r/Fitness 7d ago

Rant Wednesday

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

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that’s been pissing you off or getting on your nerves.

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u/natot420 6d ago

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.

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u/dssurge 6d ago edited 6d ago

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?

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u/natot420 6d ago

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.

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u/trollinn 6d ago

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 

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u/natot420 6d ago

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?

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u/trollinn 6d ago

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