Ok it is just a confusion. I was particularly not angry or pissed off but felt weird on the issue in particular and automatically assume I'm the subject and felt ever weirder.

If you want to get big, just eat more frequently, increase your calorie intake. 5~6 meals. If still not getting bigger, increase your calorie intake again, means each meals calorie need to increase. Repeat increasing your calorie intake until you become bigger.

Increase your sets.

You will do it eventually, if you can do 1 rep, you can work on getting adding rep from time to time. I'll be extra worried if I can't do 1 rep, once secured 1 rep, increasing rep is just about maintaining the strength or improving it a little and obtaining more endurance, more reps will come the more you do an exercise.

Keep having your goal on achieving bodyweight exercise goal. I still not able to do weighted chin up to match your kind of weight, same as a dip. Having a big body and conquering bodyweight exercise means a very strong guy. Keep on working on it, you'll get it.


I'm 1.66m tall, weight always hover around 52~53kg before ramadhan. How about you? How tall are you? How light you want to be?

Trying to be like me? I'm still a work on progress, but thanks anyway, glad to motivate others like you, same as you motivate me. Now I have to be extra worried even more... I need to workout twice as hard just to keep the gap intact, lol.


2 pull up? No worry, 3, 4, 5, and even more reps will be yours if you just continue to do pull up. Aiming for more reps is largely endurance, to gain endurance... you just need to keep repeating the same movement over and over.

Or you can try convict conditioning method, if you are discipline enough (I'm not) to follow the steps from step 1, eventually you'll gain ability to do more reps.

Or you can try to increase strength, so strong that with two hands, where you feel like it is almost like pulling a nothing on your way up. I used to try to increase my rep to no success. Once I'm on strength training doing weighted chin/pull up (1~3 rep only) for quite a while, then I tried normal unweighted version... it was too easy, too swift of a motion. I've read strength training only can bring you so far in terms of max rep you can finally do, maybe 15 reps? More than that, no matter how strong you improve further it never going to happen. You need to switch from strength training back to training for endurance, which is repeating the movement again and again.

Train your grip. The more powerful your grip the better you can use the cheat way of pulling massive feat and greater achievement. Google up irradiation (it is by Pavel). Purposefully grip the bar so hard when you doing pull up. For pull up, put more pressure on your little finger, or the last two finger to engage the more powerful lats even more.

Train your shoulder, having strong lats, strong arm, but weak intermediary muscle hold your progress. Recognize your strength and weakness, you are as strong as your weakest link.

What else, believe it or not, strong midsection helps in bringing more strength and power to every of your lift. It amplifies your strength. Having max pressure in the midsection does this. Not the visible 6 abs you get by cardio and diet, but a truly strong midsection, oblique, transversus abdominis, lumbar erector

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Well, strength training is all about technique. You dont say to Usain bolt... you run fast because of good technique and discard his achievement.

Yeah, one more thing. Exploit negative... it is a real cheat way to get real strong in a rush.

I think that's it. Oh, 1 more thing, strength-bodyweight ratio. Increase strength. or decrease bodyweight. or do both. But since you want to bulk up, increase strength is your only option then...

You look... scary. Nice body, keep it up.

I havent yet able to do 1 arm chin/pull up too, it is just a negative portion. 1 arm negative is like 1 step away to having this skill. I need to be extra careful now that I'm in the mood to do the one arm negative again. My tricep (lateral) and the tendon at elbow area has halted my progress last time around. Thanks for the compliment. Dont downgrade yourself, of course you can do the 1 arm pull up, you just need to train for it and realize everyone can achieve it with patience and dedication.

For now, I hope to join the one arm chin/pull up club, no matter how long it takes.

56kg and shorter than me? You are actually quite OK in weight, just nice. Losing weight a little wont hurt you also...

Setting a target certainly will be helpful, but dont be very particular on it. Your body might need some mass to achieve greater strength or lose weight. As long as you know you still performing strongly as you losing weight... then it should be OK. If you gaining weight, and see you cannot perform difficult bodyweight feat anymore, then you know you are too heavy. Repeat the process, and you will soon arrive at a weight that is just nice for your body. That is the beauty of bodyweight exercise, just right for you.

I'm very interested. I vote for a thread on this. It can be a place to put a collection of weird and forgotten exercise. Calisthenics build strength and great functional body.

It is very possible. Thanks!


That guy is the current world record holder for weighted pullup. He got his one arm pull up not by doing one arm pull up progression but by doing weighted pull up on a regular basis. The wonder of weighted pull up...

To join his group as an extremepullup member, you just need to post a video of you doing a pull up with total 150% of your bodyweight.

http://www.extremepullups.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/ExtremistPullup


I agree that if you do strength training first, and then you want to dive into bodybuilding... it is much safer.

You can do one arm pull up? Seriously? Got a picture or video? Any tips? At what bodyweight did you manage to do it? When?

1 thumb push up... I tried it just now since I never tried it, put a lot of stess on the thumb, but a great way to build thumb strength. Recommend it. I wont try it if I'm bigger and never train the movement but it clearly is not the case here. Anyway, innovative way to workout. Let me work on my finger strength first to match Bruce lee 2 finger one arm push up first before I come back on the one thumb one arm version later. This is actually a tendon strength display, this kind of thing takes time to develop.



You are a very interesting being, now that I know you are like me before you dive into bodybuilding, I have a question. One arm pull up, one thumb 2 hand push up, 1 arm push up, are you still able to perform all of them now? Very interested here, picture will be nice too.

It is the former. The later is... urm, difficult to achieve in a timely manner... haha~

12% is 38% away from 50%, keep up the good work.

If I am 100kg, I need to pull extra 50kg. Total weight is 150kg, 150%.

This post has been edited by hoxy: Aug 4 2011, 07:45 PM

Thanks! It is possible I will do bb bulking in the future? Who knows? lol

Look gorgeous! Looking forward for your before and after picture... must be kind of free_enuf transformation?

This is my only second time successfully pulling myself up a little. Last time months ago, I managed to do it but dont record it. Injury happened and I was forced to back down. Today... I do it the second time, looking back at the record, I think I'm halfway already. Maybe I should try taking a chair and start from 90degree angle going up to understand what is my problem right now preventing me from full one arm chin up, I need to figure out my sticking point!

What to do when we are out of equipment and stranded outside without a pull up bar? We use the grill! haha!

Enjoy my half one arm chin up (there is no kick from the ground at the bottom, no kipping either. reduced weight, no weight scale right now, still in fasting month).

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BTW, @Alphaproject, you sure that is the same person, before and after? Totally different size altogether... congrats!

This post has been edited by hoxy: Aug 6 2011, 03:56 PM

I'll want to see the video of the eating too! lol

Keep it up!

That is big! Bigger than my thigh! lol. Good job, keep it up.

Nice back. Impressed.

I'm not using quote feature... lol

Very very nice body. As many pointed out, second picture is a lot nicer!

Understand the feeling bro... but seems like you are doing fine still...

Eating monster...

Bro ZintanthraX, wah! Really can see the difference! Amazing!

Keep the picture coming Alphaproject~ nice one!

@jackwylde, v-shape!

Nice back mikehuan.

Lets share back picture!

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@janson_kaniaz, lol... I'm still amazed on those weird muscle thing at my back myself... haha!

@WSL999, I know -Dan do futsal! Not sure if he is the referee though... lol

@van_takawa, I think logically thinking Alphaproject should be wearing sleeveless moving around all the time. Showing off the big gun! I know I would

Very nice build bata!

Nice deltoid.


@mikehuan, welcome to the 2xBW club! Your next target will be to chase Kaffatsum deadlift poundage ratio... 2.4 or something... . I think even performed raw, his poundage already high... not sure what is his true capability is... need to continue watching his journal (especially after ramadhan). Anyway, good job!



@cyloh, we should not mind taking advice from other (even if their poundage is much lower than us), because... people who failed many times learned a LOT. That is a fact!

This post has been edited by hoxy: Aug 19 2011, 08:22 AM

yeah... raw in deadlift means no strap, no belt.

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Vascularity?

Been slacking off on grip training... a few vein popping here and there... . Easy to pop it out for small guy!

This post has been edited by hoxy: Aug 20 2011, 05:06 PM

DL, this is beginnning to look... weird!