Essie
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Look at Steve's signature ... there is a link to a post explaining bloodwork and getting it done.
Then ... dude ... you packed on 30LBS IN 4 MONTHS and for some reason you don't seem to know how decent that is! You have to recognize it man! And congrats to you for doing it all natty ... that really is decent! Are you following the StrongLifts program correctly and lifting in the splits and following the rest days it recommends? Adding 5lbs every workout is feesable and realistic in the beginning, provided that you start with an empty bar, but only for so long. Have you EVER trained before you started with the SL program ... at all?
For a skinny guy with small bone structure and not much muscle (when you started on this in Jan) you have made good progress, really good progress. If you never trained before, then you have made exceptional progress. When I was 26 I weighed a measly 138 @ 5'11" and it took me 4 years of training, resting and eating eating eating eating and EATING to get to a reasonable 160. I hit plateu there and started supplementing. A further 2 years and I hit 175. So it took me 6 years of training, resting, eating AND supplementing to gain 7 lbs more than what you gained in 4 months! I was your typical hard gainer. So, in light of my own road ... you have done pretty damn good and have nothing to be concerned over except your lack of patience ... Keep at it ... keep hitting the iron and eating and supplementing and resting. Your strength break through will come and your mass gains as well, don't worry, just keep at it. You might not end up being a 200lbs+ dude, but that is not the be-all-end-all, you know?
Then ... dude ... you packed on 30LBS IN 4 MONTHS and for some reason you don't seem to know how decent that is! You have to recognize it man! And congrats to you for doing it all natty ... that really is decent! Are you following the StrongLifts program correctly and lifting in the splits and following the rest days it recommends? Adding 5lbs every workout is feesable and realistic in the beginning, provided that you start with an empty bar, but only for so long. Have you EVER trained before you started with the SL program ... at all?
For a skinny guy with small bone structure and not much muscle (when you started on this in Jan) you have made good progress, really good progress. If you never trained before, then you have made exceptional progress. When I was 26 I weighed a measly 138 @ 5'11" and it took me 4 years of training, resting and eating eating eating eating and EATING to get to a reasonable 160. I hit plateu there and started supplementing. A further 2 years and I hit 175. So it took me 6 years of training, resting, eating AND supplementing to gain 7 lbs more than what you gained in 4 months! I was your typical hard gainer. So, in light of my own road ... you have done pretty damn good and have nothing to be concerned over except your lack of patience ... Keep at it ... keep hitting the iron and eating and supplementing and resting. Your strength break through will come and your mass gains as well, don't worry, just keep at it. You might not end up being a 200lbs+ dude, but that is not the be-all-end-all, you know?