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I just started my 2nd ever cycle of var. I used anavar a year ago for only about a week but stopped using it as I figured that I should keep at natural body buidling for longer. I have been lifting weights now for about 2 years regularly. Over the last year I have treated body building religiously, played wiht my diet, bulked up, cut down, bulked up again and now it's time for me to lean out for show.
I will be posting photos soon - updated/current. I am changing my diet right now too. Some of you may remember how I hired a trainer who competed 15x in body building and who gave me a crazy cutting diet, which well I come to find out was a bit too rigorous. I kept getting a cold on it as I was not getting enough nutrition it seemed (50g carbs a day for low carb cycling days, 100g protein, 30g fat and about total 900 cals for those low carb days - which was hard). I lost water weight and dropped about 10 lbs (143 currently in weight) but I have a gut feeling that I need more cals in order to have the strength to train and not to get sick from burnout!!!
I started var on the 31st (Wed) this past week (so I have been on now for only about 3 days). I am taking between 5 mg and 10 mg per day - about 7.5 mg per day avg. The pills are tiny so it's hard to divide them out ... and they are 10 mg each. I take 1/2 in the morning and 1/2 at night time.
This past week I got sick. From Sunday until the mid week my voice was half gone and I had no energy. I trained still a little - as much as I could but well, not as much as I would have liked to. Between a busy work schedule (self employed) and the stresses of life I have a tendency of burning out regularly. Also the energy supps I take - redline and caffeine seem to keep me up too long when I should go to sleep and well I burn out after a few days even more so as I don't feel that I get adequate rest. Last night I slept from midnight to about 1:30 p.m. tonight!!
So here are the questions:
1. What should I dose at? 5 or 10 mg per day? For how long? I was thinking 2 weeks on, 2 off.
2. Please help me fine tune my nutrition, which will be in the next post.
3. Please help me fine tune my workouts (below).
The figure competition is at the end of august.
Stats: 5'7, 143 weight
Calipers: in MMs:
Abdominal: 26
Chest: 16 (think I may have screwed up this measurement)
Thigh: 22
Suprailiac: 6
Midaxillary: 12
Subscapular: 4
Per http://www.linear-software.com/online.html my BF % for all the above measurements is about 19%
Only for: Tricep, suprailiac and thigh: 16%
Waist: inches: 27; hips inches: 39
Diet:
FOODS OF ONLY these combos:
-Meats: Chicken, tilapia or salmon
-Veggies/carbs: Mostly spinach and asparagus
-Fruits/carbs: Mostly just berries, fav being blueberries, some grapes
-Carbs: Sweet potatos, oats, little bit of honey with my salmon (I have this great recipe!) – about a tablespoon max a day on the high carb days only
-Protein supps: Beverly international brand – whey mix – “Ultimate Muscle Protein” also “Muscle Provider” from Bev Int’l.
-Fats: Salad dressing, vinagrette – little of, avocados (tops 50g per day or so), cook using NO oils – only the spray, little bit of feta cheese (maybe tops 20g per day)
-No breads of course/no junk foods
Meals: Balanced w/ Protein, carbs, fats:
Higher carb days (plan):
Days 1-4:
Cals about 1400-1500.
140-160g protein
150-200 max g carbs depending on workout intensity
40-50g fats – good fats
Lower Carb days:
Days 5-7
130g protein
50-100g carbs (more like 50 if can manage it)
About 30g fats
Totals to about 1000-1100 cals.
Supplements:
-Vaso xp – vasodilator
-Redline when I really need it – screws me up if I take it too regularly – as I don’t sleep enough then
-sesapure though I’m not taking it regularly as I should
-t-rex sometimes
-l-glut post/pre workouts
-vitamins and extra b-vitamins
-BCAAs
-EFAs
-sometimes mineral/vitamin supplement “Emergen-C”
-garlic when I feel sick, LOL
-drink loooots of green tea – maybe more than I should… need to up the h20 intake
** I am thinking about cycling off the supplements other than vitamins and var on weekends…. Any ideas? I think it’s not good to take them all the time?
Workouts:
Now I listen to my bod, sometimes I do less cardio or weights – I workout to feel a great pump and some pain the next day – to feel very strong, but if I feel weak I don’t overdo it w/ the workouts (I take it easy or day off):
Approx workouts:
CARDIO daily: I was doing 45 min or so 4-5 days a week of slower cardio where I would still sweat, but will not change this to High intensity shorter session trainings:
-Will do about 20 min, 2x per day of high intensity (5-6 days per wk goal): Fast run on treadmill/jump rope combo – gut wrenching type
WEIGHTS:
Full bod workouts every other day, and some lighter weight workouts and/or ball/abs exercises in between the hard full bod workouts. I think I like the idea of giving adequate rest in between workouts which are intense – that has worked for me in the past.
So far:
I feel strong. I think it’s the var kicking in, but I’m not sure? I’ve felt incredibly strong and pumped up. I feel hungry! I have been at about 1500 cals for the last 3 days prior to that I ate lower carbs of 1000 cals per day or so for a few days and was fine. But now, I am suddenly hungry on the 1500 cals! Today I already ate abtou 1500 cals and I have a few meals more that I should have eated (felt sick at night, throat hurt so I drank a lot of milk w/ honey and a bit of butter- mom’s recipe from when I was a little girl – always worked annnnd I ate a ton of garlic – feel much better today!!).
Photos coming soon ;-)
I just started my 2nd ever cycle of var. I used anavar a year ago for only about a week but stopped using it as I figured that I should keep at natural body buidling for longer. I have been lifting weights now for about 2 years regularly. Over the last year I have treated body building religiously, played wiht my diet, bulked up, cut down, bulked up again and now it's time for me to lean out for show.
I will be posting photos soon - updated/current. I am changing my diet right now too. Some of you may remember how I hired a trainer who competed 15x in body building and who gave me a crazy cutting diet, which well I come to find out was a bit too rigorous. I kept getting a cold on it as I was not getting enough nutrition it seemed (50g carbs a day for low carb cycling days, 100g protein, 30g fat and about total 900 cals for those low carb days - which was hard). I lost water weight and dropped about 10 lbs (143 currently in weight) but I have a gut feeling that I need more cals in order to have the strength to train and not to get sick from burnout!!!
I started var on the 31st (Wed) this past week (so I have been on now for only about 3 days). I am taking between 5 mg and 10 mg per day - about 7.5 mg per day avg. The pills are tiny so it's hard to divide them out ... and they are 10 mg each. I take 1/2 in the morning and 1/2 at night time.
This past week I got sick. From Sunday until the mid week my voice was half gone and I had no energy. I trained still a little - as much as I could but well, not as much as I would have liked to. Between a busy work schedule (self employed) and the stresses of life I have a tendency of burning out regularly. Also the energy supps I take - redline and caffeine seem to keep me up too long when I should go to sleep and well I burn out after a few days even more so as I don't feel that I get adequate rest. Last night I slept from midnight to about 1:30 p.m. tonight!!
So here are the questions:
1. What should I dose at? 5 or 10 mg per day? For how long? I was thinking 2 weeks on, 2 off.
2. Please help me fine tune my nutrition, which will be in the next post.
3. Please help me fine tune my workouts (below).
The figure competition is at the end of august.
Stats: 5'7, 143 weight
Calipers: in MMs:
Abdominal: 26
Chest: 16 (think I may have screwed up this measurement)
Thigh: 22
Suprailiac: 6
Midaxillary: 12
Subscapular: 4
Per http://www.linear-software.com/online.html my BF % for all the above measurements is about 19%
Only for: Tricep, suprailiac and thigh: 16%
Waist: inches: 27; hips inches: 39
Diet:
FOODS OF ONLY these combos:
-Meats: Chicken, tilapia or salmon
-Veggies/carbs: Mostly spinach and asparagus
-Fruits/carbs: Mostly just berries, fav being blueberries, some grapes
-Carbs: Sweet potatos, oats, little bit of honey with my salmon (I have this great recipe!) – about a tablespoon max a day on the high carb days only
-Protein supps: Beverly international brand – whey mix – “Ultimate Muscle Protein” also “Muscle Provider” from Bev Int’l.
-Fats: Salad dressing, vinagrette – little of, avocados (tops 50g per day or so), cook using NO oils – only the spray, little bit of feta cheese (maybe tops 20g per day)
-No breads of course/no junk foods
Meals: Balanced w/ Protein, carbs, fats:
Higher carb days (plan):
Days 1-4:
Cals about 1400-1500.
140-160g protein
150-200 max g carbs depending on workout intensity
40-50g fats – good fats
Lower Carb days:
Days 5-7
130g protein
50-100g carbs (more like 50 if can manage it)
About 30g fats
Totals to about 1000-1100 cals.
Supplements:
-Vaso xp – vasodilator
-Redline when I really need it – screws me up if I take it too regularly – as I don’t sleep enough then
-sesapure though I’m not taking it regularly as I should
-t-rex sometimes
-l-glut post/pre workouts
-vitamins and extra b-vitamins
-BCAAs
-EFAs
-sometimes mineral/vitamin supplement “Emergen-C”
-garlic when I feel sick, LOL
-drink loooots of green tea – maybe more than I should… need to up the h20 intake
** I am thinking about cycling off the supplements other than vitamins and var on weekends…. Any ideas? I think it’s not good to take them all the time?
Workouts:
Now I listen to my bod, sometimes I do less cardio or weights – I workout to feel a great pump and some pain the next day – to feel very strong, but if I feel weak I don’t overdo it w/ the workouts (I take it easy or day off):
Approx workouts:
CARDIO daily: I was doing 45 min or so 4-5 days a week of slower cardio where I would still sweat, but will not change this to High intensity shorter session trainings:
-Will do about 20 min, 2x per day of high intensity (5-6 days per wk goal): Fast run on treadmill/jump rope combo – gut wrenching type
WEIGHTS:
Full bod workouts every other day, and some lighter weight workouts and/or ball/abs exercises in between the hard full bod workouts. I think I like the idea of giving adequate rest in between workouts which are intense – that has worked for me in the past.
So far:
I feel strong. I think it’s the var kicking in, but I’m not sure? I’ve felt incredibly strong and pumped up. I feel hungry! I have been at about 1500 cals for the last 3 days prior to that I ate lower carbs of 1000 cals per day or so for a few days and was fine. But now, I am suddenly hungry on the 1500 cals! Today I already ate abtou 1500 cals and I have a few meals more that I should have eated (felt sick at night, throat hurt so I drank a lot of milk w/ honey and a bit of butter- mom’s recipe from when I was a little girl – always worked annnnd I ate a ton of garlic – feel much better today!!).
Photos coming soon ;-)
