Just goes to show how many variables (and possible red herrings) are involved.
Imagine youd gone with ostarine as you planned at one point. We couldve easily assumed it was the osta causing shrinkage, dropped the osta, and then your balls come right coincidentally following that...but really due to recovery from mild injury.
But yeah, ostarine made your balls swell up. Its almost the makings of an episode of House.
Big time man. I'm glad I went with 11kt.. Out of curiosity, when ya get some shrinkage on cycle what can you do? You don't just have to stop right? Don't your balls return to normal size during PCT? Ideally, of course
Day 1: 174.6lb
Day 11: 168.4lb
6.2lb in less than two weeks. Your current trajectory is good, man.
Also, the more regularly you weigh and measure yourself, the more those inconsequential short term fluctuations will be apparent. You know the drill...its the trends you want to be more concerned with in regards to body composition.
Day 15. Weight 167.4. 1.5 hrs fasted AM weighs.
Chest & Arms:
Decline BBP: 135x10, 185x3, 135x8, 135x8, 135x8
Decline Flies: 30x12, 30x12, 30x10
Flat DBP: 50x8, 50x6, 45x8
Close grp BBP: 95x8, 95x8
Flat Flies: 30x10, 30x12, 30x12
Landmines: 45x8, 45x8, 25x15, 25x15
Chest Dips: 3 sets of 12
Incline Curls: 25x12, 25x12, 20x15
Hammers: 20x15, 20x15
Preachers: 55x12, 55x10, 55x10
EZ Bar Skullcrshr: 55x12
Single arm DB skullcrshr: 20x10, 20x10, 20x10
Bench dips
Happy 4th. I keep fckn myself by lutzing put in the middle of the night. Ate my sons goldfish crackers and a pint of milk. I've been taking Benadryl & melatonin for sleep and I think it's making my appetite increase. I'm gonna get some ZMA and 5-HTP this week
Bump on the question I posed yesterday regarding incorporating Clen or albuterol or ECA... Anyone know if it would be too much to run with my current set-up?
Yeah that what I was thinking. I ran out of HMB-FA and thought I might as well get something to control catabolism that would also help me cut... But I'm gonna stay the course... Just ordered bulk HMB
I'm dosing it around 6:30am... I get up at 6. Idk, I'd dose it later but I hit the gym by 7 and figured it would be better to take pre workout. Whatcha think? Maybe dose post workout at 8?
I can handle the grogginess... I dose the second app at noon so I would have to put off the second dose till later afternoon. Right now I like dosing to were I'm not around my toddler... The little sh1t doesn't need anymore aggression. Lol.
Day 22. Weight 166.2. 1 hr fasted AM lifting; 20 mins afternoon HISS cardio; 30 min PM walk.
Chest and Arms:
Flat BBP: 135x10, 155x8, 175x3, 135x8
Flat Close grp BBP: 95x10, 95x10, 95x10
Flies: 35x12, 40x10, 40x10
Decline BBP: 135x8, 135x8
Landmines: 25x20, 35x15
Chest dips: 3 sets of 15
Incline curls: 25x15, 30x8
Hammers: 25x10, 25x10
Reverse grp EZ: 35x12, 45x10
Preachers: 65x10
Got some shrinkage going on... They boys should drop back down during pct, right?
thats the risk u take when ure using anabolics mate..no one can tell you for sure that ure gonna be allright 100% after a cycle..the most common thing is that ull recover with the proper pct..best of luck.
Day 26. Weight 168. 45 mins fast AM lifting; 30 min PM walk.
Legs & Abs:
Squats: 135x10, 185x10, 225x8, 225x8, 275x4, 225x6, 225x6
Leg Extensions: 125x12, 125x12, 125x10, 100x12, 100x12
Leg Curls: 85x12, 85x10, 75x10, 75x10, 60x10
BW Hip Thrusts: 1 set of 125
Weighted Hip Thrusts: 95x12
Ab routine
I'm definitely retaining water and need to adjust my sodium intake... My lifts seem to be steadily going back up and I'm shocked by how light the weights are feeling lately. I'm still fighting morning fatigue and am so fckn unmotivated in the AM. Anyway, my impression of 11kt so far is that the anabolic effect is very understated from what I've read prior to running it... Idk if I'm really sensitive to PH's, which might explain the testicular shrinkage, but I think that 11kt might get overshadowed by other compounds people are stacking. Of course, I'm talking about modest gains from 11kt... I was just expecting it to help retain LBM and promote lipolysis.
One thing that I'm really liking about 11kt is that I can break discipline with my diet and still seem to lean out. I imagine this would be unbelievable to stack with other anabolics as you would probably gain very little BF.
Awesome!
You can do it!Yeah buddy, I'm gonna get those freak of nature gorilla arms like you got after a dozen cycle or so. Lol
Day 27. Weight 166.6. 1hr20mins fasted AM lifting.
Back:
Deadlifts: 135x10, 185x8, 225x6, 225x6, 275x3, 185x6, 135x8
Wide grp pdwns: 85x10, 85x10, 95x10, 105x8, 85x10
Vgrp pdwns: 95x10, 105x8, 115x8, 115x8
Tbar rows: 45x10, 90x10, 115x8, 115x8
Sngle arm rws: 50x10, 60x10, 65x10
Seat rows: 90x10, 140x10, 140x8
Vgrp seatd rows: 140x8, 140x8
BB Shrugs: 135x20, 95x30, 95x20, 95x20
Rear BB Shrugs: 135x20, 95x30, 95x20, 95x20
DB Shrugs: 45x20, 50x15, 55x10, 60x10
Reverse cable flies: 45x15, 45x15, 45x15
Back extensions
I tweaked my lower back breaking form on deadlifts... Very gay. It's tight in the tailbone/glute area and isn't too bothersome at the moment. I'm hoping that it doesn't get worse tomorrow. I'm gonna take it easy on deads for a week or two.
Day 29. Weight 165.2. 1hr fasted AM lifting.
Chest:
Flat BBP: 135x8, 155x8, 175x3, 155x6, 155x6, 135x8, 135x6
Flies: 35x12, 40x10, 40x10
Close grp BBP: 95x8, 95x8
Decline BBP: 135x8, 135x8
Decline Flies: 30x12, 30x12, 35x10
Incline BBP: 95x8, 75x8, 75x8
Incline Flies: 25x12, 25x10, 25x10
Landmines: 25x14, 25x14, 25x14
Chest Dips: 3 sets of 10
Push-ups: 2 sets to failure
I ran out of time to hit my arms and am going to do a long arm & ab session tomorrow, since my back is still hurting ... I'm pretty happy with progress so far
Awesome!
Yeah man I'm not quite there with the sets you do on your chest day... Lol I went to do push-ups before leaving the gym and hit failure on 11 the first set and 9 the next. I definitely like hitting declines, inclines and flats in the same session. I was flexing between sets and got a great pump.