Time to Strip the Female Terminator with Liposolv (Sponsored)

[Rosie Chee]

INTRODUCTION

I have been fortunate to score a tube of Better Body Sports' latest innovation, Liposolv. Having used a variety of topicals, including but not limited to Avant Research's Napalm, LG Sciences' LipoBURN, Primordial Performance's DermaTherm and DermaTherm Target, and Recomp Performance Nutrition's Eviscerate and Atomic Meltdown, I am interested in seeing how Liposolv compares.

Name: Rosie.
Age: 25.
Training Status: Highly Trained/Ex-Elite Athlete.


GOAL

I have just finished a tub of White Flood and are 1-2 days away from finishing a tube of Sustain Alpha. This log is going to continue on in with the goal of getting back to 8% bodyfat (or lower). I do not have far to go; it should take me ~4 weeks to do...


BODY STATISTICS

Height: 156.6 cm (i.e. 5'1.7")
Mass: 54.64 kg (i.e. 120.2 lb)
Body Composition: 11.8% bodyfat


FITNESS STATISTICS

Resting Heart Rate: 30 beats per minute
Maximum Heart Rate: 206 beats per minute
Maximal Oxygen Uptake: 69.9 ml/kg/min


DIET

I use a calorie cycling method, listening to my body as I go along. I am also going to be incorporating a few principles from the Scivation CHA Diet into my diet over the next 4 weeks.


SUPPLEMENTS

Fat Loss Stack
Liposolv - 6-7 sprays twice daily or 12-14 sprays once daily, post-shower.
DCP - 2 caps first thing, 2 caps pre-lunch, 2 caps pre-dinner, and 1 cap pre-bed.
AlphaBurn - 1 cap first thing and 1 cap pre-bed.
Suppress C - 2 pumps twice daily or 4 pumps once daily, post-shower.
Sustain Alpha - 5 pumps post-am shower (please note that I only have 1-2 days left with this).

Creatine
NeoVar Recomped - 2 caps 40 min pre-resistance training, 2 caps immediately post-resistance training, and 4 caps pre-bed/15-20 min pre-meal later in the day (resistance training days); and 2 caps 15-20 min pre-breakfast, 2 caps 15-20 min pre-lunch, and 4 caps pre-bed/15-20 min pre-dinner (non-resistance training days).

Multivitamin/Antioxidants
Complete-Balance - 2 caps post-breakfast.
Bio-Mend - 2 caps post-breakfast.

Good Fats
Omega-Essentials - 2 caps post-breakfast.

Protein/BCAAs
Combat Powder - 1 scoop with breakfast.
BC+EAA - 3 scoops with mid-morning meal and 3 scoops with mid-afternoon meal.

Joints
OsteoSport - 4 caps first thing.

Sleep
Lipotrophin-PM - 2 caps first thing and 2 caps pre-bed.

I will update once the Sustain Alpha is gone, and also because I am going to be adding IGF-2 back into my supplement regime in the next week or so.


TRAINING

Continuing on with the training schedule that I have been progressing with over the last 4 weeks...

Resistance Training

4-5 sessions per week. The aim is for 5 sessions per week, but it's fine if I only 4 get done. I haven't assigned resistance sessions to a particular day of the week; instead they are done in the order Day 1 to Day 4/5 each week, with recovery days between sessions as my body sees fit. My resistance training varies week by week re exercises and order, sets and reps, always striving to increase weights/strength, and continually progress.

Day 1 - Shoulders/Hamstrings
Day 2 - Back/Chest
Day 3 - Full-Body*
Day 4 - Arms/Abs
Day 5 - Full-Body*

* One of the Full-Body sessions will be high rep.

Cardio

3 x HIIT sessions per week
3-4 x steady-state 20-30 min sessions per week
2-4 x 20-30 min sessions per week (whatever day I feel like, done either post-weights or pm)

Stretching

6-7 x 20-30 min sessions (usually after am cardio session)

Note that for any given week training can be changed and adapted, based on how I am feeling.


DAILY COMMENTS

Because Liposolv is a topical targeted specifically at fat loss with no other effects per se, the only area I will be commenting on daily is:
Body Composition

If you want more detail re other supplements and effects and training experiences, please see my 2009 Training and Supplementation Journal The Female Terminator Chronicles (starting Liposolv from post #918).

 

[Rosie Chee]

Initial Impressions

Better Body Sports - Liposolv

Smell - N/A: Liposolv smelt like alcohol; nothing else.

Feel - 10/10: A quick cool touch, like that you get when you get water sprayed on you. Liposolv is not greasy or sticky after application.

Spreadability - N/A: Liposolv is not a lotion, but a spray. Even if I try and spread it immediately after application to anywhere but the place where the spray hit my skin, it does NOT spread there.

Drying - 10/10: Liposolv was dry in mere seconds after spraying it on my skin.

Other Effects - 10/10: I did not experience anything out of the ordinary. I did not feel weird, nor did my skin turn white, as was warned could happen.

 

[Rosie Chee]

Day 1

1350 - HIIT Spin Bike:
a. 4 min @ 100-104 rpm
b. 8 x 20 sec effort/10 sec easy
c. 4 min @ 100-104 rpm

1408 - Shoulders/Hamstrings (1 min recovery between supersets/sets):
Superset A -
1. Seated BB Shoulder Press 4 x 8
2. BB Good Mornings 4 x 12
Superset B -
3. DB Lateral Raises 4 x 12
4. Incline DB Rear Raises 4 x 12
Superset C -
5. BB Military Press 4 x 12
6. Leg Curls 4 x 12
7. Plyometric Bench Jumps 2 x 40

1539 - Stretch 20 min.


Body Composition and Look: 120.2 lb at 11.8% BF...Seeing top abs better. Calves looking highly defined...

 

[Rosie Chee]

Day 2

2230 - Gazelle 20 min.

2255 - Stretch 23 min.


Body Composition and Look: Could be better...

 

[Rosie Chee]

Day 3

1721 - HIIT Run:
a. 4 min jogging
b. 8 x 20 sec effort/10 sec easy
c. 4 min jogging

1738 - Stretch 25 min.

1822 - Arms/Abs (1 min recovery between supersets):
Superset A -
1. Weighted Dips 4 x 12
2. Close-Grip BB Bicep Curls 4 x 6
Superset B -
3. Incline Dips 4 x 12
4. E-Z Bar Bicep Curls 4 x 12
Superset C -
5. Weighted Deadbugs 4 x 10
6. Reverse Curls (on floor) 4 x 10
Superset D -
7. Bicycle 1 x 40
8. Ab Vacuums 1 x 5


Body Composition and Look: I want to be 8% BF again!!!

Other Notes: Both of my wrists have been giving me trouble over the last couple of days, painful at times and then clicking for no reason (yes, I can feel and hear the bones clicking into place). During resistance training today the clicking and the sensations it caused was annoying, and that, along with my lacklustre mood, meant that I cut the session short...Last day of Sustain Alpha today...

 

[Rosie Chee]

Day 4

1600 - Gazelle 20 min.

1625 - Stretch 25 min.


Body Composition and Look: Midsection starting to 'come out' more re definition...Legs still looking good...

 

[Rosie Chee]

Day 5

Due to circumstances, no training was done today...Means that I will be raring and ready to go tomorrow!!!


Body Composition and Look: A bit softer, due to water and food weight from yesterday and today...

Other Notes: Areas where I sprayed the Liposolv started getting itchy very early this morning, ~9-10 hours after application.

 

[Rosie Chee]

Supplements from here on

Fat Loss Stack
Liposolv - 6-7 sprays twice daily or 12-14 sprays once daily, post-shower.
DCP - 2 caps first thing, 2 caps pre-lunch, 2 caps pre-dinner, and 1 cap pre-bed.
AlphaBurn - 1 cap first thing and 1 cap pre-bed.

Lean Xtreme 2.0: 1 cap first thing, 1 cap 40 min pre-gym, and 1 cap immediately post-gym (resistance training days); and 1 cap first thing, 1 cap post-lunch, and 1 cap pre-bed (non-resistance training days).
IGF-2: 2 caps first thing, 2 caps 40 min pre-gym, and 2 caps pre-bed (resistance training days); and 3 caps first thing and 3 caps pre-bed (non-resistance training days).

RPM - 2-3 caps first thing.

Creatine
NeoVar Recomped - 2 caps 40 min pre-gym, 2 caps immediately post-gym, and 4 caps pre-bed (resistance training days); and 2 caps 15-20 min pre-breakfast, 2 caps 15-20 min pre-lunch, and 4 caps pre-bed (non-resistance training days).

Multivitamin/Antioxidants
Complete-Balance - 2 caps post-breakfast.
Bio-Mend - 2 caps post-breakfast.

Good Fats
Omega-Essentials - 2 caps post-breakfast.

Protein/BCAAs
Combat Powder - 1 scoop with breakfast.
BC+EAA - 3 scoops with mid-morning meal and 3 scoops with mid-afternoon meal.

Joints
OsteoSport - 4 caps first thing.

Sleep
Lipotrophin-PM - 2 caps first thing and 2 caps pre-bed.

 

[Rosie Chee]

Day 6

1023 - HIIT Run:
a. 4 min jogging
b. 16 x 20 sec effort/10 sec easy
c. 4 x 40 sec effort/20 sec easy
d. 1 x 1 min effort
e. 4 min jogging

1049 - Stretch 40 min.

1154 - Shoulders/Hamstrings (1 min recovery between supersets):
Superset A -
1. Seated BB Shoulder Press 4 x 12, 10, 8, 6
2. BB Good Mornings 4 x 15
Superset B -
3. DB Lateral Raises 4 x 15
4. Incline DB Rear Raises 4 x 15
Superset C -
5. BB Military Press 4 x 12
6. Leg Curls 4 x 15
Superset D -
7. High-Bench Step-Ups 2 x 20
8. Swissball Leg Curls 2 x 10

1249 - Spin Bike:
20 min @ 100-102 rpm


Body Composition and Look: Holding quite a bit of water weight today. Feeling very uncomfortable in my body, actually. Head down, arse up, and eyes on the prize!

Other Notes: I have decided that I will allow my body to continue to run on NZ time. This means that I will be back on my regular schedule, but my regular schedule on NZ time (i.e. 0300 in NZ is 0800 in the US - this is my waking time; 2100-2200 in NZ is 0200-0300 in the US - this is my bedtime); since I am having such a hard time trying to adjust my body to doing this at 0300 and 2100-2200 US time.

 

[Rosie Chee]

Day 7

This week's Day OFF...


Body Composition and Look: Weight keeps going up. I'm holding a fair amount of water...

 

[Rosie Chee]

Day 8

1541 - HIIT Run:
a. 4 min jogging
b. 8 x 20 sec effort/10 sec easy
c. 4 min jogging
d. 8 x 20 sec effort/10 sec easy
e. 4 min jogging
f. 1 x 1 min effort
g. 2 min jogging

1611 - Gazelle 20 min.

1635 - Stretch 20 min.


Body Composition and Look: Still holding water; a lot more than usual (???)

Other Notes: Still finding that legs and stomach are getting itchy where I apply the Liposolv. Stomach also started peeling today, which was a WTF moment.

 

[Rosie Chee]

Day 9

1504 - 3 mile Run.

1535 - Stretch 20 min.

1602 - Arms/Abs (1 min recovery between supersets/trisets):
Superset A -
1. Dips 4 x 12
2. Close-Grip BB Bicep Curls 4 x 5, 4, 3, 3
Superset B -
3. Flat Close-Grip BB Bench Press 2 x 3
4. DB Zottoman Curls 2 x 12
Superset C -
5. DB French Press 4 x 8, 6, 6, 6
6. Incline DB Bicep Curls 4 x 12
Superset D -
7. V-Bar Tricep Push-Downs 2 x 6
8. Straight-Bar Cable Bicep Curls 2 x 12
Superset E -
9. Overhead Rope Tricep Extensions 2 x 12
10. E-Z Bar Bicep Curls 2 x 15
Triset -
11. Rope Crunch 4 x 15
12. Weighted Crunch 4 x 10
13. Straight-Leg Raise (arms straight, on Dips' Bar) 4 x 5

1702 - Treadmill:
a. 1 x 2 min @ 4.17 min/km/1 min break
b. 2 x 1 min @ 3.95 min/km/1 min break
c. 3 x 1 min @ 3.75 min/km/1 min break
d. 4 x 30 sec @ 3.57 min/km/30 sec break
e. 2 x 30 sec @ 3.41 min/km/1 min break
f. 1 x 30 sec @ 3.26 min/km


Body Composition and Look: Scale keeps climbing...

 

[Rosie Chee]

Day 10

1052 - HIIT Run:
a. 4 min jogging
b. 8 x 20 sec effort/10 sec easy
c. 10 min jogging

1126 - Stretch 20 min.

1208 - Full-Body (1 min recovery between sets):
1. BB Back Squat x 25
2. Alternate Backward Long-Stride DB Lunges x 24
3. Lying Leg Curls x 25
4. Good Mornings x 25
5. V-Bar Close-Grip Seated Rows x 25
6. BB Bent Over Rows x 25
7. Push-Ups (feet on bench, hands on m/b) x 25
8. Incline DB Bench Press x 25
9. BB Military Press x 25
10. DB Lateral Raises x 25
11. Dips x 25
12. V-Bar Tricep Push-Downs x 25
13. E-Z Bar Bicep Curls x 25
14. Alternate DB Hammer Curls x 24
15. Rope Crunch x 50
16. Double Straight-Leg Raises (no bench) x 25
17. Knee-Ins (on bench) x 25

1325 - Spin Bike:
20 min @ 41 km/hr pace


Body Composition and Look: Still holding water. Perhaps Liposolv causes water retention and I will REALLY notice the effects a few days after I have finished it?

Other Notes: I had a painful pump in my anterior delts not long into my HIIT Run. Pump continued during resistance training, getting more painful as I went on. NOT sure what caused that.

 

[Rosie Chee]

Day 11

1428 - Gazelle 20 min.

1449 - Stretch 21 min.


Body Composition and Look: Face actually looks a little swollen today (which was rather weird and interesting and not cool)...For some reason it seems like my body is holding onto every bit of water that I'm drinking (shrug). The only time I feel semi-comfortable is when I'm training...

 

[Rosie Chee]

Day 12

1522 - Skipping:
a. 4 x 3 min skipping/30 sec break
b. 4 x 90 sec skipping/30 sec break
c. 4 x 30 sec skipping/30 sec break

1551 - Stretch 20 min.

1636 - Back/Chest (1 min recovery between alternate sets):
Alternate Set -
1. BB Deadlifts 6 x 6
2. Push-Ups (feet on bench, hands on floor) 6 x 10


Body Composition and Look: Calves and forearms are looking ripped. Everything else is kind of blah. Still holding water in midsection and upper legs...

Other Notes: At Kathy's suggestion, I have been applying Liposolv 2-3 hours after showering (applying my daily moisturizer post-shower); and there has been no more itching...I am still NOT experiencing any skin blanching or white spots or anything else expected from the product yet...And due to spray nozzle issues continuing, I am still using my hands to apply the product; which means that I am probably using FAR more than 14 sprays per application...

 

[Rosie Chee]

Day 13

This week's Day OFF (looks like Monday is going to be it, looking at the pattern over the last few weeks)...


Body Composition and Look: Water weight is finally going!

 

[Rosie Chee]

Day 14

1912 - HIIT Gazelle:
a. 5 min easy
b. 20 x 20 sec effort/10 sec easy
c. 5 min easy

1934 - Stretch 26 min.


Body Composition and Look: Back to 120.2lb, with no more water retention. The areas that are looking leaner are arms, upper abs, and lower legs, NOT where I have been applying Liposolv (???)

 

[Rosie Chee]

Day 15

1833 - Gazelle 21 min.

1859 - Stretch 21 min.

1941 - Shoulders/Hamstrings (1 min recovery between supersets):
Superset A -
1. BB Military Press 4 x 15, 15, 12, 12
2. BB Good Mornings 4 x 15
Superset B -
3. Lateral Raises 4 x 15
4. Glute/Ham Raises 4 x 15
Superset C -
5. BB Upright Rows 4 x 6
6. BB Stiff-Legged Deadlifts


Body Composition and Look: Working on bringing out my hamstrings, since they're the only part of my Legs that are not really up to speed.

Other Notes: I am featured on page 68 of the December issue of Muscular Development. My first magazine appearance!

 

[Rosie Chee]

Day 16

1800 - Gazelle 20 min.

1825 - Stretch 20 min.


Body Composition and Look: Looking a whole lot tighter from waist up today and from knees down. Upper midsection looking leaner.

Other Notes: Last day today of the tube of Liposolv that I have. Both yesterday and today, small white crystals were mixed in with the liquid on application. Itching and all skin irritation has stopped...Another tube has been sent out, so I shall be able to continue until that is finished, and therefore get a better idea of how the product worked for me.

 

[Rosie Chee]

Day 17

1856 - HIIT Gazelle:
a. 4 min easy
b. 8 x 20 sec effort/10 sec easy
c. 4 min easy

1910 - Stretch 20 min.

1948 - Arms/Abs (1 min recovery between supersets):
Superset A -
1. Weighted Dips 4 x 12
2. Close-Grip BB Bicep Curls 4 x 10, 8, 8, 8
Superset B -
3. Incline Dips 4 x 12
4. E-Z Bar Bicep Curls 4 x 15
Superset C -
5. Flat Close-Grip BB Bench Press 4 x 10, 8, 8, 8
6. Zottoman Curls 4 x 15
Superset D -
7. Rope Tricep Push-Downs 4 x 12
8. Incline Bicep Curls 4 x 15
Superset E -
9. Crunches (knees at 90 degrees) 1 x 50
10. Knee-Ins (on bench) 1 x 50


Body Composition and Look: Can see that I'm leaning out.

Other Notes: No Liposolv today, as the first tube was finished yesterday and the second tube that was sent has not arrived.

 

[Rosie Chee]

Day 18

0800 - HIIT Run:
a. 4 min jogging
b. 8 x 20 sec effort/10 sec easy
c. 4 min jogging
d. 8 x 20 sec effort/10 sec easy
e. 5 min jogging

0825 - Stretch 25 min.

0913 - Full-Body (1 min recovery between sets/supersets):
1. Leg Press (feet high on the plate) 4 x 10
2. Plyometric Bench Jumps 2 x 40
3. BB Back Squat (wide-stance) 1 x 20
4. BB Good Mornings 1 x 20
5. BB Bent Over Rows 4 x 10
6. Push-Ups (feet and hands on floor) 2 x 20
Superset A -
7. BB Military Press 2 x 10
8. DB Lateral Raises 2 x 10
9. Dips 4 x 10
10. Alternate DB Bicep Curls 2 x 20
11. Alternate DB Hammer Curls 2 x 20
Superset B -
12. Rope Crunch 2 x 20
13. Weighted Crunch 2 x 20
14. Bicycle 1 x 40

1019 - Spin Bike:
20 min @ 42.24 km/hr pace


Body Composition and Look: Upper midsection and legs looking the leanest. I am starting to get black marks that look like bruises but are not bruises appearing on my lower legs (seems to happen when I start getting leaner). My mind seems focused on the belly that I hate and want to see gone ASAP, displeased with anything else.

Other Notes: Liposolv (sent Monday) has still not arrived. Therefore I will be giving a review on the product tomorrow.

 

[Rosie Chee]

Review of Liposolv

So ends a tube of Liposolv, the latest innovation from Better Body Sports. It was an interesting run to say the least...


What is it?

* Blocks 11-HSD-1, the cortisol activating fat enzyme
* Four Synergistic boosters of cAMP
* Gets more to target sites

For more information see post #5 Liposolv "next generation spot fat reducer"- licensed from Patrick Arnold.


Smell: N/A. Liposolv smelt like alcohol; nothing else.

Feel: 10/10. A quick cool touch, like that you get when you get water sprayed on you. Liposolv is not greasy or sticky after application.

Spreadability: N/A. Liposolv is not a lotion, but a spray. Even if I try and spread it immediately after application to anywhere but the place where the spray hit my skin, it does NOT spread there.

Drying: 10/10. Liposolv was dry in mere seconds after spraying it on my skin.

Body Composition: 5/10. Pre-Liposolv I was 54.64kg (i.e. 120.2lb) at 11.8% bodyfat (BF). Post-Liposolv I am 54.09kg (i.e. 119lb) at 11.8% BF. Although I LOST 0.55kg (i.e. 1.21lb) my body composition did NOT change. This means that I lost BOTH BF AND lean body mass (LBM): 0.07kg (i.e. 0.154lb) of BF and 0.48kg (i.e. 1.056lb) of LBM...Skinfolds was an interesting mix of no change, decrease AND increase over the 8 skinfolds taken...Girths did not change much at all, with all but Shoulders and Thigh girths remaining UNchanged: Shoulders lost 2cm and Thighs gained 2cm...Despite the minor decrease in BF my forearms, upper midsection, and calves, all areas where I did NOT apply Liposolv gradually became more defined over the course of my use of Liposolv...Please note that all POST-measurements were taken three days after I had STOPPED use of Liposolv...

Other Effects: 5/10. From Day 2 to Day 13 I had a lot of water retention, with the scale climbing consistently until Day 13, before suddenly dropping back to my starting body mass...From Day 5 the areas where I applied Liposolv started becoming itchy; the itching went away when I started applying Liposolv ~2 hours post-shower/moisturizer, from Day 13...I did NOT experience the expected skin blanching or white spots or garlic odor.

Overall: 6.5/10. Liposolv produced a mixed bag of results for me, with some no change, decreases, and increases in both skinfolds and girths, and an overall NO change in body composition with a decrease in body mass. If I were going based on what I was on the day that I finished the tube of Liposolv, my body statistics did NOT change. Three days after use I lost 0.55kg (i.e. 1.21lb) of body mass; this coupled with the water retention experienced during my use of Liposolv causes me to believe that Liposolv causes water retention and that the results of the product cannot be assessed until a few days after STOPPING use of it.

Would I use it again? I would use another tube, and see what happened over 30 days, as opposed to only 16 days, seeing as results were not really definitive re loss or gains...And because the ingredient profile suggests something other than the results I got.

Would I recommend? Generally I would NOT recommend a topical fat loss product. I would recommend making sure that the key component to fat loss - DIET - was targeted at fat loss, and that training was structured appropriately, before I would even consider recommending a fat loss supplement/product (and unless you're relatively lean to begin with and just want to lose that last 1-2% BF, then I wouldn't recommend at all). But, in saying that, if diet and exercise are right, then just that little something extra can be recommended.


This review is also available in my training/supplementation journal (post #952) in the Supplement Reviews/Logs subsection of the Supplements Forum: The Female Terminator Chronicles.

 

[Rosie Chee]

To Date...

Thank you, Kathy, for giving me the opportunity to try Liposolv.

However, as the second tube still has not arrived, my review yesterday stands as my Final Review of the product.

 

[0verc0m3]

Thank you for the honest review!

I would imagine this is very helpful to someone debating whether or not to use Liposolv

 

[Rosie Chee]

Thank you for the honest review!

I would imagine this is very helpful to someone debating whether or not to use Liposolv

No worries It was great to try another topical; I like to experiment to find the best products to use.

 

[bigmoe65]

Whats an ex-elite athlete?

 

[roids1]

I was wondering the same thing. :dunno:

 

[mooch2321]

cmon guys...dont be rude! its an elite athletes EX-wife....duh

 

[Rosie Chee]

Whats an ex-elite athlete?

I was wondering the same thing. :dunno:

I used to be part of the NZ cycling team. The "ex" is because I am now retired from cycling.