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No problem. I can get more specific if needed, but just due to the way packaging variables work, every day ends up being slightly different. I also really like variety in my veggies, so that shuffles things around quite a bit as well.
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I basically just eat 7x/day when bulking, and it follows a basic template, though I weigh the food for specifics on macros. Pre-lift: protein shake and berries Post: same 1 hour post: raisin bran and protein bar 2 hours later: higher fat base (eggs or whole milk cottage cheese), main carb source (oats usually), secondary…
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I agree 100%. I have about as much interest in statins, as I have in becoming a eunuch...and they might be related.
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I'm definitely becoming more inclined to believe that there's more to that than just correlation. The fact that offsetting the decline (within reason) with Test-Enth or Cyp seems to reverse a lot of the health problems caused by the aging process definitely supports it. Obviously, pinning won't make you immortal, but it…
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And this is why people resort to the black market, even when they qualify for legal stuff. For the low dose that TRT involves, you can get a multimonth supply from a vouched source for like $150. It doesn't get expensive until you're hitting into the 600mg/week range, and even that's not terrible.
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It's still a steroid. That's one area where people tend to get this stuff twisted. ste·roid ˈsterˌoid,ˈstirˌoid/ nounBIOCHEMISTRY any of a large class of organic compounds with a characteristic molecular structure containing four rings of carbon atoms (three six-membered and one five). They include many hormones,…
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That's why they get so many bloods in such a short time. You don't have to change anything for your axis to suddenly decide "*kitten* this noise, I'm headed back for baseline". You can be four weeks into a cycle and everything is cruising as expected. Suddenly in week eight your body flips the script and you start growing…
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I honestly do not know enough about the treatments they have given you to be able to answer that. Also, if a test is just labeled "Testosterone", it's total, not free.
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I mean, I don't wear suits, but you can have my pullup bar and dip belt when you pry from my cold, dead fingers.
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Your results don't shock me at all. Humans were evolved to move almost constantly. Whoever designed the chair, desk and cubicle should all be dug up and have their corpses drawn, quartered and burned.
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Total test is the total amount in your system. Free test is what is actually available and not being bound up by SHBG. Controlling SHBG is something that juicers really have to worry about, because as you inject test, your body will create SHBG in an attempt to bring the free levels back to the range that it considers…
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Honestly, what little I know on this topic in women has come from compilation work from Lyle McDonald. He's actually in the process of writing a book specifically for women right now, due to a lot of the unique challenges that they face. Let's just put it in very simple terms for the moment until I have time to dig up some…
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The aging thing is a valid point, and has a lot to do with declining hormone levels. It's been shown repeatedly thay TRT can offset most of those problems, especially in men, but even in women in lower dosages (think typical Anavar dosages). If we can get society to grt over this stupid "zomg steroids is the devil" crap,…
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Do yourself a (very masochistic) favor and pick up Dr. Kelly Starrett's book "Becoming a Supple Leopard". You will hate life for the first month, but man once you get all of that tissue broken free, you start to feel amazing. He actually puts a big focus on undoing the damage done by all of the damned sitting that we do.…
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The interesting thing with this is that it excludes a population that is actually much closer to a morbidly obese person than the studied bodybuilders are: elite level (and even amateur to a lesser extent) sumo wrestlers. Those guys have shown FFMI levels well in the upper 30s and in extreme cases, I believe that I saw one…
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I'll be happy when the last of the anti-protein zealots are finally silenced by overwhelming evidence. However, I know that I am trying to drown a shark with that one, as there's already a mountain, yet they still keep babbling.
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This is true, but do you honestly believe that such a huge swath of people happened to draw the shortest straw? The actual disease statistics are laughably low, when you bounce it off of the wall of obesity that the world population is becoming. The only thing dysfunctional in most, is their self-control. Now, for those…
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Define "bad diet" for me. Considering some of the things you listed, you'd probably be shocked to know that I can, have and do manipulate my bodyweight on a constant basis using nearly identical food types. I adjust quantities up and down in specific things, depending upon my goals at the time. These things include oats,…
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You really wanna see something crazy? Do the stupid *kitten* I did, and do a carb refeed with bagels one day. 1000g starch, 12g sodium, and two gallons of water due to thirst. I gained 15 pounds in two days, held it for a week, then spent another two days peeing every twenty minutes. Never again.
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You can't fix what isn't broken. The system isn't the problem. My eating habits are literally poverty level in cost, especially when cutting weight, and you've seen what I did to myself. Also, as Mark Twain famously said, "everything has it's limits; iron ore cannot be educated into gold". We've been cramming the needed…
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Kinda. I have a set of bar stools that I use. It just needs to be a hard surface that is high enough for your foot to be off the ground, so you can extend your leg and are able to twist it side to side when not extended. It also needs to be deep enough to be able to get the ball under all parts of the hamstring. That's why…
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Back on Grim Dawn, because I discovered the Grimarillion mod, the rest of my game library apparently needs totally ignored, and Crate has an expansion due out for it before the end of the year. Since I was a loyalist supporter from back in early beta, I'll get that free once it launches.
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Definitely this. I have always had similar issues described in the last paragraph, as I am built like some kind of weird inverse gorilla: long as hell arms and legs, stubby *kitten* torso. So in order for my center of gravity to be balanced and not have my knees in the way, I need to be hinged forward more than some would…
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1: it's actually based off of grams of protein per pound LBM. When I was Cat 2 (over 15% BF, but below 20%), they were set at right around 165g per day. Once I threw in EFAs from fish oil, and trace carbs and fats from protein sources, it came out to be around 875-900 kcals per day. Now that I am Cat 1 (I never let my…
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It is, and this will be my third round of it. It gets fantastic results, but you need to run high intensity resistance training (85+% 1RM) in tandem with it, to stave off loss of LBM entirely. My last run, I clipped 13 pounds in two weeks. Went from 181 at the start, to 165 after eleven days of cutting, and a two day carb…
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It basically is. The problem with foam rolling the hammies is that you're just not gonna accomplish much, because the roller hits too big of an area, and the hamstrings require a lot of pressure to affect much real change. Since you really can't apply more weight, reducing the area of applied pressure accomplishes the same…
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I've been finding Kelly Starrett's techniques for busting loose hamstrings to be really helpful, after years of being a truck driver. Essentially, stretching is useless when you think of the density and strength of the hammies. As he put it "you're basically hanging by a steel cable and hoping that it will eventually…
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New deadlift and squat PRs to end my 18 week bulk phase. Pulled a slightly grindy 455 with a bit of a growling warcry near lockout. Getting closer to a 3x bodyweight pull all of the time. Still gunning for 495 by December, and if current progress is any indication, I'll nail it and then some. The 315 squat went so smooth…
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This is the end of my bulk, and the start of a two week rapid cut for me. I'll be doing it via RFL, which puts me in ketosis so hard that I smell like a barrel of nail polish remover, even when I'm not moving much. (Which also *kitten* all over the "too much protonz is bad for keto" thought process). Two weeks of nothing…
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It's been 18 weeks since my last cut ended. Back up to 175 as of today, and a 12 day rapid cut starts tomorrow. Given the PRs that I've hit, I'll be interested to see where my Wilks falls after I am closer to the 74kg threshold. Pardon the attire (or lack thereof), as I have to wear those damned things under my singlet to…
