Andy
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I have nothing bad to say about NPP. I feel great when it is in my stack. The highest I’ve taken it was in my last push phase at 600mg/week. I feel great on it, and my mood is superb. However, like Sara said, some people REALLY do not agree with it psychologically. They feel terrible on it, almost instantly.
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I know I am well and truly locked into prep now, with my posing, steps and cardio all boxed off within the first 2 hours of being up. Whereas in the off season I’d leave to do everything as late as possible, split up steps through the day, do cardio pre-bed, etc etc. It’s a massive thing, but I notice the habitual changes. It’s nice to know that I don’t need to chase my tail on a Sunday – or any day for that matter.
I go back to 1-to-1 PT tomorrow which I’m super excited for, as I’ve mentioned before, I like having a place of work I can’t sit at a laptop all day. It also helps that all of my close friends work/train in my gym.
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They will most likely tell you to stop all PEDs assuming you’ve been honest with them. I was on TRT at the time anyway, so I just stayed on that, and added in 2IU/GH as I knew this would help with healing. They’re most likely just covering their end by telling you to come off everything, rather than it impacting the transplant itself.
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Checked in with Nick this morning, BW sitting at 284.4 which is 0.4lbs lower than last week. My midsection is tighter already which is polar opposite to what has happened in previous preps, my lower abs is always the area that gets dry and hard last. I am much leaner than my starting point in 2024.
No changes this week obviously, there will be a noticeable visual change next week, I am back to 1-to-1 PT next week, so expenditure will rise slightly.
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You don’t need to lower protein as your body weight lowers. As the guys above have said, just keep protein the same throughout the diet.
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Agreed, I don’t see the need to go above 6mg
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A great push (shoulder) session yesterday. I’m fortunate enough to have keys to my gym, which made for a wildly better session compared to having other humans in the gym. . .
Nothing out of the ordinary setup wise. I managed to get a few snaps PWO and I am very happy with the look at just over 20 weeks out. I’ve not even been remotely close to this as a start point, which is making me very excited about what is to come across the course of this prep.
With this being my pro debut, I’m trying not to “wish” the time away, I am trying to soak up as much of the “first pro prep” experience as possible as in the past – when the prep where I won my card – I feel like I just pray for it to be the weekend or a high day, rather than just taking it day by day, week by week.
Cuffed Y raises – 2 sets, 12-15 + double drop
– Reps performed with a pause in the lengthened portion for the back-off sets
Prime rear peck deck – 3 sets, 15-20 + double drop set
High incline SM shoulder press – 1 set, 8-12, 1 back-off set, 12-15
Close grip BB press – 1 set, 8-12, 1 back-off sets 12-15
– I didn’t take any of the sets to failure, just 1 short. As much as I love close grip pressing, I am wary of my shoulder so taking the set to the point where I need a spot/forced rep isn’t wise (for me).
Standing d-handle cable chest flys – 2 sets, 8-12
Panatta standing lateral raise – 3 sets, 12-15 + double drop set
Overhead rope cable extensions – 3 sets, 12-15
Straight-bar ex SS rope cable ex – 3 sets, 12-15
Across the body cable tricep extension – 3 sets, 12-15
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Agree with the boys, however, I know plenty of guys who have no idea what they’re taking, so at least you’re seeking information.
For descriptions/mechanisms/chemical makeup I’d buy “Break the Code” by Chris Wormley.
You can obviously find a tonne on here as well, but for a blunt description of each compound that book is great!
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The first leg session of the prep boxed off, and another low volume session with Kieran and one of my online clients. The volume maybe low, but the pace we move at it is pretty rapid. Not in a high intensity CV kind of way of course.
Cybex seated leg curls – 1 set, 8-12
– Each rep is paused in the stretch
Leg extensions – 1 set, 8-12 + quadruple drop set
Horizontal leg press – 1 set, 8-12
Pendulum squat – 1 sets, 8-12
Prime lying leg curls – 1 sets, 12-15
Seated calve raises – 3 sets, 15-20
Since starting this session a few weeks ago, my leg look better, and my CNS isn’t ruined thus impacting the following sessions. Shoulders have always been a weakness of mine, and if I can conserve energy/recovery for that and still bring my legs up then I will always go for that option.
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Right so prep started today!
I weighed in at 284.8, and I am feeling and looking the best I have ever felt at the start of a prep. I am so glad I listened to myself at the start of the year and didn’t go ahead with the prep.
Today was a 20% chop to carbs on both my TD and NTD.
TD: P – 356 C – 814 F – 79
NTD: P – 353 C – 506 F – 94
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All of the points the guys have made above are spot on. Obviously knowing nothing about your wife, and purely going off what has been written here, if your wife is insecure in her appearance or your ability to follow a diet – you said she’s failed in the past – then that could be where it is stemming from, assuming no other part of the relationship is suffering (meals out, time together, family time etc). If you’ve been together for 12 years, something must be going right, and you’d expect that with a relationship lasting that long that either of you would be very supportive of each other, so the insecurity thing is the only thing I can see from what you’ve told us
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I personally would have both sets on middle to end, so that I can tax the lateral head in the shortened position, but if you’re seeing results on paper and on your physique then there’s nothing wrong with what you’re doing
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I hope everyone had a great Christmas, I definitely did!
My better half and I were up in Oban (Scottish highlands), staying in a small cabin. the view from the cabin was unreal.
We didn’t do a traditional Christmas dinner: we bought a tonne of “picky bits”, cooked/reheated it and just picked at it all day. Coupled with 3 bottles of champagne, 1 bottle of Chablis and a bottle of red wine. . .
We were supposed to stay 2 nights, but with my girlfriend being on prep (she was allowed 3 days off), she wanted to get back to Glasgow so she could get back in her routine, and I don’t blame her, I know what it’s like to get days off at Christmas while on prep, you can’t properly relax.
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A great push session yesterday in Muscle Hut Glasgow. I wanted a change of scene from Future Fitness, and it’s only a 20 minute drive from me. There is something to be said about the commute to a session that I have missed these past 5 years living literally around the corner from my gym. It was nice to blast the music, sip my dial in/DNFM concoction and then go and smash a session.
There have been a few new additions in terms of a kit, but in true fashion I stuck to the exercises I know and love;
Arsenal lateral raise – 1 set, 8-12, 2 sets, 12-15
– Reps performed with a pause in the lengthened portion for the back-off sets
Gymleco rear peck deck – 3 sets, 15-20 + double drop set
High incline DB shoulder press – 1 set, 8-12, 1 back-off set, 12-15
Close grip BB press – 1 set, 8-12, 1 back-off sets 12-15
– I didn’t take any of the sets to failure, just 1 short. As much as I love close grip pressing, I am wary of my shoulder so taking the set to the point where I need a spot/forced rep isn’t wise (for me).
Panatta PL incline chest fly – 2 sets, 8-12
Standing DB lateral raises – 3 sets, 12-15
Overhead rope cable extensions – 3 sets, 12-15
Straight-bar ex SS rope cable ex – 3 sets, 12-15
Across the body cable tricep extension – 3 sets, 12-15
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I have a few clients running 1mg per week, micro dosed across 3-4 shots. BG values are all stellar, body fat gain is minimal or 0.
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