Showing posts with label muscle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label muscle. Show all posts

Bulking Down

So I've gotten back into my old mindset of wanting to grow my muscles as fast as possible. I've invested a good chunk of my first paycheck on some new supplements, including multivitamins, testosterone enhancers, estrogen suppressors, and these pseudo-steroid-like pills that are going illegal in a few months. So far they are working very well, I feel I've grown a bit already despite having lost weight.

On the gut side of things, I've dropped about 8 pounds now, but I'm no where near trim. I know that I'm never going to be the low-body-fat gym rat I used to be again, and I'm glad for that. I want to have a big, intimidating powerbuilder-look (such as this morphed fellow). I've started a new exercise routine just for that, especially after reading this article on bodybuilding.com. The guy sure knows how to appeal to guys like me with writing like this:

"SO, what is my advice? If you want to get huge and add muscle - so much that people think you're hardcore juicing - GET FAT! It's all going to come off in the on-season anyhow, so who cares? The time for being lean is then, and this is now - winter. This is the time when people wear baggy clothing and plenty of sweaters. Besides, its not like anyone is going to remark about how fat you are - they will be too scared to comment because of your size. Yes - OH YES - you will instill fear in the hearts of men everywhere!"
He suggests to essentially eat like a gainer. Eat a ton, and not just tuna and sweet potatoes and all that, but fattening, complex-carb, sugary junk food too. That's advice I think all gainers could follow.

On a side note, I got in touch with the folks at collegehumor and got the credit for my pictures changed to myself, so now I have a chance to win that contest! Be sure to vote for me when the time comes.

Other Progress

While I'm stuck at the odd weight of 234, I don't want to let this blog join the seemingly millions of dusty unused Blogspot blogs out there. I don't know if you guys care about this, but going back to the gym was a great boost for me. I'm getting absurdly strong with all this protein and calorie intake, and I think I'm growing pretty fast underneath this fat as well. I even did decline situps yesterday and ended up doing almost as much as I could before I put on an extra sixty pounds.

But the reason I'm posting about this is because of how big my arms feel. I remember when I was a kid and I first started thinking about getting bigger. I went down to my father's tool bench and got his tape measurer. Twelve inches, my biceps were at the time. At first it didn't seem too far from "I have 18-inch biceps" big, but it definately became clear that I was really small. And I mean really small.


You could have broken them like a twig.

I hadn't measured my arms until I left for college and started working out all of the time. I was around 15 inches when I started gaining last June, and today I measured again to find I gained an entire inch! With a good pump, I could flex 16 and half, complete with unsightly stretch marks.



While I'm still far from my goal (anything over 20 inches, mm mm~), I think I've proven to myself that I do have the genetics for growing muscle, despite how much trouble my body gave me back then. I'm not going to just be a fat guy. The belly might always be the first thing people notice, but I'll have big surprises up my sleeves.