Am I too old?

I would personally try to dial-in my food at a caloric deficit while increasing my cardio until I start seeing the love handles disappear. Of course remain on your TRT dosage and maintain weightlifting, but bodybuilding shouldn’t be a priority, but rather the priority is to lose that excess midsection body fat.
Then after successfully, completing the above, which at your age, you should be able to do it in a 4 to 8 month window, then start ramping up the bodybuilding again for another several months before even considering additional PED’s on top of your TRT.

Just sharing my thoughts and recommendations, but would be delighted to hear the opinion of others as well as I am not a leading authority in this topic, just an experienced individual sharing from my own best practises and experiences.

Also, what is your current Tirz. dosage and cycle?
Additionally, using a GLP1 in attempting to build muscle is a conundrum.


Best of luck to you on this bodybuilding journey we are all on and love!
It's funny you should say that my workouts have become stagnant because I've been training for two in years and a little bit more regularly and I was killing it up till about 3 weeks ago. I am going, I am going for the same amount of time and putting in the work but I don't feel satisfied I'm not getting a pump and I'm going cuz I have to. So my gym enthusiasm is definitely wavered, but I didn't realize this could be part of The Hangover from the GLP1.
We're you taking both at once ?
4 -8 months , I thought J was going to be ready for the summer.
 
It's funny you should say that my workouts have become stagnant because I've been training for two in years and a little bit more regularly and I was killing it up till about 3 weeks ago. I am going, I am going for the same amount of time and putting in the work but I don't feel satisfied I'm not getting a pump and I'm going cuz I have to. So my gym enthusiasm is definitely wavered, but I didn't realize this could be part of The Hangover from the GLP1.
We're you taking both at once ?
4 -8 months , I thought J was going to be ready for the summer.


For one of my cycles (an eight week total cycle) I would do the Tirz. on Tuesdays and Reta. on Fridays.

Just allow me to also further emphasize the diet and cardio for your love handles. There’s no pill or injection that can match an extended duration of caloric deficit and cardio on fat.

Best of luck to you on this bodybuilding journey we are all on and love!
 
It's funny you should say that my workouts have become stagnant because I've been training for two in years and a little bit more regularly and I was killing it up till about 3 weeks ago. I am going, I am going for the same amount of time and putting in the work but I don't feel satisfied I'm not getting a pump and I'm going cuz I have to. So my gym enthusiasm is definitely wavered, but I didn't realize this could be part of The Hangover from the GLP1.
We're you taking both at once ?
4 -8 months , I thought J was going to be ready for the summer.
Ill toss my two cents in here. Im 61 and basically had the same thing happen. Id been lifting regularly but decided to up my game and try to grow again (while shrinking in other places). For a long time I was doing great then suddenly nothing. I did a bunch of reading here ( a lot of smart folks here) and surfed the web. I started looking at how Yates and Mentzer did it and kinda went that direction. I now do 2 days on: Chest 1, shoulders next, 2 off, then two on again: Back 1, arms/legs next (I know legs should be solo but my knees are bad enough I cant push them like I used to). Anyhow, I pick one exercise such incline bench, warm up, get to a weight I can do ten cleanly but struggle, then one set a little heavier and do as many cleanly as I can (usually around 5-6) then Ill do as many as I can sloppy, and finally just do half reps (all in the same set). I move on to the next movement and just do 10 clean, then heavier for clean/sloppy/half reps. I usually end up with 4 exercises before I have nothing left...take about 45 mins to an hour. Wont touch chest again for pretty much 8 days. Since starting this Ive starting making regular gains again and getting more size. For me being over 60, it was a matter of doing less but giving it all I have. I walk an hour a day on my off days for cardio. Might not work for everyone but works for me...sorry for the long post.
 
Voy a dar mi opinión. Tengo 61 años y básicamente me pasó lo mismo. Había estado levantando pesas con regularidad, pero decidí mejorar e intentar volver a crecer (mientras que encogía en otras partes). Durante mucho tiempo me iba bien y, de repente, nada. Leí mucho aquí (hay mucha gente inteligente aquí) y navegué por internet. Empecé a ver cómo lo hacían Yates y Mentzer y más o menos fui en esa dirección. Ahora hago dos días sí: pecho 1, hombros después, dos días no, luego dos sí otra vez: espalda 1, brazos/piernas después (sé que las piernas deberían estar solas, pero mis rodillas están tan mal que no puedo empujarlas como antes). En fin, elijo un ejercicio como banco inclinado, caliento, llego a un peso que puedo hacer diez limpiamente pero me cuesta, luego una serie un poco más pesada y hago tantas limpiamente como puedo (normalmente unas 5-6), luego hago tantas como puedo de forma descuidada, y finalmente solo hago medias repeticiones (todas en la misma serie). Paso al siguiente movimiento y solo hago 10 cleans, luego más pesado para cleans/sloppy/medias repeticiones. Normalmente termino con 4 ejercicios antes de quedarme sin nada; me toma entre 45 minutos y una hora. No vuelvo a tocar el pecho durante unos 8 días. Desde que empecé esto, he vuelto a ganar masa muscular con regularidad y a ganar más volumen. Para mí, con más de 60 años, era cuestión de hacer menos, pero darlo todo. Camino una hora al día en mis días libres para cardio. Puede que no funcione para todos, pero a mí me funciona... disculpen por la extensión de la publicación.
Creo que no es el camino, puedes lesionarte.
Aunque tengas más volumen muscular no estarás tan fuerte como entrenamiento intensivo..
 
Creo que no es el camino, puedes lesionarte.
Aunque tengas más volumen muscular no estarás tan fuerte como entrenamiento intensivo..
Maybe, but its working. As I said, it might not work for everyone but it works for me. I believe volume lifting was just too much for my old body. Couldnt recover like I needed to. With this method Im less tired, more energized in the gym, and showing results. Time will tell .
 
Maybe, but its working. As I said, it might not work for everyone but it works for me. I believe volume lifting was just too much for my old body. Couldnt recover like I needed to. With this method Im less tired, more energized in the gym, and showing results. Time will tell .
Amen I concur, I can certainly hold my own in the gym I'm 63 years old and I can go to toe or exceed the efforts of those much younger than me. Where I can't compete with those young fellas is the recovery so all I can still do the same amount of loads that I used to do when I was in my thirties I can do but then I have to take three or four days off because I'm shot haha
 
Amen I concur, I can certainly hold my own in the gym I'm 63 years old and I can go to toe or exceed the efforts of those much younger than me. Where I can't compete with those young fellas is the recovery so all I can still do the same amount of loads that I used to do when I was in my thirties I can do but then I have to take three or four days off because I'm shot haha
What a drag it is getting old ...

If you remember that Stones tune, you are getting there!
 
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