Joe Ballinger IFBB Pro
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Hopefully it heals quickly bro, bpc and tb500
I had something similar happen one time when I had a dumbbell fall off the back off a rack as I was putting it back and my finger got jammed, pulling my leg straight with tension and felt a pop (same thing, previously injured hammy), think it was the scar tissue letting go. It was tight for a bit and then gone like it never happened
Keep up the solid work bro, excited to see your progress in the pro ranks.
Yeah peptide protocol deployed 😅 … again 😂 … ah damn max how easy things can happen isn’t it, glad you healed up quick bro.
And thank you very much dude. Enjoying off season so far and really looking forward to taking things to the next level so next time out is a fairly competitive package. 🙏
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I shoulder press with a pronated grip but I have hyper mobile ones so can seemingly get away with it. I do however do my shoulder pressing with a slight incline, not directly overhead. Get strong with heavy machine laterals and then add in some cable side lateral work too.
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Had a really good hams/lats sessions today aside from one thing. I know it’s quite a random session but fits nicely into my split.
Everything went well apart from as soon as I did single leg standing ham, I have deffo popped a few fibres or got a micro tear in my left hamstring. Same one I had the big tear in 2 years ago. It’s never been the same and tbh I don’t really do single stuff anymore because of it and its weakness. But I wanted to do some today to try – I wasn’t going heavy I was still warming up – despite already having done heavy lying and seated ham work. Something just went and i had to stop. That was the last ham exercise anyway.
I finished my session by moving onto lats doing single arm plate loaded pull down. Single arm machine lat rows and lat pull down. Which were all great.
Got home and it’s deffo not right. Going to give it a few days and see how it is. Annoying but hopefully it’s nothing serious.
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If someone’s on prep the amount of food would be based around their condition/fatigue/current diet so can’t give you a number here as they’d all differ. It wound usually be all the dem types of foods just more.
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Quite nice to see the body weight going up a touch now. Sitting just over 272lb in the am now which is a nice little gain in about 2 weeks. I was sat around 264lb the whole of the health phase so good to see it going up. But also feeling good at this weight and food is going in pretty well too. I’m deffo not hungry by any means but can’t complain with now things are going right now 🙏
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Joe Ballinger IFBB Pro
MemberJuly 25, 2025 at 11:18 pm in reply to: Rice cream, oats, time before trainingDepends on the phase and how big the meals are if I’m on Oreo and meals are smaller I can easily do 60 mins but the rest of the test when food is up 90-120 mins works for me. And then I’ll be having carbs intra workout from tbjp performance fuel
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I have been absolutely battered today from legs yday. Was one of them days where I could have easily said I need a day off I’m cooked, but obv we do the do. Delts chest and some arms smashed. It’s always ok by the time you actually get in the gym.
Also started getting my meat cooked up from a meal prep company and it’s getting cooked and delivered daily, banging and makes it so much easier to eat my meals and saves me so much time so I can just focus on working 🙂
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Epic leg day today got up to just under 500kg for 10 reps on the nytram pivot leg press pretty happy with that 1 weeks into cycle. Won’t be long till I run out of space on the machine – had worse problems 😂
Also got the Husla pad add on for the leg extension and it was awesome, helped get better rom and really worked well. Looking forward to using it more and more as I look to build my quads up even more.
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Super busy with work right now, brought in lots of clients this month and the team is growing nicely. With that comes more set ups and work which I love! Making sure I stay ontop of my time management to make sure I get all my meals in and work done. When I’m busy it’s so easy to get behind with things so it’s important I hold myself to my standards and ensure that doesn’t happen. Busy day tomo – client work, calls, training, eating … love it 🔥
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Starting to feel the cycle kick in a tiny bit now. Today was the first day in the gym where I really felt buzzing like I knew my body was just in a better place. Pumps were better, aggression was better, I was just IN it today. And long may it continue. We got a lot of muscle to out on 🤝 .
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What your androgen load this off season?
So current cycle is:
900 test e
700 primo
350 dhb
8iu GH
6iu novorapid post workout
12.5 t3
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Meal timings are key make sure you get meal one in early and then stick to meal times.
Little walks/steps after each meal helps too.
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My current diet now moving into off season:
Upon waking up
-1/2 lemon pressed in a big glass of water.
-10g glutamine
-Cup of organic green tea
-300mg magnesium
-2g carnitine
-wide spectrum probiotic30min steady pace cardio+5 min core work.
(No am cardio on quads)Post cardio:
15g EAAs
10g glutamineMeal 1:
Higher kcals:
30g whey isolate
300g egg whites
1 hole egg
175g cream of rice
50g blueberries
1 banana
50g avocado
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lower kcals:
30g whey isolate
200g egg whites
1 hole egg
120g oatsMultivitamin-multimineral-2g omega 3-50mg Zinc-500mg berberine-5000iu VitD.
Meal 2:
High kcals:
250g chicken
150g rice
5g olive oil
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lower kcals:
275g chicken
120g rice
5g olive oil400mg rALA-400mcg chromium
Water
Vape
SeasoningMeal 3:
High kcals:
250g chicken
150g rice
75g veggies
10g olive oil
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lower kcals:
275g chicken
120g rice
100g greens
10g olive oil30min pre training:
5g Creatine
10g EAAs
20g HBCD
(NOTHING ON REST DAYS)Intra training: 15g EAAs-20g HBCD
(NOTHING ON REST DAYS)Post training:
30g whey isolate
10g glutamineAfter 15min:6iu humalog insulin
50g HBCD
10g EAAs
5g creatine
(NOTHING ON REST DAYS)After 30/45min post training:
High kcals:
150g rice or cream of rice
250g lean beef
1 banana
10g olive oil
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lower kcals
300g sweet potato raw
275g chicken
50g veggies
5g olive oil400mg rALA-400mcg chromium-500mg berberine
MEAL 5:
High kcals
250g salmon
400g sweet potato
100g mixed salad
Table spoon apple cedar vinegar
10g macadamia nut oil
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lower kcals:
300g fish or shrimp
300g sweet potato raw
Salad
Apple cedar vinegar
10g macadamia nut oil
50mg ZincMeal 6:
lower kcals only:
300g egg whites
2 hole eggs
50g veggies
2g omega 3Before bed:
1g GABA-3mg melatonin -ZMA-10g glutamine-600mg NACKeep water intake high. 6 liters or more day.
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Sorry guys I haven’t been able to get in the app for some reason but back on now and seems to be working for me! Anyway Adam’s show today at the tbjp pro qualifier in Bradford and it was a such a good show, best production I’ve seen at the 2 bro’s show for ages. Seriously good! Adam came third in a very strong lineup and we were very very happy with the look. Thought we coukd have maybe bagged 2nd but that’s bodybuilding. Back home for a family meal all together and then watched the USYK fight which was unreal! What a win, what a knockout!! And now I’m off to bed. I’m cooked!
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If your limited with kit then I don’t see a problem with that and as Oscar says you could have different rep ranges in each session.
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