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210, I'm a collegiate rower, so I spend a lot of time doing deadlift and squat, and I really don't bench for half the year. I'm 6' 175lb

 

Jk

 

Shit, I'm 6'1 170 and squat 225 deadlift 295 and bench 175. But those are all 2-3 reps. I don't know my 1rep maxes. So you've got me beat big time. I just started regularly working out recently though

 

You'll get there man, I've been lifting for about 6 years now, just keep at it.

 

I didn't start until I was 22 (turning 27 this year). I lose sleep thinking about the gainz I abandoned for those 22 years.

 

me too! If I could go back, I'd be IIFYM'ing and lifting at 12 years old!

 

I wish I new just a fraction of what I know now back in high school.

I took a "weight training" class sophomore year, so I would've been 15ish. I probably weighed about 120 back then. I remember spending the whole semester trying to bench 135 and how awesome it felt when I finally got it. It was my first class of the day so I would wake up slam a red bull and go. I took another weight lifting class senior year of college. I was weighing 155 and we could only get an A if we could bench our body weight 10x. I did it but it was the hardest thing and I also racked the bar wrong and had a 45 and 5 on one said and a 45 and a 10 on the other. Luckily the teacher only saw the right side so he thought it was 155. I was such a weenie. Somehow my now wife still dated me back then and stayed with me. Must've seen the potential I had.

 

haha same here man. When me and my wife met, I was scrawny and lanky and she had gained the freshman 15 lol....we were both skin and bones in high school. We both started working out our 2nd-3rd year in college and have been ever since lol. I could never go back. I was seriously like 135-140 lbs from about 13-19. Now, I'm at 205-210 and I love it (minus a little fat that needs to disappear). I don't see what she saw in me lol b/c when I look back at old pics, I'm like "what a little bitch." Maybe this is it:

 

I took weight training in high school. All 4 years. Freshman year I benched 95 lbs. might have weighed 120-130. Graduated at 140 lbs and benched 225, power cleaned 225, squatted 300. Lightly worked out in college, but i hated it. Never tried. Then I took 4 years off of lifting...

 

Damn. I never did anything until college. I remember when I was like 15-16 my cousin got a weight bench for Christmas and I couldn't do 95 lbs. I was definitely not alpha in high school lol

 

managed to finally feel better, finish moving and get back to a normal routine. Had a very predictability disappointing day on chest. Me and my training partner both had the same amount of time off, sickness and bullshit so we had a good match. Warmed up on 230, jumped to 280, went to 320 and did 7 reps x 5 on 320 then 5x5 on 320. It really didn't feel good and felt like a metric ton but we pushed through it.

@zacharypaul89 We are going to start the 10x10x10x3 hypertrophy conditioning training phase next week. Im gonna see if i can cut down 5-10 pounds of fat to make it easier for my next weight in.

 

I started lifting in 2005 when I was 17 probably weighed 120. I was going off and on and I didn't know what I was doing. 10 years later I'm still skinny and don't look like I lift. Awwfuk

 

Listening to some FGL in honor of Zach right now.

 

Dude, don't off yourself. I know you probably want to if you're listening to that. It's not worth it.

 

you're like the ripped-est dude in this thread

He's not going to have a chance to off himself, because I'm going to murder him. Fuck bro-country!

 

I want like 15 more lbs of muscle and low bf and I'll he happy. That's entering the natty line.

1. Big
2. Lean
3. Natty

You can only have two of three.

 

I was at 169.2lbs this morning on the scale. I clinched hard trying to hit 170. I've never been that heavy before. I always say I'd like to be 185 but I think I would have to give up too much BF on my frame and I'd rather stay where I am around 10%. I'll just keep doing what I do and see where that takes me

 

Yea my goal is to be around 185 but with the same bf I have when I'm 165 lol. It's gonna be a while lol.

 

I'll take a #1 with a side of #2 please. I wish I could be both big and lean.

Here's a chart from nattyornot.com that shows the average LBM you can achieve naturally:

Height

6′ 2″ (188cm) - 197lbs (89kg)

6′ 1″ (185cm) - 190lbs (86kg)

6′ (183cm) - 184lbs (83.5kg)

5′ 11″ (180cm) - 177lbs (80kg)

5′ 10″ (178cm) - 170lbs (77kg)

5′ 9″ (175cm) - 163lbs (74kg)

5′ 8″ (173cm) - 156lbs (71kg)

5′ 7″ (170cm) - 149lbs (68kg)

5′ 6″ (168cm) - 142lbs (65kg)

5′ 5″ (165cm) - 135lbs (62kg)

Source: How Big Can You Get Naturally Without Steroids

I'm 5'11'' and it says the most LBM I can get is 177 lbs. According to the bb.com LBM calculator, at 5'11'', 205 lbs and 16% bf, I'm at 172 lbs of LBM. Only 5 more to go and then it's needle time!

 

I am over natty at 5'9". Weird.