[Andy]

Checked in with Nick this morning, and after the week long deload, increase in food, and all round rest, I’m down another 2lbs to a new prep low of 261.1. I had a wee photoshoot with a local photographer that I’ve shot with since I was a junior, and I have to say this is my favourite look of all time. I need to be leaner than this obviously, but if I could walk around year round like this I’d be very happy with that. This is giving me a tonne of motivation to nail my reverse even more than I did last time.

We’re going back to the diet setup pre-deload which was the diet above in the thread. I’m looking forward to getting back into the depths again.

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[Andy]

Have you tried splitting the dose through the day? 3IU fasted, 3IU pre, 3IU pre-bed?

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[Andy]

Current cycle (at 7 weeks & 1 day out)

Test E – 825mg/week

Mast E – 700mg/week

GH – 6IU/day (pre-bed)

SLU – 400mcg/day (oral)

Telmisartan – 40mg/day

MT2 – 0.5mg/week

DSIP – 0.5mg/day (taken around 1 hour before bed)

RU5881 – 5 sprays on my crown (I also take 0.5mg of Finasteride year round)

Reta – 0.75mg/week (2x 0.375mg) – I’m going to start tapering this back down next week I think

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I spent all of yesterday at the PCA First Timers, and got the look myself and my client were hoping for. It was a quiet show, probably the quietest FT show I’ve been to, and there were only 2 guys in my clients class, but there’s nothing you can do about that.

I’m glad to be back in Glasgow though and ready to smash the 2nd half of this prep.

I’ve just finished posing practice, and I’m delighted with the look.

It’s another busy one with the PCA Scottish this Sunday – my biggest show of the year client wise – so I’m spending the week making sure the guys are on point.

As mentioned, I’m deloading (removing 1 session) this and pushing food up to 750g of CHO, so I should by the end of the week shave off some of this fatigue and then we go again as of Monday.

Epic!

How you feeling at this point vs previous years in prep ?

How’s current set up looking with diet a cycle at this point in prep ?[/quote]

Night and day compared to previous preps. Without jinxing it, it’s been a breeze so far, I’m sure some hurdles will come up.

M1

100g – Beef fillet

1 – Whole egg

3 – Egg whites

75g – White jasmine rice

1 – Banana

300ml – OJ

M2/M3

200g – 2% turkey mince

75g – White jasmine rice

1 – Apple (M2)/1 – Banana (M3)

10g – Macadamia nut oil (M2)

50g – Fermented veg

INTRA

10g – Creatine mono

30g – EAAs

50g – Performance fuel

5g – Taurine

PWO SHAKE

10g – Creatine mono

3g – HMB

30g – Iso Pro

PWO MEAL

30g – Iso Pro

120g – Rice Krispies

100g – Pineapple (I sometimes have this with M5 or M6)

M5

200g – 5% beef mince

75g – White jasmine rice

50g – Pasta sauce

50g – Fermented veg

200g – Pineapple

M6

260g – Salmon fillet

50g – White jasmine rice

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[Andy]

Agreed, just keep it the same if you know how you react to that dose.

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[Andy]

I spent all of yesterday at the PCA First Timers, and got the look myself and my client were hoping for. It was a quiet show, probably the quietest FT show I’ve been to, and there were only 2 guys in my clients class, but there’s nothing you can do about that.

I’m glad to be back in Glasgow though and ready to smash the 2nd half of this prep.

I’ve just finished posing practice, and I’m delighted with the look.

It’s another busy one with the PCA Scottish this Sunday – my biggest show of the year client wise – so I’m spending the week making sure the guys are on point.

As mentioned, I’m deloading (removing 1 session) this and pushing food up to 750g of CHO, so I should by the end of the week shave off some of this fatigue and then we go again as of Monday.

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If the doctors have cleared you to train, and have instructed you to keep things light and use higher reps then just follow their advice until the doctors have more grasp on what maybe causing these clots, and ways to treat them. Your health and life come first, if that’s what they’ve told you to do, then I’d do it.

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Sad to see the back of TBJP Gym today, myself and my other half have had a great time down in Cheltenham this past week. The last thing that needed boxed off was some cardio (20 minutes on a Concept bike) + steps + abs. I also finished off with some posing as well.

I checked in with Nick this morning, and we’ve agreed to;

– Run a deload week, pulling one of the sessions out (one of the push sessions) and lowering the volume of the other 3.

– Running moderately high days (750g) most likely for the whole week.

– Pulling clen out for this week to get a break from that.

I think I’m ahead of schedule, so we have time to play with do take our feet off the gas.

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Trained push in TBJP Gym again yesterday, and it’s nice to implement a few different pieces that I’ve used and haven’t used before, such as the Atlantis shoulder press (favourite machine shoulder press) and the Granite seated press.

I kept with usual setup from my own sessions in Future, set and rep wise.

Prime pin-loaded machine side raises – 1 set, 8-12, 2 sets, 12-15

– Reps performed with a pause in the lengthened portion for the back-off sets

Prime rear peck deck – 3 sets, 12-15 + double drop set

Atlantis PL shoulder press – 1 set, 8-12, 1 back-off set, 12-15

Granite PL chest press – 1 set, 8-12, 1 back-off, 12-15

SA cable lateral raises – 1 set, 8-12, 1 back-off set, 12-15

Standing cable flys – 2 sets, 8-12

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 had a great day yesterday at TBJP Gyms for legs (1 of the 3 sessions I’ll be doing there).

A slightly different session as I didn’t have training partner’s to give me forced reps and to strip plates quickly. So, I subbed in a back-off or 2.

Prime seated leg curls – 1 set, 8-12, 2 back-off sets, 12-15

– Each rep is paused in the stretch

Leg extensions – 1 set, 8-12, 1 back-off set, 8-12

HS hip press – 1 set, 8-12, 1 set, 12-15

Arsenal pendulum squat (Favourite pendulum now) – 1 sets, 8-12, 1 cluster set (4×4)

Prime lying leg curls – 1 sets, 12-15

Seated calve raises – 3 sets, 15-20

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[Andy]

I second what Kuba has said. I do use fast slin pre while using lantus, but I remove it usually around 4-6 weeks later based off of blood glucose. From there, I’ll then taper my lantus up and down based on twice weekly BG readings. I like having fast slin in at the start of a push – adjusting to current CHO totals – and then I’ll remove it.

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[Andy]

You’re definitely running low enough, I’d be more tempted to increase it slightly as the diet goes on.

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A pretty busy NTD yesterday, starting in Manchester and then a 2 hour drive to Birmingham for my other half’s photoshoot with AK, and then another drive down to Cheltenham. We’re down here until Saturday as we thought we might as well get away from Glasgow for a week if I need to be at the PCA First Timers this Sunday – us north of the border have to be strategic like this, I wish I could do shows down south in a day.

I checked in again with Nick, 3lbs down from yesterday, but it was rest day food to be fair. I’m just waiting on hearing back from him.

I’ve been sent the files of one of my 2 YT training sessions I was waiting for. I rarely look at my physique in my YT videos, but I’m pretty happy with how things are looking! Or were.

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[Andy]

Agreed with both of the guys here! Don’t just take it to “take it”, blood work will dictate dosing.

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Weighed in at 266.6 this morning, so 4’ish pounds up from Saturday’s prep low. This has been the typical gain post high days (cheat + 750g + 1000g). I only had 2 meals prior to training yesterday, with the vast majority of carbs coming in through the following meals. I was delighted with the PWO look though, and I personally think I’m bang on where I need to be at 8.5 weeks out, Nick agrees thankfully.

No changes just yet, I feel like I’m rinsing this setup well and that I’m still able to see what I want to see from it.

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