anabolic_geek
VETERANS
Intro
Yep, it’s time for me to do my first log! I’ve been a member here for awhile, but now you’ll be seeing me on the reg as I log my daily workouts and talk about what’s happening.The Goals
- Establish and maintain healthy eating habits.
- Lose 12 pounds of fat and keep it off permanently.
- Journal my daily progress in this thread.
- Complete an entire macrocycle of my lifting program.
- Learn to balance test/estrogen levels on high amounts of gear
The Plan
My plan is to try and form better habits so that I can maintain my physique for the long run.For a long time my fitness journey has been the defined by booms and busts. I’ll do really well for awhile in terms of adherence and then crash out and start eating junk/being sedentary again.
My last bust wasn’t so bad — I stayed active in the gym and only regained 20 or so pounds after my mass cycle last summer. I kept almost all my size but lost a bit of strength I’m hoping to gain back.
I want to break the cycle by finding the best ways for me to adhere permanently and by getting in the habit of journaling this stuff here.
Gear
I’ve decided to push the envelope a bit for this one. My eventual goal is to learn to work up to 1500mg of gear. I’ve decided on this benchmark due to a few resources I’ve seen: Dan the Bodybuilder in Thailand and RP Dr. Mike both mentioned how doses in that range seem to work magic for your physique.
- 200mg/wk test e
- 100mg/wk mast e
- 100mg/wk tren e
- 900mg/wk super test (450 2x) [07/18/2020]
- SomaLong (1mg/E5D)
- Metformin XR (1000mg/day)
- Thyroxine (T4) (100mcg/day)
Update 7/18/20
Having issues sleeping so, I’m pulling the tren and changing to a test only approach so I can learn to get this estrogen dialed in at a high test dose. More details in this post.Update 7/27/2020
Decided to leave the baby dose of tren/mast in there since its so small compared to the test I’m doing. This gets me pretty close to my 1500mg goal.Update 8/20/2020
App is switching me to maintenance so I’m going to attempt to recomp for the next 3 months. Adding SomaLong, T4 and Metformin for recomp purposes.Nutrition
I’ll be doing my nutrition using the RP Diet Coach app. This wonderful little app lets me plan all my meals very easily and does my macros for me.To facilitate faster weight loss overall, I’ll be taking diet breaks at least every six weeks. A diet break will consist of a single week of maintenance macros. After my second cut on this cycle, I’ll do a couple months of maintenance before ending this log. The goal here is learn to properly maintain and get used to eating healthy long term.
Lifting
I’ll be using RP stuff for my lifting as well. They make really dope male Physique templates that calculate your weights and intensity for the entire program. The program itself consists of 4 meso cycles:- Basic Hypertrophy Mesocycle (Cut)
- Basic Hypertrophy Mesocycle (
CutMaintenance) - Metabolite Mesocycle (Maintenance)
- Resensitization Mesocycle (Maintenance)
My diet breaks will coincide with my deloads and my maintenance phases will coincide with mesos 3 and 4.
Cardio
Lots of walking. I wanna figure out how to get 10K steps in per day, so I’m getting a step tracker. I’ve already got a good walking habit in place but it only gets me to 6k steps so I need to figure out the next 4K steps.Why walking? According to many experts, it’s the best way to lose fat without compromising gains/muscle.
Support
This time I’ll have much better social support than I had previously. My partner and I are mostly aligned now in terms of health and nutrition so that makes it a lot easier. I’ll also be living just with my partner very soon and no roommates will be around to eat my food or bring bad foods into the house.I’ll also be journaling my progress here and on my Instagram.
Wish me luck!
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That said! If this log goes well I will be in pretty good shape by the end of it, so who knows?
