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So I gave two bottles of body tech tb500 left over after my wife finished her cycle (will get into that some other day). I have a 2.5 month tennis elbow that's been an absolute bitch to heal for me. Me, of all people, is having a hard time getting it better, and has completely screwed my training. So long story short, I'm doing 1 mg EOD for 10 shots (5 mg per bottle) to see how it goes. Direct injection into the right lateral elbow. Why there? Because bro Science. I will absolutely notice a change if any as my tennis elbow has not budged in relief, and considering I'm going to need to order more stuff soon for the summer shred I might as well do a log of my favorite lab. So I did my first shot tonight. 1 mg (1 ml in bottle so 20 iu) using insulin syringe right into crease between forearm. Let's see how it goes!

Insulin-like growth factor-1 lr3 , INSULIN (humalin R) (Humalog) AND Human Growth Hormone CYCLE. This is a very old information but i thought i would bring it back for beginners. Layman guide to cycling, dosing, and injection timing of HGH + IGF-1 + Slin There are volumes of information and studies available about using HGH, IGF-1, and Insulin, but for the most part coming up with a good cycle including all of these is a tedious process and requires more reading than most people wish to do or have the time to do. The following is meant to a quick and simple reference to what a cycle including all three might look like and a brief description of the action of each component. THE CYCLE Weeks 1- (20-30) – HGH – On 5/ off 2 2 – 2.5 IU’s first thing in the morning 2 – 2.5 IU’s early afternoon injected Sub-C into abdomen, obliques, fronts of the thighs, upper triceps Weeks 1-5, 11-15, (21-25) – Long R3 IGF-1 – Every day 60mcg’s intramuscular post work out on workout days, first thing in the morning on non workout days Weeks 6-10, 16-20, (26-30) – Humalog – Workout days only 8IU’s immediately post workout, intramuscular *** alternatively, you could run the Humalog on 1-5, 11-15, (21-25) with your LR3 if you prefer, depending on your cycle goal*** Immediately after Humalog injection – do the following Injection + 5 minutes – drink shake with 10g glutamine / 10g creatine / 55g dextrose Injection + 15 minutes – drink shake with 80g of whey protein in water Injection + 60 – 75 minutes – eat a protein / carb meal with 40-50g of protein, 40-50g of carbs, NO FATS Avoid fats for 2-3 hours for Humalog IM, 3-4 hours for Humalog sub-q, 4-5 hours for Humulin-R. **keep some glucose tablets or other simple carbs on hand for the active window of your insulin. Hypo symptoms can and will hit hard and fast and you will have little time to react. This is the main danger of insulin use. Be ready.*** OPTIONAL T3 - 12.5mcg per day (or 12.5mcgs ->100-150mcgs ->12.5mcgs if used for fat loss instead of protein synthesis assist) HGH HGH should ideally be used for 20-30 week cycles (or longer). The dosage should be between 2-3IU per day if you are using GH primarily for fat loss, 4-5 IU’s a day for both fat loss and muscle growth, and approximately 1.0 – 2.0 IU’s a day for females. It is best to split your injections 1/2 first thing in the morning, 1/2 early afternoon if your dose is above 2.0IU’s per day. Your pituitary will naturally produce about 10 pulses of GH per day. Each injection you take will create a negative feedback loop that will suppress these pulses for about 4 hours. By taking your injections first thing in the morning and early afternoon you will still allow your body to release its biggest pulse, which normally occurs shortly after going to sleep at night. When starting out with your HGH cycle, for most people it is wise to begin you dose at 1.5 – 2.0IU per day for the first couple of weeks, and then begin increasing your dose by 0.5 to 1.0 units every week or two until you reach your desired level. While it isn't an absolute neccessity to do this, if you are sensitive to the type of sides HGH present you will often times avoid these sides of joint pain/swelling, and bloating/water retention by slowly acclaimating to your ultimate 4-5 IU/day goal. You should use an U100 insulin syringe for injecting HGH, and inject it Sub-C into your abdomen, obliques, top of thighs, triceps. Rotate injection sites. HGH can have a small localized fat loss benefit, so keep this in mind when choosing your injection sites. IGF-1 When HGH makes it pass through the liver, a release of IGF-1 is a result. IGF-1 appears to be the key player in muscle growth. It stimulates both the differentiation and proliferation of myoblasts. It also stimulates amino acid uptake and protein synthesis in muscle and other tissues. While HGH will cause an increase in your IGF-1 level over the course of a few months, HGH has a cumulative effect, so the addition of IGF-1 will greatly speed up the time to results. There are two types of IGF-1 that will typically be used by bodybuilders. One is bio-identical HuIGF-1, a 70 amino acid string. The other is Long R3 IGF-1, which is an 83 amino acid analog of human IGF-I comprising the complete human IGF-I sequence with the substitution of an Arg for the Glu at position 3 (hence R3), and a 13 amino acid extension peptide at the N-terminus (hence the long). Which of these you use depends on your goal. HuIGF-1 is very short lived in the body (half life of probably around 10 minutes). This type of IGF-1 is very useful if you are seeking local site growth. Since it is so short lived, little of the IGF-1 makes it to other tissues and IGF-1 receptors in the body. The way to inject this is immediately post work out into the muscle that you wish to have local site growth. Use a U100 insulin syringe, and inject 80mcg’s bilaterally into the desired muscle immediately post workout. For this type of IGF-1, I would use it workout days only or if desired you could inject on non-workout days first thing in the morning into a muscle group worked the previous day. For Long R3 IGF-1, it isn’t as critical that you inject into a local site as long R3 has a active window of many hours, and is designed specifically to resist being bound. Since it is common to reconstitute this type of IGF-1 with Benzyl Alcohol, Acetic Acid, or Hydrochloric Acid I would still recommend that you inject intra-muscular. It can and probably will leave a nice red irritated spot if you inject Sub-C. I still inject into a muscle just worked to take advantage of increased IGF-1 receptors, but because of the long activity window of this type of IGF-1 any muscle will work well and give you good results,. I would suggest that you inject between 40-80mcg’s per day everyday immediately post workout on workout days, and first thing in the morning on non-workout days. Use a U-100 insulin syringe with 1/2" needle to inject IGF-1 intramuscular (bilaterally for HuIGF-1, bilaterally optional for Long R3) Insulin Working out causes us to end up in a catabolic state. It is important to back in a positive nitrogen balance as soon as possible. When not using insulin, we drink some dextrose with our protein to cause an insulin spike immediately post workout to help shuttle the protein and sugars to the muscles. Insulin is very good at shuttling nutrients to the muscles, and works in a very complimentary manner with GH in the types of things that they shuttle. Also, HGH can cause an amount of insulin resistance, so adding some insulin to your cycle will offset any potential resistance that might occur during your HGH cycle. For the purposes that we are using insulin, a dosage of 4-10IU’s is adequate and should be used immediately post workout. I personally prefer using Humalog intramuscular as it will cause a rapid spike and clear out of your system quickly. You can use it sub-q or use Humulin-R instead, but each of these will result in a longer active window, thus a longer time to avoid eating any fats and watching your carb intake. Any fats or over abundance of carbs will end up being stored as fat during insulin's active window. The approximate windows are: Humalog - IM - 2-3 hours Sub-q - 3-4 hours Humulin -R - IM - 3-4 hours Sub-q 4-5 hours Use a U-100 insulin syringe with 1/2" needle to inject IM immediately post workout. Alternatively, you can inject Sub-C if desired or if you wish a longer active window for some reason. Begin with a dose of 2IU's or so, and increase the dose each workout day until you reach your 8IU's. If for some reason you wish to avoid insulin, I would still suggest that immediately post workout you spike you own endogenous insulin by drinking 80 grams of dextrose / 40 grams of whey isolate protein. While this certainly won't do the work of 8-10 IU's of Humalog, it will most certainly assist getting your muscle back in a nitrogen positive environment in a short amount of time. T3 HGH can have a slight inhibitory effect on your thyroid. For most people this is minimal and does not require any additional thyroid be taken, but if you wish to augment protein synthesis as well as give yourself a slight boost in thyroid without shutting down your own production, you can add 12.5mcg of T3 daily to your HGH, IGF-1, Insulin cycle. This will aid both in bulking and cutting. If you add this, you should also consider taking some thyroid support supplements such as t-100x, bladderwrack, coleus forskolin. You should check and make sure your intake of trace minerals (selenium, zinc, copper) is sufficient to aid in the conversion of T4 to T3. If you are going to take more than 12.5 mcg of T3, you will need to cycle the dose both up and down to avoid a rebound effect when going off cycle, but for our use with an HGH cycle and use in assisting with protein sythesis, 12.5mcg will be sufficient. If you wish to use T3 in conjuction with the above for heavy cutting, begin with 12.5mcgs, ramp up to 100-150mcgs, then slowly back down tapering back to 12.5 mcgs for a time before discontinuing use. This will minimize the chance for rebound while your own thyroid gets back in gear. Well, I think that about covers it…add a cycle or two of your favorite testosterone and you have a great combination for bulking or cutting.

Just a fun read ? Hey Girl, Need a Spot? There's an unwritten rule about dating people at your gym. Here's the rule: Don't. Why? Well, something about not pooping where you eat. But on the other hand, the gym is a social environment full of people with whom you have at least one thing in common. Plus, there's lots of skin showing, grunting, and bending over. So, mating behaviors naturally occur. Now, two recent surveys have shed some light on what's really happening between sets. Locker Room Shenanigans According to one British survey of 2000 gym-goers, 20 percent said they've had sex AT the gym. Out of those frisky folks, 49 percent were straight, 31 percent were gay, and 20 percent just weren't picky. But there's a problem here. The survey was conducted by Ann Summers, which is a UK sex shop. So we have to assume some bias in the data collection – people who shop at adult toy stores may statistically be more open to hooking up at the gym. Or maybe the Brits are just a randy bunch. The second survey, though, is more reliable. The Mating Rituals of Meatheads A survey of 1000 people conducted by Elliptical Reviews gave us some fascinating insights. Here are the highlights: 43 percent of women report being hit on at the gym. Only 21 percent of men report being hit on. This seems normal. In a related survey of 2000 women, only 10 percent said they'll make the first move. People who flex in the mirror and drink protein shakes are 2.3 percent more likely to hit on someone during a workout. Those who take gym selfies are 1.9 percent more likely to flirt. If a woman wears a tank top, she's 7 percent more likely to get asked for her digits than if she's wearing a T-shirt.Surprisingly, men get hit on slightly more often if they're wearing hoodies. (Tank tops came in second for men.) The more time you spend in the gym, the better your odds (or worse depending on your perspective) of getting hit on. Just spending 7 more minutes in the gym and an extra 3 days a month boosts your odds. Play those numbers, players. People get approached more at gyms where the monthly fee is LOWER. Hmm, cheap gym, cheap dates? Or maybe more younger singles go to less expensive gyms, while married older people go to more expensive gyms. 71 percent of men admit to staring at women in the gym while only 53 percent of women do. But creepily, more women secretly take photos of other people at the gym (8 percent of women do it verses 6 percent of men.) That's weird, people. 97 percent of gym flirters say that it has worked for them. 66 percent report hook-ups, 61 percent said they've gotten a real date out of it, and 24 percent have started a serious romantic relationship at the gym.

Was thinking of having a forum where ectomorphs could share tips and advice of any kinds including effective training routines, best supplements, gear, before and after shots.... Whatever comes to mind that could be shared .

"Sunday, Funday" What's everyones plans for today? I gotta figure my macros out for today, get eating. Got some chores to do then, gym either in a bit, or later on tonight. It did just start snowing here, the heck!?

Hey girl and thanks for your kind words.. when i made the switch honesty losing strength definitely played with my head but it got easier as i was no longer lifting for size and wanted to get lean so i lifted lighter weight and high reps...

I guess you are well below the 31 p.cent reported above at your gym.

Lol. I love a good lazy day. Mine was yesterday since I was a tiny bit hung over like a rookie.

Grocery shop. Meal prep. It’s an off day. Get ready for next week. Might go out for dinner tonight. Lazy Sunday I guess.

Aw, thanks. I love supporting women like muscle beauty! She's amazing, strong as fuck, disciplined, knowledgeable and kind. I wish I was like her. lol The main thing is, she isn't a InstaHoe and isn't here posting non sense, noneducational posts that aren't beneficial to the community; especially the women's end of the community. @musclebeauty, when you swapped from powerlifting to bodybuilding. did it fuck with your head losing strength at all? or, were you prepared mentally for that to happen? or, have you sustained majority of your strength?

Yes sir lol. No training that weekend...lotsa cardio and coconut oil hahah

@German89 and @musclebound you 2 both look phenomenal. Glad you 2 are here. Very rare to find beautiful yet humble ladies.

ropes are a good way to add variety to a boring conditioning program, make you breath hard and sweat. rings are super versatile, they'll make you a different kind of strong. check out chad waterbury's videos. Buy a Jungle Gym rather than TRX, much better design, better quality.

Superdrol w test n tren is the body changer cycle man. I only ever run low dose but god damn. Only con is the calf pumps keep me up at night

My big goal year was last year as I turned 50. I really made the big transformation that I always wanted. My avatar speaks to my success on that, which BT helped in the final stages. I was using them when the photo was taken. Now for this year and going forward it's more about body sculpting for me. I'm not looking to be huge. I'm looking to look great and feel great and sculpt a body worthy of the gods. I could still lose some body fat to get my 6 pack chiseled. Even though my cycle ended in October, I've kept all my size training balls to the wall and eating well. I'm still very vascular, but I have put on perhaps a percent or 2 of body fat. I still have my 6 pack. That being said, I'm lifting heavier than I ever have. The difference as been diet (controlling carbs and cravings) and the type of compounds I run. I want to feel functional as well as strong. (Not I'm not going to start doing crossfit!) How I look and how I feel has changed drastically since I stopped trying to get "huge." I don't feel lethargic and moody, I have no problem with ED or arousal. And I really enjoyed most every about my cycles last year. So the goals are pretty simple, I want to look more like a fitness model than a body builder. So maintain size without putting on a lot of fat in the "off-season", and then come February continue to shred and sculpt as I see necessary. It's more refinement now, as I have kinda have achieved the physique I want.