Re: Notjake11 Summer Cycle Log - TestE/EQ with MRSupps and Venom
I'm midway through week four and am feeling better and better pretty much every single day. My morning endurance/cardio workouts have continued to get progressively more intense and my run times are showing continued improvement both in my sprints and my longer runs. As for my weight workouts, even though I'm doing the Easy Strength routine that requires I use moderate weights I've had to move up on all lifts because the weights I was using started feeling like warmup weight. Adding 10-20% still has the weights feeling lighter than the original ones felt when I started.
And this is just week four!!!!
I have another week or so of the Venom transdermals which is pretty much perfect as my injectibles will be hitting peak levels at that point. They were an absolutely perfect kickstart to the cycle. Many want to use transdermals in place of injectibles and I can understand that (wasn't exactly thrilled with the idea of injecting myself). But I think others have overlooked their use as a kickstart for cycles with longer esters. Because they hit the bloodstream very quickly they complement longer esters perfectly.
And I have to repeat again that the NuBlend is some damned tasty stuff. I've been making that egg souffle dish with it almost every single day (fun getting looks from the grocery store clerk when they see 10 cartons of egg whites on the conveyer belt).
My next race is this Saturday. It's the first mid-distance race of the season (8-10 miles) and after this there is a five week break before the next one. To make sure I'm in peak shape and ready to perform my best I've cut a lot of bloat foods out of my diet and am being even more strict than usual. No dairy, no simple carbs, no soda (I have to confess I'm a coke zero junkie), low sodium, etc. I'll be eating almost exclusively egg whites, chicken, steamed veggies, oats and almond milk. On Thursday night and all day Friday I'll add in a medium to large sized sweet potato to each meal and up the size of my oatmeal portions to slowly carb up. Then there will be some simple carbs on Saturday morning before the race.
Saturday after the race and all day Sunday I will be taking off the diet and having a cheat weekend. After three months of racing pretty much every other weekend and with this being my first time during that stretch where I have more than a single day off work it's a bit of a vacation do drive down to Florida for three days so I'm going to enjoy it. Then I start back to training on Monday.