Bodybuilding Classic Physique Division Offseason log

haha, good practical advice tbh. This man gets it.

(IDK if acid can cause brain damage in this way though; I honestly know very little about psychedelic drugs and I have no plans of ever using them or experimenting with them no matter how much Joe Rogan or Andrew Huberman recommends them. Not for me)

Still very sick today. Dropped down to 93.5kg from dehydration. Can barely keep water in my body no matter how much I drink. I've eaten nothing but two slices of toast today. I think the worst of it is over finally. Skipped my retatrutide shot b/c I have no appetite anyway and after 8-9 days off I probably need to start over at a lower dose anyway.

Worst deload ever, worst refeed ever.

Oh interesting, I hadn't considered that.

I'm doing good and I'm happy. Whatever decision I make, I'll likely continue being happy. That doesn't mean I shouldn't weigh this and many other life altering decisions carefully.

Open relationship seems like it would address many of your concerns. Of course, it would raise others.

I’m not sure our boy would want Chad rooting his missus

Wonder which happens first, N1H G4P or Guy cuck.

None of the above.

Destiny style open relationship way off the table, screaming in the opposite direction.

Cab driver in Macau offered me 1k HKD to bull for him and his wife (...that's it? what am I? chopped liver?). She was quite on the chunky side; I declined. I thought it was weird to be propositioned like this by a cab driver.

I'll probably end up with a very ordinary story of meeting somebody mostly on accident and without any special intent as I move to a city where there's just a better operational sex ratio and a higher probability of somebody who shares my fitness lifestyle and values and it will end up being quite un-dramatic and mostly just like everyone else. It will have been a rockier and much more interesting journey, but the destination will be the same.

The "men age like fine wine" is normally stupid red pill cope, but in my case it's turned out to be true and I think you can find a lot of examples of guys who fit into the "hypermasculine" phenotype who do end up peaking really late, even if most men end up peaking around their mid 20s. When I say that, I mean peaking in raw physical appeal, not even overall SMV. That's the exception though, the rule is that most men look about the best to the opposite sex around 22-27 and it's all down hill from there. Having blessed hair genetics where I have 0 recession despite blasting test and masteron almost constantly helps, but I also have to credit my extreme levels of commitment to diet, exercise, and small scale cosmetic interventions too of course.

Sorry to disappoint everyone, but no dramatic or wild stories or extreme lifestyles are to follow.

I'll just quibble a bit and say that what age you peak at physically isn't necessarily highly correlated with finding your theoretically highest value mate, though in your case it may be more correlated than with some other people. I would argue that's more of a coincidence based on many factors in how your life has unfolded thus far, and that thinking about optimizing SMV is ultimately kind of meaningless when presumably you're not trying to work your way through endless Chengdu 10s and are more interested in a long term relationship with one individual woman. This also presumes that what you think are your primary value determinants actually are what's most important to your future missus (to the extent that can actually ever be truly determined); stated versus revealed preferences aside, I'm again not certain that's going to hold true at the individual level even if it may be broadly true at the population level.

Strongly agree. This particularly true in China where good looks dont take you as far and net worth, status, and income take you much further.

Upper

bayesian curls: 11.75kgx22, 10, 8

Warmup
Incline bb: 80kgx10, 60kgx12x2
single arm pulldowns: 70kgx12, 8, 6
machine flies: 40kgx22, 12, 8
machine rows: 2ppsx15, 12, 9

superset db prone delt raises//db skullcrushers: 7.5kgx21, 3 more sets failure, 10kgx21, 14, 10

curls+warmup was 20 minutes, lifting afterword was 1 hr.

facking 93.5kg dropping off 8kg in 3 weeks this is not what was supposed to happen... 3kg of that was just the past 2 days. I mean a lot of water+glycogen obv and just rehydrating I should be back up to 96. I'm shocked my lifts have not dropped off even more than they already have. Food poisoning while on a glp1 is a special torture. But thankfully today I was basically not sick at all, just not really able to eat very much. Had 2 kiwis, 200g chicken+200g sweet potato+ guac, 200g chicken + 150g rice + guac, and then one banana pre workout and i can't eat again.

I was idly wondering, since you are a jacked black man, who would end up bulling for you.

Probably have to find one of those guys on Blacked.

Our boy is Chad. The Chaddiest of Chads really.

But yes that is one of the new issues it would raise.

Sometimes they might just want a different Chad.

Maybe even an inferior one if it means experience new type of Chadness

Man this is funny I'm getting the old guys using internet Gen Z Gen A language. I'm a few months away from my first pro qualifier; at this point stacy, chad, and finding a partner are the furthest thing from my mind. That doesn't diminish my interest in the topic of human mating broadly or what it might mean for me in a few years time, but this is obviously not the time to be enmeshed in it personally. I'm about to accomplish something only a tiny fraction of humanity has the willpower to do. Even if I don't win, just not looking out of place on a classic physique pro qualifying stage is a very big deal.

Retatrutide dropped for the time being due to digestive illness which is just now clearing up. When I add it back in, just going to micro it around 0.5mg as a 'super-metformin' because I was dropping weight too fast and i'm at a level of leanness now where continuing to drop fast could start resulting in tissue loss. I can up the dose to actual appetite suppressing levels when I eventually hit a stall on just caffeine+yohimbine+steps.

The GLP1s are a big deal. You have to be such a ******ed donk not to be successful with weight loss on it. If this is what happens when an already lean guy with meal prep, training, and cardio habits has these results, imagine what will happen with an obese 45% sedentary fatty?

Hopefully docs prescribing these "encourage" or even require them to strength train and some of these people change their lives, but let's not keep our hopes up. We're going to see some dumb news reports, social media posts, and youtube videos about "ozempic and osteoperosis risk' and "ozempic face" instead of 'get in the FKCING weight room and take this, hard body in a year'

It would be so easy to erase obesity from modern society even without people doing the hard parts of preparing their own food with just more widespread resistance training+GLP1s. They could continue eating like total donks and have 0 conception of calories and still pull it off.

I have read 0 research on them - what are side effects/potential risks?

Instead we have people arguing about how food in America is full of poison and Euro foods have no poison. (Cause Romania and Norway are basically the exact same.)

People are too stupid to be helped.

Germany is over half overweight. The US is closer to 3/4ths. It is absurd.

Tho it is also amusing to explain this to pregnant women and what they perceive as "normal" weight gain. And how they magically can't lose 15lbs of "baby weight". It is just an absurd level of societal self-delusion/cope and a lack of desire for people to eat a normal caloric balance appropriate for their lifestyle.

The real question is what if Guy has a bigger dong than Jason Luv? Literally impossible to find a bull. Would he have to be bulled by a 5'2 120lbs micropeen azn man? Like inverse-bull? I just don't know. This opens up a whole new world of confusion about jacked dudes with big dicks in relationships with women who have cuck fantasies they want realized. Is this why white women turn to animals? I just don't know.

hahahaha

slight change to lower days. 1 working set of paused SLDLs each workout then either single leg squat or leg press but only 2 sets

Cable curls and pushdown superset: 3 rounds
lying ham curls: 40kgx12, 32kgx12, 11
paused SLDL: 110kgx15
RFESS: 12.5kgx12x2
leg extensions: 40kgx15, 15, 12

Wanted to hit leg extensions as first lift before ham curls but machine was occupied by a r3tard.

I'll hit 110kgx15 again next lower workout and go up 5kg each week, not each workout. I also finally bought 1.25kg plates which our gym didn't have before so I can try to hit a 137.5kg pr. Lower body pulling strength is one of the few things that tends to maintain during these speedrun weight loss cuts. Accidentally speedrunning my contest prep via glp 1. But contest prep is not about minimizing eating; it's about finding the balance of calories and the right deficit that results in a low bodyfat and high muscularity. If you just fast or spam glp1s, evne on steroids, you will melt away and get softer while losing scale weight.

oh just asked chat gpt, I may not have food poisoning at all. Retatrutide can cause these symptoms if you overdo it on the food. But I felt like I had to overdo it on the food to not be speedrunning the weight loss. Conclusion: The starting dose was literally too high for me after 2 weeks of introductory lower doses and caused me to lose weight too fast. Normal starting dose=2mg. I'll stay on 0.5mg for about a month before raising to 1mg.

Nice, that's nice

remember these medications are designed for people in western countries who are often sub 6k steps per day physically inactive jobs. Even the other bodybuilders using this stuff are living this lifestyle and going to the gym and doing 30 minutes on the treadmill post workout when they start prep. The protocols they use don't apply to me because the Asian lifestyle is so different and being an educator means a lot less sitting throughout the day. you don't need as much appetite suppression and can handle a lot more food if you're on your feet all day and baseline 11k steps with it being fairly easy to get into the 17k+ range. Lesson learned, RESPECT the retatrutide.

There are also differing sensitivities to various things. See basically all the normies that get addicted to pain meds.

On a funnier note, one of things lost in smaller gubmint healthcare is that that literally no specialists for some things. Like if you get in a situation where you get addicted to a pain med out here, they literally just tell you to taper off. (Like down to crushing a single pill, then mixing it in glass of water and drink a shot glass.) Beyond that, glhf.

The joys of socialized medicine. On the flip side, explaining doctor shopping (like you Luigi and think you need a spine procedure) is wild out here since you literally make zero money prescribing anything that isn't pure woo (IE PRP for chronic injuries).

I'm sure your application is sitting at the top of a hefty stack of papers on EmoChad's desk right now.

If he wants to watch someone pathetically attempt smash his limp penis into some gash like Vitalyzed on BangBus, sure!

Seriously tho. Having some large black man stare at me while I **** his gf/wife is probably just above scat play in terms of sexually arousing. I mean... What if he robs me?

NB: Vitalyzed wasn't in a cuck porn. He was in a threesome porn and just sat there watching and beating his limp dick furiously. It is shockingly pathetic.

surprised the cabbie offered that, i would have figured most would assume you'd just bang for free

This new leg/lower day is awesome. One issue I run into is that I really need to limit time in the gym with my work schedule to be in bed on time and leg press is often taken up by a f4ggot, r3tard, or subhuman scum and it's impossible to work in with anyone on this machine, so what if I did rfess one workout and ffess the other workout? that sounds diabolical. FFESS is more quad dominant but still gets more glute than leg press and then I never have to worry about wasting 20 minutes on some bag of skin herp derping on the leg press doing 1/5th ROM sets of 5 in between playing on their phone for 6 minutes.

I could try hack squatting. I didn't like the hack squat at my previous 2 gyms but haven't even tried the one here. I have not once seen anyone use this machine ever. I'll give it a go next lower day. This does run the risk of my use of the machine attracting copycats or people who seemingly exist in life solely to cause me inconvenience. I haven't tried the selectorized leg press either, which bafflingly never has anyone using it either because it's more like a hack/horizontal leg press hybrid where you move your body away from the platform rather than the platform away from your body but it's not vertical enough to be a hack squat.