Hi all. I am also new to the site and very glad I found this site. I’ve learned more in the past week than the last two years of body building. I am going to give a lot of information to ask a few questions at the end. I will appreciate any help that I can get from you guys.
OK the first and second photos below were taken last year Sept and December when I did a 12 week challenge and for the first time followed a diet and lifestyle to reduce my body fat percentage. I have been training for a year before the first photo but did not follow a diet, I were just training hard and eating a lot of carbs and protein to build muscle. I just got bigger and fatter by the day. At the start of the challenge I were 135Kg at 1.82m at the moment I am 106Kg.
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Sept 2013 start of End of challenge Today
Challenge
I started to follow a diet and training program and achieved good results I think. The problem I’ve got is that I have trained hard and followed the diet very strictly with little gains the last six months. I train in the morning at 05H00 and when I do cardio I do it in the evenings.
My diet looks like follow:
Post workout: I take a 40 gram Whey protein shake with 100grams of raw oats
Breakfast: at 09H00 Four eggs and two slices of toast(Low GI brown bread)
At 11h00: a 200gram portion of protein and a bowl of salad or 1 ½ cups of broccoli or 1 ½ cups of mixed vegies.
At 15H00: a 200gram portion of protein and 1 ½ cup of brown or basmati rice.
At 19H00: a 50 gram protein shake with a fruit.(After reading DJ’s article on planning a diet I think I will drop the fruit and do the same as the 11H00 meal from this week forward)
Suplements:
Pre workout I take 10g BCAA and 10g Glutamine and 10g Vitamin C with a multivitamin and a testo boost and joint support capsules.
During workout I take 10g BCAA and 10g Glutamine with +- 40g of carbs.
Before bed time ZMA, probiotic and CalMag’s with
Training program:
I follow MI40 of Ben Pakulski and have started his MI40X three weeks ago. I am 11 weeks out from a competition I want to enter in KZN and would like to get to 6%BF. I am just below 12%BF at the moment and will start with cardio and abb’s in the evening from this week. My plan is to do 3 sessions of HIIT and two of long slow cardio. Heart rate at 115 to 125, and include a alternating abb and calf session with the cardio. I would like to go to the stage for the experience in September to prepare for a IFBB amateur competition next year.
This bring me to the point of this post. I have lost my libido and did some enquiry with friends that are doing hard training as well and learned that my testosterone levels might be too low. I am 44 years old and the testo boost that I used seems to be insufficient. I got hold of some Testosterone cypionate(250mg/ml) and Anapolins (50mg) and started to use it two weeks ago 1ml twice a week and one tablet daily of the Anapolins. The libido is back but after I read the downloads on the use of steroids I realized that the stuff I got is not a well-planned strategy. There is for instance no PCT and the guy who gave me the drugs does not even know about a PCT.
My questions:
1. I think I must start to cycle my carb intake as in DJ’s article to see if it does not help loosing body fat again. I also do not use any fat burners and would like to start on FFF. Any suggestion? Will this be the correct approach?
2. I would like to start a cycle for building lean mass while I prep for the competition end of Sept. Can I stop using the Cypionate and Anapolins and start the cycle as described in the download section?
3. I’ve read in the forum about competition prep and see the need to do the different poses for the stage. I need a coach who can assist me with these preparations. I am from Mpumalanga and am willing to travel to JHB or Pretoria to get to a good coach. I saw that DJ is such a coach but do not have a clue where he is from. Maybe admin can mail me a contact that can assist with a coach in the area.
