Winter cut featuring MST Shred Ultra and Cordygen Nan02! UD 2.0

[Geoforce]

First off a big thanks to CTDeuce and everyone at MST for giving me the chance to log these two products for them.

[Geoforce]

Supplement dosing:

2 caps of Shred Ultra get taken every day upon waking. Another cap will be taken about 7 hours later. Honestly not sure how I'm going to use Cordygen yet. I'm definitely going to experiment with it for cardio and weight training. Looking forward to playing with it to see its effects. I will likely introduce it next week as I only have 20 servings of it compared to 30 of Shred Ultra.

Other supplements: “Staples” include whey protein, fish oil, multivitamin, fiber, vitamin D, mixed carotenoids.

The diet:

Ultimate Diet 2.0 by Lyle McDonald.

Wednesday and Thursday- Low calorie/low carb. Calories will be in the 1500-1700 range (roughly half of maintenance). Carbs will be under 50 grams on these days.

Friday- Low calorie/low carb. Might potentially bump the calories up to around 1800 to hit higher protein requirements, but still very low carb.

Saturday and Sunday: Carb up. Cheat meals galore, tons of carbs, tons of calories. Will not “track” these days other than trying to hit carb targets and protein targets.

Monday and Tuesday: Average carb, average calories. Slightly below maintenance calories on these days. Around 100 grams of carbs.

The workout:

Depletion workouts on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday is a day off. Saturday is a tension workout and the start of carb up. Monday is the “power” workout day. I could potentially add some cardio or extra work on Saturday or Sunday. I coach basketball so I will be taking every Tuesday and Friday off for sure because that's when our high school plays.

I've done UD 2.0 before and absolutely loved it. It's tough, but the results from my run before were fantastic. Hoping to use that knowledge to make this run even better.

[Geoforce]

Day 1- Jan. 2nd 2012

Depletion workout 1

Warmup- Grasso Mobility Complex (Overhead Squat, Low Lateral Squat, Overhead Reverse Lunge, Romanian DL to snatch, drop lunge, sots press). 1*8 empty barbell all exercises.

A1- Squat- 6*12: 135 pounds for each set.
A2- BB Curl- 6*15: 50 for all sets.
A3- Close Grip Bench- 6*15: 105 for all sets.

B1- Leg Press- 6*12: 240 for all sets.
B2- Hammer Curl- 6*15: 20 lbs for all sets.
B3- Triceps Extension- 6*15: 30 lbs for all sets.

Workout thoughts: These are designed to be a lot of volume, not much rest, glycogen depleting workouts. Obviously the weight used will be quite low. The goal is not to add poundage or anything of the such it is to deplete glycogen. These workouts (yesterday and today) are by far the toughest things. If you haven't done high reps on minimal calories and minimal carbs before I can assure you it is absolutely miserable. It's long, boring, exhausting, sucky But just two days of it so gotta nut up.

Supplement thoughts: Right into the Shred Ultra. Not a lot to report on day one. Some extra energy and definitely a nice raspberry ketones aftertaste to these bad boys. I really like the formula on this so it will be interesting to see the results.

[Inarius]

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[msrider]

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[Geoforce]

Welcome guys!

[Geoforce]

Day 2- Jan. 3rd 2012

Depletion workout 2

Warmup- Grasso Mobility Complex (Overhead Squat, Low Lateral Squat, Overhead Reverse Lunge, Romanian DL to snatch, drop lunge, sots press). 1*8 empty barbell all exercises.

A1: Wide Grip Incline Bench Press- 6*10: 95 pounds for all sets.
A2: One Arm Barbell Corner Row- 6*10: 55 for all sets.

B1: Lat Pulldown- 6*12: 70 for all sets.
B2: Inc. DB Bench Press- 6*10: 25 pounds for all sets.
B3: Shoulder Press standing- 6*10: 20 pounds for all sets.

Workout thoughts: These are designed to be a lot of volume, not much rest, glycogen depleting workouts. Didn't quite do everything I set out to do cause of time, but this was still a solid and tiring workout. Getting that glycogen depleted before the carb up!

Supplement thoughts: 3 caps of Shred Ultra again (2 in the morning, 1 in the afternoon). Increased sweating during PM workout even though it was cold as **** in the gym. Still strong raspberry ketone aftertaste (which I actually love). Some increased energy, but nothing crazy from a stim perspective hitting me yet.

[EasyEJL]

Do you take the 2 shred on an empty stomach? For me its right on that borderline of jittery. Not quite there, but close, which is perfect. Don't want to step over the border into jitters, but as close as possible is a plus

[Geoforce]

Do you take the 2 shred on an empty stomach? For me its right on that borderline of jittery. Not quite there, but close, which is perfect. Don't want to step over the border into jitters, but as close as possible is a plus

I do. Coming off a run of Alphamine (had about a 2 week break) so maybe I'm not noticing the stim effect as much (I consider Alphamine the strongest stim I've ever used). 2 empty stomach caps has been nice, I won't ever go above that.

[Geoforce]

Today is an off day and the last day of low carb/low calories. Nice thing about UD 2.0 is you get around 2 days of planned pigging out carbdom. Just gotta be tough for 3 days straight to earn it!

[CTDeuce]

looking good so far man!

[Geoforce]

Welcome in.

[Geoforce]

Day 4- January 5, 2012

Tension workout (at home)

A1: KB Goblet Squat 4*12
A2: Swiss Ball Leg Curl 4*12

B1: Floor Press 4*12
B2: Pushups 4*12

C1: DB row 4*12
C2: Band Pull aparts 4*25

D1: DB curl 4*12
D2: Lateral raise 4*12

Workout thoughts: This is just a nice tension workout trying to squeeze out any remaining glycogen before the carb up. Nothing too crazy to report.

Supplement thoughts: 3 caps of Shred Ultra again (2 in the morning, 1 in the afternoon). Definitely noticed the Shred pre-workout as I dosed it about 45 minutes before. Felt absolutely great other than some residual soreness from the super high volume depletion workouts.

[Geoforce]

Day 5: Sunday, January 6th 2012

Nothing really novel to report. Continued carb up from yesterday. This week is going to be a bit off in terms of plans because I'm proposing to my girlfriend on Thursday. So I think what I'm going to do is move everything up one day. Tomorrow will still be the power workout and "normal" eating, but Tuesday will be low calorie/low carbs, same thing Wednesday, and same thing Thursday until the night when we have dinner which will begin the carb up.

Plan right now is to run Shred Ultra again this entire week and begin experimenting with the Cordygen next week as I start increasing the cardio aspect.

[Geoforce]

Started off the morning with 2 Shred Ultras. Already feeling a little stim going on this morning. Good thing, I gotta be powered through a monday morning basketball practice!

[Inarius]

Congrats bro. Hope everything goes well and she says yes!

[Geoforce]

Congrats bro. Hope everything goes well and she says yes!

If she says no I'm going to be pretty pissed because she has been hounding me about asking for the last 7 months

Not to mention I had to sell a kidney to pay for the ring, hotel room, dinner, etc!

[Geoforce]

Day 6- Monday, January 7th 2012

Power workout

A: Trap Bar Deadlift 2*6- 185, 185

B1: Bench Press 2*6- 145, 145
B2: Chinups 2*max reps- 4, 5

C1: Kroc DB rows 2*6- 55, 55
C2: Inc. Bench Press 2*6- 115, 115

D1: Push Press 2*6- 75, 75
D2: Barbell Curl 2*6- 75, 75

Workout thoughts: Goal of this workout is max power. I focused on lowering under control and really exploding up as fast as possible each rep. Felt good entire workout. This is the workout that from now on I'll really focus on doing more each week.

Supplement thoughts: 3 caps of Shred Ultra again (2 in the morning, 1 in the afternoon). Still enjoying this run so far of Shred. It's definitely not a jittery stim, but it isn't like you don't notice you've taken it either. I'm pretty excited to start experimenting with Cordygen. I'm considering doing that Wednesday, but if not then I'll wait till next week since this week is a little screwy workout wise with proposing on Thursday.

[alvin1]

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[Geoforce]

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