i had increased my weight from 56kg to 60kg about 1 and half month time. And for all the secret is EAT and EAT.

I would say that my weight increase is not 100% lean muscle mass, and of course i can see my tummy's layer of fat become thicker also. Anyhow, what i did was eat rice.

9am - breakfast
12pm - lunch
2pm - lunch
5pm - lunch
8pm - dinner
11pm - dinner

for all the lunchs and dinners, i had rice. hahah.... it did really increase my weight and increase my strength. Atleast i can DL 120~130lb now... Still keep on increasing.

This post has been edited by iDk: Sep 23 2006, 09:41 PM

why not man? You are 70kg boy, you can do it. But forgot to mention my reps are only up to 5 reps, and the weight i play is starting from heavy become less heavy, it is dropping down. So i will not feel stress out or burn out or feel pain stuffs like that.

and the most important is for the day of workout, plan your meal properly and MUST get enough of carb as energy, it will be good if overload a bit, then play heavy weight, the muscle seems grow much faster that way and the weight of the plate will also keep increasing.

hoho.... next semester i have no class, plus in the semester break, i will have about 14 weeks of holiday. I see how fast i can increase the deadlift until. But it is kind of hard to DL heavy as the floor need to have thick floor mate or plastic to do the DL properly as lowering the heavy weight is dangerous.

i also just started DL seriously about 1~2 months ago. Another smith sh*t again, throw away the smith and play the power rack lar..... For my workout, i can do all my exercises on the power rack alone. But weird as my gym there, those big boy dont play the power rack, they keep on playing around the incline, decline, flat bench press, smith machine and also the leg squat machine. What the hell is wrong with them? All they did was bench press every single day.

Trust me man, when you deadlift and squat in the proper way and strict form with those heavy weight, your body will develop a lot of muscles, it is like everywhere like the muscle become thicker or something like that which i have no idea why it happened that way, maybe it got to do with the body muscle overall balancing and symmetry system. Hope you got what i mean. Another thing, dont injure yourself as the heavy weight is dangerous. If you did it, all i can do is laugh.

oh yeah.....

ermm... about the belt... for me, the only useful belt is the dips belt, but i made my own (just some simple thing tie with rope). For me opinion, there is no need to use belt atleast you are playing with some serious sh*t weight. When i said serious weight is like 400++~1000++lb of weight, you still can see those powerlifter from china, they dont use belt. It is like asking me shall i use the glove and i would say "f*ck the glove and freaking hold the metal, your hand will be use to it sooner or later".

You have to understand what is the use of the belt, it is kind of long to explain here. You can search around about the belt but i would say it is the same as when i DL, i will just make mine mid section rock tight (to increase the inner pressure of my body , so that the organ and muscle will provide me more strength. I dont know how to say it as i know these when i do i martial art at young age, for those who know what i'm talking about.)

This post has been edited by iDk: Sep 24 2006, 08:37 PM