Bork
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I am moving the exercise portion of my steroid cycle log here. The goal of my training and steroid cycle is to gain both fat and muscle to help recover from severe burns on my body.
The excess fat I’m storing will be used for debridement and skin grafts sometime this year if it’s determined to be necessary. I’m heavily pushing for the grafts because I do not like where I’m at, but if they can’t do it then then next best thing is continual stretching.
A considerable portion of my burn tissue was removed completely and “sewn” back together. Ick. This resulted in significant loss of lean muscle mass in my chest. In fact, prior to steroids I was 100% certain if I ever had gains, I’d have passive alien gains on my chest because I wasn’t sure I’d ever get that muscle back. However, per my exercise and cycle, it seems to be returning to relatively normal…
It took a long time to get back to somewhat normal, but I’ve successfully stretched my skin considerably since then.
However, significant contracture remains. Being ripped causes this scar to contract further and causes me discomfort. Enter steroids, which I know aren’t magical at all, but are helping with recovery. There are currently limits to what I can lift without causing contractural discomfort, but I have to keep pushing that boundary.
I have a legit prescription for oxandrolone and medium-high TRT (250mg), plus HGH. But why not get some gains too… As it stands, I’m taking 3x more test than prescribed and have yet to request the oxandrolone or HGH because I plan on having grafts soon. These will definitely be used following the reconstructive surgery, if I can get it, in November.
Stretching is slow, sometimes painful (but only in one spot as there are no more nerves on the majority of scar tissue) and takes up a lot of time. You might notice I spend an awful lot of time on only upper body exercises that seem lower in weight than a lot of people are used to. This is why. I’m working on slowly stretching out these scars per doctor recommendation.
Since starting my exercise routine (I did this before steroids), I’ve gained significant muscle mass naturally which has caused growth in my chest muscles (roughly 1 inch of chest muscle as of today), which I never thought I’d get back again… This growth is causing my skin to get somewhat tighter, BUT not uncomfortably so and it’s also providing passive stretching gains at the same time.
Plus I’m doing semi strongman training to get my strength back. I believe if I can get the contracture issue done away with, I’ll knock out several goals in one.
The combined fat and muscle gains, along with slow holding of reps is helping to continue to stretch my scar tissue, resulting in less discomfort while also giving me gains. I have a long way to go, but I’m working on it with the help of medical professionals. Covid fucked me up too, but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to this.
The excess fat I’m storing will be used for debridement and skin grafts sometime this year if it’s determined to be necessary. I’m heavily pushing for the grafts because I do not like where I’m at, but if they can’t do it then then next best thing is continual stretching.
A considerable portion of my burn tissue was removed completely and “sewn” back together. Ick. This resulted in significant loss of lean muscle mass in my chest. In fact, prior to steroids I was 100% certain if I ever had gains, I’d have passive alien gains on my chest because I wasn’t sure I’d ever get that muscle back. However, per my exercise and cycle, it seems to be returning to relatively normal…
It took a long time to get back to somewhat normal, but I’ve successfully stretched my skin considerably since then.
However, significant contracture remains. Being ripped causes this scar to contract further and causes me discomfort. Enter steroids, which I know aren’t magical at all, but are helping with recovery. There are currently limits to what I can lift without causing contractural discomfort, but I have to keep pushing that boundary.
I have a legit prescription for oxandrolone and medium-high TRT (250mg), plus HGH. But why not get some gains too… As it stands, I’m taking 3x more test than prescribed and have yet to request the oxandrolone or HGH because I plan on having grafts soon. These will definitely be used following the reconstructive surgery, if I can get it, in November.
Stretching is slow, sometimes painful (but only in one spot as there are no more nerves on the majority of scar tissue) and takes up a lot of time. You might notice I spend an awful lot of time on only upper body exercises that seem lower in weight than a lot of people are used to. This is why. I’m working on slowly stretching out these scars per doctor recommendation.
Since starting my exercise routine (I did this before steroids), I’ve gained significant muscle mass naturally which has caused growth in my chest muscles (roughly 1 inch of chest muscle as of today), which I never thought I’d get back again… This growth is causing my skin to get somewhat tighter, BUT not uncomfortably so and it’s also providing passive stretching gains at the same time.
Plus I’m doing semi strongman training to get my strength back. I believe if I can get the contracture issue done away with, I’ll knock out several goals in one.
The combined fat and muscle gains, along with slow holding of reps is helping to continue to stretch my scar tissue, resulting in less discomfort while also giving me gains. I have a long way to go, but I’m working on it with the help of medical professionals. Covid fucked me up too, but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to this.
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