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[Captain Corea]

My best lifts (at a body weight of 235lbs)

4 plate bench
7 plate squat
5 1/2 plate dead


Now, I'd be lucky to pick up the bar without the shakes. lol

((and I'm only about 190lbs))

[cubanlord]

[hauwande]

[hauwande]

to the op:

if i wanted to get serious and increase my numbers and i hit the wall like you said you have, i would do the following. and i know what works..

1) stop all cardio.

2) increase my protein intake by 50%.

3)reduce my carb intake.

4) eat sugar immediately before workout. maybe mars bar or snickers.

5) 8 sets: 1 warm up set of 10
1 set of 8
2 sets of 6
1 set of 3
2 sets of max lift.
1 set of 10 again.

i would work out 5-6 days a week. chest and shoulders 1 day, legs and back the next day, arms and everything the third day. but the third day the weight is reduced markedly.

you could add lots of variations as well.

6) i would eat shed loads of food!! understand? shedloads of food. food is very important. i would increase my food intake by 100%.

the idea is to give yourself lots of energy and lift heavy. build up to the max lift up to the last set.

7) MOST IMPORTANT! EVERYTHING WORKS, BUT NOTHING WORKS FOREVER!

ps. but i love cardio, so i wouldnt do it. but what i have said is most of it. any pros can add what they like to what i have said

pps. what i said in #5 is the same for most muscle groups

[poet13]

"4) eat sugar immediately before workout. maybe mars bar or snickers"

I would change that to bananas. They start working so fast is amazing...and without the other crap that a chocolate bar has.

[Captain Corea]

[Cheonmunka]

In my twenties my body weight was 65kg. I benched 85kg. How's that? I thought it was quite alright for a guy who never really got into the weights thing at all.

[beast]

hauwande, respectfully I see your point and I see the error in my words. The point I guess I was trying to make is that there is a huge difference between benching 225lbs and benching 300lbs. I didn't say that a guy is on juice for doing 300. In fact I said that most natural bodybuilders will reach their plateau somewhere between 300 and 380lbs. It doesn't seem like a big jump, but it is. And if someone can do more than that without juice, I said that you might want to be suspicious. It's like Usain Bolt running a 9.8 100 meter dash; there are a lot of guys who regularly run 9.95s, but would give their first born son to run a sub 9.9. Just like you may do your four reps at 225lbs, but you might not be able to ever do three reps at 240lbs no matter how hard you train. I'm not saying that you personally couldn't do that, but the average natural guy who has been weightlifting for years and is in peak form, may not see his bench press increase more than twenty pounds in his lifetime.

[cubanlord]

[Captain Corea]

[Emeliu]

You guys are way too buff, damn. Lets tone it down a bit.

[Bloopity Bloop]

Just a question for those of you who love bulking up: Why?

Do you think it looks good? Does it actually help you in your daily lives? Personally, unless I were a dairy farmer or something, I'd think having that excess mass would only be hassle to both carry around and maintain.

I wouldn't mind, however, maintaining a more cut body, which is what I'm trying to achieve the moment. I used to lift lots of weights and got caught up in getting stronger, but I realized there wasn't any real point. I know I didn't look good, but then again, I was pretty damn overweight then.

I've lost a considerable amount of weight and my six-pack is just beginning to show now. My goal for now is to get cut. I think, for me, that's a lot more satisfying than increasing your weight-lifting capabilities. I'm also interested in mixed martial arts, so I'd like to get a leaner body.

So I'm just curious as to why people love getting so big and bulky.

Obviously, Jay Cutler is an extreme case of bulking up, but he seems out of breath at the end of his S L O W shopping run in which he has his buddy push the cart around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcP66FZxiBI

[Captain Corea]

[Zulethe]

[Captain Corea]