a nikka been stuck at 177 for the last year..just getting cut but no mass gaining
even taking creatine
did i peak and reach my max?
ps-im built like steph curry no homo
Just an FYI, you can't increase your frame. You are either small, medium or large framed. That's your skeleton and you can't change that.
Well, if you are cutting down and staying at 177, then you are losing fat and gaining muscle.
You may have peaked at your current workout regimen but you have not maxed out. You need to change your workout. Not so much the exercises that you do, but the weight resistance used, the number of sets and reps.
1. What are your workouts? What kind of weight/sets/reps are you doing?
2. Someone else already said it, but I will repeat it with more details. You need to change up your workouts that are geared towards mass building and not cutting. This means that you break up your weekly workout to focus on one or two body parts per day. I used to do the entire body in one workout: chest, back, bicep, tricep, abs, legs, calves, forearms, traps, balls, shoulders. Now, I split it up so I do one or two body parts a day. I do not workout the same body part two days in a row. I also don't do a bagillion different exercises for one body part. For example, if I am doing chest, I don't do 5 different chest exercises, I used to do flat bench, incline bench, decline bench, dumbbell flyes, pec dec, military press. Now, I just one or two.
For each exercise, I do more sets. In the past, I did 2 to 3 sets for my 5+ different exercises. Now, I do 6 to 8 sets for one exercise. In each exercise, I take more rest between sets, because I want the lactic acid to leave. This is not about getting a good burn from 20 reps. I am pushing more weight in each set, doing less reps per set. In one set, I may do 1 to 10 reps, depending on weight. This is going to take time to adjust. When you bench press 135 lbs for 10 reps, your body will build up so much lactic acid. You may be able to do another set in a minute. When you bench press 225 lbs for 10 reps, your body is going to build up more lactic acid. It is going to be harder to do 10 reps again at 225 lbs. If you can bench 315 lbs. one or more reps, you'll need more rest, but in an exponential period of time, not linear. However, there is something called negatives, wherein you know you are not able to complete the upward bench press, but you bring down the barbell down slowly as the resistance exercise. Of course, you need a spotter for the lift phase.