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Also , trying not to feel old is a goal lol. Everything hurts
its a mindset brother. literally our only 2026 resolution/goal for my wife and I this year was "have more fun"
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dude the name alone sells me
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yates84
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Bro....got a 9 year sentence and had to go to federal prison. Just got out! In a halfway house lol but you can't stop my grind! Good to see a familiar face!Holy **** he’s alive
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Looking good bro! I'm about to get back to it, gonna start a log here soon and I've got a few opinion posts for us to argue over lol so let's get back to the classic AM! I'm going to be keeping an eye on this thread, excellent discussion going on here. Keep up the great work!!!Not much, how bout yourself?
Il catch you up to speed.......
Long story short, about 3 years ago or so I decided to get leaner and stay leaner. Maintaining around 200 most of the time. Took a couple lifting breaks where I would mostly box, grapple and I tried to cut to 175-178 a couple times to fight but I can't maintain under 185 comfortabley for long. This past winter I did that and currently I'm working on some strength goals, sitting at 205-209.
Here's my most recent picture, I was 209View attachment 260596
Also battling some knee arthritis and my usual lower body aches and pains but I'm trying to bring them up, particularly my left leg as it's smaller then the right.
Current goals are to bench 400, and deadlift 525.
Also trying to get my box jump to 45in, I was at 43in until my knees started bothering me recently.
A 405 zercher would be cool tooI still have a habit of chasing too many goals at one time
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A little bird told me this years ago but I never knew weather or not it was true. Sorry to hear that, but glad your on your way back to freedom. New London has a frickin halfway every couple streets. Lots of ppl think CT is sooooooo rich. It's actually like 7-8 rich towns and the rest of CT is a **** hole. About 10 years ago, my cousin got out and was in a halfway house. After a couple years he was a supervisor and after 5 years he was 2nd in charge. He's married now, still running the halfway house and living his best life now. Can't get the time back, but the future is still wide open.
Welcome back
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Updates.
The dbol was removed a few days ago. I've been having heartburn, acid reflux and my stomach/gut has been horrible. It all happened after a 1 off meal so it could be from that, but probably not
. I had noticed a couple of training sessions all starting to look the same where I come out the gate strong as f*** and I'm super excited to work out, first 2 lifts are great and by my third exercise I'm thinking about wrapping it up and heading home because there's lava coming up my throat and I feel like I'm gonna **** myself.
Yesterday and today I felt like 90% better. I'm a little conflicted moving forward tho and I might just put my cycle on maintain mode and just continue with 500 mg of test and a little exemestane. HGH and peptides. Recomp a little while very slowly creeping back up in weight. and keep working on my strength. Could probably still do the dbol pre workout before bench and deadlift. I don't wanna change too much but the gut and heartburn issues were pretty bad
Yesterday it was in the 80's so I spent 6 hours putzing around outside and working on the garden, grilled up 10lbs of chicken breast, thighs, pork chops and a couple burgers. Today I woke up down 4lbs to 204.1. legs and lower back feel like I deadlift and squatted yesterday. Hoping to finish up the trellises, the far end of the garden and walkways today so I can start planting.
Saturday no gym. I had to help run the boxing events. We had 15 fights Saturday. 5 of our guys fought (3 kids ages 12, 15 and 16 and 2 young adults. I've mentioned before about the 20 something year old Albanian kid I spar with sometimes and he fought Saturday and was hands down the best fighter in the whole show. This guy's getting good to the point where I'm probably going to be completely useless to him as a sparring partner soon. I've got 40 lb on him and I can barely hang with him
Today's plan is rest and relax, go for a walk at some point too, but I'm probably going to go hit a push workout before the day is over. Playing it by ear
The dbol was removed a few days ago. I've been having heartburn, acid reflux and my stomach/gut has been horrible. It all happened after a 1 off meal so it could be from that, but probably not
. I had noticed a couple of training sessions all starting to look the same where I come out the gate strong as f*** and I'm super excited to work out, first 2 lifts are great and by my third exercise I'm thinking about wrapping it up and heading home because there's lava coming up my throat and I feel like I'm gonna **** myself. Yesterday and today I felt like 90% better. I'm a little conflicted moving forward tho and I might just put my cycle on maintain mode and just continue with 500 mg of test and a little exemestane. HGH and peptides. Recomp a little while very slowly creeping back up in weight. and keep working on my strength. Could probably still do the dbol pre workout before bench and deadlift. I don't wanna change too much but the gut and heartburn issues were pretty bad
Yesterday it was in the 80's so I spent 6 hours putzing around outside and working on the garden, grilled up 10lbs of chicken breast, thighs, pork chops and a couple burgers. Today I woke up down 4lbs to 204.1. legs and lower back feel like I deadlift and squatted yesterday. Hoping to finish up the trellises, the far end of the garden and walkways today so I can start planting.
Saturday no gym. I had to help run the boxing events. We had 15 fights Saturday. 5 of our guys fought (3 kids ages 12, 15 and 16 and 2 young adults. I've mentioned before about the 20 something year old Albanian kid I spar with sometimes and he fought Saturday and was hands down the best fighter in the whole show. This guy's getting good to the point where I'm probably going to be completely useless to him as a sparring partner soon
. I've got 40 lb on him and I can barely hang with him Today's plan is rest and relax, go for a walk at some point too, but I'm probably going to go hit a push workout before the day is over. Playing it by ear
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By the way, the combination of collagen, fish oil, osteobioflex, bpc and TB have been doing wonders for my knees and just like my shoulders, I'm pretty sure I'm fixing this. Over the years I've really reversed some nagging injuries through the combination of peptides, supplements and light weight high volume rehab training.
I'm going to start talking about this more because I'm starting to feel like I could be on to something. I don't know any special secrets, but the combinations of things I take and the type of rehab training I've done absolutely work wonders on knees and shoulders.
Current protocol
Most of the rehab work I've been doing is high rep high volume resistance band stuff and light Bulgarian split squats. Any exercises that don't bother my knees I still train hard and heavy as I comfortabley can.
I'm big on high rep high volume rehab work
I'm going to start talking about this more because I'm starting to feel like I could be on to something. I don't know any special secrets, but the combinations of things I take and the type of rehab training I've done absolutely work wonders on knees and shoulders.
Current protocol
Most of the rehab work I've been doing is high rep high volume resistance band stuff and light Bulgarian split squats. Any exercises that don't bother my knees I still train hard and heavy as I comfortabley can.
I'm big on high rep high volume rehab work
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Updates.
The dbol was removed a few days ago. I've been having heartburn, acid reflux and my stomach/gut has been horrible. It all happened after a 1 off meal so it could be from that, but probably not
Yesterday and today I felt like 90% better. I'm a little conflicted moving forward tho and I might just put my cycle on maintain mode and just continue with 500 mg of test and a little exemestane. HGH and peptides. Recomp a little while very slowly creeping back up in weight. and keep working on my strength. Could probably still do the dbol pre workout before bench and deadlift. I don't wanna change too much but the gut and heartburn issues were pretty bad
Yesterday it was in the 80's so I spent 6 hours putzing around outside and working on the garden, grilled up 10lbs of chicken breast, thighs, pork chops and a couple burgers. Today I woke up down 4lbs to 204.1. legs and lower back feel like I deadlift and squatted yesterday. Hoping to finish up the trellises, the far end of the garden and walkways today so I can start planting.
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Saturday no gym. I had to help run the boxing events. We had 15 fights Saturday. 5 of our guys fought (3 kids ages 12, 15 and 16 and 2 young adults. I've mentioned before about the 20 something year old Albanian kid I spar with sometimes and he fought Saturday and was hands down the best fighter in the whole show. This guy's getting good to the point where I'm probably going to be completely useless to him as a sparring partner soon
Today's plan is rest and relax, go for a walk at some point too, but I'm probably going to go hit a push workout before the day is over. Playing it by ear
love what you're doing here. we moved a LOT from pots/greenhouse to the yard this weekend. set up some cattle fencing in an arch just like you did there too for peas/beans etc. your garden is goin gto be dope this year!
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Damn, heard you got pinched, but wish it wasn’t true! Not that it’s any consolation, but you helped me take my competing to the next level, and I’m grateful for that.
Anyway, very glad you are out - like Smont said, you can’t get time back, but we each get to choose how to take on today & how meet each challenge ahead life inevitably gives us. Wishing you positive growth in all aspects of life brother.
Now make that log and post a link here! It’s all about starting where you are at, not “the right time”.
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Your dbol experience isn’t unique, and it’s not that one meal - dbol wrecks the gut biome so you couldn’t digest that one meal that pushed it over the edge. Many orals will do this, youth are just more resilient (by a wide margin) to this effect.
This is why most powerlifters don’t keep using orals as a cycle/daily. They are used acutely before specific training sessions, or in short waves for peaking. Like Anadrol or Var preWO, or Dbol or Anadrol for 1-2 weeks tops to jack up water & strength before a big lift or meet. Anabolism is handled by the injectables & food. 4-6 weeks of anything besides Anavar usually means you’re going to start missing out on calories, which is not helpful to keep your size up.
Also, all rehab is high volume and super low resistance. You can’t load a damaged part really, so frequency & volume are your only levers to strengthen things.
This is why most powerlifters don’t keep using orals as a cycle/daily. They are used acutely before specific training sessions, or in short waves for peaking. Like Anadrol or Var preWO, or Dbol or Anadrol for 1-2 weeks tops to jack up water & strength before a big lift or meet. Anabolism is handled by the injectables & food. 4-6 weeks of anything besides Anavar usually means you’re going to start missing out on calories, which is not helpful to keep your size up.
Also, all rehab is high volume and super low resistance. You can’t load a damaged part really, so frequency & volume are your only levers to strengthen things.
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Everything you're saying is correct but I also disagree with some of your post because you're forgetting that I track everything I do. I have a track record of having zero issues with this compound, now I do understand that I'm getting older and things change and in this situation you are probably correct and it is probably the dbol. What to say that it is not unique to me and cannot be from that meal is way off because if my track record is good and I've had no issues then you cannot say a one-off incident is not possibly or likely the cause. I would have to remove the compound see how long it takes for things to go back to normal and then reintroduce the compound and see if it comes back.
If everybody in the world gets a stomach ache from eating popcorn, and I've been eating popcorn for 40 years with no stomach aches and then one day I get a stomach ache after eating popcorn, it does not mean that popcorn was the cause, get what I'm saying.
But again over the past few years I have lost my ability to tolerate some of these orals so I agree it's the D ball in this situation.
As far as the rehab stuff goes I know I went to school for that at one point in time I get it I know what rehab work looks like but the things that I've been doing are nothing like what you would have done for rehab work and when I talk about high volume I'm talking extremes that probably no one is doing like 40 or 50 extra sets of side laterals over the week on top of my shoulder training that I did for almost the whole year the year that I fix my shoulders up and the following year after that was when I said that bench press pr of 370. Right now I'm doing 20 or 30 sets of banded knee exercises every other day on top of this regular rehab and like training. I promise I will go back and put some punctuation marks in this post later as I'm reading it back it is a jumble of mess but I got to get my workout finished lol
A lot of it is focused around getting a shitload of blood and nutrients into the area multiple times per day while having all these healing peptides and also how TB and bpc create new blood vessels etc. sorry I'm in the middle of a workout right now and I'm not capable of going down the rabbit hole and I get so ADHD OCD I'm actually probably 20 minutes rest in between my last two sets lol
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You know if you had that meal without Dbol leading up to it daily then that meal wouldn’t have put you out of commission to that level.
You are disagreeing but saying exactly what I said. You tolerating the drug a long time ago isn’t very relevant to now. You aren’t the same human environment as then. So did I, years ago.
I’m not as heavy currently so I’m in better cardiovascular shape. I didn’t need Telmisartan the last meet prep even though I usually do at 260+. Different environment.
And 5x5x5 is a common muscle rehab gimmick for gen pop to remember. ~5 sets of 5 reps or seconds, ~5x a day. That’s 125 reps per day, 7 days per week, if tolerated fine. Nearly 900/wk. It works.
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I've never heard of the 555 thing, but I just looked it up and that isn't anything like I'm doing either. I might do three sets of 20 at the beginning of every workout no matter what kind of workout it is, I might do three sets of 20 first thing in the morning when I wake up before I eat breakfast and take my peptides, I might do a whole workout one day where I literally spend an hour doing banded resistance and light dumbbell work mixing between every set I did for shoulders and obviously the sets for shoulders with heavier weights would only be exercises that don't cause pain. I could keep talking forever and it's still not really going to explain it. One of these days I'll sit down and outline it but I'm very confident in what I do is ability to fix old nagging injuries and things suffering from chronic inflammation. I'm trying to find a couple people actually at this moment who are willing to take a few different things and try the approach I've got two guys at my gym looking to rehab some shoulder injuries that might be good candidates but I would love to have a sample pool of 20 or 30 people
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how much of a role do you think diet plays in the issues caused by people using orals, like 1+1. I know diet issues have a lot to do with heartburn and acid reflux and gut problems, but I'm specifically talking about the combination of the two in a sense like I think you were saying above the d-ball combined with the off meal.
Do you think if I was eating completely clean on a low FODMAP diet I may have never experienced these things? Cuz I will say when I was younger I ran cycles in two different ways. When was eating everything in sight the old school dirty bulk your brains out and the other one was I'm following this absolutely meticulous meal plan and I will not go off course. But neither one of those things seem to f****** up.
Now I'm 40 and lots of foods f*** my stomach up, so I guess here is a better description of my actual question.
Do you think if I had been on a strict meal plan of low FODMAP gut healthy foods this entire time the dbol may have not caused problems?
Because if so I'm thinking I may get my gut situation straightened out and then in about 2 weeks reintroduce and just take daily notes while eating very clean. Then after about 2 weeks maybe I introduce a couple of cheat meals and see what happens..
Any thoughts on that?
Or do we just say f*** this s*** I'm getting too old stick to testosterone and a backup compound and only use the orals for my cosmetic effect or strength boost in the last week.
The past few years I've done spectacular with not really getting side effects but I've also been only using testosterone and EQ or testosterone and masteron for the majority of my cycles. Everything else sprinkled in and out
Do you think if I was eating completely clean on a low FODMAP diet I may have never experienced these things? Cuz I will say when I was younger I ran cycles in two different ways. When was eating everything in sight the old school dirty bulk your brains out and the other one was I'm following this absolutely meticulous meal plan and I will not go off course. But neither one of those things seem to f****** up.
Now I'm 40 and lots of foods f*** my stomach up, so I guess here is a better description of my actual question.
Do you think if I had been on a strict meal plan of low FODMAP gut healthy foods this entire time the dbol may have not caused problems?
Because if so I'm thinking I may get my gut situation straightened out and then in about 2 weeks reintroduce and just take daily notes while eating very clean. Then after about 2 weeks maybe I introduce a couple of cheat meals and see what happens..
Any thoughts on that?
Or do we just say f*** this s*** I'm getting too old stick to testosterone and a backup compound and only use the orals for my cosmetic effect or strength boost in the last week.
The past few years I've done spectacular with not really getting side effects but I've also been only using testosterone and EQ or testosterone and masteron for the majority of my cycles. Everything else sprinkled in and out
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Im still going to make a 12x7.5 base frame and use the 16ft cattle panels to make the actual frame. I junked the frame that came with the one I bought last year. But the cover is in perfect condition. So il drop that over the top and anchor it to the ground.
I'm thinking about putting 3 small kiddie pools inside and since I prefer to grow in fabric pots, if I place 3-4 plants in each of the pools I can just water the pool and let the plants suck it up like a wick system. Except the pot is its own wick.
I'm gonna have to make me a picture lol.......
5min later, okay the only difference is my greenhouse is going to have a fabric base so that no weeds can grow up inside it.
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I'm actually cleaning out the grow room in the basement this week too. I'm going to start 3 rounds of plants. One of them is going to be for an indoor grow, one of them is going into the hoop house and that's going to be an autoflowering variety so I can get an early harvest outdoors. And then finally in my tent I'm going to do another breeding project and make more seeds. My first time doing it was a big success I'm harvesting seeds right now. These will not be super stable genetics so there will be a variety of phenotypes but when I take this round of seeds and start a bunch of them I'm going to hand select certain plants to cross them back with each other and try to lock in the traits I'm looking for. But the first round was definitely a success.
And for being loaded with seeds, which when you do it the way I did your stunting the growth of the buds because they're putting their energy into making seeds on purpose. And I did it with colloidal silver to make guaranteed female seeds which stresses the plant out even more, the bud still came out pretty decent looking and you shouldn't really smoke it, at least not the branches that I sprayed with colloidal silver lol.
And for being loaded with seeds, which when you do it the way I did your stunting the growth of the buds because they're putting their energy into making seeds on purpose. And I did it with colloidal silver to make guaranteed female seeds which stresses the plant out even more, the bud still came out pretty decent looking and you shouldn't really smoke it, at least not the branches that I sprayed with colloidal silver lol.
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I've literally just begun to harvest the seeds I've only gone through two branches so far. It is a royal pain in the ass cuz you have to literally shredd these buds to make sure you get every seat outand there's still kind of sticky. I think I need to intentionally over dry them and then start working on it because I've probably got 200 seeds in each plant
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So the literal digestion of the oral medication is harmful/damaging to the gut biome. And then food isn’t being digested properly, so you get reflux and slowed gut motility. Which means you can’t move food at normal speeds or even get as much nutrients out of what you take in, then you have less appetite due to the gummed up motility/belly staying full longer. The whole thing means less calories can get processed and absorbed, both by default and by eating less.
THEN, due to low appetite and less frequent meals, lifters often add higher calorie, tastier meals to try to get food in. Spice, sugar, fried foods, fatty foods, tomato & citrus all further aggravate the reflux and are harder to digest, and your normal digestion is impaired. So it makes things even worse when burgers, pizza, burritos with sauce, sweets come into play to make up cals.
So yes if you could eat very low FODMAP/clean foods that don’t drive reflux, you could last longer. BUT you are still operating with a hamstrung gut that digests slower and utilizes food less efficiently, so it’s even tougher to eat enough calories, and you still might fall short on cals.
In this way, orals are probably more useful for increasing strength at a size or while cutting than actually growing real tissue.
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I gotta learn that seed harvesting aspect, I bought a few from that last place you recommended and I'm pumped but they are expensive (sorta). I mean we aren't smokers so its jsut for fun, its not like i need 100lbs of bud, but I mean $75 for 6 seeds (9 if you include the free ones) is new to me, since I got my tobacco seeds for $3.99/50 pack LOL!
dude this is a sick idea. is 5 gallon big enough for full grow out?
dude this is a sick idea. is 5 gallon big enough for full grow out?
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Just making a note that today is probably my first day with my gut being completely back to normal again. Definitely going to give it a few weeks before I even consider doing anything new. For the time being im going to start tracking every workout. I have a new class im
One more thing that might be worth making note of, it seems like according to my own notes that when I went from taking 25 or 50 mg all pre workout to breaking it down in smaller doses and splitting it up throughout the day, that was when it got bad. The second day I split up the dose was also the day that I had that crappy food and started getting all the stomach aches and the really bad acid reflux. Feeling like you got lava coming up your throat while you're working out.
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You can actually finish a plant and pretty much any size pot but things change depending on the size.
I use fabric pots most of the time. I also don't start in my final pot. I start my seeds in Solo cups for the first two to three weeks, , then from the Solo cup I put it into a one and a half or two gallon pot, once the roots fill that pot which is about another 3 to 4 weeks I'll move it into a 5 or 10 gallon fabric pot. Doing it that way I can gets fresh fertilizer and food to the plant every couple of weeks and then once the plant is ready to go into flower I'll add my flowering nutrients and water only until it's done.
Now if you're starting your plants outdoors in May or June, and you want to go directly into a 5 gallon pot, you're going to run out of food within 30 to 40 days so you going to either have to transplant it or reamend the pot with some extra soil and fertilizers. In a fabric pot it's unlikely you're going to get root bound but that pot will fill up with so much Roots you're probably going to have to water it every single day potentially even twice a day towards the very end.
Growing indoors things also change. If you want to hit me with a DM you can explain to me kind of how you want to go about doing things and we can Chuck some ideas back and forth
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Also, if you buy seeds on 420, 4th of July, black Friday or Christmas there's normally all kinds of sales that will cut the price in half and they'll give you free stuff.
This past 420 sale I paid $56 for 38 seeds. I bought 24 myself and the rest were all freebies.
Also if you constantly browse different websites like I do you'll find random sales they have like sometimes they'll do by five get five free. Or three free seeds with every purchase and stuff like that.
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I saw Dre at G7 doing that and I loved his approach, digging a hole around the solo cup in the new fabric pot, then cutting the solo cup off. so simple yet genius, LOL
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Yes, splitting up orals “for stable blood levels” makes it worse for sure IME, and totally unnecessary for someone using an injectable base. Taking it all at once gives some kind of periods of a break at least.
Something I got from Andy Huang was to take your orals immediately before you go to sleep on days you don’t train, so you can get all your food in for the day prior. Might need Famotidine with it, but helps slightly with appetite that way. Can hit sleep sometimes, but food is more necessary than sleep if you must sacrifice one.
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The splitting dosage thing, that absolutely is something I did not know, so thank you for that, it makes sense! As far as taking your orals before bed, I don't remember who the prep coach was but I was listening to a podcast and there was a prep coach someone who is fairly well known otherwise I don't think I would have been listening to it, but he also recommended taking anadrol before bed to avoid the gut issues and appetite suppression a little bit. I never looked much into it because I never had problems before lol
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That dude is probably the best cannabis breeder on the planet! I have never gotten Bud that looks like his before. I've smoked some really good bud in my life and I've never had anything look like his lol. Well I take that back the purple Haze that use to come out of Harlem in the 90s was insane. Today's purple Haze isn't even the same plant.
Don't mind my dirty seedling station, I haven't ripped out all the tomato plants yet and they've taken over I have a mess to clean up down here lol. I'm not ready to start my next grow but I wanted to pop one of my own seeds to see how quick it would germinate.
I like doing the double cups with a clear cup on the inside that way for two reasons, one is if you over water it it can drain out the holes in the first cup and you can toss the excess, or I'll even put a couple pieces of gravel in between to raise it up a little bit.
But the real reason I do it is so I can see how the roots are growing without letting the sunlight hit them. I like the roots to start to fill the cup up a little bit but I don't want it to fill it up completely because then you end up with a little bit of transplant shock. I've had pretty good luck transplanting things at the right time and never getting transplant shock. So I'm trying to get it down to like a science. Especially because autoflowers are a little finicky and they don't like to be transplanted so I want to be able to transplant them as well just because they do better if it's done successfully.
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Got a msg this morning from another gym who's looking for people to do a competition there planning. Like the idea.
Normal powerlifting weight classes
Day 1 is Bench and OHP with a bar that kinda replicates log press- you only get 2 attempts at each and the final round will be narrowed down to 2 people in each weight class and you do Max reps on bench.
So it's two rounds of max bench, two rounds of Max overhead press, and then a final round where you do body weight for Max reps.
Day 2 is deadlifts and farmers walks. Three attempts on deadlift and two attempts on Farmers walks. Nothing for Max reps on this day. It's in a 3 weeks so I'm definitely going to do one or the other days. Probably not both. I'm 207 still, actually 206.2 this morning. I'm most likely just going to stay where I'm at and drop to 198 the day before. That'll give me something to look forward to without having to switch directions. I can just drop a little bit of water.
Any thoughts? I was planning something similar for my gym for people to weigh in and do Max reps bench press with body weight. No weight classes you just weigh in and we round off your weight and you got to do Max reps with it. The reason I did it was cuz it was appealing to some of the smaller guys who can do their body weight for 15 or 20 reps but they don't have a very big one rep max
Normal powerlifting weight classes
Day 1 is Bench and OHP with a bar that kinda replicates log press- you only get 2 attempts at each and the final round will be narrowed down to 2 people in each weight class and you do Max reps on bench.
So it's two rounds of max bench, two rounds of Max overhead press, and then a final round where you do body weight for Max reps.
Day 2 is deadlifts and farmers walks. Three attempts on deadlift and two attempts on Farmers walks. Nothing for Max reps on this day. It's in a 3 weeks so I'm definitely going to do one or the other days. Probably not both. I'm 207 still, actually 206.2 this morning. I'm most likely just going to stay where I'm at and drop to 198 the day before. That'll give me something to look forward to without having to switch directions. I can just drop a little bit of water.
Any thoughts? I was planning something similar for my gym for people to weigh in and do Max reps bench press with body weight. No weight classes you just weigh in and we round off your weight and you got to do Max reps with it. The reason I did it was cuz it was appealing to some of the smaller guys who can do their body weight for 15 or 20 reps but they don't have a very big one rep max
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I think you should go for it…the 198 weight class is very doable for you, and since your shoulders are doing good I think you will do great.
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I agree, I think I can put up about 340 right now and I could throw on a sauna suit and sweat 8 lb out in one dayI think you should go for it…the 198 weight class is very doable for you, and since your shoulders are doing good I think you will do great.
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I actually think I'll do better with the max reps than the single Max. I've put up 225 for 28 reps before, not recently, but at the same time I've recently done 225 for 21 reps. I bet I could hit 30 with my body weight. Unfortunately my buddies son who's like 25 years old only weighs 170 lb and he can do his body weight for 25+ also. He's probably going to be my biggest competition for Max reps.that would be me all day long lol
190 for 15-20 reps? sure. 315+ ? no. lol
I really do think it's a fun idea though
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Great info, I never considered this before. Something I need to keep in mind because I'm on a permabulk lol
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I'm definitely guilty of adding the more calorie dense tasty foods because my maintenance is often close to 3500 calories a day. I normally can hit 50% of my calories and 100% of my protein requirements by the time I hit the gym. And then between 9-11pm I still need to somehow ingest another 1500-2000 calories so I resort to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, Pop-Tarts and lactose-free milk lol
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Decided to get in a extra workout today. First workout in a while that was really enjoyable. I did go to a different gym to switch things up.
Pre workout I had about 30gm of protein and 60gm carbs from Greek yogurt, granola and a banana.
Smith machine weights are assuming the bar assist is 20lbs like it says.
Smith shoulder press- 95,135 185x10, 225x6, 250x3, 135xfailure
Back upright row 135x12, 185x12,12,11
Single arm DB press 25x10, 35x10, 45x10
Side DB raise 20's x25,25,25
Rear DB flys 20s x20,16,15
Machine dip 120, 180, 220x12, full stack x7
Cable press down 80's x10x3
Close grip bench 135x25,13,9 fried
Post workout
Unfortunately I fell asleep after that and missed a meal.
Will sip on a MRS while I run through my class tonight and whatever energy I got will go into a few sets of RDL's and hack squats
Pre workout I had about 30gm of protein and 60gm carbs from Greek yogurt, granola and a banana.
Smith machine weights are assuming the bar assist is 20lbs like it says.
Smith shoulder press- 95,135 185x10, 225x6, 250x3, 135xfailure
Back upright row 135x12, 185x12,12,11
Single arm DB press 25x10, 35x10, 45x10
Side DB raise 20's x25,25,25
Rear DB flys 20s x20,16,15
Machine dip 120, 180, 220x12, full stack x7
Cable press down 80's x10x3
Close grip bench 135x25,13,9 fried
Post workout
Unfortunately I fell asleep after that and missed a meal.
Will sip on a MRS while I run through my class tonight and whatever energy I got will go into a few sets of RDL's and hack squats
Hyde
Legend
Love a good porkchop! The Anabolic Diet made me a fan.
Of course the little guys are excited for max reps of bodyweight bench; strength doesn’t increase linearly with bodyweight. Don’t even bother showing up if you weigh over 230 There’s a reason the NFL combine weight is only 225.
But it’s a safe contest so if it gets people excited it’s a fine idea in that sense.
Of course the little guys are excited for max reps of bodyweight bench; strength doesn’t increase linearly with bodyweight. Don’t even bother showing up if you weigh over 230
There’s a reason the NFL combine weight is only 225.But it’s a safe contest so if it gets people excited it’s a fine idea in that sense.
Hyde
Legend
Stick to your oils then, like all the pro bodybuilders in off-season generally do. Or keep orals to 2-week waves tops here and there, or at the very end of a push.
Smont
Legend
I know that message was for Yates and not me, but I think I'm going to actually skip orals all together for this little whatever you want to call it competition. At least leading up to it. I'm just going to take a couple D ball that day after I weigh in while I'm loading up on white bread, gummy bears, and pickle juice
probably eat some bananas and dates as well. I figure I'm going to need to be super carbed up if I'm going for Max reps after Max lifts
Hyde
Legend
I got that from Brandon Lilly and it works. Dbol morning of weighins so it’s loaded for as soon as you begin consuming fluids - then it’s driving up mineral retention. Bodybuilders use Anadrol, but the sympathetic drive it gives me hits appetite the way stimulants do. Plus we don’t just want fullness, but to intentionally spill/bloat.I know that message was for Yates and not me, but I think I'm going to actually skip orals all together for this little whatever you want to call it competition. At least leading up to it. I'm just going to take a couple D ball that day after I weigh in while I'm loading up on white bread, gummy bears, and pickle juice
I used a big shot of Trest, 100mg Deca, & Mk677 this last go around instead for even better appetite, but same principle - fill out and hold water. And consume more sodium than you think; salt and carb all your water.
Smont
Legend
I thought I took a better picture so I'm a little disappointed in this but that was my post workout meal, I made a half pound of chicken breast into three chicken tacos and I threw an extra cup of white rice and a packet of duck sauce on it. Little bit of mild hot sauce on everything. I've backed off the really spicy stuff and been pretty much trying to avoid it all together but I kind of needed a little bit for this meal