[Dean Harvey]

I’ve been meaning to implement it to see if it improves my current blood pressure. (Currently sitting around 125/65 on average most readings, so my pulse pressure is fairly high as well as my systolic reading.)
But been struggling to find the time to implement the cardio.
Current goal is to add quality tissue, so cardio isn’t ideal but the calories burned on that active rest day won’t be much different from my normal workout. It just means my weekend food can increase to suit the added workout.

I appreciate your responses as well Clare, I was pretty aware of what I had to do, but its good to get a second opinion, especially from those at that elite level who have the experience & knowledge to be able to help.

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[Dean Harvey]

That looks like 5 days consecutive training, if you are training with any sort of intensity will be difficult to recover from.

I’d look at a different set up than the one you currently have at the moment.

Yeah, fair enough. My training this year is getting better in regards to Mind-Muscle connection and I’m adding in intensity techniques to bring up weak areas. So yeah, likely burning myself out doing 5 workouts off the bounce

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[Dean Harvey]

Possibly Clare. Its not that I can’t train weekends, its just my routine, I like to get in early, beat the rush and set myself up for the day.

But I have been thinking about employing a rest day inbetween upper lower & PPL.

With regards to a rest day, could doing an hour of LISS cardio be detrimental to recovery or could I replace a workout with that to make an ‘active’ rest day?

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[Dean Harvey]

Currently doing Mon-Fri 6am sessions. Workouts usually last around an hour, doing Upper Lower Push Pull Legs in that order and then Saturday & Sunday off.

Volume for individual workouts is 7 exercises, 3 working sets per exercise on Upper/Lower days (21 sets total) and 4 working sets on PPL days with certain accessory/isolation movements getting added dropsets/rest-pause at the end to help fill muscles with blood (on all sessions)

Rep ranges per set tend to be at the higher end 8-15 reps.

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[Dean Harvey]

Not really. As long as you are training correctly/hard enough i think most lagging body parts are due to maybe doing too much on them too often. Whereas i think calves are just stubborn as fuck and they can handle so much. They contract so many times a day just walking around that i think they are accustomed to working. So you literally have to obliterate them. Some say all body parts are the same. I don’t quite agree

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Ah right then, I’m with you. Calves are a stubborn muscle group. So many people have issues with them

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However i do think it’s good to go nuts every now and again with body parts. Great way to blast through plateaus
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Yeah, I’m currently chucking in some dropsets, burns and rest-pause on certain exercises to get that last bit out of the tank when I’m in that zone. Seems to be helping keep me sore & progressing

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[Dean Harvey]

Not really. As long as you are training correctly/hard enough i think most lagging body parts are due to maybe doing too much on them too often. Whereas i think calves are just stubborn as fuck and they can handle so much. They contract so many times a day just walking around that i think they are accustomed to working. So you literally have to obliterate them. Some say all body parts are the same. I don’t quite agree
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Ah right then, I’m with you. Calves are a stubborn muscle group. So many people have issues with them

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I had this same issue when I started out Ben. So much so that I changed gyms to a better equipped one and saw the amazing progress

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[Dean Harvey]

My favourite for width is Wide-Grip Pull-Ups, push the reps and keep the form perfect before adding a dipping belt to the mix and increasing the weight. I saw major development focusing on this exercise. You’ll see a lot of people with no lat width on a Lat Pulldown, but very few that lack width and can do 10+ perfect reps on a Pull-Up bar

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[Dean Harvey]

The times i see growth is when i dont actually structure calf training. When the aim is go over the top, try and fuck yourself up so much with drop sets and rest pause and lots of reps. Just go absolutely mental. When i stick to certain sets or rep ranges nothing happens.
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Matt, I was gonna post another thread on best way of bringing up lagging bodyparts but I think this might be your answer to any & all lagging bodyparts? Just go for sheer intensity principles and try to really fuck yourself up with them?

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[Dean Harvey]

At a guess based purely on those 2 photos: 12%

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[Dean Harvey]

Used both drugs together before and they work well. However, I ran a low dose test base. The reason I ran a test base was the length of the cut was ~16-20 weeks. You can’t run Anavar for that length of time and expect your health markers to stay in good shape. Therefore, its not worth it.

But there will be many others who will follow and say this. And you know its coming haha.

How many cycles have you done previously and what are your current stats? (Height, weight, age, BF% if known)

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Ok, thanks Christoph. I had read that somewhere about them using crazy doses in rats which caused mortality rates to hit 100%. I don’t understand why they/anyone else for that matter haven’t followed the study up with more typical human doses

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[Dean Harvey]

Oh great ???? The doc made it sound like nothing! Thanks for the heads up Dean. I’ll do some more digging into it so I understand more about it

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[Dean Harvey]

Sounds like the compound preparation itself causing an allergic response.
Does it correspond to an injection site?
As a systemic rash on only one side of the body is strange.
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Quick update: been to the docs and they’ve prescribed antibiotics for Shingles.

I inject my Vastus Lateralis (Quad) and alternate between Left & Right every 3 days but it seems to have only shown up on the right side of my hip and across the right side of my lower back. Quite a bit higher (about 5inches) from where I tend to inject

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[Dean Harvey]

Mass gain and compound amount is not linear. In other words, more compound does not always equal more mass, it starts to level out when you reach a certain point. Plus, the risk/reward of using such high dosages in regards to side effects (water retention, gyno, HPTA damage) and the use of high dosages of ancillary drugs to control some of these side effects (Aromatase Inhibitors/Anti-Estrogens) becomes more risk than reward.

The reason people cruise to sort their bloodwork out is to avoid doing serious damage to their HPTA and organs. Bloodwork reinforces what state their body is in to ensure their health remains on point so they aren’t putting themselves into an early grave.

As you said though, there becomes a point in every mass gain phase where insulin sensitivity decreases and more of your calories shift towards being stored as fat, which is still mass but not the type you’re after.

Someone needing 5g of Test to grow though, would be an extremely large individual with a lot of Androgen Receptors compared to your average gym-goer/amateur bodybuilder. You’re talking Pro level and I’d be surprised at anyone taking 5g of any combination of compounds per week at that level. I’m sure Jordan & James get by on much less and they’re huge

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