had to squeeze something in between my son's two sports games. 6th day in a row for me and scheduled rest day tomorrow...which is a good thing because I'm going to a Ministry of Sound 90s revival warehouse party this pm and PEDs will be consumed. May double down and take Monday off too

Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
23:32.9 6,000m 1:57.7 214 1037 22

very big night Saturday. Boozy come down day Sunday

heroically went to the gym tonight and the gods were kind to me as I couldn't get on a squat rack when I first got there, so I had to change my plan and trained upper body instead...which was kinder on my hangover

DB bench 3x5-34kg
DB Flye/bench 3x6/4-26kg
seated wide grip hammer row 3x7-160kg
Power clean 3x2-80, 1-82.5,85,87.5 f90
Bent over barbell row 3x6-80
Pull Downs - wide grip/close grip ss 3x8/8-57kg

HGH update is that I decided to stop after Weds. Was feeling really emo and also bloated and my heart wasn't in it. Have about $1500 worth of it that I think I'll try to sell. My performance enhancing PED days are probably behind me...at least until my testosterone readings drop

2x5k 4r

steady state one and then a higher rate one. Second I was averaging 1.59.5 and then did a hard last 500

actually enjoyed a row for the first time in a while

Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
20:52.5 5,009m 2:05.0 179 916 18

19:36.3 5,000m 1:57.6 215 1040 20

3:59.7 1,000m 1:59.8 203 999 19
3:58.4 2,000m 1:59.2 207 1011 20
3:58.9 3,000m 1:59.4 205 1006 20
3:57.9 4,000m 1:58.9 208 1015 20
3:41.5 5,000m 1:50.7 258 1186 25

3x8/8 single leg extensions 44kg
4x5 Front Squat - 62.5kg
3x5 Deadlift - 145kg
4x3 Press - 57.5....3,3,2,2
3x10 DB Bench 28kg

felt really fatigued after the lower body stuff and didn't have the minerals to really attack the pressing and so dropped the weight on the bench and didn't do my push press or tricep stuff. Probably a lot to expect to fit into a session at my age

still taking the squatting part really slowly. Will move up 2.5kg again next time it's 5 re day. Same with deadlifts although I feel like I'm close to my limit on DL now

second enjoyable rowing session in a row....not sure there's a comeback in the offing but it's at least good to be making a little progress again

I re-did this month's CTC. It wasn't a max effort last week....or tonight tbh but I was still happy to improve my score my a little over 7 seconds, or 1.4/500. I did the first two splits a lot slower and that really helped me maintain a better pace through the longer legs in the middle of the workout which are the most important ones for the overall score

Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
8:01.2 2,500m 1:36.2 393 1651 32

0:18.3 100m 1:31.5 457 1872 39
r: 1:00 39m
0:37.4 200m 1:33.5 428 1773 34
r: 1:00 43m
0:57.7 300m 1:36.1 394 1654 31
r: 1:00 36m
1:17.4 400m 1:36.7 386 1630 32
r: 1:00 39m
1:38.6 500m 1:38.6 365 1556 31
r: 1:00 36m
1:19.2 400m 1:39.0 361 1541 31
r: 1:00 34m
0:57.7 300m 1:36.1 394 1654 34
r: 1:00 39m
0:37.5 200m 1:33.7 425 1761 35
r: 1:00 36m
0:17.4 100m 1:27.0 532 2129 38

1k warm up and then 7x1k, 1r and then 777m

pretty good. took it easy to start with and got quicker every split. felt difficult at the end. scary that I've gone 400m further in 30 mins than this...without the 7 mins rest. Still...3 decent sessions this week and it's baby steps.

Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
30:09.9 7,777m 1:56.3 222 1064 21

3:59.1 1,000m 1:59.5 205 1004 20
r: 1:00 27m
3:58.4 1,000m 1:59.2 207 1011 20
r: 1:00 24m
3:56.8 1,000m 1:58.4 211 1025 20
r: 1:00 27m
3:55.5 1,000m 1:57.7 214 1037 20
r: 1:00 33m
3:52.8 1,000m 1:56.4 222 1063 21
r: 1:00 35m
3:52.3 1,000m 1:56.1 223 1068 21
r: 1:00 29m
3:47.8 1,000m 1:53.9 237 1115 23
r: 1:00 39m
2:47.3 777m 1:47.6 281 1265 27

Your boy Bryan Johnson is also off the gh. It's amazing how growth hormone does not prolong lifespan. How is that possible?

I thought that was common knowledge:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6305861/

My thing was about helping to look, perform and feel better at the same age. If I die at the same age but have more quality of life that would have been fine and my two long cycles of growth, I definitely thought that was possible

I’ve pissed out over two kilos of water since I stopped last week though, so the bloating really is a thing

I had guessed that. The thing that gave it away was the really extensive thread about you trying to set new PRs.

all the prs came a long time after tbh. I actually don’t think it helped the strength much if at all - taking the training more seriously and actually following a consistent plan was the big difference IMO. Maybe it helped recovery and maybe that helped set the platform to get back into harder training and maybe there was still enough benefit from the cycle to help? Hard to know but I’m sure it did something.
From everything I’ve read though, you need to cycle hgh with testosterone to get much athletic benefit.

Definitely hinders cardio performance. Resting heart rate rises about 10% and even the last week since I’ve been off has been way way easier than the previous 3-4 weeks when I was taking it.

And tbh the above is why I stopped again. The previous times I got through the first month and got some decent fat stripping and mojo benefits. They are slow burn and I wasn’t patient to wait another few months and the fact that I wasn’t going to get much/any athletic benefits and actually some negatives made it a relatively easy decision

6th day in a row today and didn't get to the gym til after walking dog twice and my son's two sports games. All of which are a parade of excuses for why I did an easy day

4x8/8 single leg extensions - 41kg
3x3 front squat 75kg
3x8 kettlebell single leg RDL -28kg
4x5 Press 52.5kg

looking forward to the end of the winter sports season in a week or two and getting my weekends back....son currently playing 3 sports every weekend which is quite the commitment. Two games Sat, one game Sun and he also has training 3 nights during the week

- Soccer they won their semi final today and have the Grand Final next weekend. They have had an unbeaten season to this point. A little worried that by far the best player in his team is away in a surf competition next weekend.
- Rugby League, they won their quarter final today. Play the top seeds in the semi final next week when they will probably be beaten
- Rugby Union is tomorrow. Last week of the regular season and they've already made playoffs. Semi final will be next week.

so a minimum of 1 week and a maximum of 2 weeks left and then I can stay in bed and masturbate all day on a Saturday

DB Bench 4x5-34kg
DB Flye/Bench ss 3x8/6-26kg
Hammer wide grip row 3x7-165kg
Wide Grip/Close Grip pull down ss 3x8/6-67kg
Preacher/Hammer curl ss 3x9/9-45/16kg

re-did the CTC and managed to take 2.2 seconds off last week. Can't imagine I'm any fitter, so this is just me allowing myself a little deeper into the pain cave. Close to a max effort I'd think - the fact that I was faster on every split bar the last one shows that I had nothing left. I might try it again in two weeks when I'll hope to take another few seconds off it

Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
7:59.0 2,500m 1:35.8 398 1670 32

0:18.1 100m 1:30.5 472 1925 40
r: 1:00 37m
0:37.3 200m 1:33.2 432 1785 32
r: 1:00 37m
0:57.4 300m 1:35.6 400 1675 31
r: 1:00 38m
1:17.2 400m 1:36.5 389 1640 31
r: 1:00 39m
1:37.9 500m 1:37.9 373 1583 31
r: 1:00 35m
1:18.5 400m 1:38.1 370 1574 32
r: 1:00 37m
0:57.5 300m 1:35.8 398 1668 34
r: 1:00 28m
0:37.2 200m 1:33.0 435 1797 36
r: 1:00 37m
0:17.7 100m 1:28.5 505 2037 41
r: 1:00 22m

Sick work - looks brutal.

Yep, it wasn’t fun. But it was my kind of painful - relatively short pieces of pain management and because of their brevity, the accompanying fear isn’t great…unlike doing a longer piece where you’re close to your limit for way more time

The 500 wasn’t great but it was really the 400 and 300 that hurt and by that point there’s not much fear left because the distances are reducing quickly

4x5 Front Squat 65
3x5 Deadlift 147.5
4x3 Press 57.5
3x8 seated DB Press 22kg

all fine. Was going to do some power cleans afterwards but felt a little fatigued so will do them later in the week instead

had to train in the am and felt sluggish and sore from last night's weights. So, dropped the drag and all expectations and just did an easy low rate 10k. Will aim to do something more difficult tomorrow

Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
44:00.4 10,017m 2:11.7 153 826 16

There’s some sickness in my house and I felt peaky yesterday so took the day off

3x3 front squat - 75kg
2x3 deadlift - 160kg. Couldn’t get the 1st rep of the third set off the ground
2x2 power clean - 80kg. Had no snap after the DL failure so stopped
4x6 RDL 90kg

Gonna take another day off tomorrow and will hopefully be able to go hard on Mon

Son won his soccer Grand Final 1-0, to make it a 22 game unbeaten season. Almost cried when I made a speech thanking the coach

Congrats to your boy!

And best of all is that I now get my weekends back as his team lost in the semi finals of his two rugby competitions this weekend


Back felt very tight today after failing that deadlift last night so I went to the gym and did 40 mins of lower back stretching and hip mobility work. Feel a ton better for it

First time training in 10 days. Had a really gnarly flu that really floored me. Didn’t work at all last week and could hardly get out of bed. It had a long tail too and it’s taken today to feel even 80% better

Have come to Melbourne for work and managed 25 mins in the hotel gym. Hopefully will be able to do more
Tomorrow

5x10 DB Bench 24kg
3x7 DB flye 24kg
3x12 Hammer curl 16kg

another 30 min hotel gym session yesterday

5x8 seated DB press 22kg
3x15 DB shrug 24kg
5x12 DB row 24kg

meh, fine. Still feeling below par and am in a huge funk right now. Hate being sick and this ****ing flu is really lingering. Probably the fact I haven't done any cardio for almost 2 weeks is a contributor to the funk too. Not going to be able to train today as am travelling but am gonna get on the erg tomorrow for something light.

upped the intensity at the gym a little today and am feeling ok afterwards, which is a good sign

did 15 mins on the erg, with 10 mins super slow and then 5 mins a little friskier

Time Meters Pace Watts Cal/Hr S/M
15:05.8 3,509m 2:09.0 163 860 17

5:00.0 1,091m 2:17.4 135 763 15
10:00.0 1,137m 2:11.9 152 824 17
15:00.0 1,267m 1:58.3 211 1025 21

then did

3x10 wide grip pull downs 57kg
3x10 close grip seated row 66kg
3x10 dumbbell curl 40kg

all fine. Will ramp it up a little more tomorrow

Glad to see you're back at it!