nice push workout last night. Went to a gym that’s a bit further away, equally good equipment and a lot quieter. The owner is a great guy and really the only small business owner locally that cares about bodybuilding. He’s the only one sponsoring our local show next month and wants to bring more serious lifters into his gym. Wound up giving me a free membership, just wants me to plug him on social and wear the clothes so that was cool.
low incline smith
2 sets
Worked up to 365x8 and then backed off to 315
Arsenal flat press. Fuck this thing is heavy.
4 platesx5 (way over shot. On the hammer strength version I can hit 5 plates for 6-8)
3 platesx9
Rear delt pec dec fly
2x10-12ish
Cable lateral
1x8
1x13
Standing overhead tricep press (cable)
2x12ish
Assisted dips
2x12
Ab machine
Diet got increased as well on training days at least rest days are the same.
- meal 2 sweet pot moving from 5oz to 8oz (raw weight no skin)
- meal 3 rice from 280 to 300g
- meal 4 rice from 280-330g
-meal 5 one sourdough English muffin to 2
So small bump but appreciated
T3 coming out was on 12.5mcg labs came back lower than when I was not on t3 in April. Likely the dose was too low and just shutting me down.
Began thyroboost 2caps daily to restart natural. Have never had thyroid issues.
Labs overall came back very good. All inflammatory markers were good
HS CRP 1.74
Homocysteine 7.6
Fasted insulin was a 2.8
Fasted glucose 84
A1c was 5.2 which seemed a little high for the other markers but not bad
Cystatin c .8
Test free and total were capped but both exceeded the range of the test
E2 was at 82 so I might use a small amount of AI to bring that down closer to 30
AST/alt are both now in the 100s. Before anyone flames me for this this is ongoing for me. They’re always high whether trt cycle 7 days rest no days rest. For this blood work I did not take additional rest days. Both numbers came down by 100-200u/l from April so happy with that. I have abdominal ultrasound Monday just in case but I think it’s partially just me at this point. In April when they were higher I was not on orals but I was on tren so I’m wondering if that jacks the numbers up for me. Because I expected the numbers to be higher following 6 weeks of orals which ramped not ridiculously but slightly in the final 2 weeks. But the numbers are much lower so that’s positive.
GGT was 25 which I always have run and it’s always in range
Hdl was back to a 33
And trigs are 68
Total cholesterol 116
Very happy with lipid profile
Moral of the story healthy enough to do the shows I want to do this fall.
So that’s the target. Come into the fall with more muscle, and harder. Playing with some different back exercises to bring up the upper middle back. Hammer adductors with adductor machine and I’m changing my foot stance on the leg press to higher on the platform with toes angled outward to try to bring in more adductor or going single leg. Quads have good development so keeping in either smith squats with a very upright position feet directly under me or pendulum/back should be plenty to keep those growing.
That’s basically the plan at this point. Moneys been tight atm but possibly going to reach out to Mike Condell again to restart training or just taking what we were doing blending my own and pushing through undecided so far.
TP got back to me about sending my order to California, mistake on his end sending mine today so that was a great text to wake up to huge relief there. Except I’m hearing the new batch might be causing some issues but I have my fingers crossed on that because up until now it’s been the best generic I’ve ever used and coming directly off serostim at 6iu back to black tops at 6iu I notice 0 difference.
Coach has relaxed his stance on Reta I think as I’ve proven I don’t need anything as a crutch to get through dieting so I am playing with the idea of adding in 1mg weekly just to optimize my insulin secretion. I’ll be 100% honest at any dose (I’ve gone as low as .5mg and as high as 2mg) I’ve never noticed any appetite suppression. I’ve been an extremely hungry person since I was a child. I’m extremely hungry right now, was hungry through prep, hungry through the rebound. I could easily eat my entire meal plan twice and a cheat meal. It’s just the nature of it so I don’t care about the appetite suppression particularly. I like the side benefits in the possibly reduction of fatty liver, better insulin timing and secretion. I hate the slowed motility and the issues I had in the past were refeeding on something like sushi rolls or burger and fries it would just sit for hours and give me indigestion. At the moment my digestion is the best it’s ever been. I’m extremely regular and my stomach feels tight and empty all day. So I’m weighing the pros and cons
Also was told to get a cheat meal this Saturday something I’ve really been craving. The first thing that came to mind is pizza as there’s a local restaurant on the water that’s only open seasonally but there is something else that my heart really desires lol. It’s not the greatest thing for me, possibly even the worst but I’m likely going for it lol. Nothing hits like a homemade chili cheese dog. We make the meat sauce with 96/4 beef and some seasoning, peppers and onions. And then a little bison burger and a possibly and ice cream cone to finish.
If you guys want to know or ask anything please do.
low incline smith
2 sets
Worked up to 365x8 and then backed off to 315
Arsenal flat press. Fuck this thing is heavy.
4 platesx5 (way over shot. On the hammer strength version I can hit 5 plates for 6-8)
3 platesx9
Rear delt pec dec fly
2x10-12ish
Cable lateral
1x8
1x13
Standing overhead tricep press (cable)
2x12ish
Assisted dips
2x12
Ab machine
Diet got increased as well on training days at least rest days are the same.
- meal 2 sweet pot moving from 5oz to 8oz (raw weight no skin)
- meal 3 rice from 280 to 300g
- meal 4 rice from 280-330g
-meal 5 one sourdough English muffin to 2
So small bump but appreciated
T3 coming out was on 12.5mcg labs came back lower than when I was not on t3 in April. Likely the dose was too low and just shutting me down.
Began thyroboost 2caps daily to restart natural. Have never had thyroid issues.
Labs overall came back very good. All inflammatory markers were good
HS CRP 1.74
Homocysteine 7.6
Fasted insulin was a 2.8
Fasted glucose 84
A1c was 5.2 which seemed a little high for the other markers but not bad
Cystatin c .8
Test free and total were capped but both exceeded the range of the test
E2 was at 82 so I might use a small amount of AI to bring that down closer to 30
AST/alt are both now in the 100s. Before anyone flames me for this this is ongoing for me. They’re always high whether trt cycle 7 days rest no days rest. For this blood work I did not take additional rest days. Both numbers came down by 100-200u/l from April so happy with that. I have abdominal ultrasound Monday just in case but I think it’s partially just me at this point. In April when they were higher I was not on orals but I was on tren so I’m wondering if that jacks the numbers up for me. Because I expected the numbers to be higher following 6 weeks of orals which ramped not ridiculously but slightly in the final 2 weeks. But the numbers are much lower so that’s positive.
GGT was 25 which I always have run and it’s always in range
Hdl was back to a 33
And trigs are 68
Total cholesterol 116
Very happy with lipid profile
Moral of the story healthy enough to do the shows I want to do this fall.
So that’s the target. Come into the fall with more muscle, and harder. Playing with some different back exercises to bring up the upper middle back. Hammer adductors with adductor machine and I’m changing my foot stance on the leg press to higher on the platform with toes angled outward to try to bring in more adductor or going single leg. Quads have good development so keeping in either smith squats with a very upright position feet directly under me or pendulum/back should be plenty to keep those growing.
That’s basically the plan at this point. Moneys been tight atm but possibly going to reach out to Mike Condell again to restart training or just taking what we were doing blending my own and pushing through undecided so far.
TP got back to me about sending my order to California, mistake on his end sending mine today so that was a great text to wake up to huge relief there. Except I’m hearing the new batch might be causing some issues but I have my fingers crossed on that because up until now it’s been the best generic I’ve ever used and coming directly off serostim at 6iu back to black tops at 6iu I notice 0 difference.
Coach has relaxed his stance on Reta I think as I’ve proven I don’t need anything as a crutch to get through dieting so I am playing with the idea of adding in 1mg weekly just to optimize my insulin secretion. I’ll be 100% honest at any dose (I’ve gone as low as .5mg and as high as 2mg) I’ve never noticed any appetite suppression. I’ve been an extremely hungry person since I was a child. I’m extremely hungry right now, was hungry through prep, hungry through the rebound. I could easily eat my entire meal plan twice and a cheat meal. It’s just the nature of it so I don’t care about the appetite suppression particularly. I like the side benefits in the possibly reduction of fatty liver, better insulin timing and secretion. I hate the slowed motility and the issues I had in the past were refeeding on something like sushi rolls or burger and fries it would just sit for hours and give me indigestion. At the moment my digestion is the best it’s ever been. I’m extremely regular and my stomach feels tight and empty all day. So I’m weighing the pros and cons
Also was told to get a cheat meal this Saturday something I’ve really been craving. The first thing that came to mind is pizza as there’s a local restaurant on the water that’s only open seasonally but there is something else that my heart really desires lol. It’s not the greatest thing for me, possibly even the worst but I’m likely going for it lol. Nothing hits like a homemade chili cheese dog. We make the meat sauce with 96/4 beef and some seasoning, peppers and onions. And then a little bison burger and a possibly and ice cream cone to finish.
If you guys want to know or ask anything please do.
onions 
and bison 
meat if it happens?
