ATHLETE SUMMARY:
PERSONAL THOUGHTS:
This has been such a great week for me on prep. You start out X weeks out and have a vision of where you want to land with your timeline and this prep got nailed. I wanted to be ready 2 weeks out and eat into the show and that is exactly what I can do now. Glutes came fully in with a skin fold site of 5mm and lines all the way to my booty crack. Really see that final change in my back shot. I add on the shot in the kitchen, because at this stage I like to see how the look appears with some overhead lighting which can really show the detail like you would see on stage. I like the direct lighting in the garage as in shows the truth of your conditioning and doesn’t exaggerate it like the overhead lighting. Anyway, the fat is off, now it’s just down to handling some light water manipulation through PED changes and dropping any cortisol driven water retention via fatigue management.
I hit a body weight low this week of 206.4lbs on Monday and looked a touch flat but ready here. Training performance has been taken a dive, so before I dug a hole, I couldn’t get out of I hit a 300g carb high day driving weight the next day up to 210.6lbs. I left the plan alone and the following day dropped back to 208.0lbs. Seeing the weight pulling back down and training performance back up I started the “eat into the show” process and add 50g carbs to my base diet on Wednesday. Training was stellar and took rep progressions across the board. Thursday, I dropped again to 207.8lbs, but left the plan the same. Friday, I dropped back to 207.0 and made the call for another 25g carbohydrate increase. Now today I wake up at 207.4lbs and likely will hold here and see how the look and weight changes.
Why add primarily carbohydrates? Increased training and recovery are the top of my list. I can keep fats trace as digestion and appetite are just fine. Carbohydrates will also increase insulin which will lower cortisol and potentially lead to improved thyroid output. Also sleep tends to improve more with carbohydrate over fat additions.
Since I look hard, I am yet to drop out any GH, testosterone, or yohimbine. I will likely wait till 7 days out to do so. Since training performance is increasing with food additions there is zero rationale for more drugs to be added. I will however drop out the oxandrolone and replace it with Halotestin as this compound had a profound impact on perception of fatigue and increasing performance. I had early planned to add it in with oxandrolone, but I see no reason to stack orals like that and this will limit health detriments. Looking back over this prep I think I can run a prep without any orals and keep lipids intact more by doing so.
With training improving I am not going to add more volume in just hold the plan steady and take small load progressions but primarily keep effort standardized at the RIR 1-0 with rep progressions from a safety standpoint.
Interesting note is I am now getting some slight night sweats. This is not “tren sweats” but related to estrogen. Estrogen has a central role in nighttime thermoregulation. Post-menopausal women get night sweats due to no longer producing estrogen. So takeaway is when you really lower estrogen night sweats can occur, but coincidently this is also the time we are implementing trenbolone and dropping out aromatizing compounds.
3 week out vs 2 week out pics
COACHING SUMMARY:
EVALUATION OF PAST WEEK:
Body fat is right on track. Will continue to add food and taper cardio as needed to maintain look and improve fullness/hardness.
CURRENT WEEK ACTION PLAN:
Diet change: 75g carbohydrate addition on training days
Cardio: None
PED Change: Stop Anavar, Add 20mg Halotestin 1 hour pre workout
CURRENT WEIGHT: 207.0
LAST WEEK WEIGHT: 208.6
CARDIO: 7 days x 35 minute on treadmill 12% 2.8mph
STEP COUNT: 12000
TRAINING SPLIT:
PULL
PUSH
DELTS/ARMS
LEGS
OFF
REPEAT
PEDS:
Testosterone Cypionate 40mg EOD
Masteron Proprionate 120mg EOD
Trenbolone Acetate 60mg EOD
STOP Oxandrolone
ADD Halotestin 20mg 1 hour preworkout
GH 2IU first thing AM ED
Clenbuterol 40mcg first thing AM ED
Aromasin 25mg ED
Yohimbine HCl 7.5mg in AM fasted
Metformin XR 500mg with last meal
Telmisartan 20mg ED
Cytomel 37.5mcg in AM fasted
HEALTH TRACKERS:
Blood pressure: 105/72 mmHG
Blood glucose: 79mg/dL
FLUID INTAKE: 2.0 GALLONS
SODIUM: 1/8 teaspoon salt all meals
TRAINING DAY DIET:
MACROS: 178c/281p/6f
MACROS change: 263c/270p/10f
*carbs add primarily around training
OFF DAY DIET
MACROS: 121c/283p/20f
