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jay_victor
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- Jan 6, 2019
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Welcome to my rambling journal...
Late starter, turned to the iron at 40, 7 years ago. Never been athletic or strong, although did a fair amount of team sports in my 20's
Still a beginner and still weak and skinny. With a beer gut.
Training daily while doing 16:8 fasting. Training fasted. I have a power rack in the garage, and train alone in the mornings
3 days per week doing major lifts - resembles strong lifts, but more of a pyramid approach to reps and sets. I play with the rep counts between 6 and 12 to keep moving via progressive overload.
4 days per week on a parallel program that has some skipping, some body weight (press up, dips, chin ups), and some circuits I've put together. Looking to work in some farmer's walks on my non-lifting days. New toy is a stick welder, so looking to make up some handles for this. Will see what I can do.
Using whey post work out, and have been on creatine. Progress has been slow, but kids are old enough and now have a settled life in a new home, so here's hoping I can find consistency. Anyhow, this is where I'm at today:
6'4", 220
Squat: 285
Bench: 190
OHP: 110
Deadlift:390
Goals are to be functional mainly, such as things like 10 full pull ups, squatting double body weight, etc. Not interested in mass for the sake of it, although a more esthetic look is ok by me.
Finally.... the burning question of hormones. Having a beer gut is a mofo because that little bitch is quite the estrogen factory so I'm told. Would explain a lot.
Just being realistic, I haven't got another 10 years to scratch around so it's hello T for me. Plan to stick to T only and not likely to go beyond the 200-400 range ever. We'll see how that goes
. On the gel right now and it feels amazing. Just an experiment for now.
Here's the thing that gets me though. The gel has been like where have you been all my life? I've always been a bit beta in appearance and behaviour to be honest. When you're like that you're always trying to think how to 'act tough' or 'appear alpha'. I actually think I got quite convincing at it, and had some people fooled. There is a whole world out there of beta boys trying to pretend to be alpha. As soon as the T hits, this all goes away by itself. You don't need to pretend any more, you live it.
I understand why it's an anti-depressant now. It takes away your fears. Without fears there is no anxiety. I have never been good with really hot women. If they see me and show an interest, I always start overthinking. Never grew out of that. But now I see the difference. The T has given me calm around them, and as soon as I see one, I'm like OK, cool, next. They pick up on that and it amplifies attraction.
What no one seems to talk about enough is that men are becoming something else these days - test levels are plummeting starting from when records began earlier in the century, and even faster since the 80s. You see it when you look around. . It's a sad state of affairs when men are robbed of their birthright. What's behind it? Who knows, but it's getting worse quickly.
Quick question. Mike Wiedenbach says unless you can squat 2 x body weight stay away from test. Is he right? I'm going to break the rule for sure, just curious
Late starter, turned to the iron at 40, 7 years ago. Never been athletic or strong, although did a fair amount of team sports in my 20's
Still a beginner and still weak and skinny. With a beer gut.
Training daily while doing 16:8 fasting. Training fasted. I have a power rack in the garage, and train alone in the mornings
3 days per week doing major lifts - resembles strong lifts, but more of a pyramid approach to reps and sets. I play with the rep counts between 6 and 12 to keep moving via progressive overload.
4 days per week on a parallel program that has some skipping, some body weight (press up, dips, chin ups), and some circuits I've put together. Looking to work in some farmer's walks on my non-lifting days. New toy is a stick welder, so looking to make up some handles for this. Will see what I can do.
Using whey post work out, and have been on creatine. Progress has been slow, but kids are old enough and now have a settled life in a new home, so here's hoping I can find consistency. Anyhow, this is where I'm at today:
6'4", 220
Squat: 285
Bench: 190
OHP: 110
Deadlift:390
Goals are to be functional mainly, such as things like 10 full pull ups, squatting double body weight, etc. Not interested in mass for the sake of it, although a more esthetic look is ok by me.
Finally.... the burning question of hormones. Having a beer gut is a mofo because that little bitch is quite the estrogen factory so I'm told. Would explain a lot.
Just being realistic, I haven't got another 10 years to scratch around so it's hello T for me. Plan to stick to T only and not likely to go beyond the 200-400 range ever. We'll see how that goes
. On the gel right now and it feels amazing. Just an experiment for now.Here's the thing that gets me though. The gel has been like where have you been all my life? I've always been a bit beta in appearance and behaviour to be honest. When you're like that you're always trying to think how to 'act tough' or 'appear alpha'. I actually think I got quite convincing at it, and had some people fooled. There is a whole world out there of beta boys trying to pretend to be alpha. As soon as the T hits, this all goes away by itself. You don't need to pretend any more, you live it.
I understand why it's an anti-depressant now. It takes away your fears. Without fears there is no anxiety. I have never been good with really hot women. If they see me and show an interest, I always start overthinking. Never grew out of that. But now I see the difference. The T has given me calm around them, and as soon as I see one, I'm like OK, cool, next. They pick up on that and it amplifies attraction.
What no one seems to talk about enough is that men are becoming something else these days - test levels are plummeting starting from when records began earlier in the century, and even faster since the 80s. You see it when you look around. . It's a sad state of affairs when men are robbed of their birthright. What's behind it? Who knows, but it's getting worse quickly.
Quick question. Mike Wiedenbach says unless you can squat 2 x body weight stay away from test. Is he right? I'm going to break the rule for sure, just curious
