Physlifter

Got it uploaded to YouTube

https://youtu.be/HnWekswGcww

Well I PR'd another tonight with 3.5 plates per side on shoulder press.  Got that vid up too but gotta figure out how to embed it without taking such a huge frame in the box.

I feel great!!  This is by far the best offseason i've had for steady gains, strength, growth.  And it's nice and simple really.  

230 lbs. Getting bigger! Staying lean!

Turkey gains are coming from this thanksgiving! New PR row row rowing that heavy 315 lbs ass weight up for a crude 6 at the end of my workout. Be thankful for something! I'm thankful for my family, my health and career, and especially the blessing of being able to wake up every day and make a difference, no matter how shitty the day begins or ends.

20 hours ago, maskedmisery said:

Went to see my doc today, I have some ultrasound to do to see perfectly whats going on, but she thinks it might be a calcific tendonitis. I will be sure sometime next week when ultrasound are done this friday.

calcific tendonitis within the long head biceps is plausible
any forward movement that causes pain is almost exclusively biceps.  If you do band movement from internal to external and back to internal rotation, does that hurt? Does chest pressing hurt at the most down stretch position? if those two don't hurt, then I can all but guarantee it's long head biceps.

Lots and lots of low grade band rehab repeating that movement helps flood blood to it.  Avoiding long reach and loading movements helps.  Keep palms up and in close if you have to lift things.  If it's a constant throb add ice to it first, then proceed with heat. 
If it is calcific tendonitis, there's lots in physio that can be done to help break down the deposits, absorb back into the body, and reduce the overall inflamed tendon.  If there are larger deposits, nothing short of shockwave therapy will help that (and that hurts like a bitch), if it does at all.  Lots of people have calcium deposits have zero symptoms either, so it may or may not be correlational.

Sitting at 225.6 this morning and I look bigger and possibly leaner! Arms are absolutely bigger!! I found a nice pose for myself too that seems to work!

Starting a new log today.  There are some interesting changes this offseason regarding total athleticism and not strict bodybuilding.  I am opening up a Tae Kwon Do club with a fellow master 5th dan instructor, and after 17 years of not practicing, i'm getting back into the fold.  So this means I have to not only attempt to get to the splits again (and improve all general mobility), but I also have to have my cardio jacked way way up, or else i'll fail the upgrade dan tests miserably.

I see this only as an extremely positive thing.  So i'm contining my bodybuilding offseason mass building sitting at 227 or so pounds (see new pic), but I will be training towards a 10 km run by the spring.

This past week I'm starting at 2 km. Can do it at 5.5 mph in 13:30 mins.  I suck.  OMG i'm out of shape.  Heart rate constantly at 160 bpm.  Splits training has got to be the ABSOLUTE WORST i've ever done.  I can't believe I was able to be full side and long splits as a 17 year old.  Not anymore as a 36 year old.  It's improved a lot, but I have months to go to get anywhere close to bottom.  Every inch of muscle in my pelvic girdle has shortened to unbelievable lengths..sitting for 8 years in school, practicing for 10 years as a physio sitting at a desk charting.  I know this will positively affect my squats, deads, etc having better mobility too.

Current cycle:
Body tech Test 800, Equipoise 600, NPP 450 weekly.  Dbol 50 mg daily for 6 or so weeks.  I will be starting genetic cardarine at 10 mg daily to see about the improved cardiovascular effects, as well as mk677 12.5 mg, bumping up to 25 once I am accustomed to it and not wanting to eat everything in sight.

16 hours ago, Corey5150 said:

Who is everyone picking for the olympia?

I think Brandon Curry will take the open.

No one will touch Breone in the Classic.

Derek will most likely take the 212... but I'm rooting for John Jewett, at least in second. Guy looks phenomenal!

I think you've got the safest bet.  For all the 'excitement' this Olympia is supposed to bring, it seems pretty boring with already knowing who's going to win.  I would LOVE Dex to win it.  Just bring the same package from the last show and it'll be hard even for Brandon to beat him.  Then Dex can finally retire.  
But honestly it'll probably be
1) Brandon
2) Roelly

3) Dex

4) doesn't matter after that

they translate to big long hard sexy time!! 

5 hours ago, a_ahmed said:

It's been years since I used peptides (broke ass), I got some MT2 10mg from BT, i added 2ml bac water.

The insulin syringes I have, there are major lines and tiny lines. I think the major line is like to 100iu or something? I went to the 2nd or 3rd major thick, how much mcg does that indicate?

I got nauseau side effect and random erections throughout the day at work LMAO horrible. Wondering how to mange the nauseau which is pretty bad, dont mind the erections haha

100 IU is a full ML, which would be a full plunger back if you had a 100 iu syringe.  Each major line is 10 iu, each minor tick is 2 iu.  So like goto 10 IU first day, then just do 5 iu the next week every day, then every other day until you get the tan you need, then go maintenance.  

So I've been on a constant 2000 IU dose for the last week (after seeing my endo last wednesday and said just keep a constant 2000 IU)
I feel more improved wellness if I can use that term.  

Sexual dysfunction has improved, but I also started taking HCG with a 1000 IU shot 4 days ago.  Going through a 5000 IU bottle now at 500 IU every 3.5 days.  

You're very thick!

What divisions are you competing in?

2 hours ago, scubadiver said:

Just curious about peoples opinion - I had a tear in my rotator cuff so I was out of the gym for 10 weeks following my doctor's advice to stay out and let it heal. I"m back in the gym now and working through the shoulder pain with super light weight... and people giving me strange looks lifting such light weights LOL.

My question is we know AAS speed up recovery..and while i'm not looking for a shortcut per se as i do cruise with TRT, it is frustrating having been out for so long. I could do a blast but considering my injury limits me to light weight, is it worth it for the benefit of getting back to 100% faster? Or should i wait it out because it would be a waste?

Thanks

keep exercising and doing your physio
steroids are not going to make whatever rotator cuff muscle is torn magically heal faster.  It doesn't work that way.  If anything, being on a huge cycle may make it worse as the contractile power of the muscle is so greater than the tendon strength you're at even greater risk of fully rupturing it.  I did do a TB500 cycle (shown in a log), that helped my tennis elbow.  Maybe think about that?

Lightly work through your movements with pain levels not exceeding 3/10, as full a range as you can without compensation movements, 3-5 sets of 10-12 to fill it with blood.  Rehab is a completely different beast than bodybuilding.  If you want to lift proper again with reduced risk you need to take the necessary steps to doing things right, and then once back into lifting, adjust how the training was done (different ex's, weights, positions, etc) so you can be successful.

7 hours ago, MuscleDummy said:

1) The only active range of motion the that cause the irritation as a constant is behind the back. Sometime something like reaching to pull my glasses off I feel it. (And like I said some presses in the gym) But it isn’t constant enough to say I feel it every time. It almost feels random. I feel it in my front shoulder delt when it happens and if there’s enough irritating movement the bottom of my mid delt in the shoulder. Again the only constant spot is the front  

2) lift of the wall behind back i can definitely feel it. Again front of shoulder. 

3)no pain with these movements 

4)no symptoms in this movements either. 

5)nothing is tender. As far as I can nothing feels thicker or swollen either. 

Hopefully this is what you’re after for more info. Obviously if there’s anything else let me know I’ll get it to you ASAP! Thanks again for the help!

So that pain is likely your sub scapularis muscle. Long head biceps irritation is always palpable and thickened in the groove it sits in. Subscap sits deep under that and mimics it. That hand behind back movement that's painful is pretty much the test for subscap. Your description of what doesn't hurt also eliminates supraspinatus and infraspinatus/teres minor.

How to treat it? Obviously stay out of that range is one thing. Rep out internal rotation movements on the pullies at neutral position and up at 90 deg abduction as long as it's relatively pain free. No huge stretch loads from chest days. Heat as needed 2-3x a day to keep it warm and blood flowing to it. 

18 hours ago, MuscleDummy said:

Ok. Gonna try follow @Physlifter protocol here:

1) nature of injury. Not really sure when it happened. I honestly thought I slept funny on my shoulder one night about a month back. It’s not painful just annoying. 

2) symptoms. Just a irritating feeling in the muscle on my shoulder. Mostly notice it when I lay down to sleep. Hard to find a comfortable spot. But mostly I don’t even notice it in the day. 

3) no past history

4) what makes it worse. When I reach around my back it gets tighter feeling. Still not painful. Just uncomfortable. I feel it some times if I do close grip bench press or and incline press. But not always. And if I do it’s just the first rep. 

5) no scans. Went to see a doc. She said it’s more than likely a small tear in proximal bicep tendon. 

6) Goals. To get the irritating or annoying feeling to go away. It hasn’t effected my lifts at all or anything at work. Like I said I can feel it during certain lifts a bit but it’s mostly when I’m trying to sleep. 

7) medications. Diclofenace for the inflammation. She also said I could get therapeutic massage to help. 

So that’s my info. My big questions are:

1) what else can I do to help speed up recovery? Movements, products (legal or otherwise) etc  

2) the doctor said I didn’t have to do modified duties at work, just to keep an eye on it, so I assume I could do a down graded version of my routine at the gym yes? Or should I just shut it down all together?

Thanks. 

So there's some good info here but a lot of info missing that's vital to a good diagnosis. Doctors like to throw around tears a lot but if it's a true tear you're going to be in trouble, plus your symptoms are not reflective of a tear (it being significantly more painful).

1) is your pain with active range of motion to the front over head? Side over head? External rotation? Or hand behind back only?

2) do resisted flexion at 90 deg, abduction (to the side), External rotation on the corner of the wall, or lift off with hand behind back. What's painful?

3) pretend your arm is out front, elbow at eye level direct in front of you, either put resistance on your hand with the opposite or allow it to fall into deep internal rotation. Any jabbing pain?

4) bring your arm up you the side, thumbs up, then pretend to empty a drink or can in that position allowing the hand to full turn down and in. Any symptoms?

5) tender and thick along the long head bicep where it goes in the front inner portion of the arm? What about the AC joint? Anything on the lateral side to that? 

Based on what hurts and doesn't, it's likely a mild tendonopathy. No tears. Give me some info back. 

Well not as lean as I once was.  Saw endo the other day and I've got a full clean bill of anabolic health. About to do another order from body tech and genetic and get my offseason started!

225 this morning. Here are pics after a hard back day. 

How many of you have bought insulin straight from the pharmacy? Are there reputable places online to buy insulin?

Given the large american 'caravan' that came into windsor a few weeks ago to buy large swathes of insulin, there should be no reason to not be able to go into a pharmacy to buy it...but I feel that's even more weird than buying pins, especially where i'm bigger than most of the population.

Advice needed on where to look into buying?  Usually the humalog fast acting for pre/post-workout injection.

holy crap that place has awesome prices. Finally!!!  I wouldn't mind supporting the other suppliers but jesus christ the shipping costs more than the pins themselves!! 

nothing to worry about.  the speed of injection, the depth of it, the angle of the pin, and yes even how fast you pull out would create a negative pressure and spurt out blood.  You may have a small bruise, i wouldn't worry about that.  I'm all about worrying you lost some gear though!!

I'm taking 4000 IU a day now for the next two weeks.  Saw my GP this morning and quizzed him.  He thinks the number isn't something to worry about, it could be my normal, but does say because of my skin and how easy I tan I'm likely not absorbing as much compared to pasty white gingers or lighter skin folks.  He told me to take 4000 IU for two weeks then drop down to the standard 1000 IU and that should level things out.  

As it stands, no change in any sexual performance either, thoughnot expecting anything yet if any.

1 hour ago, Francis "Frank" Castle said:

Not sure what test was done to assess your D levels but the best way to find out what is happeneing is the full D test that will measure calcidiol, and calcitriol. The former is what your liver converts the D3 supplement you take into and the latter is what your kidneys turn out from the calcidiol. So depending on what one shows up off you can tell where the problem is generally. 3000iu isn't enough and at the start you want to it it hard and then have the test run again to assess where the issue is. I would start with a dose of 15k iu and then 6k daily for a month and then have the bloodwork done again. At that point you can adjust based on what's found. Theres also no danger going 8 weeks at that dose though as the 4k iu thats normally tossed around is really conservative and applies to healthy people not deficient ones. My only concern would be any other symptoms. The tanked D and the ED together are not enough to worry IMHO but one more symptom pointing in the same direction I would be sweating a little. How's your PSA?

PSA is great and has been unchanged ever since i started my official TRT even with blasts. I'll up the dose.  I'm worried a bit about toxicity though but you seem to be knowledgable with that I won't?  It was done in my blood work.

1 hour ago, BobTheOldLifter said:

FWIW, my doc ovesees my supplement regime and while my D levels are mid range, I'm increasing now to 6000, from 4000.  And same with me, extra sun made no difference. 

Did you find out if there's something up that's blocking the absorption? 

Little bit of history: I have low test, had teenage gyno (removed two years ago), been seeing an endo for going on 2.5 years now and I've been put on permament 200 mg of test E weekly.  Feeling great, but lately the last few months i've been having a harder time maintain erections or even getting strong ones.  I just got bloods done and my natty test levels typically between 200-600 was at 364 instead of the normal 480 region.  Also, which seemed alarming, was that my Vitamin D levels were tanked to low levels.  That seems weird, as I'm always out in the sun, have a great tan, eat lots of fruits and veggies.  Biggest thing is the sexual dysfunction...so poking around I found some interesting info.  See below.  I started taking 3000 IU of vit D today and will see what changes happen, if any, over the next week.

https://www.webmd.com/erectile-dysfunction/news/20151113/vitamin-d-deficiency-might-be-tied-to-erectile-dysfunction

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30395842

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5503426/

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ije/2018/3720813/

On 8/1/2019 at 3:36 PM, toynut said:

new to cardarine this summer, i like it so far. not worried about cancer warnings, everything now a days can cause cancer, even subway sandwiches.

i think it all comes down to never abusing anything.

the amount of drug required to have any cancer risk would be stupid high and for stupid lengths of time.  You're going to get cancer from the sun before taking 10 mg of cardarine a few times a day for a few weeks.  So nothing to worry about.

Go see a naturopath doctor. You'll have to pay for your tests as the ones you want wouldn't likely be covered by provincial health insurance, but you'll get what you're asking plus a more supportive health professional. 

I remember talking with Greg years and years ago back in the old ripped canadian days as he was an up and comer and into his pro card.  Guy got into a mess years ago with the law but seems to have bounced back better than ever and his channel already has over 65,000 subscribers!  He is one of those guys who has the knowledge of a scientific background (masters in kinesiology) with lots of nutrition courses, is an IFBB pro, and has tons of experience so can weed through the shite and call people out for what it is, and really is honest to goodness no bullshit.

plus his anabolic french toast is insanely awesome!

give his channel a spin especially with his latest vids!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLqH-U2TXzj1h7lyYQZLNQQ