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hamstrings are tight.
265 squats & deads, 110 presses. getting back.
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Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:13 am hamstrings are tight.
265 squats & deads, 110 presses. getting back.
I'm deadlifting tonight. Excited for that. Might need to tighten my weight belt a notch too it was pretty loose squatting last Thursday.
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yea....im running into that problem too. I need to replace the batteries in the scale. And break out the tape measure.SAWCE wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:17 amBig Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:13 am hamstrings are tight.
265 squats & deads, 110 presses. getting back.
I'm deadlifting tonight. Excited for that. Might need to tighten my weight belt a notch too it was pretty loose squatting last Thursday.
My this past track day the motorcycle leathers that used to take BIG SUCK IN to button the pants only took a vv small suck in to button up. Zippering the jacket to the pants was also not as hard. It might be stretching but I might be shrinking? Its been a good long term gauge for me as of late to feel my progress.
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Nice man. Feeling clothes change on you is nice for sure.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:32 amyea....im running into that problem too. I need to replace the batteries in the scale. And break out the tape measure.
My this past track day the motorcycle leathers that used to take BIG SUCK IN to button the pants only took a vv small suck in to button up. Zippering the jacket to the pants was also not as hard. It might be stretching but I might be shrinking? Its been a good long term gauge for me as of late to feel my progress.
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oh yea, the other change im noticing... I've been rocking same shirts about 2 years now. since I've cleaned up from and added presses my traps and back have gotten more muscular. My sleeves are getting too shortSAWCE wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:52 amNice man. Feeling clothes change on you is nice for sure.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:32 am
yea....im running into that problem too. I need to replace the batteries in the scale. And break out the tape measure.
My this past track day the motorcycle leathers that used to take BIG SUCK IN to button the pants only took a vv small suck in to button up. Zippering the jacket to the pants was also not as hard. It might be stretching but I might be shrinking? Its been a good long term gauge for me as of late to feel my progress.
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Traps and shoulders in general are high on my list to focus on next year. Thick traps really transform your physique and just look powerful, and like you said, they're noticeable in clothes which is alwaysBig Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:02 pmoh yea, the other change im noticing... I've been rocking same shirts about 2 years now. since I've cleaned up from and added presses my traps and back have gotten more muscular. My sleeves are getting too short
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Added four reps across my deadlifts from two weeks ago. Really not bad considering I’m down about 5lbs from then. 365x9,9,6,7. Might be my last deadlift session before the show, so I’m glad I went out with a bang.
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Did somebody say bang??SAWCE wrote:Added four reps across my deadlifts from two weeks ago. Really not bad considering I’m down about 5lbs from then. 365x9,9,6,7. Might be my last deadlift session before the show, so I’m glad I went out with a bang.
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Calvinball wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:33 pmDid somebody say bang??SAWCE wrote:Added four reps across my deadlifts from two weeks ago. Really not bad considering I’m down about 5lbs from then. 365x9,9,6,7. Might be my last deadlift session before the show, so I’m glad I went out with a bang.
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Fellow fat ass checking in. Getting married the day after Thanksgiving. Bought a couple of new suits a couple of days ago. Project 531 has altered my suit size from 44 reg to 48 reg in Euroboy, 50 in Murican, all topside, the rest had to be taken in. Back and Pecs doe. If I "make the cut" to 210, should be looking reasonably good for 50 yoa.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:02 pmoh yea, the other change im noticing... I've been rocking same shirts about 2 years now. since I've cleaned up from and added presses my traps and back have gotten more muscular. My sleeves are getting too short
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Congrats on the wedding and the gainz!! Awesome stuff man. I need to get my suit size up to a 50”. That’d be epic.Desertbreh wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:55 pmFellow fat ass checking in. Getting married the day after Thanksgiving. Bought a couple of new suits a couple of days ago. Project 531 has altered my suit size from 44 reg to 48 reg in Euroboy, 50 in Murican, all topside, the rest had to be taken in. Back and Pecs doe. If I "make the cut" to 210, should be looking reasonably good for 50 yoa.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:02 pm
oh yea, the other change im noticing... I've been rocking same shirts about 2 years now. since I've cleaned up from and added presses my traps and back have gotten more muscular. My sleeves are getting too short
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A mere formality I've been married IRL for years. Following the Maxiom: She loves me despite all of my epic flaws. I wasn't going to do it again but she wore me down with kindness.
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How do you NOT wear a size 50 coat bro. UR huge.SAWCE wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 12:20 amCongrats on the wedding and the gainz!! Awesome stuff man. I need to get my suit size up to a 50”. That’d be epic.Desertbreh wrote: ↑Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:55 pm
Fellow fat ass checking in. Getting married the day after Thanksgiving. Bought a couple of new suits a couple of days ago. Project 531 has altered my suit size from 44 reg to 48 reg in Euroboy, 50 in Murican, all topside, the rest had to be taken in. Back and Pecs doe. If I "make the cut" to 210, should be looking reasonably good for 50 yoa.
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dang, well congrats bro.Desertbreh wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 2:17 pmA mere formality I've been married IRL for years. Following the Maxiom: She loves me despite all of my epic flaws. I wasn't going to do it again but she wore me down with kindness.
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I think I measure at 45" right now? Last suit I bought was a 46" IIRC. I might be 2" short on each of those.. I'll have to measure and look at my suit when I get home.
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Thanks. We now wish we did a quickie and blew town to Europe, but instead we are blowing epic amounts of cash on a 20 person event/dinner thing. Plus the Thanksgiving dinner before.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 2:33 pmdang, well congrats bro.Desertbreh wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 2:17 pm
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I don't think your current back structure would fit properly in anything starting with a 4 unless it was a serious Euro cut. That was my problem and I'm like not even close to you in back size. FWIW the 50 was on a Hickey Freeman....American suit. I really like the suit but getting the 50" jacket forced the pants to be totally rebuilt as the assumption is that if you have a size fiddy jacket you are obese.
I pulled 300 X 2 today, btw. On to 315.
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Nice man! I know you were having a bit of a mental block at 300, so that's awesome you got through it.Desertbreh wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 2:40 pmI don't think your current back structure would fit properly in anything starting with a 4 unless it was a serious Euro cut. That was my problem and I'm like not even close to you in back size. FWIW the 50 was on a Hickey Freeman....American suit. I really like the suit but getting the 50" jacket forced the pants to be totally rebuilt as the assumption is that if you have a size fiddy jacket you are obese.
I pulled 300 X 2 today, btw. On to 315.
My last suit was from Hugo Boss, I think American, but I'm not a fashion guy so I think pictures are a bit deceiving for my size. I'm also not walking around in my suit with my lats flared/flexed like they are in most pics posted here.
And I hear you on the pants. I was confused when browsing online at Nordstrom why you only choose a jacket size and not pants. I asked in store when I was getting fitted and buying, and they said they always do an 8" (maybe it was 6") drop from the chest size of the jacket for the waist of the pants.. LOL 46" coat coming with 38 or 40" pants, they had to be completely taken in/rebuilt like yours. I was pushing 210 back then, and they still left them quite large on me, so I had them retaken in by another tailor a month ago before wearing it to a wedding. Measured my waist at 31.5" last week, and I imagine that'll drop a bit further to under 31" by the time the show rolls around. My normal waist size when I'm not dieting like this is 32-34".
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These pants on the suit have to be done twice, one cut after the first measurement and the then again on the 10th...I have to come in when the store opens and then come back at 4. And I'm just a mildly overweight average looking white guy....nothing remotely like your specimenage. I CHALLONGE you, when next you drive the by the mall, to stop in at Nordie's and see what happens. Do it for LOL, I was down to 219 and then had a "cheat weekend" where I hammered beers and pigged out. Monday a.m....225.8. Today, 221. Discipline sucks.SAWCE wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 2:51 pmNice man! I know you were having a bit of a mental block at 300, so that's awesome you got through it.Desertbreh wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 2:40 pm
I don't think your current back structure would fit properly in anything starting with a 4 unless it was a serious Euro cut. That was my problem and I'm like not even close to you in back size. FWIW the 50 was on a Hickey Freeman....American suit. I really like the suit but getting the 50" jacket forced the pants to be totally rebuilt as the assumption is that if you have a size fiddy jacket you are obese.
I pulled 300 X 2 today, btw. On to 315.
My last suit was from Hugo Boss, I think American, but I'm not a fashion guy so I think pictures are a bit deceiving for my size. I'm also not walking around in my suit with my lats flared/flexed like they are in most pics posted here.
And I hear you on the pants. I was confused when browsing online at Nordstrom why you only choose a jacket size and not pants. I asked in store when I was getting fitted and buying, and they said they always do an 8" (maybe it was 6") drop from the chest size of the jacket for the waist of the pants.. LOL 46" coat coming with 38 or 40" pants, they had to be completely taken in/rebuilt like yours. I was pushing 210 back then, and they still left them quite large on me, so I had them retaken in by another tailor a month ago before wearing it to a wedding. Measured my waist at 31.5" last week, and I imagine that'll drop a bit further to under 31" by the time the show rolls around. My normal waist size when I'm not dieting like this is 32-34".
Boss is Euro. Dat's my wedding suit.
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Desertbreh wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 6:46 pmThese pants on the suit have to be done twice, one cut after the first measurement and the then again on the 10th...I have to come in when the store opens and then come back at 4. And I'm just a mildly overweight average looking white guy....nothing remotely like your specimenage. I CHALLONGE you, when next you drive the by the mall, to stop in at Nordie's and see what happens. Do it for LOL, I was down to 219 and then had a "cheat weekend" where I hammered beers and pigged out. Monday a.m....225.8. Today, 221. Discipline sucks.SAWCE wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 2:51 pm
Nice man! I know you were having a bit of a mental block at 300, so that's awesome you got through it.
My last suit was from Hugo Boss, I think American, but I'm not a fashion guy so I think pictures are a bit deceiving for my size. I'm also not walking around in my suit with my lats flared/flexed like they are in most pics posted here.
And I hear you on the pants. I was confused when browsing online at Nordstrom why you only choose a jacket size and not pants. I asked in store when I was getting fitted and buying, and they said they always do an 8" (maybe it was 6") drop from the chest size of the jacket for the waist of the pants.. LOL 46" coat coming with 38 or 40" pants, they had to be completely taken in/rebuilt like yours. I was pushing 210 back then, and they still left them quite large on me, so I had them retaken in by another tailor a month ago before wearing it to a wedding. Measured my waist at 31.5" last week, and I imagine that'll drop a bit further to under 31" by the time the show rolls around. My normal waist size when I'm not dieting like this is 32-34".
Boss is Euro. Dat's my wedding suit.
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SAWCE wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 6:57 pmDesertbreh wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 6:46 pm
These pants on the suit have to be done twice, one cut after the first measurement and the then again on the 10th...I have to come in when the store opens and then come back at 4. And I'm just a mildly overweight average looking white guy....nothing remotely like your specimenage. I CHALLONGE you, when next you drive the by the mall, to stop in at Nordie's and see what happens. Do it for LOL, I was down to 219 and then had a "cheat weekend" where I hammered beers and pigged out. Monday a.m....225.8. Today, 221. Discipline sucks.
Boss is Euro. Dat's my wedding suit.
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slowly getting back... hit three sets of five squats for 295... 3x5 for 195 on the bench.
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