Yeah, I am going to give him a call later today and talk with him. I think a lot of this is just frustration with the setback and the increase in gear making me feel things a bit more intensely than normal. It's good to have a group of friends like in here to bounce things off of and get some feedback from the outside looking in.
Yeah, it has really gotten bad. I would be sitting fat with "extra" money in my bank right now otherwise. That and like I said, having 3 cars break down so close together was just brutal on the budget all by itself. I almost told my wife no presents for our anniversary or Christmas this year. Things are just too tight. However even though I have no issue making that sacrifice, she would be extremely upset, and heartbroken if I were to do that. When I told her I didn't think we would be able to take our anniversary trip because of the car situation she understandably got very upset. So we did decide to put that trip on a card. I just hate financing things like that. It doesn't make sense financially to me but my wife is more valuable to me than paying some interest. So, we are still going to go.
Another thing with gear is how quickly your strength increases compared to natural or just TRT. That increased strength along with the gym aggression, is all good, but those muscles will grow in size and strength quicker than your connective tissue can catch up. All the more reason to leave some in the tank and not over do it, which I know you know all this, but I have to remind myself not to get too crazy on a cycle because us over 50 dudes just don’t recover, repair, or heal as quickly as we used to.
No doubt, and it is definitely harder to pull back on the reigns while the gear is saying alright LFG!!!
Yeah, MK is your friend on a bulk.
Yeah, this took me by surprise, came on all the sudden, but hopefully just gassy and not already feeling the effects of the increased food volume this much. Could definitely have to do with blocking myself up a bitt with the Aleve. I would have normally been to the restroom for a couple downloads by this time of day. I went just now and rabbit pellets, so very likely has something to do with it.Yeah, MK is your friend on a bulk.
I'm 100% with you on all points there. A couple years ago I set up a vacation acct and a little money drops in every Monday automagically. I'm so grateful I did that because it really helps me keep a tiny bit squirreled away for travel. The budgeting has become a lot sharper these past 2-3 years. it's just crazy how much tighter things got all the sudden without a decrease in income. but our taxes in WA are insane too. taxes alone are eating me up between $500-1k/month more than 3 years ago.
I have a bulging disc or something in 2 places in my spine, one near the bottom of my neck and one in the T-Spine in the middle of my scapula. When I squat with a barbell lately it has really been aggravating it. Causing referral pain to the point it has taken me to tears, numbness, neck pain. I have been to an ART specialist and a chiropractor and after some testing things they both said I have some sort of disc issue / nerve impingement that is likely a bulging disk. I can do things with the weight on my shoulders like a hack squat and stuff but putting a bar on my spine is just not working out for me anymore. Once it is triggered back work and any upper back extension under weight is painful. Even without weight if it gets too bad. I feel like I caught it and hitting it hard with anti-inflammatories right after it happened kept the inflammation from ever getting too bad. I just didn't wait that night to see how if felt in the morning because I knew it wouldn't be good to just let it swell up overnight.
Yeah, it is insane. I need to set up what you have going on but the first thing would be too use it for my contest this year so I am not putting it on a card and paying interest.
As you know I haven't cycled much at all recently, and the one I did after my surgery was not a big one, and my steps up were much smaller. This bump is definitely a bigger bump and that effect caught me a little off guard but I began to realize I was over-reacting to the stress of the situation and making things much more urgent then they were. I have been overcompensating at home, and work for sure just to be safe. I will definitely expand that to the rest of my daily undertakings as well, more for my own benefit of not getting worked up than anything else.
all inclusive. But if you book it a year out, it's like $3k. I mean even dropping $25 every monday into the travel acct is $1300 in a year and that's usually enough for plane tickets to mexico for us.
That would be a great idea and then they could make interest off of it as payment for that service since it is in their account at that point. Better you making the interest though.
no joke. at this point they could just keep all their member funds in a high yield cash acct and pull 5% off the money just sitting there. lol
I have used it a few times, last time I did it my BP went up over 150 about 3 days later. However, I am in much better shape than I was then so might not be an issue. I actually have some from MA Research Chems which is always GTG! I just haven't added it because my coach hasn't mentioned using it. My appetite is much better today, I am pretty sure I was just backed up from the aleve yesterday making me feel full faster. I will look that guy up though just to see what he has to say.
Wow, that's a hell of a systolic increase from mk alone. Are you positive it was pure and not cut with something? It's never touched my BP,but then again neither does SD so my BP might be a little bit of an anomaly. I'll link the video I'm referencing, hopefully it's beneficial to you guys
Yeah, this sentiment is why I am still considering doing my own training. Not out of frustration this time, but out of having a big picture outlook. It is hard to make a lot of progress when injured. However with the bump in gear and me getting to at least an RPE8 on everything we know I stimulated some growth. Just not as much as usual. I did revert to how I was actually lifting the weight, slowed things down, and paused in the stretched position to get the most out of the least risky movement style.
Right now, I think both of those are off the table. Hoping by next Tuesday I will be able to do the RDL's but right now anything pulling my arms down with weight pulling my yoke down is a little bit suspect and triggers it a little bit, even Db lunges with 30's. So I am sure the RDL's would light it up, the 135 on the rack pull warm ups bit me and that is my first warm up set for RDL's. Again, staying positive and believing I will be about 95% by then, or hoping so based on the level of inflammation left. My shoulder and arm are still going numb if i have to turn my head to the left and hold it there for any amount of time. Happened at my desk a little bit ago. Not too bad though. I will be alright. I am sure this weekend Pat and I will get it all figured out.
BP was insane on MK But I also don’t trust the source of what I was taking. When I started the MA MK I stopped taking g my BP. I have hypertension but had not been treating my body too well prior to May 1 of this yr. Paternal grandfather had his first heart attack at 40, he passed at 63 and my father was 33. My father had stage 2 hypertension and passed from misdiagnosed pneumonia when he really had multiple bilateral pulmonary emboli. He was 63 and I was 33. Anyone else see the pattern?
Do you have a chiro?
Yeah, I do which means you definitely should never stop taking your BP meds, and start doing true cardiovascular work a few times a week if not already. You know, so we can keep ya around,. I mean you just got here!
I do have one, and if things aren't better next week I will spring for a session. Just have to pay cash right now and of course after 3 cars having to be repaired recently the funds aren't there. Going to end up dropping another grand on a repair this weekend.
Just that light half asleep feeling starting at my shoulder cap and down my arm but honestly no lack of function or apparent strength loss. Just like touching your tongue to an almost dead 9 volt battery. You may be too young to have done that but us idiots used to do it to test the battery or just for fun / friend challenges after.
Dang man sorry to hear this flaring up on you. Sounds almost what I had going on as far as the arm numbing, but mine I am pretty sure was a pinched nerve in the neck shoulder region.
Trying to better understand the position that puts the bad strain on you: are you able to do like bench supported rows or seated machine rows?
My father was incredibly healthy. He was a DMD, Merrimack College and Tufts Dental cum laude, and believed more in holistic medicine. lived on Salisbury beach, walked a mile a day in the sand, racquet ball, fish pill, garlic pill, total gym(Thank You Chuck Norris!), didn’t drink, didn’t smoke, only caffeine was from green tea for antioxidant purposes but my mother smoked a carton of Newports a week, and 2 handles of vodka or rum/wk and she has lost mental faculties due to Lewy Body Dementia but her physical health is fine. If I had an option I’d rather go out his way
Wait, what is this? Carbs cooled down lose caloric value?
Honestly, at this point I am not 100% sure of what will trigger it at this moment but I know that actual work sets of Rack Pulls or RDL's are not a go right this minute. I am sure I could do them in some form of recovery capacity. However, I also need to continue to make progress or work the area enough not to lose any progress. So at this point my concern isn't so much what to do to recover. The area needs rest, and allowing the inflammation to go down is what is needed. This isn't a muscular injury, or imbalance but the result of an acute injury where inflammation creates the issue by pressing on the nerve and once that inflammation is gone so is the issue so long as I don't put a bar back on my spine. Right now my concern is what to do for hypertrophy in that area in the meantime.
Yeah, when it is genetic unfortunately the holistic stuff is just good nutriton practice. It is not medicine and can't offer what the medicines out now do. Not even close in most cases. If so the FDA and Big Pharma would ban them as supplements, and make them a medicine for profit. If you take the medicines you need to help out you should live longer.
Very interesting, I was looking and it looks like it might be closer to what was 4g is now 3g, but 25% is still a big discrepancy. Of course that is just from 2 different studies I just went and looked at after you mentioning this. You may be getting your information from newer or more reliable studies. There is also an added benefit to the resistant starches for gut and lower intestinal health from the resistant carbs. Which could allow more of the rice to be digested and free some of the carbs from rice up that might otherwise just be excreted.
Yeah, if you google it you will find a ton of articles, studies and information on it. That being said, I may ask my coach if he has any preference on how I prepare my rice. One thing that was also mentioned is basically that the resistant starches act in the same way as fiber slowing down the absorption rate, and blunting both the glycemic and insulin response. So never cooled rice might be better after a workout if trying to get things in there as quickly as possible.
Well it goes back to that consistency thing. If most people prep it this way all the time then all of their adjustments are also based on the effects it has on their body of being cooked and stored in that manner. So most people might get one or two servings out of a large preparation of rice that hasn't been cooled for 24+ hours but the rest of the batch is going to pretty much be the same 24hr+ cooled rice which still results in consistency and predictability or outcome.
I have over 25 years of experience in food production. Although there is a wide range of specialized equipment available for professionals, I generally don't recommend it due to the high risk of bacterial growth. We typically use such equipment only for sous vide meat or recipes that require several days of heat treatment. Preparing rice in this manner, for instance, can be particularly risky.
I am basic w rice prep. I make 2 servings at a time in a bowl in the mic, then add olive oil AFTER I cook or reheat. Thanks @Hyde for that chestnut!!!
Well said Sir.I think (as has already been said multiple times) consistency is really all that matters when it comes to this kind of thing.
I think it is important to keep in mind "resistant starches" is a classification system in and of itself and that there are multiple (five) forms of them. The RS3 or retrograde starch is typically what people bring up in this talk about rice, pasta, and I think potatoes (uncooked potatoes are like unripe bananas a different form of resistant starch [RS2])?
Regardless the amount of change to RS will depend on several factors and probably isn't even the same for all rices and other sorts of variables. I honestly am unsure if it is worth worrying about.
Considering most food labels can be off up to 20%, the amount of food you absorb can vary depending on you and the specific foods (and potentially changes over time), various thermic effects of food types and other factors we probably don't even fully understand yet you can definitely lose your mind trying to account for all the variables (and that is only the "in" side of the equation).
So I'll end my comment where I started, if you are monitoring progress and are relatively consistent those things tend to balance out and you should be able to gauge based on your progress if you need "more" or "less" and what exactly that means for each food matters less.
Side note though is that ya for health purposes things like this may have more importance for those trying to improve health markers and similar aspects, but I hope most of the people who would want to worry about this are already eating enough fiber and other health related diet inclusions anyways.
Cool, thanks for the links, and the advice.
There ya go! It all works.
I’m fortunate that I have a good chiropractor, that’s also a physical therapist for a lot of our local college athletes. I get that impingement in my neck periodically causing numbness or pain in the shoulder blades, but my chiro. always does a great job “cracking” my neck and shoulder blades. I’ve gone to him for years, but I still get that tingling in the head and just feel good when I walk out of his office after each treatment. Hopefully you will be able to find some relief…. I hate nagging injuries.
Yeah, going to mine normally helps a bit. I may try to sneak out to him this week and have him give me an adjustment. See if it helps anything. I can toss an extra $50 out there but my ART guy sells his stuff in 4 packs so it is a bit more expensive to go see him.
Yeah, no need to reinvent the wheel with the current progress being as good as it is.Ya I think people get too obsessed trying to refigure it out all the time. If you’re consistent who cares as long as you make progress.
SBS uses an “assume, estimate or observe” approach. Once you are consistent you don’t need to assume anymore or use formulas to estimate. You just observe what your progress is doing an adjust based on what that tells you.
Kleen is so far into observing status already.
