The Biggest Smont ever! 🤔 Lets find out
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gphagan1
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My wife, in the Winter, will make homemade vegetable venison soup, with the tenderloin, homemade chicken and noodle soup, and chicken and dumplings, and put it all in our big freezer. So during the winter we we take our normal supplements with estra vit C, garlic, zinc, vit D, Elderberry, and pre and probiotics, and if we get sick or just feel crappy, those soups or chicken and dumplings hit the spot, and of course we like a lot of meat so loaded with protein. Actually chicken and dumplings would be another good one to add into your bulk. I can down a 1000 calories of that in no time, and when I’ve had ulcers act up, it’s easy on the stomach.
LeanEngineer
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Dang those look good! Home made pizzas are the best!I did a scrap food scavenger hunt and put together some little pizzas
, is better than nothing lol
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Smont
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I'm guilty of only being on top of my vitamins and minerals when cutting. When I'm stuffing my face I always just assume I'm going to get enough of everything lol. But other then d3 and B vitamins, I haven't really been religiously taking any vitamins/health supps since Early December.
Started glutathione @200mg yesterday, I'll take it today and when I get back from Florida I'm going to take 200 daily until the bottle runs out and il switch to nac afterwards, I also got a supplement with nac and tudca on the way. And today I'm back on my vitamin routine soon as I get back from Florida. I'm also probably going to reconstitute my bpc and drink that for a week. Elderberry makes me poop my pants if I remember correctly so I might need to skip that one lol.
And I love chicken and dumplings
Dustin07
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dude I got so much **** going on. I was telling my wife no wonder people are exhausted and burnt out. I'm usually listening to a podcast while driving, more informational than entertainment, and lately 40-80min of cardio per day have been completely filled with youtube videos on greenhouses, aquaponics, growing grains, etc (so again, 2 tasks, studying while getting training in) then I get home and if its my night to cook cause shes at the gym till 6:30 I'm balancing boiling water for hard boiled eggs, with letting dogs out, with cooking veggies, with cleaning kitchen, with cooking / defrosting meat, timing myself so I can run out to the chicken coop, feed them, grab eggs, come back in, unpack my ****, etc etc etc. like the 'tism side of me takes that 45 minutes I have before she gets home and unpacks like 180 minutes worth of productivity hahaDo you often get the random urge to start a project at a very awkward time or just randomly out of nowhere drop everything you're doing and go start some task that you might have been putting off? Cuz I do that
I have no idea how moms survive and outlive men.
Hyde
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Take a 3cc shot of glutathione on a rest day. Got this from Alex Kikel and it makes a big difference in recovery and especially fighting off crud. I’m not saying not to do the 200mg, but that 600mg when you are feeling run down really helps turn things around. And Mike’s Setria glutathione has lidocaine in it so you don’t get the immediate pain other glutathione gives, even with a big shot in the ass.
Smont
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Even 1ml had some pain. It was painful during the actual injection, nothing crazy, but noticable for sure.
Where is Alex Kikel these days? Does he have anything new out?
I miss his podcast, he might not been able to coach himself very well, but he put together some good packages on other people and had a wealth of knowledge, especially if your someone who likes to self experiment. Lots of my early peptide and RC use was based around listening to him and old vigerous Steve stuff
Smont
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We have a lot in common, when Im using cardio equipment instead of hitting the bag, I always got YouTube on and it's usually plant/garden related, hydroponics/aquaponics (maybe in another year or 2 il build a 4 season greenhouse with a aquaponics tank. It's on my list) but ya, I'm trying to learn those things. Lately I'm into soil biology and thinking about building a indoor 4x4 garden bed, filled with worms, top cover that you chop down and work back into the soil. Thought it would be cool and I've seen people use this method for growing weed lol
Something like this, but with microgreens and spices for ground cover. So that there edible and the spices act as natural bug repellent at all times
Dustin07
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dude thats a great idea, my wife is currently putting together her seed order list and was asking if she should get the ladybugs now or wait, I suggested wait another month or two. We should swap notes as this thing continues because I've been killing myself this winter to get "my wife's" greenhouse built. it was cold AF but I got it built and its pretty good for the money, cheapo chinese import. its available on amazon but we got it from home depot for $100 less and this way we figured customer service woudl be better
I'm building her a shelving unit like this, this weekend so she can get started asap with seedmats (warmers)
my Vevor pond arrived last night. so I'll build this, and put it on the opposite side of the greenhouse to grow tilapia
and I ordered a pre-made bell siphon for the growbed.
so for the aquaponics I just need to build the growout bed, I haven't decided what to use on that yet. going to be about 31" deep and 6ft long so it coudl get really heavy. going 8" deep bed to work with the bell siphon. it will be a flood and drain system. all i need to get still is a pump for the water from the fish tank to the grow bed, and a heater for the tilapia.
once i have all that under control, I want to do a second setup for prawns and/or catfish then a larger pond outside the greenhouse where I can move the tilapia to for growout.
I'm going to start with like 40 tilapia fry, and I've seen other folks say that theirs started reproducing fast. If I can keep them alive in the winter and harvest 50-100 per year at full size thats like 75-150+lbs of fresh tilapia meat from my garden!
Smont
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That's going to be awesome, id imagine if the tank wasn't too overloaded with fish you could do a submergible tank heater.
My main concern for the 4 seasons is the temperature. I've got a great location for summer, and a great location for winter, but there not the same location lol. Ideally I'd like to build it against my house so the actual house itself could keep one side warm in the winter, but that's not a option. It's gonna take some planning and because I'm trying to stay within some temperature and humidity ranges, I'm gonna need a couple power sources.
I'm still going to throw up my hoop house style 12x7 again for the spring and fall but the 4 seasons one is gonna be a while
Dustin07
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thats my plan, I have some 600w ones on an inkbird in the reef tank, thats about a 130g system but its also in the house so its more protected obviously lol. I will probably go larger than needed to heat this system but if I can get it on an inkbird to track the temp via wifi that will give me a lot of info. I picked up a govee bluetooth thermometer for the greenhouse thats collecting data for me too. we're in a false spring and only just finally hitting freezing temps next week, so my data is useless right now, but the avg temp in my greenhouse the past 2 weeks has been about 49.5F! I told my wife after snow hits, around march, she's probably safe when we avg 50f
I'm in the same boat. I am researching heating options, yesterday I stumbled on a youtube where dude filled a barrel with sand to hold heat all winter in his greenhouse. when I figure that out I'll let you know, that will probably be todays cardio lol
Smont
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I'm interested to see how that works, I probably watched a hundred different heating options and this is one that I've seen before. Not this specific video but the same concept
Smont
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Didn't make it through the whole workout, I got heckled into a 27 rep set of standing overhead press with 135 lb and that finished my workout pretty much. There was no way I was doing zurchers or hack squats after that so I just did a couple super sets of cable press downs and side laterals to finish it off.
I did manage to hit a 43 inch box jump for a set of 6, a OHP 240x1 with a little leg drive, and 135x27. I know 135 for 27 sounds ridiculous but I swear to God I did it lol. I actually have a video from another day where I did it for a set of 20. I was just going to go for 20 again today and then someone yelled out five more and then when I got to 24 someone yelled out three more and I legit failed at 27 with my forearms cramping up.
Not a real progress pic but I managed to get somebody to snap two pictures of me and send them to my phone
I did manage to hit a 43 inch box jump for a set of 6, a OHP 240x1 with a little leg drive, and 135x27. I know 135 for 27 sounds ridiculous but I swear to God I did it lol. I actually have a video from another day where I did it for a set of 20. I was just going to go for 20 again today and then someone yelled out five more and then when I got to 24 someone yelled out three more and I legit failed at 27 with my forearms cramping up.
Not a real progress pic but I managed to get somebody to snap two pictures of me and send them to my phone
Smont
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I like having balance to my meals, but for a reduction in volume I think Im gonna start cutting out vegetables so I can eat more carbs.
If this steroid plotter I've been using is correct, I'm pretty sauced up right now lol.
sammpedd88
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How do you like pinning the glutathione? I personallly think it really sucks!
jtmass
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Hey Seg. Business is growing well, thanks man. Building a team of athletes and ambassadors. All of this is new to India and people are seeing how we are different from the rest.
Quite honestly, the idea began from here. And I am grateful to be part of AM that I was able to see what we are missing in India.
jtmass
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Just water and nothing else, right. Starting point was great man. Looking forward to your updates.
jtmass
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9 weeks in and you look great man. The gaining is going well, I see.
Smont
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Hurts a little while injecting it, but so far I've only done 1 ml at a time and I've only done it into the fat in my ass lol. So the pain has been minimal
Smont
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I had stopped most of my lifting for a few months and cut to 185 from pretty much just boxing and conditioning type stuff. As soon as I started lifting weights again and took off the calorie restriction i reanimated lol. I'm having a hard time waking up past 205 consistently at the moment. And eating over 3500 daily so far. Most days at 3800, I'm burning through everything
jtmass
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That's a good gain and being lean is bonus.. I look forward to seeing you morph. Awesome.
gphagan1
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That’s some impressive OHP work…..Your traps, shoulders, and arms are really popping and you still have good vascularity.
Smont
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In a tank top I could definitely give the appearance of being super lean even with another 20 lb, but my stomach and lower chest will eventually tell a different story lol. I'm going to guess around 215-220 is where my abs will disappear.
If I ever got contest shredded, which I probably never will to be fair, (maybe bored shorts shredded lol) but if I had to do a real contest prep and get down to four or five percent I bet you I'd look gross with the veins in my face and forehead and neck. It looks kind of cool in pictures and at a glance but it's also kind of gross when you got these big veins sticking out of your head and your neck lol.
Even my shins have big gross looking veins and they're not those Nick Walker type veins, they're very healthy looking, but they look like big surgical tubes lol, it's still weird!
sammpedd88
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I’ve done 2ml in my ass fat and it was minimal but did my quad once and it really sucked. I may just switch to doing 1 ml several times a week vs 2ml three times a week.
Hyde
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I’m using a 25g 1” and putting it down into the glute or VG, so that may have something to do with it hurting less. It’s uncomfortable, but better than Amino Asylum’s was. Which, I know they didn’t sell it right being premixed and not shelf stable or refrigerated, but in their defense this Setria SMELLS exactly the same, a unique burnt. So AA probably was selling totally legit doses, just doing it wrong. Which makes sense because it did seem to help very truly. But MA’s is definitely better.
I believe he’s quite active on IG, which I don’t have, and occasionally releases long videos on his YouTube channel The Prep Coach. They’re really crunchy and hard to digest, but if you can slog through and focus there is some great golden tidbits. I use quite a few particular supplements strictly because of him.
I suspect he’s making money hand over fist consulting at this point, as far as I can reckon. I think he loves being a family man & helping others with his job too much to do anything competitively anymore (nothing wrong with that!). That guy was born to fix issues and coach supplementation strategies.
Love to hear it all, brother. Sending love from the US
Smont
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My big thing with the AA glutathione was at that time when they released it, even medical glutathione had to be kept cold, not shelf stable. When I reached out to AA, be basically just said it's fine you can use it and I wanted a little bit more information and they couldn't provide me with any. I wasn't rude or anything, I was just asking for them to explain or tell me what they're doing to make the product shelf stable, and eventually I got an attitude and no more responses. The whole back and forth was only 2 of 3 emails. For all I know the product was shelf stable and they were doing it correctly, but when nobody can provide you any kind of answer and it seems like they don't even know what you're talking about that makes me a little nervous and that's why I wouldn't use itI’m using a 25g 1” and putting it down into the glute or VG, so that may have something to do with it hurting less. It’s uncomfortable, but better than Amino Asylum’s was. Which, I know they didn’t sell it right being premixed and not shelf stable or refrigerated, but in their defense this Setria SMELLS exactly the same, a unique burnt. So AA probably was selling totally legit doses, just doing it wrong. Which makes sense because it did seem to help very truly. But MA’s is definitely better.
I believe he’s quite active on IG, which I don’t have, and occasionally releases long videos on his YouTube channel The Prep Coach. They’re really crunchy and hard to digest, but if you can slog through and focus there is some great golden tidbits. I use quite a few particular supplements strictly because of him.
I suspect he’s making money hand over fist consulting at this point, as far as I can reckon. I think he loves being a family man & helping others with his job too much to do anything competitively anymore (nothing wrong with that!). That guy was born to fix issues and coach supplementation strategies.
Love to hear it all, brother. Sending love from the US
sammpedd88
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The first glutathione I bought was one that had to be refrigerated. What I recently ordered was from MA. That stuff does have a funky smell, but the smell has nothing to do with the high quality of Mike’s products. I’m also using a 27 gauge 1” pin with it. It may be I combo of how much I’m pinning at a time and I tend to get impatient when pinning lol.
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Dustin07
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I totally get it. now that I'm back down to 190-192 on this cut the big thing I'm noticing is how much trimmer my gut feels, which is measuring about 2" narrower. makes the pecks and delts stand out more too. Funny thing is at 200-208 I didn't "feel" fat, I actually was pretty happy, but after dropping 10-15lbs I'm like yup, the old stereotype is true, I will have to lose 10 more lbs than I had planned, zero doubt.
Smont
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From my understanding, or I should say from what my chemistry buddy explained to me, because I don't really understand this stuff that much. The S Acetyal version should be significantly more bioavailable. But putting a % on how bioavailable is impossible. It should be 30-60% orally bioavailable compared to the injectable version but there's a lot of factors that determine where it falls in that 30 to 60% so it would be really hard to figure accurate dosing to compare it to the injectable.
Now, he personally uses S Acetyal Glutathione! He doesn't like taking shots. He is big on making sure all the cofactors are in place so that he has a chance to get maximum benefits from it.
B vitamins (6,9,12)
Vitamin C
Vitamin E
Selenium
Magnesium
NAC
I am literally just being a talking parrot right now, I don't know how all of this actually plays out.
jfigliuolo
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Didn't think rec weed was legal in fla
Hyde
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He only said they sold it, not that it’s legal
PolishHamm3r77
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He only said they sold it, not that it’s legal
Smont
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Its not lol
jfigliuolo
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sammpedd88
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And I’m parroting this also, but out of that list vitamin C is supposedly more important and I was also told to take it separate of your glutathione. So take one of them in the morning and the other at night.
PolishHamm3r77
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sammpedd88
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The first time I went to one of those, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. It was glorious!I fucked up, went to a Brazilian steakhouse and didn't take a single picture
if drop the ball was an Olympic sport, I wouldn't won a gold medal tonight lol
gphagan1
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Yeah man, I love the Brazilian Steakhouse restaurants ….they are definitely a Meatlover’s heaven.