The Fitness Thread

[Arch0wl]

sexy arch0wl pictures coming in about a week

[Jerry DB]

Originally Posted by Senip

Thank god for foam rollers.

This times 1000

[PriestREA]

started again slowly at the gym again today - hurt my shoulder at rugby yesterday so i've been fairly light with my workout

yes, i know - not a lot of muscle but I'll get there

[Reach]

165-166

Almost there

Quad striations for days.

Lightening up on my diet pretty hard at this point, I don't even want to drop much more. Gonna slowly taper things down over the next 2 weeks and then transition into a bulk

[Renevatia]

yeah..dropped it down to 3-4 day weights 1 day cardio
143lbs now...never weighed this much my whole life lol...

[Rubin0]

5'4 135lb female, mostly muscle weight. Rock climb 2-3 times a week, cycle to work regularly, hiking whenever I can, run occasionally to keep my cardio up. Fairly physical job. I'm in great shape.

Oh hayy.

[albaneenesk8r]

5'11 168 pounds about 7.2% body fat. Do nothing but play video game... sit on the couch and be awesome at nothing =D

[Reincarnate]

Originally Posted by Rubin0

5'4 135lb female, mostly muscle weight. Rock climb 2-3 times a week, cycle to work regularly, hiking whenever I can, run occasionally to keep my cardio up. Fairly physical job. I'm in great shape.

Oh hayy.

Long time no see!

[Jerry DB]

Originally Posted by albaneenesk8r

5'11 168 pounds about 7.2% body fat. Do nothing but play video game... sit on the couch and be awesome at nothing =D

I doubt you could be awesome at nothing. Pics or it didn't happen

[Rubin0]

Originally Posted by Reincarnate

Long time no see!

Hi! I randomly decided to log in and after attempting to play a single round of FFR, I realized why I gave it up. I suck!

Hope all is well

[Arch0wl]

The cut is finally over. 185 --> 140.

I cut really, really hard at first. In the first two months most of what I lost could be accounted for by glycogen/water loss. In December I did a beast mode run of about 15lb. Since December it's been about 4lb/month and in the final month, it was closer to 2lb/month.

The cut actually ended in mid to late April, but I kept going to see if I could lose any more body fat. I couldn't. It was especially frustrating to end the cut because I still have some stubborn love handle fat that's left over from when I was an obese kid.

I'm not kidding about "fat left over from childhood" by the way. I used to be the 2nd- or 3rd- fattest kid at my school, see:



And until now, this was the leanest I had ever been:



So some of that fat is still there. But I've been approaching diminishing returns on this cut.

The bulk I did prior to this was for about five months and I probably put on about 8lb of muscle, but I definitely lost a few pounds of muscle from cutting so hard. Probably about 3-4lb. It was a really dirty bulk; past attempts at bulking haven't been very effective because I didn't eat enough calories, so I went in excess to the detriment of what I'd have to do during the cut.

So anyway, I promised sexy arch0wl pics.



This one is mostly for abs and exaggerated lighting:



And one last thing. I dug up an old chat log, eight months ago, where I said:

when you get back I just want to say
that I sincerely hope I in any way resemble http://i.imgur.com/xDGSj.jpg this guy after being leaned out

I've had that picture in a "body inspiration" folder for quite some time. I first saw the picture when my girlfriend at the time had found it on a "hot guys" tumblr. I wasn't sure if I could ever look like that. I'm not sure how close I got, but I feel really accomplished either way:



Definitely the leanest I've ever been in my entire life.

I'm going to lean bulk next time. But more importantly, even a lean bulk is still a bulk.

This is how I feel right now: http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3un4vf/

[Jerry DB]

looking lean as fawk arch0wl. Nice work

[albaneenesk8r]

so that's what arch0wl looks like

[SCWolf]

Originally Posted by Arch0wl

The cut is finally over. 185 --> 140.

I cut really, really hard at first. In the first two months most of what I lost could be accounted for by glycogen/water loss. In December I did a beast mode run of about 15lb. Since December it's been about 4lb/month and in the final month, it was closer to 2lb/month.

The cut actually ended in mid to late April, but I kept going to see if I could lose any more body fat. I couldn't. It was especially frustrating to end the cut because I still have some stubborn love handle fat that's left over from when I was an obese kid.

I'm not kidding about "fat left over from childhood" by the way. I used to be the 2nd- or 3rd- fattest kid at my school, see:



And until now, this was the leanest I had ever been:



So some of that fat is still there. But I've been approaching diminishing returns on this cut.

The bulk I did prior to this was for about five months and I probably put on about 8lb of muscle, but I definitely lost a few pounds of muscle from cutting so hard. Probably about 3-4lb. It was a really dirty bulk; past attempts at bulking haven't been very effective because I didn't eat enough calories, so I went in excess to the detriment of what I'd have to do during the cut.

So anyway, I promised sexy arch0wl pics.



This one is mostly for abs and exaggerated lighting:



And one last thing. I dug up an old chat log, eight months ago, where I said:



I've had that picture in a "body inspiration" folder for quite some time. I first saw the picture when my girlfriend at the time had found it on a "hot guys" tumblr. I wasn't sure if I could ever look like that. I'm not sure how close I got, but I feel really accomplished either way:



Definitely the leanest I've ever been in my entire life.

I'm going to lean bulk next time. But more importantly, even a lean bulk is still a bulk.

This is how I feel right now: http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3un4vf/

Looks like a successful cut dude, good job. You can easily put on a lot of lean mass if you just watch your calories, but I'm sure you know what you're doing.

Good luck!

[mnnicol]

Shoutout to WC for telling me about this thread

Also, been a while, Rubix. How's your workout coming along?

And here's me now at 203 lbs (92 kgs):

[Renevatia]

Damn o.o
How tall?

Originally Posted by mnnicol

Shoutout to WC for telling me about this thread

Also, been a while, Rubix. How's your workout coming along?

And here's me now at 203 lbs (92 kgs):

[mnnicol]

Originally Posted by Renevatia

Damn o.o
How tall?

6 ft (183 cm)

[Reach]

Wat. 203 lbs at that height and bf?

Years training? Goals? Any gear?


I finished cutting about a week ago. Back to the bulk life for the time being. Might throw a small cut into the middle of the summer somewhere to stay lean for now but otherwise 9 months of mass gain ahead.

[mnnicol]

Originally Posted by Reach

Wat. 203 lbs at that height and bf?

Years training? Goals? Any gear?


I finished cutting about a week ago. Back to the bulk life for the time being. Might throw a small cut into the middle of the summer somewhere to stay lean for now but otherwise 9 months of mass gain ahead.

- Training: Nearing 3 years (taken only 6 or 7 months off during that time period)
- Goal: look like a sick kunt
- Gear: I'm Natty4Lyfe (srs)

Gym bathroom lighting is pretty epic and I combined that with Instagram, so cheating a bit. I'd put myself around 10-11% BF.

Starting up the reverse diet today. Will be adding 150 cals to every day of this week (2480 cals on rest days, 2820 cals on training days) and see how that goes. Maintenance is around 3300 cals, so should be able to drop a bit more BF while upping cals

[Reincarnate]

Haha good to see you around, mnnicol. Those pics are amazing. :O

Unfortunately I've totally fallen off the wagon and I don't work out now or count calories, etc. Weight's still between 220-230, 30%+ bf. Womp womp womp.

I got frustrated because I basically had no idea wtf I was doing in the gym. It doesn't matter what guides I read: I had/have no confidence or certainty in anything I select, and so eventually I give up.

Tried getting a gym membership but quit after a couple months because I couldn't get past the feelings of self-consciousness (that and too many staff members there tried to sell me stuff all the time whenever I'd ask a question, and it got annoying). Squats were also the death of me. Hours of practice wasted: No matter what I tried I absolutely could not get the form right. Even with the bar alone (no extra weight) I couldn't pump out 8 reps, and yet it'd cripple my quads with absurd DOMS for four days straight.

I'd like to get back into it but my in-house gym is limited (shoulder incline bench, bicep curl, tricep pushdown, low row, lat pulldown, leg extension, leg curl, dumbbells), and I have absolutely no clue what a good workout routine would be for me. Any recs?