EQ alone?

musclehead04 · Oct 18, 2009

Alright guys, I've had tendonitis in my pronator teres(forearm) about 6 months now. I am currently finishing up a 15 week cycle of 500 test e and 600 eq. My stats are Im 24, 215 lbs, 7% bf. I train on 3 day on 1 day off split and I run about 20-30 miles a week. Im about to start my post-cycle and will use hcg at 1000 every 3 days for 2 weeks, clomid at 100mg for the first two weeks, 50 the third week, 25mg the fourth week and probally throw in 20 mg nolva with that every day. I'm going to take some time off from the weights to let this heal. My question is, has anyone run a low dose of eq, say 200mg a week, without it affecting their natural levels? If this is possible I wont start running it until my levels are leveled back out(will check with bloodwork). If not, what are some ways that you guys have healed tendonitis?

maldorf · Oct 18, 2009

musclehead04 said:
Alright guys, I've had tendonitis in my pronator teres(forearm) about 6 months now. I am currently finishing up a 15 week cycle of 500 test e and 600 eq. My stats are Im 24, 215 lbs, 7% bf. I train on 3 day on 1 day off split and I run about 20-30 miles a week. Im about to start my post-cycle and will use hcg at 1000 every 3 days for 2 weeks, clomid at 100mg for the first two weeks, 50 the third week, 25mg the fourth week and probally throw in 20 mg nolva with that every day. I'm going to take some time off from the weights to let this heal. My question is, has anyone run a low dose of eq, say 200mg a week, without it affecting their natural levels? If this is possible I wont start running it until my levels are leveled back out(will check with bloodwork). If not, what are some ways that you guys have healed tendonitis?

Honestly the gear never helped my tendonitis heal. I think that is a bad idea. Using even low dose EQ is going to keep your natural test shut down, so thats a bad idea. Just go off into pct and take off maybe 1 week or so from doing any lifting that affects that area. Since its your forearm that may mean not doing anything since its used all of the time.
When you go back to lifting after the short layoff youll need to go higher rep with lighter weights and then slowly build back up to where you were. In general if what youre doing causes any pain while lifting then youll have to either stop that movement or drop the weight so that it doesnt hurt. YOull need to try to "work around" the tendonitis. I always felt like if I took off too much time and did no exercise that the tendonitis almost really got worse or that it never healed. From my experience light exercise of the area, as long as there is no pain, actually sped up my healing. I think the increased blood flow is part of the process, just my theory.
Many times I developed bad tendonitis and took off 2 or 3 weeks from exercising that area at all only to return to exercising that area and find that it was just as sore or even worse.
I think a week or 2 at most off and then come back light.Work up the weights slowly. Might want to also cut back on the volume that you are doing.
Another thing to consider is why did you develop that tendonitis to begin with? You did something wrong somewhere that caused it to happen and its important to evaluate what youve been doing in order to decide what might have caused it. ONce you figure that out and can plan ahead so that it doesnt happen again. A lot of the problems I had when I lifted were recurrent and kept on happening until I changed something that I was doing that wasnt right for me.

xxsuprman22xx · Oct 18, 2009

Personally, Time off is the only thing that ever helped.

Michaelthomasj · Oct 19, 2009

true dat superman

jm425 · Oct 19, 2009

Eq will not help tendonitis. There is no valid medical study that proves EQ does anything for collagen synthesis. This myth seems to be a huge misconception around our community.

musclehead04 · Oct 19, 2009

thanks maldorf. I def gonna back off the volume and try to work around it. I orginally got it from training with a buddy of mine over the summer. He was a professional cyclist who was converting over to crossfit. We did a 16 week training program that he developed to get him ready for the competition. He is a exercise physio with a biochemist degree from Oxford(England). Our training regumen was M-W-F, fully body workouts, 4-6 sets per muscle group. I got great results but he put on bout 23 lbs and only gained 1% bf. He had better results I think cause he had never lifted upperbody before this plus his knowledge of dieting is excellent. Anyway, our back workout was nothing but "kip" pull-ups. I was 205 at the time and doing 4-6 sets of these 3 days a week was a little much. Got great results though as far as lat and shoulder developement though!