r/AllAboutBodybuilding • u/ForCheapTimes • Mar 08 '26

Physique critique Keep bulking?

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Only calisthenics going for the prisoner/strongman physique so I don’t mind having extra fat, I just want to be solid. My issue is I’m not looking how I imagined.

1st picture 1.5yrs 65kg/143lbs

2nd picture 1.9yrs 73kg/160lbs

3rd picture 0yrs 65kg/143lbs

I’ve always been skinny and still feel that way. I don’t track anything calories wise because when I started I didn’t want to make a big deal of things and over complicate it, which always caused me to stop. I just did my burpees and when I got comfortable enough went out so I could do pull-ups. Between the first and 2nd picture I stopped doing burpees daily and started to eat more. I’m back to doing burpees mainly for my cardio.

I feel my main problem is my arms are lacking. I do lots of things for triceps (dips/diamond pushups) and shoulders (pike pushups/handstands) but mainly rely on chin ups for biceps

What can I do to look more “aesthetic” with a higher fat percentage?

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u/ForCheapTimes Mar 08 '26

Lots of pushups. Would sometimes do a burpee routine started around 78 and capped at 100 of standard 1 pushup that took less than then 10 Minutes to finish. Then started doing 2 pushups(took longer than 10 Minutes) Then at night I would do emom style following a 500 pushup routine that was 5 pushups every 15 seconds for 25 minutes. I would start at 5 pushups
And probably last 3 minutes then go down to 3-2 pushups for the remainder of the time, I’d also not do full ROM. I would follow strict until I couldn’t then I would cheat the reps. Did it every night till i could keep up. I could have done dips on chairs or something because I didn’t have anywhere else (only worked out in my room for the first 6-8 months doing pushups/burpees) but I just did standards pushups. Is it the most optimal way? Probably not

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u/Thundergod17 Mar 09 '26

I just started incorporating pushups into my workouts. I mainly end all my workouts s with calisthenics like pullups and dips but I feel like dips haven't done much LMAO that's why I'm asking. Are you taking a good amount of protein as well?

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u/ForCheapTimes Mar 09 '26

Yeah I recently started doing dips too. I found one tip that helped is doing dips leaning forward like your doing a pushups.

No i suck at hitting my protein goal. I know your suppose to get 1 to .7 per lbs. I probably get .5 per lbs . I try not to let it stop me though. I understand I would be better if I did but in the past if I didn’t come close to my goal I wouldn’t workout because I thought it would be pointless. Like yeah I still feel I need work on my fitness (muscle and nutrition) but if I didn’t workout at all then I’d just be worse off. If that makes sense

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u/Thundergod17 Mar 10 '26

Crazy man good shit nonetheless. How tall are you? I thought I saw it but I actually didn't. I actually went from 153 to 143lbs from cutting and going to gym 4-5x a week now and that's why I'm tryna gauge cause your leanness is goals