This is what happens when you lift while deficient in vitamin D.
I've been lifting for 26 months now and look like complete dog shit. I'm only getting red-pilled on vitamin D as of now (25 y/o) and have probably been deficient in it since high school when I started playing vidya religiously. Vit D is a vital component in making testosterone and if you are deficient you will build fat muscles, which is basically what it sounds like, muscles that are full of fat that just weigh you down, are weaker, and just make you look like shit.
So I'm taking drops now and actually going outside. Hopefully will finally start to see progress. I've been very dedicated to training and dieting, basically spending all my money on rent, car payments, and organic raw food in sufficient quantities. No money for any social life at all. I'm very dedicated in actually getting Jow Forums. So what should I do from here? I thought about cutting to a lower BF% as I'm around 18% right now, to shed off some of these fat muscles I have, but I also think that's retarded I should just focus on getting bigger. What do you think I should do?
Also, is there a point to intermittent fasting while bulking, and should I follow any meme diets like low carbing, or wheat free, etc? Do fit people actually eat bread? I've spent so much time obsessing and researching about health and nutrition and I thought I knew a lot but obviously not after having such shitty results. I need serious help.
So basically you've been at this 2 years and haven't figured out diet. I don't blame you, it's hard to see through the haze of memes.
Tell me your weekly training schedule, lifts, diet, race, and political orientation
Elijah Jenkins
Two upper body days, one lower body day. One upper body day I'll focus more on chest and the other I focus more on back. I was doing 5x5 for the compounds and 8-12 for the isolations.
Diet is mostly meat. Protein (chicken, beef, or salmon) and green veggies for lunch and dinner, sometimes I'll have red lentil pasta with homemade meat sauce (ground beef) or tacos with ground beef. Breakfast is just oatmeal made with peanut butter and nuts because I never have a big appetite in the morning. Snacks are seeds, nuts, protein shakes, bananas, PB&J, whole milk. I'm very disciplined when it comes to junk food and can easily turn down sweets. The fatasses I work with bring in Tim Hortons donuts all the time and I always refuse them
>Race, political ideology I thought my pendant would've gave that away
Asher Morgan
What brand / dosage of vitamin D do you use?
Juan Diaz
The brand is called "Now" and it's 1000 IU per drop, I've been taking 4 drops with my fattiest meal
Luke Kelly
>45943314 >muscles that are full of fat you absolute brainlet >hurr durr muh schwarze sonne necklace stop larping dummy
Matthew Richardson
Missed that! Good man.
Okay a couple things.
Lifting: -how much total isolation volume do you get? -how much have you played with rep ranges other than 5x5? -what are your lifts at? also, your height/weight?
Diet: -doesn't sound bad, what other things have you done before other than your simple and effective current approach?
Jayden Cooper
>could it be that i've been fucking up my training in several very basic ways >no, it must be.the fault of.. let's say this vitamin
>-how much total isolation volume do you get? Upper body days I'll do at least one isolation for bis, tris, lats, and delts, 3x8-12 >-how much have you played with rep ranges other than 5x5? Just started doing 4x8-12 for only a month now >-what are your lifts at? also, your height/weight? Roughly 0.5/1.5/2/3, 1RM 6'2", 174 lbs
I also did a ton of cycling, I used to cycle to work every day which was a 40 min round trip, I'd do a lot more on weekends and even incorporated HIIT while going to work, but that ended a few months ago when I bought a car, now I just go for runs and/or do HIIT on my off days
Eli Barnes
nice dick
Owen Collins
oh damn yeah that is a nice dick
Thomas Jackson
If you've been lifting for two years and two months and have the lifts of someone who has been lifting for two months then the problem isn't one fucking vitamin you stupid piece of shit kys enjoy looking like that after another two years and wondering what the fuck could have gone wrong.
It might only be a Canadian thing, the O in Now is literally a fucking leaf
Isaac Fisher
Fuck off faggots.
Well I was a 140 lb skeleton when I started. I put on weight just not a lot of lean muscle. Tell me specifically what I'm doing wrong if you're so smart then
Sebastian Russell
what is more likely, that you're doing wrong your exercises or the vitamin jew is stealing your gains?
Jeremiah Perez
>Just started doing 4x8-12 for only a month now Okay mang, I will tell you personally that ~10 reps per set treated me a loooot better than 5x5 after a certain point. How has this month of it gone for you?
I can assure you my form is very strict and I feel a good squeeze on every rep. My sets last until near failure and my phone is on airplane mode so I'm not on here shitposting while training. Vitamin D is kind of a big deal, it inhibits the production of testosterone, why do you think gamers who sit inside all day are all low test skinny basedboys?
I've been intermittent fasting and cutting while switching to higher volume and I've lost 6lbs and a waist size this month. Haven't noticed much strength difference except in my deadlift which seems to be a bit weaker. Body weight exercises are much better though, I can easily do 8-10 quality pull ups vs before where I was only doing 6-8
But I feel like I'm wasting my time cutting when I should just focus on getting bigger then cut later
Alexander Sullivan
If you're worried about absorption what's more important is that you take the tablet/drop with a meal.
Christian Evans
In Canada and thanks to our fantastic free health system I have to wait a whole two weeks to see my doctor just to obtain a blood requisition form
Brandon Hernandez
Cut first unless you really know what you're doing, otherwise you'll just keep repeating the cycle of cut and bulk. Cut down to where you want to be and do leaning bulking/mini bulk cycles
Aaron Young
How long do people normally cut for? A set time or as long as it takes to hit your goal?
Alexander Hall
/thread
Ryder Rivera
I just cut until I reach my goal, don't know if it's bad but it works
Joshua Campbell
Most of the population is vitamin D deficient. I am so myself, just started supplementing and my muscles are fine.
