You Should be 300 pounds.

[Expendabro]

Monday 2 3 25
Squat 410 3x5
Bench 262.5 3x5
Fukin Pc practice 5x3 135

Gomslw 1
Hosslw 14
Recovery is harder than the workout...

[deborahlebl]

What body weight are you at now? Have you noticed a difference in your workouts? Still missing reps or no?

[Expendabro]

Wed 2 5 25
Squat 270 2x5
press 3x5 170 3x5
row 225 3x5

[Expendabro]

Friday 2 7 25
Squat 415 4,3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1
bench 225 3x5
Deadlift 315 stapled tot he f 1x1

[Expendabro]

Monday 2 10 25
Squat 405 5x5
Bench 265 5x3
Row 230 3x5

[Expendabro]

What body weight are you at now? Have you noticed a difference in your workouts? Still missing reps or no?

I got up to 280, but some how I have lost 5 pounds this last week and I'm back to 275 and it shows. I missed my first reps on squat last Friday, so Will need to rework my diet again and figure out how to cram in more calories. up until then I was able to add ten pounds a week for a month and a half without it really feeling heavier. the biggest difference was doing squats, before gomad, I would barley be able to recover from a set of 5 and then the next set would barley be able to go up. after gomad I didn't even sit down in-between sets and I was ready to go before the timer went off. I'm going to back off a bit to a 5lb increase per week i until I get my diet sorted again and start gaining weight. last thing I want is for something to break off and I'm out for 6 weeks with an injury. from what I reed fat people are harder to injure.

[WCSteppe]

How often do you eat? It appears we have similar goals and are at a similar weight. I eat about every 2 hours a day; just shoveling something in my mouth. I drink about half a gallon of milk a day. This has helped me maintain my bodyweight of 275ish while my numbers keep going up, but I do plan on reaching out to a dietician to see if she can help give overall guidelines to help me get to 300 pounds bodyweight by the end of the year.

[deborahlebl]

I highly recommend the half gallon of milk per day. Gets a lot of extra calories, macros, and hydration even when you don't have time/appetite to eat.

[Expendabro]

How often do you eat? It appears we have similar goals and are at a similar weight. I eat about every 2 hours a day; just shoveling something in my mouth. I drink about half a gallon of milk a day. This has helped me maintain my bodyweight of 275ish while my numbers keep going up, but I do plan on reaching out to a dietician to see if she can help give overall guidelines to help me get to 300 pounds bodyweight by the end of the year.

I haven't had too much trouble with hitting protien I get about 300 to 325g a day. It's loading up on the other calories. 5000 to 6000 seems to be a sweet spot where I recover the best, but getting there consistently it tough.I am eating all the time, my rule of thumb is eat whenever you stop feeling like you will vomit.
I think I'm going to try to cut back to half a gallon of milk and insert more chicken and beef and see if that is less filling. The milk is fantastic, however a full gallon if very filling.

[WCSteppe]

What do your warm-up weights and sets look like going into your working weight for the squats, and how much time do you take between working weight sets? I haven't seen any posts related to that, and if you are missing the first working set of 5, it is potentially due to that workouts programming and rest. Obviously sleep and previous day's recovery also impacts that, but we can't rule out rest time and warm-ups.

My squat work takes 45 to 60 minutes currently, because I need to rest 8 to 10 minutes between working sets and the warmup takes 20 to 30 minutes.

Monday's squat work, for example, was:
Warm-ups: 45*5, 45*5, 135*5, 225*3, 315*1, 365*1, with a 3 to 5 minutes rest before getting into the working sets
Working: 440*5, 440*5, 440*5, with 10 minutes rests between sets.

Also, why did you squat 405 for 5x5 on Monday, instead of 5x3?

My understanding of GOMAD is that you use it to gain the initial 40-50 pounds to help with NLP, but then you cut back and add new sources of protein, calories, etc. I have not found a way to get past 275 pounds in body weight either, but I'm hoping to work with someone to do that, and I certainly won't be doing GOMAD; it's very unpleasant.