Hey AM, everyone is invited to come watch this fat loss stack put to good use! Unfortunately I have let myself go this winter eating quite a bit, but now its time to get down to business!
My goal for this log: to take myself into new territory by getting cut beyond where I have ever been before, while gaining some strength.
AMS was awesome enough to send me some Hypertrop-X, so the Hypertrop-X portion of this log will be sponsored. Without further delay:
HyperTrop-X
Pre-workout, Anabolic Trip Hammer.
Hypertrop-X is powerful in its simplicity. Three (3) scientifically proven performance-enhancing products, in mammoth doses that will help drive your body to that ever-sought-after “next level” of training intensity, allowing you to take your muscle fibers to places they’ve never been before. The result – an anabolic environment where lean muscle growth and strength come at mammoth proportions.
Hypertrop-X, the anabolic trip hammer, fuels maximum muscular endurance, for fiber-pounding, rep-after-rep, after muscle-building rep.
Hypertrop-X will stave off fatigue while flooding the muscle cells with nutrient-laden, fuel-rich blood for almost non-stop fiber splitting workouts.
What’s in it?
Hypertrop-X was specifically engineered for maximum measurable impact on physical performance by fueling ongoing muscular contractions, greater pumps and faster recovery between workouts.
It contains three (3) ingredients proven by research to up-regulate the body’s anabolic, circulatory and energy systems during training.
Beta Alanine has been touted as the new “Holy Grail” of performance supplementation. Not since creatine or or ephedra has there been a sports nutrition product that has made as much noise in the scientific community as beta alanine. Beta alanine, a direct precursor to carnosine, works as an anti-fatigue compound, feeding maximum muscular endurance. By scavenging and neutralizing muscle waste products, and recycling ATP substrates, repeated research has demonstrated how beta alanine directly fuels ongoing muscular contractions to measurably improve performance and fuel harder, more intense training sessions.
Leucine is the “first-born” of the essential, branched-chain amino acid family. It is the most important of the BCAAs. Leucine is a powerful anti-catabolic. Leucine helps keep muscle nitrogen levels high, feeds the energy pathways during intense training and protects against muscle breakdown, especially during periods of intense physical stress.
Yohimbine HCL – a potent dose of this powerful neurostimulant, vaso-regulator and lipolytic agent, yohimbine HCl drops the hammer on your training intensity.
Have something left for the ride home.
Hypertrop-X will keep you on your game your entire workout, and will feed your growth ongoing after you leave the gym. Use Hypertrop-X by itself and watch your training intensity shoot the moon. Or, stack Advanced Muscle Science’s other cutting edge products for the most powerful anabolic response possible from non-pharmaceutical performance enhancement
Featured Supplements:
HyperTrop-X: I haven't received this yet, so I'm not exactly sure when I will start this portion.
X-Factor: right now I have a bulk 50 day supply, but I may buy some more so I can run a higher dose for longer.
Napalm: this will run for the first 20 days of the log or until the bottle runs out.
DCP: once I run out of Napalm I will employ this recomposition agent.
Other Supplements:
Phyto-Test: I am about a week away from finishing my last bottle of this (I have been doing 1.5 times the recommended dose). I am only using this to finish off the bottle.
Custom Capsule Creation:
NA-RALA - 150mg
Quercetin - 200mg
Biotin - 500mcg
If you have ever used Glucophase XR before then you might notice that this is very similar except that I used NA-RALA in place of K-R-ALA. I will be employing this as a glucose disposal agent once on Sunday night, Twice on Monday (once am/once pm), and once on Tuesday Morning (see diet for why I'm dosing this way).
ALCAR: 5g 2x per day on weekdays. This will be helpful on my diet, also synergy between NA-RALA and ALCAR.
Retain 2: should be helpful for mental fogginess from reduced calories.
Creatine Monohydrate: 10g per day, split 5g pre/post workout on workout days and morning/late afternoon on non-workout days.
ZMA: recommended dose, before bed.
Vitamin E: Mixed tocopherols - 400 I.U.'s twice daily.
Vitamin C: 500mg 3x per day during the week. This will replace the vitamin C that I can't get from my diet during the week.
Potassium Gluconate: for 99mg elemental potassium taken 2-3x daily during the week.
B-Vitamin Complex: taken several times daily during the week.
The diet:
I cycle my CHO's. Sunday-Friday afternoon: low carb - usually less than 20g per day and closer to 10g per day on Monday-Wednesday. I will not be employing a blood glucose meter during this cut. Macros during the week are 0-3%CHO/28-30%PRO/68-70%FAT. Friday immediately post workout through Saturday night/Sunday morning: 60%CHO/30%PRO/10%FAT. In a nutshell, this will be high glycemic carbs on Friday and low glycemic carbs (primarily starches) on Saturday. Friday I will be consuming around 5,000-6,000 calories and as insulin sensitivity declines on Saturday around 3,000 calories. I will be eating this much to achieve maximum glycogen supercompensation, despite the fact that eating about 900 calories every 2 hours on Friday is quite a chore. I have been using this carb-up protocol with great success over the past few weeks.
Training: I have been messing with this lately to find what works best but unfortunately I haven't hit the sweet spot yet. My training is based around my diet, it will go roughly like this:
Monday - 2 hr. tension workout (upperbody) consists mainly of compound movements at 85% of my max.
Tuesday - 2 hr. tension workout (lowerbody) consists mainly of compound movements at 85% of my max.
Wednesday - I may fit another tension workout in here but not sure yet.
Friday - 2 hr. full body depletion workout. The goal here is to hit every muscle group so that I can achieve maximum glycogen supercomp.
I will NOT be doing any cardio during this log. That's right, no cardio needed here!
Periodically I will update with progress pictures which will be taken on the same day of each week so that I can be objective given the nature of my diet.
Stats:
5'10
169 lbs. depleted
Alright lets get this party going!:djparty:
My goal for this log: to take myself into new territory by getting cut beyond where I have ever been before, while gaining some strength.
AMS was awesome enough to send me some Hypertrop-X, so the Hypertrop-X portion of this log will be sponsored. Without further delay:
HyperTrop-X
Pre-workout, Anabolic Trip Hammer.
Hypertrop-X is powerful in its simplicity. Three (3) scientifically proven performance-enhancing products, in mammoth doses that will help drive your body to that ever-sought-after “next level” of training intensity, allowing you to take your muscle fibers to places they’ve never been before. The result – an anabolic environment where lean muscle growth and strength come at mammoth proportions.
Hypertrop-X, the anabolic trip hammer, fuels maximum muscular endurance, for fiber-pounding, rep-after-rep, after muscle-building rep.
Hypertrop-X will stave off fatigue while flooding the muscle cells with nutrient-laden, fuel-rich blood for almost non-stop fiber splitting workouts.
What’s in it?
Hypertrop-X was specifically engineered for maximum measurable impact on physical performance by fueling ongoing muscular contractions, greater pumps and faster recovery between workouts.
It contains three (3) ingredients proven by research to up-regulate the body’s anabolic, circulatory and energy systems during training.
Beta Alanine has been touted as the new “Holy Grail” of performance supplementation. Not since creatine or or ephedra has there been a sports nutrition product that has made as much noise in the scientific community as beta alanine. Beta alanine, a direct precursor to carnosine, works as an anti-fatigue compound, feeding maximum muscular endurance. By scavenging and neutralizing muscle waste products, and recycling ATP substrates, repeated research has demonstrated how beta alanine directly fuels ongoing muscular contractions to measurably improve performance and fuel harder, more intense training sessions.
Leucine is the “first-born” of the essential, branched-chain amino acid family. It is the most important of the BCAAs. Leucine is a powerful anti-catabolic. Leucine helps keep muscle nitrogen levels high, feeds the energy pathways during intense training and protects against muscle breakdown, especially during periods of intense physical stress.
Yohimbine HCL – a potent dose of this powerful neurostimulant, vaso-regulator and lipolytic agent, yohimbine HCl drops the hammer on your training intensity.
Have something left for the ride home.
Hypertrop-X will keep you on your game your entire workout, and will feed your growth ongoing after you leave the gym. Use Hypertrop-X by itself and watch your training intensity shoot the moon. Or, stack Advanced Muscle Science’s other cutting edge products for the most powerful anabolic response possible from non-pharmaceutical performance enhancement
Featured Supplements:
HyperTrop-X: I haven't received this yet, so I'm not exactly sure when I will start this portion.
X-Factor: right now I have a bulk 50 day supply, but I may buy some more so I can run a higher dose for longer.
Napalm: this will run for the first 20 days of the log or until the bottle runs out.
DCP: once I run out of Napalm I will employ this recomposition agent.
Other Supplements:
Phyto-Test: I am about a week away from finishing my last bottle of this (I have been doing 1.5 times the recommended dose). I am only using this to finish off the bottle.
Custom Capsule Creation:
NA-RALA - 150mg
Quercetin - 200mg
Biotin - 500mcg
If you have ever used Glucophase XR before then you might notice that this is very similar except that I used NA-RALA in place of K-R-ALA. I will be employing this as a glucose disposal agent once on Sunday night, Twice on Monday (once am/once pm), and once on Tuesday Morning (see diet for why I'm dosing this way).
ALCAR: 5g 2x per day on weekdays. This will be helpful on my diet, also synergy between NA-RALA and ALCAR.
Retain 2: should be helpful for mental fogginess from reduced calories.
Creatine Monohydrate: 10g per day, split 5g pre/post workout on workout days and morning/late afternoon on non-workout days.
ZMA: recommended dose, before bed.
Vitamin E: Mixed tocopherols - 400 I.U.'s twice daily.
Vitamin C: 500mg 3x per day during the week. This will replace the vitamin C that I can't get from my diet during the week.
Potassium Gluconate: for 99mg elemental potassium taken 2-3x daily during the week.
B-Vitamin Complex: taken several times daily during the week.
The diet:
I cycle my CHO's. Sunday-Friday afternoon: low carb - usually less than 20g per day and closer to 10g per day on Monday-Wednesday. I will not be employing a blood glucose meter during this cut. Macros during the week are 0-3%CHO/28-30%PRO/68-70%FAT. Friday immediately post workout through Saturday night/Sunday morning: 60%CHO/30%PRO/10%FAT. In a nutshell, this will be high glycemic carbs on Friday and low glycemic carbs (primarily starches) on Saturday. Friday I will be consuming around 5,000-6,000 calories and as insulin sensitivity declines on Saturday around 3,000 calories. I will be eating this much to achieve maximum glycogen supercompensation, despite the fact that eating about 900 calories every 2 hours on Friday is quite a chore. I have been using this carb-up protocol with great success over the past few weeks.
Training: I have been messing with this lately to find what works best but unfortunately I haven't hit the sweet spot yet. My training is based around my diet, it will go roughly like this:
Monday - 2 hr. tension workout (upperbody) consists mainly of compound movements at 85% of my max.
Tuesday - 2 hr. tension workout (lowerbody) consists mainly of compound movements at 85% of my max.
Wednesday - I may fit another tension workout in here but not sure yet.
Friday - 2 hr. full body depletion workout. The goal here is to hit every muscle group so that I can achieve maximum glycogen supercomp.
I will NOT be doing any cardio during this log. That's right, no cardio needed here!
Periodically I will update with progress pictures which will be taken on the same day of each week so that I can be objective given the nature of my diet.
Stats:
5'10
169 lbs. depleted
Alright lets get this party going!:djparty: