Good enough base to cycle?

[saxton18]

how many years of hard time in the gym?

I have been training hard for about 5 years. I have been in powerlifting all through high school. I never miss a day in the gym other than rest days

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I have been training hard for about 5 years. I have been in powerlifting all through high school. I never miss a day in the gym other than rest days

Your bench is great for your weight as far as powerlifitng standards go if those are raw lifts. Squat is decent. Even by average gym goers standard the dl is nice for your weight too. I believe anyone can gain though, regardless of fast metabolism, it just requires a lot of dedication. I still stand by my previous posts, but there were several times I was force feeding myself for growth. And the first time i finally really started putting on weight, I was putting in consistent large amount of calories. I usually had two large morning meals, a large lunch, and a very large dinner, sometimes an after dinner meal. If you seriously struggle to gain weight you can always eat, if you do it right, you will gain weight.

Keep the strength up, maybe give yourself a re evaluation on your eating, although gaining 20 lbs in three months is very rapid, you had to have been consuming a ton of excess, so I don't see how you would need to increase calories much more. maybe maintain strength and drop some fat and do another bulk in the mean time. But honestly coming from an even shorter powerlifter I was able to bulk up over 230, without aas and with low t. I'm not suggesting just gaining unnecessary weight, cause you will want to be competitive in your class. But you aren't at a genetic limit or anything like that, and you have some time before steroids is much safer, and then you almost have to decide if you wnat to be taking steroids all the time for your rest of your life, or if you are happy being a natural lifter.

You can prime for a bulk, and hten incorporate some bodybuilding styles into your training, to enhance actual muscle growth if that is what you are after. No clue what your training looks like now, but I personally have upped volume, focused on things like time under tension, and a few others, of course I keep a heavy power lift at the start of a session, it is more growth oriented.