OcUK Health Seekers: Post your progress pics

^TANK^ · 16 Oct 2012 at 22:05

zuludawn said:
It has it place in Body building and power lifting i got no beef with it, been there done that, im against the new trend of taking for short term gain culture which is increasing ten fold. FFS at least do some kind of squat in a gym lol. Gear works best with dead lift and squats that's what gets you thickness, try telling then that.

DevilsAdvocate · 17 Oct 2012 at 08:13

Latest offering from me. Dropped about 6KG over the last few months and feeling much better for it! Currently sat at 76KG.

Tefal · 20 Oct 2012 at 23:04

Fat starting to come off my belly for the first time in about 4 years

Of course immediately after taking that photo I've eaten half a litre of ice cream :

Any good tips on building top of chest? My incline press is very poor seems my shoulder fails.before my chest gets properly worked.

Delvis · 20 Oct 2012 at 23:33

Just keep hammering it mate really...are you doing incline before flat or?

Looking good anyway, how much you trying to cut?

Tefal · 20 Oct 2012 at 23:46

Incline after flat and decline, flat is currently 85kg gonna try 87.5kg or 90kg this week but incline is barely 40kg.

Yeah will.keep doing it till shoulders improve so I can start loading chest better but would.like to hear of any thing that might let me start targeting that area sooner, also do incline flys every so often and cable crossoveres.

No set amount really, ideally cut till abbs show then a lean bulk if I can.

icecold · 20 Oct 2012 at 23:52

Sort out the internal rotation in your shoulders, it will allow you to use your pecs more giving them more opportunity to grow properly.

Tefal · 20 Oct 2012 at 23:56

Interesting, how'd I go about doing that? I've been doing shoulder.dislocations with a broom.handle to try and. Help my slouching posture.

on phone btw, kept hitting . Instead of space

icecold · 21 Oct 2012 at 00:02

Check the mobility thread, loads of stuff about it in there.

Work on your lats and thoracic mobility too... hey presto, better posture.

Tefal · 21 Oct 2012 at 00:35

Cheers man looks good, years of crappy posture and sitting at a desk like a retarded cat have really screwed my shoulders up but they e been getting a lot better lately.

Edit: oh yeah weighing around 88.6kg atm

Cristian · 23 Oct 2012 at 01:47

Need to get it wider

mrthingyx · 23 Oct 2012 at 06:30

Looking very thick, Cristian: and moar width is never a bad thing!

Delvis · 23 Oct 2012 at 08:51

Cristian you beast.

I'll never forgive you for throwing weight around like it's a piece of paper.

LiE · 23 Oct 2012 at 08:59

Looking good mate. It's all about dat back.

iamtheoneneo · 23 Oct 2012 at 09:36

so im into my second month at the gym trying to build some decent muscle/mass whatever really, i dont need to lose weight maybe a little BF but i have good tone throughout my body (just no six pack yet)....I have been pretty much exclusively sticking to dumbell excerises, some cardio and cable machines.
I hear that the heavy lifting is the way to go but I go to a gym thats busy 99% of the time and me trying out stuff like that for the first time is pretty daunting - any tips or just better to get a personal trainer for a few sessions?

unfortunately my bro is a competing bodybuilder so he cant really help due to work etc, which would have been the most ideal scenario.

mrthingyx · 23 Oct 2012 at 09:40

Depends on the PT - they can be utterly useless or even downright dangerous in certain instances, so just be careful and go with one who has a good reputation.

If you want mass, you will have to lift big weight: end of. And eat like a horse, too.

Cutting BF is will generally require a calorie deficit, but weight training is still the way to go.

Delvis · 23 Oct 2012 at 09:47

I found just going in the gym and getting on with it the best thing. I usually train at a gym by myself as im the only one who uses it onsite practically. However I worked elsewhere over summer at a commercial gym, and the first couple of sessions were pretty daunting as I just wasn't used to training with other people, you'll relax soon enough and realise unless your hyper-extending like a mofo on every exercise, people really wont care

iamtheoneneo · 23 Oct 2012 at 10:04

thanks I think il just stick to what im doing then with the dumbbells/small bars and getting the weights up and slowly inch my way towards the big boys area over the next few months.

i physically cant eat like a horse unfortunately , i have a fast metabolism and stuffing my face full of food makes me gag :/

Delvis · 23 Oct 2012 at 10:12

Well, you need food buddy, end of

MoNkeE · 23 Oct 2012 at 10:21

I know that feel neo, really struggling with the sheer amount of food I have to eat atm. It's literally leaving me with zero appetite, having to force feed myself

Steedie · 23 Oct 2012 at 10:30

iamtheoneneo said:
i have a fast metabolism and stuffing my face full of food makes me gag :/

I'd say you have a slow metabolism, if you had a fast metabolism, you'd have no problem eating a truck load of food