"You almost died (literally), take it easy". This is what my surgeon said to me the same day he cleared me to return to training.
Why am I doing a log? I think this will answer some key questions pertaining to muscle memory and age. I will admit I'm at a bit of an advantage though. I just had a blood test done less than a month ago and my natural test numbers after being absolutely clean for over three(3) months is 1320.A none red flag result is between 300 and 800. Nope, that's not a typo. This is after doing gear for over twenty years and staying on at times for years. After a litany of tests and stress tests my heart, kidneys and liver are as good if not better than anyone's at the age of 58. My BP is 102 over 65.
I went in the hospital for a simple procedure that evolved into a medically induced coma that lasted 14 days and resulted in spending a month in a hospital bed. I LOST OVER 50LBS OF REAL MUSCLE during this time.
The last two months have been spent reintroducing foods to my system and finding out what I can and can't eat.
I have gained 20 lbs since being released from care and will be putting the what I call the Bowl diet back into play. I spoke about the Bowl diet years ago over at PM and it works well on me. But since being home during recovery I read about Stan Effordings Vertical Diet witch employs the same things and also evolves constantly relevant to progression I will be doing his instead. He has implemented what I consider a much more healthy way (supplements) of doing this.
In a nut shell I'm starting at 6oz of ground chuck and one cup of white rice as many times as I feel hungry with at least two hours between feedings. I will also be doing all kinds of supplements between the feedings that I will go over later. Natural supplements only. I'm using zero gear until I hit what I feel is the wall for a natural (muscle memory) rebound.
So with all things on point:
Training
Diet
Natural supplements
I will fully exhaust the limits of my muscle memory.
I then plan to go low doses to try to recover the rest. I started a thread at PM about the low doses Matt Porter was doing at the time of his death and it went nowhere. It would seam the general consensus was he wasn't on that low of doses based on the additional size he has recently put on. However there was, a pattern of believing size can be maintained with MUCH lower doses. One of the things I'm hoping can be proved is that previous size(not new size) can be recovered with low dosing. We will see...…..
After thinking this over I have decided to post a picture of myself after being released from the hospital for two days. This is what near death looked like for me. I will be starting the entire program in one and a half weeks.
Warning: not for the faint of heart:
Why am I doing a log? I think this will answer some key questions pertaining to muscle memory and age. I will admit I'm at a bit of an advantage though. I just had a blood test done less than a month ago and my natural test numbers after being absolutely clean for over three(3) months is 1320.A none red flag result is between 300 and 800. Nope, that's not a typo. This is after doing gear for over twenty years and staying on at times for years. After a litany of tests and stress tests my heart, kidneys and liver are as good if not better than anyone's at the age of 58. My BP is 102 over 65.
I went in the hospital for a simple procedure that evolved into a medically induced coma that lasted 14 days and resulted in spending a month in a hospital bed. I LOST OVER 50LBS OF REAL MUSCLE during this time.
The last two months have been spent reintroducing foods to my system and finding out what I can and can't eat.
I have gained 20 lbs since being released from care and will be putting the what I call the Bowl diet back into play. I spoke about the Bowl diet years ago over at PM and it works well on me. But since being home during recovery I read about Stan Effordings Vertical Diet witch employs the same things and also evolves constantly relevant to progression I will be doing his instead. He has implemented what I consider a much more healthy way (supplements) of doing this.
In a nut shell I'm starting at 6oz of ground chuck and one cup of white rice as many times as I feel hungry with at least two hours between feedings. I will also be doing all kinds of supplements between the feedings that I will go over later. Natural supplements only. I'm using zero gear until I hit what I feel is the wall for a natural (muscle memory) rebound.
So with all things on point:
Training
Diet
Natural supplements
I will fully exhaust the limits of my muscle memory.
I then plan to go low doses to try to recover the rest. I started a thread at PM about the low doses Matt Porter was doing at the time of his death and it went nowhere. It would seam the general consensus was he wasn't on that low of doses based on the additional size he has recently put on. However there was, a pattern of believing size can be maintained with MUCH lower doses. One of the things I'm hoping can be proved is that previous size(not new size) can be recovered with low dosing. We will see...…..
After thinking this over I have decided to post a picture of myself after being released from the hospital for two days. This is what near death looked like for me. I will be starting the entire program in one and a half weeks.
Warning: not for the faint of heart:
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