Empire 2022 road to stage

the lower back is all about being as lean as i can be for me, and then making sure i am sufficiently dry with no sub q water on my body for that skin to suck in, basically top of my glutes and lower back are showing in that picture really really well.

Empire wrote:

I then have cut cardio down to 30mins per day, and full body depletion workouts, so 2nd full body depletion was this morning. And let me tell you doing cardio with 0 carb and depleting the muscles of glycogen, it sucks donkey dick. 
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I weight 91.6kgs first thing in the morning and have to make that Weight at 5pm on Friday night, so not really keen on having 0 food and water on Friday  and back loading my carbs, but hey, I
gotta do what I gotta do. 
 

So what is different on the depletion workouts? Just the carbs? Or the actual work?


and at 91kg's, what group are you going to be competing in?

Back to classic again. Too small for over 90 or even under 90. Those dudes are short and huge.

Depletion is exactly what it says on the box. 1 exercise per muscle group, 3 sets, 8-12 reps 1 shy of failure. Every body part for 4 days. Full body depletion.

My yearly reminder pic

unbelievable, well done!

I cant see any difference between your before and afters on the yearly pic, apart from your missing underpant

Wow dude, looked peeled to the bone. Crazy vascularity and detail. Clearly way more of a 3D look with the extra muscle gained.

And I haven't had
Any carbs for 6 days to make weight.

This am I am 88.9 which means I will keep water and sodium going untill weight in and then ack load carbs to full out.

Wow! Well done...respect! 

No way that is the same person...  Major Respect Empire
How many years difference is that?

Probably 15yrs. I could be wrong.

That's  winning physique,  best you have looked by far!!

Guess insulin makes you fat...

Congratulations champ!!!!

Congratulations!

Congratulations Empire!

Wow you look insane! Seriously out of the mags 

Well done!!

Thanks, guys. can't wait for the official pics.

ok so looking back at show day, I was dry as all hell, like I think there was more water on mars. based on this show, I know I could push water a little higher on show day cos I was a little flat in the arms and upper body. so I am going to push my fluid on show day from 1.5L to 3L cos I know I can handle it.

I ate my heart out on Saturday night, Sunday I was back on track. I went down to 0 carbs and boosted my cardio to an hour a day. Cos I have been off the clen for 2 weeks, I have pushed it back in with yohimbine so that i can see if i can pull some more fat off. i feel that my lower back could have been leaner, so i am hoping i can pull some extra fat off in 8 days. I know it seems like a hard ask, but calories are down to 1800 so even more of a deficit, and the cardio, I think I should pull down some fat there.

So I am off to SA champs, I will be competing on Sunday, so all my workouts need to be done on Monday through Thursday, and I fly to JHB on Friday morning, so I need to make sure by the time I fly I am under weight, cos if I retain any fluid on an hour-long flight I am in for trouble with weight in. but I am pretty sure I will be fine.

Did you also use T3 to get so lean? Was thinking of giving it a go, but  no experience with it.

T4 and t3 everyday of my life. I suffer from hypothyroidism, diagnosed when I was 19 bud. I use 100mcg t4 daily, and 20mcg t3 as I have a conversion issue where my body doesn't like to convert t4 to t3. 

Mr. Veins wrote:

Did you also use T3 to get so lean? Was thinking of giving it a go, but  no experience with it.

 

it's actually better off to start off with t4 for fatloss and then after a few weeks, pull t4 dosing down and add in t3. You need to be in a caloric deficit for this to be effective. 

What essentially happens is afteIsa few weeks, tsh levels start to climb to keep t4 levels up when dieting, so when you substitute t4 at that stage, tsh will return to a certain level, but eventually reverse t3 levels start to creep up, that's when you pull your t4 dosing down and implement t3 with your t4 to keep metabolic pathways functioning at full capacity when in a caloric deficit.

Empire wrote:

So I am off to SA champs, I will be competing on Sunday, so all my workouts need to be done on Monday through Thursday, and I fly to JHB on Friday morning, so I need to make sure by the time I fly I am under weight, cos if I retain any fluid on an hour-long flight I am in for trouble with weight in. but I am pretty sure I will be fine.

Just to confirm
Thats SA's , first weekend of September, ie, next weekend.

The way im reading that, you wanna be on stage this coming weekend. Maybe its just the half afrikaaner in me thats messing with my comprehension


This thread has so much info in it. Its literally a guide to win..... how is this not a sticky/starred thread?

im on sunday the 4th of september champ.

Congratulations!!! Well deserved.