Hey bro, I know you’ve been doing this thing most of your life, respect that and your personal decisions. Sounds like a very busy and taxing schedule. If it were myself, I’d consider some of the following;
1. You’re burning cals all day. Maybe adjust routine a little by still training mostly the same style you feel works best for yourself, but cut the total volume down slightly while still keeping intensity as high as possible. There’s always a correlation betweeen volume and intensity...idk how long u go between sets??? But 1 1/2 sessions at a decent pace are burning more cals...plus your workday. Consider using your same split but maybe drop a set from each exercise, or depending on your routine drop an exercise per body part either way make sure your still going as hard as possible with a little less volume.
2, maybe get some extra promotion shakes into your day, as it can be difficult to eat beyond a certain amount of food forever and ever
I know the feeling.
3. Do anything you can to drop the cigs...I know it’s not easy esp for someone who’s been doing it for a long time. I smoked while bouncing at the clubs when I was younger too... dumb mistake in my opinion. Clearly u take slot of pride in your body and put in a lot of effort to bodybuild. I was EASILY able to quit the cigs by transferring over to one of those nicotine vaporizers. Didnt even think about them, never even took one more out of the pack I had on me after trying it. Good luck.
3. Try this, you do work all day outside mostly. Go to TP and buy a shitload of bulk instantized EAA’s get some lemonade crystal light and put about 60-80 Grams of EAA’s into a gallon of water and sip on it all day. It’s fairly cheap, and in my case, after 20 years in this game, I tried it and was actually shocked by the results of something so basic. To add to that, I would personally suggest adding a spoonful of hydromax...This combo was esp great with Igf-1.
4. I used to have the same problem, to the point where I basically would have to eat at least one McD’s Double bacon cheeseburgers between meals dAily to keep growing. However I was younger, less knowledgeable than now, and wouldn’t reccomend it to anyone that’s geared up year around, still running orals regularly and 49 years old with bad cholesterol #’s already. So to summarize I would suggest trying healthier food choices overall. I’m by no way preaching to you brother, that’s all your choice. Trust me I get how hard it can be to get enough clean food in to keep growing.
I may have missed something, but are you going straight from full on bulking blasts to cutting blasts, and back and forth year around, or are you occasionally coming down to “cruise levels”?
I used to be so afraid of losing all my progress if I ever came off or cruised at trt when I was younger, but have come to find that guys like you and myself ( although I’m 38 yrs old) that have been paying their dues for years and decades actually) will hold that muscle...we’ve “earned it” and I can easily maintain a respectable 6ft 245 at 10% on just highish TRT regimens for a good 6-8 months. Only difference is a little less hardness, fullness, and slowly after a few months my bf% gets a couples points higher. But as soon as I ramp it back up, I’m right where I left off. I’m pretty comfortable saying that, if I went all out on ever health supplement to support my AAS use that I could reasonably if I was competing and it was worth the risk: reward ratio to me personally that a simple 350-400mgs test could be used in between instead of a true TRT dose, but at 38 it’s no longer worth the very small marginal benefit if I’m not competing and I personally prioritize my health now more so I cruise at TRT. That’s all up to you and your decision, cardiovascular issues are imo the most significant issues to the aging Bodybuilder, and the cumulative effect of AAS (especially orals), out of range lipids, out of range hematocrit, and especially smoking, will inevitably cumulatively add up, and we now have the science and the true old school vets as case studies to know there are both more effective and healthier ways to accomplish these goals. Hope I can help.
Oh yeah, it hit me as I was finishing the above, but being a guy who’s clearly not afraid to push things within reason, maybe try adding in some Trest in place of the orals and see how it does you. Interesting compound, not any personal experience but my old training partner said it was the only inj the Gave him similar gains to orals.
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