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either way, I guess I'm not really focusing on building huge muscle mass, just very slow increasesΒ :)Β I'm not actually complaining about not being able to gain weight as that's probably a good thing, but I'm just referencing the fact I'm at least partially trying to gain muscle mass and very slowly achieving it... around ~1kg per year haha

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If you did focus on building as much muscle as possible you would probably gain double or triple that for a number of years in a row.

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From 2010, it took me about 7 or 8 years to go from 78kg up to 105kg at 15 to 20% bodyfat. Since then I've gained about up to another 5 to 10kg of mixed results. The 120kg plus times were from excess drinking which resulted in pitting oedema. That's just a sh*tload of water retention which quickly disappears.

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It's a slow process whether or not you actively chase the gains.

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yeah, I started going to the gym again (went for a couple of years at high school from 17-18 years old after which I stopped when I went to university in 2006) regularly in 2016 at ~70kg, now 7 years later (1ish covid-interrupted years; two winters of closed gyms...) I'm at 78 pushing 79kg, with around 10% body fat... that's with doing a fair chunk of hypertrophy but a bunch of other functional fitness stuff... never pushing big heavy weights and never tailoring a diet or supplements to it... so I guess one could say I'm half-arsing it, but the effort I put in at the gym isn't half-arsed :)Β 

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You know it's funny how the perception of weight changes over the years. Eventually heavy weight becomes light and the process comes full circle.

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Even if you aren't training for maximal gains, you've made some great progressΒ :)

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oh yeah, my 2016-self would look at the weight and reps I now regularly lift and be like "f that"... so yeah, gains! even if somewhat slow ;)Β 

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Haha yeah same, now it's a balancing act with lifting enough to make gains while still being able to recover. Speaking of slow gains, I added 30kg to my deadlift over the past 12 months, that's only 2.5kg per month. I'll be pretty chuffed if I can do that again this year and be comfortable there, rather than nearly maxed out.

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Righty ho, time to get this party started. Day 1 of the last BB meso, feeling good, feeling strong, ate a huge bowl of rice bubbles, smashed coffee, had vitamins, looking forward to getting a pump and making some gains :declare:

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