Okay for the past 10 weeks I have been gaining weight, not just weight, muscle. I weighed 175lbs before I started what I would call a clean bulk. I now weigh 194lbs and I look better than I did before, I can now see upper abs and before to see my abs I would have to suck in what little gut I had.
I have a theory, I had been on such a caloric defecit for about 6 months where I lost about 25lbs but I got a hell of a lot stronger because I started taking creatine, so I think what my body is doing now is growing muscle to “catch up” so to say with my strength.
Is this normal? How long should I expect this to continue? Because I’m really enjoying it =).
Well when I started my calorie deficit, I don’t remember but my maxes were but I do remember I could only do 225lbs on bench 6 times, now I can do it 12 times.
I used to do 10x3 squats 200 or so lbs now I do them at 315lbs.
[quote]Zagman wrote:
lordstorm88 wrote:
thats nowhere near enough progress for 20 pounds of muscle, but still your progress is great for 10 weeks.
Basis?
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Yeah, he gained 115 lbs on squat. Thats seems pretty good improvement for 20 lbs. And his bench: well, maybe some people are not as good of benchers, but still, he is repping more than he weighs, which is pretty good for a beginner.
And the whole squat thing, I was doing “half squats” at like 430lbs 10x3, but now I started to do squats ass to the grass, thats why I’m not sure of my old squat max because I just started going that low.
