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Gymaholic is the one I settled on after trying a few

To gain a minimum of 4kg of stage weight

I would say cut to sub 15% first then start bulking

Completely normal obviously if your do to train legs and are in pain just walking might have to cut frequency but pain after training especially legs is normal

I think your lifestyle plays a big part in your decision to keep cardio in depends on your daily activity levels really,for instance on my last off season I did no cardio (have a very physical job) and still had to eat 7300 calories a day by the end to progress and that was still keeping bodyfat sub 17% so in cases like…

That might be the case but I use a similar method all be it with shorter load times with weight loss clients and it works well of course it’s not essential and there are many effective ways of handling nutrition I think the main thing is picking a plan that your likely to stick to

In my experience carb cycling does work, last year I prepped without carb cycling late last year I started working with Skip Hill and he had me going high carbs once a week in prep using his skiploading method which is very high simple carbs for a set amount of time,nothing else was changed and I was definitely leaner and…

Baked beans are horrific so is mayo

I agree certainly I’d go with whey post workout with some simple carbs

I personally would drop the serious mass and the bcaa’s, replace the serious mass with real food your not eating enough to have to resort to such high calorie shakes yet. Bcaa’s are incomplete source of aminos if you want to use something I’d suggest EAA’s in with your water while your in the gym

How many weeks have you been training without taking a deload week or week off?

Log every rep and set either using an app or a note book to make sure your progressing most session, and as others have set eat in a surplus and also get plenty of good quality protein from food rather than shakes as much as possible,try to save the shakes as a post workout only with some carbs

Hi good luck with your goals

This is spot on if you get a coach that can’t explain the why then chances are he/she doesn’t know there just giving you a prep someone else gave them and that almost never works we’re all too different

You haven’t really given anyone enough info to help you with any kind of meal plan

I certainly second what’s been said above about hiring a coach of funds allow certainly for your first couple of shows anyway, there’s a lot that goes into a show prep and although you can find good info online you also find a hell of a lot more bad info. I’d also shop around for a coach there’s a lot of bad ones out…

Agreed myself I trained 4 days a week using fortitude training in prep but only 3 days a week using DC off season,rest is as important as training especially when your trying to grow

Personally I’m not a fan of cardio in a bulk just means you need to eat even more to grow I don’t train anywhere near as often as you either

When you say you train twice a day 5 days a week,is that all weights or are some of those sessions cardio?

Do a mini cut for a few weeks then go back to bulking unless your bulking with the goal of competing if so and your bodyfat isn’t to high (16-17%) just keep bulking by gradually adding more calories just be sure to allow yourself plenty of time to contest prep so you can diet down slowly to hang on to as much muscle mass…

I’ve had a look through your food log your calories don’t seem very high for a bulk, how far into your bulk are you and at what rate are you gaining weight?

How much weight are you aiming to gain and how long do you plan on prepping? Also what bodyfat level are you at

For me I like Fortitude training in a prep and DC training in the off season

I think before and after pictures are a great help to track progress as others have said we change so gradually it’s an easier way to see how far we’ve come, I started taking them almost weekly the day I started training and dieting 4 1/2 years ago and have no problem sharing them,if it offends someone that’s there problem

It is but like yourself I burn through calories very quickly so if I want to add muscle I have to eat that amount unfortunately, unlike most of my bodybuilder friends I actually look forward to the prep phase so I can eat less

If you gain weight on say 2400 a day once you reach a certain point you will need to increase calories again to continue to gain weight,for instance I’m now prepping on around 3000 a day but when I reverse out of prep into my off season the calories will gradually increase by around 500 each time my weight gain stalls…

Gaining muscle weight is a long process so you just need to be patient I’ll stick a couple pics up one of the day I started training and one from last month,it’s taken me 4 1/2 years and I’m that time I’ve taken only a handful of days off my diet although my diet changes between bulking and prepping. I’d say start with 300…

As others have suggested back off for a couple of weeks and go again, personally I find bulking harder than contest prep, in my last bulk I was hitting 7300 calories a day of clean food and towards the end I felt like you do now and probably should of backed off myself for a week or two but was limited time wise so pushed…

It’s goal dependant really if your goal is purely weight loss then any plan that puts you in a deficit by either increasing activity levels and or cutting calories will work, if the end body composition is important then it gets a little more complicated