Hey yall! New member intro, 35 years old

[bigswole]

I’m 35, 5’11, 230 lbs. I look best around 190, so I’m currently eating and training to drop body fat. I’ve been reading around the forums a bit and have really been enjoying this place. I’m a firefighter and have gotten back into lifting for the past 2 years. I do BJJ several times a week, depending on how my shifts run. I’m dealing with some nagging shoulder injuries which have killed my ability to barbell benchpress, but theyve also been quite the education in rehabilitation and the importance and function of warm up sets! On a separate note, several days ago I partially amputated my pinkie finger at work and had surgery to repair, so it sucks not being able to do much till the pins come out. Cycle history: 14 or so years ago I ran several different combos. M1t, pheraplex, s drol (never stacked orals btw, phera was oral only and it was meh imo), with the best being a 12 week run of test e 400 wk, tren e 300 wk, superdrol 10mg a day for the first 3 weeks. The only time gyno showed up was with superdrol. That last one really shifted my physique to comic book proportions, lol. Since then, I’ve been training on and off, naturally, for a decade, but repairing some of these nagging injuries is what led me to delve back into the world of pharmaceutical enhancement. So, that’s my rambling intro. Glad to be here!

 

[John]

Welcome, great place here… and I like you already because I’m a huge superD fan,and think most orals suck.

 

[evo]

Welcome!

 

[BigDogg]

Welcome.

 

[Bigmurph6]

Well were glad to have you around at ugmuscle brother seems like you have alot of background and can learn alot more from ugm just by reading about how to build a solid cycle.

Good luck and good gains brother tag me in @Bigmurph if you have any questions

 

[johnjuanb1]

Welcome to UGM.
The bench press is the one exercise that will destroy your rotator cuffs when you get older. I dropped it when I was around 35 years old. My chest is so much bigger from doing mostly hammer strength press variations. I remember when Dorian Yates switched to hammer strength for chest. That’s when his chest grew a lot. It got thicker. My chest sucked from relying on bench press. Now it’s my strength. Don’t fear moving on from the bench press. It was my favorite exercise. There was a time when I benched 4 days a week. Haha crazy youth.

 

[bigswole]

Do you db bench at all?

 

[johnjuanb1]

Not any more. I’m 51. I do wide grip hammer strength press, inclined hammer strength press, dip machine, and fly machine. These feel safest. I’ve had too many injuries in both rotator cuffs to risk free weights now.

 

[McSwickles]

Welcome aboard!

 

[bigswole]

Thanks so much. I will try some machines and hope they have the Hammer. I never even pay attention to them on the rare the days I go to the commercial gym. When I was younger, I used to hear, machines arent functional, those are for housewives and old guys, those planes of resistance shear unnaturally at your joints, etc. Bs, but it unfortunately became a habit to disregard them.

 

[Czworeczki]

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[TBU]

Welcome aboard!

 

[Ominous]

Welcome to the board

 

[JB_rD81]

Welcome