nightmare130
New Member
Hi all, I'm a new visitor somewhat but experienced lifter. Just wanted to introduce myself.
Here's my stats:
Endomorph (if you believe in that type of thing)
5'11"
25 yo
220 lbs
bf%: too much hahahaha
lifting for 5.5 years (minus 6 months of injury)
No AAS use (yet!!!!!!!!! haha)
PR's:
DL: 450lbs
DB BP: 260lbs 6 reps
Squat: 315lbs 5 reps
My lifts are somewhat unimpressive given the time I've spent lifting. My deadlift is ok and I've been making decent progress with it lately. I hope to have it at 500 lbs in the next 6 months. I've only really benched with dumbbells for the majority of my lifting. This has limited the total weight I could do and made progressions difficult because at my gym after 100 lbs the dumbbells go up by 10 lbs which means that the weights can only increase in increments of 20lbs each. The jump from 240 lbs for reps to 260 lbs for reps took awhile. I could probably do 280 once but the jump to 280 for reps will take even longer as I'm currently cutting. My squat has always been the red-headed stepchild of my routine and I've only started doing it again recently. I was only doing deadlifts and front squats for legs at one point haha.
I'm currently on a cut. I follow the ketogenic diet. Trash keto all you want but it has worked for me. I don't plan on saying on it forever though, just until I reach my goal. I started it at 260 lbs and plan to continue until I reach 180 lbs. I think this weight will have me at of 9% body fat. I define 9% body fat as clearly visible abs at all times. If I reach 180 lbs and I'm not at 9% I'll go lower and if I believe I've reached 9% at a weight higher than 180 lbs I'll post a picture on here and let you guys put my ego back in check HAHA. My goal then would be to readjust back to normal diet and maintain my body fat percentage for two months to get my body used to being at a lower body fat percentage. At that point I would like to my first aas cycle, a VERY CLEAN bulk. Emphasis on the very clean part because my body loves being fat. Waiting the two months before the cycle would give my skin a chance to tighten up from being loose from being fat. I'm sure there will still be some extra skin though and because of this I'm thinking first cycle should be something that can pack on muscle size to fill in the extra skin. (I'm not sure if this is realistic though. I'm not expecting all extra skin to be filled but maybe extra muscle can help fill out some of it)
I have maintained my strength for the most part during the first 40 lbs of my cut. It's really frustrating not increasing the weights so I have to keep reminding myself moving the same weights at a lighter weight is still progress. My routine consists of 5 lifting days, Mon-Fri. I do legs, shoulders, back, dealift + shrugs + abs, and then chest. I would summarize my lifting style as a hybrid between power-lifting and bodybuilding. I use a bodypart split similar to bodybuilders but I still put focus on hitting the big three heavy. After doing one of the big three lifts I focus on compound movements in the 6-10 rep range and close with a higher rep range isolation exercise. On the two days that don't include one of the big three I stay in the 6-10 range until the end where I'll do a higher rep isolation exercise.
Thanks for reading my introduction!!!
Here's my stats:
Endomorph (if you believe in that type of thing)
5'11"
25 yo
220 lbs
bf%: too much hahahaha
lifting for 5.5 years (minus 6 months of injury)
No AAS use (yet!!!!!!!!! haha)
PR's:
DL: 450lbs
DB BP: 260lbs 6 reps
Squat: 315lbs 5 reps
My lifts are somewhat unimpressive given the time I've spent lifting. My deadlift is ok and I've been making decent progress with it lately. I hope to have it at 500 lbs in the next 6 months. I've only really benched with dumbbells for the majority of my lifting. This has limited the total weight I could do and made progressions difficult because at my gym after 100 lbs the dumbbells go up by 10 lbs which means that the weights can only increase in increments of 20lbs each. The jump from 240 lbs for reps to 260 lbs for reps took awhile. I could probably do 280 once but the jump to 280 for reps will take even longer as I'm currently cutting. My squat has always been the red-headed stepchild of my routine and I've only started doing it again recently. I was only doing deadlifts and front squats for legs at one point haha.
I'm currently on a cut. I follow the ketogenic diet. Trash keto all you want but it has worked for me. I don't plan on saying on it forever though, just until I reach my goal. I started it at 260 lbs and plan to continue until I reach 180 lbs. I think this weight will have me at of 9% body fat. I define 9% body fat as clearly visible abs at all times. If I reach 180 lbs and I'm not at 9% I'll go lower and if I believe I've reached 9% at a weight higher than 180 lbs I'll post a picture on here and let you guys put my ego back in check HAHA. My goal then would be to readjust back to normal diet and maintain my body fat percentage for two months to get my body used to being at a lower body fat percentage. At that point I would like to my first aas cycle, a VERY CLEAN bulk. Emphasis on the very clean part because my body loves being fat. Waiting the two months before the cycle would give my skin a chance to tighten up from being loose from being fat. I'm sure there will still be some extra skin though and because of this I'm thinking first cycle should be something that can pack on muscle size to fill in the extra skin. (I'm not sure if this is realistic though. I'm not expecting all extra skin to be filled but maybe extra muscle can help fill out some of it)
I have maintained my strength for the most part during the first 40 lbs of my cut. It's really frustrating not increasing the weights so I have to keep reminding myself moving the same weights at a lighter weight is still progress. My routine consists of 5 lifting days, Mon-Fri. I do legs, shoulders, back, dealift + shrugs + abs, and then chest. I would summarize my lifting style as a hybrid between power-lifting and bodybuilding. I use a bodypart split similar to bodybuilders but I still put focus on hitting the big three heavy. After doing one of the big three lifts I focus on compound movements in the 6-10 rep range and close with a higher rep range isolation exercise. On the two days that don't include one of the big three I stay in the 6-10 range until the end where I'll do a higher rep isolation exercise.
Thanks for reading my introduction!!!
