friend- I admire your efforts and commitment to becoming your best..However, remember that to take your ectomorph build and turn it into a LEAN 265 ecto-mesomorph build will take much longer then 2 yrs unless you have absolute freak genetics....
For that kind of quality weight gain it will also involve mostly bodybuilding methodology, not powerlifting. If you want to be the best you can be stop worrying your leverages and body fat % and just get big via eating, and strong via heavy RAW lifting.
If you don't believe me, ask all the people you inspire to compete with in power meet and I doubt any of them took this path..What will happen is while you 're dieting and changing training styles, they will be squatting, eating and winning.
Like that matrix quote, you're probably just not ready to take the red pill.. hope you take no offense and good luck!
Things is, my fathers about 170 pounds, I have a very low set point, and from past experience, I know I can carry around 235 fairly well, but when I was that 235 before, I didn't get there the right way. I've had big time problems with that, So, for me, and with a fair bit of health problems that have come up just from exposing myself to so many toxins previously, I knew I had to make a big time LIFESTYLE change, but since life got in the way, I had to make it really easy, because I honestly forced myself to work 80 hours a week and just create stress out of thin air, but I honestly have had a very high stress, high burnout rate job for 7 years straight.
So I didn't so much care about getting lean, the leaner I got the cleaner I ate, it was a good gauge of progress, and really let me focus on HEALTH... but don't worry, I didn't talk about the problems before because I was somewhat ashamed of myself. Its hard not be with the company I keep, Paul Vaillancourt puts more focus into this diet than we do into our training programs, all the while working those same 80 hour weeks. But honestly, now, from 3 years of BUILDING HABITS, and getting feedback from guys whose job it is to make you look the way you want to look, and trying verious methods, I'm now extremely healthy compared to my formers self, and it's just a way of life, as opoosed to a diet.
I just used becoming leaner, with higher levels of cardio to achieve it, all the while refining my technique from a pseudo wide stance bastard squat, to a very nice deep back squat from re learning all of my lifts. I just hit 496-350-560 on an extrememly bad day at 215, and I've totaled higher, but with retarded technique. Now I have the technique that can hit 600-400-650.. I have the habits to be able to build my body to a healthy 250ish, and I'm coached by Mark Giffen, Sam Dube, and occasionally Willie Albert, I train with 12 powerlifters, oh yeah, I also grew the most positive 12 man powerlifting team ever, and they're all my best friends, any single one of those guys would take a bullet for me because I'd die for them. Oh also while doing this, I was mentored by an entrepeneur on how to become one, with weekly goal setting and review sessions, and was a partner in a million dollar company.
So I'm feeling pretty good about everything right now, I don't think getting to 250 will be all that hard, I learned from Shelby Starnes just to eat a little bit more week to week, and do as little as possible, it's so easy I'm back in the 225-230 range, and have the same leanness at 215... That's what guys dno't understand, the rebound from getting lean is one of the most powerful effects I've ever seen, it basically comes down to just eating a little bit more from week to week, and going slow enough to keep leanness i'm going to ride out the rebound, not hammer a pizza, but keep protein high, I'm not even eating carbs, just eating more protein with BCAA levels high, then when I need to I'll add carbs.
Right now from my extrememly high BCAA levels, I'm using much more protein... usually when we ingest, unless we have high rates of protein synthesis, we don't absorb and use the protein we eat. I ingest around 60-100g of BCAA's a day and I just keep adding in shakes and lots of healthy fats. healthy fats with protein is 100% fine, as long as you aren't taking in a bunch of crap with it, basically high sugar content foods. I'm slowly trying to get my habits into the 300g of protein a day range then when I'm there, and I start to plateau, i'll add in carbs again, I have a cheat meal a day, usually plain hamburgers, or timbits first thing in the morning, it's a good time to have sugar I find, rest of the time, I stay away from sugar and dairy, both cause a lot of allergies. Like someone else before said, I just eat... but some people work 20hours a week, in a low stress job, some people work 80 hours a week to provide for their families, and have to stay healthy for them, and it's not even close to as simple as people make it sound. Our health is a lifestyle, not a choice. And, seriously, you cook twice a week, enough for the whole week, you make good decisions, and you use shakes to supplement your nutrition, and you just eat it.
I know you run your own business, I learned from a very great business mentor, that when you're a small business owner, you own a job. In your case, personal training, or whatever you'd like to call it, an entrepeneur realizes that his body is HIM, his body is a direct reflection of the decisions you make. I prefer to be able to tell people things I would only be willing to do myself, so I wouldn't really follow guys who don't have my lifestyle, I copied Paul Vaillancourt, not everything about him, the parts I needed, he makes it very clear he looks the way he does because he chooses to. Hhe can be stage ready in 12 weeks flat. but he needs to be heavy, Paul dieted himself to 2 bodybuilding competitions by HIMSELF. That shit is hard, Paul had these habits well before his strongman career, but because of those habits, once he switched to focusing on his diet he got to 265 from 230ish. He's the only guys I know who built himself there, other guys either gained into one weight class, or got fat and dieted down by eating healthy for the first time, and called it a miracle. I don't really care how I did it, but I can do it now. So, took 3 years? big deal, i'm in this for at least 10.
My question for you Rowan, is why should I listen to you? To be blunt, you're fat. Not everyone wants to be jacked, but some people do. Can u get them there? I wouldn't trust you. I've used a variety of diets, and even when I was eating horribly, it was still pretty healthy.
So, please do reply, I've always really enjoyed talking with you.
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