Shafty is shredding: progress pics

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Shafty

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Well folks, I may not have much to brag about as far as Penis Enlargement gains are concerned, but I feel I have done a fairly decent job in my bodybuilding pursuits.
I'm not the biggest guy in the world (YET), but mind you I've only been doing this for just over a year and a half. I started off at around 150 lbs and 12% BF, and in these pics I'm around 180 lbs at 13% BF. Currently I'm trying to cut down to 10-11% BF, so that I can resume bulking again. I'm doing HST, which means hypertrophy specific training, coupled with HIIT cardio (high intensity interval training) first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. So far, so good! :P
I don't want people to get the impression that I'm showing off, though, and that certainly wasn't the point when I decided to post these pics. I'm just so enthusiastic about my progress that I felt like sharing it with my [words=http://www.mattersofsize.com/join-now.html]MoS[/words] brotherhood. Same as anyone who makes gains in Penis Enlargementing and decides to put their pics up for public scrutiny.
 
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Thanks! Much appreciated. :D
Yes, it does require an insane amount of dedication and work, but the rewards are more than worth it. Even though it has become an all consuming thing for me, I'll keep on doing it as long as I have 4 functioning limbs and a more or less level head between my shoulders. You never know what the future will bring about, so my philosophy is to do this right now and put every ounce of strength and will I can muster into it, so that I won't have to look back one day and kick myself for not accomplishing it while I had the chance.
 
Lookin' good, Shafty. Those are great gains! Sounds like maybe you got with a personal trainer from the scientific terms you are throwing out rofl
What about stability and core training, eh? j/k
lol


Regards,

HOOSYODADDI
 
Looking good there! How tall are you? You are almost exactly the same weight and BF % as I am. I tried HST but it didn't do all that well for me, but I do enjoy the HIIT cardio :) I lift like a power-lifter... so I don't get all that much hypertrophy, I just get stronger and stay close to the same size through an increased neuromuscular contraction strength (I like to be deceptively strong).
 
very nice, I too am doing HST. I've gained about 10lbs in the past couple months, not really sure how much BF% but it doesn't look like too much, my lifts have been going up in all areas except for bench. I am going to be starting a new routine at the end of next week. Which will be completing my routine of 12 weeks. Gonna try to work with the dumbells to increase my bench..heard it helps out a lot. Lookin' good though man.. :D
 
Thanks for the positive feedback guys! :blush:
Hoosyadaddi, I've never had a personal trainer, but I do plan on becoming one as a side job some day. ;) Once I get big and lean enough to have the balls to become one. :D
I've invested a lot of money into training equipment (squat/bench rack with safety bars, an elliptical trainer, dumbells and a 50 mm barbell with big weight plates up to 150 kg and smaller ones for increment increases, various training grip gloves etc), so I have myself a nice home gym environment set up in the basement. It saves a LOT of money in the long run, plus it's much more convenient not having to drag your ass to the gym three days a week or more. rofl

Arawndark, I'm 5'11". I should also do a powerlifting cycle at some point. HST is great for adding mass, but it isn't the best program for explosive strength gains. :P

TimBo, 10 lbs in a couple of months is pretty damn fast progress! Good job to you, too! You gotta love HST, huh?

Sikdogg, thanks man! I know the muscle won't continue packing at this rate in the future, but for now I'm enjoying the rapid muscle gains I'm getting.

BDS, thanks to you, too! Hey, if you ever decide to get serious with working out, I suggest you look up HST: hypertrophy specific training.
 
5'11" eh? Well I'm only an inch shorter, so then you are probably very similar to me on most of your body measurements. If you get interested in power-lifting I can tell you what my routines are like, it's fun to go in there and load 4 plates per side on a bar on the floor and dead-lift it for sets at 180 lbs body weight :) Trying the same for squats on Friday. I've been concentrating on anything to improve my dead-lift as I want to enter some strong man competitions in a years time, sitting at 455 lbs for 3 reps right now as my best lift on them.
 
Shafty said:
Hoosyadaddi, I've never had a personal trainer, but I do plan on becoming one as a side job some day. ;) Once I get big and lean enough to have the balls to become one. :D
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You don't have to be large-muscled to be a good personal trainer. There are probably close to 30 personal trainers at my gym. About half of them are women and, although they are in good shape, I'd not classify them as body-builders. On the men's side, there are only a few men out of the approximate 15 that are really muscular. There is one huge guy and only a few big guys. The rest are about average. All of these trainers do very good business regardless of their body mass.

My advice to you: Get certified and start out working at a good gym. The STARTING salary for personal trainers at my gym is between $36K - $48K/yr for only 30hrs a week. That salary is if you hold only one certification. You will earn more money if you have multiple certifications.

There are a lot of good certifications out there with NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine) being the most recognized and respected. Their website is www.nasm.org
Their courses are self-study and you can take the final exam at a local testing center. They have different certification packages which vary in price, depending on which mediums you choose. CDROM is cheapest - I bought that one. I'd advise you to shell out the extra cash and get the physical textbook and video tapes. It is limiting to only be able to read the text on CD. You would go through probably 3 printer cartridges if you tried to print out the textbook PDF files. Athough I like the video format of the CDROMs, I really wish that I could watch them on a larger screen in my living room where I could practice the techniques.

Some of the other certification associations include:
National Strength Conditining Assoc. (NSCA)
American Council Exercise (ACE)
Cooper Institute (located in Dallas, TX)

Good luck!

HOOSYODADDI
 
Shafty, do you use any hair removal products?
If so, what do you use?

Because I am also building my body, however, I need to remove some hair first to make it look better.
lol lol lol
 
Hey shafty nice! You really are doing what you set out to do. That's awesome, but Shafty I'm trippin out over here. Is that a computer monitor in the background or some entity like orb floating in the room behind you? lol I'm scared.
 
Thanks a lot, iwant8inches! :)
It's funny though... I was starting to feel overtrained so I had to step up my calories a bit and cut down on the cardio, and BAM, it's like I'm right back to square one (in my fat loss efforts, that is). I know it's mostly just water retention, but it really does suck how much your body hates you, at least from a bodybuilder's point of view.
I have never had much trouble gaining muscle mass, but permanent fat loss has been an issue for me. For the most part my BF% has hovered around 14-15% while I'm bulking up, and even when I'm cutting I can barely get it below 13% before my metabolism shuts down. I'm almost tempted to try out something like DNP or ephedra at the very least.

And about the orb thing; you know what, I honestly have NO idea. :O There is no monitor in that room, so it could be anything from a lighting glitch to some unexplainable phenomenon. I never payed any attention to it before you mentioned it, though... it does look pretty bizarre!
 
sikdogg said:
The orb thing is prolly a reflection of the camera's flash...
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Actually the flash wasn't on... ?:(
BTW Sikdogg, I get the impression that you've been around the block a few times when it comes to bodybuilding, dieting and such. Seeing as I fell short of my goal for this dieting cycle (well, at least I didn't lose any muscle), what would you recommend for my next one? I'm doing another cutting up cycle as soon as I'm finished with my strategic deconditioning period (during which I'll be eating at maintenance- for about 10 days), so that I can do some moderate bulking again to gain more mass.
 
shafty, first of all you are looking great, chest is lookin big and wide shoulders=base for more gains. i was wondering what your HST workout looks like, can you give me a layout? thanks
 
Shafty said:
Thanks a lot, iwant8inches! :)
It's funny though... I was starting to feel overtrained so I had to step up my calories a bit and cut down on the cardio, and BAM, it's like I'm right back to square one (in my fat loss efforts, that is).
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How much did you increase calories? Chances are unless it was a lot for a good period of time, you didnt gain much fat at all. perhaps almost all water ( which I find can fluctuate A LOT). I'm sure you know you would need and excess of 3500 Kcal just to make a pound of fat. And while I know its possible to gain fat without gaining weight (if you lose muscle as well), its highly unlikely to get that much of a composition change unless you did something really drastic. In other words, it should take awhile to lose muscle and since you are training AND taking enough calories I dont see how you could.

Also, IMO, if you want to bulk, startout adding no more than 300 calories above maintenance at a time. Try that for at least a week and if no fat gain, try another 300. It takes less Kcal to build a lb of muscle than a pound of fat, about 1/6th. And then of course the muscle itself adds to metabolism.
 
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