r/GettingShredded

Been eating in a decent clean surplus for a month or so now after a big long cut. This is how I'm currently looking at around 89kg, 6ft1. Hoping to pack on some decent mass over the summer!

Posing is still a work in progress..

It took me 24 weeks to prepare for my photoshoot. This photo was taken one week after the shoot. Since then, I’ve been enjoying desserts and higher calorie meals again, still in moderation. I’ve definitely put on some water weight, especially around my midsection, but the pumps have been absolutely unreal.

Probably my leanest and biggest I’ve ever been but feel like it’s getting harder and harder to sleep/train efficiently

I should say that I did add Reta and have been on trt for little over a year.

6 months, 11kgs and some slightly kinder lighting later… i will concede that i could have gotten to this point a lot faster, but i am too much of a glutton unfortunately

Trying to get back to my leaner shape. Always the lower belly and lower back/love handles never seem to lean out, even with an intensive diet regiment. I don’t want to drop fats below 50-55g, it wrecks me. Advice?

Hi all, like everyone else here I’ve been on Reta for 7 weeks now and have lost a whopping 12kg.

Started around 104 and now down at 92kg.

I clearly didn’t realise how fat I was, as I figured I’d be shredded by now.

Only issue is, I thought I had a decent amount of muscle as I’ve trained (albeit inconsistently) for many years - I’m 6’5 (197cm) so my structure always looks a bit lame and muscle doesn’t come easy

Should I stop the cut here and focus on building some muscle up.

I know I should look a little better after a couple refeed days, I’m scheduled to stop the cut end of July.

A little disappointed with my current physique after some pretty drastic weight loss.

The cut lasted 4-5 months and I lost around 10kg bodyweight and alot of fat going from 81kg to 71kg. Im very happy with the outcome as my weighted pull up increased a ton from 40kg X 10 to 55kg X 10 due to mostly fat loss and neurological improvement. Obviously the lighting is a little different even though it's same room maybe it's my cooked phone.

Second picture was at end of bulk.

Stats: M25, 5'7-5'8", 68kg/150lb, ~18-20, lifting 1.5 years, 4 weeks into this lean bulk, vegetarian, no medical conditions. Goal: build a v-taper (wider shoulders, tighter waist) for a family trip in October.

Body:

5'7ish, 150lbs, been lifting about a year and a half, veg (no eggs or meat which makes protein annoying). Trying to build a decent v-taper for a family trip in October, haven't seen them in 3 years so trying to show up looking like I actually lift.

Been on a lean bulk for 4 weeks. Went from 65.7 to 68kg and my waist has stayed at 33" the whole time so I thought it was going well. Front pics look fine to me but then I took a side pic (attached) and there's way more gut than I realized. Pretty sure I'm like 18-20 not the 14ish I assumed.

My workout split is a 5 day thing, rest after legs and after day 5:

Push - incline db, shoulder press machine, pec deck, lateral raises (myo reps on last set), tricep pushdown + overhead

Pull - weighted pullups, lat pulldown wide grip, seated row, rear delt fly, incline curls, hammer curls

Legs - bulgarian split squats as my main, leg extension, rdl, leg curl, calves

Shoulders + arms - cable lateral raises (my priority), shoulder press, rear delts, face pulls, tricep/bicep supersets

Upper - incline, row, laterals, pulldown, pec deck, triceps

Basically lateral delts are my #1 focus for width, then triceps and upper chest, then back.

Numbers if it matters: incline db 60s (got stuck at 65 a while back and lost it, working back), shoulder press 100, weighted pullups +20, bulgarian split squat 120, row 180.

So my main questions:

1. based on the side pic should i just keep bulking till august or start cutting now

2. is my volume actually set up right for width or am i doing something dumb. anything obviously wrong with the split

Decided to get lean so have been cutting since january my final aim was to get shredded so i feel im close now. From about 95 kilos to approx 81-2 kilos.

Photoshoot done (still waiting for the photographer to send the final photos). Afterwards, I treated myself to two shawarmas (one lamb and one chicken), a lamb dish with hummus, baba ganoush, and pistachio cream cheesecake. This is the result. I wasn’t as vascular during the shoot because the gym was freezing cold.

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