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started exogenous test use over 2 months ago @ 125mgs, pushing my levels from 300 → 1200 at trough. experienced what others have told me to expect: better recovery, mood, libido, strength, increased body odour.

recently started 375mg for a first beginner blast. i haven't been able to take my mind off of food. prior to this, i could barely stomach 1600-1800kc to maintain weight. ever since i started T, my appetite has grown largely up to 2500kc, and then 3000kc. thing is, i'm still maintaining weight, so it's just made it easier to get more carbs preworkout and protein intraday but man, i could eat a brick wall if it looked enough like steak.

when i was natty (300ng/dl), my training schedule was highly inspired by mentzer's Heavy Duty because i seemed to recover like shit on programs like UL 4x a week or PPL 5-6x. training WFS, it looks like:

A: flat bench, leg press OR bb squats OR leg extension, incline bench, rdl OR leg curl, tri pushdowns OR skullcrushers OR diamond pushup

B: reverse grip lat pulldown OR underhand bb row, bb ohp OR machine shoulder press, db row OR t bar row, lateral raises, preacher curls OR bb curls

where week 1 is A/B/A, week 2 is B/A/B. the usual warmup into feeder into 2 sets of true failure. does the program look good enough? had way better progress and recovery running this (also now that legs are integrated in one of my upper days, i had less probability of skipping them lol).

also on trt now, and will look to do mini blasts a couple months of the year, am i g2g to keep running this split or should i up frequency given the increased recovery potential?

cruised on 125 pw putting me at 1250ng/dl TT (300ng/dl natty) with 30pg/ml e2 and 19nmol/l shbg.

watched and read up what's the best way to approach a first blast/cycle, including derek's "first cycle" video, and came to the conclusion to start at 250 pw for 6 weeks, manage sides if any and get bloods, reasses then tentatively move up to 375 for 14 weeks, getting bloods again then cruising. so i'm on week 1 of 250 at the moment.

the idea behind this is to find my lowest effective dose where i can tolerate a test base without an ai, assess my response and get all that data for future blasts where i push higher and stack. is this approach sound or am i room temp iq

Anyone have used any of their injectables or orals? Supposedly based out of the UK.

Looking between suppliers and one mainly provides Zen, another is offering Keifei, and have heard good things about KF's injectables but have seen labs/testing come back underdosed/different for orals so leaning towards Zen. Thanks.

To preface, for the next couple months I'm constricted to pinning Friday-Sunday. Started a TRT/Cruise dose of 125mg 1x per week (Sun) with 500iu HCG split Fri/Sun about 5 weeks ago, just pulled bloods on Saturday to gauge how to plan my BnCs (Test dose, c17aa use) moving forward. My bloods (pulled 9am consistently) are as follows, me natty and on 125 pw.

Haematocrit: 48% → 45%

hsCRP: didn't pull → 0.40 mg/l

Total Cholesterol: 122mg/dl → 115mg/dl

HDL: 35mg/dl → 35mg/dl

LDL: 77 mg/dl → 73mg/dl

Triglycerides: 48mg/dl → 38mg/dl

ApoB: didn't pull → 64mg/dl

ALT: 16u/l →11u/l

AST: 20u/l → 17u/l

Gamma GT: 15u/l → 14u/l

Total T: 473ng/dl → 1214ng/dl

Calc. Free T: 10.3ng/dl → 37ng/dl

Estradiol: <88pmol/l → 113pmol/l

SHBG: 27.4nmol/l → 19.4nmol/l

Physically and mentally feel leaps ahead of where I used to be, and glad I started at 125mg to gauge my response instead of just jumping to 500mg straight away.

With that, I was firstly wondering if I'm good to keep my cruise at 125mg pw since my trough is slightly above the reference ceiling and I feel better than fine, or if I should drop to 100mg pw.

Secondly, I plan my first blast to be 250mg, and initially titrate up to 375 then 500 as needed but with these levels would I realistically need to push more than 250-300 pw split Fri/Sun? Thank you for any help/advice given

To preface, for the next couple months I'm constricted to pinning Friday-Sunday. Started a TRT/Cruise dose of 125mg 1x per week (Sun) with 500iu HCG split Fri/Sun about 5 weeks ago, just pulled bloods on Saturday to gauge how to plan my BnCs (Test dose, c17aa use) moving forward. My bloods (pulled 9am consistently) are as follows, me natty and on 125 pw.

Haematocrit: 48% → 45%
hsCRP: didn't pull → 0.40 mg/l
Total Cholesterol: 122mg/dl → 115mg/dl
HDL: 35mg/dl → 35mg/dl
LDL: 77 mg/dl → 73mg/dl
Triglycerides: 48mg/dl → 38mg/dl
ApoB: didn't pull → 64mg/dl
ALT: 16u/l →11u/l
AST: 20u/l → 17u/l
Gamma GT: 15u/l → 14u/l
Total T: 473ng/dl → 1214ng/dl
Calc. Free T: 10.3ng/dl → 37ng/dl
Estradiol: <88pmol/l → 113pmol/l
SHBG: 27.4nmol/l → 19.4nmol/l

Physically and mentally feel leaps ahead of where I used to be, and glad I started at 125mg to gauge my response instead of just jumping to 500mg straight away.

With that, I was firstly wondering if I'm good to keep my cruise at 125mg pw since my trough is slightly above the reference ceiling and I feel better than fine, or if I should drop to 100mg pw.

Secondly, I plan my first blast to be 250mg, and initially titrate up to 375 then 500 as needed but with these levels would I realistically need to push more than 250-300 pw split Fri/Sun? Thank you for any help/advice given

i'll try to keep it short and concise. currently in unit, first BMT IPPT i did:

3 p/u, 10 s/u, 20:00+ (fail)

lost weight, focused on my statics, and my 2 recent IPPT attempts were:

60 p/u, 39 s/u, 14:54 (fail)

57 p/u, 60 s/u, 14:10 (pass)

so my statics are the least of my worries now but my run... yeah. somehow managed to cut down 40+s in ~3 weeks just doing minimally 2 zone 2 runs per week, each at least 20-25min long. my weak point is def the run and how i train for it. 7:00/km pace puts me at ~180bpm really quickly, and the zone 2 runs i mentioned, i deploy a run/walk method to keep me within range (tracked with both my polar pacer and a fitbit air).

should i continue doing 2 z2 runs per week, adding in 1 interval 8*400m at goal pace? or something like 1 z2 run, 1 intervals, 1 z3 long run (>5km) per week? gunning for silver now, any help/advice is greatly appreciated :))

Fairly active 21M, now running 2-3x a week and weightlifting 3x a week. On my least active days, I'm clocking minimally 15k+ steps, so before reta my sleeping HR was ~40-50, intra-day would be no higher than 65 if I was sitting down.

Been on reta since early Jan, titrated from 1mg to 3mg since, and have now went back down to 2mg (most stable and longest used dose thus far). It's great, went from 90kg at 168cm to 70kg with refeeds in between.

But my HR since has hovered around 80 even when lying down. Sitting at a desk sometimes puts me at 100, and doing easy runs quickly spikes me to at least 140-150 and threshold runs put me at near maximal 190-200 when that should be my Vo2 work.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, or don't feel well rested despite optimising my sleep and nutrition around recovery. Is it wise to move over to tirz? what dose should I ideally start at if so?

Love what reta has done for me but if it means giving up the glucagon aspect to reduce the cardiac load at rest, I don't mind moving over to low dose tirz to maintain some appetite muting.

MSI B550M PRO-VDH WIFI AMD R5 5600 CORSAIR DOMINATOR PLATINUM 16*2 3600

built this pc over a year ago, ported the ram over from an old build. worked fine until a couple months back when there'd be no display/post, reseated everything until the solution was to use one 16gb stick in the A2 slot. we'll call this stick "ram stick A", and the other "B". the pc would only work if Stick A was in A2; if i tried using Stick B in B2, the CPU debug would come on. if i tried using Stick B in A2, same thing.

so the pc works fine with stick A in A2, until just now i came across a post talking about ram issues with this specific motherboard, and how disabling Fast Memory in BIOS fixed the issue from a year ago. so i disabled Fast Memory, put Stick A in A2, Stick B in B2. cpu light on. took out stick B, only stick A in A2, cpu light on. reseated stick A in A2, cpu light on. cleared CMOS using the jumpers, retried, same thing.

was frustrating early on when i was forced to just use single channel 16gb with a specific stick in a specific slot, now even more frustrating that nothing seems to work. any help would be appreciated