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Just make sure accidents are fixed with insulin, problem solved.I heard that’s the [mention]JACKED_ [/mention] method
Just make sure accidents are fixed with insulin, problem solved.I heard that’s the [mention]JACKED_ [/mention] method
Just spam the GLPs alreadyYeah, why the heck am I messing with hunger pains and self control? This is ridiculous
But honestly I’ve got like ten 30mg vials in the fridge. Might be time to beg my coach.
That nutter butter ghost sounds amazing!!3/6/25
Coach: @tbda
AM Weight: 198
Gear: None today
Sleep: 5hr
Diet:
5am: 74g Rice Chex, 1/2 scoop Ryse PWO + 1/2 scoop Edge of Insanity PWO
7am: 2 scoops whey protein (Sweat Ethics, Fruity Cereal flavored)
10am: 165g chicken, 216g rice, 200g Asparagus
1pm: 173g ground beef, 216g rice, 200g green beans
4pm: 10 ritz crackers
5pm: 196g salmon, 216g rice, 200g green beans
8:30pm: 2 scoops whey protein (52g protein, Ghost, Nutter Butter flavored)
Macros: 3141 kcal, 267 protein, 90g fat, 309g carbs
Water: 5L, missed my goal by a liter
Workout: Push Day B
Cardio: 10 min treadmill to get warm
Exercises: Dumbbell Incline Fly, Smith Machine Low Incline Bench, Cable Crossover Fly, Dumbbell Lateral Raise, Cuffed Behind-the-Back Lateral Raise, Cable Rope Overhead Tricep Extension, Decline Weighted Situps
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Notes:
My left elbow hurt quite a bit during the cable crossovers. I’ll have to bring my elbow wraps regardless of the day it appears. I bought some Stada gear that came in today that I purchased from @StadaLabs. I’ll save it for my cycle starting in the next week or two. I’m getting my bloodwork drawn tomorrow, so hopefully everything looks good. Also, GNC was offering a buy one get one 50% off deal on protein, so I picked up two Ghost brands (which I’ve never tried before). The Nutter Butter protein contains actual Nutter Butter pieces?? I’m in heaven! It was delicious!
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I have the same issue with my right elbow. Injured it over a year ago, perhaps will be 2 years this year and it never healed because my job entails swinging a sledge for hours on end sometimes and my elbow just dies. It’s been much better lately, but at it’s worse I couldn’t curl anything. I simply worked around it, no regular curls or ez curls, sometimes I could do ez bar with hands on the inner curves, if I went on the outer it would be impossible to do one curl. I believe I also went with hammers for a while, but essentially tweaked my whole workout around it and never forced painful movements. The pain is so sharp it sucks. I’ll still get it from time to time doing French presses with an ez bar or machine with the same knurling. Neutral grip is your friend in hammers for example or I do over head tricep extensions with a rope where grip is neutral and it doesn’t hurt. If hand is pronated as in tricep push downs, or French presses or supinated for curls etc that’s where it’s more vulnerable. Try bpc 157 and work around it, it’ll get better if you don’t stress it continuously.3/7/25
Coach: @tbda
AM Weight: 197.5
Gear: 100mg test c
Sleep: 7.5 hr
Diet:
7am: 74g chex mix; 2 scoops whey protein (50g protein, Ghost, Cinnamon Cereal Milk flavored)
11am: 165g chicken, 216g rice, 200g green beans
2pm: 1.25 scoops why protein (32g protein, Ghost, Nutter Butter flavored), 200g green beans
6pm: 6 fried chicken wings, 2tbs blue cheese dressing, medium fries
9pm: 0.5 scoops whey protein (13g protein)
Macros: 2995 kcal, 228g protein, 113g fat, 263g carbs
Water: 5.5L
Workout: Pull Day B
Cardio: 30 min treadmill, 3.5 speed x 3.5 incline
Exercises: Pull-ups, Machine row, bent over barbell row, hammer curls, single arm lat pulldown, ez-bar curl, vertical leg raise, plated ab crunch machine
Notes: Well I did it. I finally had my first actual cheat meal. Had wings with some friends tonight. Though I tried to plan for it and I had a little more then a scoop of protein and 200g of green beans in place of the rice and ground beef for lunch. I ended up OK on the calories but was lower on my protein then I would have liked. I've decided the Ghost whey protein is my new go-to protein. A few more calories but man its delicious. So I may have ordered another 5-6 tubs of various flavors....
My workout wasn't great today. My golfer's elbow was incredibly painful. I had to only do one set of 6 pullups then I had to drop the remaining. I changed strict curls to hammer curls as well.Also, I tried ez-bar curls but just couldn't put any weight on by that point of the workout. Anyone have any tips for managing? I did order some indomethacin from YMS.
Tomorrow is check-in day with @tbda and I'll get some progress photos. I'm assuming he'll be incrementally dropping my calories. Didn't lose weight this week so far.
I have the same issue with my right elbow. Injured it over a year ago, perhaps will be 2 years this year and it never healed
Only because of my job you shouldn’t take anywhere close as long as I have recovering. Unless your job requires swinging for hours lolDang, two years? Definitely not what I was hoping to hear! Ironically, on my left elbow, I had tennis elbow, and then that seemed to have healed, but then turned into a golfer’s elbow and the other tendon. Thank you for the suggestion of the compression wraps. I do have some I’ve been trying to use, but I will look into the ones you mentioned.
It’s really frustrating modifying my workouts around it. Makes me feel like I’m definitely leaving gains on the table.
You’re about to have cock veins shooting up the abs, keep killing it bro3/8/25
Coach: @tbda
AM Weight: 197.5
Gear: none today
Sleep: 7.5 hr
Diet:
7am: 74g chex mix; 2 scoops whey protein (50g protein, Ghost, Cinnamon Cereal Milk flavored)
12am: 165g chicken, 180g rice, 250g green beans
4pm: 173g ground beef, 180g rice, 250g green beans
7pm: 196g salmon, 180g rice, 250g green beans
9pm: 2 scoops whey protein (50g protein)
Macros: 3061 kcal, 280g protein, 79g fat, 304g carbs
Water: 5.5L
Workout: Leg Day B
Cardio: --
Exercises: Seated Leg Curls, Back Squats, Dumbbell Walking Lunges, Romanian Deadlifts, Lying Leg Curls, Standing Machine Calf Press
Notes: Great workout today. I've only been squatting for a short period of time. Did 185 for 12 reps, which I know is a low weight but I was happy with it today. Romanian Deadlifts were 245lbs for three sets of 15.
I had my weekly check-in with @tbda this morning. We are lowering the rice and upping the greens. Hunger was high this week (which seems odd for eating 3k calories), so I've got to stay committed to the program. He did add one free meal a week, which my wife will appreciate for date night. Also, because of some nagging injuries i'm switching from PPLPPL-Rest to resting on Wednesdays and Sundays each week. Wednesdays will be core and cardio only. We are not adding a GLP1, I'll just learn to man up and be ok being hungry.
Some of my bloodwork came back and aside from HDL being low and LDL being on the high normal, it looks good (that's genetic for me, my lipids have always looked like that).
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Respect for not taking the GLP-1.3/8/25
Coach: @tbda
AM Weight: 197.5
Gear: none today
Sleep: 7.5 hr
Diet:
7am: 74g chex mix; 2 scoops whey protein (50g protein, Ghost, Cinnamon Cereal Milk flavored)
12am: 165g chicken, 180g rice, 250g green beans
4pm: 173g ground beef, 180g rice, 250g green beans
7pm: 196g salmon, 180g rice, 250g green beans
9pm: 2 scoops whey protein (50g protein)
Macros: 3061 kcal, 280g protein, 79g fat, 304g carbs
Water: 5.5L
Workout: Leg Day B
Cardio: --
Exercises: Seated Leg Curls, Back Squats, Dumbbell Walking Lunges, Romanian Deadlifts, Lying Leg Curls, Standing Machine Calf Press
Notes: Great workout today. I've only been squatting for a short period of time. Did 185 for 12 reps, which I know is a low weight but I was happy with it today. Romanian Deadlifts were 245lbs for three sets of 15.
I had my weekly check-in with @tbda this morning. We are lowering the rice and upping the greens. Hunger was high this week (which seems odd for eating 3k calories), so I've got to stay committed to the program. He did add one free meal a week, which my wife will appreciate for date night. Also, because of some nagging injuries i'm switching from PPLPPL-Rest to resting on Wednesdays and Sundays each week. Wednesdays will be core and cardio only. We are not adding a GLP1, I'll just learn to man up and be ok being hungry.
Some of my bloodwork came back and aside from HDL being low and LDL being on the high normal, it looks good (that's genetic for me, my lipids have always looked like that).
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Respect for not taking the GLP-1.
Getting a coach was genius bro! I got @Meetketchup and my entire outlook and approach has changed. I'm seeing gains and fat losses i never had before. Strong work bro...GIT SOME!OK, at the urging of my coach, I’ve decided to start a log. I’m a regular Joe—no special genetics, underweight for my height, on medically necessary TRT, no plans on competing, and not particularly strong. Just a guy trying to ditch the dad bod and keep up with my wife (who is way hotter than me). Did I oversell this log? lol
History:
My transformation actually started 18 months ago. I weighed 250 lbs and was probably like 1000% body fat. I dropped to 230 using tirzepatide then got on TRT. I cut down to 188, then slow-bulked to 205, where I’ve been steady for several months.
I’ve run bodybuilding programs (mostly Jeff Nipard-style) in the past and tried too many compounds—test, primo, mast, tren, etc. At first, I thought they didn’t work on me, or I needed higher doses. Reality check: I had completely unrealistic expectations and underestimated the impact of diet, workout intensity, and sleep. Even so, I got some results I was happy with (photo below), but I left a ton of gains on the table.
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Left is me a year ago at 230 lbs. Right is me at my last check-in with my coach (197 lbs).
Current:
I decided to go all in—not for competition, but for myself. I had no idea if a coach would even work with a guy like me, but after a recommendation from @JACKED_ , I hired @tbda as my coach —and he’s awesome! He is super responsive, understanding of my goals, not pushing gear just to push gear, and not crazy expensive.
Goal:
Stats:
- Finally find my six pack; AKA cut to sub-10% BF over ~12 weeks (or whatever it takes), then bulk properly and put on some serious mass
Coach: @tbda
- Age: 39
- Height: 6’3”
- SW: 205
- CW: 197
Cycle:
Diet:
- Weeks 1-4: TRT (200mg test)
- Weeks 5-12: 500mg test / 300mg mast
- Bulk phase: TBD (will update)
- Using primarily @StadaLabs gear (though I have a bit of @Marathon gear as well)
Diet plan was made by my coach, @tbda. Same diet every training day, followed to the gram—no cheat meals (yet), no guesswork. He and I are fighting, though, because he took away my fruity pebbles.
Macros: ~3,042 kcal, 278g protein, 78g fat, 296g carbs
- 5am (pre-workout): 74g Rice Chex
- 7am (post-workout): 50g whey protein
- 10am: Chicken, rice, veggies (~60g protein)
- 2pm: Ground beef, rice, veggies (~60g protein)
- 6pm: Salmon, rice, veggies (~50g protein)
- 9pm: 50g whey + 12g peanut butter
Training:
- PPLPPL, Sunday Rest.
- Every set to failure
- Cardio: 4x LISS (30 min treadmill)
- Core twice per week
Today was push day, but I’ve logged enough for now. Pull day tomorrow.
Getting a coach was genius bro! I got @Meetketchup and my entire outlook and approach has changed. I'm seeing gains and fat losses i never had before. Strong work bro...GIT SOME!
Remember it's a nice long walk in the country, not a race.It’s really been an eye opening experience. My diet has never been so honed in (literally to the gram) and I’m historically one who thought the compounds and grams I used are what made the cycle. When I realized it was diet, intensity, and rest aided by the compounds, it totally shifted how I view AAS now.
The start here feels a little slow as we are getting the macros dialed in, but excited to hit it into the next gear here.
Remember it's a nice long walk in the country, not a race.
Are you guys recomping? I see your weight has been hovering at 197-198lbs.
Is the weekly cheat meal for mental purposes to minimize cravings the rest of the week?Coach reminded me that on Saturday he cut 50g of carbs from training days and 30g on non-training days. My cheat meal last night didn’t help my morning weigh in, but we’ll see how that moves the needle come my check-in on Saturday.
Is the weekly cheat meal for mental purposes to minimize cravings the rest of the week?
Too damned sweet!Mine is definitely fruity pebbles or cocoa pebbles. Definitely good stuff!
Too
Too damned sweet!
That may be the only one I haven’t tried. I have tried the cocoa pebbles flavor. Pretty good!Oh man, so good. Started buying the fruity cereal whey protein to get my fix