[Stephen Williams]

No experience with this but can’t see why you would stop trt. Stopping may even hinder your recovery post op. I’m sure you’d be sound either way though.

[Stephen Williams]

Which part of your knees?

Note: we can only speculate what the issue could be.

[Stephen Williams]

Could you swap the press movement for another press variation?

[Stephen Williams]

Does this raws issue mean that things are slightly underdosed? Or is a lot more drastic than that?

[Stephen Williams]

I was trying to avoid giving a black and white answer which is definitely yes, protein can be stored as fat.

[Stephen Williams]

Note:

This study is old now so there may be more recent evidence showing the opposite, which is commonplace in science research.

However, it definitely highlights that overeating protein appears to have a minimal (at most) effect on body composition.

[Stephen Williams]

Respectfully, I disagree with Stephen.

Where does the excess protein go if it’s not stored? What makes you say lipogenesis is “ineffective”? It occurs every single time you eat.

The excess is converted into triacylglycerol, is packaged into vLDL and sent to your tissues. I assure you this happens every time you eat a meal, so we cannot say it’s “inefficient” or discount that it’s occurring.

Take away point – don’t expect to not get fat if you eat too much food, I don’t care what food it is lol

Brady

I definitely think that if somebody added 500kcals to their diet in the form of protein they would be fatter 12 months later than if they hadn’t.

I am certain they would not gain AS MUCH fat as adding 500kcals of dietary fat or even carbohydrate

Jose Antonio did an 8 week study where he compared a control group to a protein overfeeding group. The protein group consumed 4.4g of protein per kg of bodyweight per day. This equated to 306 ± 69g of protein. The control group consumed 138 ± 42g of protein.

Despite the increase in caloric intake (from protein), the high protein group did not gain more fat mass or lean mass.

The authors concluded: Consuming 5.5 times the recommended daily allowance of protein has no effect on body composition in resistance-trained individuals who otherwise maintain the same training regimen. This is the first interventional study to demonstrate that consuming a hypercaloric high protein diet does not result in an increase in body fat.

https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1550-2783-11-19

The authors concluded:

[Stephen Williams]

Apologies, misread your question. If you’re not progressing reps because you’re training too frequently, then it is a no brainer to drop down to 3 days per week! You should sew a greater rate in gains from doing so ?

[Stephen Williams]

Hey Jack. I’m currently running Fortitude Training and using the turbo edition. It is a full body programme and I am training one day on, one day off, just like yourself. Currently progressing tremendously!

[Stephen Williams]

I believe the main study demonstrating this was by Jose Antonio et al. Whilst consuming excess calories from protein did not result in more gains in fat mass, there was also no benefit for consuming the extra protein calories.

Protein can be converted to and stored as fat via de nono lipogenewis. However, it’s a very inefficient process.

I guess the main takeaway is that overeating protein will less to less fat gain than overeating carbs or fats. So if you are in a situation where you’re having a large meal, load up on protein!

Unless you need to refill glycogen stores of course. Although there is some evidence showing eating protein along with carbs may help this too.

[Stephen Williams]

Rest day diet should see you continue to drop body fat. Training when sick isn’t likely to be beneficial for muscle preservation anyway. Don’t stress, focus on recovery and get back in, in a couple of days.

[Stephen Williams]

I recently started using rohm test 300 and the primo. Have done no blood work but the primo seems to be good. I’ve had nipple irritation which I’ve addressed with aronasin so am definitely experiencing aromatisarion.

[Stephen Williams]

Health aspect aside. I personally know that I would get better results not running tren for 7 months. Tren makes me feel shit after a handful of weeks. I know for a fact that it’s impact on my mood and motivation would limit me in the long term.

Taking a more balanced approach of a 3 month cycle, 3 months off and then reintroducing test with say masteron would have me looking a lot better than 7 months on tren.

[Stephen Williams]

When the nipples get feisty. Tamoxifen flies in to the rescue.

[Stephen Williams]

1000% agreed! Even tren at very low doses can also be added hhaha

Not sure if this a joke haha?