Off Season Support Thread: Post pics and your program to get feedback

**GarlicChicken** · 09-02-2011, 12:23 PM

Originally Posted by Provo82

wow thats crazy! i graduated hs at 155 not skinny not fat just regular. after weight training for the first month w nothing but 2 meals a day and a protein shake i gained 25 lbs. it slowed down after that though.

I'm not gonna lie man I'm a little jelli lol. My first 10 went on quick, but took a lot of food. I'm at 3600 cals right now and it seems to be the sweet spot for growing without getting overly fat

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**GarlicChicken** · 09-02-2011, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by KevinCouch

I started lifting as a freshman in high school for football. I was really fast but tiny as hell as a running back weighing in at a whopping 118 1/2 pounds. By the time I graduated I weighed a huge 153 pounds but was always a strong kid. We should pull out the old photos and scan them in and post them......

This is a good idea actually...I'm going to a wedding this weekend so ill hit up the fam see if I can get some old pictures and scan them

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**BC123Jm** · 09-02-2011, 12:59 PM

Originally Posted by Provo82

wow thats crazy! i graduated hs at 155 not skinny not fat just regular. after weight training for the first month w nothing but 2 meals a day and a protein shake i gained 25 lbs. it slowed down after that though.

i graduated HS at 145lbs, not skinny, not fat.
i'm gonna dig up some old photos

**Dadup** · 09-02-2011, 01:07 PM

I like this idea of digging up old photos, shows us how far we have come, I'll see if I can find some as well

**Scoobysnacks** · 09-02-2011, 05:11 PM

Originally Posted by BigJD69

I thought you were 5'5" 1/2??? LOL

shhh its easier to round up

**Scoobysnacks** · 09-02-2011, 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by HeavyDutyDadup

I like this idea of digging up old photos, shows us how far we have come, I'll see if I can find some as well

I hate this photo its before i started body for life which really worked well. But obviously the pic next to is ten years later. I think it demonstrates how shitty my starting genetics were. but I remember reading when i started that a young man at 20 if you had him train consistenly for ten years not missing meals or training he could look TOTALLY and COMPLETELY different from when he started. Im glad I listened and kept with it.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.332564945584.333831.112696905584&type=1#!/photo.php?fbid=10150358957745585&set=a.332564945584.333831.112696905584&type=1&theater

**BC123Jm** · 09-02-2011, 06:14 PM

this is insane

**Taylor Normandeau** · 09-02-2011, 06:31 PM

Nice! crazy gains

I will get in on it.

First pic = 285 lbs
Second pic 265 lbs

Last pic is a comparison of me 20 months ago at 205 lbs then me now at 245 lbs

**Taylor Normandeau** · 09-02-2011, 06:34 PM

First pic was summer 2007, second pic was spring 2008

**BC123Jm** · 09-02-2011, 06:35 PM

Chode, like i said you've come a long way.
please tell me you dont still throw up gang signs.

**Taylor Normandeau** · 09-02-2011, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by BC123Jm

Chode, like i said you've come a long way.
please tell me you dont still throw up gang signs.

Haha it was a *metal* hand signal, like rock on. PS I was probably 10 beers deep, hard to make judgement calls at that point

And I am air guitaring in the first one

**Scoobysnacks** · 09-02-2011, 06:42 PM

I found this gem this was me summer of 2003, thatd make me 24 here. This was after my first show and I really gained well after the diet, Ive always been able to gain well after a long dieting phase. About 6 mos after this photo i started to have health complications stemming from muscular imbalances and anxiety that I had no clue I had. It caused me to stay out of the gym 3 years. I shrank and at age 28 I had to start COMPLETELY over. My first show back i got 6th, ONLY time Ive never placed (aside from national shows). Thereafter I got my shit together because that stung, and I havent lost at a local regional or state show in my respective division since 2007.

I was 165 gym weight here so more like 160.

**Taylor Normandeau** · 09-02-2011, 06:43 PM

Originally Posted by Scoobysnacks

I found this gem this was me summer of 2003, thatd make me 24 here. This was after my first show and I really gained well after the diet, Ive always been able to gain well after a long dieting phase.

I was 165 gym weight here so more like 160.

You look great there.