Hello all.
I’m 38, 6’2 and currently 280 pounds.
In my early to mid 20’s I was hardcore natty lifter (used Ephedra as it was OTC at the time, but no AAS) and all around gym rat – I was the big fat kid in High school and between 18-20 years of age I started hitting the gym hard and got very strict with my diet, lost over 100 pounds.
After flirting with a career as a model and as a male escort (just couldn’t figure out a way to do it lucratively ladies only, and I’m just not into dudes – not that there is anything wrong with that for folks who are), I went on to graduate school in my mid 20’s. Unfortunately, I turned away from healthy eating and regular daily workouts and started to eat like crap and I became and expert binge drinker during this time. Stress is a bitch and while I had a perfectly good mechanism in place to cope with it (the gym), I turned to drugs, alcohol, and food – biggest mistake in my life.
As you can imagine, in a few short years, I blew up like a motherfucker. I easily gained 110 pounds of fat over the course of about 5 years. I went from a 36 inch waist to a 54 inch waist to put this shit in some perspective. And to make things worse, when I finally completed school I found myself in a very high stress career sitting in front of a computer for 10-12 a day – it was very easy to get loaded at the end of the day and eat pizza to feel happy. So that’s what I did and my bad habits just continued on and on.
About 5 years ago, I realized that I had to get my shit together and the sooner the better. I’ve been working on my diet, exercise and addictions ever since. I’m happy to report that I’ve been able to manage my drinking for over a year – having the occasional 1-2 beers ever few months instead of 4-6+ beers every night as I would in the past. Also, over the past 5 years I’ve been making very very fucking painfully slow progress in the gym, but progress none the less. It was during this time I found through blood tests that my T was very low and I began researching TRT which further lead me into AAS research.
I wish I had been taking photos along the way as I have made a huge amount of progress over the past 5 years and especially over the past 1 year. I still have a ways to go to get where I would like to be, but I look good in my cloths, my waist went from a 56 back down to a 40, and I’m knocking on a 38 as we speak.
Near term goals (2-3 months) are to continue to gain muscle mass while slowing loosing body fat. Last summer I ran a lot ( at least for me) about 20-25 miles a week. My work out was 70% cardio and 30% lifting. As of last fall, I switched to 90% lifting 10% cardio in my workout routine. I’ve gained a shit load of muscle mass and strength over the past 5 months – and my waist is still shrinking! In about 2-3 months I’m going to kick into running again and switch to a 70% cardio 30% lifting routine (during this period I plan on lifting near my max weight for fewer reps in the hopes of maintaining muscle mass while cutting). My goal is to get to a solid 38 inch waist or better (big goal is 36) over the summer while maintain as much muscle as possible. Also watching my lovely man boobs disappear, slowly as fuck, but disappearing none the less.
I’m on TRT and I’m blasting short cycles of AAS with TRT between bloods. I’m in the middle of my second mini cycle and so far so good.
TRT protocol
150mg Test Cyp weekly
1000IU HCG weekly
1mg Amaridx weekly
Current mini cycle on top of TRT protocol (second cycle)
100mg Test PH eod (M,W,F)
20mg D-bol ed – (I was testing tolerance and took D-bol up to 40mg for a while but didn’t like the sides)
.25mg Amaridx as needed by feel
Prior mini cycle on top of TRT protocol ( first cycle)
250mg test cyp weekly – ( was concerned about long esters messing up TRT blood tests so probably won’t employ long ester compounds in the future, or if I do will only do so for first two - three weeks of 6-8 week cycle)
30mg Anavar daily – (Anavar was amazing for my cardio and I plan to run this again when I start up cardio and serious cutting in a few months)
.25 mg Amaridx as needed by feel
I’m 38, 6’2 and currently 280 pounds.
In my early to mid 20’s I was hardcore natty lifter (used Ephedra as it was OTC at the time, but no AAS) and all around gym rat – I was the big fat kid in High school and between 18-20 years of age I started hitting the gym hard and got very strict with my diet, lost over 100 pounds.
After flirting with a career as a model and as a male escort (just couldn’t figure out a way to do it lucratively ladies only, and I’m just not into dudes – not that there is anything wrong with that for folks who are), I went on to graduate school in my mid 20’s. Unfortunately, I turned away from healthy eating and regular daily workouts and started to eat like crap and I became and expert binge drinker during this time. Stress is a bitch and while I had a perfectly good mechanism in place to cope with it (the gym), I turned to drugs, alcohol, and food – biggest mistake in my life.
As you can imagine, in a few short years, I blew up like a motherfucker. I easily gained 110 pounds of fat over the course of about 5 years. I went from a 36 inch waist to a 54 inch waist to put this shit in some perspective. And to make things worse, when I finally completed school I found myself in a very high stress career sitting in front of a computer for 10-12 a day – it was very easy to get loaded at the end of the day and eat pizza to feel happy. So that’s what I did and my bad habits just continued on and on.
About 5 years ago, I realized that I had to get my shit together and the sooner the better. I’ve been working on my diet, exercise and addictions ever since. I’m happy to report that I’ve been able to manage my drinking for over a year – having the occasional 1-2 beers ever few months instead of 4-6+ beers every night as I would in the past. Also, over the past 5 years I’ve been making very very fucking painfully slow progress in the gym, but progress none the less. It was during this time I found through blood tests that my T was very low and I began researching TRT which further lead me into AAS research.
I wish I had been taking photos along the way as I have made a huge amount of progress over the past 5 years and especially over the past 1 year. I still have a ways to go to get where I would like to be, but I look good in my cloths, my waist went from a 56 back down to a 40, and I’m knocking on a 38 as we speak.
Near term goals (2-3 months) are to continue to gain muscle mass while slowing loosing body fat. Last summer I ran a lot ( at least for me) about 20-25 miles a week. My work out was 70% cardio and 30% lifting. As of last fall, I switched to 90% lifting 10% cardio in my workout routine. I’ve gained a shit load of muscle mass and strength over the past 5 months – and my waist is still shrinking! In about 2-3 months I’m going to kick into running again and switch to a 70% cardio 30% lifting routine (during this period I plan on lifting near my max weight for fewer reps in the hopes of maintaining muscle mass while cutting). My goal is to get to a solid 38 inch waist or better (big goal is 36) over the summer while maintain as much muscle as possible. Also watching my lovely man boobs disappear, slowly as fuck, but disappearing none the less.
I’m on TRT and I’m blasting short cycles of AAS with TRT between bloods. I’m in the middle of my second mini cycle and so far so good.
TRT protocol
150mg Test Cyp weekly
1000IU HCG weekly
1mg Amaridx weekly
Current mini cycle on top of TRT protocol (second cycle)
100mg Test PH eod (M,W,F)
20mg D-bol ed – (I was testing tolerance and took D-bol up to 40mg for a while but didn’t like the sides)
.25mg Amaridx as needed by feel
Prior mini cycle on top of TRT protocol ( first cycle)
250mg test cyp weekly – ( was concerned about long esters messing up TRT blood tests so probably won’t employ long ester compounds in the future, or if I do will only do so for first two - three weeks of 6-8 week cycle)
30mg Anavar daily – (Anavar was amazing for my cardio and I plan to run this again when I start up cardio and serious cutting in a few months)
.25 mg Amaridx as needed by feel
