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Hello all,
MuscleChemist here. New to posting, but I've been around for a long while.
I started to write up a training log for myself and decided to go digital with it, so here I am. Anyways, there seems to be an abundant amount of knowledge on this board and a good group of peoples, so it's good to join the forum. I look forward to learning from y'all.
Okay, so I have never Dieted down, EVER, although I have a very decent base of knowledge on how to do so, just never cared to. It has always been about size and strength with me. But it's time to see what's underneath this elephantile sea lion coat, lol. What actually sparked this diet interest? A huge group of my family is going on vacation at the end of August, we're gonna go camping, fishing, and tubing on white water rapids. My dad has become unhealthy over the last 4 or 5 years, so I challenged him to get into decent health by the time of the trip. He is also the main staple of why I have so much knowledge of weight training and nutrition, so it is very strange to me seeing him in this shape. Also, I will continue to maintain diet and cycle after the vacation.
Background Stuff...
I'm a 30 year old, 6' 4" about 290 lbs. Do not know body fat percentage, but i can see veins in my biceps, quads and calves, all my fat is in the belly and chest, which is what I want to lose. This will be my 5th Cycle, first cycle was 12 years ago. I've done several different compounds of Prohormones and derivatives over the years but I never considered that a real cycle, though some do. If you include ph's and chems then i've done countless cycles.
GOAL: I need my abs back! I gained a lot of front fat over this past year due to life issues and health problems, I also ate a lot of cheese on the daily and drank 6-12 beers damn near everyday. A lot of the fat should melt off just by dropping the beer and cheese, which has been relatively easy so far, surprisingly.
Diet Stuff...
I started diet June 19th, a week ago. No more than 2 cheat meals a week, shooting for 1 or less. My BMR is around 2600 - 2700 Kcals and total energy expenditure is anywhere from 4600 - 5600 kcal depending on the day. I'll keep calories in deficit, shooting for an intake of about 3500 calories/dy. Protein intake will be tough because I get tired of drinking protein shakes and eating, but I will give this my honest struggle in order to keep as much muscle as possible and try to get in no less than 200g a day, which I know is no where near enough, so I'll be shooting for more than 300g a day. Diet will consist of mostly chicken and fish with lots of green veggies, salads, nuts, grains and yogurt, maybe a steak every other week <<eating clean is something that comes as a second nature for me; I used to be vegetarian, so I am very health conscious of the things I put into my body. Also, no booze, as much as I can help it, if I do it'll be limited to one weekend day roughly every other weekend.
Cycle Stuff...
This is where I'll need some help. A little background stuffs: this will be my 5th or 6th cycle and I'm hoping it will be injury free. I've had many injuries over the years that have kept with me, so I have to be very careful. Now a days I do not lift as much as I can on any lift, although I would love to. But I'd need a good 6 months of GH therapy first, which I cannot afford! Yet. Haha. Anyways, just came off a short cycle of Methyl-1 bridging into currently taking an ECA and Var @ 35mg a day with a test booster(that works) to keep the boys going/libido, this was started the day I started the diet, using the Var specifically only to retain muscle in such a caloric deficit until I've gotten all the components for my cycle; which i don't care that it's a low dose cuz i'm only attempting at retaining.
Okay now that we're past that, I want to use Tren BUT I'm worried about it. This would be my 4th tren cycle.
1st tren ace cycle I re-hurt a pre-existing injury, but experienced absolutely no sides, this was also done completely by itself and cycle was cut short due to injury.
2nd tren enan cycle done with var 50mg/day and test 600mg/wk and tren at 400mg/wk, I experienced very bad swelling and pitting edema in both legs, freaking me the eff out, so I dropped the tren and var completely, edema went away.
3rd tren cycle was VERY CAREFULLY done, experimenting with different levels of test and A SHIT LOAD OF RESEARCH, finding that my sweet spot was 150mg test enan/wk and 200mg tren enan/wk, but I didn't find that sweet spot until i was damn near half way into the cycle, that cycle was hellacious and my training suffered extensively, but once I found that sweet spot I killed it in the gym, those solid steel weights were scared of me, haha.
So this time around, I'm getting acetate in order to drop it if sides persist. I'm bent on doing only tren ace again because the 1st time i did tren specifically by itself i experienced absolutely no sides, but I don't like the idea of being shut the fuck down with no test in me, just the idea makes me feel bloofy and airy. So I'm thinking I could try out the Tren Ace with no test and see how I feel while having some Test prop on hand if i start to experience sides, or should i just go ahead and jump into my sweet spot from the last tren/test cycle? I'm kind of leaning towards that tren/test sweet spot but god the sides suck if i don't find it! I've also never done a short estered test run so I don't know exactly how my body will respond, but I don't want to use a longer ester because it takes too long for the Enan to get where i need it to be in such a short time period. This is what I need help with. I've also considered not using tren and going with other compounds but, alas, I do not make a lot of money and this has to be cost effective and cost efficient. Also, the cycle will be ran a minimum of 12 weeks, but depending on how long I can hold that sweet spot I may run for a lot longer. This cycle and cut will determine a lot in the coming years of my life because slowly I've been actively moving towards TRT and this cycle will bleed into this. This decision has not come easily but the readily available doctors for TRT are so numerous now and I don't like my hormones being jacked around on a f**king roller coaster that i tend to always place them on. So getting them in a balanced TRT would be healthier for my past and current lifestyle choices, but TRT isn't what i want to discuss.
Training stuffs...
Legs, Chest, Back will be trained separately throughout the week, arms will not be trained until I feel that I have earned the right to train arms specifically, this is an old powerlifting moto. Abs are done throughout the entire week as are pushups; never on a specific day, just done every time I want to do them, which might be 6 days a week or only 4 days and no less. Cardio will be entirely swimming laps 45 min to an hour+ 3 times a week, along with some stair climber and walking/jogging randomly done through the week, also include a weekly day of yard work for a few hours. Need to work in more cardio, this will be my training struggle.
Any advice is completely healthy, thank you.
-MC
MuscleChemist here. New to posting, but I've been around for a long while.
I started to write up a training log for myself and decided to go digital with it, so here I am. Anyways, there seems to be an abundant amount of knowledge on this board and a good group of peoples, so it's good to join the forum. I look forward to learning from y'all.
Okay, so I have never Dieted down, EVER, although I have a very decent base of knowledge on how to do so, just never cared to. It has always been about size and strength with me. But it's time to see what's underneath this elephantile sea lion coat, lol. What actually sparked this diet interest? A huge group of my family is going on vacation at the end of August, we're gonna go camping, fishing, and tubing on white water rapids. My dad has become unhealthy over the last 4 or 5 years, so I challenged him to get into decent health by the time of the trip. He is also the main staple of why I have so much knowledge of weight training and nutrition, so it is very strange to me seeing him in this shape. Also, I will continue to maintain diet and cycle after the vacation.
Background Stuff...
I'm a 30 year old, 6' 4" about 290 lbs. Do not know body fat percentage, but i can see veins in my biceps, quads and calves, all my fat is in the belly and chest, which is what I want to lose. This will be my 5th Cycle, first cycle was 12 years ago. I've done several different compounds of Prohormones and derivatives over the years but I never considered that a real cycle, though some do. If you include ph's and chems then i've done countless cycles.
GOAL: I need my abs back! I gained a lot of front fat over this past year due to life issues and health problems, I also ate a lot of cheese on the daily and drank 6-12 beers damn near everyday. A lot of the fat should melt off just by dropping the beer and cheese, which has been relatively easy so far, surprisingly.
Diet Stuff...
I started diet June 19th, a week ago. No more than 2 cheat meals a week, shooting for 1 or less. My BMR is around 2600 - 2700 Kcals and total energy expenditure is anywhere from 4600 - 5600 kcal depending on the day. I'll keep calories in deficit, shooting for an intake of about 3500 calories/dy. Protein intake will be tough because I get tired of drinking protein shakes and eating, but I will give this my honest struggle in order to keep as much muscle as possible and try to get in no less than 200g a day, which I know is no where near enough, so I'll be shooting for more than 300g a day. Diet will consist of mostly chicken and fish with lots of green veggies, salads, nuts, grains and yogurt, maybe a steak every other week <<eating clean is something that comes as a second nature for me; I used to be vegetarian, so I am very health conscious of the things I put into my body. Also, no booze, as much as I can help it, if I do it'll be limited to one weekend day roughly every other weekend.
Cycle Stuff...
This is where I'll need some help. A little background stuffs: this will be my 5th or 6th cycle and I'm hoping it will be injury free. I've had many injuries over the years that have kept with me, so I have to be very careful. Now a days I do not lift as much as I can on any lift, although I would love to. But I'd need a good 6 months of GH therapy first, which I cannot afford! Yet. Haha. Anyways, just came off a short cycle of Methyl-1 bridging into currently taking an ECA and Var @ 35mg a day with a test booster(that works) to keep the boys going/libido, this was started the day I started the diet, using the Var specifically only to retain muscle in such a caloric deficit until I've gotten all the components for my cycle; which i don't care that it's a low dose cuz i'm only attempting at retaining.
Okay now that we're past that, I want to use Tren BUT I'm worried about it. This would be my 4th tren cycle.
1st tren ace cycle I re-hurt a pre-existing injury, but experienced absolutely no sides, this was also done completely by itself and cycle was cut short due to injury.
2nd tren enan cycle done with var 50mg/day and test 600mg/wk and tren at 400mg/wk, I experienced very bad swelling and pitting edema in both legs, freaking me the eff out, so I dropped the tren and var completely, edema went away.
3rd tren cycle was VERY CAREFULLY done, experimenting with different levels of test and A SHIT LOAD OF RESEARCH, finding that my sweet spot was 150mg test enan/wk and 200mg tren enan/wk, but I didn't find that sweet spot until i was damn near half way into the cycle, that cycle was hellacious and my training suffered extensively, but once I found that sweet spot I killed it in the gym, those solid steel weights were scared of me, haha.
So this time around, I'm getting acetate in order to drop it if sides persist. I'm bent on doing only tren ace again because the 1st time i did tren specifically by itself i experienced absolutely no sides, but I don't like the idea of being shut the fuck down with no test in me, just the idea makes me feel bloofy and airy. So I'm thinking I could try out the Tren Ace with no test and see how I feel while having some Test prop on hand if i start to experience sides, or should i just go ahead and jump into my sweet spot from the last tren/test cycle? I'm kind of leaning towards that tren/test sweet spot but god the sides suck if i don't find it! I've also never done a short estered test run so I don't know exactly how my body will respond, but I don't want to use a longer ester because it takes too long for the Enan to get where i need it to be in such a short time period. This is what I need help with. I've also considered not using tren and going with other compounds but, alas, I do not make a lot of money and this has to be cost effective and cost efficient. Also, the cycle will be ran a minimum of 12 weeks, but depending on how long I can hold that sweet spot I may run for a lot longer. This cycle and cut will determine a lot in the coming years of my life because slowly I've been actively moving towards TRT and this cycle will bleed into this. This decision has not come easily but the readily available doctors for TRT are so numerous now and I don't like my hormones being jacked around on a f**king roller coaster that i tend to always place them on. So getting them in a balanced TRT would be healthier for my past and current lifestyle choices, but TRT isn't what i want to discuss.
Training stuffs...
Legs, Chest, Back will be trained separately throughout the week, arms will not be trained until I feel that I have earned the right to train arms specifically, this is an old powerlifting moto. Abs are done throughout the entire week as are pushups; never on a specific day, just done every time I want to do them, which might be 6 days a week or only 4 days and no less. Cardio will be entirely swimming laps 45 min to an hour+ 3 times a week, along with some stair climber and walking/jogging randomly done through the week, also include a weekly day of yard work for a few hours. Need to work in more cardio, this will be my training struggle.
Any advice is completely healthy, thank you.
-MC