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silver_shadow
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wtf, 500x3 DL after 365x4 squats.... you my friend are a freak 
anotherbutters
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Jim's nice little workout for his nice little journal 
. Except there's nothing little about a 500 triple - congrats!
. Except there's nothing little about a 500 triple - congrats!
xblitz44x
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Today I had my appointment with the urologist to address my low test levels (111L and 190L during two different tests). He thought I'd do well with hormone replacement and prescribed me medication called AndroGel which is testosterone that you rub into your chest/shoulders that gets absorbed into the body. He recommended 5 grams of gel everyday. I'm wondering how (if it all) this will effect my training. Hopefully for the better...
Tonights workout was pretty nice. It started off slow with a crappy bench but got better.
Bench:
135x5
185x5
225x5
255x5
290x2 (needed a little help on the 3rd rep)
245x8
*290 felt really heavy when I took it off the rack and, because of some shoulder pain, I lowered the bar extremely slow which I think caused me to fatigue too much to finish my third rep. 245 felt nice.
Bent Row:
145x5
195x5
215x5
235x5
255x5
225x8
*255 felt pretty easy for being the 'heavy set'. I was only shooting for 3 but was in a zone. With 225x8, the weight felt light but it was so difficult to touch to my stomach because I had such a pump in my lats.
Push Press:
145x5
165x5
195x5
215x3
165x8
*How some of you crazy sons of bitches have push pressed in the 300's is beyond me. Just amazing. 215 felt like it was going to stomp me into the floor. The good news is that it's a 30 lb jump from what I did last week.
Chins:
10lbsx8
10x8
10x8
Tomorrow I'm going to squat 5x5 with 325 and enjoy some calf work. Next week is my last week for this program; then I get to lay in a jacuzzi and nurse my battered joints for an entire week in Punta Cana. I'll post pictures for those who are interested.
Thanks for the support.
Jim
Tonights workout was pretty nice. It started off slow with a crappy bench but got better.
Thursday, April 13th
Bench:
135x5
185x5
225x5
255x5
290x2 (needed a little help on the 3rd rep)
245x8
*290 felt really heavy when I took it off the rack and, because of some shoulder pain, I lowered the bar extremely slow which I think caused me to fatigue too much to finish my third rep. 245 felt nice.
Bent Row:
145x5
195x5
215x5
235x5
255x5
225x8
*255 felt pretty easy for being the 'heavy set'. I was only shooting for 3 but was in a zone. With 225x8, the weight felt light but it was so difficult to touch to my stomach because I had such a pump in my lats.
Push Press:
145x5
165x5
195x5
215x3
165x8
*How some of you crazy sons of bitches have push pressed in the 300's is beyond me. Just amazing. 215 felt like it was going to stomp me into the floor. The good news is that it's a 30 lb jump from what I did last week.
Chins:
10lbsx8
10x8
10x8
Tomorrow I'm going to squat 5x5 with 325 and enjoy some calf work. Next week is my last week for this program; then I get to lay in a jacuzzi and nurse my battered joints for an entire week in Punta Cana. I'll post pictures for those who are interested.
Thanks for the support.
Jim
Guinness5.0
New member
Oh great - now another guy is gonna beat me to 600.
Wish I had low test levels
.
Wish I had low test levels
.
blut wump
New member
Rather than movng over to artificial test with the androgel, has the doctor examined or discussed regimes to restimulate your natural test production, maybe using HCG and SERMs, such as clomid?
It might be worthwhile your taking a read through the PCT forum on here, all of it, especially anything from Jenetic.
It might be worthwhile your taking a read through the PCT forum on here, all of it, especially anything from Jenetic.
xblitz44x
New member
blut wump said:
Hey Blump, the doctor didn't say anything about HCG or SERMs. I've had issues since I was young - probably 19'ish. The doc said something about part of the brain that produces testosterone. He's having me take an MRI to see what's going on.
What would the benefit be to use HCG over a test supplement?
blut wump
New member
HCG is used to stimulate your own test production. The problem with a test supplement is that it's like giving up on your own test. If your own test really is done for then there's no choice but to supplement but the downside to supplementing is that it will shut down your own production even further and eventually to zero. Beyond that point the various systems will continue to atrophy and you'll have to spend the rest of your life on synthetic testosterone.
I was really just asking whether the doctor had explored attempting to stimulate your HPTA (hypothalamus-pituitary-testicular axis) to ramp it up a gear or whether he'd just gone straight to supplementation. I'm no expert on any of this and a read through the PCT forum will make you as well-informed as I am.
By the way, it's not the brain that produces testosterone. Your hypothalamus and pituitary produce luteinising hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) which act on your Leydig cells and Sertoli cells in your testes to produce testosterone and promote spermatogenesis.
and the name's not Blump
I was really just asking whether the doctor had explored attempting to stimulate your HPTA (hypothalamus-pituitary-testicular axis) to ramp it up a gear or whether he'd just gone straight to supplementation. I'm no expert on any of this and a read through the PCT forum will make you as well-informed as I am.
By the way, it's not the brain that produces testosterone. Your hypothalamus and pituitary produce luteinising hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) which act on your Leydig cells and Sertoli cells in your testes to produce testosterone and promote spermatogenesis.
and the name's not Blump
