Bumping my intake up to 500 surplus has done the trick and my weight is trending back up! That is always a hard thing to type/say by the way. Losing weight was so much harder and now I'm purposefully putting it back on? I have to keep telling myself that this is the right way to do it, heh. At any rate, last week ended up at around 178.3 and so far this week I'm averaging 179.
One of the things that is supposed to happen when you're bulking is that you progress in your lifts much easier/quicker. So far I haven't really felt like this has happened (though, so far I haven't really gained much weight). I did kind of sort of set some new PRs this week though. I had done these weights before but never for this many reps:
Squat 265 x3
Deadlift 315 x3
Next week will be attempts at weights I've never done before! Or at least, it would be if it weren't Christmas. The gym I'm going to is closed all week so I'm not sure what I will do. Take a week off? Drive down to Earth Treks and use their gym? We shall see how motivated I am during a holiday week.
Speaking of deadlift, when I was working my way up to 315 this past Monday I could feel my grip starting to loosen on the set before 315. So for 315 I tried using a mixed grip for the first time. It worked really well! I was quite pleased.
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