[Pat Greene]

Hey Kuba,

Question regarding HGH and also blood glucose. If you were running 6iu GH a day would 2iu pre, 2iu post and 2iu before bed be a good protocol? I train in the morning so the first 2iu would be around 5am, 2iu around 8 and then bed around 9 so 2iu 8:30pm or so.

Also just wondering if you are monitoring blood glucose would you test upon wake and then an hour after your biggest carb meal of the day?

Cheers buddy appreciate all you do!

Hey bud, here I would just test fasted and then potentially mid day an hour after a meal, if I am honest I generally just test fasted as later in the day there will be far too many variables that could impact your BG readings.

The dose split is perfect, 6 iu I do prefer split into 3 shots the most and this split works perfectly bud. Larger the shot the more insulin resistance it drives imo 2 iu shots across the day is what I find most effective and protects insulin sensitivity as I have ran up to 8 iu without slin split into 2 iu shots ( I’d never do that again lol ) but you get the drill

At 6 iu I would look into lantus too bud as a prophylactic measure more so and metformin pre bed.[/quote]

Thank you Kuba! Any reason in particular to take the metformin pre bed and not a different time?[/quote]

Thank you!

[Pat Greene]

Hey Kuba,

Question regarding HGH and also blood glucose. If you were running 6iu GH a day would 2iu pre, 2iu post and 2iu before bed be a good protocol? I train in the morning so the first 2iu would be around 5am, 2iu around 8 and then bed around 9 so 2iu 8:30pm or so.

Also just wondering if you are monitoring blood glucose would you test upon wake and then an hour after your biggest carb meal of the day?

Cheers buddy appreciate all you do!

Hey bud, here I would just test fasted and then potentially mid day an hour after a meal, if I am honest I generally just test fasted as later in the day there will be far too many variables that could impact your BG readings.

The dose split is perfect, 6 iu I do prefer split into 3 shots the most and this split works perfectly bud. Larger the shot the more insulin resistance it drives imo 2 iu shots across the day is what I find most effective and protects insulin sensitivity as I have ran up to 8 iu without slin split into 2 iu shots ( I’d never do that again lol ) but you get the drill

At 6 iu I would look into lantus too bud as a prophylactic measure more so and metformin pre bed.[/quote]

Thank you Kuba! Any reason in particular to take the metformin pre bed and not a different time?

[Pat Greene]

Hey Kuba,

Question regarding HGH and also blood glucose. If you were running 6iu GH a day would 2iu pre, 2iu post and 2iu before bed be a good protocol? I train in the morning so the first 2iu would be around 5am, 2iu around 8 and then bed around 9 so 2iu 8:30pm or so.

Also just wondering if you are monitoring blood glucose would you test upon wake and then an hour after your biggest carb meal of the day?

Cheers buddy appreciate all you do!

[Pat Greene]

Hey Kuba,

Just wondering how you like to approach calorie increases post show. I’ll be coming off two shows in a few weeks, getting down to about 2000 calories a day (was eating about 5k in off season). Let’s say I end my prep around 1800 calories the last couple weeks, after the shows are over, a few meals are had etc, where would you put calories coming out of the show?

My instinct is to put calories somewhere close to maintenance, perhaps 2500-2800 to start and adjust based on weight etc. For context I am enhanced but I am not using any t3/t4 so that isn’t a consideration post show. I’ll be dropping back to a trt dose as well.

I know there is no one set answer, just wondering if you could provide some guidelines.

Cheers!

[Pat Greene]

Start lower as mentioned. 300/300 is a good starting point for sure especially when you already know you can get away with this.
See how you get on and then up it if no sides are present to 400/400

Thanks. Sound advice. I’ll take this approach

[Pat Greene]

I like idea of 300/300 n then at week 8 up it

Cheers. That sounds reasonable!