My Post-Blast Picture
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Update: Got my infected tooth fixed, and it was actually a lot less agonizing than I thought it would be. Basically just an afternoon of discomfort, nothing more. I don’t know if its placebo, but with that infection gone, I already feel better physically all around.
Have settled into a workout split that seems very effective for me. Essentially, it is chest (with emphasis on barbells and cables), non-DL back and bis, chest (with emphasis on DBs), legs (primarily squats, leg press, and hack squat, but some Bulgarian split squats thrown in here and there), chest (with emphasis on barbells and cables), and DL back and bis. Rinse and repeat. Occasionally, I will skip one of the chest workouts and accelerate a leg day into its place. I just find that doing chest three times a week in two different variations maximizes chest and shoulder growth. I also find that I do not need to do DLs more than once a week.
Continuing with the same protocol, but periodically will increase my second dose of ment to 100mg, for a total of 150mg ED. It really does make a difference that I can feel. I just have tremendous endurance in the gym. After an hour, I feel like I’ve barely been lifting!
Also have returned to spending at least 15 minutes warming up and working my shoulders before each chest workout. Side cable pulls, front DB lifts, static DB holds above my head all really get the blood flowing in my shoulders, which is a necessity for an old fuck such as I.
Weight has maintained at 224/225 even though my lifts are increasing–a good sign that is being reflected in my physique, which more and more people are noticing.
Which brings me to the last point of this protracted update. My mental focus has been off. Not sure if I’m depressed or what, but I’m having a hard time generating my typical enthusiasm for working out and find myself more and more reliant on Modafinil in higher and higher doses (yesterday was 600mg) to re-gain and maintain focus. Obviously, not sustainable, so I need to get my head right. Not exactly sure how to do that, but I’ll continue to cogitate.
Have settled into a workout split that seems very effective for me. Essentially, it is chest (with emphasis on barbells and cables), non-DL back and bis, chest (with emphasis on DBs), legs (primarily squats, leg press, and hack squat, but some Bulgarian split squats thrown in here and there), chest (with emphasis on barbells and cables), and DL back and bis. Rinse and repeat. Occasionally, I will skip one of the chest workouts and accelerate a leg day into its place. I just find that doing chest three times a week in two different variations maximizes chest and shoulder growth. I also find that I do not need to do DLs more than once a week.
Continuing with the same protocol, but periodically will increase my second dose of ment to 100mg, for a total of 150mg ED. It really does make a difference that I can feel. I just have tremendous endurance in the gym. After an hour, I feel like I’ve barely been lifting!
Also have returned to spending at least 15 minutes warming up and working my shoulders before each chest workout. Side cable pulls, front DB lifts, static DB holds above my head all really get the blood flowing in my shoulders, which is a necessity for an old fuck such as I.
Weight has maintained at 224/225 even though my lifts are increasing–a good sign that is being reflected in my physique, which more and more people are noticing.
Which brings me to the last point of this protracted update. My mental focus has been off. Not sure if I’m depressed or what, but I’m having a hard time generating my typical enthusiasm for working out and find myself more and more reliant on Modafinil in higher and higher doses (yesterday was 600mg) to re-gain and maintain focus. Obviously, not sustainable, so I need to get my head right. Not exactly sure how to do that, but I’ll continue to cogitate.
Bigmurph6
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Holy shit 600mg of modafinil is a waste brother once you go above I believe 300mgs it tops off and I believe that the modanifil is whats causing the issue.
I used modanifil in the past for my job working almost over 48hrs straight on occasions was what it was made for and I would only take 1 200mg but the only problem with modanifil is that you need to replace the sleep that you missed if I stayed up 48hrs I would crash and sleep 15hrs+ afterwards because it is mentally and physically draining to have all that go but without the replacement sleep your putting yourself into a bad position.
You actually said that you’re taking more and more that’s what happens when you begin an addiction. I would be very careful brother only take modanifil when needed and at the lowest dose possible it works the same at 200mg as at 600mg.
The entire last paragraph everything that you describe feeling is from the modanifil brother
I used modanifil in the past for my job working almost over 48hrs straight on occasions was what it was made for and I would only take 1 200mg but the only problem with modanifil is that you need to replace the sleep that you missed if I stayed up 48hrs I would crash and sleep 15hrs+ afterwards because it is mentally and physically draining to have all that go but without the replacement sleep your putting yourself into a bad position.
You actually said that you’re taking more and more that’s what happens when you begin an addiction. I would be very careful brother only take modanifil when needed and at the lowest dose possible it works the same at 200mg as at 600mg.
The entire last paragraph everything that you describe feeling is from the modanifil brother
Bigmurph6
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You have to be making great gains from the MENT I can only imagine 150mg a day that’s alot of ment.
Curious if it has spiked your estrogen or blood pressure? @herrubermensch
Curious if it has spiked your estrogen or blood pressure? @herrubermensch
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I am really pleased. I’m going to hit it another couple of weeks then will post a progress pic. Combined with the HGH and the mast and a reasonably strict diet (under 3k calories), it’s been the best “cut” I’ve ever done.
E2 has been completely controlled with Adex .5mg EOD and now E3D. My E2 dropped from 99 at the beginning of the blast to 45 a couple of weeks ago. 45 is too low for me, so I’m now doing the Adex E3D instead of EOD.
BP is largely under control. I always have isolated systolic pre-hypertension when on blast. So today’s BP is 140/68. But it regularly dips into the 130/60 range and has never exceeded 145/70. When I’m on cruise (my kind of cruise), my BP reverts to 120-130/60 consistently. Cialis at 10mg ED does help keep this under control by about ten ticks.
E2 has been completely controlled with Adex .5mg EOD and now E3D. My E2 dropped from 99 at the beginning of the blast to 45 a couple of weeks ago. 45 is too low for me, so I’m now doing the Adex E3D instead of EOD.
BP is largely under control. I always have isolated systolic pre-hypertension when on blast. So today’s BP is 140/68. But it regularly dips into the 130/60 range and has never exceeded 145/70. When I’m on cruise (my kind of cruise), my BP reverts to 120-130/60 consistently. Cialis at 10mg ED does help keep this under control by about ten ticks.
You almost certainly are right about the modafinil. I never have any problem just not taking it though and replacing it with coffee. Not quite the same, of course, but it’s not addiction in the sense that I lack the willpower to just not take it. I just need to take the weekend off the stuff I suppose. Maybe a full week. I know its a dopamine agonist (albeit a very light one), so that is probably what is going on, viz., my brain is looking for more and more dopamine.
Bigmurph6
Banned
Modanifil isn’t physically addictive so that won’t be a problem. I believe that you might think that you need more than you do though and I believe its because modanifil has a ceiling. Which stops it from keeping you going quicker which is what your looking for its an amazing tool. Neutropics are truly great compounds.
I wish you the best brother get some sleep and I promise you will feel better I always did once I replaced the sleep I skipped.
I wish you the best brother get some sleep and I promise you will feel better I always did once I replaced the sleep I skipped.
Interestingly, I am having some veneers put on my teeth so that I’ll finally have decent looking teeth. The dentist told me I clearly grind my teeth like crazy, that the enamel on the tops was all ground off. He said the only way for me to avoid that would be to wear a mouthguard at night and during lifting. Once I get the veneers, I’ll get the mouthguard.
Like football mouthguards! Boil and chomp!
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