Beefcake!!!
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If you saw pics from a month ago thereās no way you would think I was higher than 20% BF.
Ever since my A1C has risen, I become bloated all day everyday and exaggerates my belly fat and makes it look worse than it really is. I belch and pass gas all day long, thereās a LOT of air in my gut/intestines.
If anything Iām a skinny fat, spread evenly mostly around the chest, belly and back. Iām still getting erections though and still have some energy. If I brought the A1C down to the 6ās, the bloating will disappear and my bloat will subside.
Upon starting TRT I lose weight very quickly, my watch band is loose on day 3-4 after starting TRT and I start looking trimmed around the belly, but then the urination ceases and it back to bloating especially after eating. Crash and burn.
I can feel strange sensations in my groin area, like an insect colony is crawling around down there, itās a weird feeling.
When I started trt some yrs back I did have a narrow urine stream and it made me cringe. I told the dr and he told me that it should passā¦
It took about 2 weeks maybe and it did pass. There were a few days where it did hurt and strained me.
I started T again a couple days ago and I had it again this morning. Was a narrow stream that made me cringe. Color and all looked normal though.
I hope you get over that soon that feeling is horrible.
BMI is flawed for the muscular individualā¦ are you natty by chance? If not then youāre fucking huge, perhaps you have a very large frame and/ mstn gene mutation (very rare)ā¦ If youāre generally fat, like 30% then BMI is a pretty good indicator in relation to indiciating who is obese and who isnāt
Have you read his log? Heās knocking out 65lb front and side raises. 
Iām on TRT for a year or so. Natty before. I am indeed not a small guy, European genes, very dense bones.
Soā¦ you do lateral raises with 65 lbsā¦ Jesus Christ
How much do you deadlift, squat and (ehhhh not even gonna bother with bench, many people canāt bench, I donāt like it as being used to gauge strength as I canāt bench due to subacromial bursitis)
Whatās youāre trt dose? 70000 milligrams per week? (Jokes, dont take this as an insult, on the contrary take it as a compliment)
I do not know my 1RM. I pulled 800+ for 11 reps in the car DL at a contest, and when I was competing I know I pulled 650 in a pair of shorts on a regular power bar. I donāt really go for max, I like feeling like there is at least one in the tank. I have done 650 raw squat, equipped was around 850 I think, but I never really tried to max much.
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Hmmm these natty numbers are off the chartsā¦ Iād suggest perhaps getting a genetic analysis, itād be interesting to see if you harbour genes associated with increased muscular mass/strength
Iām not strong, nor do I train for strength. But two months of deadlift training got me to pulling 405x3 at 160. I have had genetic analysis performed, my genes for muscle accrual are average, but my genes regarding muscular strength (pound for pound and tensile strength) are supposedly above average. The same went for bench press, when I was 12 and about 90, a month or two of bench training had me putting on 100-110 for 10-15ā¦ whilst that may not seem like much at allā¦ because it isnāt, it was well over my bodyweight. My max this year was I think 105 kilograms (so bout 230 something). Same goes for arm wrestling, Iām short, but my leverages appear to be amazing, Iāve always been able to out arm wrestle kids twice my size (particularly in the height department), itās a pretty cool party trick. I recall in the sixth grade there was one kid strong enough to draw with me, he was a big basketball player (bout 6ā2 140 at the time, now much talller) and I was about 4ā10, 80lbsā¦ not exaggerating here either, my father is the same way in relation to arm wrestling abilityā¦ the same concept went for wrestling, I was able to, and still am able to pin those much larger than I (father was the same), thereās a genetic element within my family regarding great pound for pound muscular strength
But youāre stats are absurd!!! I havenāt been able to train for over a month now, so Iāll probs have trouble benching 85, and my max will have probs dropped to about 90kgā¦ havenāt been able to bench for many months due to shoulder ailment, Iām sure the DL max will have dropped quite a bit too considering how much muscular mass and definition Iāve lost on holiday :/ā¦ Iāll get it back though
Makes me think, youāre clearly a mammoth of a human being, if you were to hop on gear (which of course I donāt condone or reccomend)ā¦ how far would you get? With these stats natty, you might get to likeā¦ world record territory (granted this would depend on youāre individualistic response to gear, but perhaps all the stars would be aligned)
When I had optimal testosterone, my muscles were like rocks, very hard and solid. My energy was insane for those couple of weeks on 7mg daily. I feel like that guy in Unbreakable strength wise. I would workout for two hours cardio/weights, return home and hours later I was wanting to go back to the gym. My muscle and energy are first to develop on TRT, losing weight within days.
I already sent in the geneology DNA kit.
Could you squat 650 though? 650 is seriously what Iād consider an elite lift
I went from not being about to square nothing to being able to squat 450 in those few weeks, I didnāt want to push my luck and end up hurting myself as my joints were still healing, as a teen I was squating 480 in high school, but was too short lived.
I was a very skinny kid, Iām tall, but skinny bones, so any muscle will show. I had baseball biceps before I became low T.
I have the raw data from an Ancestry test, and I did another one through a medical center (checking for MEN among other things). Iād be interested to know that specifically as well. I should add, those numbers were technically with low test. I have test numbers under 300 during that time. I was unaware of TRT as a thing at the time or that my numbers would have qualified me. My Dadās cousin was top 10 at WSM twice, natty, in the early 1990ās, so I assume I do have some useful strength genes.
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Way 2 go @systemlord . Letās give him some props!
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I couldnāt get into that forum. Donāt know why per sayā¦ just mostly SSDD even more than we see here.
Wanted to support this Dude as he is taking a big step!
Oh no doubt. I was mostly replying about the Excel forum, actually nothing much to do with the topic at hand. Just me not minding my own business LOL
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An A1C at 6.4% isnāt good enough, I want a normal A1C <5.7%. My goal is 4.9%.
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