Thanks for the very informative trenbolone information.
Interesting. I edited this post, yet it was changed back to it’s original dumb-ness.
Cortes, just curious as to what % bf you think you’ve lost thus far and what you figure you’re at now.
Really curious to see how your tan is coming. You know my background and yet I’ve never seen an MT-II tan.
You bet, MsM, it’s always one of my deepest pleasures to have your input on my threads.
I don’t really have any means of measuring my own bodyfat, and since I don’t really have much (uhh, any) experience measuring the bodyfat of others, I only have my internet bodyfat reader to go by (you know, the ones that are always a few points lower when you measure yourself and a few points higher when you measure somebody else).
That said, here is my guess. After having lost quite a bit of fat over the last two months, I’d say that my initial bodyfat % was probably higher than I had given myself credit for. Probably in the 14% area. I had little vascularity, almost no visible abs, and a soft face with a bit of double chin.
Looking at it as objectively as I am capable of, I would say that I am around 9% right now. Almost constant vascularity in my forearms and biceps, often vascularity in my shoulders, chest and lower abs (and sometimes throughout my legs, as previously mentioned). Abs are visible in any light at all times now, but there is still some fat there, especially around the naval. No more double chin (thank God) and my face has leaned out nicely, leanest it has been in around 2 years and I had forgotten how good it feels to look my best all of the time. Unfortunately for me, the first damned place I gain fat is my face. I hate it, but I guess it keeps me from ever letting myself get too fat because I’m just too damned vain.
I would like to lose another 4% and get down to around 5% for my show. I have been leaner than this before, (probably around 6-7%) when I dieted down for my wedding and I think I’ll acheive that within the next month. Then July will be used to squeeze that last little bit out. If I can get lower, like 4%, wonderful. but this is my first time going this low so I don’t expect to nail it that well this time around and I also want to keep from losing any more muscle than I have to. Plus, the masteron should work to give the appearance of being leaner from its muscle hardening and vascularity enhancing qualities.
The tan is another story right now. I’m having to rely pretty much solely on MT-II’s melanocyte stimulating properties because there is NO FRICKIN SUN EVERY DAY HERE! And it is supposed to rain every day for the next week. And then the rainy season will start. No, seriously.
Brotha Cortes, just checking in sounds like you are having a blast, and congrats on your progress. Did you have any issues with becoming a in cushion for this cycle versus say Test Enth and orals??
That’s my only concern right now is with as much business travel as I do, I keep thinking hmm there’s no way I am getting through airport security with pins and vials.
Any input??
If I had to do a lot of flying, Randizo, I don’t know what I’d do. As it is, I don’t have to go anywhere I can’t get to by car right now so I don’t have to worry about that.
As far as pinning every day. Doesn’t bother me in the slightest. I actually look forward to the daily ritual (as JR, I believe, has said), and now that I am running MT-II and HCG concurrently, some days see me pinning THREE different times. Sound like fun?
Well Cortes, things sure seem to be shaping up well for you. In terms of fat loss, are you doing anything especially wild regarding cardio?
Also, does the HCG seem to have any effect on you other than keeping your boys normally sized?
Are you tanning at all in beds? Or just relying on the sun? Personally, when I was doing shows, I always used beds at first, every other day starting at 6 minutes and working up to 20 minutes. I would start this roughly 6-7 weeks before a show so that my skin didn’t ache and I didn’t look orange. If you plan on doing that, I would advise using a lotion called Browning Fury. It is relatively inexpensive and works wonders, trust me.
Hope all is well and am looking forward to the pics. However, I might miss them seeing how it’s looking as if I will be leaving before the month is out.
World
Nothing crazy on the cardio yet, World; the tren is killing me to the degree that I have trouble making it through a simple morning run. I will finish up the vial I am on and then that’s it for the tren, about another 8 to 10 days, I think. Then we’ll start getting a little more crazy.
The HCG has increased and is now maintaining testicle size and seminal volume. I haven’t noticed any other big changes. Injecting it stings like hell. I don’t know why it stings so bad and melanotan give me no sensation at all upon injection.
Tanning beds are out. Where I live, using a tanning salon costs over a dollar a minute, and price is always per minute (no monthly memberships or anything like that). So unless I want to spend a fortune and drive about 40 minutes to get there each time I want to go, I’m SOL. Luckily, thanks to MsM’s magical powers, the rain disappeared today and I was actually able to get 45 minutes of sun.
As far as pics go, I had already planned on sending you some via email when I take them. So no worries, you’ll get updated with the rest of the guys here.
It is getting spicy.
Cortes, when you swab, do you let the area completely dry? That can cause stinging if you don’t. Also, if memory serves me correctly, I remember being told that subcutaneous injections can sting as opposed to intramusclar. If that is incorrect, someone please set me straight.
You will see 5%. You obviously already know what you have to do to get there.
I will see what me and my magical powers can do with the weather for you tomorrow.
[quote]MsM wrote:
It is getting spicy.
Cortes, when you swab, do you let the area completely dry? That can cause stinging if you don’t. Also, if memory serves me correctly, I remember being told that subcutaneous injections can sting as opposed to intramusclar. If that is incorrect, someone please set me straight.
You will see 5%. You obviously already know what you have to do to get there.
I will see what me and my magical powers can do with the weather for you tomorrow.[/quote]
Uhhhh swab, sting? Uhhhhh, huhhh hhuhhhh…
Msm, he’s talking about a real son of a gun of a sting. Not the childs play you’re referring to. And I think you missed where he stated the melanotan,(subQ), didn’t sting at all, where the hcg did. So no, it’s not that.
Lol…Keep up with the weather for our boy though would you?
ToneBone
A buddy of mine tried his first dose of hcg a couple days ago at 250iu in 1/4ml and reported the same bee sting like qualities.
Hows the colour coming along from the M2 with the recent sun? Contemplating giving it a go myself in the rather near future.
[quote]MsM wrote:
It is getting spicy.
Cortes, when you swab, do you let the area completely dry? That can cause stinging if you don’t. Also, if memory serves me correctly, I remember being told that subcutaneous injections can sting as opposed to intramusclar. If that is incorrect, someone please set me straight.
You will see 5%. You obviously already know what you have to do to get there.
I will see what me and my magical powers can do with the weather for you tomorrow.[/quote]
Yeah everything is dry. What is feels like, to me, is grabbing a hornet and jabbing the stinger into my belly skin, and then, after it’s in there, slowly squeezing the abdomen and milking the rest of the venom into the fat there. Sound fun? And then, when I inject the MT-II, nothing. I guess I’m just glad I’m only injecting 500iu at a time and not the 5000(!) that is sometimes recommended for certain situations.
Thanks, as always, for the words of encouragement. You are going to have to use all of your powers to contend with a Japanese rainy season, though.
[quote]LillGuy001 wrote:
A buddy of mine tried his first dose of hcg a couple days ago at 250iu in 1/4ml and reported the same bee sting like qualities.
Hows the colour coming along from the M2 with the recent sun? Contemplating giving it a go myself in the rather near future.[/quote]
I’m getting more and more comments on it. I’m about 1 or 2 injections away from finishing my loading phase (10mgs), then I’ll probably drop it down to about half what I am injecting now for next phase. I don’t know, though, it is supposed to rain every day for a week starting tomorrow, so I may load a bit longer.
My face looks great, the upper body and forearms are following behind that, and the legs are still pretty pale for my taste. Overall I “look tan” though. I don’t know how well to describe it, but it is probably to the degree that, if I posted my pictures for the first time today, I wouldn’t really get any comments on skin tone one way or the other (which, as you know considering my past photographs, is a huge step up for me).
It may be worth the 30 min drive each way to spend the 10 mins in a sun bed.
Just a thought.
Dont know if youve tried this but Popeyes Internet cafes have access to sunbeds, of course you have to pay for the computer use, but it works out to about 300yen for an hour.
as i red head i can pretty much say u can achieve a satisfactory tan without natural sun. did u see my contest pics?
Hey guys. First, let me apologize. As you may have noticed, I have not updated this thread in a while and I have not been around the site much at all. Unfortunately, I just don’t have the time that I used to, as it is getting eaten up with other priorities and obligations that have come up. I probably will not be around nearly as much for the next couple of months, then maybe I can get back to regular posting again when things calm down a little bit.
I do want to try and keep this thread going, however, and honestly the only reason I have been so negligent in my duties here is that there just hasn’t been much going on other than me grinding it out day after day. However, there are a couple of things I could fill you in on.
It’s been a little over 2 weeks since I started my MT-II and WOW did I get dark. I am now about as dark as the time I lived in the Bahamas for 3 months when I was 10 and spent most days on the beach. No really. This stuff is SO effective. I am now getting pretty well astonished comments on my ridiculous tan daily, and my face is almost a bit too dark. It’s really crazy the effectiveness of this stuff, because this is the RAINY SEASON and I have gotten very little sunlight.
As far as the bb show goes. I am around 6 weeks out. Fat loss, unfortunately, slowed down more than I would have liked a couple of weeks ago and I feel like I waited too long for something to just happen instead of changing things up like I should have been doing. I have started taking T-3 and will work up to about 125mgs a day, and will be ordering more HOT-ROX tonight and start that as soon as it gets here. In addition, I am subtracting the peanut butter from my diet 
and I have increased cardio to every morning and am progressively increasing each day.
I finally took the last of my tren yesterday, so hopefully my cardio workouts will start improving and my sleep quality will go up and I can put a little more into my training sessions.
I’m also practicing posing for about 30 minutes every night, and I feel I am getting fairly confident and good at it.
I will have updated photos for you guys this weekend, so sit tight. I think you’ll be impressed by the tan. I just wish I was coming in a little bit leaner at this point. I’ll let you all be the judge.
Oh, and I will start Masteron July 1st.
Dont substitute more T3 just because you arent at the leanness youd like to be at this point. I know im not leading into a show here, however I only plan to go to 50mcg, possibly 75 max. I do recall Prisoner in the past saying that for the vast majority there is really no need to go above the 75mcg.
On another note, in 6 weeks you can accomplish a ton. You still sound like you got your head on strait and all the green veggies arent getting to your brain yet.
Alot of guys depending on diet will have to do 2x/day cardio sessions leading into show. Nothing very high intensity, just walking up a good plane on a treadmill.
Definately post how quickly your cardio rebounds back after you have discontinued your tren use. Im very curious. Also was it you using the tri-tren or is it just acetate or enathate.
Keep at er buddy, your in the homestretch.
Always nice to see a post from you Cortes.
[quote]Cortes wrote:
Hey guys. First, let me apologize. As you may have noticed, I have not updated this thread in a while and I have not been around the site much at all. Unfortunately, I just don’t have the time that I used to, as it is getting eaten up with other priorities and obligations that have come up. I probably will not be around nearly as much for the next couple of months, then maybe I can get back to regular posting again when things calm down a little bit.
I do want to try and keep this thread going, however, and honestly the only reason I have been so negligent in my duties here is that there just hasn’t been much going on other than me grinding it out day after day. However, there are a couple of things I could fill you in on.
It’s been a little over 2 weeks since I started my MT-II and WOW did I get dark. I am now about as dark as the time I lived in the Bahamas for 3 months when I was 10 and spent most days on the beach. No really. This stuff is SO effective. I am now getting pretty well astonished comments on my ridiculous tan daily, and my face is almost a bit too dark. It’s really crazy the effectiveness of this stuff, because this is the RAINY SEASON and I have gotten very little sunlight.
As far as the bb show goes. I am around 6 weeks out. Fat loss, unfortunately, slowed down more than I would have liked a couple of weeks ago and I feel like I waited too long for something to just happen instead of changing things up like I should have been doing. I have started taking T-3 and will work up to about 125mgs a day, and will be ordering more HOT-ROX tonight and start that as soon as it gets here. In addition, I am subtracting the peanut butter from my diet and I have increased cardio to every morning and am progressively increasing each day.
I finally took the last of my tren yesterday, so hopefully my cardio workouts will start improving and my sleep quality will go up and I can put a little more into my training sessions.
I’m also practicing posing for about 30 minutes every night, and I feel I am getting fairly confident and good at it.
I will have updated photos for you guys this weekend, so sit tight. I think you’ll be impressed by the tan. I just wish I was coming in a little bit leaner at this point. I’ll let you all be the judge.
Oh, and I will start Masteron July 1st.[/quote]
Good stuff Cortes, sounds like it’s been quite a ride, and that masteron is going to harden you up like a diamond so I hope the contest is right around the corner.
Btw, regarding the MT-II, I seem to remember someone talking about this stuff on another thread a while back and while I’m not familiar with it I’m pretty sure this is the stuff Bushy was claiming had some pretty nasty sides - I could be way wrong though…any sides from the MT-II?
Peace
*edit - contest 6 weeks away…got it