Excited for the future.
I saw a lot of potential when you reached out.
For those curious, our biggest focus so far has been improving blood sugar while still moving in the right direction.
As many know, I'm a minimalist, so I've made some adjustments that I thought were needed and Eric has been great in hearing those changes and putting them into place.
First thing was the diet. The diet wasn't awful, but, it wasn't ideal. There had a good bit of "processed" carbs that we removed, rice cakes mainly. We subbed these out for typical rice or potato. Mainly this was done to try and help the blood sugar.
Second was blood sugar readings throughout the day. This is a pain in the ass but, if it's done regularly we can find trends and adjust the diet further later on. We're still doing this since it just takes time.
Third we pulled some PEDs out and reduced some dosages. The total wasn't crazy but, I felt like there was a good bit of redundancy and since we're starting on a fresh footing (not much time with PEDs and gym time, generally speaking) no need to shoot for the moon yet.
Training changed a bit. He was running an upper lower which looked fine, I've had guy's make great progress on these splits and given he's only really been training and using PEDs for 2 years it's obviously working for him, but he wanted to change it up so we moved to a modified PPL to get the same higher frequency and a bit more focus on a couple body parts he didn't feel like were being trained sufficiently. The goal is get strong as fuck in the rep ranges we care about, grind a log book and train your dick off.
We've recently added a touch of cardio, this goes along with the figuring out his body part as well as helping the blood sugar that's been improving.
We've added greens to meals in places where the blood sugar wanted to trend up more then usual.
He had also started the retatrutide drug at 1mg before we started and we've kept this in and haven't increased it. Our "goal" is obviously to remove this when blood sugar gets back in line. Given where blood sugar was and how many things we needed to adjust at the time though, it was best to leave it in and see where things went so not EVERYTHING was changing all at once.
All of these changes were made in steps over the past couple weeks, nothing drastic because that doesn't work unless things are just a shit show, which they weren't.
So now, we just continue to adjust. The training, the diet, the cardio, possibly the drugs (they were just adjusted again y'day actually) and continue to improve the blood sugar while making solid steady progress.
Something everyone needs to remember. If you're looking for a coach or trying to do it on your own, it takes time to actually figure someone out. If you get a plan and in that first 4-6 weeks it doesn't change a few times, you either got REALLY lucky or, you're not getting your monies worth. After that though, plans can and usually should stick for weeks because it TAKES TIME.
