Nikhil Hagroo

Me thinking about what I should do about my life 🤔😅 Don't know whether to go to university or take a gap year...

My favorite place in the world besides the gym 😍😂 #gym #gymlife Currently cutting. Aiming to eat about 2000 kcal a day and trying to burn about 300 kcal per week. Trying to get down to 10% body fat. Now I'm eating 2 carb meals a day and 3 protien meals a day. I'm adding more vegetables and fibre so I feel more filled during the day.

Be Humble Be Hungry And Always Be the Hardest Worker in the Room Tough words to live by especially the first line😅. Always striving to live by those words.

Started my first week of training today. I now improved the fatigue management in my training and starting to investigate what my muscle fibre compositions are, by testing which rep ranges and intensities are the most effective.

You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time around. I'm happy to spend time with friends who push me to step out of my comfort zone and help me level up.

I've only made good and consistent progress when I stick to the plan and not let my emotions interfere with my plan. Focusing on what motivates you is equally as important and constantly visual why you are doing this. #malemodel #photooftheday #nikhilhagroo #southafrica #gym #gymlife #gains #cutting #goals #bodybuilding #bodybuilder #fitness #lifestyle #focus

Did some book shopping. I love reading non-fiction book I for some reason don't like reading fiction and I can't get into the zone like other people do. Im going to stick with the scientific stuff.

Impatience is the enemy of progress

I made a new account @hagroo_fitness to post all my fitness and bodybuilding pictures and videos. @nikhil_hagroo will be my personal account

This is the end of my bulk. It was a total waste! My lack of patience and planning lead me to some poor results. On the bright side, I do have more experience now. I haven't been taking 'breaks' or minimum volume mesocycles where I train the minimum amount to possible to maintain muscle mass. Since I haven't taken any breaks, my muscles are no longer sensitive to training I the gym. To combat this, I am only doing: 8 sets of bench press 4 sets of pull ups 4 sets of rows Per week. For legs, I've been doing cardio on the bike and treadmill. This break will allow the muscles to resensitize to training again.

Taking planned deloads and minimum volume phases are a irrefutable must for consistent performance for a hypertrophic stimulus. Thinking you can go without it is a big fat mistake. You will only shoot yourself in the foot. Accumulated fatigue is not the only thing you should be worried about. Desensitizing to training in general is a God awful nightmare. No pumps... the training just doesn't feel great. You feel flat because you are depleted and need some sort of planned break.

Professor Mike Israetel speaks on the importance of progression. Keeping your priorities in order of importance is necessary for seeing results.

Living the life, eating awesome food. No carbs and low fat in this meal because I had some cheesecake today. Studies show that a more flexible diet increases adherence towards the diet. An incredibly strict diet decreases adherence. One thing must always remain constant though. Caloric balance!!

What makes us happy as humans is not achieving our goals but who we become when we achieve them. We find happiness in the progress we make in order to achieve something. There are two kinds of happiness. Memory happiness and in the moment happiness. In the moment happiness is when we achieve something in the moment and celebrate. Then memory happiness is when we look back at out past experiences to see how far we have come. I have found that if I set small achievable goals that lead to a big goals, I tend to see more success. I wanted to and still do, to look jacked. So I set myself a goal to do 5 push ups every day. Now my goals is to put on 10kg as slow as possible. About 250g every week. All these mini goals are to help me achieve my big goal of looking sexy af.

My legs are not in proportion with my upper body, lol. I love doing leg presses, I just started using them last week. I get the biggest quad pump eva omg! The burn is sensational! This is the last week of maintenance. Next week I'll be going into a slow mass phase to try put on weight as slowly as possible. My goal is 75kg by the end. Now I weigh 66kg. 75kg is just a floating value because this is my first mass phase so I'm going to see how it goes. My biggest mistake was trying to go into a weight loss diet before building up my calorie intake. So when I was dieting I had to drop calories very low and I was unable to stay in the diet for longer than a month, due to extremely low calories intake and the symptoms of metabolic suppression .