Dear Mick,
Since I stopped boxing I’ve been hitting the weights pretty hard. I made quite good progress to start with going from 170 pounds to about 205 pounds over the first 18 months (with a little help of course). However this seems to have stopped and I’ve been about 205-210 for the last 6 months. I have two main questions.
1. I eat a good diet, and try to get all my carbs and protein from proper food, as I’m not overly keen on the shakes. However I have found that because I’ve put on a bit of muscle I need to eat a fair bit. Unfortunately as my appetite is not huge I find it difficult enough eating to stay the same size never mind put more muscle on.
Ideally I’d like to bulk up to about 17st then try and harden up and drop to around 16.5st – I should look pretty awesome then. Do you know of any ways, either natural or not, to push my appetite up or slow the metabolism down. I find that the gear doesn’t do much to increase my appetite – my favorites are Winstrol base, with Drive and Prima depot to inject.
2. I am very strong on my shoulders and triceps. I can military press 105kg but my flat bench is crap by comparison at 115kg. I find that my delts and tris take over a lot when benching and my chest doesn’t get much out of it. As a result I have no big movement for my chest and it is lagging behind a bit.
I do lots of other exercises to try and make up – flyers, pullovers, dips, dumbbell work but unfortunately it isn’t working. We have only got free weights and benches at college (typical rugby gym) – so do you have any ideas. Thanks Mick.
Paul,
Cambs.
Hey Paul,
Smaller, more regular meals will help if you are struggling to get the calories in mate. As for the alternatives, well I know that B12 jabs used to make my appetite go through the roof but after a while, it slowed down as I got used to it. Using them every so often helped, but I was not that impressed to be honest.
Also, I bet that your metabolism is still through the roof, tends to happen with the type of training boxing gives you. Like a training routine, you will have to get into a ROUTINE with your eating in order to get up there with the big ‘uns mate. However, from 17st down to 16.5, well there will not be much hardening with only 7lbs loss I can tell you.
The gear? Although you prefer the winny and primo I would still add either a shot of testoviron enanthate or sustanon which will not bang to much water on if any especially with such a small amount. In fact your strength will go up and may also help to lower your body fat levels a little. It does with me quite well. Put the test in with a shot of deca at the beginning of the week and then the winny every third day. That will do the job.
As for the strength differences i.e. delts v chest, that is to be expected because of your boxing training. A lot of the strength will be in your delts because of the punching power – as you will know. Do not force the changes, take it in your stride and instead of trying to force push heavy weights on the chest, go for the increased reps and gradually the strength will come back in a more equal and balanced manner. This I guarantee.
Mick Hart
Founder of Mick Hart Training Systems and
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