I agree with everything said here and my two cent on the matter,
Drop the slin bro it's not needed for you. These GH secretagogues aren't helping your water retention in any way. I imagine your heart and breathing are about to explode at this point. Post show window of 6 weeks is not the time to take anything that will purposely make you retain even more water. Shitty diets are good enough for that and from what I see you are eating everything you get your hands on. Post show you are at your highest anabolic window of the year, your feeding yourself with shitty food and more mitogens vs more clean food and good androgens like Steel suggested.
IMO run some EQ, Mast, primo and maybe switch to prop and drop 25lbs before you try to put weight back on. Next time put it on the right way. You don't want to look like Lee Preist in the off season. Your last show lacked conditioning, this is the first thing you should bring to the table in your next show. Don't worry about the size it will come.
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Respectfully, I will try to clear up a few things and explain my rationale for what I am doing.
First and foremost, I have to disagree about the low dose slin. Both GH and MK-677 are known to cause insulin resistance and spikes in blood sugar which will lead to beta cell burnout. A low dose of insulin can prevent this, and actually give our beta cells rest by not causing our body to have to excessively produce insulin in response to GH and MK-677. Removing the insulin would likely negatively affect both my physique and health. The links below discuss this a bit.
GEARD Up ? GEARD Up LE 3 ? LADIES EDITION ? IFBB PRO COLETTE NELSON
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiuZ9Jd89Jw"]Insulin Applications in Bodybuilding with Colette Nelson - YouTube[/ame]
As far as my heart goes, my blood pressure is coming back great (123/65 this morning) and I feel fine. If needed, I have micardis which I could run at a low dose for blood pressure issues. In fact, I might run 1/4 a tab (10 mgs) for the health benefits it employs alone. I'm using anabolics as my food, which I would argue are a lot less dangerous than the amount of drugs people tend to push on forums, though truth be told, competitive bodybuilding has nothing to do with health whatsoever anyway.
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I posted a general outline of my diet on the very first post which I have been adhering to for the past month now. I am not eating shitty food. In fact, I am very selective with what I eat. I track saturated fats and trans fats and keep them to a minimum, opting instead for PUFAs and MUFAs. I get in 50-60 grams of fat a day (which would make it hard to eat those shitty foods I suppoedly eat?), and ten of those are coming from fish oil so I get my EPA and DHA in.
In order to limit those aforementioned blood sugar spikes, I opt for low glycemic carb sources (though individuals actually respond differently to different carb sources and there are numerous limitations of the glycemic index), such as oatmeal, whole wheat pasta and beans. I average around 75 grams of fiber this way. I also avoid sugar, particularly fructose, at all times other than post-workout, since fructose is ineffective at restoring muscle glycogen, and may end up being stored as triglycerides once liver glycogen is full. Post-workout, I often have 3-5 servings of cereal, but that's as sugary and cheaty as I get.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3165600
I would love to look like Lee Priest in the off-season, if that meant I would have a dramatically different physique once I cut down the fat. Of course, I am no Lee Priest (quite the opposite from the genetic standpoint probably), but ensuring I get a large amount of calories in and dominate my logbook seems like the best and safest way (note: not going crazy on drugs) to maximize my LBM gains on a body that clearly wants nothing to do with it. For what it's worth, the best size and strength gains I have ever seen were on powerlifters who wanted to jump a weight class and weren't afraid of getting sloppy in their off-season. Admittedly, most of them never cut down and stay fat, but what if they did?
Basically, I look at this as a short term cost that will hopefully yield long-term dividends. Sure, I may look like shit during the off-season. Who cares? I'm not stepping on a stage like this nor do I do this to impress anyone but myself. I plan to experiment and try to put on the size I want, hang out there for a bit, diet down to more acceptable levels once I am happy with my size + strength, and then start looking from shows from there. Maybe I will just become a fat pile of lard and when I diet down, I will be disappointed in my gains, but at least then, I know. What I have been doing previously has not been working.
Some articles that inspired me...
http://www.professionalmuscle.com/f...solutely-love-stuff-like-absolutely-love.html
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