smallguyjoe’s BodyBlog

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

I had gotten 6 reps w/ 315 for the past 2 weeks which was good b/c I had been stuck at 315 x 5 for a good while, but today when I pulled it up a 7th time I was sooooooooo happy!!! I’m gettin stronger!!!! I’m gettin bigger… WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO  

I’m goin for 225 x 9 tomorrow… we’ll see!!! If I just get 8 again I’ll be happy, but I’m really hopin to hit 9. The past couple weeks I’ve done things a bit different, so tomorrow I’m gonna do my origional game plan for gettin the most reps w/ 225… that is:

135 x 5

185 x 5

225 x ? - hopefully 9… last time I did this I got 8 reps

The past 2 Sundays I’ve worked w/ dumbbells on flat bench… last Sunday I did:

db flat press 60’s x 8, 80’s x 8, 100’s x 5, 100’s x 4, 85’s x 7

We shall see what that all has done for my flat bench w/ 225

My incline barbell was stronger this week… 185 x 8 with no spotter… if I had someone behind me I’m sure I could’ve gotten at least 9 w/ no help and maybe 10 w/ minimal help. This is a big improvement for me. Like I said… I’M GETTIN STRONGER!!!!

Wish me luck w/ the 225 x 9 tomorrow

Oh yeah, I also joined this gym - ACAC… it’s super nice… pretty expensive, but I’m gettin a sweet student discount I hope to work there someday, so I’m gettin my foot somewhat in the door.

Ok… I was mainly just estatic about deadliftin 315 x 7

Bye bye  

Well for the time being I’m just gonna resume bulking, but at a slower pace. I’m not exactly sure anymore how much my body needs to gain muscle. I was eating a ton and was gaining strength and size, but I think my body fat was rising too fast. I could be wrong, but whatever. I’m sick of training my butt off and not being ripped and vascular, so I’m not gonna allow myself to get too high in body fat just to make the scale go up.

I had planned on doin 6 week bulks followed by 2 week cuts, but I think before I go that route I’m gonna see how my body responds to just lower calories - not so low that I’m losing weight/strength but I’m gonna experiment to find an amount that my body gains strength well with. I figure if my strength improves every 1-2 weeks then that means i’m eating enough and that my weight should increase at least 1 lb of muscle a month. I could be wrong, but I wanna find out. 

If it turns out that the only way I’ll put on muscle is if I gain all the fat with it then so be it. I just wanna see if I can gain muscle without too much fat. Really I wanna look like I workout all the time. We’ll see how it goes, eh?

The main thing is once my waist gets to 32.5-33 I’m definitely cutting back down to atleast 31. I can’t stand the way I felt when my waist was a 33 last June I aint tryin to look or feel like that again!