Dustin07
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sounds familiar. now that I think of it, during my sub 10% xfit days I never wore a shirt LOL so for the last 5 years being that lean was pointless
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sounds familiar. now that I think of it, during my sub 10% xfit days I never wore a shirt LOL so for the last 5 years being that lean was pointless
MrKleen73
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Yeah you had to tell me to put a shirt on or wear something other than a wife beater if you wanted me dressed up when I was lean. Once I get leaner it will be the same way I am sure. Heck I even take my shirt off on my walks at lunch to get extra sun and Vit-D but I am not aesthetically pleasing now unless you like the big bear look.
sounds familiar. now that I think of it, during my sub 10% xfit days I never wore a shirt LOL so for the last 5 years being that lean was pointless
Dustin07
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You got the grey chest hair to match the full big bear look on the afternoon shirtless promenades ???
Used to golf with a guy who did NOT lift and had a good sized gut, probably 60-80lbs overweight
When we hit Boise in the heat on a business trip by the second hole he announced we are playing skins vs shirts lol
Rips his shirt off and finishes the round topless
Rocket3015
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Not a pretty mental picture !!You got the grey chest hair to match the full big bear look on the afternoon shirtless promenades ???
Used to golf with a guy who did NOT lift and had a good sized gut, probably 60-80lbs overweight
When we hit Boise in the heat on a business trip by the second hole he announced we are playing skins vs shirts lol
Rips his shirt off and finishes the round topless
MrKleen73
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Haha Bert Kreischer Style!You got the grey chest hair to match the full big bear look on the afternoon shirtless promenades ???
Used to golf with a guy who did NOT lift and had a good sized gut, probably 60-80lbs overweight
When we hit Boise in the heat on a business trip by the second hole he announced we are playing skins vs shirts lol
Oh yeah I do, and a lot of it is white as snow! It will grow fast and peak up out of my shirt so I tend to trim it down to a 2-3 every 6 weeks or so even if I am chubby and soft.
Rips his shirt off and finishes the round topless
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Now it isn't a pretty real picture either!
Dustin07
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So no dermacrine in like 1.5-2 weeks
No itchy nips this morning or last night
Haven't had UH since Thursday preWO
But I have been taking Steve's anabolic XT
Just had a fat diner breakfast. Biscuits and gravy with sausage and eggs and I had them throw an extra egg on to protect the gainz lol.
Libido is through the roof. Wife must be liking the plumper pecs too, getting positive responses.
Weighed 183 last Sept. 2022
I'll likely be 200 before end of March (might be 200 now with water weight )
I think I might just go for it and decide if I want to try to accomplish my strength goals at like 199 or keep going.
Might be fun to try to get to 200 then shift gears a little bit, find caloric maintenance and throw in light cardio.
I think a good mile run time +500lb deadlift would be a great level of health and strength for me at 200lbs and age 40/41
The hardest part of the weight gain isn't the abs getting softer and fading, it's actually the discomfort of my fitted work shirts not fitting well.
No itchy nips this morning or last night
Haven't had UH since Thursday preWO
But I have been taking Steve's anabolic XT
Just had a fat diner breakfast. Biscuits and gravy with sausage and eggs and I had them throw an extra egg on to protect the gainz lol.
Libido is through the roof. Wife must be liking the plumper pecs too, getting positive responses.
Weighed 183 last Sept. 2022
I'll likely be 200 before end of March (might be 200 now with water weight )
I think I might just go for it and decide if I want to try to accomplish my strength goals at like 199 or keep going.
Might be fun to try to get to 200 then shift gears a little bit, find caloric maintenance and throw in light cardio.
I think a good mile run time +500lb deadlift would be a great level of health and strength for me at 200lbs and age 40/41
The hardest part of the weight gain isn't the abs getting softer and fading, it's actually the discomfort of my fitted work shirts not fitting well.
akboom87
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Sounds like you have a good goal! Nice work!!
GreenMachineX
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Reminds me of Steve Carrell telling Mark Whalburg to keep putting on his shirt in Date Night
Dustin07
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I have no idea how my pulls out number every other lift like that. My buddy with the 500lb squat (well, 485 for sure) tapped out at 190lbs on the power cleans and was trashed the next day lol. I have to keep a couple things up my sleeve since I can't keep up with the big squatters!
Dustin07
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it exhausted me! funny thing about where we live is that when my wife and I get these spirts of sunshine we crash EARLY.
the seafood fest was good, across the street was a bowling alley so we played a couple games with our friends who travelled with us. we had 3 beers in a couple hours time. THREE. not 6, no shots, just three beers. but between all the walking, sunshine, etc crashed back at the hotel at like 4pm for a couple hours before we woke up and played the longest game of uno known to mankind. Last June we visited vegas for a short weekend to get some sunshine because we had non stop rain in the seattle area.
we spent one day laying out by the pool just soaking in the vitamin D and felt sick that night lol. it just trashed us to get so much sun so quick. we did not drink heavily...
Dustin07
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<sticks ultra hard in sock and slinks towards bathroom>
attempting a little experiment. adding UH to biceps/triceps, quads, hammies, and chest. vs in the past I started with traps then worked south as I need to find skin to absorb.
today is the first time in weeks I woke up without any stiff neck pain and since I had the long weekend, I hadn't applied any TDs to my traps in 3-4 days...
attempting a little experiment. adding UH to biceps/triceps, quads, hammies, and chest. vs in the past I started with traps then worked south as I need to find skin to absorb.
today is the first time in weeks I woke up without any stiff neck pain and since I had the long weekend, I hadn't applied any TDs to my traps in 3-4 days...
Dustin07
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Like clockwork, about 30 minutes after application I have the weirdest mental sensation from that UH. nothing negative but just weird like a nicotine buzz kinda
the third game lasted 90 minutes haha... we got really competitive all the sudden with that uno after my wife won 2 games
so we have 4 adults in a cheap motel room playing cards, 2 of them are drinking, 2 of us are NOT craving anymore alcohol OR sodium lol. we played a variation called uno flip. my wife wins the first two games in like 8 minutes each.
the third game lasted 90 minutes haha... we got really competitive all the sudden with that uno after my wife won 2 games
Dustin07
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haha no thats new to me but I may have to look it up cause these folks want to bring back the game night we used to do. I did hit a toy store while we were at the ocean and saw that they made a cards against humanity for kids called "kids against maturity" lol. it was pretty funny but not so offensive 
Dustin07
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you ever play balderdash? reminds me of that !
I used to love balderdash because I'm great at bullshitting lol
it's like a coffee jitteriness but without the discomfort of too much caffeine. I did use 5 pumps today which I think is the first time I went over 4.
MrKleen73
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Yes there are parts of it just like that, some are like puzzles and brain teasers, others are about giving an answer to a question that can be correct or a lie and they have to guess which. Some games just give you a topic and you have to make up the end and everyone votes on their favorite. Also one cool part is some are team games but the game sets the teams and they change so you don't just have one pair playing together winning all the time on team things.you ever play balderdash? reminds me of that !
I used to love balderdash because I'm great at bullshitting lol
it's like a coffee jitteriness but without the discomfort of too much caffeine. I did use 5 pumps today which I think is the first time I went over 4.
Dustin07
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I've been applying the UH 2hrs preWO.
I might play with that timing a little bit. maybe tomorrow I'll try like immediately preWO and on Thursday maybe I'll try in the morning at 5am for my 11am lift 6hrs later... unless y'all have any thoughts/advice on that.
I could swear someone else said they just put it on at night but I feel like I wouldn't' sleep if I did that.
Rocket3015
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haha no thats new to me but I may have to look it up cause these folks want to bring back the game night we used to do. I did hit a toy store while we were at the ocean and saw that they made a cards against humanity for kids called "kids against maturity" lol. it was pretty funny but not so offensive
My Grand Daughter Loves UNO, I bet she would like Kids Against Maturity, I may have to look for it!
Dustin07
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Rocket3015
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I just sent my daughter an email, I want to make sure they don't already have it, before I buy it.
Dustin07
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Squats
10 x bar, 95
5 x 135
3 x 185, 225, 265
1 x 295, 315, 315
5 x 280
10 x 225
Fronts
5 x 155
3 x 185
1 x 205, 215, 220
Good mornings
6 x 155, 185
Ez bar curls
3 x 15
Hammer curls
3 sets
DB curls
3 sets, run the rack
Holy freaking pump
My arms have never been this big before
Notes
Weight 197
PreWO 5 pumps UH, 1 scoop pump addict, 150ish grams carbs
Top end still feels pretty stalled but reps are going up
10 x bar, 95
5 x 135
3 x 185, 225, 265
1 x 295, 315, 315
5 x 280
10 x 225
Fronts
5 x 155
3 x 185
1 x 205, 215, 220
Good mornings
6 x 155, 185
Ez bar curls
3 x 15
Hammer curls
3 sets
DB curls
3 sets, run the rack
Holy freaking pump
My arms have never been this big before
Notes
Weight 197
PreWO 5 pumps UH, 1 scoop pump addict, 150ish grams carbs
Top end still feels pretty stalled but reps are going up
MrKleen73
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Get overhead fluorescent lighting at the house. TADA!!!!I wish the mirror at home looked at good as the mirror at the gym lol
I swear the gym mirror shaves like 5% body fat and the mirror at home is evil and honest
Dustin07
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haha so true. the lighting in our bathroom at home is too intense. my wife has some other mirror next to the front door that I can see myself in from the bedroom and I'm like... yeah baby is this what other people see???
Thank you Sir! wanted to throw the bands on for heavier sets from the top but the gym has 2 styles of squat racks and the one I need for banding from the top was in use so after my top rep, I figured lets add 5lbs from last weeks 5 rep and smash some linear progress. felt so good. I think I had 6+ reps in me. when I dropped to the 225 it was probably the best 10 rep set I've ever had in my life. they were fast and I didn't find myself needing to stop for breaks at the top. front squats went up like 15 or 20lbs as well I think.
I did briefly weigh 200lbs Sunday when we got home. that's my first time seeing that in over a decade so this has been a total change in mentality for me.
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Dustin07
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thanks man, been chasing you for like 10 years lol. maybe some day
Dustin07
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I think my caloric baseline could very well be close to 3k now (where as I wasn't losing weight at 1700 last sept).
Weight this morning 195lbs.
Yesterday 2750 calories
242g pro
243g cho
63g fats
to be fair, some of that protein was collagen that I have with my breakfast / coffee.
some of the fats are fishoil
Weight this morning 195lbs.
Yesterday 2750 calories
242g pro
243g cho
63g fats
to be fair, some of that protein was collagen that I have with my breakfast / coffee.
some of the fats are fishoil
Rocket3015
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That sounds like a good thing !
Dustin07
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Super good!
it's been a 180 degree shift in my mentality when I see weight dropping on the scale and realize I now have to work as hard to eat enough calories as I used to have to work to remove calories
I think I will in the next 6-8 weeks attempt a very tight month or so in nutritional discipline but I haven't exactly decided what that looks like or what my goal is....
as Hyde pointed out, me having to weigh 300lbs to bench 300lbs isn't THAT impressive lol. so I want to make sure my weight gain is intentional and effective towards strength goals...
Rocket3015
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May it all be muscle !!! 
MrKleen73
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With your current gains you could probably drop about 200 from where you have been averaging and recomp a bit while still making moves strengthwise.Super good!
it's been a 180 degree shift in my mentality when I see weight dropping on the scale and realize I now have to work as hard to eat enough calories as I used to have to work to remove calories
I think I will in the next 6-8 weeks attempt a very tight month or so in nutritional discipline but I haven't exactly decided what that looks like or what my goal is....
as Hyde pointed out, me having to weigh 300lbs to bench 300lbs isn't THAT impressive lol. so I want to make sure my weight gain is intentional and effective towards strength goals...
Dustin07
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Bench
10 x 95, 95, 135
2 x 185, 205, 224, 245, 265
275 x 2 singles
SS
1 x 300, 315
3 x 275
Incline
10 x bar, 95
5 x 135, 165, 185
2 x 200 (PR)
DB flat press
12 x 70s
10 x 90s
Bent over DB rows
3 x 10 x 70s
Notes
Weight 195
Pre workout
UH, 5 pumps
Pump addict
And a ton of carbs via rice and banana
10 x 95, 95, 135
2 x 185, 205, 224, 245, 265
275 x 2 singles
SS
1 x 300, 315
3 x 275
Incline
10 x bar, 95
5 x 135, 165, 185
2 x 200 (PR)
DB flat press
12 x 70s
10 x 90s
Bent over DB rows
3 x 10 x 70s
Notes
Weight 195
Pre workout
UH, 5 pumps
Pump addict
And a ton of carbs via rice and banana
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GreenMachineX
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Man, my gym and home mirror does the same exact thing. What is that? Gym has skinny mirrors, or are those accurate?I wish the mirror at home looked at good as the mirror at the gym lol
I swear the gym mirror shaves like 5% body fat and the mirror at home is evil and honest
Rocket3015
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I would believe which ever one you look the best in !!
Dustin07
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OK so it just occurred to me I didn't even attempt a PR today (290lbs) even though 275 went up pretty easy. I had it in my head I wanted 275 x 5, THEN go for 300. But now I'm thinking maybe next week I'll do this exact same thing but attempt adding 5lbs until I can't.
I signed up at a local LA Fitness cause they have a good weight room and it's 5 minutes from my office! My choice power lifting gym is 90minutes away... it's on the way home but after the commute I'm exhausted and last spring I kept getting kicked off the racks so they could teach a pre-teen lifting class and I was like nope, I'm out.
GreenMachineX
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Those are the only 2 worthwhile gyms near you?OK so it just occurred to me I didn't even attempt a PR today (290lbs) even though 275 went up pretty easy. I had it in my head I wanted 275 x 5, THEN go for 300. But now I'm thinking maybe next week I'll do this exact same thing but attempt adding 5lbs until I can't.
Dustin07
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There are a handful of powerlifting gyms "in the area" but the i5 corridor of Seattle-Tacoma has turned into LA as all the californians moved up here lol. So when I leave work between 3-4pm it can take 1-2hrs to get anywhere. staying in the town where my office is lets me get a good session in while I'm fresh then hit the highway after rush hour is gone and I still end up getting home like an hour earlier than when I used to drive to the gym by my house after work.
plus... I can get lunch time sessions in lately! which has been optimal for energy levels.
I'm feeling much much better with the heavier weights now after spending so much time focusing on 225, but I can tell that I need to practice heavy weights more. the hardest part about 300 and 315 today was honestly just unracking it. with the SS both weights were so easy I knew I could have gone up even higher. I agree with you though. I'm just chompin' at the bit ready to go after the next target since I hit that 225 x 10 I wanted so badly.
heavy weight is starting to feel much better though. I don't feel so "thin" for lack of better term, when pushing heavier weights around.