Pre-Contest, AML Gear, 3J serviced Cycle Thread

[Onk]

Figured I'd log my next 15 weeks cycling into a contest (IFBB) in November.

In advance, this isn't my first rodeo, I've used all these different compounds except the tren and the halo
Hence with the tren I'm using tren a, and not starting halo until well into the tren.
If I don't like the halo I'll drop it.

AML: I'd like to thank Schredder for all his help here. The guy is respectable and cares a lot. Could not ask for more in a confidant. AML runs as smooth as anything else I've used, good value for money in my opinion

3J: I paid for his services for a year but honestly used them rigorously for 3 months into Feb and haven't been as close since. I'm eating 5k calories a day and will seek his advice more soon as I need to cut. Should mention, my current avatar as at 30-July-15 is me at 85kgs last year. I'm over 15kgs heavier right now but nearly as lean. I can thank 3J for that

Stats:
26 y.o
187cm tall (6'1)
101kg (~223 lbs)

The Cycle ::: All AML gear/products
Currently in week 13 of 28.3

1-4 tbol 80mg ED
1-18 EQ 1200mg
1-21 test e 500mg
1-28 mast e 800mg

22-28 test e 600mg
22-28 test p 450mg (pinned EoD)
22-28 tren a 450mg (pinned EoD)
24-28 winny 80-100mg ED (will gauge)
25-28 halo 30mg ED

Mid week 29 is the contest. Hence the days are slightly off as I'll stop pinning 6 days before contest, then run the winny and halo up until show day.

PCT: 2 weeks after the show, hence giving the test e the full 3 weeks to clear

AI: I have been using adex 0.5mg EoD up until now. Will increase as I hit week 22 with more test in my body.

Blood work: Got pre blood work, got first lot of "intra-cycle" bloods, will get new ones at week 24 and then again afterwards.

T3 and clen as needed, getting closer to the show.

Training split:
5-6 days a week

M: Legs
Tu: Chest
W: Back
Th: Shoulders
F: Arms
Sa: anything I feel I missed, or start with legs again and bring my week forward a day.

If I'm sore, I train the next body part. I listen to my body in eating and training. If I need to eat more, I eat. If I need to sleep more...I sleep more. If my body is sore then I make sure to rest that area...

 

[Onk]

Quick thanks to the people that helped me thus far:

Schredder: cycle advice, genuine enthusiasm, willing to offer advice readily and helpfully and AML assistance. Because of time zone differences I send him a message and always have a reply before waking
China: cycle advice and a good lesson on halo
Snow: The most crazy detail and cycle articulation one could hope for. You're incredibly thorough and I love it
Half-wit: Our compound discussions and for teaching me how to pin pecs, life saver.
Megatron: My man, would be no where without you. Advice, wisdom and being that pillar of functional knowledge.
3J: For putting up with my questions, as when I get going, I ask a lot!
Prince: Only other truly active Aussie on these forums. We speak a lot and have heaps in common. A great mate and sounding board for ideas.
Tbonexl: For pointing out that you don't need to make new threads (you having never started a thread) to show wisdom.

 

[Southernfish]

Ive been looking forward to this Onk and thank you for the compliments, Im glad I can help and of course am always here to offer advice at any time.

I will be following this without a doubt from start to finish, and I know youre gonna kill it and HAVE been killin it.

Get on board with this on guys, its gonna be a good one.

 

[halfwit]

Looks fantastic, but why the EQ? I'm still trying to figure out why it's so popular when the only thing I can see it benefitting would be appetite. It just seems like an athletic performance enhancer more than anything, and I would be worried about red blood cells going crazy.

Other than that, sounds like you're going to tear shit up!

 

[3J]

everything looks great!!

why wait till you cut bro??hit me up lets do this!!!

 

[Onk]

Ive been looking forward to this Onk and thank you for the compliments, Im glad I can help and of course am always here to offer advice at any time.

I will be following this without a doubt from start to finish, and I know youre gonna kill it and HAVE been killin it.

Get on board with this on guys, its gonna be a good one.

Hell to the YES!

I'm actually hankering to do your crazy bicep curls with arms by the side doing that almost scraping action tomorrow. Can't remember the name but that thing kills me!

 

[Onk]

Looks fantastic, but why the EQ? I'm still trying to figure out why it's so popular when the only thing I can see it benefitting would be appetite. It just seems like an athletic performance enhancer more than anything, and I would be worried about red blood cells going crazy.

Other than that, sounds like you're going to tear shit up!

Honestly, next time I'd do deca. EQ has been great and at 300mg/mL it's very do-able per week to do 1200mg but it just isn't quite strong enough bang for buck.

However, it has made eating easy and kept me lean. Going from 3.5k to 5k calories really wasn't too hard with it. I usually feel like eating at night more than the morning as that's when I train but I near finishing work and eat massive, then finish gym and eat massive.

So in that round about way I'm saying it helps with the eating and staying lean and dry. Deca would also work but that's for next time.

 

[Onk]

everything looks great!!

why wait till you cut bro??hit me up lets do this!!!

Love the enthusiasm

I'll hit you up tonight!

Haven't measured body parts for a week or two so will want those.

 

[Buzzbait]

Well I'm fucking stoked. Kill that shit brother

 

[bigben66]

I'm in for the ride Onk... Always interesting to see a pre-comp cycle and how it progresses...

I have similar goals for next year so I'll be watching closely.

Go smash it!

 

[Onk]

did chest and then went to soccer training today. Soccer training is every Thursday so my workouts are a little rushed to make it there on time. Training goes for 2 hours.

Chest >>>
5 min walk to the gym is my warm up LOL

Decline bench
20x 60kgs
10x 100kgs
5x 130kgs
1x 150kgs >> actually meant to go to 140kgs SO HOLY FUCK I'M GLAD I GOT THIS ONE OUT, had no spot...
8x 130kgs
10x 100kgs
10x 100kgs
10x 60kgs

Incline bench
10x 60kgs
4x 120kgs
4x 120kgs
6x 100kgs
quick drop into 15x 60kgs, wanted 20x but didn't get there

Machine press (flat)
Honestly don't know the weight, I just know I can do the whole stack (prob around 140-150kgs)
Did 4 sets of as many as I can do...

Fly machine
10x 90kg
4x 120kg
8x 100kg
8x 100kg
straight into 20x 50kg

Cable upwards flys
4x 40kgs until failure
super set with wide pushups >> burn baby burn

** got a call from my gf, she was going to be late home, so I had an extra 20 minutes, TIME FOR TRICEPS!!!

Triceps >>>

DB overhead ext
10x 20kgs
4x 27.5kg
6x 25kg
8x 25kg
20x 20kg >> ok I had to start and stop a few times, but fuck me this tires you out!

Cable rope push down
3x 80kgs for as many as I can do, usually 10-15
>> just overloading the muscle, already hurting

Tricep pressdown machine, which also does chest a bit
6x 115kg (max machine weight), again, as many as I can do. Utter failure on the last set.
Literally had to lie down afterwards I was that done...

Quickly go home and eat a meal, then drive out to soccer. Came home and was buggered (aussie slang for exhausted).

 

[Megatron28]

Onk: would you mind walking us through your thought process for which compounds you chose and the timing of their use in your cycle? I would love to hear what went into putting this cycle together.

Good luck with your show.

If I am ever is Aussieland I've got the first shout!

 

[Onk]

Onk: would you mind walking us through your thought process for which compounds you chose and the timing of their use in your cycle? I would love to hear what went into putting this cycle together.

Good luck with your show.

If I am ever is Aussieland I've got the first shout!

Not a problem mate.

Test E - no brainer, 500mg standard, max I've done is 750mg but I prefer lower Test and higher other compounds to do the work. Less estrogen worries as well.

Test p - brought this in at the end so I can stop the test e a week earlier so it's mostly out of my system before the show. Can stop the test p 5-6 days b4 the show and then it's all out of my system. Allows for quicker PCT but also less change of holding more water. I'll also be raising my AI dosage the week of the show. Make sure no water is being held. Diuretics also help here.

Tbol - not much bloat or aromatisation here. Dbol without the side effects (nor some of the bigger gains) but that was fine with me. Synergises well with the lower test and EQ

Eq - Needs a lot to get much out of it and is a very long ester. AML's EQ is at 300mg/mL so 4mL a week isn't much to pin at E3.5D. I chose this over deca because the shutdown isn't quite as hard, because it does't aromatise as much and because I've tried deca and never EQ. A long cycle seemed to warrant EQ here. I'd probably do deca next time and dose around 1g per week.

Mast E - One of my favourite compounds. Helps slightly as an AI, helps with your aesthetic but I also wanted to run Mast e over Mast p because I wanted to know exactly what my look was going to be as I kept cutting, rather than run it for the last 8-9 weeks and be less in the dark. Bit expensive to run it that long but...you get what you pay for. Also helps increase total T so that's a win!

Tren A - First time running tren so it was always going to be ace. 450mg is a medium dosage and I do have experience with a 19-nor. I start this after soccer season ends lest my cardio suffer. If I need to use t3 then this will certainly help!

Winny - My preference over anavar for cost/benefit. As it doesn't hurt my joints, I'm fine paying less money for similar results! Will be excellent at helping me during the last few weeks as I taper of test as I can run this up to and on the show day.

Halo - Something I haven't used before. Doesn't take much for effect and not sure how much it is going to help. I've competed naturally at 5-6% bf before with only clen assistance so I'm not TOO worried about dieting down. Strength boost and increased vascularity are meant to come with use so lets see how that goes....

 

[Onk]

Didn't post yesterday as I had a busy Friday night.

Shoulders + Biceps

Shoulders >>>
5x Machine shoulder press :: I have bad shoulders due to dislocations during gymnastics growing up. Need to do this
Maxed out at the machine's max weight of 140kgs. Had trouble due to doing triceps the day before....

Front BB raise
4x10 25kgs
2x10 20kgs

Side lat raise machine :: really love these machines...keeps you steady and great if you're worried about imperfections in form
1x10 40kg
2x4 65kg
2x6-8 55kg
1x20 30kg

21's of DB rear delt flys :: making sure to change grip from normal to neutral to reverse each 7 reps
4 sets of 12kg DBs

Shrug machine + BB upwards row
4 sets
shrugs I max the machine at 160kg (should do BB next time)
BB upwards row I do 60kg

Biceps >>>

3x Schredder body scrap things
grab a 30kg bar and instead of completing a normal bicep curl, raise the bar keeping it close to your body with elbows pinned to side, almost scraping your body. HARD WORK

BB preacher
8 sets
3x10 30kg
4x6 50kg
3x8 35kg

Seated hammer curls :: My right bicep is very weak at the bottom of the stretch compared to my left so I drop weights lower and try and work this asymmetry out
Forget how many sets, it was probably about 12 until I was dead and left the gym

3x 18kg DB - until fatigue
3x 16kg DB - ' '
3x 14kg DB - ' '
3x 12kg DB - ' '

 

[Onk]

Ok so I missed yesterday, my baddddd.

Monday was Back >>>

warm up
3x10 wide grip pullup

Deadlift
1x10 60kgs
1x 6 100kgs
1x4 140kgs
4x2 180 kgs (around my max weight)
1x3 140kgs
1x4 100kgs


close grip pull down
1x10 warm up at 80kgs
1x4 120kgs
2x8 100kgs straight into
1x20 50kgs

BB bent over row
4x20 80kgs

lat pull down machine (quite wide)
4x8 105 kgs

hyperextension
3 sets of pause holds at the top, until fatigue

 

[Onk]

Tuesday (today) Chest

no warm up, right into it!

Flat bench press
1x10 60kgs
1x10 100kgs
1x4 140kgs
2x6 130kgs
1x 8 120kgs
1x10 100kgs
** do this with 45 second rest breaks and you'll be pumped and looking like Arnie!

Jammer (weird incline press machine with no leg support
4x 80kgs

Flat bench DB fly
1x15 20kg dbs
3x10 25kg dbs (shoulder felt tight, didn't risk it)
1x15 20kg dbs

Pec Deck
4x 120kgs until fatigue
1x 100kgs until fatigue

Cable fly upwards
4x 30 ish kgs (hard to know, weights aren't labelled)
just pushing as much as I can, as slow as I can, for as long as I can. Maximise time under tension

Dip machine
4x 105 kgs (max weight of machine)

 

[Onk]

fuck me, been a few days since I posted. I'm a shit logged.

Wednesday, went in to do legs but they were after doing a few sets of light leg press my knees were hurting. Not risking that.

Shoulders >>> no weights here, just going to log it:

4x Machine press
4x Front BB raise
4x Side to front lat raise, transitioning from side at the top, to front then back down is one rep
4x Bent over DB raises as 21's. Neutral, back and normal grips
4x Smith mashine upright rows

 

[Onk]

Thursday I had off as I had a work function that night.

Friday was arms >> back started hurting actually....really strange

Triceps >>

Tricep dips
20x body weight
10x +10kgs
10x +15kgs
10x +20kgs (thought I would fatigue by now but.....nope)
8x 30kgs
5x +40kgs

drop set: 5x +40kgs
10x +20kgs
bodyweight until failure

Rope overhead extension
4x full stack of weight until fatigue

Weighted Pressdown aparatus
5x10 115kgs, with 15 second breaks. completely shreds your triceps out, make sure to pause at the full extension and spend more timing coming back up then extending

Biceps >>>

Preacher curl
10x 20kgs warmup
10x 30kgs
10x 35kgs
6x 40kgs
4x 45 kgs
5x 40kgs
10x 35kgs
10x 35 kgs

Incline DB curls
10x 16 kgs
8x 18kgs
4x 20kgs
6x 18kgs
6x 18kgs
10x 14kgs
20x 8kgs fucking burning here!!

and biceps are still tight today (sunday) from Fridays workout.

 

[halfwit]

Back pain from pumps? I do all my biceps work seated, it doesn't matter how good you are - standing will always involve the back to an extent.

Just a thought.

 

[Onk]

Weight check:

weighing in at 100kgs (220lbs)

am now exactly 10 weeks away from contest, as I moved to another one, in the next city up the coast. Friend has a wedding on the same day in November....so now competing in October...

Will start cutting in the next few days.