Stephen Williams
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Yes to the first question.
Maybe to the second.
Banding will change the resistance profile of the exercise. Will this change benefit you compared to a standard SLDL?
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Hey Damo, just a few thoughts for you.
Firstly, it seems that the Anavar is the independent variable here, as acknowledged. So the obvious thing would be to reduce the dosage or stop taking it.
However, I’m sure you’re focused on building muscle, so you do not want to stop taking it yet.
Anavar is excitatory and can create states of anxiety, possibly through inhibiting GABA signalling. The fact you are getting to sleep but not staying asleep suggests that there may be an issue with serotonin converting to melatonin through the night.
You may be able to fix this with vitamin b5 (Pantothenic Acid), but I doubt you are deficient in this as it’s high in typical bodybuilding foods.
Zinc is another mineral that is important for melatonin production through the night. Again you should be getting ample in your diet, but many people claim to benefit from supplementing with it.
This one is pure speculation, but you may have a poor conversion of tryptophan to serotonin. For example, suppose you are in a stressed state with higher immune activity (can be brought on by anabolics). Rather than tryptophan converting to serotonin, it can go down the kynurenine pathway. Meaning that you have insufficient serotonin to convert to melatonin to keep you asleep through the night.
Your dopamine may be too high as a result of using Anavar. I can not remember the nutritional/supplementation recommendations for clearing dopamine. I believe it has something to do with magnesium and the comt enzyme. Have a read up on this as it may be advantageous to you.
Is your room blacked out? It has been shown that blue light exposure between 1-5am boosts dopamine and severely disrupts sleep. The easy fix here is to wear an eye mask.
Assuming you do not have sleep apnea, you could try mouth taping. Nasal only breathing helps “calm” your nervous system and may help keep you asleep.
Is your room cool enough?
Do you supplement with magnesium?
I hope some of this is useful to you.
Good luck,
Ste
Wow thanks a lot for that post mate, i am 100% sure that the issue is from the anavar as it is only variable that changed, my diet, training and room/sleeping conditions are exactly the same, room is blacked out and i wear ear plugs. Usually sleep great, just since adding in Var that i am having issues.
I do no supplement with magnesium nor zinc for that matter.
Do you think i should try adding in some ZMA and see if that remedies it?[/quote]Assuming the cost is no burden, it couldn’t hurt. Check out the sleep aid recommended above too.
Are you consuming much caffeine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=125GOx7hgLQ – Podcast with Dr Dean about sleep. Very informative.
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Hey Damo, just a few thoughts for you.
Firstly, it seems that the Anavar is the independent variable here, as acknowledged. So the obvious thing would be to reduce the dosage or stop taking it.
However, I’m sure you’re focused on building muscle, so you do not want to stop taking it yet.
Anavar is excitatory and can create states of anxiety, possibly through inhibiting GABA signalling. The fact you are getting to sleep but not staying asleep suggests that there may be an issue with serotonin converting to melatonin through the night.
You may be able to fix this with vitamin b5 (Pantothenic Acid), but I doubt you are deficient in this as it’s high in typical bodybuilding foods.
Zinc is another mineral that is important for melatonin production through the night. Again you should be getting ample in your diet, but many people claim to benefit from supplementing with it.
This one is pure speculation, but you may have a poor conversion of tryptophan to serotonin. For example, suppose you are in a stressed state with higher immune activity (can be brought on by anabolics). Rather than tryptophan converting to serotonin, it can go down the kynurenine pathway. Meaning that you have insufficient serotonin to convert to melatonin to keep you asleep through the night.
Your dopamine may be too high as a result of using Anavar. I can not remember the nutritional/supplementation recommendations for clearing dopamine. I believe it has something to do with magnesium and the comt enzyme. Have a read up on this as it may be advantageous to you.
Is your room blacked out? It has been shown that blue light exposure between 1-5am boosts dopamine and severely disrupts sleep. The easy fix here is to wear an eye mask.
Assuming you do not have sleep apnea, you could try mouth taping. Nasal only breathing helps “calm” your nervous system and may help keep you asleep.
Is your room cool enough?
Do you supplement with magnesium?
I hope some of this is useful to you.
Good luck,
Ste
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Hmm , are you using anabolics? Gh , insulin ?
Anabolics are 150 test e, 125 mast e. Been using this for 4 weeks. No GH or insulin. I am using mt2 twice a week, have been for past few weeks though.
Have you recently implemented or upped any different food sources too?
Only change has been introducing broccoli as a veg source.
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Hi Vinay,
It seems that you have a very high amount of total testosterone. Typically on forums we see people measure their testosterone with the unit ng/dl.
1 nmol/L = 28.85 ng/dL. 140 x 2.85 = 4,039.
4,039 ng/dl is about fourfold above the higher end of natural levels.
At least this is how I understand it. Somebody please correct me if I am wrong, as I do not want to spout false information.
That should be more than enough to maintain mass. In fact, if you are not improving then your training, nutrition and/or recovery would likely need addressing.
If my test was that high and I only used 300mg on cycle, then I would reduce my cruise dose. However, we are all different so you need to decide what is best for you.
Health is crucial for longevity in this sport, so I would suggest erring on the side of caution, especially during a cruise phase!
Best of luck,
Stephen
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As soon as it was announced I ordered a pair of running shoes. Plan is to do some sprint training, a bit of running and some bodyweight circuit based stuff. Goal is to get fit, fast, lean and healthy!
Really going to miss the weights room and was making very good progress recently, but I’m excited to take on something new for a bit.
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I had the same injury several years back. Mine took about 12 weeks to heal, it depends on severity of the sprain. I assume you’ve been assured you don’t need surgery?
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Some of the mechanisms have been covered above, but I just want to chime in with something I notice specifically to fat loss. I look noticeably leaner the day after a refeed (if needed) and can no longer feel marbly adipocytes (fat cells) in my skin. Fat cells can carry differing amounts of fat and water. Theres a theory that when an adipocytes fat storage is emptied it fills with water (which is denser). After a refeed the change in certain hormones/peptides cause the water to be pulled from the cell and either into muscle along with glycogen or urinated out.
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I’m interested for people’s thoughts also
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20 weeks is a long time to get in shape for a holiday. Like said before calories are low already. If I was in your situation I would spend 8-10 weeks slowly increasing calories, before coming back down whilst increasing all lifts.
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Is it definitely a legit cycle? I always assumed these crazy cycles that people post online were fake.
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Hate isn’t the word I should have used, but previously I have used nandrolone and really disliked it. I felt lethargic, libido dropped and generally felt meh so I am hesitant to use it again when there are other things I do like using.
I say “make sense” because I’m by no means an expert in biochemistry or physiology, but love to learn about these things and was just curious why nandrolone may be superior (from a side effect perspective) than pairing it with a small test dose. Also I guess I always had an attachment to the idea that we must always use a replacement dosage of exogenous testosterone when endogenous production is impaired.
Thanks for replying, I’ll use google to dig further into it :)! -
I personally hate nandrolone so won’t be trying either, but am just curious about the idea of guys running nandrolone with no test. In my head I’m thinking nandrolone will suppress endogenous testosterone production, so a replacement dose would make sense.
Obviously you guys have considered this so I’m intrigued as to why nandrolone alone might be used rather than high nandrolone with low test (100-150mg). -
Are you a regular masturbator? Also on a more serious note, it could be due to a prostate issue. One of the prostates main functions is to produce semen.
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So when you say nandrolone only, do you guys literally mean no test? Or would you use a cruise dose (say 125mg) per week?