Empire 2022 road to stage

So I ended up on 11500 steps yesterday, as I thought I would.

I didn't check blood glucose this am, but 95.5kgs this morning, busy doing my walk post workout today, cos today was a light push day (20% less weight) I managed to get more waking done in between sets, aswell as my partner not coming today as he has a rugby match this evening, i got 3400 steps in during my workout.

I'm predicting to be about 94.8 by Saturday morning and I will skipload on Saturday instead of Sunday this week as I have nephews surprise 8th birthday in the afternoon and he is having a gymnastics party, my sister has said he has really gotten into the whole look at how big my guns are phase of his life and apparently runs around school telling all his friends about how big his uncle is, so I've got about 12 of these kids not believing his uncle is a bodybuilder. Nothing like living up to the hype of your 8 year old nephew with hero worship going on
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Seeing I'm going back into a blast next week, I'm considering upping my calories by 250, and putting the carbs in pre and post workout, and seeing if there is a response in strength and recovery at this stage. I've been reading more into G Flux which is basically feeding the body and the anabolics. So for example if you are burning through 3000 calories and eating 3000 calories you up the calories to say 3500 which results in a higher thermic effect of food, and increase in performance but also a greater increase in fat burning at a higher calorie intake. Recomping essentially. If I do, I will most likely increase pre workout insulin as well as adding in post workout insulin. My current carb source pre and post workout is inyala instant maize meal, at 75g pre and post, I will up to 100g pre and post and see the result after a week.

Just got a special delivery from the guys at LP. My liquid mk677 for sleep has arrived. 10ml bottle dosed at 10mg per ml. So I can accurately dose out 2.4mg every night before bed for sleep purposes I will let you all know the result tomorrow but I'm pretty damn excited to say the least.

Empire wrote: Just got a special delivery from the guys at LP. My liquid mk677 for sleep has arrived. 10ml bottle dosed at 10mg per ml. So I can accurately dose out 2.4mg every night before bed for sleep purposes I will let you all know the result tomorrow but I'm pretty damn excited to say the least.

That's great news! Keep me posted with your doses. I'll be starting next week, on about 8 hours sleep 3 nights and Saturat will be an all nighter and through the day. So I recon Monday will be a good time to start. Right now I'm just going through the motions, no personality.

ok well, today im down lower than I predicted by Saturday, 94.5

I started with my mk677 last night but I was never going to sleep.

I was sampling a pre-workout yesterday that I was a part of formulating, and I took a single serving at 2:15 pm and was still wired by 5 pm and sleep was not going to happen. The sample batch was too strong, so today there is a new batch being made and I think it will be pretty spot on for most human consumption.

things are moving incredibly quick, I'm flat as all hell daily which is to be expected, during my workouts I full out with glycogen and water and look pretty ok, but I need to push the load on Saturday for the training week I have coming up back at full pace.

I will give feedback with the MK tomorrow because I won't be wired as fuck this evening that is for sure.

94.3 this morning. Did my last delaod session for the week back onto the heavy weights next week.

2.6mg of mk677 last night, really vivid dreams, which is a sign of deeper REM sleep. Still woke up to piss a few times, my usual story, but fell right back to sleep quite easily. I have a feeling after my load today that I'll be knocked out tonight.

So I'm gonna push up the carbs pre and post workout next week and see how that effects me, I have already pushed the insulin to 8iu the last 2 days pre workout, so I'm confident pushing to 10iu pre workout will be all good.

I know there is still sub q water hiding in my love handles as there is still fat in there, and I'm flatter thank ex wife's bank morals but I'm happy with things as they are headed, I'm pretty sure the recomp effect with a little more food and a little more insulin is gonna be world class.

Really excited to see what I look like 10 weeks out at current trajectory.

Mind if I ask you Empire.
I noticed you be creating logs on prep. However, I never see any pictures of your Offseason. Is it because you hate the Offseason look, or...
I'm just asking out of curiosity

Kind regards

Off season I don't look incredibly impressive because I don't really do much gear, 3mg per kg total is where I stay for long term health purposes, I still make gains, but it's not ifbb pro gains as I don't like pushing the envelope all year round. I have got 1 or 2 pics from off season, but it doesn't look incredibly impressive. I generally Make my most gains pre contest as I dial up the gear and push it into the show, if it was possible in the off-season I would use gh and a small amount of gear and insulin and still make progress.

The whole point of these logs is to show people you don't need monster doses to get shredded, grow muscle, and stay healthy.

At sa Champs I dwarfed most people in my line up aswell as better condition, 00pump and Lesdoctor can pay testament to that, and I topped out at a gram a week. I Have seen guys using more than a gram a week to start a cycle. This year, I might push it a bit more, and I'm still toying with the idea of a very low dose tren (50-150mg per week) leading into the natals and then sa Champs. But I will look at it later on, right now, things are working and I don't need to fix what isn't broken.

So first day back after the deload, I topped out on my Incline press if 140kgs for 5 last cycle, I did 140 for 8 after a good refeed and rest, side raises 25kgs for 20 reps, then down to 21z for 20 reps, low rows were up by 2 reps with my previous best weight, Lat pulls downs also went up 2 plates on the machine, so everything went up quite well today, which I'm rather happy with. Weight went up to 97.2 from 94.2 after my skipload but I'm pretty sure it will be down to 94.2 quite quickly..

Upped my carbs pre and post workout, and upped my insulin to 10iu pre workout. Didn't add in a 2nd dose yet. Thought let me see how I progress on this. But so far today steps are 8500, so should hit the 10 000 quite easily before the end of the day.

Empire wrote: Off season I don't look incredibly impressive because I don't really do much gear, 3mg per kg total is where I stay for long term health purposes, I still make gains, but it's not ifbb pro gains as I don't like pushing the envelope all year round. I have got 1 or 2 pics from off season, but it doesn't look incredibly impressive. I generally Make my most gains pre contest as I dial up the gear and push it into the show, if it was possible in the off-season I would use gh and a small amount of gear and insulin and still make progress.

The whole point of these logs is to show people you don't need monster doses to get shredded, grow muscle, and stay healthy.

At sa Champs I dwarfed most people in my line up aswell as better condition, 00pump and Lesdoctor can pay testament to that, and I topped out at a gram a week. I Have seen guys using more than a gram a week to start a cycle. This year, I might push it a bit more, and I'm still toying with the idea of a very low dose tren (50-150mg per week) leading into the natals and then sa Champs. But I will look at it later on, right now, things are working and I don't need to fix what isn't broken.

Wow, honestly I'm impressed. Your physique honestly looks very impressive. It looks like you're taking way more, while actually not.

As I say, at this stage I'm still keeping it low at 750mg per week, things will progress into the show, trying not to push the 12mg per kg mark, but it might change later on when I need a little more hardness and muscle growth.

Ok so today I'm hungry as fuck. The mk is defiantly helping my sleep quality but not so much quantity. But never the less any help is good help. Today was a good training Romanian deadlift I did 1 top working set of 190kgs for 7 reps. Last cycle I did 180 for 8. Reverse hack squats were 160kgs for a set of 8and down to 120 for 15. Last cycle I did 140 for 8. Then pendulum squat superset with walking lunges up 10kgs on the pendulums but stayed the same with the lunges as my lungs give out first on those fucking things..

I did cardio today with insulin 2iu, and I went a little hypo during the session but came right after the meal I had and a 5g serving of bcaas. 10063 steps in for the day.

Tomorrow is a rest day thank goodness, and I'll do a hard treadmill session in the morning of intervals for 20mins and then follow that up with a 30-40min road walk.

Weight was still up from the load but should be closer to my 0re load weight by tomorrow morning.

All in all the extra food is driving training but fuck me it's driving hunger to!

Ok so weight is up still from my load, but there is 0 chance it is fat, most likely water and glycogen. 97.2 this morning( I was hoping this would have been closer to 94.3 but meh) only thing I can put it down to is increased muscle glycogen from the bump of calories as well as the bump in insulin and potential new tissue growth. Not saying it's kgs but potentially a couple hundred grams. If it stays going on like this I will just pull the calories down again, but I will have to see what the story is by Sunday morning.

Still getting in my 10000 steps daily, and diet hasn't changed interms of food sources etc. So I'm just gonna have to see what happens this week as it is still early days.

This morning blood glucose is sitting at 4.1 which is great, and I'm gonna hit the treadmill shortly, most likely will do 30mins and then maybe go for a cool down walk around the neighborhood.

Amazing to see your progress you are a inspiration. Keep it up!

Kripto9t wrote: Amazing to see your progress you are a inspiration. Keep it up!

Glad you are loving the progress updates bud.

Walked past spar today for a meeting. 2 of the hardest things to resist in life happened to come wafting out that spar, wors with fried onions on freshly baked Portuguese rolls.

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Empire wrote: Walked past spar today for a meeting. 2 of the hardest things to resist in life happened to come wafting out that spar, wors with fried onions on freshly baked Portuguese rolls.

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Empire wrote: 97.2 this morning(

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whats your goal weight to be?

90.5 but remember last week I was sitting on 94.3ish. I will probably drop into the weekend, but right now I'm just pushing like I always do! I can't explain the gain at this point other than maybe I loaded too much food on Saturday and I haven't depleted enough, or there is increased muscle, and muscle glycogen this week seeing I've upped the carbs and the insulin. This is why it is so essential to change small variables 1 or 2 at a time.

I mean an increase in food by roughly 200kcal and an increase in insulin at 3iu, 2 small variables, 2 small changes, results in either more muscle tissue and less fat loss, or just increased glycogen and same fat loss. I mean the last 2 workouts I did, I smashed my previous personal bests, so I'm interested to see if I can repeat that tomorrow too with my push session. if there is an increase in weight, or reps, then I'm smiling all the way to the bank knowing it is new tissue.

The guys at UPA contacted me. they are bringing in some IGF-LR3 which I am going to get a box of to trial. the issue with running igf is you cannot run it for long periods at high doses otherwise you end up with receptor burnout, the average length is 6 weeks at 50-100mcg a day, but I'm considering using 20mcg 5x a week for a 10 weeks space, hopefully, that will come through in the next couple weeks for me to run.

I know Dave Palumbo has a protocol for using 11mcg daily to avoid receptor burnout, but to be honest, I would instead just run it on training days at 20mcg pre-bed and allow my blood sugar to drop a little so I get some decent sleep. Igf is known to cause lethargy, which is perfect if you take it right before bed in my opinion. Some guys reckon they do it IM into the muscle they just trained, but I can't be arsed to do that, as it does go systemic very quickly. it will increase insulin sensitivity too, which is going to be perfect!

98kgs this morning.

I was very very perplexed by this, but how ever, I do think that it Is the mk677. It is the only contributing factor to water retention that I'm taking at this point. It has made sleep deeper but at 2.6mg a day I'm still getting the usual issues of invlcreased hunger and water retention which comes down to 1 of 2 things. I'm incredibly sensitive to mk677 and the lp mk677 is a super strong supply.

It's the only explanation. Yesterday was a rest day from training and I went into the chiro clinic where the head lecturer got stuck into me as one of the students couldn't get his needling technique right. My long head in both triceps and my terres have been so bound up and tight for years that she even said she has never felt trigger points that feel like poking into bricks before in her 25 years of lecturing. She got stuck in with techniques that she has told students never to use as I have more muscle mass than average patients, and the twitch response in my triceps going into my rear delts and terres could be seen from 10m away as a couple of the students came and said what the fuck is going on here as they have never seen muscles do that.

So this morning the muscles feel spongey for the first time in probably 12 years, and the tightness is probably a 3/10 not a 10/10 like it has been for years. Even my lats ended up becoming looser due to the tightness running from the lat to the scapular to the terres and into the delts and triceps.

I wouldn't recommend it to everyone as the pain of the needling, cross friction and the physical ripping if the adhesions of pulling across the muscle is less than a 5 star rating. But mama didn't raise no bitch!

Would the needling have increased water retention? I assume so?

Is there any alternatives to needling? Cause my momma did raise a bitch

Not really, not in the past.

Yea there is, deep tissue sports massage that feels like ripping muscle off bones. It's not a fun experience, and those chiro needles are so thin you don't feel them go in.. Best feeling in the world when it hits a trigger point and it twitches and the muscle relaxes..

So majority of my lifts today were heavier, defiantly new tissue coming along. I have a chest press machine that is one of those pun machines, have to add more weight to the stack with an additional pin..that went up in weight by 2.5kgs even though reps came down to 8 from 10. I did do 2 sets there instead of 1 cos I felt good.

All the other lifts felt pretty damn good if I'm being honest, so this week so far is going great.

Empire wrote: Not really, not in the past.

Yea there is, deep tissue sports massage that feels like ripping muscle off bones.

Its a once a year thing for me, hate going for it, kak sore ! .. but it works

95kgs on the nail this morning. Defiantly leaner this week, 100% slightly bigger. Pants are falling off but tight around the legs. Things are moving in the right direction!