Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below I am just finishing up my first week of a test e cycle doing 600mg a week. I inject Mindy morning and Thursday night. I'm up like 5lbs already(water). I just want to know why I get pumps doing like everyday activities. I mean I like it and it feels good I was just wondering if this is a normal effect most people have when using test only.
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5-6% BF bro? That is super shredded. I doubt you are that low. Post some pics in your log.
kx250rider
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That's low, and very hard to maintain for most people including myself... I'm at 5.3, and you can see every vein on my abs, and my arms. I'm not very big, so if I don't keep the bf% low, I just look average physique. I'm not sure I want to be this lean for health reasons, but my wife likes it
. She likes the young boy athlete look, not the bulky mature look on me. (I was 200 lbs @ 12-16% bf up to about 2 years ago... Solid, and bigger, but no vascularity or cut detail on the abs & delts, which is what I go for now)Charles
kx250rider
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Off topic, but I've only been able to post links to my Photobucket page; haven't figured out how to embed photos. I'm being lazy to ask in this thread, but I didn't find anything about it with a quick scan of the help and FAQs. I've tried with html, etc. No luck. Are we blocked, or do I need a platinum membership to post pics?
Charles
Charles
I will defInitely try and post pics and I just cut up all summer so that when I started my cycle I wasn't fat..I ate 2 meals a day. Workout and a post workout. It was so hard. I used the intermittent fasting diet and it works wonders. Basically I ate no food and only cheated Sunday but it wasn't cheating really I just ate some extra carbs.
RADAR
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Starving isn't a good idea you can only do it for so long "this is where the yo-yo diet was invented"
You starve yourself,then when you're able to eat again the body start packing up storing everything it can get because it is prepairing itself just in case you do a starvation diet again,so you loose but you come back weighing more with more fat,the cycles continues over & over hence the "yo-yo" diet.
RADAR
You starve yourself,then when you're able to eat again the body start packing up storing everything it can get because it is prepairing itself just in case you do a starvation diet again,so you loose but you come back weighing more with more fat,the cycles continues over & over hence the "yo-yo" diet.
RADAR
I definitely did not lose muscle while doing it and I got shredded. Search it on google. It's called intermittent fasting. I was actually less hungry. I beleive it's because when you eat every 2 hours your blood sugar levels are always high. Insulin levels are always high then. You get insulin insensitive this way that's why I think the diet works well. When u eat your insulin spikes but only twice during the compared to 6 - 8 times a day. Also, Ive read articles wheeee they said that as long as your training you don"t lose muscle. I know this is true since it worked for me. The diet makes sense. Insulin makes you fat even though it's very anabolic. I wasn't starving myself. I ate twice a day (pre post workout) at night. I actually gained a little strength while doing this.
Again^^^
Whether it worked for you or not (to lose fat) is not exactly the issue. Your body requires a minimal amount of calories and nutrition just to function properly. Your muscles aren't the only things that require constant nourishment.
The way to control insulin levels while dieting is by either carb cycling or by doing a ketosis diet.
Dieting to lose fat is ALL about insulin control (through carb control) and consuming less calories than you expend daily.
You can still eat 6 or 7 times a day an achieve the same results and keep more mass(yes, you lost lean mass with intermittent fasting), and not be nearly as bad for your body.
Fat and protein stimulate almost no insulin response in comparison to carbs, and therefore maintains proper sensitivity to insulin.
Trust me bro, there have been lots of guys doing this game for decades, and you will never see a person eating only twice a day ever. It is poor dieting practice.
kx250rider
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My proven way to lose fat and keep muscle is to eat 5 or 6 small, balanced meals a day, with most of the protein in the morning to early afternoon. NO fats or carbs after about 4PM. Everybody is different, but I can be really pudgy, or really ripped. About the fasting, I've been in some hard times in the past, and only ate once or twice a day for awhile while I was in my late teens/early 20s. At one time, I discovered I was down to 129 lbs, at 6 feet! Friends said I looked like a Nazi prison camp escapee. But I still had a thick layer of FAT. By eating a big breakfast (3 or 4 eggs, 1/2 cup plain oat meal, and fruit), then a small sandwich for lunch (meat, bread, nonfat cheese), and then a light, all-fiber dinner, I've managed to stay around 175-185 lbs with 5-6% bf.... At age 42! I usually have 2 or 3 snacks between those meals, usually a packet of raw walnuts, or maybe a bagel with natural honey, or Triscuits, etc... Also NO alcohol, NO chips or fries, and NO McDonald's. If you over-eat at any of your meals though, all bets are off. Discipline, discipline, DISCIPLINE!
If I were to skip meals, or go fasting, I'd have a beer gut in no time, and lose my current 5.3% bf status quickly! A body's natural defense to starvation is to store fat, and you can either fool your body into storing up masses of fat, thinking it's going to get starved to death by fasting... OR, you can fool it into thinking it's never going to starve, and making it have no need to store anything, by eating many small meals. Your body can't tell HOW MUCH you eat at each meal; only that it either has or has not been fed. Ever notice that if you are hungry, and you sit down with a huge plate of food, take a few bites and something happens to pull you away from your meal for a half hour (door bell, etc.), then you finally get back to the meal and you aren't hungry anymore. After 20 minutes from the first bite of food, your body says "OK; hunger satisfied. Something was eaten".
Just my personal success secrets after repeated failures.
Charles
If I were to skip meals, or go fasting, I'd have a beer gut in no time, and lose my current 5.3% bf status quickly! A body's natural defense to starvation is to store fat, and you can either fool your body into storing up masses of fat, thinking it's going to get starved to death by fasting... OR, you can fool it into thinking it's never going to starve, and making it have no need to store anything, by eating many small meals. Your body can't tell HOW MUCH you eat at each meal; only that it either has or has not been fed. Ever notice that if you are hungry, and you sit down with a huge plate of food, take a few bites and something happens to pull you away from your meal for a half hour (door bell, etc.), then you finally get back to the meal and you aren't hungry anymore. After 20 minutes from the first bite of food, your body says "OK; hunger satisfied. Something was eaten".
Just my personal success secrets after repeated failures.
Charles
