mikschu’s BodyBlog

After my last post i looked through the bodyblogs and saw about 50 posts on some dumb fcuking computer game or something.  And I’ve decided, I just want to punch this whole place in the pen1s.

So many changes since I joined up…  I don’t believe in "too much food," especially "too much meat."  There is no magic macronutrient ratio to unlock nirvana, only more food and a gallon of whole milk every day.  Sure as hell couldn’t give 2 ****s for ab definition, and I aim to "go out" to eat an epic meal that I can tell stories about to my grand children, like a war veteran recounting past battles.  This is the only "secret" to packing on pounds of muscle, plus compound movements.

But holy ****, I have never seen strength like this in my life.  No more "I just don’t have good genes" bull****.  It’s just meat, meat, whole milk, 1 apple a day, and barbells.  And I should probably start buying toilet paper at costco.  I feel like I’m running a paper mill in there.

It’s been about 2 months (9 weeks) on Madcow’s linear 5×5.  It’s been pretty good. 

Lifting stats grew as follows:
Squat: 185×3 -> 225 x 3

Bench: 165×3 -> 200×3

bent over row: 165×3 -> 190 x 3 (but I stopped the rows, I’m doing power cleans instead for now.)

Deadlift: 5×247 -> 5x 300

Standing military press: 5×95 -> 5×115

I’ve gained about 10 lbs, I could only do about 6 or 7 pullups at the start and now I can do 10 or 11 on a max effort set.  Not too worried about where the other assistance exercises are (i.e. curls, extensions, yadda yadda).

I’m pretty excited about these gains.  I haven’t sat down to write it out like yet, but now that I see it, it’s pretty huge.  Everything went up by about 21% from the start, that’s a lot for 2 months.  Hopefully I can perpetuate these gains.  I may try deloading and resetting the weight just a tad so I can keep seeing gains.