Mate in all honesty that is a respectable increase in weight. Considering the amount of activity that you are ubdertaking as well as being off cycle. If you are gaining 1lb a week that works out to 52lbs a year mate. That is nothing to sneeze at. Look at the long term not the right here and now.

The point I am making is that there is no need to put on fat to grow muscle mate. It is a common misconception that should have died an ugly death years ago. Just like the term muscle confusion. If you eat good clean foods with a surplus in protein then any weight gain will be the type of weight that you are after. All bulkin does is cretares work for you.

OK mate I have 1 question. What will bulking to 240lbs do for you apart from increasing your BF? When you strip back down you will still be at the same weight with the same lean body mass. If you are up for a challenge (I know you more than likely will bulk up any way) get your BF done properly. Then once that is done you can work out your lean body mass. I will use you current approx weight and BF to show you. 228 x 0.15 = 33.75 now that is how much BF you are carrying. So subtract that from 228 and that leaves you with 194.25 lbs lean body mass. So my challenge is bulk up to your 240 and then get your BF done properly and do the calculations and see if you have done anything other than getting fatter. If you want to change up your training try this link bro http://www.muscleandstrength.com/articles/german-volume-training-for-sho... do this for 6 weeks then go back to your powerlifting style of training and you amay well get a surprise. Good luck bro

whats your body type? ecto? endo?

IMO splitting bi's and tris is a big no no -

have been doing

1: Chest
2. Legs
3. Back
4. Shoulder
5. Arms
6. off
7. off

natural for a number of years and started this split for the past 6 months and put on close to 10-12 solid lbs ecto-meso body type. Before that i continued to focus on push pull, but am convinced now that was too much for me without gear and i overtrain easily.

The guy I lift wit does chest and bi's day one, back and legs day two, shoulders and tris day three. Day off then repeat. I've been doing core twice a week in a class. I used to have a schedule that was slightly different from this, but I was more flexible with it to work what felt right.

I like to shoulders and back same day everyone tells me its wrong but it works for me just play around with your schedule and find something that works

i like to do bi and tris on the same day so that i can do supersets sometimes.
my split
day 1 - chest
day 2- legs
day 3 - bis tris abs
day 4- rest
day 5 -shoulders
day 6- back
day 7 - off

I do core 2 times per week one on day 3 and the other pretty much when i feel like it
i also do cardio 25 min 6 days a week