Anyway b1tches. I’m heading out for a 4 day snowboard vacation in the middle of the week, so I’ll be happy if I have 3-4 lbs of total gains over this current 2-week period. It’ll be hard to have the diet in order when I’m away and this place probably doesn’t have good exercise equipment.
I lifted weights at a commericial gym for the first time in a couple years though. Motivation is definately a lot higher there, so I had very decent showing on all my lifts compared to what I had been putting up. More people there than I imagined at 5:30am.
Doh! I’ve only gained 2 lbs thus far. This is right on target as I was hoping to only gain 2-3 week for 20 weeks making 40-60 lbs total before cutting. However with Turkey day approaching and me being unable to access my normal food, I see myself have a net gain of zero for this period.
On a positive note, the ski resort I’m headed to is getting 5-9" tonight followed by snow tomorrow, thursday, friday, and saturday. I’m going to tear it up. Let’s hope I don’t kill myself.
Rub, No Rainier for me as of yet. I trained a lot on other high, but albiet non-glaciated peaks this year. I should be heading there next summer. The snowboarding trip is to Stowe, VT. I’m leaving work in all of 10 minutes, then I’m heading up north.
Well, according to that formula, your Street Cred is at least a positive number. Since yours is higher than Ford’s squared, and any number squared is positive*, yours is at least greater than zero
except for zero, but no one should be squaring 0 anyway.
I was foiled by the holiday as expected. I gained all of 1 lbs and according to the calipers it was fat. I expect to have better results in this next 2 week block though. I started King’s routine, and I was once again reminded why I left commericial gyms. It basically pre-fatigues all assisting muscle groups and has you bench last. As well as being an ego killer because handling 135 lbs for 8 reps at a 613 tempo is hard at that point, but it is also around 6:40am by the time I get to that point… Despite having 8 bench stations, they were ALL taken. At least most were benching. There was one guy who has doing dumbell flyes there even though there were plenty of flat benches available in the dumbbell area. I decided to cut my losses and just to db bench press.
Snowboarding was great though. There were snow storms every day, and the mountain was empty on saturday. I had some words with a skier who decided to be a *****, but other than that everything was great. No injuries.
haha! Iron, that’s what I was talking about. This place doesn’t even have a single power rack. Luckily they have 3 squat stands at least. Not a single power rack though. It’s huge too.
Anyway, I did the first King leg workout. Pretty brutal. I’m almost ralfed.
The final results were actually not bad at all. I didn’t finish the full 12 week plans of King’s, but I ended up gaining 23 lbs. The ratio of muscle to fat was good as well with 20:3. The reason why I fell short of finishing King’s 12-week plans was because of a new puppy I got. I actually got 2 in the last couple months, but the one I got in January has had some health problems which led to major housebreaking issues and the need for constant supervision. I had to take a 3 week break from a regular workout schedule, which was not fun.
The weight gain slowed greatly at around week 7 because the meals just became too much along with the prep time. Prep was cutting an hour off every one of my nights, and the meal schedule was tough to manage with the new dogs and having to come home during lunch to feed and water them. Since leaving the diet, I have shed nearly 12 lbs although it would appear some fat has left with that. I haven’t taken caliper measurements recently, but I believe this is an accurate assessment.
All in all, I was happy with the results and the bodybuilding work was a fun break from my normal balls-to-the-wall workouts. The isolation work even helped my pull-up, bench, and squat numbers too. I’m sure that half has to do with addressing a weak link and half with just a volume layoff on those primary lifts. I now feel rather confident that a hard gainer like myself can gain good amounts of quality mass with no supplements and while remaining cardio-vascularly fit. It just takes some dedication to food preperation.
Now it’s back to mountaineering prep for the spring - fall.
hey guys, interesting thread ( i know - i haven’t posted in a long time). i’m deployed in the desert right now. should be interesting to see how the climate affects my training.
anyways i was, until recently, a very hard gainer. but now that i’m getting a little older i think my metabolism has been changing. from the ages of 18 - 21 i could eat myself sick and still barely manage to gain any weight… even during very inactive periods. with months of “bulking up” (ex: low cardio, high calorie / high protein diet ) i would barely see more than a 5 pound gain from my normal weight (about 155 - 160 ). Now, at 23, I haven’t been under 175 pounds in a very long time. the weight just kind of crept up on me. whether i’m lazy and fat or lean and active my bodyweight stays between 175 and 185. however 185 seems to be the new plateau because i find it takes a lot of eating and weight training to maintain… and as soon as i stop focusing on it - i go back to the 170’s within a few weeks.
my point? i dunno just blabbering i guess - just thought i would suggest that age should be more carefully considered in regards to mass training and one’s “progress”. as sometimes perhaps people feel they are making huge breakthroughs in their training when in fact it’s just their body deciding to finally “grow up”. at least i think that was the case with me.
well i’ll see if i can hit 190 during the next couple months i’ll be spending here in the desert.
