Jason Cooper
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Getting yourself a good coach is the best thing that you can spend your money on. It takes years out of the guesswork. Save your pics (before and after) as I am sure that you will be pleased with your progress.
Despite being in the US, Dorian was my motivation to start working out. He always said that he liked doing things on his own and didn’t need a coach, so I thought that this made sense…..until all progress stalled for years. I got a coach and he did the opposite of what I would have done. He upped my food in a major way despite the fact that I had some body fat on me. He really made me be précis about my food. I thought that I was precise before, but I as no where close.
You will be happy with your decision. Good luck.
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John, Well, the cool thing is that from your posts, it sounds like you still may be able to take in whole food after your workout. So disregard my point number one.
I have diverticulitis which sounds much different than your GI issue.
My advice though is derived from my own experience while in precontest. I went 4 straight days at three weeks out with just a few carrots for carbs per day. Then I had a high day (I was carb cycling) and was on the floor in pain after I finished my peri workout shake. It was horrible. My coach told me to dilute the hell out of the shake next time. I did that going forward and still do it today dispite the fact that I am not manipulating my carb intake as dramitically in the offseason. My digestion problems in general (burping, gas, etc.) are much less pronounced now after my shake now that I mix my carbs and protein with about a gallon of water.
I’m not saying that this will work for you as it is always scary giving advice to someone with a known issue as I am not in the medical field, but you never know, maybe it could help.
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This is kind of a crap shoot because it sounds like you have a legit med issue as it relates to digestion. But I can tell you what I would do on your situation as I had severe digestive issues as well.
1. Ditch post workout processed carbs (if you feel like they are effecting digestion).
2. Reintroduce HBCD or Waxy maize and whey and Ecaa’s in the peri workout shake with (and here is the difference) one gallon of water. So the shake is incredibly diluted. Sip it slow pre during and post workout. This sounds simple but the amount of water helps incredibly with digestion.You can find large Nalgene bottles for this online.
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True to an extent. In precontest AIs are so high that no matter what your prolactin sensitivity you will be good. But in the offseason when you are not pushing the AIs so high you may be in trouble without caber or Prami. I would have one of these on hand or get tested and find your prolactin sensitivity as part of your bloodwork.
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Also, Scott’s website Integrativebodybuilding has a forum where he runs through all of the exercises. It is the same website where you can buy his fortitude training ebook.
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Daniel, check this link out:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1bKiIt0aF2O9ocJnFR0NKzrt_yvQTO7Q
It may be hard to see due to the link being white. These are FT training exercises.
Just go to YouTube and search for Fortitude Training. Dr Scott has put up several vids with exercise ideas.
Hope this helps.
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Emma, looking at this from a Sakibs perspective, you are right. It is a training forum where people are looking for training advice. I should have kept the other comment out unless I was in the supplementation forum.
I was giving him advice that I received years ago when I was overcomplicating things. I was also looking at this through a glass is half empty perspective that people will turn to super supps as a shortcut early on rather than eat and train hard to accomplish their fitness goals way before turning to supps for the last 10%.
This is the best website that I have ever seen as far as advice for everyone. Jordan is spot on with everything. This is the best website I have ever been to for anyone with any fitness goals. It all applies. but sometime I need to remember that not everyone is pushing for the same goals, at the same or equal intensity, and keep thing in the appropriate forum. Thanks for challenging my advice. I agree with you on everything you are saying after taking a second look at things. -
Mark, maybe the formula doesn’t work for everyone based on body type. I learned it from reading Dante’s posts. To assume that this covers everybody would not be accurate but it is safe advice for someone who picked up training. For me it worked. I am 5’8″ and I started pinning when I was 230lbs. Mike Mattarazzo also suggested getting to the point where You can at least bench 315 for reps. This is the advice that I had coming up.
Emma, sorry about throwing reality out there to Sakib, but you will see that he would have to do exactly what you are suggesting to get to the body weight per height goals that I laid out. Without heavy training and progressive clean eating this will never happen. I would rather be honest with him right off of the bat instead of bullshit him and then he gets on test at 170lbs, plays his ace card and can’t ever get over 200 lbs. I assume that Salib came here wanting real advice on how to be massive. I gave him exactly that. If you read my post again and think it through I don’t think that anything is thrown to the wind. I stand behind it. It was the advice I got when I started and I lifted for 6 years before I achieved the point where I could pin test. Today I top out at 750mg of test per week. So I’m not some crazy druggie. Just a heavyweight bodybuilder trying to become a super heavy.
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Unfortunately AIs don’t do anything for this. You will need to take something that lowers your prolactin sensitivity, like pramipexle. I take this. There are shitty sides but really you just feel run down. I take this at night before bed EOD with my shot of tren. Start with a low dose for your weight and then slowly titrate up to what you can handle.
A positive side is morning wood every day in case your woman is in for morning action.
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Have you written them and told them that it didn’t arrive. Some UG labs will resend, especially if it was confiscated. They would have received a letter.
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If I’m reading your post correctly, then I think so. I would personally start at tier 1, even if you are extremely advance. You can move up a tier after a week or two if you need to.
After the thigh muscle rounds (there are 2 in tier 2) you should feel like you can’t walk without sitting down for a sec. These sets totally kick my ass.
The program in general though IMO is very flexible. So I warm up on hams before doing my thigh set. Then I do my quad set, then finally my ham work set and then calves….etc. I warm up my hams to fill them with blood and to ensure my knee joint is warmed up completely. Works for me. Hope this helps. It’s just my approach. Integrative bodybuilding.com also has a detailed forum with a search button.
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Vitamin C helps of course as well.
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Maybe you should deload around week four and see if you still have the same issues. Ie. Blast four weeks deload one and repeat.
This of course is assuming that everything else is correct (diet and rest) and that you are not overtraining.
Astralogous helps as well as a garlic clove if you feel something coming on.
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being on 200mg a week has got to be 100% better for your long term health than getting some metabolic disorder or pancreatic cancer.
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I am at that point. I am in my late thirties and running cycles and coming off IMO is resulting in stagnation and to be honest, illness and soreness, until my HPTA recovers. I am seriously thinking about it. I mean my natural test numbers will continue to drop anyway just due to age. I’ll bet everyone on this board plans on someday being on trt. Why wouldn’t you, just for health reasons. At this point I am more financially secure but my only hesitation comes with the added stress of always having a reliable source. I do now, but will I in two years? It can be a lot of stress. I source from UG labs at the moment. i feel like I will have that constant stress of knowing that I always have what I need. Before a contest or big offseason blast, you can make sure that everything (you have all of your gear) is in place before picking a date. If you are blasting and cruising, my worry is that you get bunk gear or you forget to order, ect.