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This was a couple weeks ago. Bench vid will be up in the morning. Not much to it. Bench is weak. Weight's crap. Strained my back about a week after the vid. Doctor said it was a lack of vitamin d combined with the exercise. Muscles should be golden, but apparently some imbalance in nutrition combined with the exercise stopped my muscle from recovering properly and eventually I strained my lower back. I've been out until this last week and I didn't eat much while my back was hurting, but I'm back at it. This time with better nutrition and supplementation for proper recovery.

 
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Ah, yeah. You've mentioned Jimmy. I've been to the beast skills site quite a bit.

Max squat day today. Hit 265 cleanly, 5 pounds over projected. Felt confident on 275, looked like it was gonna come up, but it was not to be.... then I realized.... If I had hit that.... that would only be a tiny bit off 2x bodyweight. AWWWWWW YEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

 


Video to come.

Also hit 27 in standing vert after squats. (no video unfortunately) 7'4" reach, hit 9'7" on the wall.


Edit: Also, weight gain seems to have stopped all together. (As you should obviously be able to tell from my squat video)
        Not sure if my caloric expenditure has increased or intake has dropped, since I haven't had time to log calories as accurately as I was. Regardless, this upsets me. Intake is gonna go up again.

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Not a bad idea if you're playing ball. haha. I'm just doing it to basically look and feel more awesome. Being strong always feels cool and it's useful ha.

Also, I can't say I've gained as much as I expected, and I'm still really light, but I'm over 140 every night and gaining. If I can keep up the gain I'm doing now, I'll be at 150, by the end of March, 160 sometime in July, and I may hit 170 by my 20th birthday. All without changing BF %

Quote from: creativelyric on January 10, 2012, 03:43:42 am

Good stuff, man. Nice PRs. How's that bulking going, btw?

+1

Thanks, man. It's not actually "bulking" per se, as I'm not really just stuffing my face every day. Usually I'm getting 300-400 kcal more than I need daily (sometimes less, sometimes more of course), so right now it's really more of a slow but very consistent gain. It's working quite well with the program I'm using right now. I'm liking it quite a bit. I'm just hoping I can keep the diet consistent now that school's going again and I have more classes than last semester.

In short: some weight measurements and calorie logging have helped a lot, but I've tracked an average of .8 pounds/week gained over the month and a half or so that I've been recording all my stuff.

Cod liver oil? Gross. Just get regular fish oil and flax seed oil. That and a multivitamin and you're golden. I've been taking creatine which is helpful and actually super cheap. Whey protein as well of course. You really don't need anything too fancy if your diet is in line though. A multivitamin and possibly some kind of omega-3 supplement (fish/flax oil) if you have a typical American diet would really be it if you had a good diet.