jimbothigpen
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I've poked my head in here off and on over the past six months to get a little perspective beyond the peptide-focused forums, but never bothered to join. Think I'm at the point now where I could use some expert help.
Never been a fitness weirdo before. Was athletic in HS a million years ago (water polo, wrestling, swim team), but never kept up with it after the late 80s, and by the time I hit 30 I'd started to lose whatever natural physique I'd previously had. Now: 54 year old man, 5'10", currently 183#, down from 242# mid-January, when my wife got me hooked on reta & tirz. Dropped weight really quickly, but a lot of muscle went with it. Tried to cheat with some high doses of SLU (200mg/day) for a month, which, judging by measurements, may have helped a bit, but didn't exactly make me shredded. Around mid-March, learned about low-dose Ostarine to help with GLP-1 induced muscle loss, started an "anti-aging" dose of HGH (3iu/day), and built a stack for bumping up endogenous test levels -- 25mg enclo/day, 500iu HCG every 3 days, and 500mcg Kisspeptin every 3 days -- which tripled my total test from low 200s to nearly 750, and free test from low-normal to high-normal. Been alternating SLU 100 to 200mg/day for 30 days and Ostarine 5mg/day for 30 days.
Same time I started the Ostarine, HGH, and test stack, I started lifting for the first time in my life, along with my wife and son. First month, we went every 3 days, and just did a single set of 10 to failure, progressive overload -- this was mostly to get us acclimated to the routine. After that first month, we've been going every other day, increased to 3 sets, aiming for failure on the last. Still using the machines at my local rec center -- wanted to start out with something that wouldn't break me if I didn't know what I was doing. Most of the machines kind of force you to have good form, so not much of a learning curve. Might be ready to learn how the big kids do it now, and try out the free weights.
Here's where I started:
And here's where I am now:
I'm pretty damned proud of the progress I've made in less than 6 months, but realize I have a long road still ahead of me. Need to burn the rest of that abdominal fat away and get those latent abs popping, and maybe get a little better pectoral definition. Shooting for 165#, 10-12% body fat -- looking more for the Bruce Lee physique than Terminator, but my frame might not be quite right for that.
Looking forward to soaking up all the accumulated wisdom here.
Never been a fitness weirdo before. Was athletic in HS a million years ago (water polo, wrestling, swim team), but never kept up with it after the late 80s, and by the time I hit 30 I'd started to lose whatever natural physique I'd previously had. Now: 54 year old man, 5'10", currently 183#, down from 242# mid-January, when my wife got me hooked on reta & tirz. Dropped weight really quickly, but a lot of muscle went with it. Tried to cheat with some high doses of SLU (200mg/day) for a month, which, judging by measurements, may have helped a bit, but didn't exactly make me shredded. Around mid-March, learned about low-dose Ostarine to help with GLP-1 induced muscle loss, started an "anti-aging" dose of HGH (3iu/day), and built a stack for bumping up endogenous test levels -- 25mg enclo/day, 500iu HCG every 3 days, and 500mcg Kisspeptin every 3 days -- which tripled my total test from low 200s to nearly 750, and free test from low-normal to high-normal. Been alternating SLU 100 to 200mg/day for 30 days and Ostarine 5mg/day for 30 days.
Same time I started the Ostarine, HGH, and test stack, I started lifting for the first time in my life, along with my wife and son. First month, we went every 3 days, and just did a single set of 10 to failure, progressive overload -- this was mostly to get us acclimated to the routine. After that first month, we've been going every other day, increased to 3 sets, aiming for failure on the last. Still using the machines at my local rec center -- wanted to start out with something that wouldn't break me if I didn't know what I was doing. Most of the machines kind of force you to have good form, so not much of a learning curve. Might be ready to learn how the big kids do it now, and try out the free weights.
Here's where I started:
And here's where I am now:
I'm pretty damned proud of the progress I've made in less than 6 months, but realize I have a long road still ahead of me. Need to burn the rest of that abdominal fat away and get those latent abs popping, and maybe get a little better pectoral definition. Shooting for 165#, 10-12% body fat -- looking more for the Bruce Lee physique than Terminator, but my frame might not be quite right for that.
Looking forward to soaking up all the accumulated wisdom here.
