It was a killer. I did the Rx, which had heavy thrusters (135 lbs on the backside) and muscle ups. These came after doing 50 thrusters at 95 lbs and 50 chest-to-bar pull ups. My goal was to get into the muscle ups, which is where so many stall. (Especially in my age group). So, mission accomplished! I did all 7 of the muscle up in the first round of the second part, and also did a total of 10 thrusters at the 135 lb weight. I got called for three “no reps” on the thrusters (for not breaking parallel on one, not locking out another, not doing either on the last rep). My official score was 117 reps (or 6 rounds + 3 reps).
This should be good enough for me to advance into the quarterfinals. I actually came in with a strategy this time: pace the first 5 rounds before the forced 1 minute break (it took my 9:32), leaving me enough time to chip away at the heavy thrusters and muscle ups. Worked nicely. I’ll know by the end of the day on Monday if I advance.
This was legit one of my low-t symptoms. I thought I had legit PTSD. My kid would drop their metal water bottle and it was like a bomb going off. My wife would pop a pillsbury roll container without “warning” me and I would jump 3 feet in the air. My cortisol was so high that I was basically in fight or flight 24/7. It was WILD when I got my hormones fixed, because it wasn’t that my tolerance got better: the noises got more quiet.
Keeping in mind those are “round 1” plates. I always went back for seconds.
And I had far more than JUST steak and eggs: that was just what we wanted to log. But I still kept it carnivore, not out of sacrifice but because its goddamn awesome. That photo is on day 6.
It just works.
The serving staff started giving me double and triple portions of meat at dinner when I explained that I preferred meat to dessert.
Same, haha. Dr. Ken Berry has the BBBE challenge. “Try to get fat eating only beef, butter, bacon and eggs.” He’s right: you can’t do it. You just run out of stomach at one point, haha.
What did you do to identify, and then to address, this?
The water bottle was exactly the example I’d have given if asked!
And yesterday my wife commented that my energy has declined, and we speculated about chronic stress…
I participated a few years ago, didn’t feel legit, more like a vote for the feel good story. Felt the guy that should have won didn’t get the votes. Just my take.
And, not in a position anyway, no access to a gym currently.
I had a hormone profile run twice, getting a 44 and 38 for my test, which as my urologist put it was “levels we would expect from someone chemically castrated”. After that was an MRI of my pituitary gland to try to determine if I had primary or secndary hypogonadism. After that: treatment with injectable testosterone. Been over a year and the healing has been incredible
Holy…
Thats fascinating.
And iirc your lifting performance at that time was still far above any normal human despite the chemical handicap.
I’ll need to get checked eventually i guess… shit.
I’m probably 3lb up on the year weight wise while staying at the same bf, which is slow going but I don’t really bulk and cut so it’s a grind to build muscle. I am starting to see/feel the physical effects of the Sermorelin now as it’s been about 6 weeks on.
Took a (cold) pic yesterday to check in on things and progress is moving along
Hey team, just throwing this out there: @QuadQueen is an incredibly generous person. I started pondering the carnivore diet, and the first thing she did was reach out to make sure I understood how to go about it, was planning the right way for health, and had everything in place. She’s a bonafide registered dietician (not playing one on the Internet), and has offered to help anyone in here as they get into the home stretch of this challenge - definitely take her up on it!
I meant to call @T3hPwnisher for giving me tons of his time to answer my basic questions before I hit “send;” I feel less guilty because you all know how great he is about that, but still had to edit this. Thank you as well, sir!
Absolutely dude. Thank YOU for giving me the opportunity to bloviate on the topic. It’s honestly something I love sharing. It’s done SO much to help me heal, and if I can help others in that same way, I love doing that. I’m excited for you.
This was honestly another symptom I was overlooking. It didn’t dawn on my just HOW hard I was training for so LITTLE return in investment. I was so bullheaded that I didn’t think anything of the sheer insanity of effort I was undertaking, and since COVID was in full swing, I had nothing but free time to just train and train. But once I got my hormones fixed, it was amazing how much I DIDN’T need to train to get the results I wanted. I’m still discovering that, and I have to STILL fight the urge to try to do more, because that was “ops normal” for so long, but these days I’m learning that, if I do it often, it has to be low intensity, and if I do it high intensity, it has to be less often.
