Knowledge is Power. at 4:45 PM

"Knowledge is Power"; as overused as it is, it's so very true. I wasted almost a month of workout, producing very futile result because I lacked knowledge in this area.

When I initially started working out, my goal was to get bigger. My figure has always been so very tall, but tall does not compliment slim body. After the first month of training (wasn't very intense), I gained 7 Lb and that was very exciting for me. Partly because in my mind a 6' feet tall male that weights only 145 sounds is like a boy, and I thought to myself, I was growing to be a MAN (wants to be around 160-170 lb)!.

But somewhere along the line, I wanted more. I wanted a six pack as well, so after some researching, I found out that key to the six packs lies within the kitchen. Everybody have six packs abs, but it's the amount of belly fat that covers it. I began on a very strict diet of low fat, heavy calories, no sugars! It involves very lean meats such as (chicken, fish, shellfish, turkey, lean cut beefs), ate nothing that contains sugars (except natural ones, like fruits), not even sauces (Hoisin sauce contains sugar! biggest disappointment).

After a month and half of that, I start seeing Abs forming and have slight "cuts" to it in the shape of muscle, pretty exciting stuff.. but my muscle growth and strength gain was almost minimal and my weight also dropped. After googleing "six pack while bulking", I felt so dumb by the simple logic that bulk = gaining mass, abs = losing fat to show lean mass. It counteracts each other and gets very little done.

In a way, I found out how strong my metabolism is throughout this body experiment. It's dangerously high, I eat almost twice as much as other normal human being, yet I was almost losing weight while exercising. After some more researching online, I've decided that I will be adding additional 500-1000 calories intake. My new 3 month program starts Monday, and it'll focus on bulking! Once I get in the shape I wanted, I'll start cutting down for that six pack.