We cuttin now ✂️

[MrKleen73]

If the pump is nice and the joints feel good then give it some time. The increased circulation will be good for connective tissue. Not a bad thing to improve on a cut when you aren't likely to grow, and if taking close to failure you are still getting real growth stimulation plus work capacity.

 

[Smont]

If the pump is nice and the joints feel good then give it some time. The increased circulation will be good for connective tissue. Not a bad thing to improve on a cut when you aren't likely to grow, and if taking close to failure you are still getting real growth stimulation plus work capacity.

I'm definitely not going to failure. The initial sets of 20-30 are probably 8-10 reps shy of failing. I'm pumped and it's burning and kinda taxing but I could grind out more reps. My final set is probably more like 2-3 RIR. I'm really doing very little to stimulate growth. I'm more focused on conditioning work, a good pump to get the joints feeling good and loose and even a little muscle endurance. I'm picking a few exercises here and there and going a little heavier but still 15 reps.

The goal is to get ripped and well conditioned and getting my shoulders and knees back to normal or as close as possible.

Hitting the heavy bag isint the greatest for shoulder joints either but I'm working strategic with that. Il be doing some one on ones with one of the boxing trainers 2x week for the next 6 weeks too

 

[Smont]

Tough day.

7am was mostly conditioning, coffee only, after a 20 minute warm up I did five rounds on the heavy bag working 3-4 different combinations over and over again for the most part. Follow that up with 5 sets of a standing cable chest press and five sets of rope press Downs. 15-30 reps. 10min walk cool down.

Another trip to the vet, another 586 or 568, don't remember, don't really care to remember at this point .

Because I went from the gym straight to the vet I didn't eat the post workout meal.

Island pulling in the driveway from the vet me and my girl get into an argument so I just grabbed my s*** and walk back to the gym (it's only like a mile from my house) snag the monster and did another 30 minutes of light cardio.

Ended up staying at the gym and helping run a class and then I hung around and watch some other people spar at no b******* before I knew it it was 6:00 at night. I went home to make a meal and realize my son was waiting for me to bring him back to college I'm not making this **** up lol. We finished doing his laundry and I completely forget about the food, hopped in the car and leave. It's about an hour ride to his school and along the way we realized that pretty much everything but fast food was closed. Ended up at five guys with a double bacon cheeseburger with grilled onions cajun fries and a ginger ale and it's terrible as that sounds on a cut that's actually the only thing I ate today. Looked up the macros and it said it was 1600 calories and 60 or 65 g of protein so all I'm going to be concerned with is eating 100 g of protein before I go to bed. Start fresh tomorrow. Regardless of the s***** day I'll still be in a caloric defect by quite a large amount , especially with double cardio sessions.

 

[akboom87]

Sounds like a long day man, here’s to a better one tomorrow!

 

[manifesto]

Tough day.

7am was mostly conditioning, coffee only, after a 20 minute warm up I did five rounds on the heavy bag working 3-4 different combinations over and over again for the most part. Follow that up with 5 sets of a standing cable chest press and five sets of rope press Downs. 15-30 reps. 10min walk cool down.

Another trip to the vet, another 586 or 568, don't remember, don't really care to remember at this point .

Because I went from the gym straight to the vet I didn't eat the post workout meal.

Island pulling in the driveway from the vet me and my girl get into an argument so I just grabbed my s*** and walk back to the gym (it's only like a mile from my house) snag the monster and did another 30 minutes of light cardio.

Ended up staying at the gym and helping run a class and then I hung around and watch some other people spar at no b******* before I knew it it was 6:00 at night. I went home to make a meal and realize my son was waiting for me to bring him back to college I'm not making this ** up lol. We finished doing his laundry and I completely forget about the food, hopped in the car and leave. It's about an hour ride to his school and along the way we realized that pretty much everything but fast food was closed. Ended up at five guys with a double bacon cheeseburger with grilled onions cajun fries and a ginger ale and it's terrible as that sounds on a cut that's actually the only thing I ate today. Looked up the macros and it said it was 1600 calories and 60 or 65 g of protein so all I'm going to be concerned with is eating 100 g of protein before I go to bed. Start fresh tomorrow. Regardless of the s*** day I'll still be in a caloric defect by quite a large amount , especially with double cardio sessions.

Sounds like this day needed a phat blunt to end it...

 

[Smont]

Sounds like this day needed a phat blunt to end it...

I smoked one on the ride home from ucon lol.

Morning weight 190.2

 

[Smont]

This is the macros for everything I'm bringing to work with me today.

I made a breakfast sandwich for myself which is bacon egg and cheese on a bagel, a small potato cut into cubes and air fried, little bit of avocado oil, a serving of Greek yogurt, 2/3 cups of granola, one and a half bananas, two tablespoons of powdered peanut butter and 2 tablespoons of collagen protein and some cinnamon.

Grabbed a coffee from Dunkin medium hot cream only.

When if I get home later I have two beef and rice meals. I put a roast in the Dutch oven until it broke down and kind of looks like pulled pork but with beef. Haven't tried it yet but I'm expecting it to be delicious

 

[Smont]

If anyone's got any meal ideas or suggestions feel free to share. I haven't been posting every single thing that I've been eating but on average my daily diet looks like......

Eggs, cottage cheese and a meat. Coffee

Coffee

Grilled chicken or deli turkey in a wrap or on sourdough bread. Been using Greek yogurt to make my dressings and sandwich sauces

Greek yogurt, banana, granola, monster

Meat and rice

High protein cereal and lactose-free milk

And of course two of the last 10 days I basically didn't eat all day ran on coffee and had a big meal at night. The Sunday one was celebrating for my girl and I went over my cal and then the yesterday one I was short on calories and protein was only 167.


I did do a daily average and I'm only averaging 181 g of protein so Im going to tune that up a little bit and get my fat content down a little bit.

 

[manifesto]

I smoked one on the ride home from ucon lol.

Morning weight 190.2

how tall are you again? You have a similar build as me and im 205, but you look the same size as me

 

[Smont]

how tall are you again? You have a similar build as me and im 205, but you look the same size as me

5'9

I normally weigh about 200 to 210 tho, so you're probably looking at those pictures when we look the same size.

If you go back to my opening picture in the beginning of the thread I think I was 200 on the dot and that photo. Most of my photos on the forum are me around 200 to 210 lb though. And on this specific cut without really being on a cycle I can tell I'm going to be really small at the end of this cut which I'm okay with it I just got to get it out of my head.


I would like to get as shredded as possible without it having negative health effects cuz my double whammy goal here is to get ripped and as healthy as I can because eventually when I start my next bulk I'm going to get a little reckless with the drugs.

Don't be surprised if my next cycle starts at a gram and ends it 2. I'm getting older and pretty soon I won't be able to do stuff like this anymore so I want to take a couple chances with the high gear doses before I get too old.. I also plan on doing it with mostly testosterone though so I don't think I'm going to have to worry too much. The trest is only being run right now because I wanted to find out if this stuff is real or not. I'm sure I'll be using that in small spurts down the road as well but for the time being I'm literally only on it because I wanted to know if it's legit.

Speaking of which I am fairly confident my ment is real and I'm going to go down to 25 mg of testosterone and 25 mg of ment per week I made that decision about 5 seconds ago .

When I get down to 25 mg of ment and 25 mg test I still expect to feel like I'm on trt Plus or at bare minimum on trt.

If I notice any weird signs I'm going to have to lean towards the mint being underdosed because I've done 25 mg per week solo from AA (which we all know was a little underdosed) and felt decent.

 

[Smont]

I don't even want to talk about planning other cycles just because I know I'm going to change my mind 10 times but right now the goal is shredded without the help of a cycle.

I do plan on using some other things that are non-steroidal but I've yet to add them.

Thought about t3 but changed my mind after one day.

Thought about 7oxo but I don't think it's even worth it at least right now I'm not that concerned with it it's not going to make a big enough difference.

I thought about SLU but changed my mind I will be using a little bit of carderine as my cardio ramps up but that's just for the endurance effect.
Thought about bringing methylene blue back in but too many drug interactions with things I'm taking like nabevilol and my nasal stuff.

So at this point I'm limited to trest-tosterone replacement therapy, vitamins and a deficit