+ 3 2018 prep regional and national cycle
Hey guys, been a bit since I’ve been super active. Figured I’d do the same as last year since some people took a liking to the “blog” basically.
This year i plan to do a a regional show then 6 weeks later the Nationals again. Assuming i place 1st or overall at the regionals.
Wanted to lay my cycle out, i start up feb 24.
Test e 750mg 24-6wk out / 5-2wk 1000mg
Anadrol 75mg ed 23-21wk
Npp 250mg 21-17wk
Tren Ace 300mg 11-8wk / 7-5wk 450mg / 4-0wk 595mg
Mast e 300mg 15-10wk / 500mg 10-5/ 700mg 4-0
Mast p 150mg 21-10wk
Halo 30ed 3-2wk out / 40mg 2-0wk (might change)
Anavar 50ed 6-2wk our / 75mg 2-0wk (might change)
Injectable Winny 3-0wk / 50mg ed
Hgh 3ui ed 5/2
T3 as needed “slowly upping”
clen as needed “slowly upping”
Nolva as needed
Arimidex .5 3x week then probably .5ed or as needed
Also since I’m doing a show 6 weeks before i have enough anavar to possible run a week before the first show also, we’ll see what coach says. He’s a little on the run low dose kinda guy but he knows what I’ve laid out and talked to him about.
I’ll update as the days get closer and as weeks pass three prep as i did last time. Just wanted to create post to get it started. If you want to critique my cycle go right ahead.
Cheers
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2 weeks out today. Posting a pic of what i look like.
Been running the halo at 30mg last several days and added in the injectable winny at 25mg ed, along with anavar 100mg ed this week. Hopefully things really start changing and getting that finishing touch.
Weight is at 238-240.
How on earth do you tolerate that amount of orals and still have an okay stomach/appetite? Do you not feel rough and run down or do you just stick it out.
Last three weeks it’ll probably be a little tough but I’m trying to be the best and get my pro card.
Last national prep i did 50-75mg winny pill only and 20mg halo with little problems if any. Some of the winny is gonna be injectable so that’ll help, only upping halo to 30 this tim snd anavar lol sounds like a lot but we’ll see when we get there. Plus i take advantage of the appetite suppression, also i split doseages up very well..
So after a good rebound from show, it’s been about 1.5 almost 2 weeks since and I’m finally feeling good again. Weights at about 243-245lbs, 235-236 before water drop for my show, and I’m about as lean as i was, or at least dam close but up 5-6 pounds. So I’m stoked about that. Check ins are today, since show my meals have been the same protein wise, minus the shake post but 30g carbs each meal. Back to 30/30 cardio and he’ll probably get me back to carb cycling again, which our routine was roughly 2 days carbs and 5 days no carbs with a little fats.
I’ll post progress pics 4 weeks out so in a week in a half or so. Last four weeks are gonna be fun, since we’ll be adding in the halo, winny and anavar. All low to moderate dose.
cryptomusclejust wanted to thank you for sharing your prep and then updating us on what's going on. I enjoyed reading through your thread.
Going to update my cycle as I’ve changed it slightly, adding gw50156 at 10mg daily for the next 7 weeks to aid in fat loss and cardio performance. Also ended up getting winny orals so I’ll probably do 25mg winny injectable for 20 days 3 weeks out, and do 25mg oral and up it 50mg last couple weeks.
Got down to 233lbs after water cut etc. posting pics of the top two and the guy that beat me. I got second.
In the picture section go check it out and comment on what i need to improve on, obviously I’ll be more conditioned in 7.5 weeks for my next show.
RustyhookerHe looked just slightly drier on those pics. Maybe a lil heavier...very slight size gap.
Conditioning wise it looks on those pics like a judges worst nightmare. Both yall were on point.
Check your score card. Id bet its just barely off and it simply was judges preference.
Your pretty spot on. We were even re judged at finals. And i know this is bias saying this, but i also think it was just a preference thing which imo “bias” but if it was just a toss up, genetically my shape should have won hands down due to shape, lines and flow.
But hey, time to just put my head down, take the second place and grind the next 7 weeks and get peeled out my dam mind.
RustyhookerI like your mental approach!! You got this bro!!
You’re looking great man. Best of luck. You’ve definitely put in the work.
brick topupdate with pictures please, im curious of your look now.
Pictures section. Can’t post pics in normal discussion threads.
Holy shit i made it to 235lbs this morning.
Today’s last day of no low carbs and we’ll start feeding the machine carbs tomorrow
Plan is basically a chicken / beef day back and forth with rice 60 carbs worth each meal and approximately 7 meals so 420 carbs.
Saturday same thing for the most part. But a good amount of rice cakes. Burger and fries after prejudging, then finals.
Cutting water today st 4 and probably only a few ounces with each meal.
Cheers
How about a little update here fella? Super keen to hear how it’s going.
Got second lol I’m very open and unbiased on placings. I’ve been beat before and i can say ya i got beat cause he was more conditioned etc or whatever. But idk how this other guy won. I was thinking it had to be condition, cause genetically was very bad shape lines etc. so after looking over the glutes etc to see if he was in fact more lean and we were either matched or i was slightly better. And everything else i was better, shape , proportions etc.
I’d very disappointing cause he situation but whatever I’m putting it under the rug and come in insane in 7.5 weeks
I had a quick look at the pics and the one area (and it’s marginal) where I think he may have had you beat was his back. He has a bit more size and it seemed to “pop” more. Maybe it’s down to conditioning but that my two cents from a completely amateur non-competitive perspective so who am I to judge. That said you killed him in the legs department by a mile so yeah I don’t know. As I said in my other reply who knows!
I know it’s no consolation my friend but sometimes there is no sense to these decisions. We’ve seen it before and will see it again. All you can do now is go on from here - this was a tester for you and you got 2nd and now another 7.5 weeks to dial it in even further. I see you’ve got the focus right now go and kill it! +2 for the hard work and updates.
Thanks man. Appreciate it. And ya time to really grind. After the couple days of logging out and relaxing Sunday and Monday I’m surprised i barely rebounded with all that i ate, I’m about 242lbs this morning after eating legit probably 15-20k calories from Saturday to Monday lol. I’ll keep going and update here.
Thanks
Best of luck to you brother. You’re going to smash it. You’ve 100% put in the work now go and get that trophy :-)
10 days out.
Yesterday was check ins. New low of 236.2. Very deleted and a little dehydrated. After a huge day of carbs i woke up today about 242.
Started winny today, upped the anavar slightly and headed into peak week on Saturday. I’m having moderate carbs today and tomorrow then startin Saturday it’s zero till wed day. He’ll probably put carbs back i Thursday but don’t think we need to carb up till Friday.
Guessing 235lbs will be my sweet spot. Hopefully by Wednesday before we deplete water etc we’ll be about 235.
Quick thought. Since my show is 7 weeks after this coming up one in 1.9 weeks, the week post show, which I’m sure my coach will be giving my body a break and probably put s decent amount of carbs back for s week or two, I’m gonna fun a very low dose of adrol at 25mg day for 10 days starting the Monday after show to hopefully get a good rebound and get a little push to maybe add some fullness and size.
I’ll post what the results of my thoughts after done
Ok so did my check ins today. Since it was such a successful week again, we’re keeping literally everything the same. Carbs today, tomorrow and the next. Then dropping again for sat, sun , mon and Tues. weighed in at our goal weight already st 237.2 this morning. When i checked in last week i was 241.5. Which I’ve been at for 2-3 weeks. Then all of a sudden boom. After these carb days I’m guessing I’ll get back up a few pounds 240ish and then hopefully Saturday check in I’m about hay 238-239. Then dropping the carbs again the fullness and water will deplete and hopefully my goal is to be about 235lbs by next week, Wednesday. Which will be 1.5 weeks out.
Pictures are posted in picture forum.
Cheers
Been making some serious progress. Still flip flopping carbs. Approx 200-250 a day for a couple days then 1 day 100-150 then 4 days no carbs added fat slightly.
Weight was 241.5 on Saturday...... today Tuesday was 239.0 so i think we’re getting very close to what i looked like last time maybe better. Which is what the goal was since this is my qualifying show then 7 weeks till nationals.
Getting pretty low on energy during work. But once the gym hits i get my boost again.
Been loosing my sex drive a little. Nothing crazy just normal shit.
When not on last 4 weeks of prep I’m usually 24-7 wanting Ass, but like last time it seems around this time I’m not trying to get some all the time. Not that i can’t just instead of beating my meat 2x a day or trying smash all day, I’m kinda like eh, I’m too lazy if that makes sense. Anyone serious and competes knows what I’m talking about
Quick update
. Not much has changed in weight. I’m slightly leaner then my last pic update.
Still I’m thr low 240s.
Only thing that has changed diet wise is 2 days of he no carbs with moderate fat, is we are taking out added fat so low fat also for 2 days.
Also now doing 30/30 ampm cardio.
And the main reason is I’m experimenting a little which love it or hate it i don’t care.
As you can see I’m doing 3ui hgh 5/2 and i just added today, hgh frag and cjc 1295 dac.
I’m doing this preworkout, 250mcg both.
I know the normal protocol of morning fasted and don’t eat or right before bed etc. Well I’m a bodybuilder not a fasting wanna be fitness gimmic Person. So we’ll see. Have enough to run for 4 weeks sothere ya go
Update.
As of yesterday morning i was at a low of 241.5. Refeed started yesterday and ends today. Not so much a refeed but just having carbs and dropping the fat a little. The. Back to no carbs basically for another 5 days. So for the most part my diet is still 2 days low fat and moderate carbs, the. A 5 day stretch of moderate fat low carb.
Seems like we may run anavar at 50mg 4 weeks till first show, then take it out for 4 weeks and put it back in again 4 weeks out last show
brick tophow is your health, high bloodpressure? you look incredible, you are going to do very well.
Thought i replied. Heath is pretty good. This is he best I’ve felt. High blood pressure never been a problem really. I do need to get blood work done.
Current pics uploaded to the pic selfie forum
243.0 pounds this morning
Decided to put tren in at 300 a week/ 1cc mwf, 7.5 weeks out from my first show.
I’m stoked for what my prepress is with suck low doses of mast and tren.
Update 4/7/18
We’re flip flopping carbs and fats now. Major change!!! Never tried his approach before. Basically for a few days we’ll be on a moderate fat/no-low carb/ high protein, then followed by a low fat, moderate carbs and high protein..... I’m guessing I’m going to respond like crazy, probably have slightly low energy after a couple days being in no carbs, then filling out and looking great on the few carb days.
Forget if i mentioned i was on a new training spilt i made for myself which was basically something like a, push/pull/off/legs/pull/arms/off. Repeat. But after trying that out for a while 4-6 weeks i didn’t like the combo of tryigntno hit shoulders and chest same day. I like having a entire day of shoulders. So my new spilt is
Rows,calves/ delts/ off/ legs,calves/ lats,bis/ chest, tries/ off. I seem to enjoy this more and able to really concentrate on the muscle more.
Cheers
You were doing well last week, did it stall? Or why the change??
Not so much stall, but “what I’m guessing” is cause i noticed I’m slowing down. A little bit, not a lot. But probably comparing to last prep i seems to stall and my body started to fight a little around this time, being in the mid to low 240s and even the upper 230s. Also just experimenting a little. I have 8 weeks for my qualifying show, and I’m guessing about 10-12pounds to loose. So 1.2-1.5pounds a week we need to loose. Can really afford to have a week or two hay i don’t improve. Although this is just a regional show and I’m sure we’ll take the win not being 100%, as long as no one insane pro level shows up. Then have the next 8 weeks so improve maybe a little size if possible and just get reallly really conditioned
Ok so i got down to 244.4 then i got s refeed and Easter so I’ll probsvly be up next couple days but I’m sure when i check in Friday, i bet I’ll be around 242ish. Since we changed my diet to low fat and switched my carbs around I’ve been dropping consistly and i should be, did the macros and I’m roughly 40 fat 250 carbs and 300 protein. Yes i know. Lol that’s not a lot of fat specially since my carbs are moderate but I’m eating a decent amount i feel liek. Usually i literally feel like i have to starve to get weight off. Still 40 min 5x a day cardio.
Loving the updates. (No homo)
When is the regionals? How soon after are the nationals??
Well I’d rather keep exact shows and exact dates unknown for personal identity but they are 7-8 weeks apart unfortunately. A bit of s stretch but i didn’t want to travel 2 times so i picked a show close to my city. And honestly I’m hoping it will benefit me in a sense that I’ll gey s good shape for the regional, then possible add a little size “rebound” for a couple weeks then really get nasty the next 4/5 weeks, like i told my buddies? If i don’t come into nationals looking like almond skin/Ass, i didn’t work hard enough.
If my ass ain’t grainy then it’s not enough lol seems like bodybuilding comes down to that now a days lol
Hahaha yeah it's getting that way it seems!
Great stuff fella
Updated
This morning i was 245.4. New low weigh in. Just checked in with coach. Been on a low fat approach since Sunday and wow I’ve been dropping. Switched carbs around like i mentioned so we’ll see what we do next.
Will post pics in the picture section right now
Weighed in at 247.0 this Morning.
We are experimenting for the last couple days and check in is tomorrow. We switched diet Sunday, lowering fat to almost nothing, and switching my carbs around to taking my last meal of the day to no carbs and adding those carbs to my first 4 meals of the day along with taking my pre workout pop tart out and reducing my pose carbs, 2 pop tarts to only one.
I’m seeing fast changes these last few weeks and will post process pics soon
How are you feeling man?! Tough cycle, tough depletion?? +
Looking forward to the pic, am sure you will smash it!
Was feeling pretty good, little hungry, but pumps were good. Now switching to almost no fat i feel a little more full since we added the carbs to meals besides the last one, but now I’m getting a little tired by the end of the workouts. But then again, I’m down almost 2 pounds since Sunday so that’s probably why.
Thanks brother.
Good luck brother. I have no doubt you’re going to smash this out of the park. Keep us posted my friend!
I will for sure. I’m 9.5/17.5 weeks out right now so things are starting to get fun
Wanted to include a broad diet of this prep as requested.
We started with around 100fat, 350carbs, 320 protein.( i always use MyFitnessPal to see what the macro breakdown is after he gives me my diet of meals.
Which was 450g whites 1 whole egg, 45 carbs of toast of oats, and either 1 serving of cheese or 1 serving or peanut butter
Then 4 total over meal consisting of either 224g lean beef, 200g of breast with 2tsp of oil, 160g of rice or 220 potatoe.
Pre workout I’d have one pop tart with my pw supp.
Post workout would be 2 tarts and 1.5 scoops of whey.
Followed by my last meal 1-1.5 hours after shake. Then it’s bedtime.
Started with 30 mins easy pace cardio and then 40 5x a week. This changes to much to keep track though
Since we started we took out he whole egg, went up to 475g whites and lowered the olive oil with chicken to 1tsp.
Then we just changed about a week ago, my carbs, down to roughly 30carbs a meal instead of 45.
Everything else is the same.
Hope this is something worth staying
So as of right now, my macro breakdown is
65fat
260 carbs
300 protein
And I'm definitely interested in your diet/meal Plan trough your contest prep .
Would be nice if you could add this.
Thanks and good luck
Sounds pretty solid.
But why are you running test e till 2 weeks out?
I never did a cycle like this but a good friend won German nationals championship and went to European championship.
And all I know is he cut the test e at 4 weeks out and switched to prop.
And he was also lowering test dose at the end not went higher.
And he liked to cut out all injecables 7 days out just continue orals.
It's just what he told my so just some input.
I think you definitely know what u are doing so
Wish you good luck for your contest and hope you get there without injuries!
Keep us updated
I get that a lot lately, why long Esters and why so close the show. And honestly it’s my coach. Last time we did switch to prop then dropped abot 1.5 weeks before and we may drop test a little sooner then 2 weeks who knows.
I trust him with my life lol i said who he was before but rather not make it easy to find out who i am, so I’ll say this, his coach is chris aceto.... and anyone coached by him, and a ifbb himself, i can only benefit from specially after what we did last year.
And i will include the diet, may take me a min cause we switch it around fine time to time
Rule of thumb is switch 6 weeks out to make sure the test E is out and you can get rid of whatever water retention it caused.
I know i know. And that’s also what I’ve read countless times, although I’m fine with doing it this way, coming from a experience standpoint and logical. Just like dave palumbo says, the difference should be next to nothing if your lean, and if your taking diuretics to get rid of said excess water anyways.
Trust me i thought the same thing when last time he said no just stick with masteron enanthate lol
Ok cool thanks For the info.
Just know he cut it out at 4 weeks and switched to prop but he started test high and lowered it trough the prep
And damn he looked good
I’d love to see pics of the guys