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Volcom's Sponsored, Controlled Lab's NEW, BLUE GROWTH log w/video

FlexW99 said:
They are powerlifters, strongmen. :D

I'm tryin to teach them terms like 'lean', 'jacked', and 'freak'. But it aint workin!



I feel 'little' :(

Sidenote: I just learned to multi-quote, BWHAHAHAHA
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you and me both, lol and I've been on AM since Moses.
 
FlexW99 said:
Very nice review Sam. I like the stage breakdown you give. Makes ignorant fellaz like myself learn a few things :D
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Thanks a lot Flex.

On a side note, I'm down to 210.5lbs from 217lbs in about a 3 week span. I've yet to take a RESOLVE-like dive into 600g refeeds, but I'm working up to it. Also, I'm starting to get some striation in my left traps. Something about my left side, I tend to get vascularity on my left traps as well if I'm lean enough, but only my left.
 
VolcomX311 said:
First off, I want to thank Controlled Labs and Renegade for giving me the opportunity to log their product.

I'd like to approach my review with a slightly different approach then traditional reviews. I don't feel as comfortable giving a point system review because I haven't experienced enough GH products to have any kind of depth of comparison. Furthermore, I switched from a dirty bulk to an uber carb-nazi clean cut and the physiological and endocrinlogical differences in such a switch would have a significant effect on such things as growth, strength, weight and ant-DOMS effects, therefore, I have chosen to focus on an element that ought not have any strong variance due to dietary factors.

I'll focus primarily on rest and recovery theories so my experience may or may not be something so exclusive to my personal phase of bodybuilding.

Firstly, the most notable and unavoidably apparent effects I experienced from BlueGROWTH are lucid, vivid, numerous in variety and perhaps less relevant, extremely weird, weird dreams. How could I relate this to bodybuilding? One of the most over-looked and underrated aspects of bodybuilding, particularly to either green or stubbornly young hearted lifters such as myself, is the emphasis on the importance of the rest & recovery phase.

Initially, I thought because my dreams were so lucid, in so many varying narrations and my recollection of them so vivid the next day, that what I was improving or more clearly put, spending more time in was REM sleep. That was the understanding I went with in my search for answers.

Sleep proceeds in cycles of REM and NREM, the order normally being N1 → N2 → N3 → N2 → REM.



Therefore, there is a greater amount of deep sleep (stage N2- early N3), while the proportion of REM sleep increases later in the night and just before natural awakening. Prior to my personal research, I thought REM was the peak point of restful sleep and also the peak point of GH release, on the contrary, sleep is deepest at N3 or the NREM stages in general and GH release is actually most prevalent during NREM sleep stages.



My personal conclusion from my own understanding, is that sleep not only occurs in cycles from N1 through REM and can relapse back to N2 back through REM many times a night, but for a natural insomniac as myself, who wakes up to use the restroom 3-4 times a night on average, my cycles may start all over from N1. So how does this relate to dream lucidity and the fact that theoretically, too much REM sleep can actually leave you sluggish in the morning, as it can be a sign of inadequate NREM sleep, yet I wake up feeling completely refreshed?

My first theory was that I concluded that what BlueGROWTH was doing was helping me complete a full rest cycle MANY times a night, as my cycle resets many times due to my getting up many times a night. What about people who sleep through the entire night? I would conclude under certain presumptions, that some people may or may not complete sleep cycles from N1-REM or if they do and are not recalling dreams, that they are waking up from an NREM stage or an inadequate REM stage.

Now to be a bit exclusive in my experience. I traditionally never seem to dream most likely due to simple lack of recollection, which isn't uncommon, but on BlueGROWTH, perhaps I am experiencing a full cycle in so many completed stages, that I simply have more dreams to recall from, therefore, I feel they are more lucid due to my quality of recollection; Not that I recall every single dream, but that because I experience more stages of NREM through REM, I simply have more stories to choose from.

Theory number two. REM being the final stage of sleep and the stage traditionally closest to pre-awakening, the dream lucidity could be that my NREM stages were slept through with such quality, that during the phase of the most increased brain activity, my brain activity is enhanced in that REM stage, due to the quality of sleep in my NREM stages.

Conclusion, GH release is enhanced in either scenario I proposed. Either BlueGROWTH promotes many cycles of N2-REM or the quality in NREM stages are improved and are the peak times of GH release.

Thank you again Controlled Labs and I hope I have given a satisfactory log and a fair, objective review.

Of course there's always Arnold's personal preference in inducing quality NREM sleep.

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Great review bud! Do you have any videos of you sleeping :laugh: JK!
 
Spectacular review Sam. And you're making mad progress on that cut. Down 7 lbs. and counting.
Keep up the incredible work brosenhauf!! :head:
 
Great review Volcom! I'm right there with ya on the dreams man. They were great!!

Off Topic: Hey Thunder, can I borrow Mjolnir?
 
SilentBob187 said:
Off Topic: Hey Thunder, can I borrow Mjolnir?
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I shall temporarily bequeth to thee sacred Mjolnir but read Odin's inscription upon yon mallet's head:

Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy,
Shall possess the power of Thor.


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Thus it has been and thus it shall always be. Only the righteous can even lift
mine mystic mallet. :notworthy::hail:

Mjolnir's sacred powers must only be utilized for good and never evil. :hammer:
 
SilentBob187 said:
Great review Volcom! I'm right there with ya on the dreams man. They were great!!

Off Topic: Hey Thunder, can I borrow Mjolnir?
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thundergod said:
I shall temporarily bequeth to thee sacred Mjolnir but read Odin's inscription upon yon mallet's head:

Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy,
Shall possess the power of Thor.


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Thus it has been and thus it shall always be. Only the righteous can even lift
mine mystic mallet. :notworthy::hail:

Mjolnir's sacred powers must only be utilized for good and never evil. :hammer:
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lol, you guys are hilarious.

Resolve said:
With a bit more technical jargon thrown in, you could submit that review as a decent grant proposal. :p
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Please fund my get-swole project, where I'll need funding for an indefinite amount of buckets O'protein, BCAA's and unlimited access to Costco.
 
VolcomX311 said:
Thanks a lot Flex.

On a side note, I'm down to 210.5lbs from 217lbs in about a 3 week span. I've yet to take a RESOLVE-like dive into 600g refeeds, but I'm working up to it. Also, I'm starting to get some striation in my left traps. Something about my left side, I tend to get vascularity on my left traps as well if I'm lean enough, but only my left.
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Great Review and progress on the cut. I get more veins in my left side too. I have always just attributed it to that being the side with the most blood pressure being closer to the heart than the right side. I figured it was related to why only the left arm goes numb during a heart attack.
 
MrKleen73 said:
Great Review and progress on the cut. I get more veins in my left side too. I have always just attributed it to that being the side with the most blood pressure being closer to the heart than the right side. I figured it was related to why only the left arm goes numb during a heart attack.
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I thought it was right side arm/shoulder that went numb?
 
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