anybody into bodybuilding/powerlifting?

[scabzzzz]

Recently hit 1000lbs club with squat, bench, and dead. I stopped posting because no one is into traditional weightlifting here but I never fell off the wagon. In fact I've recently busted through a plateau for some nice gains but over trained and wound up with a fucked back. Today is my first day back. Weight is around 200~ now. As high as 210 some weeks.

[IronFreak]

Well I'm back man, saw some holiday pictures and I was like EFFF THAT......

[drumad]

Small update. Hope yall are still putting the work in. Here's my meet vid from 2/14.

[cale]

Nice lifts. If I tried to pull conventional with me legs as upright as yours I'd likely snap my shit up, sumo it is.

[MR E30 325is]

Reviving this old thread that I forgot about.

This is about a year ago, prior to my first men's physique competition. Unfortunately I got sick during a downhill mountain biking trip to Whistler Canada and didn't place well. At my peak I only weighed 202 lbs with sub 8% body fat. May seem like a lot, but in my height class I was about 20-25 lbs too light.

Cue the douchey lighting and the asshat stringer.



After entering the 1k club I kinda slacked off on the really heavy lifting. Mainly do maintenance lifting today, as I am pleased with where I am at the moment. Plus the life changes of starting a career, getting engaged, etc. has an affect on my gym time.

[LowR3V'in]

Has anyone ever told you you look like jared from subway?

[alB5]

Has anyone ever told you you look like jared from subway?

beat me to it

[scabzzzz]

lol


i dont even lift anymore but i still have a 300+ squat and 400+ dead so w/e... DAD STRENGTH

[badwella]

Bump old thread.

Pic from a few years ago 22 days out from a contest. Practicing my posing after training.



Here's my favorite pic from that contest. Took fourth (first time doing my own contest prep after using a coach the last two shows so I screwed up and spilled over, retaining water)



Got married the next year so I took time off from competing to help with the planning. 6 mo after the wedding wife got pregnant and had a baby in October 2015. Stress from married life and the baby, as well as a bout of depression, and I haven't worked out in over a year. Just moved for a new job and now the little guy's a little older (and can go to the daycare at the gym). Getting back in now and planning on competing in early 2018. Sick of my dad bod. . . . .

[MR E30 325is]

^^ Good stuff!

Definitely understand the absence from the gym. But getting back into it feels great!

[Heitzke]

Ah totally missed this thread. Did my first full-power meet in May this past year at normal walking weight and totaled 1040 @ 172, then prepped/cut for the next one a few months later and did a 1100 @ 74kg.

Working up to break the 1200 mark this year at 74kg. Had a few things to fix on my squat, and it's been moving along pretty well since the 1100. It's been a really good hobby for me.