Empire 2022 road to stage

obelix got a sneak peak into my condition... fair enough to say i think I'm pretty lean.

Im still sitting with my jaw on the floor

Even his toes have muscles, His shreds are shredded!

If I looked like that, Id have all the babes and trophies

Insulin makes you fat. and low dose doesn't work, you cant use primo or masteron to grow :woohoo:

Yeah thats pretty lean... :ohmy:

why did you switch from Test E to Test Cyp?

Ran out of the 1 and it was easier to switch to drop down the 50mg than trying to dose 0.9ml of test e to be at the 3mg per mark

"Pomped" up, hahaa, looking sharp bro!

Looking incredible, awesome journey to follow

Looking like gold. Well done sir!

it's getting even more gnarly... im vascular head to toe currently, its quite insane.

Ok so Sunday my weight was down to 91.6 in the morning.

Yohimbine hcl still holding water in my love handles, but I'm still holding fat too..I also calculated my dates wrong so this week I will be 5 weeks out, not 4. Which is great.

So I had my skip load yesterday, opted to keep it lower fat, loaded the insulin with all my meals.
Load was as follows.

Bowl of oats
Half a loaf of banana bread
2 slices of toast and 4 eggs with tomato sauce

1 packet of yohghurt coated pretzels
1 slab of chocolate( peppermint creme)
1 chocolate brownie

900g mashed potatoes
6 pork sausages and 2 rolls
4 milk tart doughnuts

Bowl of home made Chilli with 3 slices of corn bread
Half a home made desert with pineapple condensed milk, custard and tennis buscuits

The remainder of the custard with 12 oreos and a slab of hazel nut chocolate

What the hell?

But im here eating rice cakes and licking sweets wrappers for desert???


how are you at 91 already? you were like 94 the other day and looking paper thin. What fat is there still to lose?

That picture is insane, Can't wait to see your physique in optimal conditions (lighting, pump, tan etc.)

Weight hit 91.2kgs this morning.. hoping to be closer to 90.5 by Sunday, how ever I've taken today and tomorrow off from cardio as I'm feeling burnt out and run down. Diet is still on point. But just need to see if I can get some good quality sleep with the added rest. I will try and nap in the time I do cardio today and see if my body responds to that.

You pushing that machine to the max, haha.. Are you able to nap during the day? Or is your brain busy?

Checked some pics now from Empire, he is looking insane

Seems like he updates as much as I do. Its what now, 3weeks out?

4 weeks on Saturday, I have had a stomach bug the last 2 days, been shitting my guts out.

I haven't been posting much cos I don't really get much response nor interest in terms of questions so it's kind of defeating the point of an open cards prep log you know.

That's rough man! Getting your appetite back after this is also tough. You must be feeling pretty flat. Rather now than a week out.

Hey Empire, I see you're using Glucophage during your cut. Is there any benefit in adding 500mg x 2/day in a lean bulk scenario?

DR.DEATH wrote: Hey Empire, I see you're using Glucophage during your cut. Is there any benefit in adding 500mg x 2/day in a lean bulk scenario?

yes, I now use less Glucophage now seeing my carbohydrates are lower, and I dose it higher the night after my skiploads, even though I am dosing the insulin during my loads.

remember what is the point of using a drug is? At the start of a diet, when carbs are still high and cardio is low, you still want to be insulin sensitive. also, I tailor my insulin dose to my diet, not my diet to my insulin, hence why I have only been using small doses of insulin. Remember you can use insulin to improve insulin sensitivity, and also take pressure off the pancreas, there is no negative feedback loop for the pancreas when implementing insulin. SO please don't think it's going to turn you into a type 1 diabetic, all it does is removes pressure off the beta cells in the pancreas when gobs of carbs are used.

now if you are eating gobs and gobs and gobs of carbs during your lean bulk, you are going to suffer from insulin resistance issues. it's going to happen. hence why it is vital to monitor your fasted glucose levels to see where you are in terms of insulin sensitivity. if those numbers go up and and up, then there needs to be some intervention. 1.) more volume to match your caloric intake, 2.) insulin sensitizing substances such as Glucophage, or 3.) low level basal insulin.

now most people go but insulin makes me fat....NO. too many calories makes you fat. so if you are eating too much, you are going to get fat anyway. what happens is people usually come to a pre conceived idea of say 15iu of insulin is going to be a magic number and then consume an additional 150g of carbs to cover the insulin, so the additional 600 calories on top of the calories they are eating is the reason for the fat gain. Now yes Glucophage has its place in the off-season, yes with insulin and without. rule of thumb is usually 1mg of Glucophage per 1g of carbs taken in.

if you are in a situation where you are starting a diet and need the insulin-sensitizing effects, it's okay to start on 500mg and come down to that 1mg per 1g of carbs ingested. for the most part, not many people have too many issues with 500mg of Glucophage, but some do, I have a client on this forum who has had serious ibs issues where Glucophage has made it worse by slowing digestion and making his IBS worse, so he cant use it. that and he could probably go harder and heavier with a little more volume before we push up the food, and get to the point where his fasted numbers are skyrocketing.

so for you, in a lean bulk, I would say 500mg 2x a day would be overkill. start with 250mg daily and access tolerance from there.

my calories are down to 2100 now, so my insulin dosing is down to 3iu just for the pump and anti-catabolic nature around training, so my need for Glucophage is very very little as I am also doing 90mins of cardio a day, and for the next 2 weeks going to push to 120mins a day. fasting glucose numbers due to using clen is up to 80mcg a day.

00pump wrote: That's rough man! Getting your appetite back after this is also tough. You must be feeling pretty flat. Rather now than a week out.

it's the 2100 calories a day that's making me feel rough. appetite is fine, and I'm back to normal.

i had a massage on Tuesday that was hectic, the guy really hammered me, and i don't know if that is what sent my body into a shock and maybe stored toxins were released, but it really did a number on me that is for sure.

It's motivating to see how committed you are for this while sticking to safer doses. That's the way to go. You're going to kill it next month... I've only been on 100mg/week of test for almost 3 months and that was really rough for a while, but had to do it after some dodgy blood work.

Keen to see the next pics update.

High hematocrit and hemoglobin and RBC? How was your cardio load? I'm dealing that alot with clients who have had covid or been vexed. Maybe ask admin for my mail, cos I'd love to chat to you about that if that is the case.

Empire wrote: High hematocrit and hemoglobin and RBC? How was your cardio load? I'm dealing that alot with clients who have had covid or been vexed. Maybe ask admin for my mail, cos I'd love to chat to you about that if that is the case.

Yep haematocrit and all the RBC stuff is usually elevated so I give blood, which keeps it borderline. I'm not concerned about that as it's acceptable. Cardio is fine. ECG also looks good.

It's my kidneys that were worrying me with higher than before creatinine and eGFR of 79. I've done a lot of low dose 100mg/week tren the last few years and my eGFR has been consistantly testing lower... Taking ALA, NAC and resveratrol but not as clued up I'd like to be about this.

It's hard to get a good idea on how concerning creatinine, urea, eGFR is when you're training hard, an on a high protein diet and gear which all increases protein and creatinine in the blood. So I've been taking it easy for a while. I've got your contact info bud. Will hit you up when I get the next bloods soon.

Well at 79 at a hyper musculatur individual who is over certain age with thicker blood isn't bad.

Lesdoctor has an equation that is better for the egfr based on more factors. I had a client who's egfr was 55 but he checked either LesDoctor and ended up being 92 based on his equation..

Yea tren Is a fucker.

Your blood markers for thickening would be fixable for sure and taking tudca at 500mg per day and doing a short cycle of high dose tb500 can help with kidney issues and repairs 1mg per kg per day for 20days has been shown to improve kidney function.