+ 17 A year of progress
First photo: taken end of Jan 2024. 6’ 230.4 lbs
Second photo: taken March 2025. 6’ 231.4 lbs
Both photos taken in the same conditions. Morning, fasted, before my daily cardio, and while on a bulk using GKs “quick bulk” (so test p/NPP). Yes, I know he’s gone now but I have quite the substantial stash of gear and just want to be transparent. Won’t tag him in the “Ordered from” portion though since he’s not with us anymore. Looking back, I didn’t realize how watery/puffy I was on that first bulk using gear. Definitely have learned how to manage my body water better with what foods/sodium levels I react better with.
Last half of 2024 was a cut and maintenance period. So just my normal TRT/“cruise” dose of ~150mg test C (also GKs) and varying doses of HGH from 3IU/day to 8IU/day (kits4less and now BPTropin). Been bulking now for a couple weeks. Hope to get up to around 245-250 lbs. We’ll see how long it takes for me to get miserable stuffing my face though.
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Got smaller in the second picture. Was that your goal? I think your chest looked more full and your legs look bigger in the first pic. Everything else looks relatively the same. Looking back over it your shoulders look bigger in the first one as well. I feel like you were bigger in 2024. This isn't bashing or anything just interaction and personal view --
Well yea you’re gonna look bigger when you’re puffier/fatter. Second pic I’m ~3-4% leaner at the same body weight. And when you’re 230lbs, you’re talking ~9lbs of muscle then. It’s also end of a 20 week bulk on the first photo and just a couple weeks in to a bulk in the second photo. Don’t worry I’ll get puffier lol…I’ll just be 245-250 instead of 230
Your definitely a big boy. Keep up the good work. What's your favorite cycle for mass. I'm about half your level currently trying to get up to you big bro. Goals for sure.
I think he’s leaner than the first picture though
Looking good buddy
Looking like a Greek god chiseled out marble.keep up the amazing work.
Good job
Sexy cunt ….. HENCH
Looking great in both but second photo really has that grainy definition. Very impressive leanness considering you’re on a bulk.
looking solid bro
Still have a bunch of his stuff too....
Incredible man!!! That is an amazing job!!
Good work
Your Pics are always an inspiration brother! always an absolute unit! appreciate all you bring here (eroids).
Looking like a true bodybuilder! Keep up the hard work
Would I be correct in thinking the first physique was more based around powerlifting style exercises and the second is more bodybuilding/isolation work?
No they’re both after I tore my ACL and converted over to doing more body building style workouts. I stopped the hardcore powerlifting style workouts about 3-4 years ago
TRAITOR!!!! That was one of the only reasons I was friends with you SoS, I thought we were both batting for the same team! LMFAO I am going to have to rethink our friendship now bro. Nah honestly I thought you were still doing Deads and things. So have you found you have put more Bodyweight on converting to bodybuilding - what were you in the PLing/Weightlifting days?
Just straight up heavy deads? Nah I don’t do them anymore. I do RDLs and clean pulls still though. And nope no difference in how fast I gain muscle/weight based on varying lifting modalities, only diet. Back in my oly days I was never heavier than 85kg. I started as a 77kg then got up to 85kg. The weight classes are different now though. And I ate only enough to stay in those caps. When I moved on from oly to PLing I got up to about 88-90kg then stayed there while trying to constantly increase my maxes.
What really changed was I went from squatting/doing legs 4-5x per week to balancing lower body out with upper body. I’ve only been doing that style bodybuilding lifting for ~4 years now and doing that bulk/cut bodybuilding diet to go with the training program. My upper body is finally catching up to my lower body. In my oly days the only upper body I did was dips, OHP, Jerks, jerk recoveries, snatch balances, etc. Workouts were only squats, the technical lifts, and those various accessories to reinforce the technical lifts.
anvilLooking huge and lean as always my brother. We weigh the same now, except you being slightly taller.
wdblackinsane results. when you adjust your doses of GH is that based on just how you feel or bulk/cut or because a different source or something? never used GH but curious.
I constantly add more until markers like fasting blood glucose or water retention starting moving in directions I don’t like. I can get away with higher IUs when cutting than when bulking, because of my carb intake. I typically keep the same grams of protein and fat in my diet and just manipulate carbs to be in a deficit or surplus. But I have to eat 5k+ calories to get the scale to start moving….which is a fuck ton of carbs. Doesn’t pair well with high HGH doses without using the extras we don’t speak of here. And I don’t use that.
wdblackdamn you got alot more in depth than I thought. should honestly be the standard though because, things such as fasting glucose probably arent monitored at all by most people here. glad to see you TRULY take all aspects of health into consideration. Keep up the good work and again insane results.
Gladiator 3 casting coming soon! Nice work sir, looking solid.
As long as we can pretend Gladiator 2 never happened…
Well I can at least say I enjoyed the popcorn. Every theater experience is great if the popcorn has extra butter.
I’ll agree with that. Went through a large tub just a couple days ago taking my daughter to Snow White lol….man that was some good popcorn
I tend to go the movies with the whole family in the afternoon. $5 entry fee is perfect for me. I make the statement about popcorn because my kids or wife never let me choose the movie lol. Rightfully so I would choose one where someone dies in the first 5 minutes.
Every Disney movie fits that description I believe…the mom always dies first in the princess backstory….then the dad…
Shit even Finding Nemo fits that…except the dad lives in that one.
I’m just glad I can’t replicate movie theater popcorn at home otherwise those pictures would look vastly different.
Very valid point , I should have specified they would die a gory death. Either by gun or chainsaw. I’ll settle for samurai swords aswell.
Looking fuckin beastly bro! Nice and vascular in the second photo, especially coming in the calves. I'm a vein whore