November update
Numbers Started the month at 179lbs, aiming to end the month at 180 or 181, maybe 182. I ended the month at 180! Not bad. That feels like a huge success for my approach to this slow bulk. (My big goal, to reiterate, was to put on weight without gaining too quickly - which seems to be succeeding so far.) Hopefully over the next five months I can put on a decent amount of muscle and minimal fat; then in my next fat loss phase I can aim to get down to lower levels of body fat that I haven’t seen before. That would be pretty cool. The first week of the month I didn’t reach quite the volume of resistance training I was shooting for, since I ended up getting my flu and Covid shots a day earlier than anticipated (I was scheduled for Thursday, but when I brought my family for their shots on Wednesday the nurse said they’d just do mine at the same time), and it took my body a few days to recover fully and be less sore and achy, but I still got a decent effort in (more like fifteen sets per priv...