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I'm about 1/3 of the way to my goals 194 pounds here I'm trying to hit 185-190 while dropping about 2-5% more bodyfat.
Diet progress
- Thread starter the small soldier
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I do lots of pull ups. at least 100 a week. I love tattoos wouldn't trade them for anything, but I can see what you mean about obscuring the view
Youngncurious
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Do you bodybuild or just just a lifter bro? Just curious. My tattoos don't interfere too much with bodybuilding, i got a few on my ribs and shoulder blade. Like seeing other peoples looks on tattoos and bodybuilding
I think you are looking really good bro! Great job so far.
Powerlift. My goal is to do AT LEAST one bodybuilding show sometime in my life though. my goal is for arond this time next year
Thanks for the encouragement. I'll update again in a few week!
spikester
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I don't mind my tats in the really striated areas, once you get those really grainy spots the tats will kinda take them away. I make sure to do my abdominal thigh to my left side to show my obliques bc that cross I have just hides them on the other side. Man keep that powerlifting up it will really put some thick good looking muscle on you, so once you do decide to get on stage you will have that thickness advantage. Oh and when you do decide to BB put all you got into it, what ever Diet you do, smash it and do not cheat. Let the hole prep for BB take over and tell yourself your going to be the best looking dude up there. Good luck with both sports bro
thanks that really means a lot. Im already having trouble sticking to the diet...I have NOT cheated, but im feeling flat and weak. I'm tripling up on carbs today and going back to low carb tomorrow. I really want to cycle now, but I think I'll hold off at least until the end of april.
THANK YOU.. I have a problem though. I took bodyfat readings and got them checked apparently Im at my bodyfat goal, but my fucking stomach holds like 90% of my body's fat reservers I'll probably have drop below 10 even have a chance at seeing my abs SMH!
spikester
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Ha man i know not all calipers or ways of measuring are the same but get this i have to be in the low 3 percentile to even see my abs. I get extremely low when i get on stage and a lot of buddys tell me how lucky i am to be able to get that low, but hell i have to get that way to look good. wile they have abs at 5-6 percent im flat. Just stick to the diet man they will come eventually. You might be like me, my legs start to come in before my abs do
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Ha man i know not all calipers or ways of measuring are the same but get this i have to be in the low 3 percentile to even see my abs. I get extremely low when i get on stage and a lot of buddys tell me how lucky i am to be able to get that low, but hell i have to get that way to look good. wile they have abs at 5-6 percent im flat. Just stick to the diet man they will come eventually. You might be like me, my legs start to come in before my abs do
I can see all 4 quadaceps mucles when flexing I can see all 3 heads of my triceps, all 3 heads of my delts. I can see my hamstring quad separation, clear line between my soleus and gastrocnemius... CAN BARELY SEE TOP 4 ABS.
I'm off the diet in the sense that I'm no longer cutting, I'm back to bulking but very clean. I'm checking BF weekly so far I'm back up to 198 and my BF is still 13%. I'm going to do my cycle and bulk VERY CLEAN, hopefully i'll hit about 220 and stay at 215 and keep BF between 13 and 15. Then i'll maintain for about 12 weeks and run a cutter cycle to hopefully keep ALL my muscle and I'll just cut calories, do a high protein mod carb mod fat diet with lots of cardio until im down to about 10. I'll do a keto for the last 4 weeks of hte cycle and then take another 12 weeks to maintain hopefully at about 7-8%.. then I'll run another cycle hopefully starting at about 200 pounds and 7-8% bf and by the time I'm done I want to be sitting comfortably at 210-215 with 9-12% BF
spikester
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I feel your pain bro. Good grief man thats some serious goals hope you can meet them, 15 lb. of muscle ain't no joke! I hope I can put on another 5-8 lb. of muscle for the stage next year.
yeah pullups and dips are my bread and butter. i believe in high reps as well, it really pays off bigtime. I could tell right off the bat looking at your biceps you do a lot of pullups.
keep it up man. if you can do weighted even better.
I'm up to 205 natural at 13% BF. Im staying natural til july trying get to 208-. I have a drug testing powerlifting meet. I'm going for new PR in all lifts and hopefully to place top 5 overall and win deadlift with a 575 Pull. After that I'm going to run a massive bulk cycle. Clean and lean one cheat meal per week and cardio 3x week for 30 minutes fasted. then I'm going to go off and hopefully keep much strength and size and go back to powerlifting natural. IF i can get up to 220 I might just blast cruise and do a BB contest. try to compete at like 205
yeah thanks bro. I don't do weight I just use a variety of grips and minimal rest like most sets I try to 50 pull ups with as little rest as possible, my record so far is 50 pulls ups in 136 seconds
I Hit the 13% BF mark a few weeks ago I'm back to bulking I have a PL contest coming up in a week, then one in july. I'll be bulking for the next few months. If my BF is low I'll start my cylce mid july, if it's high I'll be doing an IF/ intense cardio for a few weeks before running my cycle.
