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Spokeonawheel

Spokeonawheel

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When I was a kid, like 18. I think I wore like a 30 waist in pants. As I grew older a 32 through my mid 20s to mid 30s.

After 10 years of consistent weight training, it appears I'm just bigger everywhere. Including through my waist area.

I was trying to build mass for about the last 7 years... I guess thats a long time to bulk. As I grew more serious about it the amount of food I was consuming also became more serious. By the end of 2019 I was weighing 240 to 245 at 20% ish BF.

About 5 months ago, finally decided to cut down a bit and see where I was at.

At %12 BF my waist is 36 inches. I'm 6' sitting at 225 lbs rt now. I'm also 41.

Ive been lifting heavy for a pretty long time. Most of the last 10 years of training has been a hybrid of strength training amd hypertrophy. Powerbuilding basically. Recently, I've been much more focused on a more strict bodybuilding training regimen.

Long story short, I figured after cutting down I'd be a bit smaller in the waist. I'm sure I could pull another inch off my waist if I want to cut down to %10 or lower, but I don't think I'm ever seeing a 32" waist again.

What caused this? Overeating? Is it just the way I'm built? A consequence of the way I've been training?

Sometimes, I'll throw around the idea of actually competing in BB, and the waistline strikes me as a problem area.

Haven't made a thread for a couple weeks. Figured I'd throw this out there. Any possible solutions? Cause?
 
Unless you’ve been on extreme gH/insulin with crazy over feeding, it’s probably a combination of consistent heavy training and walking around at heavier body weights.

can also have to do with foods you’re currently eating. being mindful of your abs and working vacuums can help as well.
 
Deadlifting over the years can widen the torso/waistline area.

But also, remember that when you grow you grow everywhere. A 240 lb body with a 36" waist still gives the illusion of a smaller waistline
 
Maby have your liver checked out. I keep hearing shit about a correlation between the liver and a problem waistline. Something to do with insulin resistance or something. I have the same issue as you, I look like a bodybuilder everywhere except my midsection. I myself am in the midst of getting a doc appt to get my liver checked out again. It’s been 3 years sence it’s been looked at.
 
Natty and younger I was always a 34 waist and I'm 5'10" now that I'm power building I'm busting out of a 36! Wide squats and DL definetly make your pants tight! It's frustrating because unless I get super big I will always have that box shape instead of the v shape
 
Part of it is just age. You get thicker with age. In my early 20s I was a 29 waist. In my 50s at single digit body fat a tape measure still shows 36-37 inches.

Look around at teenagers and early 20s and then older guys. The older guys are just thicker. Your structure changes as you get older.
 
@bob357sig there actually were liver problems for about 7 years. I lived a very unhealthy lifestyle full of every drug known to man for about 15 years. Wound up with Hepatitis C around 2013. Cleaned up my life in 14, but was left with that to deal with.

Recently solved. Finally treated it early 2020. Was a load off of my mind to essentially be cured at this point.

My ALT AST looked like absolute shit sometimes on bloodwork. However, docs said no scarring or significant damage of any sort.
 
When I was 17-18 I was 6’4 and remember having a 28-30 inch waist line maybe 200-215 lbs? currently have a 32-34 at 235 also 22 years old.. I always was afraid of getting that big waist.

my love handles also grew quite a bit over the years. My stomach and low back are the only places I hold fat really bad.
 
Yeah, I think mine could be a bit leaner, but I am massively bigger than when I was 18 to 20. I weighed like 155.

20 years of lifting, I think specifically heavy strength training has just widened me.

I believe I could get the waistline down to 34" and I think I'm gonna try and push for about 245 lbs or so at 10% BF by the end of next year. Everything should match at that point.
 
Spokeonawheel said:
When I was a kid, like 18. I think I wore like a 30 waist in pants. As I grew older a 32 through my mid 20s to mid 30s.

After 10 years of consistent weight training, it appears I'm just bigger everywhere. Including through my waist area.

I was trying to build mass for about the last 7 years... I guess thats a long time to bulk. As I grew more serious about it the amount of food I was consuming also became more serious. By the end of 2019 I was weighing 240 to 245 at 20% ish BF.

About 5 months ago, finally decided to cut down a bit and see where I was at.

At %12 BF my waist is 36 inches. I'm 6' sitting at 225 lbs rt now. I'm also 41.

Ive been lifting heavy for a pretty long time. Most of the last 10 years of training has been a hybrid of strength training amd hypertrophy. Powerbuilding basically. Recently, I've been much more focused on a more strict bodybuilding training regimen.

Long story short, I figured after cutting down I'd be a bit smaller in the waist. I'm sure I could pull another inch off my waist if I want to cut down to %10 or lower, but I don't think I'm ever seeing a 32" waist again.

What caused this? Overeating? Is it just the way I'm built? A consequence of the way I've been training?

Sometimes, I'll throw around the idea of actually competing in BB, and the waistline strikes me as a problem area.

Haven't made a thread for a couple weeks. Figured I'd throw this out there. Any possible solutions? Cause?
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Sounds about the same as me. I grew up as a size 30 but my late teens I evolved to a size 32 without abs and stayed there until I started lifting heavy. I recently got down to a point where I had vascularity in my shoulders and back with full abs, which I've only ever bothered to achieve a couple times before, and my waste size didnt get any smaller than a 36.

Maybe due to the abdomen being stretched constantly due to excess food in my intestines and from certain exercises like dead lifts that loosened the tissue around the abdomen and it just doesnt tighten up anymore with age and constant stretching under duress.

I'm just talking shit cause I really have no idea why lol
 
Spokeonawheel said:
@malfeasance

Pretty much the plan homeslice. And I could cut a bit leaner too.
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I am well down into single digits. Tape measure still shows 35 inches around the middle (belly button height, not down where you wear your pants). My pants are literally falling off of me now.

When I was 21 and probably 12%, my waist was 29 inches. Like I said, I think this changes with age.
 
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