For bigger muscles you need to lift heavier weights and/or more reps.

So eat normal man, don’t stuff yourself (you can see that stuffing yourself only leads to fat gain.)

I will give you an example with myself. My ideal weight would be around 175lbs. I’ve gone up as high as 195lbs. But I only look bigger in clothes this way. Stuffing yourself like a pig only makes you look bigger with your shirt on. You just get fat.

So eat normal and train extremely hard and consistent.

First, try to minimize the money/time you invest. There ways to train for free and for less time. And don’t spend money on supplements ever.

Second, training requires a kind of aggression. I would suggest that you cultivate that aggression and use it to dominate the other areas of your life – money (job) and relationships (friends, family, dating). Be aggressive man.

Apply the principles of focus and progressive overload (read about the Japanese principle of KAIZEN) in all areas of your life.

Yavor

you gained a bit of fat so this means you ate a litle bit too much. I suggest decreasing the food for a few weeks so you can get leaner an d then eat at maintainance and train hard. Muscle gains come slower than weight gains. Have patience and train hard every time.

Yavor

if you can train hard and progress – no reason to take it easy. This is kind of an advanced technique.

Cheers,

Yavor

And a great point about bulking. I really think it is silly when people just bulk/cut and try to emulate pro bodybuilders and do like they do. I am all for CLEAN bulking which is eating 500 cals more per day then your BMR is!
Cheers,
Adrian

you don’t have to sacrifice aesthetics for athletics. To start with, training for strength and athleticism (this means having high strength levels for a comparatively light or ‘normal’ weight) will get you along way. Also, as I wrote in another post – probably the best long term strategy is to alternate between strength training and purely bodybuilding style muscle building workouts. This is how Hugh Jackman for example works out. I train like this too.

Good thing that you’ve set your goals real high buddy!

Yavor

Thanks for the input! I don’t think any man should ever go above 10-12% body fat. This means never looking worse than at least decent. So yeah, a little bit of fat – from lean to decent is acceptable. Nothing more however. At least I believe fitness training is supposed to make you look better, not worse!

Yavor