 Alright guys, what is going on? We're at day 42. I've just come outside, I'm at work at the moment. I just thought I'd quickly run through how things are going. This is basically just gonna be an update on everything. Macros, training, supplements, how much weight I've been pushing, how I'm feeling, et cetera. So without further ado guys, let's get into it. So like I said, it is day 42. Six sevens, 42. I have been bulking officially on this series for six weeks. But what I will say is that probably a week or a week and a half before I actually started this series officially, I was bulking anyway. So it's probably around about seven, seven and a half weeks total that I have been bulking. So, you know, I'm feeling really good. What happened originally in the first couple of weeks, I started taking creatine obviously, you know, up my carbs from about 200, 250 to like 500, straight away. I said, you know, I said I was gonna do this reverse diet, didn't happen once again. You know, I've complained to you guys before that the thing that I fuck up every single time I go into a bulg is I just do things way too fast and that's exactly what happened this time as well. I'm not gonna fucking lie. You guys probably see it in my face. I feel, you know, fatter around my face at the moment and it's not a good feeling. You know, for the first three or four weeks, I was feeling amazing in the gym. You know, the pumps were there. I wasn't getting soft. You know, I was waking up every morning with a nice flat stomach. Slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, the food catches up to you. And basically now I feel like I've got this little layer over my stomach and it's definitely, definitely fading out my abs, which sucks. But what I will do is I'll talk to you guys now. When I get home on lunch, I'll give you guys a quick physique update, but from now, yeah, training, honestly, training's been going fantastic. Those first few weeks were great. I was, my strength shot up originally. Over the last four weeks, it's probably, it's been pretty steady. But, you know, the pumps have been consistent. I haven't really had too many week days, whereas when I was cutting, when I was low carb, there'd be days where I couldn't push two plates. And then there'd be some days where I could push two and a half easily. And then now, for example, on that lift, which is an incline press, I'm putting three plates on, on a hammer strength incline press. So, you know, strength has probably gone up, I don't know, 10, 15%, maybe 20% on some lifts. So as far as training goes, deadlifts. Now I'm gonna start on that because I hit deadlifts once a week for the first three weeks. And it took me over, over a week to recover from those sessions. And on the last session, I did, I was doing sets of eight with 170 kilo stop-start. And at the end of that workout, my back just felt worse than it ever had before. And, you know, it is good muscle soreness, but it just took so, so fucking long to recover. So I decided to cut the deadlifts. Since then, you know, my back workouts have been predominantly rowing and pull-down movements. I do want to start doing either rack pulls or deadlifts again, but, you know, at the moment my back is feeling okay and I really don't wanna, you know, fuck it up again, to be honest. So I'm a little bit hesitant about deadlifts, but they are an exercise that I fucking enjoy, man. It's an intense exercise. It's really, it's fucking awesome. You know, it's a true show of strength and that's what I like about it. But as far as leg training, you guys have probably seen a couple of my leg training sessions. They've been going pretty good. The pendulum hack squat that I was doing sets of 10 with three plates aside, I'm doing sets of 12 to 15 with three plates aside. So, you know, strength is definitely going up. As far as, you know, arm training, I'm definitely stronger on pushing movements. So your shoulder press, well, that's not arms, but your tricep movements. Biceps is pretty much the same, but, you know, what goes down really quickly when I start cutting is my pushing movements and that also comes back really quickly when I start bulking again and giving my body the nutrients it needs. So, you know, training's going good. My physique, as I said, you know, I'm feeling a bit fat. I'm feeling fucking, you know, bloated on a daily basis, but it's all part of it. You know, if I do decide to do, you know, a short mini cart or something, I'm sure that I'll be able to shed that excess fat and be back in a perfect position to keep bulking. But at the moment, I'm going to continue with the bulk, obviously. I don't want to stop. So, weight-wise, I started this cut at 90 kilo and I never, you know, the lightest I ever got was about 89. The first week went by, I went up to about 91.5 and it's slowly gone up between, it's slowly gone up from about 500 grams to about 750 grams per week. So at the moment, after seven weeks of bulking, I'm at about 96 in the morning. So it's too fast, you know, at this point, ideally, I'd probably want to be at about 93. But with that said, the reason that my weight has, you know, gone up so fast is the fact that I literally counted macros for the first two days. That's it, nothing. I was like, you know what? What I do best is eat intuitively, train intuitively, and I get bigger. And that's exactly what happened. So I have got bigger, I've definitely put on muscle, but, you know, that layer over my stomach is getting a bit too much now. So, going forward, I think I am definitely gonna rein it in a bit. I'm going to start counting macros. But, you know, as far as what my macros have actually been, I'd say they'd probably be at about 250 to 260 protein. Fat would be probably around about 100 to 120. And carbs, fuck, mac carbs have gone through the roof. I'd say that probably, honestly, on some days, they're about 600 grams, maybe five to 600 grams. But the majority of my carbs I have before and after training. So I'll make sure, you know, two hours before I train, I have between 100 and 150 grams of carbs. And then following training, within a couple of hours following training, I've smashed down another 200. So that's 350 grams of carbs, just like that. But because they're around my training, my body is definitely, definitely, you know, utilizing it as well as I want it to. So that's training. That's diet supplements. I've been making up my own pre-workout. So I've been having beta alanine, creatine, and caffeine, just straight three ingredients. That's been all right. As far as intra-workout, I've been using glycogect, which is a carbohydrate supplement. You may have seen me get that. And also, I've been having BCAAs throughout the day. I really love the taste of 5% nutrition, BCAAs, so I've just been mixing it with water, morning, afternoon, night. I'm definitely, I'm probably not drinking, you know, straight water at the moment, ever. It's all mixed with some sort of supplement. So, you know, that's all right. I'm probably getting through at least three or four litres of water a day. So it's all good. What else? What else is there? Basically, you know, everything's going pretty good. The only thing that is really fucking me off is just this little layer that's developing over my abs, which I really, you know, I'm probably up at about 15% body fat right now. A major goal of mine. You know, there's fat-free mass index, right? With natural athletes, especially when you're trying to figure out who's fake, natty, or who's not, the number always gets, you know, brought up, which is 25, and that is, it's apparently the natural limit for any, you know, mere mortal to get to, as far as fat-free mass index, as far as fat-free mass. So I worked it out. If I can get to 220 pounds at my height at 15% body fat or less, I will be at 25. I will have a fat-free mass index of 25, which will be fucking epic, because then I can say I'm at the maximum fucking natural genetic limit. And I believe, I believe guys, that if I can maybe shed a couple, maybe three kilos, get myself back down to about 12% body fat, or maybe even a little bit less, and then continue this bulk nice and slow, tracking macros, I reckon at the end of this year, I can definitely get that number 25 of fat-free mass index. And that's a definite goal of mine, whether it happens this year, whether it happens next year, or the year after. That's a definite goal of mine. I wanna be able to say that I've got a fat-free mass index of 25 or more. So that will be a major goal. But anyways, guys, it's raining a little bit more now. I'm gonna go inside. Hope you guys enjoyed. I'll see you guys tomorrow. Yeah, the rain really is coming down now. Have a great day, train hard, as always. Don't know what my client's doing right now. I've been talking way too long. I should really go and see. So I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.