Not a pain in the ass at all – it wouldn’t be even if doing from fresh – but in this case it happens the exact thing is right here:
But as Eazy said, you really could use just the Surge Recovery as described in that thread, or as in the original protocol for using it pre-workout.
Where the Anaconda / MAG-10 protocol becomes more important and really shines is where either:
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A lifter is advanced enough and has been training long, consistently, and well enough that the situation is that he’s glad to see only a relatively small amount of added muscle per year, in other words fast muscle addition just aren’t happening anymore using standard things. And this really is the case for many. Otherwise, if you could add say 3 lb of muscle a month consistently, or even most months of the year, for years on end, we’d have lean 500 lb guys, or bigger than that even. Not so, instead plateaus are reached from which further gains tend to be very slow indeed, without doing something that is substantially better.
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The training program is going to be beyond what the lifter could support ordinarily.
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Where both are true at the same time, which is good because if wanting to break through #1, it can be very beneficial to take approach #2.
However, for most neither are actually the case and it’s not necessary to excellent gains to use the most advanced approach possible. There can be a further edge to doing so, and it is enjoyable to get still better results, but it’s not necessary, and so if it’s financially problematic, then by no means feel any need as you can do fine without any custom mixing.
If wanting to follow CT’s training protocols though, if just unable to do the full supplementation protocol he suggests and has based the training loads on I would try combining Surge Recovery and MAG-10 to get as close as individually possible.