re: BULK support thread for those of us bulking

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Supposedly being a D1 athlete at times he would have been taught health and fitness. As well as having physicals to identify any potential health issues.

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Bro at TCU when I first got there I was 155 pounds. Our coaches/team dietician fed the shite out of me as I was an ectomorph who had trouble gaining weight. My junior/senior year is when I finally started to get up there and my senior year weigh ins were around 180-185

When I was done with football I stopped working out so hard, and for the most part, stopped working out at all. But I kept the same eating habits. From 2011-2015 or so I still ate like I was desperately trying to gain weight. I ate a lot of fast food and processed food and not a lot of fruits or veggies. My typical diet for a day was something like this:

Breakfast - Giant bowl of sugar cereal, eggs
Lunch - Fast Food from somewhere
Dinner - Entire Frozen Pizza, Entire Skillet of Hamburger Helper, etc.
Dessert - A lot of ice cream

Do that for 4 years straight like I did and there can be problems. The only thing that kept me from eating more was the cost.

And for the first 3 years of that or so I didn't really put on any pounds, in fact I lost weight from my senior year football weight. But at some point in late 2014/early 2015 the ectomorph metabolism part of me went away and all of a sudden I had gained about 40 pounds. Had a beer belly, double chin, etc. and was fat. This is probably where I gained the insulin resistance issues.

It is a cutting diet, but bulking and cutting is more determined by calories first then macros. And you have other issues to worry about. I wouldn't go crazy on the protein at first. You can slowly raise it. But you need to be monitoring your blood sugar, go get a damn kit from wal greens.

Focus on being healthy in a slight caloric surplus first. You have more important things to worry about than pure muscle. Take it slow and easy.

250 C, 300 P, 90 F

haha yea thats why i try not to compare myself to youtube super stars or those that are not human like brian shaw.