^^^hey brother ..just curious; i didn't see any GH in the stacks you posted?? ..do you not run any GH in the mix?
Sorry, missed this post. I'm running 5ius of generics when I remember to actually take it which is usually 5 days a week before bed. It makes me kinda tired throughout the day. I've found it massively underwhelming. Its like I sleep deeper and feel more drowsy throughout the day and have some slightly numb hands, but literally don't notice a difference in performance. I get it for $80/kit and it's domestic shipping so I don't have as much to worry about with regard to degradation with shipping. Furthermore, big cities like the one I'm going to in august have pharmacy grade available in anti aging clinics. But my goals are modest compared to some of the beasts on this forum. I just want to be a fairly lean 235 5'11 guy who gets all pretty and shredded to do a classic show once a year before my 7 week summer holidays in Thailand to looked jacked for the local 60 year old alcoholic british men and Thai literal hoes. Doesn't seem worth the $ even at the super cheap prices I can get it at.
Weirdly I've been way more impressed with insulin than growth hormone, even though GH gets all the attention as being essential for bodybuilding. This offseason I used it regularly twice a week on chest and leg days (I was following a 4 day "Mountain dog 1.0" split before the high intensity PPL you see in this thread). There's where I noticed better pumps and between session recovery and strength gains. Great stuff. I may experiment with lower AAS and higher insulin next offseason.
Planned high carb day today. Mostly clean foods like chicken+cous cous and chicken+pasta+feta, but a bit of sugary carbs too.
Legs (final deload workout)
WHOLE LOTTA CALVES!
HBBS: up to 140kgx1 beltless, a few downsets at 100kg.
Seated hamstring curl: 100kgx16, 9, 5 rest pause (I don't like this machine)
Leg extension: 65kgx 15, 8, 6 rest paused (I also don't like this movement)
Went to a different gym I haven't gone to in a while and the squat rack suuuccckkkkkss compared to my regular one or the one at my school gym.
Okay, I guess my "squatting" leg day I'll replace the leg extension with a 2nd session of unilateral "knee over toe" db squatting. If there's one thing I'm not worried about doing too much of, it's unliteral lower body work. Bulletproof these knees, don't even worry about muscle growth. That comes from the leg presses and squats, the single leg squats just keep you healthy.
Very excited for my first "real" session tomorrow! I've done 3 tren enanthate shots now.
Recent diet template update. Unfortunatley sam's club isn't selling my salmon anymore, and another store is offering pre cut into cubes chicken thighs, so for convenience's sake I'm using those combined with cubed breasts for a stir fry living in Asia and all that. Adjustment mid-stream which sucks but availability of food changed so....
M1
Either 1cup oats+1 cup skim+1 cup water+2 cups whey+1 cup blackberries OR 7 medium eggs
M2
2/3rds chicken breast+1/3rd chicken thighs+broccoli+asparagus stir fry (approx 250g of the chicken mixture)
M3
repeat m2
M4
repeat m2, add some kind of fruit carb source (blackberry, blueberry) and some mixed nuts or higher protein cheese like feta
M5
Do the meal you didn't do for m1.
A lot less balanced that what I was eating, I know. Really glad to have oats back in though; in terms of satiety per calorie I'm not sure a better food exists.