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With doses this low your body would fight itself through it. At least that's what I've always read. Never dated to try it myself either haha.
Haha, I usually just do it to lose that last couple percent of fat I want to use.
Well, I hardly use much these days, just very low doses of test mainly, but maybe a slight dose of something else, so it's easy to just break it up to sub-q when volume is low. I've been (or had) been hitting IM since the mid-90's, and after doing it for so long, you grow tired of it (hence the scar tissue and being lazy part, haha). I just hit lower abs sub-q right now, but i've hit like upper glutes as well.
Yea chest can be dangerous I’m told and I am too scared for traps. Legs were my fave but after 20 years I ve big triceps and for some reason get no scar tissue in them so that’s why. I dig delts too but some shots I get pip and you can’t shake it bc ur delts are always in use. I hit my calves once, put it in sitting down, stood up and the pain made me puke, I have very dense calves from sports prior to bodybuilding and I’ve had Lee Priest tell me he loved hitting calves except first thing in the morning getting out of bed was hell. How he slept all night anyway I don’t know I’ve never known a bodybuilder to go all night without pissing a few times but maybe he was subdued chemically lol.
Yea, at 46, my experimenting days are pretty much over. I don't see myself ever pushing things again, except maybe here and there on a cutting phase if needed. Delts are tricky like you said because if you are shaky and move the needle around a lot, then PIP can be bad. A lot can do it fine, but I just screwed it up too many times. It's easier when you are lean, but if you are larger/bulking, reach is an issue, for me at least it was, haha. The front part of the delt isn't as hard to hit, but side and rear I always asked the wife to do them if she wasn't in a bad mood. lol. I'm glad i had already read too many horror and pip stories involving calves when I started out, I never felt the need to hit them. Mine too were a stronger point for me from a little genetics and sports as a kid. I tore my right calf at a work event in 2013, and it's noticeable for me, and not as strong as my left....pisses me off. I think it may still be better than most people I see at the gym though...though not elite either by any stretch.
Yea I’m 43 and still smoke most of the guys getting on stage let alone the gym but just had my first kid so I won’t say that’s gonna change but life goals are no longer get bigger first-everything else next lol I’m gonna drop down from around 300 to the 180s when I was in the Corps I was 154 20 years ago so things vm change life changes, still train like a demon but finally starting to feel it too. Funny the wife thing I think is quite common bc like you I can hit my tris and delts but bc of size the rig goes in at like a 45 degree angle
my stupid ass did the calves bc of what Lee told me, mine are big not freak level but usually the best in my class but I wanted freak level and was told guys with real dense calves are limited by fascia more than others, true or not I dunno but he’s him so I gave it a go 1 calf 1 ml 1 time it felt like I had a knife in my calf which didn’t happen until I stood up. I do think at 46 we can still look great although with a very young baby in the house I’ll admit I look like shit right now but priorities right. Better now than younger as I might have got the priority wrong. Who knows it’s good to hear of other guys in their 40s still grinding without health issues just living the life at a lower volume. So much of the convo over 40 is health issues, which is cool we need to cover that but I still have fun in this game and yea I should be a lot lighter now that I have a kid so I’m working on it but not giving up that feeling in the gym like I can chew up the plates and spit out nails.
My view is that while injection of L-Carnitine likely overcomes its low oral bioavailability, its putative benefits for resistance training (↓pain & muscle damage, metabolic stress & enhanced recovery) are still limited by the carnitine system (i.e., CPT1) regulation in skeletal muscle by malonyl CoA. I believe that the orally bioavailable L-Citrulline+L-Arginine supplements achieve the same benefits, just by a different mechanism (NO synthesis).
NO syn but not enhanced metabolism of fat which is what I like about carn and have achieved great results from over many years both oral and IM
I stay on 200mg daily year round
With all three and proper diet you can see visible changes almost daily until you get under 10% roughly and even then it’s still dramatic compared to not using it. However as you get leaner the T3 can become catabolic so you gotta watch that.
What results in particular have you benefited from L-carnitine's increased fat substrate utilitization?
Well I mean I love lifting have since I started but when I was active duty running and functional training is what we did then one day there was a competition on base with an IFBB guest poser and I was in the gym the next day. I found I loved weights, I always loved training whether it was USMC, basketball, rugby etc I always did way more than my peers but I loved getting pumped but my goal from day 1 was competing and that means being shredded I’ve done a lot of shows well for me 20-30 is a lot and I’ve always been shredded mind you that’s not in my genetics I get fat easy. I never placed out of top 3 or overall my first decade of competing, lost a couple to jail for steroid possession which didn’t help my career but I was a paid sponsored athlete and have always made my living here in the world of BB, training, modeling etc. I’ve used all the non stim and early on stims, I’m now very anti-stim but any way carn, vandal sulfate, chromium I believe they all work to a degree but in a somewhat calorie restricted, I’m more of a macros guy but either way when I take a carn and lots it works more so than the others and it’s like anything else when you know your body you see and feel it. I’ve won shows where the only fat burner I took was carn well and green tea no clen no t3 just carn and have been in various bf test thing like dip tanks where the computer said my bf was 0 or unreadable, now we know I’d be dead if that were true but point is it works and again I’m not an endomorph but I put on far easier than any other successful bodybuilder I’ve known my grandparents were obese we just get fat easy so I’m not a genetic wonder now I do cardio like a motherfucker but I take carn before and I feel like it helps me grind harder. People say the oral doesn’t work and I’ve had some I didn’t like but the Beverly has always worked and I like the im too. I don’t have lab work to show you etc but it’s on my short list of supps I will not go without
