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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. 

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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. 

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Hope everything goes as well as it can. Sad to hear about the first pregnancy.. 

Yeah, coming right off can be hard. if I come off I use 3000iu of hcg, but that’s not really coming off.

Damn bro, 1k cal deficit and stalling? For sure you need to change things up. I’d even suggest taking a week off the diet to reset a bit, nothing crazy all clean food of course. How much cardio are you doing?

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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. 

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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. 

 

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9 hours ago, Ryujiin said:

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. 

That’s probably what’s happening, trading in some fat for lean muscle tissue. Because it does sound like everything is on point. Love the log bro, keep killing it!

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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. 

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13 hours ago, a_ahmed said:

Good work man

Im getting my results today on my sperm analysis... Been also unable to workout due to third lockdown here... Keeping my chin up, cant wait till gyms r reopened and hoping for positive fertility results... 

You got this dude. Lots of us bodybuilders/juice heads have kids. You’ll  be ok. And if things do come back sub par there are some good protocols to increase mobility and fertility. Good luck man!

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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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3 minutes ago, Ryujiin said:

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. 

😂🤣 LOL, that’s awesome man. 
 

What fat burner? Ephedrine?

With your dedication and thoroughness a lot can happen in 8 wks. Kill it bro!

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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. 

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My bad dude, I assumed you were Canadian. Not sure how I missed your pics. 🤷‍♂️  To bad you can’t get ephedrine .. maybe some nice Canadian guy would send you some? We can buy that stuff anywhere here. My girl orders boxes of it off the net for next to nothing.

Smart move man, fight the urge not to starve yourself. You’re doing things right. If you lose (or gain) lots of weight fast and your body is not used to it it’ll come back (or leave) as soon as you ease up. Small changes are the best.

 

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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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Closing out the week strong, not literally though. Feeling a little run down so the week off next week is welcome and needed. Looking forward to really tightening it up when I get back.

As always, feel free to throw down any advice. 

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113.8kg this AM after a week off in the mountains where the diet was pretty much nothing but rice and vegetables as access to meat is limited. Back in the game today with 45min AM cario/walk and some mobility and stretching work after. Diet back on point but I will be changing the blackberries to blueberries in the AM (40-50g for now) and I am thinking I will drop the post workout banana after this week. I also may drop the omlet as my last meal and switch over to something more lite like a baked chicken breast (200g) and maybe 100-150g rice. 

Thats about it. Other than the desire to up my dosages for phase 2 of this recomp and start to focus more on overall fat loss vs. the recomp goal. Anyway, will probably keep things where they given the length of time on overall that this encompasses.  

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Killin that cardio bro! I’m curious.. Why a banana post? I kinda like an orange or apple, bump up that blood sugar. Or some harribo gummies 🤤 Blueberries are always a great choice. 
 

Your diet is great, cardio is god level. You seem to train hard. What’s your current aas cycle? How long have you been at your dosages? 

 

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