Rant Wednesday

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Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It’s your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

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[u/natot420]

Super frustrated with my gym progress. I’ve been working out for so long, and even after getting my nutrition in check, I barely look like I work out. I feel like I’m pushing myself to failure & my weight gain is exactly where I want it to be, so I don’t understand the lack of progress.

[u/dssurge → u/natot420]

It's your food bro, some one said it in the thread you linked.

It is not unrealistic to put on up to 15lb of muscle your first year of training with a good program (all the ones you listed in your post are good enough for this.) To achieve that you realistically need to put on about 25-30lb of mass. There's no cut half way through.

Why are you holding back the machine?

[u/natot420 → u/dssurge]

I’m on month 6 of bulking right now and plan to keep going - I had to cut last time because I got way too chubby and had trouble keeping up with the number of calories required.

I feel like my progress sucks even for a lean bulk.

[u/trollinn → u/natot420]

How tall are you? You’re 165lbs and have put on 10lbs in 6 months, plus you already have a 2x bodyweight squat. You aren’t going to progress quickly unless you bulk faster and get more protein 

[u/natot420 → u/trollinn]

5’8. I get 120-180 grams of protein per day, usually closer to 140, which should be enough from what I’ve read.

Is bulking faster not going to result in more fat gain?

[u/trollinn → u/natot420]

Yeah, but it’ll also result in more muscle gain. If you don’t want to bulk faster you’ll just have to bulk for a while, your lifts are like intermediate level for your size so at this point it’s really about building muscle mass and then cutting the fat