Mycelium
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Started TRT a month ago. 200mg test, 1mg ana, 1,000iu hCG per week. 1/2 Monday morning and 1/2 Thursday evening. hCG mornings before.
36, epileptic male with low T, 5' 10" 154.2 lbs and 13.6%bodyfat according to scale. Av is a month and about 8 or 9 pounds ago. 145lbs then.
Getting back into lifting. I'm a hard gainer. Never did weights till my 20s. Martial arts, boxing and stuff. If it's a fitness test like gym class or military style I've always excelled. All the men are relatively skinny except a cousin who is huge. Even in old age.
I've done high volume training before and my reps don't work out doing 3-4 sets with 8 reps and 4 exercises. If the first set I reach failure at 8 reps I'll be at 5 reps on the last set. Or I dont hit failure in earlier sets. I'll be at 16 reps on the first set when I got 8-10 on the last set.
I trained with my Dad and he had dropped his number of sets but went harder with negatives and forced reps as he got older. I made the best gains. Still do. HIT in theory. I didn't discover that branch till afterwards. I dont follow a specific theory or persons version. I just do a lift till I think I'm going to crap my pants or pass out. Slow controlled reps. If I got over 12 reps I push up the weight most of the time. Aiming for 5-6 reps. Then forced reps, negatives, partials and sometimes a drop set.
General warm up > couple warm up sets > every set to failure with extra. Flat bench, rows and deadlift are the hardest pushed.
'Back workout
DB Pullover: 2 warm up sets 1 heavy set
Bent BB row
DB row
Bent shrug
Rear Fly
BB curl
Legs
Squat 2 warm up and a decent set
Extension /Curls
Deadlift:
Calve raises
*I've thought about deadlifting first but I squat starting with the barbell on the ground and thats where it goes when I'm done. Weight in front. No catches or safteys. I want heavier squats so I do them early*
Front
Slight incline bench: 2 warm up 1 decent set
Flat bench
DB Fly finished with DB presses
Overhead DB extension.
I'm just going to positive failure now. About 2 workouts per group so far. Each body part getting hit once a week. 2-3 more weeks and I'll add on the intensity. I have a generic 1" bar "home gym". It works but that's what I'm working with.
Increased calories with 2,500 A day till yesterday or so when I set a goal of 3000. Medication and epilepsy causes "anorexia" and I don't get hungry and can feel physically I'll after eating. It basically gone at this point. I'm a house husband. Laundry, dishes, dinner. All that.
This is just the start. Goals are to bench and squat 225 for some reps and deadlift 300 for some reps. From then on I just want to see how many reps I can get. Ive benched over 200 a couple times in the past. Almost got 2 full reps. Ive deadlifted 220 by 10 relatively recent. I've had a couple huge ups and downs over the last 3 years. Lowest weight being about 137lbs and heaviest 162lbs. See what I look like when I get those numbers above for more than 2 reps.
Shred it . .
36, epileptic male with low T, 5' 10" 154.2 lbs and 13.6%bodyfat according to scale. Av is a month and about 8 or 9 pounds ago. 145lbs then.
Getting back into lifting. I'm a hard gainer. Never did weights till my 20s. Martial arts, boxing and stuff. If it's a fitness test like gym class or military style I've always excelled. All the men are relatively skinny except a cousin who is huge. Even in old age.
I've done high volume training before and my reps don't work out doing 3-4 sets with 8 reps and 4 exercises. If the first set I reach failure at 8 reps I'll be at 5 reps on the last set. Or I dont hit failure in earlier sets. I'll be at 16 reps on the first set when I got 8-10 on the last set.
I trained with my Dad and he had dropped his number of sets but went harder with negatives and forced reps as he got older. I made the best gains. Still do. HIT in theory. I didn't discover that branch till afterwards. I dont follow a specific theory or persons version. I just do a lift till I think I'm going to crap my pants or pass out. Slow controlled reps. If I got over 12 reps I push up the weight most of the time. Aiming for 5-6 reps. Then forced reps, negatives, partials and sometimes a drop set.
General warm up > couple warm up sets > every set to failure with extra. Flat bench, rows and deadlift are the hardest pushed.
'Back workout
DB Pullover: 2 warm up sets 1 heavy set
Bent BB row
DB row
Bent shrug
Rear Fly
BB curl
Legs
Squat 2 warm up and a decent set
Extension /Curls
Deadlift:
Calve raises
*I've thought about deadlifting first but I squat starting with the barbell on the ground and thats where it goes when I'm done. Weight in front. No catches or safteys. I want heavier squats so I do them early*
Front
Slight incline bench: 2 warm up 1 decent set
Flat bench
DB Fly finished with DB presses
Overhead DB extension.
I'm just going to positive failure now. About 2 workouts per group so far. Each body part getting hit once a week. 2-3 more weeks and I'll add on the intensity. I have a generic 1" bar "home gym". It works but that's what I'm working with.
Increased calories with 2,500 A day till yesterday or so when I set a goal of 3000. Medication and epilepsy causes "anorexia" and I don't get hungry and can feel physically I'll after eating. It basically gone at this point. I'm a house husband. Laundry, dishes, dinner. All that.
This is just the start. Goals are to bench and squat 225 for some reps and deadlift 300 for some reps. From then on I just want to see how many reps I can get. Ive benched over 200 a couple times in the past. Almost got 2 full reps. Ive deadlifted 220 by 10 relatively recent. I've had a couple huge ups and downs over the last 3 years. Lowest weight being about 137lbs and heaviest 162lbs. See what I look like when I get those numbers above for more than 2 reps.
Shred it . .