Before
6'7" 185 lbs
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Before and after gaining 50 lbs on Starting Strength
Before
6'7" 185 lbs
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After
Bodyweight 235 lbs
looking a bit thin there pal, a man of your stature should weigh 270 lbs minimum
>it all went into his gut and 0 in the arms
Honestly I'd kill someone
My chest, shoulders, and back got quite a bit bigger. This used to be a loose fitting dress shirt and I'm bursting out of it.
But you gained a gut, 0 arms, and I can see your double chin in this pic
Here's a better pic of my chin. I don't think its bad at all. I definitely gained some belly fat. Part of it is my stomach and intestines are full of food because I eat a lot more.
Ok, so what would you like? Validation, advice...?
Yeah, advice actually. How do I get big arms. I'm tired of squats.
Do built like a badass from the sticky
you need to do tricep extensions and bicep curls if you want big arms.
The things SS does not train:
back
arms as a whole
legs as a whole (unless you are lucky and naturally squat properly, most people shart and gwt injured)
i would prescribe lat pulldowns, knee extensions, hamstring curls, tricep extensions and bicep curls
>The things SS does not train:
>back
Wait what. For real? Why would an "expert" not add back exercises to its routine. It's moronic and unhealthy even
I'm sure it's validation. He's coping to hard and it sounds like he hasn't come to terms with his new disgusting body
I like my body just fine. It's better to be strong. When I was skinny I had constant problems with my mid and low back and those have all cleared up since I strengthened my back and hips.
I really used to enjoy looking at my abs in the mirror but trying to keep the abs and gain strength was impossible. If I wanted the abs back I could cut, easily, but I don't want to lose strength.
You look skinnyfat
>but I'm hitting my numbers
You look skinnyfat.
I did chins fir 3 months and got bigger arms lol.
>SS
>chest and shoulders a little bigger
>legs way bigger
>rest of the body is about the same just fatter
This sounds about right. Stop the meme shit. Do a bodybuilding routine instead of a strength routine if your goal is to get big
I don't believe you, OP. I think is how you started and
is how you ended, and you just did cardio to lose the fat. Why would you post such a thread?
>Do a bodybuilding routine instead of a strength routine if your goal is to get big
What is the difference? Serious question
Then how do I have a bunch of clothes that are too small?
You think I could fit in 34" waist pants?
That doesn't refute my point.
Other than the pic of me in a shirt that no longer fits because it is too small. Do I need to post a pic trying on those pants too?
Post physique with visible timestamp
Ok
I stand corrected. I thought you were trolling.
Holy frick, I was sure this was a troll where you switched the before and after pics. Black person you are a fat moron, better luck next life.
The aim of a strength routine is to get better at movement patterns. The muscles being worked are of no consequence so long as you can move as much weight as possible. It also means that movements are trained more like skills and you'll practice them. They're great for getting very strong but they don't build much size. A bodybuilding routine by contrast divides the body into individual muscles and focuses on targeting each of those muscles each week. The goal of a bodybuilding program is to cause lots of fatigue to a muscle in a strength-endurance manner which forces a muscle to get bigger. Your strength in a movement pattern isn't as important as how much fatigue with adequately heavy weight (failure at 8-20 reps typically) a muscle can handle. No movement is mandatory because of this and there tends to be a lot of exercise variety in a bodybuilding program. These programs also build some strength but not nearly as much as they build muscle size.
>What is the difference?
You're being memed. Lift for strength but make sure you eat right. You'll get bigger.
>starting "strength"
>strength
hm its not called starting aesthetics i wonder why
The first pic is after, the second is before, you can easily tell it from the file name because the fatter pic ends with 720 while the leaner one ends with 912.
OP is just a mentally ill subhuman trying to bait people because he’s mad he’s small and weak.
Ok autists: I cropped the first picture (which is older) to remove my face then saved it as a copy. I had already taken and cropped the newer picture. The filenames are irrelevant. I also posted a timestamp pic in my current body. You guys are schizos.
Ok I didn’t see that pic. That certainly shows that you got fat. But that doesn’t have anything do with your lifting program, whether you were doing SS or whatever.
That’s at least 1-2 years of weight gain, you probably weren’t even training at all but decided to just make a thread to troll. Again that shit is just mentally ill.
Another victim of SS+GOMAD
Women would prefer this over a jacked manlet any day. It’s over
Then why did he get a divorce?
My ring stopped fitting.
>6ft7
You'll never look muscular without roids. Accept it and move on
u can look skinny and still frame mogg vast majority people
>pic related King of Denmark 6'7" dyel mode and would still size mogg 99%+ of people who lift today
He looks like absolute dogshit
Post your body next to his for c comparrison
Look about the same
kek, wtf is that physique
>got fat
Yup, another one fell for it
Wife left you because you got fat?
He got too fat for the ring.
That's not how wedding rings work, your fat grows around the ring
thick, solid, tight.
Switch to the greyskull lp. Add barbell rows, chinups, bicep curls and tricep extensions to your program and give it about two months.
Will look great when you cut
Oh no no no no
It made you skinnyfaaaaat!
hahahahah holy shit rip bozo
We got 'im
bro how did you think that was a good idea
>Filenames
Nice larp OPiss
I explained this. I cropped the "before" image and saved it as a copy which is why the date is later than the after.
did you really get divorced?
Bench went from 135x5 to 225x5
Squat from 155x5 to 275x5
Deadlift from 185x5 to 365x5.
You all made fun of me and called me Skeletor and said I was Auschwitz mode and looked like a daddy long legs. Is this better?
you do not bench 225x5 lol
225 isnt that much. frick zoomers are weak.
Im a millenial. 225 is a lot more than 135 which is what I could bench when I was skinny. I'd love to get to 3 pl8 on the bench but at the rate I'm going to do that I would need to weigh over 300 lbs and I'm not sure I want to do that for several reasons.
What about your press numbers? You forgot to mention them
My press went from 95x5 to 130x5.
How do i get to 6 7?
this has to be a larp
You think someone else is posting these pictures of me in my bathroom?
I wish I had a better before pic of my legs. They were just sticks before and my hamstrings just attached directly into my low back. I had no glutes or quads at all.
From a fellow tall used to be skeletor, lemme give you some advice on how to lift when tall. Stop worrying about what you lift. Focus on hypertrophy. Get a good workout that you are sore as hell from. Use higher reps and stop the low rep nonsense as you more than likely have way more type 2A fibers than 2B because you are tall. 10-12 rep range upper body, legs use 20 reps. Diet and drop the fat. Never bulk over 10-12 pounds without dieting as your testosterone drops with the body fat. Get your vitamin D blood level checked to up your testosterone.
Thanks man. My bench has stalled and I was thinking of switching from sets of 5 to sets of 10. I am actually open to advice.
>Sets of 5
>Sets of 10
What is this shit. Just push as much weight as you can as many times as you can and move up as often as you can. If you are "doing sets of 5" and after the 5th one is finished and you can do more you should do more. You should go to absolute failure or near it every single fricking set if your goal is to lift more.
>lift to failure
I lift to failure all the time. There aren't any of my work sets where after a heavy set of five I could get another rep.
So they become fat like you?
Going to failure is only necessary when you train for strength-endurance.
Also how do you measure hypertrophy progress? One encouraging thing about SS is measurable improvement over time.
look in the mirror. Lifting more weight / doing more reps on machines.
95% of my gym is filled with the same exact failures. Dudes using strength as a benchmark of progress instead of a tape measure. Too worried about their next set resting, they forget about challenging the body. Strength gains don’t always mean muscle gains. Tons of videos of smaller dudes beating bigger bodybuilders arm wrestling. But it’s fun to brag about lifts no one cares about. You know what’s really fun? Being the biggest mother fricker in the room in reality. If you workout legs, you hit legs so damn hard you can’t walk. You gotta get sadistic and design a workout that truly sucks to do. Worry about what the weights are doing to the legs. No more long winded rest periods. Go for soreness the next day. I do abs between every set if I must rest longer than 20-30 seconds. If it’s not abs, it’s calves, or shrugs. You cannot overtrain them. Your goal is to beat the ever loving shit out of yourself. Watch street workouts on YouTube, watch their tempo on sets and train like that.
I’m too tall also, where do you buy clothes?
American tall stuff lasts 3 wears and tallslim tees hold up but are boring
Pants are easy. 36" inseam is not hard to find. I'm always looking for shirts with enough length in the torso and I haven't ever really found any tbh. They're always too short.
just do a 3-day bro split why do strength tards always complicate everything. chest-tris, back-bis, legs-shoulders. every day. never stop. never bulk. never cut. eat what you want.
This but I would rest every 4th day (maybe even more if you need it) and I would do push - legs - pull - rest -repeat so that you aren't doing push/pull back to back ever (your shoulders will hold you back getting worked hard in both)
Track and log your weight/number of reps for your lifts and increase reps until you can increase weight etc . Going in and doing 100000x reps nowhere near failure is dumb as frick
>gaining 50lbs
did you run ss for 3 years or are you just a fricking moron?
Time to cut OP, also do more arms
>more arms
this, i hit biceps every single day because mine grow like fricking dog shit. my arms look like lopsided turkey drumsticks and i finally understand rich pianas pain of having completely fricked lopsided alien arms
Looking good
why did you gain that much weight lol
He did GOMAD
Rippetoe told me to gain 100 lbs and that was my original goal but I'm starting to re-evaluate that.
I gained 50 pounds because I wanted to get stronger. I lifted for years trying to keep my 6 pack abs and made no progress at aa.
I did starting strength because I wanted to get stronger, and I did that. I'm debating of where to go from here and I'm open to input.
>SS doesn't train back
This is totally false. The Deadlift, Squat, Powercleans, and weighted chins all train the back. My back has gotten much stronger and my quality of life has improved as a result.
>SS makes you fat and unshapely
So what's the opposite, that makes you fit and shapely? High rep, high volume?
How long did you train for this?
About a year and a half.
Looking thick solid tight
This is awesome anon. Thanks.
NP
That's because I tried to mimic the exact pose and position of the original pic.
Posture is now terrible, need to stretch your hip flexors a lot.