Stephen Williams
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Earlier this year I went through a period for a few months where I would do a 36 hour fast (Saturday Eve – Mon morning) every week. I got very lean and felt and looked really good, I did lose a lot of size though. One noticeable thing was the condition of my skin was amazing. People I didn’t know would compliment on my skin which was odd but cool.
If your goal is to be a large bodybuilder then I don’t think fasting should be part of the protocol. If your goal is to look good and be healthy then it may be something worth exploring.
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Do you get a pump very easily in your chest?
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I’m sure you’ll be fine with standard white rice.
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0.4g per kg per meal every 3/4 hours seems like a safe bet provided digestion allows. It also depends on total caloric intake.
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Check out the video sections and Jordans log(s). Also there is an ebook available to buy.
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Do you breathe heavily? Any issues with insomnia? What’s your resting heart rate?
Could be causing irritation and triggering an immune response which would negatively affect digestion. I’d advise removing it again like Hilly advised.
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It depends on the objective of the set, the exercise being used, the risk factor of changing form when fatigued etc. I have a few thoughts regarding this and would love to hear other people’s opinions, Jimmy has already made a great contribution.
Say for example you are doing a bench press and the goal is to maximally recruit pec muscle fibres to stimulate growth. Therefore, it makes sense for you to try and maximise tension on pecs throughout the set, whilst limiting assistance of other muscle such as front delts and triceps. This approach may be best suited to a more advanced lifter, who requires a larger stimulus for his/her chest to grow, so they need to be very precise in form to stimulate growth. A less advanced lifter may be able to provide a sufficient stimulus on their pecs without being overly anal with form (although certainly not being sloppy) and then also providing a stimulus to their front delts and triceps. This may in fact be more advantageous for overall muscle growth!
Also consider these two scenario’s
Scenario A: Trainee performs 8 reps maximising pec tension and is unable to complete another rep without altering form/muscle recruitment so chooses to rack weight.
Scenario B: Trainee performs 8 reps maximising pec tension and is unable to complete another rep without altering form/muscle recruitment so changes form slightly and grinds out 2 more reps.
In both of the above scenarios the trainees have maximised the stimulus they could impose on their pecs in a given set. The difference is in scenario B the lifter imposed a larger stimulus for other muscles (and probably pecs as the other muscles would have essentially served as a spot).
Is the added stimulus of scenario B worth the potential risk of:
– Potential greater injury risk.
– Greater Neural fatigue which may reduce performance in forthcoming sets.
– Greater systemic fatigue which increases recovery demand.
– Potentially establishing undesirable motor patterns.In my opinion it’s hard to determine which one is the best approach and would likely depend of factors such as:
– Training age/level.
– Total Volume and Intensity.
– Stress management, Nutrition and sleep.
– Injury Status.
– Physique Requirements.Apologies for being unable to give a more black & white answer, but hope this is useful.
Scenario B
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Potassium is likely the answer here. Being potassium deficient increased carbohydrate cravings in a lot of people, so addressing the issue may add the bonus of appetite reducing too.
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Keep doing what you’ve been doing and looking to at the very least maintain your lifts!
It’s impossible to give you an answer to this question without knowing more about your current training, diet and physique.
How much cardio? It depends on how much you’re doing currently, what your caloric intake is, how much fat you need to lose. Some people can handle a high amount of cardio and have no real negatives. Some people’s legs spontaneously combust, melt down into ash and then get blown away like tumbleweed from doing high amounts of cardio.
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It depends. If you’ve never used steroids before and you jump on a load of tren, then chances are you’re going to get leaner and heavier.
If you’ve used anabolics especially tren before, then you MAY build a bit of muscle whilst getting leaner, but you may drop weight.
The scale is just a tool to monitor progress, but ultimately the mirror, calipers and the emergence of abdominal veins are going to tell you more.
Like everything in bodybuilding, it’s context specific.
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So tren has a very strong effect on the androgen receptor which codes for genes that promote muscle growth. Coupled with the ability to train harder and lift heavier, muscle growth is going to be superior on Tren.
Say for example your maintenance calories is 3000 and you’re consuming 2500. You will be in a 500 calorie deficit and can expect to lose a certain amount of body fat, whilst hopefully maintaining muscle mass.
Now imagine you’re consuming 2500 calories but using trenbolone also. You’re still in a 500 calorie deficit, but more of the nutrients you are eating are being used to build protein in the muscle. This means that there is even less energy available for replenishing fat stores. The end net result equalling greater levels of muscle retention/growth and superior amount of fat loss.
In terms of WEIGHT, there may be little to no difference or you may remain heavier on Tren due to higher levels of musculature. Unless you’re needing to make a weight class we shouldn’t be caring about weight. Body composition is the goal. We want to maximise muscle mass and minimise body fat (to varying levels of extremes depending on goals or physique preference).
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Fat loss would be as good if not superior on same calories using tren (assuming thyroid function and other variables are unaffected).
You may lose less WEIGHT, but will lose the same amount of (and probably more) body fat
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Without knowing of any evidence of this, I would assume it would depend on the energetic demands of the body at the time.
There may be truth to what they said (there may not be), but it’s best to not overthink these things. I know people who use whey isolates, hydrolysed proteins etc and have built lots of muscle. I know people who haven’t used them who have built lots of muscle!
I’d advise not to worry about the minutiae and just focus on hitting caloric and nutrient targets. That being said, I’d be interested to hear of any evidence regarding this.
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Keep taking nolva until lumps and sensitivity are gone
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What foods are you eating? I had a similar problem and it ended up being due to the inflammatory effects of some of the foods I was eating. Once I dropped cereals, “processed” foods etc my recovery and general well-being improved significantly.