Bear4420
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Hello everyone this is my first log. Im not big on social media or forums. This is the only forum I’ve interacted with and got positive responses. So I appreciate you guys. I was pretty active most my life. Going to the gym and was into power lifting in my 30s. I am an ISSA certified personal trainer for about 25 years. I’ve only done it natural until now. At one point I opened a night club. That interrupted all my weight lifting and it made way more money than my training was making me so I focused on that and kinda stopped training for a while and was basically drinking for a living and Eating big meals in our restaurant every night. Doing tons of cocaine and drinking isn’t a very healthy lifestyle apoarently cause I got real fat and so badly out of shape it was crazy. Was over 300 pounds s. All the drugs and drinking took their tole and I was diabetic and about 40% body fat. I was diagnosed with pancreatitis from all the drinking. That derailed my health for years. Couldn’t hardly eat and was in and out of the hospital every month. I quit drinking couple years ago when I met my woman. I got sober about 2 years ago. I lost some weight from that and was about 290 or so when we started Reta. I started with 2mg for 3 or 4 weeks then bumped it up to 3mg. That’s when the magic started for me. Around week 8 I realized we really needed to get back into the gym. Started working out again and man was it difficult. Way harder than I remember it in my 30s. Lol! Anyway it would take a week or more to recover. So I got my testosterone levels tested. I was about 400 total T so my dr couldn’t do anything g unless I was under 300 even though I had every symptom of low T. So I made the executive decision to do it on my own. The first round went ok at first. I was only using 180mg a week split into two doses. But because I wasn’t using enough to get above my natural level it lowered my test level to mid 300s. E2 was 8. My growth hormone serum was 1.0 my LH was .3 and FSH .3 also. HDL 34, LDL 109, VLDL 11. I raised my dose to 300mg a week about 8 weeks ago. I’ve felt a lot stronger in the gym and my workouts have exploded into longer more intense sessions. I’m finally getting some size back. My libido is back. My mind is more clear. I’m now 200 pounds 5’11” and 14% body fat. I can see my six pack for the first time ever. I’ve never been able to get below 20% body fat even when I was young. Powerlifting requires calories. I think I’m in the best shape ever. I do my next set of labs on the 7th. I go to the gym 5 days a week. Day one legs. I do squats and leg extensions leg curls lunges and calf raises. I do 4 r 5 sets of each and about 6 or 8 reps. Day 2 is push day. I using mainly dumbbells cause Olympic bar hurts my shoulder. Day 3 is pull day. I love doing back exercises. It my favorite day. I do deadlifts I do lat cable pull downs seated cable rows. Bent over pulls or lawnmowers whatever you call them. Seated matching rows and rear dealt flys. I usually do some shoulder work each day just to keep it warm and not hurting during g movements. Then on the 4th day I do legs again. Same routine. Day 5 I do cardio and abs. I’m eating about 1600 to 1800 calories a day. Trying to eat more is hard on reta but soon I’ll be able to eat more cause I’m taking less and less. I don’t do lots of cardio anymore cause I don’t really want to lose any more weight. I have a little pooch of fat right around my belly button that’s refusing to leave but that’s all. So I’ve started taking less Reta titterating down every other week and started trying to eat a few more calories so I can lift a little heavier to put muscle mass on instead of just maintaining it. I’m taking several other peptides now on top of Reta. I take SS-31 and Mots-C for mitochondrial health. I take tb500 & bpc157 for an old shoulder injury from a Harley accident that causes me some pain without it. GHK Cu for my loose skin. I also am trying Semax for anxiety. Once I have results for my labs on the 7th I’ll post them for advise what I can do next. They will be my 3rd set of labs since starting test. I’m open to any advise. Ask anything about my routine. I hope I included enough info. I’m not really ready to post pix yet maybe soon
