Physlifter

Hello everyone

The Jim Morris classic is held on April 13, 2024 in Cambridge, Ontario. Find and follow them on instagram.

I will be competing in what will be my last show. I'm am pulling out all the stop to bring the best package ever. 

I've hired Juan Rojas of Physique Academy as my coach who's based in Kitchener. He's mind blowing and amazing in his knowledge, application of training, a great investment and still continues to compete himself on his quest for an IFBB pro card. I'm sure he'll get in within two years. 

I started dieting on November 20, avoiding all xmas goodies up to the holiday itself with zero cheats so that I could have a good few meals during that time and I would be ready early in the prep. You'll see below why I chose that method. 

I am competing in 4 divisions:

Masters and open classic physique

Masters and open men's physique

I'm not big enough for bodybuilding. 

6'2, currently 200.6 lbs this morning dry and flatter, EXTREMELY lean. Started at 227. 6.5 weeks out from the show. 

Gear as of today (using bodytech):

800 mg test e

450 NPP (ends this week

Masteron E 400 mg per week

Primo e 400 mg per week

Incinerate fat burner 

Clen 25 mcg per day

I'll do my next post for training. 

Hello board members,

We want to promote lots of activity, discussions, community in the board. It's been a while since we've had some good discussions going, so let's open it up to an easy one!

What's your 2024 goals? Notice i'm not saying resolution?

I'm stepping on stage April 13 for the Jim Morris Classic in Cambridge, ON.  My goal is to be the most peeled, most ridiculous look i've had in my life.  Now that i'm 40, I'll be doing Masters classic physique and physique. I feel i'm pretty much at the peak of my physique, so I want to immortalize for myself what i've achieved.

You're turn!

On 3/12/2023 at 6:59 AM, Kyle said:

Hi @Physlifter I have just read through your experiences. Thanks so much for sharing. 
I have had chronic tennis elbow for 5 years and am about to start bpc and tb500. did you inject locally into your forearm or elbow?
Are there any exercises you recommend for improving tennis elbow as well? 
 

Apologies somehow I missed this and i'm suuuuuuuuuuuuper late on responding!!

I injected with insulin needle as close to site as possible as long as you're not injecting into the ulnar nerve on the inside and into the tissue you should be ok.  There's a ton of tendons in there and it may flip around, cause a quick spasm, just don't go too crazy.

It did help improve quicker but you still need to do your essential exercises for tennis elbow; band/weight movements for flexion/extension/supination/pronation.  You need to see how it developed, what can be done differently to take the load off the tissue, and train smarter.  Is it a huge gamer changer?  That's up to you and your wallet.  If you needed it for a specific event that requires faster healing then it would probably be of benefit, or post surgical or major chronic issue.  However, the essentials do work with moist heat and stretching with the exercises.

Quick sneak peek of what's happening lately.

225 lbs. Test 800, deca 600, tren 200, dbol 50 mg per day. Fuck I love body tech stuff. 

Biggest heaviest lifts ever.

Staying lean, putting on the size. This cycle and last have been my best ever, and literally at my best ever body at 39.

Thanks for all the support fam
I brougth a great package for the summer, been able to maintain similar conditioning and ready to start doing some heavy maingaining in the fall.  I plan for one more show next year and i'm going to make it count

So continuing the gain train folks. Weight fluctuates between 210-215 throughout the day. Calories up to 2500-2800. Still doing cardio and now increasing intensity for athletic performance where I'm doing my next black belt exam in June. 

800 mg test/wk, 600 eq, 450 NPP until end of June and then back on TRT as I see my Endo Aug 10 and have bloods done by the 6th so everything is accurate and healthy

Back from Mexico and never lost a beat! Despite the good food, some great drinks, I only "put on" 4 lbs during the week. Do you think it was fat?? Or could it be filling up my glycogen stores and filling out my muscle cells, giving me this shredded vascular look. I trained 3 days in the gym at the resort. Kept my food intake manageable but I did enjoy myself Thoroughly. But right this morning I was back to french toast, popcorn at lunch, and then legs and cardio tonight with my training pal.

Live the lifestyle, reap the benefits. No starvation. 

I've dropped the Tren. Keeping test at 800 and continuing eq until I run out at 600 mg/wk and now bringing in NPP at 450-600 a week until July. At that point I'll take a good rest, go back on TRT dose so I can get my bloods done and see my Endo. 

This is truly the best I've ever looked and felt. Thanks to @BodyTechPharmafor helping me get there. 

Bringing back up old discussion:
 

What's been paramount for me this dieting phase??
Anabolic french toast

and

POPCORN!!! omgggggggggg it makes it so much more delightful to have a full bag of popcorn for only 250 cals, just load up the ketchup powder crap and go.  The amount of volume of that vs 250 cals of rice is astonishing and keeps me fuller longer

Wow three days makes a big difference with a bit of a dry out and some extra carbs.

Trained shoulders and went WTFfffffffffffffffffff in the gym.
Holding at 206.

I'm really extremely pleased with my look - turning 39 in a few months and it's me hitting my best stride.

Two weeks away from Mexico. Dropped down to my lowest at 204.8 and very flat. A good carb up today and back up to 210 fill out. If I was doing a show I'd say I'd be getting very close! Another 6 weeks of hard training and dieting and I'd be there. 30 mins of cardio 6 days a week, 4-5 days of weights, calories at 1800-1900.

Quick bathroom shots post leg workout. 205.2 lbs this morning. Very flat. Going to carb up nice on Sunday and see how weight fluctuates with my look. 3 weeks until Mexico

So I'm stabilizing at 210 lbs. When I was 207 I was depleted. Even here I'm still not Carbed up but I feel I'm continuing to add mass and lean out.  New shots last night 210 lbs PLUS comparator shots to when I did my last show in 2018 at 207 on stage.  

See the difference??

Thx guys
I had a good cheesecake saturday night carb fill up and I went back to 213, but then by this morning I was back to 207.  Definitely flatter and a bit weaker but still holding on well.  I'm starting the anavar today at 75 mg/day for the month to see where I end up.

Updated shots. At 207 lbs. Leaning out well. Holding onto muscle. 

Thinking about doing king kong classic end of year. Will do classic and physique divisions. 

Gonna get some new photos up soon
T3 i'm on is making my appetite go nuts, staying at 75 mcg and i'm tolerating it well.  HR up between 100-120 bpm at times at rest.  Lots of good heat.  FEeling flatter though.

I have an extra bottle of injectable stanolone i'm going to run for 10 days @100mg/day and see how that impacts my workouts.  We'll see how it affects the hairline if im prone to loss.

Thx boss

Started @BodyTechPharmaT3 today. 50 mcg and will ride that out for a few days, go up to 75 mcg, probably stay there for a month then ramp down before I head to Mexico.  100 mcg is cool and all but I do'nt like my HR at 120 bpm constantly and do'nt want to risk too much for msk loss.  Maybe toss in some extra clen at 50 mcg as well daily for 2 weeks on, 1 week off.

Lots of shut downs. Lots of reopenings. The body has taken a beating.

Even with the latest shut down, I managed to keep training. From the summer I found some hard motivation to bring back a better body from my competition in 2018. I think I've achieved that and more. This is the best I've felt in years. I turn 39 in June. I have a body that I'm really happy with. 

Family goes to Mexico from Apr 2-9. Can't wait. So so long. Dieting down and enjoying the whole ride. Running some amazing @BodyTechPharmagear and feeling the best ever. 

Today is 8 weeks out. How are you all doing?

I've listened to thousands of hours of heavy metal..all subgenre's, all types, open mind about it all. I Love it all.  I stumbled upon this lately, and I do not know how I Missed it.

You've heard death core, you've heard breakdowns, but never like this.  The world is shook from this level of brutality.  It's not just the regular breakdowns throughout the tune....the last minute is where it all happens.

Be prepared lol.  I literally burst out laughing and was in tears wondering WTF I listened to at the end.  Watching vocal critic reactions were priceless as ALL of us felt the same.  It is truly brutal, truly the most heavy of heavy, a new standard!

4 hours ago, Corey5150 said:

So I've been toying with the idea of downsizing, taking my health more into account and losing the "want" of trying to compete at a heavier and heavier weight -  I thinking of toying with the idea of classic physique. Now, the question would be if I can make weight lol My last show I competed at around 215 and I believe my weight cutoff would be anywhere from 190-197 depending on how I get measured. 

I keep thinking of If I ever went to TO or any pro qualifier I'll just need to be larger and larger, while switching categories would almost completely shift my focus to conditioning. I don't know if my body dysmorphia could handle it but its definitely been in my mind for the last little bit and could be interesting.

When I had done my shows in london and guelph, despite beign in the top percentage of conditioning, the bigger guys always beat me.  At 6'2, I need to be bigger. One guy had legit tub on him, was 8 weeks out from a show conditioning wise, and he beat me because the judges said he was 'bigger'.  Rediculous.  But that's the way it is.  Max out your range and that way you step on stage with no doubt.

So I've been given a script for bisoprolol 2.5 mg as my heart is acting up with all day random premature ventricular contractions. Went to the hospital last week and was given full scan overs. All my bloods are 100% perfect, my heart is fine (athletic enlargement but within normal limits), but my ECG shows this weird shit. We don't know if it's from all the stress I have in life or if from some other source. The meds have worked and I rarely get a skip now. Training is reduced as I'm not allowed to exceed 120-130 BPM. But I'm still lean and following the diet and training. Weight at 207 lbs. Pretty much where I want to be. 

12 hours ago, MrGains said:

Awesome work phys. One hell of a good run you posted. Hope the palpitations  clear up or your doc can sort it out

Thank you sir not bad for 3 months worth of covid shutdown work

Only going to get better, still got lots of gas in the tank

10 hours ago, Ryujiin said:

The return of the red Chucks. 

Nothing gets by you sir!!

Back to the gym. Finally!! Of course you need updated pics!

So here are the "Final" pics for my dieting.  As I sort through my health shit (had blood work today and ECG), i've now pulled back to just taking 500 mg test and 400 mg masteron, will ride that out for antoher month or so and then go back to full TRT until my endo appoint on dec 8.  I will continue my cardio 4-5x/wk, keep up the training now that we are going back into step 3 in ontario (full gym openings).

But my progress is still fantastic! Thoughts?
 

41 minutes ago, Ryujiin said:

I used to get this all the time and every now and then it happens. Curious to see what your results are from the follow up tests. 

palpitations every once in a while now are normal and are benign

mine are happening throughout the day every day, and have been for a month..even two weeks off the t3...so ya we'll see what happens