I will be bigger then you (my journal)

[Basic_wonder]

Stats:
Age: 23
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 130-140 depending on the time of day

Did the 5x5 two years ago and put on 17 pounds that I still have today. Went through the normal college drunken time of my life. Wanna get started back to looking good so back to the 5x5 it is.

Monday:

squat: 45,55,75,90,105
Bench: 45,45,60,75,85
Row: 45,55,75,90,105

Everything felt good, my legs are killing me today though. Everything feels light to a point. Didnt do hypers or situps, will start on them next week.

Food: (going for 3k a day)

cals: 2822
fat: 62
carb: 428
protein: 154

The only supplement right now is using nlarge2 for one meal.

Later ....

 

[SgtSlaughter]

Nice bro... diet and training in check.

Looking forward to your progress!

Sleeping in check 8+ hours?

 

[BiggT]

I'll be following along......you sound like a mountain of untapped potential, you should make enormous gains. At 6'2 and 130-140 (unless that kilos, lol) you need to hammer down the eating, not the "diet", but the eating......If you're at 3000 cals now, look to up that by 500 cals a week, you could be one of those guys who needs 8000 cals to consistently put on weight......but I am looking forward to this journal as you could put 100s upon 100s of pounds on your lifts and probably double your bodyweight within 2 years......

 

[gjohnson5]

Stats:
Age: 23
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 130-140 depending on the time of day

Did the 5x5 two years ago and put on 17 pounds that I still have today. Went through the normal college drunken time of my life. Wanna get started back to looking good so back to the 5x5 it is.

Monday:

squat: 45,55,75,90,105
Bench: 45,45,60,75,85
Row: 45,55,75,90,105

Everything felt good, my legs are killing me today though. Everything feels light to a point. Didnt do hypers or situps, will start on them next week.

Food: (going for 3k a day)

cals: 2822
fat: 62
carb: 428
protein: 154

The only supplement right now is using nlarge2 for one meal.

Later ....

The problem appears to be in bold...
I think your calories sohuld be more like 5k instead of 3k and the fats should be wayyyy higher.

 

[platinum ice]

I agree, for someone that is 6'2" and 140, 2800-3000 calories a day are NOTHING. You probably burn that up walking down the sidewalk. You have a fast metabolism, and are a hardgainer. You better pump it up to about 6000 at day at minimum if you want to gain max size.

 

[petpre61]

I think you should just see where the 3k cals get you after a week or two and then adjust your cals intake accordingly. you need to give your body time for bigger amounts of food as well, I doubt that you are going to feel good going from 2k-2.5k cals a day to 5k-8k cals from one day to another.

 

[The Shadow]

yep.....3k will work MUCH better

 

[petpre61]

yep.....3k will work MUCH better

how can you tell?

 

[cwpick]

Am I reading wrong, but isn't the 5x5 suppose to be 5 working sets with the same weight.

 

[silver_shadow]

i think 4k is a minimum you should attempt to get in on any given day... and then try to overshoot that as many days as possible.