Archive for November, 2009

Anadrol 50/42 – Questions!

Hi!

I am about to start a cycle of Anadrol for 6 weeks, starting next week, but I am wondering what I should do to keep most of the gains I’ll make and how to minimize the risk of gyno as much as possible! My goal is to gain as much strength as possible and to keep most of it.

I am planning the cycle in this way:
50mg Anadrol ed
25mg Proviron ed
1-3 Milk Thistle ed

PCT:
0.5mg Letrozole ed (How long?)

PCT (For letro!):
25mg Tamoxifen ed for 14-28 days or 50mg for 14 days!

No injects, I do not wish to use any either. Also wondering if it would help if I use 0.25mg – 0.5mg letro during the cycle against gyno and if that would have any negative impact? One more thing, would it help to keep my gains if I add clenbuterol during the first 14 days of PCT?

Thanks in advance and excuse my english as it is not my native language, but I hope it’s not too bad! ;)

L-carnitine helps indeed?

Could you confirm that this supplement really helps for burning fat?
I want to try but i have heard that it’s just wasting of money and that it does not help at all.

Thanks

L-carnitine helps indeed?

Could you confirm that this supplement really helps for burning fat?
I want to try but i have heard that it’s just wasting of money and that it does not help at all.

Thanks

I know this may sound silly but i was wondering, if you can suggest to me an advanced technique/routine for burning fat but still keeping the shoulder size as much as possible.
Should i train the shoulders more than the other muscle groups to achieve that? Should i train it every day or something?

Thanks

Burning fat without affecting the shoulders size

I know this may sound silly but i was wondering, if you can suggest to me an advanced technique/routine for burning fat but still keeping the shoulder size as much as possible.
Should i train the shoulders more than the other muscle groups to achieve that? Should i train it every day or something?

Thanks

Background: Ever since school started up, I’ve been focusing on grades. Things are slowing back down again and I want to get back in shape. I used to be 120lbs before college, was extremely skinny, and ran track during high school. I weigh 130lbs now and have an annoying flab of skin/fat about an inch out whenever I sit down places. It’s small, but it was never there before. An important factor that I think has a big effect is how I eat. I used to eat about 4 times a day, and a lot each time. Now I only eat once-twice a day, and small portions (college…). I want to get back to normal.

What’s the best way to lose that weight and get my eating schedule back? The guides that I’ve read focus on people who are already over 140+ and don’t have a slim frame like me. I read that I have to eat less calorie/fat foods and more protein diets, do cardio, and also lift weights.

But I’m confused on some of those details. Does that apply to me, who already doesn’t weigh much, and am told that I’m supposed to INCREASE my calorie intake? And what KIND of cardio am I supposed to do? Jog for 2 miles? Sprint for 100m? A mix of both? And what kinds of weight lifting an I supposed to do? When I was trying to build muscle, I used to do CERTAIN weight excercises… and I don’t think they apply here.

My idea to get in shape is… first lose my stomach fat, get my eating schedule back to normal, and THEN lift weights to try to gain muscle mass. Is this correct?

So.. a recap, to make it easy to understand, as this is an important question to me personally. You guys are the ones giving the advice, not me, so I’ll try to make this easy to understand and want to help out on.

Before:
Ate 4 times a day, large appetite. Full course meals
Jogged about a mile 4 days a week
No weight lifting
Skinny as heck, 120lbs
6-pack slightly visible

After:
Did a LITTLE weight lifting at college entrance, not as skinny (4 months), 130lbs
Only eat 1-2 times a day, small portions. (Pizza, Ramen, Chicfila, pasta, etc)
No running for years, just started jogging 3 miles a week
Small stomach flab when sitting down
6-pack slightly visible when flexing.

Goal:
Get eating habbit back
Increase appetite
Lose stomach flat, get 6-pack showing again, even if I’m only 130lbs
Afterwards, build muscle mass.

Recap Question: What do I need to do in order to reach my goal above? I don’t know what type of cardio to do (jogging or sprinting), and what kind of weight lifting, or even food suggestions, I’m completely lost. Scroll down to the Before/After/Goal if you don’t want to read the boring things.

Thanks!!!

Background: Ever since school started up, I’ve been focusing on grades. Things are slowing back down again and I want to get back in shape. I used to be 120lbs before college, was extremely skinny, and ran track during high school. I weigh 130lbs now and have an annoying flab of skin/fat about an inch out whenever I sit down places. It’s small, but it was never there before. An important factor that I think has a big effect is how I eat. I used to eat about 4 times a day, and a lot each time. Now I only eat once-twice a day, and small portions (college…). I want to get back to normal.

What’s the best way to lose that weight and get my eating schedule back? The guides that I’ve read focus on people who are already over 140+ and don’t have a slim frame like me. I read that I have to eat less calorie/fat foods and more protein diets, do cardio, and also lift weights.

But I’m confused on some of those details. Does that apply to me, who already doesn’t weigh much, and am told that I’m supposed to INCREASE my calorie intake? And what KIND of cardio am I supposed to do? Jog for 2 miles? Sprint for 100m? A mix of both? And what kinds of weight lifting an I supposed to do? When I was trying to build muscle, I used to do CERTAIN weight excercises… and I don’t think they apply here.

My idea to get in shape is… first lose my stomach fat, get my eating schedule back to normal, and THEN lift weights to try to gain muscle mass. Is this correct?

So.. a recap, to make it easy to understand, as this is an important question to me personally. You guys are the ones giving the advice, not me, so I’ll try to make this easy to understand and want to help out on.

Before:
Ate 4 times a day, large appetite. Full course meals
Jogged about a mile 4 days a week
No weight lifting
Skinny as heck, 120lbs
6-pack slightly visible

After:
Did a LITTLE weight lifting at college entrance, not as skinny (4 months), 130lbs
Only eat 1-2 times a day, small portions. (Pizza, Ramen, Chicfila, pasta, etc)
No running for years, just started jogging 3 miles a week
Small stomach flab when sitting down
6-pack slightly visible when flexing.

Goal:
Get eating habbit back
Increase appetite
Lose stomach flat, get 6-pack showing again, even if I’m only 130lbs
Afterwards, build muscle mass.

Recap Question: What do I need to do in order to reach my goal above? I don’t know what type of cardio to do (jogging or sprinting), and what kind of weight lifting, or even food suggestions, I’m completely lost. Scroll down to the Before/After/Goal if you don’t want to read the boring things.

Thanks!!!

what should i expect

I am in my eight week of my first cycle. I have been using 600mg of test per week and 400 of equipose. For the first 4 weeks I used 15mg of dianabol daily. I am 35 and went from 235 to 253. I am aboiut to start pct which will include hcg. Clomid. And novadex. I have had no sides so far except a little agression while I was doing the dianabol. What am I in for during the pct?

what should i expect

I am in my eight week of my first cycle. I have been using 600mg of test per week and 400 of equipose. For the first 4 weeks I used 15mg of dianabol daily. I am 35 and went from 235 to 253. I am aboiut to start pct which will include hcg. Clomid. And novadex. I have had no sides so far except a little agression while I was doing the dianabol. What am I in for during the pct?

When you may not wish to be “normal”

Brad Pilon’s published some recent data, drawn from a 2009 study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, on the average body fat % of the general population.

Now, usually we say “Oh, average for a woman is around 21-25%” or some similar number.

Actually, the US female average is… wait for it… around 40-42%.

Yes, that means for the average American female, NEARLY HALF HER BODY IS FAT. Only 60% is everything else: skeleton, organs, muscles, whatever she ate for lunch, etc.

This is why, whenever I hear people say smugly, “Oh, body mass index doesn’t account for muscle,” I want to ask them if they are actually hard-training NFL athletes or bodybuilders, because 99% of the time, BMI actually does correlate fairly well with % body fat.

Sure, the individual numbers may be slightly off. Maybe you’re really 31.5% fat and not 32% or 30%. This study used DEXA to measure body fat, which is very accurate. You may never have access to this kind of precise measurement technique.

But if your BMI is way higher than it should be, and you’re not on steroids and in the gym every day, there’s an excellent chance that you’re probably carrying too much body fat. (And, in many cases, you’re still carrying too much fat even with the steroids and gym rattery. Have you seen some of those offseason bodybuilders?)

No, your skeleton is probably not “too dense”. No, you are probably not a rippling pile of woman-steak. If you’re way into the BMI red zone, if you’re not an elite hard-training athlete, and if you’re American, you may wish to reconsider your nutrition program.

40% is not health at any size. 40% is well out of the physiological range of your body’s ability to handle its bidness.

40% body fat means that your glucose metabolism is in big trouble; your destructive cytokines are running amok; your reproductive hormones are out of whack; your liver is redecorating its house with big steatotic globs of lipids; your arteries are landscaping with atherosclerotic plaques; your airway is compressed; your joints are screaming “Ouch!” and you’re a walking inflammatory state.

If you’re “normal”, you may want to think about how to become a weirdo. If you’re “normal”, and working on abnormality, kudos to you — keep up the good work!