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    pack on 10-20lbs over the next few months

Whaaaaat?? The most lean muscle I've ever been able to put on was maybe 2 lbs. a month, and those were pretty much "noob gains".

Usually, I'd have a chest & shoulders day, a legs day, a back day, a bi's and tri's day, and a core day, not necessarily in that order. I'd usually do 4 sets of an exercise, 10x, 8x, 6x, and 4x for the last set, real heavy, used free weights most of the time. Weekends were for rest, also because my company rec center was closed on weekends.

Throwing myself a real curveball though, just got a membership at a gym and working with a personal trainer, who destroys me within 20-30 minutes of beginning a workout. It's like a crossfit style workout, but without stupid shit, like "deadlifts for time".

Currently, I'm 160 lbs., 13% body fat, 5'9". 210 lb. bench, 250 lb. squat, and 280 lb. deadlift. I'm trying to get my body fat down just a bit more, and shelling out these fat stacks of cash to a personal trainer to learn workouts that will accomplish in 30 minutes what usually takes me over an hour in the gym.