[Will B]

Hey Corinne – thank you for the reply :).

It’s actually a little difficult to tell. Context – I’ve never competed (want to at some point) and just diet down for body comp to about 8/9%, so LBM year on year not 100% on. Strength up but does fluctuate a lot on off cycle.

For me I guess I find it hard to detach myself from the volume. I love being in the gym and feeling as though I can eat more that day.

Since watch you guys on here definitely now focus more on intensity and have lowered working sets, but even if I kill myself and trash my CNS I still never feel overly sore and coupled with the fact I love to be in the gym – think I’m convincing myself to keep adding more volume and sets which I deep down is junk (but energy expenditure = more cals right ????)

I do wonder though – will a huge drop in volume coming from say 20-40 sets per body part over 2 cycles of PPL a week have a big impact?

I read a lot about people making huge progress once they stop overtraining but I just find it difficult to gauge that marker given I’m rarely sore!

Cheers – WB

[Will B]

Thanks mate – I’ve heard right before bed is best, will give that a whirl see how I get on

[Will B]

Perfect – plenty of them ????. Cheers @hilly

[Will B]

Hey guys – thinking of getting started on MT2, injections are sub q right not in my glute as per? As a sub q novice, where’s best place to stick it?!

[Will B]

Thank you @drdeanstmart – legend as always (Huge congrats on the little one by the way!)

2 quick questions:

1. Does that mean it could be reversed but might take time?

2. Mention of GABA receptors – excuse the neuroscience ignorance here – trying to get her to move to natural remedies; would GABA supplements help?!

[Will B]

JP – really good to see some one of your calibre using whey so frequently in their daily diet, especially on prep.

I’m a big fan; not even from a cost perspective (it’s just fucking nice – especially on prep) and I feel like it can be overly vilified by the chicken and rice 8 times a day brigade ????.

Keen to see how you get on with it as prep draws in. If you do indeed scale back / swap it out at anypoint

[Will B]

If your weight training you won’t actually be truly fasted regardless; your liver will release glycogen as soon as your start strenuous excersise.

I train first thing before eared, once adapted doesn’t affect my performance, maybe takes one max two working sets at peak off (I know as I don’t train ‘fasted’ at the weekend).

Just do what suits and worst case you feel like you need the carbs smash a banana or some fast acting sugars on the way to gym. Don’t worry too much about EAAs (sack BCAAs compeltely) if you haven’t eaten in 10-12 hours then I’d aim to get my pwo in a bit quicker – that’s it really

[Will B]

Taurine and potassium are what you’ll hear works. Only thing that’s I’ve worked for me is a shit load of electrolyte powder – ie lots of the latter. I also heard John Meadows swears by ab crunches if you get the back pump mid session!

[Will B]

Thanks both!

@james think you could have hit the nail on the head there. I’m not the hottest on general anatomy, but I’ve been also struggling with a shooting pain in my patella ligament, which seems to originate up near my hip (as I can get it to fire when I apply pressure there), I actually think it could also be an issue with my piriformis muscle.

Any suggestions other than flexibility work? Maybe deep tissue?

[Will B]

I’d be more concerned about the routine post-legs dusting of your other half, spice it up a bit my man – hit it after a good arms sesh – keep them on their toes!

All jokes aside, load up on Taurine pre legs and electrolytes pre/post and keep well hydrated throughout – you’ll make it through another session yet!

[Will B]

Thanks Both,

Either of you know any good liposuction clinics?

But in all seriousness, makes sense and was more out of curiosity than hope for change.

@drdeanstmart – is there an easy way to establish if mid section fat is visceral vs. sub cu? Metabolic issues causing visceral fat build up in this region for a 28 year old – likely to be hormone related?

Cheers

[Will B]

Cheers guys.

@theotherone55 feel fine mate. Even when I go balls to the wall I seem to recover well. Never lack motivation or struggle with Injuries / joints (touch wood at aged 28)

I always suspect it’s the anabolics, but to David’s point, I just don’t get it – you see people (like Sas) remain low BF even on a lower cruise dose and much higher cals. Even now at 3500-4000 cals I feel like I am putting on a % bodyfat daily without scale weight or strength going up!

[Will B]

I’ve had the same after legs – all the above keep them away, taurine / potassium and stretching.

I only get them typically on certain compounds such as clen that naturally deplete the above

[Will B]

Above was at 500-700mg a week

[Will B]

First cycle on tren will probably be my last. To be fair I crept up to a way too high dose but notably;

– Killed sleep. Weirdly, would nod off fine, but would wake up so many times I might as well have been out of bed. Needed a heavy carb meal to get back to bed

– Really changed my personality; made me very noticeably moody, generally unhappy. It does restrict / influence serotonin and this hit me.

Even at high doses I’ve never suffered sides really, apart from some slight ups and downs In libido and the very occasional breakout on high doses of test.

Having gone through most of the compounds under the sun, tren is the only one with profound sides I found and I was only really cognizant of the personality changes when I was off