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  1. TateFTW

    Tate's 2 week bulk/2 week cut plus 5x5 log

    Squats 135x5 225x5 285x5 285x5 285x5 dead lifts 135x5 185x5 235x5 235x5 235x5 wide grip pullups just bodyweight again. I need to widen my grip a bit more, to really nail my lats. A couple more weeks and I think I'll be ready to start adding weight. barbell curls 65x5 75x5 105x5 105x5 105x5...
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    Tate's 2 week bulk/2 week cut plus 5x5 log

    I let myself slip a bit last night diet-wise. After a good week of cutting and exceeding my deficit goal, it was nice to have a little more food and a couple beers. It did wreck my averages for the week, but nothing out of the ordinary. average- 2223 calories 154g carbs 90g fat 200g protein...
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    Advice on training.

    A couple thoughts. The first is switching arms to friday. If you fry your arms at the beggining of the week then it will hurt your lifts, therefore hurting development in all your other muscles. When doing bodypart splits I always work arms before my biggest rest period. I'm also questioning...
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    Tate's 2 week bulk/2 week cut plus 5x5 log

    I've decided to make some tweaks to my workout. After giving my original workout plan a try I realized there were some shortcomings. The issues are too many and small to list, but this is what I came up with; Saturday Squats 5x5 Deads 5x5 Pullups 5x5 Barbell curls 5x5 Calves...
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    advice/help

    +1 Good fats help you build muscle, and a well rounded diet helps everything perform better. Once you get the diet on point you can take another look at what sups might help, but you've got the bases covered there. If you really want to be on track then start tracking your diet. Lots of...
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    need go weight loss sup that curves appetite the best

    EC works pretty well for me. I'm also going to be a jerk and let you know that you meant to say "curbs" instead of "curves". When you're wife is an english teacher, you get used to being corrected. :)
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    F'ING FRUSTRATED!!!!!!!!!!

    A deficit is a number. Nothing more. Saying that increasing that number results in more fat loss and decreasing it results in less is ignoring a number of factors involved in how our bodies work. It's true that if someone stopped eating altogether then they would lose weight, but the...
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    Tate's 2 week bulk/2 week cut plus 5x5 log

    behind the neck seated overhead presses 85x5 115x5 130x5 130x5 130x5 dips 25 lb plate close grip bench 135x5 155x5 185x5 185x5 185x5 cable station crunches 25x8 45x8 55x8 65x8 75x8 Workout went well. The only issue I have with the whole routine is lack of shoulder work, but after this...
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    Tate's 2 week bulk/2 week cut plus 5x5 log

    Getting ready to head to the gym, but I'm going to make some changes. The cleans and rows Tuesday just destroyed my traps. This is very unexpected, and makes me want to take out upright rows today. I don't mind doing this, as I did biceps 2 days ago and want this to be a triceps focus day. I...
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    F'ING FRUSTRATED!!!!!!!!!!

    It could very well be that his deficit it too large, resulting in his metabolism slowing and bringing his weight loss to a halt. If dropping a few more cals doesn't get things going, then upping cals to the 3-3500 range could be the thing to get the metabolism going again. Like I said, finding...
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    F'ING FRUSTRATED!!!!!!!!!!

    That's why I only suggested dropping the PB. I don't think it's way too much, but he needs to see what will work for him. I think the first step should be a small drop in calories, just to see how his body reacts. With his extreme size it's even harder then normal to suggest numbers that will...
  12. TateFTW

    Need Help With H-Drol Cycle/PCT!!

    That's right! Grown ups are DUMB! Especially the ones who actually have experience. They're totaly the DUMBEST ever. Totaly. Your logic is sound though. Most possibly life altering decisions made by 18 year olds going against the advice of others turn out really, really well. SO...
  13. TateFTW

    Light Weights

    I know it's cliche', but everyone is different. I know I've tried a number of training styles. The 5x5 I'm using now seems to be working pretty well.
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    F'ING FRUSTRATED!!!!!!!!!!

    Drop the PB. 2700 is too many calories imo. If your true goal is cutting, then commit just to cutting and use the gym just to maintain strength. If you commit 100% to cutting, then 250 should be no big deal in a year. And if you reach it before that, just go into recomp and bring things like...
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    General Advice/Information much appreciated

    lol, I love the overhead and front squats. That'll give any newbie the form he needs, along with the correct form-over-weight mentality. Everybody should start that way.
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    General Advice/Information much appreciated

    Although I haven't looked at the workout, I CAN tell you that if your trying to add mass, you don't need to worry about "shaping" the muscle. Just lift, hard, and keep adding weight. TBH, a good form bench press will mostly hit the mid-lower pecs, and incline benches mostly just shift the...
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    General Advice/Information much appreciated

    I'm of the belief that there really aren't hard gainers. Just under-eaters. If you're a toothpick, then stop worrying so much about eating healthy. Yeah, trans-fats are always bad, but you need fats to help your body do it's thing, and right now you're only getting them from eggs and Peanut...
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    Tate's 2 week bulk/2 week cut plus 5x5 log

    Hey, thanks! I'm actually excited by the results so far. I think most people tend to "fade" from bulking to cutting. It seems like doing a hardcore switch from one day bulking to the next day cutting shocked my body, in a good way. Right now at 210 I'm every bit as lean as I was at 205 20...
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    Tate's 2 week bulk/2 week cut plus 5x5 log

    25 minutes of racquetball this afternoon. Upper back still feels sick after workout yesterday.
  20. TateFTW

    Bulking up 5x5 modded

    If you toss the flies and do dips instead, and add barbell curl 5x5 after your chins, you'll hit your arms plenty. In the 5x5 setup I just started using I do curls right after chins and it destroys my biceps, and dips do an amazing job of hitting both chest AND tris. Overall, I agree with SRS...
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