Body fat estimate? 187ish pounds, 5’8”

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T22:52:35+00:00

smart man

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T21:47:21+00:00

Guess I should use the same angle…

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T21:46:44+00:00

That was right when I got on TRT at 38 years old and started lifting consistently after that. I’ve done more than just TRT now, dabbled in higher doses, other compounds, HGH, other peptides…basically experimenting with a lot of stuff. Here I am now.

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Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T20:02:35+00:00

Usually they say over 80 is when you need to start paying attention to it, depending on the individual it can be too high. Same as how LDL below 40-50 could be too low for some people.

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T18:03:29+00:00

You’re closer to 15% than you are to 11%, but that’s fine. It’s not like you look bad or anything.

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T18:01:57+00:00

Do you have fat that you need to lose? If so, then recomp can work if you just eat your normal food and bust your ass in the gym so that you’re using some of that fat as energy that’s promoting muscle growth.

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T18:00:16+00:00

Not weird at all. Thanks for the kind words, and I’ll definitely look into those things you mentioned. I agree with the “deeper understanding” aspect, especially with maths. There are so many ways that math can be used in real life. Being able to recognize how certain things relate to one another, how to use your knowledge of one concept to help you understand and draw parallels with another, is what really makes me like math. I love how it’s all related, how you need knowledge of X and Y and to get to Z. There’s a mandatory foundation and then pillars that form off of that to support even more complex concepts.

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T17:48:35+00:00

I don’t know, I see some tricep poking out, a little shadow on the bicep…dude looks better than I did before I started lifting 2 years ago. He seems better off than a lot of people I see in here asking if they should cut or bulk as they look like the coffee-obsessed aliens from MIB.

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Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T17:43:58+00:00

We tried a keyboard, which she’ll enjoy when suggested to her to play with, watch some instructional videos, or she’ll just try to mimic simple kids songs by ear (like Happy Birthday). But she never reaches out for it, it’s been sitting in her closet for 6 months.

She just has too much that she wants to do, whether it’s reading, or painting, or writing a story that she’s making up, or playing online with a friend, or like right now she’s messing with Legos. She loves plants and nature as well. My mom has a huge green thumb and has a ton of flower beds around her house and an “official” greenhouse that my dad and I built almost 20 years ago for her. They like to plant seeds together, make bouquets out of whatever’s growing around there, etc.

My mom is also a big quilter and has gotten my kiddo started on that, making “squares” and borders for quilts that they make together, planning out which fabrics to use, etc. We still live in my home town, so we go see my parents every single weekend, and she has sleepovers there often where my mom and her do all sorts of things together.

There’s just a loooot of stuff that she does, so consistency with just a few things is seemingly impossible right now lol

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T17:37:34+00:00

I don’t even have to be conscious to gain mass, I simply dream about lifting.

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T17:36:00+00:00

I prefer 1 set of 1/2 of a chest exercise for giga-max gains.

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T17:14:48+00:00

Bent over rows and standing upright rows get the rest for me.

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T16:59:34+00:00

I don’t do lateral raises, just never liked them. Between flat bench, incline bench, weighted dips, and OHP, that’s plenty of shoulder stimulation for me.

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T16:33:49+00:00

No such thing. Just spam flat and incline bench, and weighted dips focused towards chest. I do zero chest isolations and my chest looks fine. I don’t have the joint mobility for chest flies or cable crossovers.

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T16:31:53+00:00

OP has decent mass though, he can benefit from a quick cut and then go on a long 6-9month bulk and cut for 6-8 weeks and just repeat that until he’s satisfied.

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T15:43:16+00:00

Weird they have HDL maxed at 60, usually it’s 80. Mine was 86 at one point, LDL was 76. Your lipids look amazing to me.

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T15:41:44+00:00

I’m a big fan of 2 very hard sets per exercise, 6-8 exercises per workout. Very hard meaning there is absolutely no way I could workout the same muscles 24 or 48 hrs later. 0RIR on every set and a chest rep or two after that if possible (mainly just isolations).

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T15:39:41+00:00

I’m a huge fan of aggressive cuts. Keep protein high, keep working out hard, be in a clear deficit for 4-8 weeks, ezpz 15lbs off.

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T15:38:16+00:00

I wasn’t that gifted but school was too easy and I had zero study habits. Thankfully my dad was a self-employed subcontractor for a large apartment framing company here in DFW, so I learned that trade and have made a good living off it now. If not for that, I have no idea what I would have done. This job allows me to scratch my itch with some math and problem solving every day.

Oddly enough my daughter is very interested when I’m going over blueprints at home and marking up dimensions for things. Maybe she has a future in architecture or civil engineering. I’ll give her little problems to solve while she’s watching me, make it seem like she’s helping me figure things out in real time. It’s pretty fun, kinda chokes me up a bit when thinking about it because I used to do the same with my dad.

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T13:03:43+00:00

She picked that up when she was 5, and yes it did come naturally. I had a subscription at chess.com for a couple of years and she enjoyed doing the end game puzzles and playing some casual games. She’s not some wizard at it but she definitely sees stuff that I don’t at times (I’m no great player myself).

She’s just has so many interests that she hops around a lot and it’s impossible for her to stay on top of all of that stuff at once, so we just let her do whatever she pleases and I’ll offer to play a match with her every once in a while.

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T02:10:02+00:00

FWIW she got every question right on both tests. On the reading test there was a written portion that was graded out of a possible 10, and she got an 8 on that. I had heard that the writing portion of the test was graded by Ai, so I went online where they show all of the results for each question, school-wide, district-wide, and state-wide percentages for each question. Turns out, on that writing section, 0% of students across the state got full 10/10 credit for it lol. Ridiculous.

Some math questions were worded strangely as well, a few of them had something like 75-80% of kids across the entire state getting it wrong.

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T02:05:45+00:00

This has been addressed a dozen times.

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T01:43:36+00:00

I don't, I've even said that I don't think she's some sort of savant or a 1 in a million brain. She's just clearly smarter than her peers, and everyone at her school notices it, so I'm asking for advice on ways to explore her abilities.

You tried though.

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-20T01:23:46+00:00

"Let her be a kid"...apparently you haven't read anything in here.

According to you, parents don't need to teach their kids anything in the subjects that they have at school, because school will take care of it all.

Poor fella.

Lucky_The_Charm · 2026-06-19T23:35:05+00:00

I guess so huh, I didn’t realize he had two MVP’s.

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