Your post is a little Greek to me.
Is your goal to wean off the caffeine?
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Your post is a little Greek to me.
Is your goal to wean off the caffeine?[/quote]
What she said. Post is a little confused. T levels so high doc took you off scripts? Now you have to make choices. Caffeine? That’s kid;s stuff.
Sorry guys…
Testosterone issues.
Doc over shot, T levels (1500) higher then RANGE (400-1200). KSMAN on this site has a formula to reach 800. Given dose was twice as high as KSMAN suggested it is no surprise that level was 1500. Below 600 is highly correlated with cardio issues. So no injection this week.
Doc asked if I was aggresive. I certainly didn’t feel all that aggressive. He didn’t seem to believe my answer. I wonder if the association of higher testosterone levels and aggression is real, or myth. If real, perhaps I’m don’t feel it because of my very low cortisol (stress hormone).
However, mood was greatly improved. It was easier to deal with life stresses. Memory and thinking much improved. I didn’t feel any stronger, nor increase in work capacity. However, I seem to have hardened up and been able to tolerate lower calories. Some positive comments.
Don’t get to see him this week, due to scheduling issues. I should drop pretty low before next injection.
Caffeine:
I’ve quit many times now. Always fall back when I feel like i need a pick me up. People with low cortisol are likely to be caffeine dependent, seek stressful or exciting situations.
I find that heavy lifting gives me the same feeling like cornering high speed on a bike, or really high stress situations at work. Makes me feel alive… I think lifting is by far the healthiest “fix” I can get.
Lifting would aboslutely be the best fix you can get - since the other options invole a high risk of serious bodily harm (says the one who put a bike down at high speed in his youth)
Saturday
5.6 miles, hilly, 9.6 average
Monday
moving gravel about 1 hr, fill wheelbarrow, roll up hill, rake, repeat.
[quote]soldog wrote:
Lifting would aboslutely be the best fix you can get - since the other options invole a high risk of serious bodily harm (says the one who put a bike down at high speed in his youth)[/quote]
Going down is easy, getting up, that’s the hard part.
Very glad you got up…
[quote]Null wrote:
[quote]soldog wrote:
Lifting would aboslutely be the best fix you can get - since the other options invole a high risk of serious bodily harm (says the one who put a bike down at high speed in his youth)[/quote]
Going down is easy, getting up, that’s the hard part.
Very glad you got up…[/quote]
had a soft landing in the tall grass along the outside of the curve and got the leg out from under first…
Morning lift
hspl pullovers
5x270
4x5x360
bb flat bench
5x5x225
bb mp
5x5x135
hsps low row
5x5x210
hsps pulldown
5x5x210
hsps decline bench
5x5x210
hsps mp
5x5x210
—night lift—
Gonna let legs heal up.
DB Shrugs
5x10x100
resisted crunch
5x10x190
Sit-n-spin
5x10x200
preacher ez-bar curls
5x10x60
cable triceps push downs
3x10x160
Had 15 tons of gravel delivered and have spread maybe 20 wheel barrows… Functional strength?
[quote]Null wrote:
Had 15 tons of gravel delivered and have spread maybe 20 wheel barrows… Functional strength?[/quote]
Best shape I ever got in was years ago, did some work doing as a heavy landscaper, i.e. stack stone walls, brick patios, lots of rock shoveling. Lifted twice a week in the gym, a upper/bench work out and a squat/deadlift workout on Sundays. After a few months I was both lean and stronger than I had ever been.
Still trying to heal up figured some low volume stuff would be ok…
BB Bench
5x225
3x275 (PR! Sort of, have done 365 in smith and 300 in hammer strength)
300 (PR!)
bb MP
185 (PR! Sort of, ?300? in hammer strength)
0x235 (Miss)
hspl V-squat
5x270 (was going to try pr, but legs made it known they haven’t recovered yet)
hspl Pullovers
500 (PR! strapped on 50lb, as it tops out at 450 with 45 lb, plates.)
Tendons and wrist did not allow arm work.
Just chafing in. Lurking because I’ve not got much to say.
Congrats on the bench PR and is that a typo?
A 500 lb pullover?
Christ, that sounds impossible!!!
I LOVE THE HAMMERSMITH PULLOVER MACHINE!
hspl pullovers
5x5x360
bb mp
5x5x135
bb flat bench
3x5x245
2x5x225
hsps low row
5x5x210
hsps pulldown
5x5x210
hsps decline bench
5x5x210
hsps mp
5x5x210
db shrugs
5x10x100
—day lift —
hspl pullovers
5x5x360
bb mp
5x5x135
bb flat bench
5x5x225
hsps low row
5x5x230
hsps pulldown
5x5x230
hsps decline bench
5x5x230
hsps mp
5x5x230
different gold’s
Gotta say the plates w/o the hole suck… pinch carrying just doesn’t work for me with 45lbs plates carting form machine to machine…
hspl pulldown
3x5x270
hspl rows
3x5x270
hspl mp
0x270
3x5x230
hspl bench (do not like this machine (white model) at all. this model isn’t wide enough between handles for my shoulders, and arms get tangled up in the levers in part of the motion…)
3x5x230
ez-bar preacher curls
3x20x50
15x50
10x50
db shrugs
5x10x100
cable machine triceps pressdown
5x10x150 (stack)
Showers sucked… Do not like this gold’s… spoiled rotten by the one I go to…
Sunday
9 miles on the clock at 8.9, speedo out for about 1/4 of the ride until I aligned the magnet…
serious hills, beautiful day!
Monday
7.7 miles, 12.9 mph chilly, my long loop…
Cadence is way low, high 40’s low 50’s.
[quote]Null wrote:
Showers sucked… Do not like this gold’s… spoiled rotten by the one I go to…
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I got spoiled by a judo club that operated in the basement of a high end club (pro athletes and cheerleaders work out there). For a while at least. Eventually got used to any place that still had running water 
But you’ve got real weight working there.
Gratz.