Quote Originally Posted by Snakey View Post
Depends on a lot of things mate. I have been training for a yr and 3 months. I probably had a little more weight on me than you would (was around 95 kilos with a bit of flab) and then I dropped to 83 kilos with only doing weight training and started to notice I was toning up after a few months. Thats called newbie gains because its such a shock to your body. Once your body gets use to it (around 5 to 6 months) thats the hard part. You gotta push yourself to get past plateaus and make sure your eating properly. I dont have a really strict diet but thats because I dont eat heaps of shit anyway or eat that much at all (I rely on protein shakes to make up what I dont eat) all because I dont have enough time in the day to eat that much.

You gotta eat shit loads of protein and cut out the fatty stuff. I currently train 5 days a week. In the yr and a bit I have been training I have noticed a massive difference in my body composition. Much wider at the shoulders and chest, chest and back are thicker, arms a much bigger and stomach is shit loads more toned. But you cant just go "well im going to train for 2months and get absolutely tanked" coz a lot of guys do that and end up disappointed coz it wont happen that fast. Sure if you take steroids you can put a good amount of muscle on in a few months but if you havent been training long then chances are you will get fat from them because you havent had time to perfect your diet and training routine. I also take supplements: 100% Whey protein powder, Superpump 250 pre workout (i train at 5 am in the morning so I need the fuckin energy lol) and currently Size On which is a creatine supplement that you take during your workout.

Just to give you an idea on how much progress you can make in a yr (everyone is different though) when I first started bench pressing I would struggle with 40 to 50 kilos (fuckin weak as) and now I can bench press around 110 kilos (still not as high as I want it to be, I want 150 but Ill get there).
40 or 50 kilos is quite a bit stronger than me right now!

But I bought these awesome Bowflex Select Tech adjustable dumbells. Each dumbell weighs up to 21 kgs and if I can get to the point where they aren't heavy enough for me I will be well pleased.

I think I only weigh about 68 kgs so benching 100 is very impressive.

Are you talking one rep max's here or sets of 12 though?