Recent content by Mongo44

Chicks used to do that at a strip club I went to when I was younger. After the show, if you paid one of the bouncers 5 bucks he'd let us go up and sniff the pole.

Also-changed my routine to Bench, Rows, Overhead press on Monday, Thursday and Squat, Deadlift on Tuesday, Friday. At 44 I feel my body still gets enough recovery with 72 hours between workouts. Doing 5x5 with progressive loading. Done this last two workouts and feels better.

Muscle burns more calories then fat. Wouldn't it make more sense to add as much muscle as I could as fast as I could and then the cutting phases would go much easier since I have more muscle burning more calories. If I start with a cut first then I lose more of what muscle I have and I end up...

Thank you very much for the responses. I used a couple different calorie calculators that showed I needed around 3700 calories a day to maintain my weight with my work and exercise level. Am I wrong in thinking I need a few hundred extra to build muscle mass which puts me around 4000...

My current goal is to add as much muscle as possible. I'm not too worried about the fat as I can diet that away later and from what I have read I need a slight calorie excess to build muscle. I would like to do bodyweight on bench, squat and deadlift. Getting strong and Big is my main goal...

I have been sedentary most of my life. At 6'2", 275lbs and age 44. 6 months ago decided I needed to get in shape or die a fat, weak slob. I found this site and started doing 5x5 compound lifting and changed my diet to eating like a horse but sticking to Meat, Dairy, Veggies, Fruit. Typical...