Progress thread

12 pounds of muscle in a month. Natty as fuck.

No lol

yes

I start like this

Started at 150lbs in January > 165lbs currently.
Posture gains 5'10 > 5'11
OHP 1pl8 x 5
Bench 2pl8 x 5
No squat or diddly area in my gym, so I just use various machines to supplement.
I've been eating a 300kcal surplus, but cheated on weekends.

Planning on cutting for a month to lose some fat, guessing I put on 8-10lbs of lean mass and 5-6lbs of fat.

Routine is PPLxPPL

My chest is lacking big time. I dunno if I store more fat in this area or if the lack of chest isolation resulted in a lack of growth. I think bench is meme lift. I'm doing flies and other chest isolation's now. Only chest compound is weighted dips. which I did for the first time this week. I was able to go up to 75lbs for 10 reps last week, this week I got up to 80lbs + BW x 10. Chest pump was great. I'm cutting bench from my routine.

2,5 month hard train

180kg dead
120kg squat atg
100kg incline bench (dont do flat)
80kg ohp

im not actually super strong besides maybe my ohp

This is my symmetric strength. Yellow is good right?

lol

aren't these like identical to hodgetwins stats?
6'3 ~210?

pretty sure they are like around 208 but leaner than I was at 196, they prob got like 15lbs of muscle on me. and they are like 6'2 and I'm on the taller side of 6'3.

damn. I think you made it brah. congrats
you're actually natty? amazing
routine?

maybe he could've maybe he couldn't do you personally know him and does he converse with you about his bodies biology and natural test levels?

First time in life I've done something more or less consistently and it had results. Feels good.

Weight lifting 3x times a week, cardio 3x times a week, alternating days. About 750 average calorie defecit.

For the first time in forever, managed to do a pullup last week. On Saturday did three pullups.

nice progress
too bad your face looks like your a fag

haven't done any specific routine the whole time but full body 3 times a week is probably the closest. A lot of focus on 5x5 progression.

not sure who can gain around 40-50lbs of muscle in 2 years. I'm not particularly hard working or on point with diet though, my best trait is I rarely miss a workout. I've missed maybe 10 workouts in 5 years.

>what is a screenshot
5lbs/month is pretty good, maybe go for a bit less to minimize muscle loss.
What's the software in the pic?

just recently started lifting again after a way too long break. kiddo is turning 2 in july.

Does the gross stomach wrinkle thing become less noticeable if you get a proper sixpack?
I have one and I hate it.

I'm mirin the loss of those stretch marks

are they still visible at all from close up?

lmao u pull your beanie down to hide your receding hairline

>baldlet

Shouldn't have had a kid 2bh

L O N D O N

S T O C K H O L M

I'll take care of that kid in true cuck fashion

barely visable if not inspected really close. they fade over time. the ones on thighs are slightly visible when wearing shorts and stuff but those on hips are pretty much gone

sweden

I started at 6'2" 148 lbs, now after a year I weight 180, I gained a bit of fat too but I feel I don't have enough muscle to cut.

your shoulders blew up in the 2014 pic, very nice work dude

Made yourself a lot of gains, nice
Can't tell from the pics but assuming you were 15% BF before, worked out and ate consistently for 12mo you should've gained 20 - 24 lbs muscle, leaving u ~150lbs lean mass, ~17% bodyfat.

If you eat at maintenance, high protein, and continue lifting consistently I think you can lose some BF and gain a little more muscle simultaneously. Might be slightly less efficient than just continued bulk though.

Cron-o-meter

Just made this for someone I'm training who was feeling discouraged because they screwed up and let themselves get way out of shape, ballooned 40lbs. Everyone falls off for some reason somewhere along the way. Life happens, injury, jobs, etc. Sort it out and come back with more fire and dedication than before.

>sweden
bet the kids half black

Forgot to train forearms.

I want to lick your Kirby... if you know what I mean.

how did you get rid of them? I got some stretch mark lotion from walmart to get rid of some i've been developing around my armpits and on my legs

according to what ive been reading here and there you cant really do anything about it. they will show less and less over time.
that cream will prolly make your skin smooth af tho

whiter than me, even if mixed kids are cute.

I know this was over a long time, but if my goal body is similar, although i'm a manlet ;_;, what kind of routine should I go for? What did you do?

Thanks man, yeah I would like to drop some bf% so I can bulk again after summer without getting too fat. Also I am afraid I am more than 17% bf, but maybe is because my stomach is always bloated and gives that impression

I'm cutting till I see abs or die

Tired of being big I just want to be small. Goal is 80 kg for now.

Where are your legs?

great progress man! looking real good in maypicture

Those 5 inch wrists though.

Even if the kids white skin, it's still mixed race you cuck

I have no idea what I'm doing.

Strict diet and lifting + cardio since august.

320 to about 220 lbs

>roids
pls go.

what makes you say such things

nice m8

he's just fat

>tfw wide hips

Yeah, 24 lbs / 2 lbs lean mass per month is pretty optimistic.

Lifts for before and after?
I look like you in the before pic

Bio Oil

Ey Balconybro, I just wanted to say thank you. I really appreciated that Q&A thread you made recently. That was some good stuff, very motivational.

First pic is from 5 years ago, second about 2 years after first decent bulk, and current on summer cut.

>80kg OHP
>95 kg bw
>strong
I mean come on, considering those numbers I probably agree with here, you lifts are pathetic for a guy who's done it for 4 years and your body would probably be much more massive if you'd have more advanced numbers

There is no magic routine, just eat, lift sleep, if you want to go really invest yourself get fatter and then cut, you will have that body in 2 years (assuming your lifts are progressing well, unlike OP's who doesn't lift that much)

You should work on your chest and traps before you really cut, you won't have any mass there

I did'nt train legs for a long time because I used to rock climb and wanted to keep my bodyweight down but after a while I decided to let go of that idea.

I just don't gain strength easily, weight comes on but my numbers just don't go up at the same pace. The good thing for me is I virtually lose no strength on my cuts. a 5% reduction at most.

NP user, glad I could do my part. Appreciate the kind feedback, even one response that I helped absolves any number of negative/troll posts. Even though it gives said trolls and triphaters a playground to sling around their own fecal matter, I'll do another thread once I patch together the second year lifting timeline/compilation. I'm still here + using the instagram you guys suggested I set up pretty often in the meantime, @balcony_bro.

Why are you pulling that stupid numale face?

Started September last year
>50 kg squat
>80kg dl
>20 kg bench
>20 kg ohp

Now
>115 kg squat
>140 kg dl
>60kg bench
>45 kg ohp

I feel like how the red army must have felt in late 1942, going to win but it's going to take fucking years and it's going to be a slog.

wasn't around for the Q&As. Are there screencaps/archives?

holy shit i've been lifting since January this year and these are my lifts on the dot LMAO

wait you mean for 5 reps right?

Messy bathroom

stop lying fatty..

stop projecting liftlet

1 rep lol

No idea how long the archives last/stay up, but there ya go.

Chilling on the balcony making some knowledge gains. Anyone read this one?

Damn boy nice work