re leanness, I am totally aligned. I'm not a bodybuilder and never will be but I've dropped 8-9kg this year by being very strict (for me) around diet and particularly alcohol. I've lost a little strength and no doubt some muscle but I just feel so much happier with myself and my physique now, having abs etc.

and at the end of the day, wearing a smaller sized t shirt and deadlifting 5 at 150 instead of 170 is no worse for my life and performance at all. I'm disappointed in myself that I've allowed myself to walk around at 88-90 instead of 82-84 for most of the past decade.


but the reason I'm here...I've found myself on a 'bodybuilding for over 50s' facebook page and it seems using Cialis as a pre workout is quite the thing and maybe some guys are using it every day. It looks like quite a few of the enhanced guys on there swear by it along with the rest of the stuff they're taking

Is that just a formulation that works for oldies or do you take it too? I've never had to take Viagra or Cialis so maybe it isn't quite inevitable, but I'd be terrified of getting an erection at the gym

I take 5mg cialis in the morning ever single day for general health. I notice it's fairly good for pumps in the gym. I used to have low BP but as soon as I started using growth hormone mine started getting a little high and cialis helps with that. I further added 40mg telmisartan. To answer your question directly, "yes you should take it". I think 10mg/day is well tolerated but 2.5 or 5mg daily is fine as well.



Not to get too autism about it, but a lot of that performance loss is just temporary from being glycogen depleted and leverages being less favorable. You take literally a few days/weeks to fill out and rehydrate without putting on any bodyfat and boom suddenly the performance comes back better than before you started the cut. This is especially true for pressing motions. Obviously it depends on enhanced/natty and stage of training, but somebody at your level can absolutely still be net-storing lean mass even in a deficit, but lifts might not reflect this right away.

I was forced into a day off yesterday due to my feet recovering from that medical pedicure. Got in "only" 8k steps and didn't work out. But just going from morning to evening there was huge improvement in my heel pain and even one day later this morning I'm back to normal. It feels much better than it did before I did the medi pedi and I went out and walked 8k steps before breakfast no problem. I gotta cycle 35 minutes each way to the gym to meet the fellas tonight so I might cap steps around 15-17k instead of 20k today.

Had a great day today. My winstrol dose of 100mg/day was too high and it killed my appetite and caused some slight stomach discomfort, but it might have been from adding in the condemned labz product. I dropped the winstrol yesterday but I'm keeping the condemned labz dmha product in because I'm 90% sure the winstrol was the culprit. I somehow got in 15k steps without even noticing really.

I'm logging at night instead of the morning so I don't want to write too much, but I want to make a note here for later when I can make a more well structured post about dietary periodization in bodybuilding, myths, outdated traditions, and things that people in the modern era are just now finally starting to understand that perhaps we didn't understand before. One theme I'm noticing is "people like to do things that are hard mistaking difficulty for effectiveness and making goals that can be reached easily much harder than they need to be"

Pull
T-bar chest supported row machine 1.75px15, 12, 10
Pulldowns with special attachment: 130x15, 8, 110x13, 10 all paused
Machine rows: 2ppsx12, 1.5ppsx15, 10
EZ curls: 20kgx25, 5 more sets failure no myo reppin

Posing

Steps 15k
cardio: skipped entirely, took a taxi to and from the gym instead of bicycling.

I ordered a weight vest +35kg. I should have done this a long time ago. Along the lines above, cardio I think is one instance where the most hardcore option is sometimes much LESS effective than the easier option. I hate doing cardio on a treadmill, I can tolerate stairs in cold weather but I can't during warm weather, and pure walking is plenty effective for creating a deficit but not effective for training the cardiovascular system in a way that carries over to weight room performance. Fast walking with +35kg should get me to right around 110-120 "sorta challenging but not that hard" while also being enjoyable and easy to comply with. As bodyfat got lower, temperature got hotter, stimulatory effects of clen and other fat burners waned, and glycogen got more depleted, complying with fasted stairs became almost impossible. Post training cardio slightly easier to comply with but there's only 2 peices of cardio equipment below the air conditioner and sometimes they're in use. usually the person using them isn't even turning on the AC and can't conceptualize that a large muscular trenned out dieting westerner might get VERY hot without air conditioning and I feel very rude trying to explain why I should have this spot and interrupting their cardio and asking them them to go somewhere else so I just say **** it and go home.

I'm hoping having a good weight vest I can get back in the habit of getting a decent HR up in a fasted state but still easy enough to throw on a podcast and zone out too.

Regarding rest times, I usually aim for 90-120 seconds and as much as 3 minutes or so for lower body compound movements like hack squats/split squats/RDLs. I feel like I'd be in the gym forever if I took 5-7 minutes between sets and don't think I could sanely do that unless I was supersetting exercises.

Milo Wolf had a recent video discussing the studies they've done on rest times. Fwiw, I think his takeaway was 1-2 minutes was ideal for hypertrophy depending on compound/isolation and upper vs. lower body.