…and now I’m eating 3700Kcals a day, at 5′10″ with a bodyweight of 165lb and squatting 205lbx5×5, and hope to be squatting 250lbs in the first half of next year.

This 40 y/o body is starting to look really good, and I have ‘legs’ (that I’m not embarrassed about for the first time in my life!), the feeling of strength is also fantastic, and it’s done wonders for my mental health.

Long term goal is a bw of at least 190lb with BF% around 15%.

The whole idea that you can completely change your body has been mind blowing, I had always assumed I was stuck with what I had – both body and strength wise, boy was I wrong.

1) My focus maintained on the compound movements. Squats were in every lower body session. Pull ups, overhead pressing, bench press, dips, and upright rows were the foundation of the upper body sessions. I only did single joint movements at the end of sessions.

2) Moving too little weight. . . maybe. I’ve used heavy weight and low reps for strength gains plenty of times with success, but not for gaining size. Would the combination of the increased food intake with the high weight low rep lifting yield gains in size? Perhaps it would. But I wanted to work mainly in the mid rep range for this experiment.

3) I disagree. Although I did not clock the rest periods, I have a pretty good internal clock and I feel confident rest periods were at least 1 minute between sets and usually closer to 2 minutes. Longer than that would lose the “pump” that was part of the experiment.

4) Can’t disagree on this one.

I have something special in the works to report on how the cutting goes. Give me 5 or 6 weeks and stay tuned. Many thanks for your comment.

1) lack of lifting and focusing on the multi-joint movements you love so much. Why not stick with just squats, deads, bench, and overhead press?

2) moving too little weight – 40lb shoulder press? even if that’s per arm that’s 80lbs … lower your reps and push more weight.

3) get more rest IN your workouts. If you can do a decent muscle building workout in 20 mins, your NOT resting enough.

4) Diet …. beer? ummm the insulin spike is gonna do nothing for you.

I’m on a gain cycle (it’s been 5 weeks as well) I’ve not seen a large bf increase (at least not an embarrising amount) my lifts are increasing and I’m eating a ton. (not pizza and fries, eggs and milk).

Plus 5 weeks is nothing. That size will go away (heck it may all be fat) to really gain and keep size you have to get your bodt used to it … 5 weeks is way too short.

Hope the cutting is more successful brother, You know fat loss like no other, cheers.