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Rajan Shrestha — week 24

Muscle · 24 weeks

Rajan Shrestha

Twenty-four weeks, two blocks, forty-five kilos on the squat.

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Week zero to week 24

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Week 0

Week 0 — start Week 24 — re-test
Bodyweight 68 kg 68 kg
Back squat 5RM 85 kg 85 kg
Trap-bar deadlift 5RM 110 kg 110 kg
Incline bench 8RM 50 kg 50 kg
Weighted chin 6RM 0 kg 0 kg

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Where Rajan started

Rajan had trained on and off for six years and had never once written down what he lifted. He arrived at 68 kg wanting to be, in his words, noticeably bigger.

What changed

Two hypertrophy blocks back to back with a maintenance stretch between them. The gain rate was deliberately slow — 0.4 kg a month — so most of the eight kilos he added stayed after the second block.

The first month I thought the volume was a joke. Then week nine arrived and I understood why they took sets away in week four.Rajan Shrestha

I still cannot believe the thing that changed everything was writing it down.Rajan Shrestha

Coached by

Sunita Gurung

Head of Strength · CSCS · IWF-2 · BSc

Other stories

A member setting her position over a loaded bar

Anita Tamang

Nine kilos down with her deadlift up eighteen.

A member fastening a wrist wrap before a working set

Kiran Adhikari

A resting heart rate of 51 and a trek he did not have to stop on.

A member squatting under the bar in low light

Sabina Rai

The scale moved two kilos. Everything else moved a great deal more.

A first working set under the bar, the room dark behind it

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