Bulk Day Fifteen: PRECISION

Oh my. I can't believe it but I hit EXACTLY 72.0 kg today!! Wow. This result is a complete success. And this 15 day blogging was not for nothing. Damn, call it lucky, but I was 99% on planned diet and this 4 kg bulk was all hard work! Woo!! Now, now now. The big question. Bulk or cut. I don't wanna make it some huge dilemna. I should know myself, I should follow what I feel. It can go either way. My two options are: 1) Cut to 71 kg (-1 kg) for leanness and vascularity. Pros: More ripped, more aesthetic, obviously Cons: Might lose hard earned arm size/muscle. 2) Continue Bulk to 74 kg (+2 kg) for bigger mass Pros: Increase overall size, easier for cut later Cons: Look bulky/fat, not so aesthetic (temporary) Obviously for the long term it's good to go for option 2. But I've only a few weeks...

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Bulk Day Fourteen: OVERCOME

Shit is always gonna happen and people will always somehow ruin your plans either on purpose or inadvertently but you just have to be strong willed and carry on what your supposed to do. Seems like I'm back to very slow progress again. After the sudden breakthrough (few days ago), I am beginning to find it annoying that I'm not gaining much. I also have a feeling that I've lost weight. Who knows. But whatever it is tomorrow is a confirm cardio day because I need to lose some fats. Chin up work out just now. Quite disappointing, 9 overhand and 5 underhand. I am still not there yet. Muscle fatigue is not an excuse. By the end of the month I should hit 10 clean (overhand) and 8 (underhand). Quite tempted to gym today but never mind. Better be at 100% tomorrow since it's gonna be a hard back...

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Bulk Day Thirteen: PUMPED

I've just finished ANNNOTHER arms workout. This is what I do on alt nights at home: 30 mins, bb burl 3 set, bis curl 3 set, push up 120, tris 3 sets. BB/DB replaced with heavy-ass bags. All done with very little rest time, accompanied by loud music. Totally effective, my arms totally have the feeling of exploding after the work out. The PUMP! I'm really curious what my weight is now. It's hovering around 71 - 72 but I gotta be sure. Did I drop, did I gain?? Guess I'll only know for sure come Friday. Since I'll have spotter on Fri, tml gym is postponed to Fri. So probably will do another chin up/dips session below my house. When I wear some of my old shirts now, eg Istana shirt, I can feel the arms taking up more space. It's giving me the tight feeling now, especially so after a fierce arm...

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Bulk Day Twelve: PROPORTIONS

Since the last time I was critique on tric>delt I've been more self-conscious about proportions. Now that I see closely and from different angles my delts is really quite small and looks like it can't hold my arms. Then the upper part of my biceps is so weird, like it's flat. Wth. Maybe I'm thinking too much but I'm so gonna focus on biceps now because I want the swollen mountain look instead of flat. Today marked the first time I hit the gym alone in a few weeks. Went to JE instead of pioneer simply because I wanted the privacy. Moreover JE gym had all the facilites I needed for my workout today. In the end turned out great, tough I didn't dare to push heavy, I focused on endurance (ie more reps) for the definition. Lats/chest/biceps all worked to 90% today. Good session. After which...

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Bulk Day Eleven: SILENCE

Woah, it's day ELEVEN already?! I think I should blog every time I set a new target because it just makes time pass so quickly. Another boring day at home. Boring ie online most of the time and no social contact. But I did what I was supposed to do today, and that was to eat right and do my pull ups. Right now I am back to 10 clean overhands, but I needed to put in max effort. I have to train more so that I can really do 10 perfect, clean pull ups with less than 100%. For pull ups it's better to do perfect ones than to struggle and cheat yourself. Was kind of lacking in food today. My chicken had only 6 pcs left, and I didn't have anything else to replace. Hesitated a while but decided to head to Sheng Siong to get some cheap tuna. It's better than buying another meal, like YTF or rice which...

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Bulk Day Ten: INSATIABLE

Finally, finally today when I went to the gym I saw some concrete improvement in my overall mass! I don't know why, seems like everything finally clicked! All my efforts until have not been wasted at all. Just after 1month18days I have become bigger and my strength have increased. Yea... But still, this is no where near my goal. It's a HUGE stepping stone though, but ain't no way the Lab gonna stand on his laurels. I've gotta keep giving myself new targets and new challenges like these to keep on improving, no matter the circumstances or context. I don't wanna go in uni, and really downward spiral like how everyone around me predicts I will. I will find a way to squeeze in STUDY, play AND GYM. It will be tiring but I'd rather be busy than slack anymore. I have rotted for 2 years in army,...

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Bulk Day Nine: BUFFET

Woah almost forget to blog today. No gym today, postponed to tomorrow. Today full of epic eating was done! Went to buffet town @ raffles city for lunch. It was gonna be some epic meat intake from the get go. The variety was not bad. Lots of meat, chicken, fish, pork, beef, I liked. Tried to choose as little carbs as possible and I think I succeeded. Didn't take all e junk (ice cream, cake, dessert) either which is good. Lots of MEAT, chicken (skin removed of course), dory fish, beef (which sucked), satay, some sweet potato, some spaghetti, and a lot more stuff I can't remember. But lots of chicken and fish woo yea. Epic bulk deserves an EPIC MEAL TIME! After which cooked more chicken breast at home, plus more chicken for dinner. Mmmm, good ol' chicken. I can't accurately judge how much...

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Bulk Day Eight: HABIT

Freaking shag now. Just completed some push ups and curls randomly. I think if I want big arms I don't need to shun away from curling, just that I cannot emphasize on it. In other words I must do compound (priority) plus curl a lot (ie be a curlbro). So, habit. I gotta make all these a habit in order to succeed. Things like waking up 6am in the morning for first meal. Or cooking myself. Or doing push up when I don't want to. So today was basically one of days horrific days where everything went wrong. So I don't really want to post anything. My diet is still ok, but I do feel a bit guilty eating fried rice for my carbs just now. A cardio session is in order come Sunday. Ok, I'm bloated, my arms are crying, I'm tired and my hair is shiet. Protein intake: ~233g ?? ...

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Bulk Day Seven: PROGRESS

Ok it's day 7 already. Another week has gone by and my weight has increased again. Is it too fast? Currently 71 kg. No, I'm not binging and fattening myself up my diet has been quite strict and ain't no way, no chance I'll binge back to 'fat' mode. The growth is all on the upper body. Gym session as usual, good workout, pushed biceps hard today. I can't believe I'm being scrutinized for forearm bigger than deltoid =.= but now that I think of it it's really kinda weird and I have to start isolating the delts before I turn into grovyle =.=. Oh, yea THURSDAY is a wonderful day to go gym! Good music, good 'scenery', no kids/arrogant people, lesser people than usual. As I said my weight taken this morning after gym was 71.1kg already. It's good progress since one month 15 days ago when I started....

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Bulk Day Six: STUFFED

Argh!! It's so difficult to eat so much!! Everyday lots of milk, lots of tofu and lots of MEAT. I need so much MEAT. But it's tough to eat so much. Sometimes, no most of the times when I can't keep on schedules and stuff everything at night, I really feel like vomiting. (Like now.) Sigh...But never mind, in order to achieve this, any hardship is worth it. Rest day today, back really feeling it as usual. Tomorrow will be doing chest/B/biceps and we have to hit it HARD to make up for Saturday's disappointing session. I Think I'm finally gonna start work, for real? Went for the interview today, and turns out this is just another one of those CNY jobs that is so rampant currently. Was mislead about the freaking pay! It stated $9/hr for 14th and after but when I clarified, they said it will...

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Bulk Day Five: IMPROVEMENT

Hi blog I'm finally here for today's post.. So today had a great Gym session, working the back/shoulders/tris. Managed to once again, Improve my DL (now @ 77.5kg/5 reps). Also, switched from seated shoulder press to seated military press today, and it was much tougher. Could only go max @ 9kg each side, which shows how weak my shoulders are. Thats why it's so tough, so many different body parts to train, no wonder it's called 'bodyBUILDing". In the case of cutting, you only need to care about losing on thing and that's fats but for this, zzzzzz is all I can say. Also, the superset of close grip bench press+lying triceps extensions was very very effective, because I was working both aerobic and anaerobic sides. Diet on track also, but it swear there's quite a bit of fats in also. It's ok,...

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Bulk Day Four: STAGNANT

Ah, it's day four already. I guess I started at a good timing, since time is just flying by so quickly. It's been an extremely uneventful few days, but I'm glad I've been able to keep my diet strong. Today was a good example of eating everything on time and eating the right stuff. Eggs, bread, YTF, chicken (loads of chicken), rice, soy, whey. Decided against gym today since I knew I was going to be half hearted if I went. Tuesday would be a better day instead; gym in the morning and MONDAY NIGHT RAW (WITH 2/1/2012 MYSTERY REVEALED TML OMG) after that! Just the way I like it. Sometimes, when I look at the mirror and yea, there's a bit of progress but I'm still so far away from my goals (STILL so damn skinny!!). It's terribly difficult to bulk up cleanly. It's way more difficult than cutting...

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Bulk Day Three: CONSISTENCY

First Day of 2012! It's gonna be my year YES!! Anyway, today is obviously a Sunday but I keep thinking it's Monday already. Can't wait for the kids to go back to school already!! Nothing much going on at all today, which makes it all the harder to motivate myself. But I have the time and I'm not gonna waste it so I'm keeping my diet on schedule. Realised a stall @ Teban Gardens had exactly what I wanted: Chicken breast rice (PLAIN RICE) with duck rice soup (weird) and most importantly, CHEAP. Argh, we will see if tonight I've anything else to add other than protein intake. Gym Day Tml! Update: Protein intake:19...

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