Fixed.

Is he the guy who mows the pitch?

Using SS doesn't mean you need to be confined to his routine. You just need to work on the common compound lifts for a few months, then move on to something more advanced Also, eating 6000 calories of fast foods will help you gain muscle especially if you have a fast metabolism.

I hope you're kidding. Add up the detrimental ingredients in 6000 calories of fast food and see how long it takes for you to clog your arteries. Then you're done with your exercise routine even if you survive.

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You should not be giving advice.

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I'm getting results, so I can give advice to someone who does't know anything about the subject.

I don't think that's how it works. I know more than the average (i.e. normal) person does about certain mental illnesses but it doesn't mean I can start dishing out therapy or recommending medications to them. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing! Although no knowledge is undoubtedly worse. Read PST's posts in the culinary thread if you want proof of that fact.

yea you dumb twat, because its not like I have been lifting 3 years longer than you and have about 40 lbs of muscle on you, and I don't even want to know what kind of pussy weight you lift. but I'm probably being trolled by the reqtum again.

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Got hit on by a man twice my age at the gym today. Guess, I'll take what I can get, eh?

Dropped a barbell on you, did he?

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40 is the new 30

I am going to try and donate plasma today, they give you money for it.

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I didn't know your dad was still working down there.

How much do you get for that? Here you get $35 and a biiiiiiig breakfast

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I think $100, depends on how many times you go I think. I didn't end up going today because I didn't have the necessary documents. I will tomorrow though and get booze money.

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100 bucks? The donating rate must be damn low in your country

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I seriously doubt that. post pix phag

http://imgur.com/BjSzg 6'2" about 180 lb

don't save it in your fap folder shrimpy

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6'2 and only 180? You're underweight. I'm 5'6 at 160, gaining 1-2 lbs a week. There is no way I'd fap to a skinny fat body like yours.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=s18dqg&s=7

keep talking big man, you sure you didn't get your wife's weight instead?

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Req', what size is your chest? In inches.

dq, watch it. I'm 5'8" and 170. Of course, I don't have man boobs and all that jazz.

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Req, you are as tall as my girlfriend! lolz.

5'10, 220lbs and growing.

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Did 15 mins of cardio along with random chest/shoulder exercises yesterday. I also just finished a giant bowl of OATMEAL!

Fuck yea.

And just to stop this whole weight discussion in its tracks... I am something over 5'7" and weigh about 130 or less. My girlfriend can actually kick my ass. FUCK YEA.

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nice breh

I just finished a 3.5 to 4 mile run, next time I wont be stupid and take some water

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haha I always seem to make that mistake and think I am a camel before working out. Dehydration is a bitch that must be tamed.

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I'm not sure if I got to that point. but I was at the point where my saliva had the same consistency of semen. (no homo)

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hahahaha I know exactly what you mean. (still, no homo)

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I don't know, guys. If you know the consistency of semen, that might be mildly homo.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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No, I'm just so manly that I drink my own semen from a custom pewter mug.

Wait or is that actually homo? Uh oh.

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Nah, its not gay to do that. I mean, it isn't gay to give yourself handjobs.

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Thanks for anticipating that I might read this post and including this disclaimer to try and take the stinging stigma out of my horrible gay memories.

Maybe you were standing too close to the guy in front of you.

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I like how you think!

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Good lord...I'm going to have to make some phone calls about this.


Just purchased the Perfect Bands. They work like a charm. I exercised till I had a headache, I feel like I am made of granite

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Once man discovers that its also not gay to give yourself a blow job, the world will no longer need women in our society and they will only exist in our basements tied to our radiators. Think forward, people.. think forward.

The shit is this Perfect Bands shit I've been shiteeing? Does it actually do anything? Not that I've ever tried any of them, but all these "one device does all!" exercise products seem too gimmicky/good-to-be-true to me. But like I said, I've never tried them and know pretty little about exercising.

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220lbs+! Taken 10min ago. Post your progress pics!

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l...1_4530414_n.jpg

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Don't hold the phone so tight! You're face is turning red! What are you using? Inflate-a-muscle?

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haha, yeah it's hard to take a pic without crushing those damned Iphone's!

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WTF! Did you join the Mountie SEALs?

*Arctic predator attacks*
"GET TO THE CHOPAR"!

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What's with the shirt???? Trying to hide something??

Okay that was my attempt at a really gay joke. I think I succeeded.

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I like how you remind me of a thumb

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Holy shit, you're huge. Do you ever plan on cutting are or you just going to keep bulking?

What do your compound lifts look like?

haha OH U GUISE.

Yeah I plan on cutting some weight in a few months.

And I don't know my compound lifts, nor do I really care. I don't lift for strength; I'm a bodybuilder, not a fat power lifter.

Strength doesn't matter at the beach.

And I didn't get like this over night, 8 years of this shit with a solid year off.

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Deadlifted 405 this afternoon. It's not an impressive number by any means, but it's a personal best so I'm super happy about it. I had taken over a year off of serious lifting, but the past two months I've been easing myself back in with some light stuff and some easy stuff. One of these days I'll finally start doing squats for real, which I expect will improve my deadlifts quite a bit.

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You guys might benefit from this work out. It's pretty interesting with some good pointers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBWk...feature=related

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I won't be able to work out for at least a month. This sucks :/

Maybe this will help.

I started tracking my workouts on a blog for microloading - basically the idea is that every workout has a greater cumulative total weight lifted, red indicating underperformance and blue indicating outperformance of the prior session.

For the past 4 months I feel like it has been a huge help because I have a way to quantitatively gauge the progress instead of just going until I "think" I've done enough. i've seen way better results too, especially from the leg workouts.

Only thing is I have to swap similar exercises or use proxies to keep the body confused, doing the same things all the time is not what I prefer and it benefits overall growth to mix things up.

The dates don't indicate actual workouts, just when I get around to posting them, so in the future i'll be better about that.

I've had a professional obligation that will expire in 3 weeks (a huge test) so when that's over I'll get more serious about it.

Not so much an interesting blog for others to read, but I thought I would share the principle since it helped me after a year of difficulty breaking plateaus.

http://syntheticforms.blogspot.com if you are interested.

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I used to track the volume of weight I lifted then my computer took a shit.

My balls are huge after not wanking for over a week

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That's the main reason I put it on a public blog, so I didn't have to worry about saving files and it was accessible anywhere.

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d&q, we know you're just stuffing peaches in your drawers.

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My balls have shrunk quite a bit over the past 14 weeks lolz.

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roids?

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smaller balls makes your shaft look bigger

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Yarp.

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SMALL POTATOES MAKE THE STEAK LOOK BIGGER!

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Are you loaded today or just feisty, Dylan?

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Small steak & potatoes makes the plate look bigger, which seems to be the philosophy of the pro weightlifter! LOLLOLOLOLLOOLLLOLO!LOL!O!LO!L!OL!!!!11

NELSON MENDLA SMELLS REALLY GOOD!

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Going to try Strong Lift's 5x5 for 12 wks, since I've recently changed my goals. I basically want to lift as much as possible.

goals for 2011:

bench 1rm: 300
squat 1rm: 375
dl: 400
Military press: 185

My back . (awesome display of farmers tan)

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/405/19wks022.jpg/

Damn req finally getting some muscle on those bones.

Been boxing my ass off, gas is to high for me to do a round 60+ mile trip back and forth to the MMA gym i attended for the past 3 years off and on. So I got up with some guy in my area and have been boxing, and trying to set up a small MMA gym in their garage.

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Are you training any grappling or just boxing? Just curious.

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Just boxing currently. The gym I went to when gas was cheaper I did both. We're currently investing in some jiu jitsu mats, which are pretty expensive to start doing some ground work at the new place.

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Current stats on my 5x5 program.

Bench: 195
Squatz: 220
Deadz: 290

One month in(out of three) and all my lifts have went up 15+ lbs.

Good job Req.

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From this week I'll be shifting over to a high weight-low rep routine. My only dilemma is whether to keep a four day routine focussing on a different muscle group each day or switch to a 2 or 3 day full body routine with more compound exercises.

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QUIT MOCKING ME

It actually is pretty good weight considering you are a midget

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I think we've damaged Reqtum beyond repair.

Summer's here and my pool is now heated so I'm going to start swimming again. I think the last time I was at the gym was a few months ago. Right when I stepped out of my car my foot was 2 feet away from a couple of used syringes. I looked around for BB but couldn't find him. Probably out torchin' cop cars.

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/\ lol.

I used to be quite anti-steroid, but once I educated myself on them and researched using them for a year+, I did my first real cycle. I got my feet wet with a prohormone(h-drol) cycle back in September, and after I had recovered from that wanted to go into the real deal. I got bloodwork done, everything was optimal and went for it.

What the media and our society has done to the topic of steroids(aka sex hormones: testosterone, DHT, estrogen, your body makes steroids! It's not a bad word) is completely and utterly absurd.

I don't recommend them for a beginner. I've been training for over 8 years now. I'd like to think I have somewhat of a grasp of weight training and diet. If you're interested, there are some decent documentaries on youtube, or check out the movie Bigger, Stronger, Faster.

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But what's the motivation for it? That's what I don't get. When you go off them and hopefully go back to normal size there's some tissues that will sagging or odd no matter what diet you follow. It would be like that with any building regiment, but wouldn't juicing make it worse?

Bob was trying to gain weight and muscle until he hit 300 pounds. He didn't like seeing that and now he's trying to lose again. No steroids or anything like that, but just gained and then regretted it. And he's a strong little bugger, too.

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Because being the biggest fucker around is awesome?

Well I'm not too much into bodybuilding. Just fitness in general.

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You don't go back to normal size. That is a myth. As long as you maintain a steady diet and have a solid training regiment, most of your size and strength will remain.

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Most of the studies I've read indicate that an athlete on a strict workout/diet regiment will be able to retain, on average, something like 75-80% of any steroid gains once they're off. That's pretty sweet, actually.

That being said, I'm not sure the studies took into consideration the fact that most athletes do, in fact, cycle back on. I would be very curious to see how much muscle you could maintain long term (say, over a two year period) without cycling back on at all. I wouldn't be surprised if it were close to 70%, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it were closer to 20%. 70% would still be pretty sweet, but 20% would be downright demoralizing.

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I'm sure you would still maintain most of it. Steroids permanently alter muscular cell volume as well, so even if you're not using them you have more opportunity to gain muscle mass.

Anyways, like I said..education is everything. Yes, they are drugs. Yes, they can have side effects, but so does Tylenol. They can be abused, but they can also be used fairly safely. It was a positive experience and I can't wait to get back on them. I'd only recommend them to a guy with several years of training who has their shit figured out.

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I didn't know that you'd retain some of the muscle mass. I was thinking more about possible health reasons one might have to go cold turkey on the workouts and what would happen then. I'm thinking with 25 more years on you guys, I suppose.

It must be too tempting to abuse them unlike tylenol, and that's why they're so frowned upon. I know with other medical issues I've looked into that muscle enlargement concerning the heart is a problem. If it's building arms, etc., would it not be doing that, too, and possibly cause a hazard?

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Well, such legal things as alcohol and cigarettes, steroids are much safer. And again, steroid use is much different from steroid abuse. Most side effects while being on steroids subside after use. From what I've read and can remember, slight heart enlargement subsides after use.

They are drugs, and with drugs you have to weight the positives and negatives. All I'm trying to preach is that they are not the devil you have see about on TV. They did not kill Chris Benoit's family. Bobbi, I would recommend this movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qqwsbBZCkk


Entertaining and informative.

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I saw that you mentioned that movie. I know you'd be reasonable about usage, but I was curious about the less obvious muscular issues steroids might cause.

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No shame with this one.

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And throughout my 14 week cycle, I only gave my girlfriend three black eyes!

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That was a very eye opening film. I watched the Jay Cutler deleted scene, too. I guess because I'm pretty accepting of my physical and mental attributes I just can't see doing it myself, but I guess everybody has their own ideas. My heart went out to their mom when she found out about her brother. That had to be a knife in her heart. Lots of good info in it, not just about body enhancement. Thanks for the link.

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You're welcome Bobbi. I'm glad you watched it!

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After that video I'm ready for some steroids son. But when that woman in the video said she still wants to look like a woman, lady its way past that.

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Fair point:

Would you fuck a post-op tranny who look extremely convincing and was hotter than 4 Natalie Portmans with a completely hairless perfumed anus, or would you rather fuck an extreme body-building woman who has a jawline with which you could align railroad tracks and pectoral muscles which look like slabs of leather-wrapped beef hanging from a cliff face and a voice so deep that it could make a blue whale shit itself and a clit so massive that it looks like a ripe plum escaping from a prolapsed rectum?

It's a moot point really, because every man wants to fuck a tranny. Am I right fellas?? PLEASE CHRIST LET ME BE RIGHT.

I chuckled when she said that, too, but if she's happy with herself then more power to her.

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YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

haha yes..she was fucking scary. Women should not take male sex hormones(testosterone) unless they want to become men.

Steroids definitely aren't for everyone. Lots of guys doing them that have no idea how to run a proper cycle and usually run into some bad experiences. If done incorrectly you are at serious risk of infections, bitch tits(can happen when done correctly, but there are drugs to counteract this most of the time), high bad cholesterol, high blood pressure, elevated liver values, and terrible shutdown of your natural test levels. If you are interested in doing them, research is your friend.

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squats went up 73 lbs this month, u mad?

You joking right?

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Nope, It wasn't very high to begin with, but I'm increasing 10-20lbs a week.

I'm trying to gain weight. This is difficult for me. I was barely below 120 a couple months ago and I'm just over 5'7". Now I am about 125. This is very slow progress lol... eating a lot spread out throughout the day and eating lots of protein along with weight lifting. I suppose I should just continue this pattern.

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Try muscle juice 2544 or 2600. Great mass gainer, makes gaining weight easy.

I've heard a claim "Muscle Milk" can put the weight on you. It's expensive though. I'd eat just Three big meals a day, that way your metabolism is lower. Eating a lot spread out through the day makes your metabolism higher.

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Wow it looks like a tub of that could last me quite a while. Do you usually consume an entire serving per day (4 scoops = 55g protein)? I've been taking this basic whey protein stuff. I see that the Muscle Juice has quite a good amount of calories per serving and tons of amino acids. Is that why it is a good mass builder?




This seems to make me fall asleep after every meal That is why I usually spread it out.

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Is your blood sugar okay? It almost sounds like you're crashing.

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Yea I do crash after a big meal. Food-coma. A full Chipotle burrito works better than xanax.

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I love a good food coma, though its got to be a pretty heavy meal to get me really sated.

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If you want to food crash, just go to your nearest chinese joint and order any meat with white rice

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Yea lots of carbs and fat will do me in. That is why I need to spread things out. I'm not looking to become a hulk, just gain some weight via muscle mass. If I'm like 125 right now I wouldn't mind being 135-140 in the end and maintaining that.

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progresss

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/832/001gnd.jpg/