Sleeves fear him

Got told to take the weekend off so we can get started full bore with the new setup on Monday. Hyped! 😤💪

Unreasonably amused about the fact that somehow people think I'm not aware of this and need to be told? If I wanted to be good in a fight I'd train Krav Maga or something. In fact I would want nothing more to be especially useless in a fight because I'm too massive.

Biceps strength gains have been unreal these past few weeks despite the cut. Big guns are loading 💪

Underrated gym hack: Become best friends with the staff by 1) Being there all the time 2) Not being an asshole 3) Helping them clean between sets when you'd be slacking off anyway

Pacing up and down in the gym between sets to get steps in has me looking like a madman 😅

Regaining some shreds and stripes 😊

Dude will look like an entirely different person at 34 🫠

It's so funny how you can tell apart who's into muscle specifically vs just "looking good" by whether they like leg pic posts

Alright, starting with a coach next week. Excited to make more gains 😤

Got cleared that the knee issues are not another new structural problem but probably just some unhappy tendons, so leg day was a go 🥳 Also maybe the faintest signs of the rectus femoris starting to show again on the cut?

Be for real!

Stressing out hard about life decisions (and life in general) might not be particularly anabolic, but at least it helps with getting steps in. (Somehow I'm still an hour away from home)

Whyyy has whey gotten so expensive?

Always hyped for the oomfs who compete

First walk of the day done, mealprep now

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Fuck, I'm starting to hope that I *won't* get this job. Right now I'd rather stay on my cushy but dead-end job in a dead-end economy and fully lock in on bodybuilding instead.

Pull day later and I'm hyped to wreck my arms 😊 Back too ofc, but there the connection always has been pretty solid. The Biceps are where I feel like I've been improving it lately and it's fun to try to tweak things to make it even better.

And happy flex Friday 💪💪

Push day: Pushed.

Unreasonably excited to see this guy grow huge 📈📈📈

Honestly I can be the big bro pushing the lil one to get bigger or the other way around as long as we're growing 😊

Low confidence leg day but we still made it work

The transformation is absolutely insane, but what's even more insane is that I expect him to keep improving at this rate for a couple more years to come 🤯

Bonus back double bi

I feel like this is working. Really good progression and pump today!

Just came across people using GenAI to spice up their pictures and I feel like being upfront about stuff like that should be normalized so:

Truly excited to see this guy blow up

Two's a crowd 😅

Figured out a way to meal prep meat that I don't hate. I regret to inform you I'll be the death of many chickens in the future.

Rest day steps

Itching to hit the gym on a rest day for the first time in a long while. Chalking that up as a win.

Turned this into PRs today. Learning intensity again.

Sorry everyone, might have turned a bit psychotic over the last few days. Probably going to lean into it for a while though.

25C/77F in the middle of the night 🫠

On a more positive note: Apparently I'm enough of a fixture at my gym that the front desk guys proactively tell me it's fine to stay after closing time if they see me coming in later than usual.

The knee problems that started last year have sucked all the joy out of lifting for me. Nobody could tell me if they were due to lifting or just random but nonetheless I scaled back my leg training *a ton* to be on the safe side.

I have gained literally no muscle over the past year 😞 bsky.app/profile/nrjc... bsky.app/profile/nrjc... Not farming for sympathy here, just acknowledging that I need to get my act together both mentally and training-wise and have to make some changes.

Bro is getting wide af

I feel like finding it so much easier to lock in on a cut than on a bulk is emblematic of my failures as a bodybuilder, though I'm not entirely sure in what way exactly

No day below 25 ⁰C for at least a week and a half after ass weather for ages. Really hope this means summer has finally arrived 🥺

Happy #MeatheadMonday

Pushed damn hard 😤

Been getting more compliments from random bros at the gym recently 🥰 But they're always about my shoulders so obviously the rest of my physique must be crap 🫠

Push day soon. Hyyyype!

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Leg day bound

1 year and 5 months later under the same resort bathroom's anabolic lighting. Slow and steady from 58kg to 62kg. It's also fun seeing the difference between what proper-ish posing can do under the same environment. Here's to more gains along the way 🤞💪

I don't normally have step goals but I've had good results with implementing those during a cut. It's definitely the most annoying part of the whole process though because it eats up so much time.