My ass-kicking road to getting HUGE

[xblitz44x]

Blitz,

regarding your low test levels you experienced and your so-so training, I have an opinion....

I believe that the massive amount of starches you combine with massive amounts of animal meat may be causing poor absorption of nutrients. Also, do you drink your milk after you eat or before? This may sound like silliness, but I notice I feel alot stronger if I eat my starches seperate from my meats. The enzymes your pancreas secretes for starches and meat are on the opposite end of the ph scale. Starches being alkaline and meat being acidic. The 2 cannot work together, and therefore cancel each other out.

The massive amounts of milk, if they are after you eat, can dilute your digestive juices, and therefore mess things up, digestively.

First and foremost, the male body needs well absorbed calories to produce testosterone.


And to add to Bigt's comment on total testosterone....

I have read that the free testosterone is what really matters. The main culprit in hindering free tesoterone is SHBG, or sex hormone binding globulin. There are things you can take to help free up your testosterone, instead of having it bind to stupid receptors and not work for you.

I've never heard anything like that before. I'm going to do some research and see what I can find. If you have any links or resources it would be awesome if you could post them. I appreciate your comments.

 

[xblitz44x]

With that said, I'm going to start a 6 week cutting cycle next week. I'm going to keep training the same, at least for the most part. I'm going to follow Lyle McDonald's The Ultimate Diet 2.0. Here's the link for the book: http://www.qfac.com/books/ultimatediet2.html

For those who are unfamiliar, here are the basics:

-Half of maintenance calories, and 50 carbohydrates on Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday.

-Thursday morning is low cal/carb but after workout begins the carb-up refeed into Friday evening. 1000+ carbs and a few thousand calories over maintenance.

-The weekends are pretty much maintenance calories with moderate carbohydrates.

I'll be posting a new journal.

 

[xblitz44x]

Thursday, June 15th

Squat:
225x5
275x3
315x3
355x3

*355 was pretty easy as expected. I worked in with some punk-ass kid doing half squats with 255. He had an attitude to him.

DE Deadlift:
225x3
275x2
315x2
315x2
315x2
315x2

*I went lighter this week because last week the weight was getting too heavy to rip up in a DE fashion.

Decline Crunches:
10x5
25x5
35x5

 

[Tweakle]

Interesting, I didn't realize you were in the low test club too.

Androgel is something I'd never touch personally, I figure if we need to replace what isn't there naturally why not push yourself up to above normal levels.. most HRT protocols are aimed at getting uncle peters limp dick working again with ridiculously low doses of test. But hell, a gram a week seems to be HRT for me these days so what do I know

great job on the deadlifts, and yeah I get the voices a lot these days.. I figure it's to do with the environment I train in - training in a good gym with solid partners I never got that pessimistic little voice telling me I'm going to drop the weight. You know what I do? I just snarl like a wildebeast in heat and rip the bar up.. fuck if some A&F twig or cardio-skank gets a giggle out of the 'theatrics', it's my lift.

for bringing up the bench - not inclines, certainly not imo.. declines and pause benching for 3's (use your 6RM and pause on the chest for every rep) are great for building support power (the decline lets you get used to heavier weights than you can flat bench) and explosion off the chest respectively (the pause benching)

 

[Tweakle]

and I wouldn't worry about inhibiting SHBG too much either.. try 250mg enth a week and see how that works out (split the shots into M/Thur), you could run a tiny amount of proscar and letro with it but honestly at that dose any sides from DHT or estro would be non-exisitant for anyone but the most unlucky guy

 

[draxxius]

Blitz,

found a good, simple source of information. If you want to look further, type in "eating meat and starch separate" in google. I saw many other good looking sites as well from this search.

http://www.zetatalk.com/food/tfood33d.htm

less than a page, but is right to the point. I learned something too. Ate chicken and meatloaf tonight with broccoli and cheese. No starch, but....I ate a small slice of cheesecake. About an hour and half after eating, my stomach was hurting. This page tells why. Interesting stuff, and not really complicated. The basics of chemistry.

 

[makeingains]

Very Good, you should do well with this.