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Originally Posted by Mydivorcegift
Got a hernia one time too and I am 100% convinced it was from playing softball, not lifting heavy.
To each their own, and you appear to be in good shape ESPECIALLY for your age, but I don't subscribe to that system. Let me get bigger so I can then try to lose and then maintain? WTF is maintenance anyway? What exactly are you "maintaining"? If you aren't going forwards then you are going backwards....just saying.
Now once a year before vacation I make a dedicated effort to lose some weight....other than that, it's do more, get stronger, and over time get bigger. My progression through the years...
15 yrs old (when I started lifting) 115lbs
18 yrs old 132lbs
21 yrs old 150lbs
30 yrs old 181lbs
35 yrs old 198lbs
40 yrs old 226lbs
40.5 yrs old 195lbs....
At the age of 30 I moved to Atlanta from small town living. The traffic, work, raising a son active in baseball cut into gym time so cardio started becoming less and less frequent as the years went on.
But I said when I was 40 I'd go back to a thinner me so I did and I won't go back to being 220 +...
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Both my hernias were not from lifting, one happened raking leaves believe it or not, the other was from twisting my torso . I now have two patches to show for it.
The bulking and cutting seem to be productive for me. I don't go to extremes but my theory is if you don't eat enough you won't grow, you should eat a caloric surplus for muscle growth but along with a caloric surplus comes some fat gain thus the cutting. When all is said and done hopefully you hold on to some muscle gains and loose the fat. I never practiced this until several years ago, I know, I started late. lol. At one point before I started working out I was at 235, at 6'2" I didn't look "fat" but did have a bit of a belly and no definition, after loosing the weight for about 3 years I worked out rigorously and was extremely "cut" but maintained at 165, now a few years later I maintain at 175 and as you've seen from my photo's the gains have been muscle not fat, although at 185 my abs are gone. So comes the cutting again. I can easily eat the exact amount as not to gain or loose weight and keep up my workouts but will not put on any size and I'm still young enough to grow but you can't grow if you don't eat, so the vicious cycle continues, if you don't think it works wait until you see me at 59.