some of my progress: three years, 100+lbs

[beastmode]

Originally Posted by burlemarx

more progress as of March 2012:

your quads have that massive sweep going on the outside. Impressive!

and your whole body forms a giant X. Really huge chest and shoulders and thick legs. Keep it up!

[raven79]

Burlemarx, what is that white mark on your left quad? And you are ridiculously sexy and 'huge'. Wow, you have pretty much revealed just about everything, are you available?

[raven79]

Burlemarx, what is that white mark on your left quad? And you are ridiculously sexy and 'huge'. Wow, you have pretty much revealed just about everything, are you available?

(Just playing of course!)

[burlemarx]

Originally Posted by raven79

Burlemarx, what is that white mark on your left quad?

looks like hair gel to me... There's Something About Mary hair gel...

i find that the bigger i get, the hornier i get. guess i didnt clean myself off properly anyway. i look good in anything, including my own cum shots apparently. i'm like a male version of Quinn Morgendorffer...

Quinn's Mirror - YouTube

is it vain that i turn myself on all the time? i fuckin love muscle growth so much that when i see myself getting bigger in the mirror, it is a huge turn-on. i'm like a less pretty version of King Deluxe aka Invulnerable Whatever.

[bigbearny]

some of us definitely appreciate "less pretty".. you're hotter and sexier in my book

[burlemarx]

Originally Posted by bigbearny

some of us definitely appreciate "less pretty".. you're hotter and sexier in my book

well, i'm DEFINITELY a less douche-y version of King Deluxe and those other Douchebag-for-pay youtube muscleboys. maybe if i was younger and prettier, i would also be douche-y-er? i guess my average level of Prettiness is worth being a nice person in the end.

This is what George Takei thinks of you - YouTube

"i'm not a douchebag... i just play one on YouTube." heheh

[GTlifter]

Originally Posted by burlemarx

"i'm not a douchebag... i just play one on YouTube." heheh

fucking priceless man, I love it and you are looking great bro, keep up the hard work

[flange]

looking good man, the muscle is really building, and the more jock shots the better i say, great with the hair too keep it all growing, look forward to seeing more.

[raven79]

Originally Posted by burlemarx

looks like hair gel to me... There's Something About Mary hair gel...

i find that the bigger i get, the hornier i get. guess i didnt clean myself off properly anyway. i look good in anything, including my own cum shots apparently. i'm like a male version of Quinn Morgendorffer...

Quinn's Mirror - YouTube

is it vain that i turn myself on all the time? i fuckin love muscle growth so much that when i see myself getting bigger in the mirror, it is a huge turn-on. i'm like a less pretty version of King Deluxe aka Invulnerable Whatever.

A Daria reference.....you are officially the coolest guy on here! ;-P

Comparing yourself to Deluxe is a tad ridiculous because you both have entirely different genetics. He is extremely vascular and you are immensely thick and beefy.

[burlemarx]

Originally Posted by raven79

Comparing yourself to Deluxe is a tad ridiculous because you both have entirely different genetics. He is extremely vascular and you are immensely thick and beefy.

dont fuckin remind me

i have taken immense steps toward trying to become more vascular over the past 8 months, and now i am realizing that it will probably never happen. my body does not want to be vascular. it wants to be beefy. even when i was 150lbs (see my 1st pics at the beginning of this thread) you can see that i was never veiny and vascular

[raven79]

I am the same burlemarx. You have to either try different diets/cuts or accept your beefiness and grow your muscles to their fullest potential. You would be surprised how many men love this look. Frankly, I find it way more appealing because you look more masculine and there is a lot more to love on a man.

The aesthetics are nice, but to maintain that look requires a LOT of work and a lot of time. The beefy/thick look requires less maintenance, but the muscles look fuller and more massive.

[burlemarx]

Originally Posted by raven79

I am the same burlemarx. You have to either try different diets/cuts or accept your beefiness and grow your muscles to their fullest potential. You would be surprised how many men love this look. Frankly, I find it way more appealing because you look more masculine and there is a lot more to love on a man.

The aesthetics are nice, but to maintain that look requires a LOT of work and a lot of time. The beefy/thick look requires less maintenance, but the muscles look fuller and more massive.

i agree that the veiny, vascular look requires a shitton of maintenance (to say nothing of all the drugs also required). i'm just disappointed that i tried really hard to achieve it and my body simply does not want to go there. i was eating a very strict diet, doing 40 minutes of cardio every morning, and eliminated dairy from my diet entirely. and yet still, i am not veiny. i am still keeping up with this routine because on an emotional level i enjoy the discipline involved with it (every morning during Cardio, i pretend that Cato and Clove are chasing me... i fuckin ZOOM through that shit). but i am disappointed that i did everything "by the books" and results have still not come through.

but, i will say that the Beefy Muscle Look suits my lifestyle pretty well. i have cultivated a pretty good identity as an up-and-coming musclebear where i live (Miami) and i think that if i got too lean, i'd be just another vascular, six-pack abs kind of guy that are a dime-a-dozen here in Miami. having said that, if forced to choose between lean/veiny and huge/beefy (which i seem to be forced to do at this point), i'd go with huge/beefy.

it also makes it easier to indulge in cheat meals a couple x/week, and by extension, living a somewhat normal life outside the gym. one of my biggest problems with bodybuilding is that the people who have truly amazing bodies (think Adam Charlton) seem to have NO life whatsoever beyond bodybuilding. they never go out and do anything fun... all they do is train and diet, train and diet. they actively avoid anything that might in any way compromise their diet and training. me, i enjoy stuff like day trips, museums, farming, hanging out, etc. way too much to be that focused. maybe i'd finally be veiny and vascular if had Adam C's level of devotion, but, i dunno, at the end of the day there's more to life than your body.

and on a purely shallow level, i think that being beefy makes you look younger. i'm friends with a bodybuilder on facebook who recently leaned out for a competition... he definitely got veiny, but his face aged literally 10 or 15 years in the process: deep wrinkles, sunken cheeks, etc. i'd rather be beefy and keep my youthful glow

[theunknown]

Doesn't nitric oxide (NO), or NO-based supplements (like N. O. Xplode from BSN, to name one), aid in developing thicker veins?

The last time I read about that (I don't recall if it was on an ad from BSN or just an article), they mentioned that the pre-workout supplements that contained NO tend to help expand the arteries/veins which helped deliver more blood, more oxygen, etc. to create a "rawr" quality pump....

I don't know I haven't tried it, curious about it and thought it would fit this thread's subject.

[Shippou]

Lol. Supplement advertising is interesting/funny.

Nitric oxide (NO) is a signaling molecule that activates various pathways that leads to the formation of cGMP, which causes vasodilation. The action is only temporary. It allows for increased blood flow, and that's how nitroglycerin helps with angina. Arteriogenesis and angiogenesis, however, is not promoted by the presence of NO.

[burlemarx]

Originally Posted by Shippou

Lol. Supplement advertising is interesting/funny.

Nitric oxide (NO) is a signaling molecule that activates various pathways that leads to the formation of cGMP, which causes vasodilation. The action is only temporary. It allows for increased blood flow, and that's how nitroglycerin helps with angina. Arteriogenesis and angiogenesis, however, is not promoted by the presence of NO.

^^ what this Science Nerd said :P

i have tried N.O. xplode or whatever it's called. all i experienced was a very irregular, rapid, racing heartbeat. whatever vascularity could result from longterm use was not worth the immediate irregular heart palpitations.

[theunknown]

Yikes! Staying away from that one, then.

[burlemarx]

been a while since i posted any updates. sorry that i dont have a dramatic transformation to reveal. but, my quad development is coming along really nicely so i wanted to share it with you guys this is as of June 14, 2012.



i posted this on my facebook earlier today, and a couple people asked me if i was wearing football pads or somesuch. i am proud to say that i am wearing UnderArmor spandex tights, and nothing else that's all me!

enjoy!

[MuscleMage]

Daaaaaammnn. I was worried you were getting a little carried away with the bulk-photos you've been posting but you look amazing.

[visionsofruin]

Whoa! Nice legs! Can we get one of your chest and arms in that shirt? Kinda hard to see.

[raven79]

Wow burlemarx, you have an incredible set of quads. They look amazing in UnderArmour.

Frankly, you are quite hot. You look ridiculously fit from head to toe.

[anpuZA]

For a moment I thawt I taw Rogan Richards...

^^

woof!

[Ragetiger]

Those are an impressive set of quads. I do recommend though to build up the calves so the legs look a little more balanced. If i didn't see the UA logo, I might had thought it was a morph or padding.

[burlemarx]

Originally Posted by Ragetiger

Those are an impressive set of quads. I do recommend though to build up the calves so the legs look a little more balanced. If i didn't see the UA logo, I might had thought it was a morph or padding.

i know my calves need a lot of work. so does my chest and outer delts. i have a lot of trouble doing Calf Work because the bones in my feet are fucked up, so seated calfs, donkey calfs, pretty much any calf exercises causes me a lot of pain. and also, my calves are genetically predisposed to be tiny. all the men in my family have the same tiny, skinny calves.

[burlemarx]

and no: there was no morphing whatsoever in this photo. i have never morphed any of my photos, ever, except for some fantasy roleplaying chats years ago on yahoo messenger.

posting morphed pics of yourself is like posting pics of your brown eyes while wearing blue contact lenses. you may look beautiful, but so what? you are not representing yourself truthfully. it's gonna bite you in the ass, in the end.

[BIGJOEY]

ok first off not trying to be a jerk or anything. but just a few observations. usually on a 15lb gain one can expect a 1 inch growth onve the body. in your pictures you gained over 100lbs which would ten to put your stats biiger than what you poasted . So that leads me to come to the following conclusions

your current body fat based on your pictures is a bit high. while gaining mass you have buitt some extra unwanted mass

training while good seems to have certain areas of weakness that need to be adjusted.

so conclusion or if i was having you as a client ( am a nutritionlist and competive bodybuilder ) i would suggest the following

a cutting program to bring your body fat number down to the 9-12% range. this would allow you to see what actual muscle mas you have
gained.
two it would also allow you to see the areas that really need improvement
and allow you to adjust your training to bring those areas up to the level of your better body parts

third it would them also refocus you on doing abetter quality bulk keeping it cleaner and allowing for better gains without the need for long cutting programs.

hope this helps and as i said not trying to be a jerk or a hater but simply looking at it from a competitve bodybuider view and from a nutritional view point as well. if you want any suggstion on how to do it drop me a note.

[burlemarx]

Originally Posted by BIGJOEY

ok first off not trying to be a jerk or anything. but just a few observations. usually on a 15lb gain one can expect a 1 inch growth onve the body. in your pictures you gained over 100lbs which would ten to put your stats biiger than what you poasted . So that leads me to come to the following conclusions

your current body fat based on your pictures is a bit high. while gaining mass you have buitt some extra unwanted mass

training while good seems to have certain areas of weakness that need to be adjusted.

so conclusion or if i was having you as a client ( am a nutritionlist and competive bodybuilder ) i would suggest the following

a cutting program to bring your body fat number down to the 9-12% range. this would allow you to see what actual muscle mas you have
gained.
two it would also allow you to see the areas that really need improvement
and allow you to adjust your training to bring those areas up to the level of your better body parts

third it would them also refocus you on doing abetter quality bulk keeping it cleaner and allowing for better gains without the need for long cutting programs.

hope this helps and as i said not trying to be a jerk or a hater but simply looking at it from a competitve bodybuider view and from a nutritional view point as well. if you want any suggstion on how to do it drop me a note.

hi Joey-

yes i know my bodyfat is high. it is 15% right now. but last fall it was 27%, so i have already dropped a ton of bodyfat (about 35lbs).

i dont know if you read my post up above, but i have been doing a very clean diet for the past 8 months, no dairy, no fried food, no carbs during my last 2 meals of the day, only 2 cheat meals per week and 1 of those is pretty clean, so really i'm only cheating 1 meal per week out of 49 meals (7 meals a day x 7 days/week).

when i dropped my meals from 7 to 6, i experienced a sharp decline in my strength. all my lifts went down. when my lifts went down, all my muscle measurements (tape measurements) went down too. this led to me to conclude that my body wants/needs more meals per day to keep my lifts (and muscle mass) up.

unfortunately i just started a new Bulking Program 4 weeks ago. it's a 12 week program total. but it is a clean bulk and my diet has remained the same... i have not increased my calories or anything... i am not doing "extra cheating"... so in theory, all my gains from this program should be solid.

i agree that i need to do another cutting cycle. my ideal bodyfat would be 12%. i like being beefy and i have no desire to compete, so i never want to get totally ripped. also, my boyfriend likes playing with my sexy "Jock Belly"

i am definitely interested in your advice so Private Message me here or let me know if you want to msg me on facebook! thanks again for the heads up.

[theunknown]

Big feet...

[anpuZA]

Playing with your "jock belly", mmm... that's not all he's playing with I hope.

[F_R_Eaky]

I could soooo worship you. Especially if you take the suggestion and bulk the calves up a little more. I'm with the comment big feet.... like your feet proportion and the rest of you. Only thing I don't like is the comment of a boyfriend. Damn, why is it anyone who turns my head is already with someone?!? LOL But you're looking really great I would almost kill to have a build like that. You definitely are still inspiring all the way. KUDOS!

[afleitch]

All I can say? Well done An inspiration.

[burlemarx]

so many of you guys have been bugging me for a photo update, so HERE.




sorry it's not actually me, but the facial scruff and tribal tatts were a close approximation. also it's a fuckin hot goal to aspire to

i will post REAL photo updates soon so stay tuned. school is very busy right now so havent had much time for pics.

[hulkoutlvr]

What a BEAUTIFUL BODY!

[raven79]

Who did that awesome pic Victor? It isn't that far off from being you.

[cutlerfan]

You look great Burlemarx! The last photo was excellent! Huge quads and a lean waist! Wide shoulders and thick biceps! I have no doubt you'll reach your goal body! Keep up the incredible effort man! You rock!

[burlemarx]

Originally Posted by raven79

Who did that awesome pic Victor? It isn't that far off from being you.

this is the artist. no clue who it is, just some website i stumbled across.

http://luxuris.blogspot.com/

[theunknown]

I like the poster on the background. Horrible spanish, but it's funny.

[vlad]

Wow, hot art! Looks a bit like you, but missing the sweet Vega SF2 tattoo you have.

[burlemarx]

Originally Posted by vlad

Wow, hot art! Looks a bit like you, but missing the sweet Vega SF2 tattoo you have.

did someone say Vega?



not a recent photo of course- this was from October 2012.

[burlemarx]

Originally Posted by Dannys muscles

Hey guys, bet you love muscles same as me, are you interested in Skype cam shows in HD, flexing muscles and some more, see the real size let me know on skype: danny17754

srsly dude- hijacking someone's personal thread to beg for money from strangers- rude much?

[burlemarx]

fuck it, here's my update. 6'1", 245lbs, 11% bodyfat.










and my Now Bald head:



for a long time i was afraid of being a baldie but now that i sorta am, i love it! my head feels like a baby starfish (i got to hold one once at the Baltimore Aquarium when i was 17) and someone said that i look like a "huge ass sexy arabic guy."

you know, i will probably never be a huge, ripped mass monster like Aaron Clark or Lorenzo. but in the wake of what i perceive to be a ton of fake profiles and internet stalkers on this site, i'm proud of the fact that i'm a real person and not just a fantasy. these pics are me, and this is who i am. a dork who deals with life by quoting MSCL video clips:

[Mr Katimsky] "what kind of girl is Shakespeare describing? is she the most beautiful girl?"

[Brian] "no."

[Mr Katimsky] "is she a goddess? physically perfect? the kind of girl who stops traffic?"

[Brian] "no."

[Mr Katimsky] "so he's not in love with her?"

[Jordan] "yeah. he is."

[Mr Katimsky] "why is that? what is it about her?"

[Brian] "because she's not just a fantasy. she's got, like, flaws. she's real."

My So-Called Life (Jordan loves Angela 1X12) - YouTube