Body Building - Spiral's Journal ongoing (Slow Connection warning: Large Images)

[Spiral]

Yesterday was my last day of cutting! I went from 208 pounds to 190 in 12 days. My size shrunk way too much though. I think I could have prevented it since 4 of the days I didn't get the protein I needed. But I'm skeptical and thinking that my protein intake just needs to be higher in general. Next time I cut I'm going to go for 160-170 g of protein each day to see if that helps maintain size.

On my lifts today I stayed at the same weight and matched some of my rep numbers. However, I only reached 50% of where I left off on bench last time benching 7 reps. Thanks, Andrew who was there to spot me for my next 10 assisted and 2 negatives.

I definitely recommend to you guys when going to failure always have a spotter. And to get some really good gains through some negatives in there.

So Body Fat percentage is 12.5%. I'm going to stay between 12.5-13% until my rep ranges are back to where they were then cut for another 10 days hopefully getting down to about 10% or even 8%. I'm going to have to watch the calories like a hawk and maybe up my cardio time. I don't know.

Here are some pictures:


My calves are 15" and so are my arms. Only flexing abs in these pictures. And pecs in one of them I think. My goal by august is to be benching 225!