Ryujiin

Not much to update. Decent pull session but not great. Not sure what was going on but I just did not have any gas in the tank yesterday. Oddly, by calves are killing me today with what feels like growing pains and my left nut is sore lol. Maybe I slept on it funny or my wife kicked me in the dic when I was sleeping.

Good quad focused leg session last night. No strength increases but no strength decline, so Ill take it. The quad pump on the other hand was more than average and I am not sure why but Im not questioning a good thing lol. It was actually difficult to stretch them out after and I had a couple new views in my quads and shins that I did not notice before. Diet on point w/ the extra wrap pre-workout and the added small banana with breakfast. Finding I am more an more hungry even though I actually added some extra calories here and there. AM cardio, no issues. So all in all, win win. Not sure if these little micro posts offer much, but Ill keep tossing them in to at least keep the log fresh.

lol, I'm Canadian, I just don't currently reside in Canada. I used to get back every quarter but since Covid, well that just fooked everything up. Have not seen my parents or relatives for some time. I do miss being able to buy the 8mg guys by the case for sure. Or good ol Ventipulmin (sp) from my buddy who has a farm lol.

I wish it was Ephedrine, but no dice. Even better would be some T3 at this point lol. Both I can not get here, so I opted to try the "Aggressive Labz" one pictured above. Although 50/50 its fake, who knows. The main thing for me now is to not fall into the trap of thinking I need to bottom out my calories and try to achieve the impossible in 8 weeks, but to hold on for the long term goal even if I don't reach it this run. I mean, I can always cruise for 6ish until my health markers come back clean and go again, but its to early to really know what will end up happening. My goal for the last while has just been to reach and maintain 15% for a solid amount of time before even thinking about shooting for sub 15. Eventually I will have to suck it up and post pics to show you guys where I am at in this.

I had a great arm session last night and either my shirt shrank or my arms where just stupid pumped to the point the sleeves were squeezing them and kept rolling up. That or I grabbed my wifes shirt by mistake. One item I forgot to mention is that since starting the new "OTC" fat burner in the AM, I am pretty much starving to death post cardio for whatever reason but as my first meal is not until 9:30am...ish, I decided to throw in a EAA drink around 6:30-7AM to at least try and hold of the hunger a bit. Quad focused leg workout tonight and I am looking forward to it. I was planning to go 20 weeks but it looks like this might wrap up around 18 by how much gear is left and I dont want to open any new vials other than my TRT test after this run, so we will see how it turns out. That would mean I have 8 weeks left...to try an get some decent results. Not looking forward to the week of down time coming up but I imagine I might need it. The pressure is on I guess.

Great leg workout (ham focused) and rest day yesterday. My legs were toast so it was nice to just chill. Arms tonight and then back to the normal schedule for the rest of the week. Next week I will be taking the week off as its a national holiday here and I am heading to my wifes parents in the mountains. No gym, no air fryer, no protein powder...FML. Lots of water, eggs and hiking I guess. 108.3kg this am, fasted, pre-cardio. So another wild swing in weight.

Great push workout yesterday night. Only problem I have now is the dumbbells' in my gym max out at 40kg and I was tossing them up for easy 12's on incline BD press....so, time to change it up to incline barbell I guess. Everything is feeling pretty good and I look decent under the gyms "natty lighting" with all the vascularity in my arms and my fat hidden under a t-shirt.

Yip, but given the vascularity, definitely a DHT in there someplace I would think. So test, primo and GH would make sense...I cant see then using anything non-script given the legal risk.

Yip, dude is definitely putting in the work and then some. Its sad that he cant be more open about his protocol; and that either way, people will always put down the amount of work he has been putting in and playing up the "its easy on PED's" card.

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Small update. The amnio went well. No complications. They also decided to take blood from me for genetic testing and I will say it came out nice and red lol. Now we get to wait 3 weeks for the results. No gym yesterday and diet was maybe 1500 cals and we were all over the map. Back on track today and looking forward to a good push workout tonight. My mystery fat burner showed up today so I will take a tab in the AM tomorrow before cardio and see if I die.

Praying for you man. Hope all goes well.

https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a36166124/kumail-nanjiani-post-workout-photo/ This kills me inside. I wish I could see his diet and training protocol as well as his stack. (his real protocol, not the BS cover story one) GH is your friend?

Good workout yesterday. Hit a PR on leg press (not a real PR, but a post 35yr old PR) Quad Focused Workout: Abduction and adduction work 2 - 3 sets each (light weight) Leg Curls – 2 warm up sets Leg Press (neutral, low) - 4 feeder sets, 2 working sets at 250kg (hitting near black out at 9 reps) Leg Press (neutral, mid) - 2 working sets at 250kg (failure at 8 with some partials) + 1 high rep back off set with the sled Leg Extensions - 3 warmup sets, 2 working sets at 82kg+ 1 back off set at 50kg and 2 static holds at 100kg Walking Lunges (bodyweight) – 1 sets to failure Standing Calf Press – 3 working sets After my first two workout sets of leg press I was sweating like a mofo. I actually blacked out (I think) for about 20 seconds on my last set of neutral/mid working set. Da Food: Meal 0: 1Tbsp apple cider vinegar, half lemon (squeezed) mixed in 500ml water. Meal1: 50g oats w/ cinnamon & 2 servings whey, 50g black berries, 20g NPB (smooth) Meal 2: 150g grilled chicken breast, 1.5 serving whey, 1 serving psyllium fiber, 20g NPB Meal 3: (2 hours pre-workout) 150g grilled chicken breast, 3 white raps, mustard Meal 4: (immediate PW) 2 servings whey, 1 medium banana, 1 soft chew dark chocolate granola bar Meal 5: (2 hours PW) 1 slice delux pizza hut pizza (wife wanted pizza, what are ya gonna do), 250g air fried chicken breast Water intake at around 9L yesterday. Keeping it clear. Supplements: Wakeup: 1/2 serving pre-workout (pre-walk) soon to be adding in 6g of yohimbine hcl/alpa yohimbine mix (Allmax shit) Post walk: 500mg curcumin, 1g astragalus, 1g NAC, 10mg cialis, 3 caps NOW prostate support With meal 0: 1200mg calcium With meal 1: 500mg berberine, 2g fish oil With meal 2: 2g fish oil, 1 cap K2/D3, 200mg Q10, 1 serving Nutrex Vitadapt With meal 3: 500mg berberine 45-60min pre-workout: 1/2 serving ANS Prophecy With Meal 4: 500mg berberine With meal 5: 400IU vitamin E, 1g vitamin C Before bed: 200mg magnesium chelate, 500mg curcumin, 1g astragalus, 1g IP6, 1 serving Allmax Lights Out, 1g celery seed That's about it for now...I think.

I think its the correct choice for him. He can focus on business and family. He was not getting any bigger so not really anyplace for him to go anyways. I think on a generous TRT he will hold on to about 75% of it if he keeps training hard. Look at guys like Seth and what they have been able to hold on to.

Just update the above post on what I am going to try this week. Today (Quad Day): added a small banana to breakfast and added 1 extra wrap to my pre-workout meal (about 50 carbs combined) Tomorrow (Pull Day): Normal 2500cal day Wednesday (Push Day): Normal 2500cal day Thursday (Quad Day): add 1 extra wrap to my pre-workout meal Friday (Vanity Day - Arms): Normal 2500cal day Sat/Sunday are active rest days (AM cardio + stretching, daily activities, etc) and a targeted 2200-2500 clean cals unless my wife is in a mood and then there will be a pizza or something. See what that does. Baby steps. I ordered some random semi not really OTC fat burner that Ill use pre-cardio in the AM starting next month. Not sure if anyone has ever heard of these guys or seen this stuff, again, it could just be baking soda.

Cardio right now is just a 45min fast paced walk in the AM (fasted). Gets me going for the day and I like getting outside while everyone is still sleeping lol. Zen and all that. I was definitely thinking about keeping the diet format as is but just adding some extra carbs at breakfast (up the berries to 50g and toss in a small banana for example) and pre-workout meal (3 wraps instead of 2) for a couple of weeks or so. 1000CAL deficit is "estimated" based on my calculated TDEE and the numbers from MyFitnessPal. Who knows how well my thyroid is running right now (low numbers on the my last round of testing) I will note that I have put on some muscle size in the last 8 weeks so it could just be recomp and the scale not moving is messing with my head. My bodyfat is also high enough (you can scope the pics) that it is probably harder to see the changes. Im also only 8 weeks into this 20 week round, so Im sure that is also messing with my head.

Forgot to mention I weighed in at 112.6kg this am post cardio, so its seems I am sitting around 110-112kg back and forth. I guess its time to make some adjustments. Deciding if that a little extra cardio or if I should drop some calories. Maybe drop to a 2 egg count instead of 3 for my last meal as an example.

First kid. We have been trying for some time as I had fertility issues, hence having to come off TRT twice. We ended up losing the first pregnancy but this time around things seem to be pretty stable. We are going in for an amnio this week to make sure all is good and then hopefully smooth sailing from there. Coming off TRT is brutal, and each time it has set back my progress so I am hoping this time I can keep the momentum. I was going to just do this recomp on TRT level, but it has been so long since I have run a real cylce and I am sitting on so much gear that I said fook it and am just entering week 9 of Test, Tren and Mast at 250/200/250 a week. Nothing crazy but effective. Just trying to relearn how to make diet adjustments as progress stalls. The hard part is its always tempting to throw something else into the mix. I would love to see what my body would do if I upped the calories by 500 (as Im in about a 1K deficit) and ran 50mg anadrol PW for 4 weeks lol.

Thanks man. The bun in the oven has been a long and rough road; hence my current fat ass state. The log is not that detailed, its just been going for over a year so it looks that way. Lots of fluff.

Push and Hamstring sessions were good. Sitting around 110.6kg as of this AM. My weight is all over the map so I am wondering if my estro is spiking a little around my pin schedule causing me to hold a little extra water. Anyway, week 8 coming to a close and will see what my weight in is tomorrow AM. Im on the fence in regards to my calorie count. Make a small cut vs. make a small increase vs. maybe adding a little extra cardio. Given how hungry I am though...anyway, only time will tell. Wife just hit 17 weeks preg, so far so good and non of the problems we went through last time. Have an amnio scheduled next week to cross any possibilities off the list and if the results are green then I am hoping its smooth sailing to arrival.

Nano-update: Had a great pull workout. Diet on point. Normal morning cardio routine. Yohimbine seems to be helping some. Push workout in a couple hours and I just put down my pre-workout meal and poured my pre-workout shake. Legs are tight and sore from Monday but should be good to go for hamstring focused leg day tomorrow night. So far so good and feeling pretty solid half way through week 8. No real side effects except some mild night sweats and a stupidly high sex drive. Im also finding that I am hungry more often even though I have not modified calories or macros which I hope indicates some improvement in lean mass. The only temptation I am fighting now is to add in something extra pre-workout when I reach week 12 (like 50mg anadrol, lol) but I guess I will cross that bridge when I get to it as if progress continues, there would be no need to adjust or add. Cruise after this is done is still planned to be basic TRT for 6-8wks (pending my health markers) then back into another mild <700mg wk "blast" to continue the recomp. 40 is sneaking up on me and I would really like to look good naked by that time.

Still making solid progress man. Your actually looking thicker in muscle density and that will drive up your BMR. Keep on it man.

Quad focused leg day almost killed me. I swear I barely made it home. Abduction and adduction work 2 - 3 sets each. Leg Curls – 4 warm up sets progressively heavier + light stretch Leg Press (neutral, low) - 3 warm up/feeder sets, 2 working sets at 100kg + partials Leg Press (neutral, mid) - 2 working sets at 100kg + partials + 1 back off set of just the sled Leg Extensions - 3 warm up sets, 3 working sets at 85kg + 1 back off set 40kg + DC stretch 60 seconds Walking Lunges or BSQ’s (bodyweight) – skipped...I just could not do it. Standing Calf Press – 3 light sets just to move blood into my calves without irritating my AT. I had a hard time getting my jeans on due to the blood volume. AM walk as per usual. Diet on point. I feel like I should be eating more.

Welcome back MG. We missed you.