at 300, then cranked out 11 reps at 225. Every calculator in the world says 11 reps at 225 is better than 300 pounds so should be just around the corner.

 

[letsrun4it]

So today someone came up to me at practice (a parent who helps out with the discus) and said "So what's this about you benching 290, how'd that happen?" WTF does he expect me to say...

Obviously my answer was "I've gotten real serious with my training and I'm eating a lot" but he is a former power lifter I don't think he's buying it. Still, its like what answer do you want "500mg Test Cyp man, its fucking awesome"

 

[SgtSlaughter]

You've made some SERIOUS progress since the begining bro!

Great work, and great log! Keep at it!