Hey Meso

[Corteza13]

I am 32M, 330lbs down from 447lbs because of Reta. 6', wide build but short legs long torso, I am still losing weight with reta goal is 240lbs which was my leanest high school weight.
Im not going to lie I am on here to find out how to actually put on some serious muscle. I have worked out for many years before and got strong as hell but my body never had a muscular build before which always frustrated me to no end. At one point my bench was 3 sets of 5 at 485 and I still had man boobs not gyno just titties no hard places just fat. My squat was similar at 4 sets of 8 at 585 but never had big legs I don't really understand how I can be really strong but look like I don't work out.
Anyways sorry for the rant I am going to continue to lose weight and try and put on some muscle but any advice is welcome plus I will still be surfing these forums for inspiration hope everyone is starting off the new year great!

 

[hellerhiwater]

hell yeah dude! welcome!

were you athletic in your youth? how much experience do you have doing intense exercise?

 

[Corteza13]

hell yeah dude! welcome!

were you athletic in your youth? how much experience do you have doing intense exercise?

I did Football, basketball, and track middle school and high school. Played rugby in college so alot of intense exercise I guess did some crossfit in my early 20s and last year I was getting coached by Robest oberst for muscle building but pretty much just turned into strength training until my shoulder went out

 

[hellerhiwater]

alr perfect. i too let myself go and creeped up into the 400s.

i found that the foundation i built earlier in my life was very easily leveraged and i had a much easier time doing literally everything than most other people on the same journey. almost to the point that i basically ignored a lot of the "advice" that was being thrown around.

so i want to preface this by saying i was a weird little 400lb unicorn with a rhr of 60, regular blood pressure, perfectly fine a1c (for years, it finally took a dive toward the end) and lipids that put me at 1/4 the avg risk or whatever the lab results say for the ratio reading. i had my pcp and cardiologist's approval, and was already working with an endo for hypogonadism so my hormones were being watched closely.

here it is: hit it hard. not hard enough to burnout, but find the line and stay there. the time is going to pass anyways, might as well do what you can and see where you're at by the end. sprint to the dumpster when you take the trash out, hammer out a few pushups while waiting for the microwave to finish. just change your brain and pretend you're already where you want to be and life will slowly start to bend in that way. it did for me.

now i said all that bc you said "330lbs down from 447lbs because of Reta"

which idk, glp-1 medications are powerful, but im not sure i buy that all of that weight loss is attributed exclusively to reta. so good job on getting that far. now leverage that athletic youth, get that blood back to flowing, and hit it hard!