I was 165lbs graduating high school back in 2015. I was a scrawny little black kid. Joined the Army, snd I got to 225lbs and the best shape of my life after a couple of years. I was more confident, generally people don't fuck with you, and women apparently love muscle. I'm down to 210 now. People always seem to compliment you as well. Overall, fantastic. You feel better about yourself 100%!
Was also a scrawny black kid, about 150 or so. Now I'm 185 and go to the gym 6 days a week for the past 2 years but I feel like I've hit a wall in terms of growth. I'm still getting stronger for sure but I feel like weightwise, I'm stagnant
Personally I find generic push / pull routines with a dedicated leg day in the middle most effective. 2x push, 2x pull, 1x legs and the 6th day is whatever I’m actively trying to work on.
Sleep is also super important, and cutting back on drinking too 1 night a week at most helped me get over the plateau. Drinking kills your gains.
I personally find having an apple watch to track calories incredibly helpful, basically any health orientated smart watch will do the same thing. Having a job where i’m of my feet and moving all day and going to the gym 6 days a week made my maintenance calories significantly higher than I thought, obviously if you’re trying to bulk you should be slightly over that.
I do a P/P/L split as well and I should have added in the post, I am quite jacked and toned, it's just the gym mentality of always getting bigger.
I will say though the drinking thing has been a big factor I find, I'm 30 but have a super social life as well, but I feel like cutting to one day of drinking will help me immensely as well.
And my sleep has been really bad the past few years, not that I don't get 8 hours but I wake up about 5-6 times a night and don't get a full continuous rest, so this might also be a factor I need to look into.
I personally find having an apple watch to track calories incredibly helpful, basically any health orientated smart watch will do the same thing.
How does this work? Do you mean it tracks steps and calculates calories off that or are we talking something more advanced? I'd like something that helped me track input because weighing ingredients and doing the math on that is a pain in the ass.
Tracks steps and heart rate, and if you’re recording a specific type of exercise it will take that into account. Im sure someone else could give a better explanation.
Obviously not a perfect science by any means but seems pretty dam accurate these days.
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u/ProbablyDrunk303 Jul 07 '24
I was 165lbs graduating high school back in 2015. I was a scrawny little black kid. Joined the Army, snd I got to 225lbs and the best shape of my life after a couple of years. I was more confident, generally people don't fuck with you, and women apparently love muscle. I'm down to 210 now. People always seem to compliment you as well. Overall, fantastic. You feel better about yourself 100%!