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You’re a machine!! 😉

That is awesome that your workouts payed off and you lost some fat and gained more muscle! That is a good trade.

good job hun!

oh & ryn: i do believe you’re right sir

how do you get that much protein in? do you use supplement powder in addition to high protein food??

I dropped 20 lbs over the summer while missing half my workouts, eating terrible, and taking up drinking. How’s your lifts?

ryn: Thanks!

Awesome, isn’t it great when that happens? Good luck with getting uber-shredded.

I peaked last time with a squat 1RM of 265 lbs. That was freaking balls-out. If I can get even 276 lbs, I’ll be happy. Deadlift, I peaked.. not much higher than 315. I forget. I think I only hit 330 lbs. If I stall, I’ll implement a variation of the Texas Method and bring deadlifting down to once a week rather than every other workout. We’ll see. Bench, I hit a 1RM of 185 lbs. I can seehitting 205 lbs. Maybe. I’ve bought into strength being proportionate to how much you eat over the years. And while eating more hasn’t really made me look that much better, I can’t deny that eating more DOES incrementally put more weight on the bar. That said, I look better after a summer of slacking. Eh. Whatever, weight gain for strength is necessary. I simply just don’t buy into garbage can bulks. Moreover, dropping weight is pretty easy for me.

Looking sexy always is nice. But since you asked about goals, I suppose hard numbers matter to me. It’s the long-term plan. I’ll be doing Starting Strength/Texas Method until well into spring. We’ll see what happens. Strength is far more difficult than fat loss. And seeing hard numbers on paper, I can say, “Look at this. Look what I did.” It’s self-motivating.

Nothing more natural than a deadlift. If I need to pick up furniture or, well, anything, I don’t strain as much as other people.

Starting strength, I deadlift every other workout. There ARE no weak links, buddy, because they’ve been trained away years ago.

I just do the basics because I’ve never seen a difference (whether it be strength or size) when I bother with isolation exercises. Of course, I’ll let myself indulge now and then in that 1% chance it actually makes a difference, ha ha. Something I’ve gotten myself into the habit of doing is a set of push-ups and a set of pull-ups when I first wake up. Want to say that’s done more for aesthetics than most of what I’ve done in the gym. Good ol` basics. Let’s just say I cringe whenever I see a layperson pick up something. Keeping a neutral spine isn’t difficult, but it does require someone to be aware of it.

kickin ass taking names. Well done you’re killing it. Is your fat % thing a scale??

I keep whey on supply. NO WHEY. If I really want more protein, really, I just increase how much milk I drink weekly.

You don’t need that much protein. You only need 1g per kg of bodyweight, not 1g per lb.

If you said that to my nutrition professor or my exercise physiology professor, they’d cry. I kept thinking that maybe they weren’t aware of something, I’ve never seen any research indicating protein intake that high will make any substantial difference.

Look, I have a degree in exercise science. I’ve wanted to believe what you’re saying, but nothing indicates it to be as true as you think it is. I tried writing a paper on protein intake to show my professor that excess protein would induce muscle hypertrophy. But I simply could NOT find the research for it. So if you have any studies you’d like to share, by all means. Becausenothing would make me happier than to acknowledge that macros actually matter. Because according to the twinkie diet, they don’t.

I’m going to politely say that I disagree with your methodology. Just show me research and I’ll buy it.

I think I look better than you.

Come to think of it, your goals are drastically different than mine. How would you implement a strength routine for maxing the big three, squat/deadlift/bench? I’m curious. Starting Strength isn’t the only thing out there. I honestly like a solid upper/lower split, but don’t have time right now.

Give me citations from credible academic studies, not fluff from bodybuilding websites. Cringe-worthy at times.

It seems to me you’ve bought into all the mass speak. You’re doing the latest and greatest. You read magazines. You think you know it all. You really have no idea who you’re talking to, buddy. Congrats on your results and may you be happy.