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Evening all from a very wet Ireland!! 
I’m 45, Married to an amazing lady and father to two beautiful little girls.
Having played rugby at a decent level all my life I decided to give it up about 5 years ago.
As soon as I did the weight just ballooned. I went from a fighting weight of 100kg to 123kg in about 3 years and developed what my wife calls “a dad bod”
The only physical activity I was doing was golf…. And that’s not the most intense sport in the world. I missed the lifting and the gym culture from my rugby days so I decided to join a gym. I’m an engineer so most of my days are at a desk.
So….Week two of my new gym plan I developed an inguinal hernia. All heavy lifting had to stop. It took three months for the surgery to happen and guess what…. 6 weeks after surgery the mesh on my abdominal wall failed and I ended up back under the knife. I finally got the all clear to go back lifting in January 26 weighing in at 123kg, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, weak as a baby kitten and hating how I looked.
I hit the gym hard…..
however I couldn’t shake the lethargy, low libido and brain fog so I got my doc to do a hormonal blood panel to check my Testosterone levels. Guess what….. my total test was 5.6, clinically low as was my free T and my SHBG was way off and e2 was a bit high but in range. Did my doctor subscribe TRT? No…. He bloody didn’t. Told me to lose weight, do more cardio and see him in 3 months. So that’s what I did…. I lost 12kg between Jan and March, did more cardio and ate right, Dialled in my sleep and training and got the bloods done again. Lipids and blood pressure had improved however my test levels had gone up 0.01 on my previous blood results. Did the doc put me on TRT?…. Nope.
This is when I took matters into my own hands. I joined a men’s health clinic which is really expensive here in Ireland…who prescribed me 200mg of test cyp to be pinned once a week and an AI. A couple of weeks in I still felt like shit.
Got talking to the biggest guy in my gym who told me to ditch the AI, reduce my dose to 150mg and get my bloods done again in 8 weeks. Within a week I started feeling better. That was the first week of May 26.
As it stands now first week of June I’m 45 years old, 6’1 in height and 93kg and I’m on the following….
1.5mg of Reta a week
2mg of Tessa pinned daily
150mg a week of test cyp split into daily sub q pins.
10mg staten for lipids
200g of protein a day
10g of creatine a day
3000g of omega 3 a day
I’m lifting 5 days a week since January.
My lipids are all in range, my blood pressure is averaging at 111/66 and RHR is 62. I haven’t felt this good in 20 years. Haematocrit is stable between 45 and 48. I’ve never had to give blood.
The plan going forward to to start Blasting and cruising. I want to bury the dad bod and start looking like you guys. Going to start a test only first cycle and see where that takes me.
I’ll post some photos now.
Looking forward to hearing all your comments!!
Also I fucking love the podcast!!!
Big love
The Wilbury
I’m 45, Married to an amazing lady and father to two beautiful little girls.
Having played rugby at a decent level all my life I decided to give it up about 5 years ago.
As soon as I did the weight just ballooned. I went from a fighting weight of 100kg to 123kg in about 3 years and developed what my wife calls “a dad bod”
The only physical activity I was doing was golf…. And that’s not the most intense sport in the world. I missed the lifting and the gym culture from my rugby days so I decided to join a gym. I’m an engineer so most of my days are at a desk.
So….Week two of my new gym plan I developed an inguinal hernia. All heavy lifting had to stop. It took three months for the surgery to happen and guess what…. 6 weeks after surgery the mesh on my abdominal wall failed and I ended up back under the knife. I finally got the all clear to go back lifting in January 26 weighing in at 123kg, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, weak as a baby kitten and hating how I looked.
I hit the gym hard…..
however I couldn’t shake the lethargy, low libido and brain fog so I got my doc to do a hormonal blood panel to check my Testosterone levels. Guess what….. my total test was 5.6, clinically low as was my free T and my SHBG was way off and e2 was a bit high but in range. Did my doctor subscribe TRT? No…. He bloody didn’t. Told me to lose weight, do more cardio and see him in 3 months. So that’s what I did…. I lost 12kg between Jan and March, did more cardio and ate right, Dialled in my sleep and training and got the bloods done again. Lipids and blood pressure had improved however my test levels had gone up 0.01 on my previous blood results. Did the doc put me on TRT?…. Nope.
This is when I took matters into my own hands. I joined a men’s health clinic which is really expensive here in Ireland…who prescribed me 200mg of test cyp to be pinned once a week and an AI. A couple of weeks in I still felt like shit.
Got talking to the biggest guy in my gym who told me to ditch the AI, reduce my dose to 150mg and get my bloods done again in 8 weeks. Within a week I started feeling better. That was the first week of May 26.
As it stands now first week of June I’m 45 years old, 6’1 in height and 93kg and I’m on the following….
1.5mg of Reta a week
2mg of Tessa pinned daily
150mg a week of test cyp split into daily sub q pins.
10mg staten for lipids
200g of protein a day
10g of creatine a day
3000g of omega 3 a day
I’m lifting 5 days a week since January.
My lipids are all in range, my blood pressure is averaging at 111/66 and RHR is 62. I haven’t felt this good in 20 years. Haematocrit is stable between 45 and 48. I’ve never had to give blood.
The plan going forward to to start Blasting and cruising. I want to bury the dad bod and start looking like you guys. Going to start a test only first cycle and see where that takes me.
I’ll post some photos now.
Looking forward to hearing all your comments!!
Also I fucking love the podcast!!!
Big love
The Wilbury
booked again for the 19th of June which will be close to 8 weeks. 
