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I've been in a deficit for almost 6 months... I'm not sure there's much point in continuing. Every time I listen to a Justin Harris podcast I think maybe I should just be in offseason right now. So much of your results in cutting are due to how you set yourself up during the offseason and at this point having been in a deficit for so long and having set up my offseason so god damn stupidly and unstructured, I am thinking that continuing this even on lower clen no t3 is probably counterproductive in the long run. Like yeah you "can" get super diced out starting from fat with a dogshit metabolism and digestion, injuries, and high systematic fatigue before you start prep, but at some point you're better off just getting "lean enough to bulk", going into a structured offseason, improving that metabolism and digestion, not putting on too much bf during that offseason, and then starting another leaning out phase from a much more optimized and healthy position. John Jewett and Luke Miller often discuss this on their podcast.. quit focusing on the prep and what you do during prep being what determines your look... you put two guys of similar body comp on the exact same prep protocol but one of them was set up much better during offseason with regard to fatigue, injuries, digestion, and consistent offseason eating habits, and clearly the guy who started from the better position will respond better to the same prep protocol. I see why they emphasize doing a 6-8 week "holding phase" before prep, which is basically cruise doses, lower training, and allowing fatigue/injuries to heal. I did things the retarded way of 'oh I only have x weeks left of offseason, i need to GRIND HARD1!1" and end up comign into prep with super messed up shoulders, hips, and knees... this was stupid.
I didn't get as dug out as I wanted to this year, but nobody would look at me and say I'm not in a fantastic spot to start a surplus with great sensitivity and nutrient partitioning. I've also discovered that minimizing my dietary fats has vastly improved my digestion.. 0 heartburn or gerd at night these days and I've even dropped the twice weekly omeprazole I used to need. Yesterday my added fats were like 20g almond butter and whatever fats were in my last meal 250g sirloin steak plus some butter with my potatos. Probably less than 60g total fats incl trace fats for the whole day. Tren E is still in my system too, so I *should* have heartburn from that. Nope... totally fine. I used to eat shit like omelettes with bacon, ham, and cheese last offseason. Things like burgers and mexican food fairly frequently as well. My problem was not too low of stomach acid nor too high of androgens, it was just a vanilla dogshit diet full of dietary fats. I can handle sugars/fruits/vegetables/low fat dairy/high FODMAP foods and things that are often culprits for other people, but what seems to fuck me up hard is high dietary fats, even from conventionally "clean" sources. Steak seems to be the only one I can sorta handle, even salmon bugs me a bit.
Justin Harris just so consistently puts 50lbs of stage weight in 2 years on guys who are at my level of advancement or even above it. And he does it will low doses like a 750 to a gram of test and 600 deca or 1g test 1g primo. I'd really like to hire him or compton, but the big problem is that stocks/crypto/assets in general are at such low prices due to the recession so I can't justify taking 2k+ usd and putting it toward coaching given how insane the returns on financial assets are likely to be given their extremely discounted price. If S&P500 is at all time highs and btc is north of 50k and you know things are short-run overvalued with high probability of corection, then your opportunity cost for buying coaching is really low because assets are overvalued and buying at that time will yield lacklustre returns. On top of that, I gotta pay my tuition for my 3rd master's degree (this one is much less serious than the first two, online education masters mostly just a qualification I have to earn to get a salary boost and ability to work in Thailand just in case I need to bail, I expect to learn absolutely nothing useful for my career given how radically different teaching in Asia is vs western countries. If I stayed at my current job it'd pay for itself in 18 months, if I go elsewhere maybe far sooner than that). I'm also considering hunkering down even longer in China, getting more serious with that girl who somewhat derailed my prep, and if I do that she's gonna want me to contribute toward an investment in some office space she wants to renovate and rent out. she already bought the office space in the building but still has a lot of renovations that need to be done. The government meeting in November will reveal a lot about Chinese political and economic situation and whether or not being a foreigner here long term is "viable". A lot of my logs on other websites have devolved into me blabbering on about personal life stuff, so I'll talk less about my whole girlfriend/which country am I planning on living in arrangements.
So it's not that I don't want to hire a coach because of where I am now in my bbing career, this is pretty much exactly the right time to have some guidance. I don't want to hire a coach right now because of macroeconomic and career conditions lol.
Regardless, my long term plan is offseason cycle and 5-6x/wk training until January. January/Februrary cruise time 250mg/wk test for 7-10 weeks, stay on mk677 and cjc or gh year round, drop to 3x/wk training and let any joint/tendon/muscle pains subside, go softer on training as required. Starting in march, 16 week mock-prep diet, enter a show only if there's one in my city and I don't have to travel, then repeat that yearly plan and step on stage again in late Spring/Early summer 2024.
I didn't get as dug out as I wanted to this year, but nobody would look at me and say I'm not in a fantastic spot to start a surplus with great sensitivity and nutrient partitioning. I've also discovered that minimizing my dietary fats has vastly improved my digestion.. 0 heartburn or gerd at night these days and I've even dropped the twice weekly omeprazole I used to need. Yesterday my added fats were like 20g almond butter and whatever fats were in my last meal 250g sirloin steak plus some butter with my potatos. Probably less than 60g total fats incl trace fats for the whole day. Tren E is still in my system too, so I *should* have heartburn from that. Nope... totally fine. I used to eat shit like omelettes with bacon, ham, and cheese last offseason. Things like burgers and mexican food fairly frequently as well. My problem was not too low of stomach acid nor too high of androgens, it was just a vanilla dogshit diet full of dietary fats. I can handle sugars/fruits/vegetables/low fat dairy/high FODMAP foods and things that are often culprits for other people, but what seems to fuck me up hard is high dietary fats, even from conventionally "clean" sources. Steak seems to be the only one I can sorta handle, even salmon bugs me a bit.
Justin Harris just so consistently puts 50lbs of stage weight in 2 years on guys who are at my level of advancement or even above it. And he does it will low doses like a 750 to a gram of test and 600 deca or 1g test 1g primo. I'd really like to hire him or compton, but the big problem is that stocks/crypto/assets in general are at such low prices due to the recession so I can't justify taking 2k+ usd and putting it toward coaching given how insane the returns on financial assets are likely to be given their extremely discounted price. If S&P500 is at all time highs and btc is north of 50k and you know things are short-run overvalued with high probability of corection, then your opportunity cost for buying coaching is really low because assets are overvalued and buying at that time will yield lacklustre returns. On top of that, I gotta pay my tuition for my 3rd master's degree (this one is much less serious than the first two, online education masters mostly just a qualification I have to earn to get a salary boost and ability to work in Thailand just in case I need to bail, I expect to learn absolutely nothing useful for my career given how radically different teaching in Asia is vs western countries. If I stayed at my current job it'd pay for itself in 18 months, if I go elsewhere maybe far sooner than that). I'm also considering hunkering down even longer in China, getting more serious with that girl who somewhat derailed my prep, and if I do that she's gonna want me to contribute toward an investment in some office space she wants to renovate and rent out. she already bought the office space in the building but still has a lot of renovations that need to be done. The government meeting in November will reveal a lot about Chinese political and economic situation and whether or not being a foreigner here long term is "viable". A lot of my logs on other websites have devolved into me blabbering on about personal life stuff, so I'll talk less about my whole girlfriend/which country am I planning on living in arrangements.
So it's not that I don't want to hire a coach because of where I am now in my bbing career, this is pretty much exactly the right time to have some guidance. I don't want to hire a coach right now because of macroeconomic and career conditions lol.
Regardless, my long term plan is offseason cycle and 5-6x/wk training until January. January/Februrary cruise time 250mg/wk test for 7-10 weeks, stay on mk677 and cjc or gh year round, drop to 3x/wk training and let any joint/tendon/muscle pains subside, go softer on training as required. Starting in march, 16 week mock-prep diet, enter a show only if there's one in my city and I don't have to travel, then repeat that yearly plan and step on stage again in late Spring/Early summer 2024.
