[haydn ward]

I think you have to look at your mentality when approaching a ‘bulk’.
too many people (myself previously included in this) looked at bulk as lift heavy, eat a tonne, take more gear, lots of carbs, doesn’t have to be clean, and sleep.
And quite simply use ‘im bulking’ as an excuse to eat crap lets face it. Then you see the cycle of months of getting bigger, which turns out to just adding fat, then ‘cutting’ which is just getting rid of the fat you added with minimal to no extra quality tissue.
In reality, your either:
bad cut = burning tissue (fat and muscle due to excess activity and excessive calorie restriction)
good cutting = preserve lean muscle and burn excess body fat through controlled diet and exercise
good bulking = build lean tissue whilst minimising fat gain (its going to happen slightly)
bad bulking = getting fat whilst adding some tissue
So yeah you ideally want to keep the calories clean, add small amounts and slowly adjust intake whilst logging your sessions to ensure they are progressing. You only need to add as little as 300 extra cals per day above maintenance say every 10-14 days to see it change. not an extra 500-1000 cals per day.
Keep ontop of tracking progress. keep some liss in your program for health: 2-3 lots of 30 minutes or keep at track of your NEAT expenditure also.
Unfortunately we all want to look like JP and we want it to happen in afew weeks lol. reality is, doing it correctly is a slow process, BUT get the process right and it is worth it.

[haydn ward]

I suppose it possibly depends on your current training goal also, as your diet will/should have a different structure between cutting and bulking, so your ‘freedom’ of movement in the carbs will differ. time of day will differ also (early morning trainers would have had less meals already in but more to go, compared to a late evening trainer whos had the majority of their calories prior and not many left after?

ideally as mentioned a 50 intra 50 post would be better, but if you HAD to choose one, id go with post workout. just stick to bcaas intra then slam the carbs after.

[haydn ward]

low test high tren always a good shout. I find deca is main thing that gives me sides so I avoid it.

[haydn ward]

400mg test cyp
600mg tren enth
keep it simple.

[haydn ward]

ive used low test, high tren high primo before, with anavar rather than oxys or dbols, they just add water retention and raise bp etc.
but yeah the test/tren/primo was nice; gains were low, but consistent and fairly lean (as long as diet in check obvs)

[haydn ward]

dabbled when doing strongman afew years ago. very aggressive, but at the time wasn’t that popular a drug and just ran higher test instead lol. it sounds worth a go, might re-invest

[haydn ward]

yeah a lot of guys over indulge on the carbs. I was told to take 10g carb per iu of slin, but was mainly in form of sugars so fruit juices and junk basically. but I had a crap coach who assured me this was the right method. to be fair, I got strong as fuck. but when I started getting out of breath coming up 2 flights of stairs and saw my gut I knew I had to change it lol.
to be fair last time I ran slin I used lantus which is slow release so you shoot 30-50iu first thing and it releases slow pulses throughout the day: as long as your diet is low fat and super clean, I found it good, no hypo moments, I got some awesome pumps in gym, good clean weight gain, but I know a lot of guys think slow release insulin has no place in bodybuilding.

[haydn ward]

I did just growth and slin when I was doing strongman as a bridge between cycles. I got big. I got strong. I got fat. lol
BUT I ws also misguided in how to use the slin and carb protocol along side it. I have seen just growth and slin cycles done with good effect. but obviously isn’t going to be as good as growth, slin and gear

[haydn ward]

as you are running the hgh with insulin, you never want to be in a fasted state?
for straight up muscular growth, your doing the right thing, taking the growth with insulin; growth on its own wont illicit muscular growth.
personally, I would do daily shots rather than every other day to keep levels up BUT ive seen research that does say its the weekly not daily total that counts.
if you was taking the growth for fat loss then you would want it in fasted state in AM . as long as your timing of the insulin are correct, then you will get growth and not fat gain to be honest.

[haydn ward]

wraps all depends how well you use them and if you know how to wrap them properly for your need of them. there’s different ways to put wraps on. the difference tho is the fact that you can keep your knee sleeves on: once I’ve done 1-2 warm up sets on say squats or leg press, I leave my sleeves on until I’ve done the last rep of the last set. with wraps if you do them right, you cant leave them on, you can only put them on for the set then you need to take them off. at least with the sleeves it will keep the joint warm.
try doing some contract bathing for an hour each day:
get bag frozen peas or something, sit it on your knee/s for 5 minutes
then straight on with a hot flannel or get into a hot bath for 5 minutes,
repeat that for 30 minutes building up to an hour of it if necessary.
in terms of training, I would back off, maybe spend the next 2-3 weeks doing muscle rounds for your legs as that will keep the intensity up but the volume down.
give them a week off all together then start with 2 weeks of muscle rounds only on say leg press and ham curls.

[haydn ward]

prosupps crash is really good, 20 minutes before bed on an empty stomach I go right out
or bulldoze by ad designs, but where it say 2-3 caps I take 4 and works a charm

[haydn ward]

could be overworking the joint? could just stressed it alittle
– go alittle lighter for a while, do afew more reps, nice and controlled and just go deep enough to feel the muscle stretch and flex, don’t go too deep on quats and leg press
– get some knee sleeves I use a pair from strengthshop that ive found to help a lot (2ply)
– ensure to throughtly warm up before training legs, steady incremental session on the bike with some bodyweight squats and lunges
hopefully the peptides do some work and help you too

[haydn ward]

number of things to look at:
1) if your off season and bulking, accept that your gonna get alil fluffy
2) keep your carbs to pre/intra/post workout as well as the meal after, rest of meals good fats and protein
3) reduce your total daily calories by 200-300, then maintain that until you loose the fluff, then slowly increase by 150-200 as you continue to hammer the weights
4) have you recently started using gear or changed compounds etc? the additional ‘fluffyness’ could be more water rentenion than fat?
5) do a mini cut: reduce calories by 500 daily, and either add in some sscv or add in an additional back off set per exercise at a higher rep range to help burn some more, until you back to a bodyfat percent your happy with, plus you will also be of insulin sensitive that could help you gain alil more muscle on the rebound
6) are you monitoring your NEAT? start recording how many steps a day you take and just increase that by 500 steps per day, per week

there are a number of routes available but without abit more info its hard to tell you what exactly you should choose

[haydn ward]

generally speaking for fat loss, your going to want to shoot 2-5iu (dependant on brand/purity) upon waking and generally found by fasting for an hour or 2 to be more beneficial to allow it to do its thing.

[haydn ward]

give this a try:
*get heavy pair of dumb bells,
*lay on the floor
*do a close grip db floor press (start with elbows tucked about an inch away from your body) with a normal or explosive rep speed
*once arms are extended, do a negative skull crusher until the dumbells are on floor by your head, try and go slow but in a consistent smooth motion
*pull back over into start position.

I forget what this exercise is called, I think they call them rolling extensions. I got this from Brandon lilly who is a monster of a powerlifter. I was in same boat, cgbp didn’t feel them work, but 2 sets of 8 of these and you hear them screaming.
that being said, just because you don’t feel cgbp working your triceps, they will be working. all depends on grip width and arm path of movement when you do them. I hold bar shoulder width apart and when I lower the bar I make sure my triceps brush past my ribs, this way I really feel cgbp now.

hope this helps