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@Echos merry xmas and new year to you welcome back.Week 0
Hey folks. Hope all is well and everyone had a good Christmas. As I mentioned in the OP, spent that week with my family and didn’t touch a weight. Wanted to give myself a break on the diet and the gym. Got some good rest physically. I didn’t think I ate badly, but my weight pre-holiday was 225 and I was 237 when I came back On Monday. Crazy. Now, 2 days latter I’m down to 231.
So this would be week 0 as I plan on starting PED/HGH use next week. I wanted to use this week to get reacclimated to the gym and do a practice run on the meal prep to make sure I got everything down. So I calculated everything out right, but it took me 2 hours from start to finish including cleaning up. Ugh. Just what I got to do as this focus for me is really about making sure I’m on point with the diet. The only change that I’m gonna make is dropping 1 apple and 1 banana and shifting those carbs to rice. This will just help out my work day so I don’t have to stop as much.
Not much of an update here as next week is Week 1 and “Go Time”.
I had a day or two off then an easy day. Needs mustWeek 0
Hey folks. Hope all is well and everyone had a good Christmas. As I mentioned in the OP, spent that week with my family and didn’t touch a weight. Wanted to give myself a break on the diet and the gym. Got some good rest physically. I didn’t think I ate badly, but my weight pre-holiday was 225 and I was 237 when I came back On Monday. Crazy. Now, 2 days latter I’m down to 231.
So this would be week 0 as I plan on starting PED/HGH use next week. I wanted to use this week to get reacclimated to the gym and do a practice run on the meal prep to make sure I got everything down. So I calculated everything out right, but it took me 2 hours from start to finish including cleaning up. Ugh. Just what I got to do as this focus for me is really about making sure I’m on point with the diet. The only change that I’m gonna make is dropping 1 apple and 1 banana and shifting those carbs to rice. This will just help out my work day so I don’t have to stop as much.
Not much of an update here as next week is Week 1 and “Go Time”.
get out to a good start and keep it rolling broWeek 0
Hey folks. Hope all is well and everyone had a good Christmas. As I mentioned in the OP, spent that week with my family and didn’t touch a weight. Wanted to give myself a break on the diet and the gym. Got some good rest physically. I didn’t think I ate badly, but my weight pre-holiday was 225 and I was 237 when I came back On Monday. Crazy. Now, 2 days latter I’m down to 231.
So this would be week 0 as I plan on starting PED/HGH use next week. I wanted to use this week to get reacclimated to the gym and do a practice run on the meal prep to make sure I got everything down. So I calculated everything out right, but it took me 2 hours from start to finish including cleaning up. Ugh. Just what I got to do as this focus for me is really about making sure I’m on point with the diet. The only change that I’m gonna make is dropping 1 apple and 1 banana and shifting those carbs to rice. This will just help out my work day so I don’t have to stop as much.
Not much of an update here as next week is Week 1 and “Go Time”.
@Echos so you made no diet changes? and small what changes did you make?Week 1 check in
Okay, so I’m at the end of week 1. Everything for the most part as been going well. Been on target with food, with workout and with supplements.
Some asked about my diet. I have that listed out in the OP so if you’re interested just look at the initial post and you’ll find it. I think I’m going to make a few small changes.
In the past I would have 2 full leg days per week. As I’ve gotten older I just cannot recovery from a full leg day and be ready to go for the next one. So, for some time I’ve just done 1 full leg day per week. One of my “goals” for this bulk is my hams. So I’m thinking I might try to add a partial leg day on one of the 2 days off (that I use for cardio). So putting in some leg curls, straight leg deadlift, Jackson squat….maybe add in some more abs on that day and then with the rest of the time do some cardio at the gym. I’ve not solidified that workout but I’m gonna add it in on week 2.
Second, I’m gonna move around my low, med, hi carb days. Right now, I have 2 low, 1 hi and the rest medium. I’m gonna swap out one low for a med and put the hi day right after my low day. Currently it is: L,M,M,L,M,M,H. That is Sun-Sat. So I’m gonna switch it to: L,M,M,M,M,M,H. So Sat will be hi and Sun low and the rest medium.
I was 231 on Sunday, today I’m 233.
Small change to workout. I’ve had a slight right shoulder thing that bothers me sometimes. This past week instead of doing incline press I did flat bench press and my shoulder felt great! So I’m gonna swap that out for this cycle. Then as mentioned about, I’ll have 6 workout days instead of 5 and 1 cardio/active rest day instead of 2.
Last, thing. I gonna change up my HGH dosing a bit. In the past when I tried to do 4 IUs (2AM and 2PM) I got really bad carpel tunnel. I think I’m very prone to it as my hand go numb when I’m in be reading in bed…..and that was before I ever touched PEDs or HGH. So I switched and since have always done my HGH in AM before workout. It was just easier that way. I tried switching it to 2PM because I think the conventional wisdom is that for bulking it works better in the PM. So I did this and my CT got worse after 2 days. So, I’m gonna try to do 2 IUs after workout and then add in 1 in the PM for a few weeks and then build up and see if I can get to 2 in the PM. If I cannot then maybe try to do it all after workout.
Oh, one more thing. I’ve been on my TRT for about 2 months now. I always feel I push pretty good but since I was trying to have some recovery, I haven’t been “balls to the wall” intensity. Ive tried to step that up but been a bit short and towards the end of the workout I feel gassed. Today, i had good intensity all the way to the end. It was great. Love being back on a real cycle again!