I'm Back! Contest Prep with Olympus Lab's EpiAndro

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It's been a good minute since ive been active on here. Some of may remember me as Corbin@Nutra,helped many of you out at one point or another :) I still check up on here now and then though.

I was given a bottle of Olympus Lab's Epi Andro that i will be loggoing over the next 8 weeks or so leading up to my first Men's Physique Competition April 28-30th. Currently 8 weeks out.

I will be starting this off at 500mg(2 caps) preworkout

Diet
I currently have a coach for this show and my diet will be changinig based on my progress. Right now i am carb cycling
Low/Low/Low/Med/Low/Low/Low/Refeed(repeat)

Low-250P/65F/100C
Med-Same/245C
High-Same/350C

Supplements
Epi Andro
Various PWO i have lying around
Burn 24 w/any meals having substantial carbs.

Training
Currently running a Split with lots of volume and intensity even though cals are low i push myself every single workout. These all change depending on how im feeling and what feels recovered to me. Been trying to incorporate at least a few ab exercises at the end of every workout.

Chest/light tri
Back/light bi
Legs
Shoulders
Arms

Cardio
4x350cal MISS sessions per week
2x20 minute HITT sessions per week

Starting morning weight as of this morning is 174.4 at 5'8". Weight is taken every single morning for my coach to judge progress. A large weight drop should happen this week after coming off from a vacation and various cheat meals last week so im holding a decent amount of water/fluff.

Current Physique taken today. Sitting at around 10%ish imo


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Hit legs today!
Lying hamstring curls 4x15(partials finishing off each set till failure)

Stiff legged db deadlift 3x12

Leg press 5x15(slow controlled reps focusing on squeezing the contraction)

Seated Hamstring curl 4x12

Leg extension 6x12-15(slow controlled reps focusing on the squeeze at the top)

Followed by 400cal miss session on incline treadmill. This was a major struggle as my legs were exhausted

Post workout meal. 8oz lean ground turkey with 1/2cup green beans mixed with onion
 

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Hey man.

You run epiandro before? Be interesting to see if the S-SEDDS makes a discernable difference.
 
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Welcome back bro. Lookin swole. Sup3r-Epi ought to dice you up nicely:). I'll follow along.
 
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Subbed!
 
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Good solid base to work with there!

I'm in for the ride.
 

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Thanks for the subs guys! No i have not ran epi andro before so im not sure what to expect just what ive read. Will report on when it starts to kick in.

Reason why I love waking up every morning is for this meal,my favorite! Dieting is as boring as you make it!

1 cup egg whites+1 egg mixed with 1 cup sautéed spinach+60g mushrooms topped with reduced sugar ketchup and butter seasoning

1/2cup oatmeal w/one scoop bpi-iso sugar cookie and stevia drops. Literally tastes like I'm eating a desert


Tried both of these today.

Alphamine-taste good made me feel yucky though
Gameday with dhba-disappointed with this,didn't do anything for me in the energy focus or pump departments


Had a pretty ****ty shoulder/trap/ab day yesterday,feeling flat as a board right now on low carbs. 350 cal miss cardio after i lifted.

Taking a rest day today and tomorrow will be back at it hitting back/bi with medium carbs. Cant Wait!!!
 
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Took some stuff from John meadows back training today. Even on my medium carb day I'm still flat, I miss carbs :( motivation low but I'm chugging along

Db dead stop row 4x8
Cable row dropset 4x30 drop weight every 10 reps
Heavy partial wide grip lat pulldown 3x8-10
Hmmr strngth row one arm standing 4x15
Cable straight arm lat extension 5xfail(dat pump doe)

Did some light biceps will be hitting arms tomorrow

350 cal miss stair master post workout
 

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Starting to sweat my ass off in the gym,only thing to report thus far. Had a great chest workout yesterday after work with some of my coworkers. Got to try a new pre workout I help formulate...perks of my job lol

Hit arms today and had a fairly decent workout. Really need to refill my glycogen levels,refeed scheduled for Monday if I can make it till then lol


Supset
Rope pushdown 4x15
Cable curl 4x15

Db hmmr curl 3x10

Skull krusher slight incline 3x15

Superset
Overhead db tri ext 4x15
Seated db curl 4x15

Superset
One arm cable tri ext 2x15
One arm cable curl 2x15

Incline treadmill 350cal miss post workout

That post cardio leg vascularity though
 

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High carb day today about to go crush some legs in a bit!
 

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4.8lbs down this week morning weight! Dat protein bar bloat from the Arnold last week was savage,glad it's gone!

LEG DAY
For anybody wondering I thoroughly believe big legs are made through high intensity high rep sessions focusing on form/contraction getting blood into every part of the legs and that's how I train. Haven't done a heavy bb squat in at least a year+ and my legs have grown like weeds lowering the weight and grinding out reps on machines. Hack squat is goat for leg growth imo. Will probably slowly incorporate bb squats back in for off season though.

Usually listen to rap or some form of edm but thew on a hoodie and some heavy metal to prepare me mentally and Absolutely obliterated my legs today to prep for all these post workout carbs.

Leg extension warm up 5x15

Lying hamstring curl 4x15

Leg press 5x20
once done with 5 sets transition to
One leg 3x20

Hip abduction 3x20
Hip adduction 3x20

Seated hamstring curl 3x15

Leg extensions heavy 4x10

Post workout 200 cal miss stairmaster.

2 caps epi preworkout as usual today.
Burn 24 2 caps 30 minutes pre all meals today. My coach had me Lower fat and protein for the refeed today which we werent originally going to do and depending on my weight bounce tomorrow I'll have another refeed then which I'm super stoked for if so lol. I'm extremely carb sensitive and my insulin sensitivity was very bad before I brought in a coach and I spilled over from carbs very very easily and we are working to fix this and find out what works for me best. 200p/350c/55f macros for today.

Post workout moes home wrecker. Honestly could have destroyed liked five of these lol


This bowl of cereal though
1.5 scoops bpi iso-hd pb candy bar mixed with unsweetened vanilla almond milk
2 cups special k
1.5 cups captain crunch doughnut
 

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Im doing some Serge Nubret influenced training atm, personally love the higher reps and very short inter set rest times.
 
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Subbed. Good luck, what's your pct consist of?
 

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Subbed. Good luck, what's your pct consist of?
Probably nolva and some natural otc product and daa

Refeed went okay yesterday. Woke up a little watery but it'll be gone soon. Got a good pump for my shoulder workout today though. Feel like the epi is starting to kick in. Vascularity is pretty crazy with some carbs


Seated db lat raise
2x12
2x8 dropset x8

Face pulls high (2 second squeeze)
3x15
Face pulls waist(2 second squeeze)
3x15

One db upright row
3x12

Machine shoulder press
1x18
1x15
1x12
1x12
Dropset 20 reps

Reverse pec deck flys
3x15

Front plate twists
1xfail

Db shrugs Standing 2 sets

Db shrugs seated 2 sets

Post workout 350 cal burn incline treadmill

Back to low carbs today. Going to try lowering fats this week. Coach recommended adding in steak post workout swears it helps with fullness so this will be my post from now on:
8oz top sirloin
1/2 cup sautéed mushrooms
5 oz sautéed asparagus
Reduced sugar ketchup
 
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I'm on day 3 today took the 500 mg pre wo like you, I've never sweat so much in the gym just off of weight training, usually have to run to sweat that much. There was also that feeling of I guess best way to describe "tension" or "aggression" inside my body hard to contain at times. Of course it could be mental but the sweating part was intense had to wipe my self down twice. As far as lifting, if I hadn't run out of time (1 hour sometimes 75 mins) I could've kept hitting chest for another 30 mins
 
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Probably nolva and some natural otc product and daa

Refeed went okay yesterday. Woke up a little watery but it'll be gone soon. Got a good pump for my shoulder workout today though. Feel like the epi is starting to kick in. Vascularity is pretty crazy with some carbs


Seated db lat raise
2x12
2x8 dropset x8

Face pulls high (2 second squeeze)
3x15
Face pulls waist(2 second squeeze)
3x15

One db upright row
3x12

Machine shoulder press
1x18
1x15
1x12
1x12
Dropset 20 reps

Reverse pec deck flys
3x15

Front plate twists
1xfail

Db shrugs Standing 2 sets

Db shrugs seated 2 sets

Post workout 350 cal burn incline treadmill

Back to low carbs today. Going to try lowering fats this week. Coach recommended adding in steak post workout swears it helps with fullness so this will be my post from now on:
8oz top sirloin
1/2 cup sautéed mushrooms
5 oz sautéed asparagus
Reduced sugar ketchup
Nice veins bro!!!
 

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Thanks guys.

Going to take a rest day today and do some light cardio and burn 350 cal. Started ec stack today and boy does it kill the appetite only on a small dose too.

Ive been bloating pretty bad lately and I've narrowed it down to oatmeal so I'm going to sub my proats with plain Cheeros mixed with whey ans almond milk instead tomorrow and see if that helps. If not its definitely the Iso hd mixed with the oatmeal but I hope that's not the case :/
 

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Been mia for a few days so heres an update on my current situation.

Ive stopped prep and opted out of competing until probably next year. I wasn't fully committed to it and it was taking a toll emotionally and physically on me which was starting to effect every aspect of my life in a bad way. Was borderline creating a terrible relationship with food for me and binges started becoming a regular thing and thats no good.

I was going to do mens physique as i didnt have the size that i personally wanted for bodybuidling however bodybuilding is what i strive to do. After a long talk with my coach he agrees this is the right decision and i will now be embarking on a very very long offseason to hopefully make light heavy weights sometime next year. Starting a new push pull legs routine to add some thickness all around that im super excited for it.

Slowly raising cals and it feels great. 10/10 better place all around and loving life again. As far as the epi it has absolutely kicked in. My libido is borderline low dose cialis like,muscles feel like granite and strength and aggression are all there. Feel like im permanently pumped all day.

Gained about 10-11lbs since i stopped dieting last week and sitting at 181.6 now. Took a few days off and ate all kinds of goodies but now im back to a clean bulk Took this yesterday after a heavy push session,feeling really thick!
 

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Did you sus out the oatmeal bloating
Yea it was definitely the oatmeal without a doubt. Took it out and feel way better throughout the day with no bloat. Been eating cream of wheat/co co wheats now instead and they are way easier on my stomach.
 

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Lower body tonight. First time running this workout and it absolutely wrecked me. Almost puked during the drop set on reverse hack squats
 

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