Howdy all,
Once upon a time, I was reasonably active posting on the HST forums, and even the thinkmuscle HST forums before this site existed. I still browse this site regularly, but have refrained from regular posting due to activity at other, more active forums. This post, then, will be my re-introduction to this website, I hope.
I feel like my labcoat inspiration started here with HST, so I'm going to start logging my training and labcoat-y thoughts and philosophy on the subject of resistance training.
I've used various routines over the past several years, mostly strength oriented, though it seems my strength is bottlenecked by the amount of lean mass I carry. In some ways, despite setting PR's in various lifts the past couple of years, I have been spinning my wheels in terms of my overall size and strength, and would like to reach higher into my genetic potential, whatever that may be.
My goals are still at least partially strength oriented, hence the title of the thread, representing a 200 press, 300 bench, 400 squat, and 500 dead, being long term goals for these lifts. However, my goals are also to be the biggest, strongest, but healthiest person I can be, given my own genetic station.
I am far from a "natural" at this stuff, and feel any progress I've made has been hard fought to this point. In case anyone wonders what I look like, I have a couple of pictures from this past summer showing me in very lean condition:
Picture 1.
Picture 2.
In the next post, I'll introduce the "break in" training I'm using at the moment after the summer diet, inspired by my own experimentation with strength training in conjunction with HST.
Once upon a time, I was reasonably active posting on the HST forums, and even the thinkmuscle HST forums before this site existed. I still browse this site regularly, but have refrained from regular posting due to activity at other, more active forums. This post, then, will be my re-introduction to this website, I hope.
I feel like my labcoat inspiration started here with HST, so I'm going to start logging my training and labcoat-y thoughts and philosophy on the subject of resistance training.
I've used various routines over the past several years, mostly strength oriented, though it seems my strength is bottlenecked by the amount of lean mass I carry. In some ways, despite setting PR's in various lifts the past couple of years, I have been spinning my wheels in terms of my overall size and strength, and would like to reach higher into my genetic potential, whatever that may be.
My goals are still at least partially strength oriented, hence the title of the thread, representing a 200 press, 300 bench, 400 squat, and 500 dead, being long term goals for these lifts. However, my goals are also to be the biggest, strongest, but healthiest person I can be, given my own genetic station.
I am far from a "natural" at this stuff, and feel any progress I've made has been hard fought to this point. In case anyone wonders what I look like, I have a couple of pictures from this past summer showing me in very lean condition:
Picture 1.
Picture 2.
In the next post, I'll introduce the "break in" training I'm using at the moment after the summer diet, inspired by my own experimentation with strength training in conjunction with HST.