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Originally Posted by NotThremp
One of the things I will be eternally grateful to AA on is that he taught me how to teach myself. His meal plan was rudimentary and advice was such, since lets be frank... I'm not and will never be an elite lifter. I wasn't even the best casual olytard that hit gym I used to frequent RIP tallinna spordihall.
Guy,
Please show the pics. You give an old man with myriad injuries hope for a better day. And I appreciate this log. (Even if we may never see eye to eye on the first 6-9m of nooB training.)
The pics are in spoiler, or maybe you meant "please continue posting the pics" in which case yeah I will.
It's okay, bro. Ultimately the first 6-9 months doesn't matter all that much when you're literally 16 years in like me. It does feel great to have started making real measurable progress again. I started steroids around 10 years ago and so clearly that wasn't the missing ingredient and I was basically the same from 2015-2022 then things started clicking when I discarded old habits. One of the biggest steps forward was outright quitting barbell squatting. I remember my knees just constantly being sore no matter what I did and now even doing this many steps and stairs cardio, I can barely remember the last time my knees were as sore as a typical day when i was 26. Then obviously overhauling my nutrition approach was an even bigger step forward.
I hope I can inspire you just quit oly entirely and maybe give hypertrophy training a go; you don't need to do the posing trunks and ****-eroticism. I'm a fairly feminine metro guy so all the glamour/exhibitionism/looking good/vanity/shaving my bodyhair/buying special jacked guy clothes to look cool in front of 15 year olds is all highly appealing to me, but you can build sum muscles, get stronger, and be healthier by following this training and diet approach minus the PEDs and general extremeness and get that satisfying psychological feeling of progressing your body. Payoffwiz is a great example of this and was also a former olybro. The Renaissance Periodization youtube is a great resource run by a PhD sports scientist you're probably aware of. This style of training and eating is so forgiving compared to oly/pl/strongman and relatively more "functional" modalities.
Push
Machine press: 62.5kgx12,12,12
flat db press: 30kgx15,15,15
Prone raises: 4 sets
Pushdowns: stackx5 sets failure no myo reppin
Cardio: 30 minutes 130 HR
Steps 20k, was up to 18k by the time I started the workout.
I was super tired today and had some minor pec tendon soreness I'm sure I could have trained through but chose to just pull back today. Not a deload session and still got in real stimulus. The pec tendon pain disappeared the next morning (now).
Really depleted. It's fine, refeed + rest sunday. Saturday leg training with the boys at the bbing gym. There's another bbing gym an hour drive away that has a posing room and a ton of competitors. They even have an in-gym restaurant with bbing food. I wish every gym had this. We'll probably make the pilgrimage out there in 2 weeks.
I decided I'm cutting off the diet in 5 weeks. Get some good professional photos done and call it a day, no show. My clen is 120mcg and my yohimbine is 30mgs/morning so I need to taper off or I'll be sleeping 12-14 hours a day if I just cold turkey. I did that in summer 2021 and it was like a solid 2 weeks of spending as many hours of the day asleep as awake. Plan is to slowly reverse diet and even stay on potato/sweet potato/fruit as main carb sources thing for at least the first 2 weeks coming out of the diet and just allow white rice products once a week on refeed days. I'll have at least 2 good cheat meals and drop like $40-60 on each one the two days after I finish the diet/photos.
I will not be bulking the whole way through assuming an end-of-october contest date. I'll be giving a full 24 weeks to contest prep for a national and that gives me just over 10 months of solid offseason where I'll include at least one 6-8 week hard fatloss phase to reset. I might choose March 2026 instead in which case we can probably stick in 2 fat-loss phases along that bulk.