2021 UGBB Winter BULK Thread

Send0 said:

I dropped GH today, but going to keep my blast going until 01/15.

My reasoning is that I suspect I may not have been as side effect free from GH as I think I was. I want to drop the GH while keeping everything else the same to see if my tendonitis issues seem to magically resolve themselves over the course of the next 3-4 weeks.

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The Phoenix said:

I wasn't aware you were on HGH. how many I.U.'s were you doing daily and what is your frequency?

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Send0 said:

Thanks for starting this. I will be starting my bulk at almost the same time. I'll be bulking for ~4 months. Then 3 months of staying at maintenance before I go into the 2022 spring/summer cut.

My goal is to put on 20lbs, with hopefully at least 12 of those pounds being lean mass... my other goal is to do everything I can to stay injury free this time around. If I can manage to gain some strength then that will just be icing on the cake.

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jonneyhotrod said:

I’m at 18% body now. Should I consider bulking still? Or just run with what I have continued with a slow cut. I’m looking to getting in my 1st competition in aug. Did you ever run into this kind of scenario? I’m pretty vascular up to my shoulders. Just a visceral thing according to my body scan I had in Boston. New here , you appear to be pretty experienced

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Send0 said:

7 months, injected 4x per day, started at 4iu, and worked my way up to 10iu... Last 4 months were between 8-10iu.

IGF tests show it's real GH, but can't say gains were mind blowing. Then again I still have a host of issues/injuries.. so it's possible I wasn't able to maximize what I was taking.

I'll try it again next year, assuming I am truly operating at 100% by then.

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The Phoenix said:

The most I would take (in addition to gear) was 5 IU/day. When I got joint issues due to gh, I cut to every 4 day using Serostim (they come in 1cc vials) and when using Bacterio-static water, life suspension is about 4 days. In EP, I could only find humatrope (now discontinued) and it was 50 IUs that needed to be used in 14 days. Serostim we’re 7 individual cc/box (70 IU)


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Send0 said:

If you want to compete on August, then you should definitely not start bulking now. You simply don't have time, especially if your current bodyfat is 18%.

People say you should be 10% bodyfat before considering a bulk. I disagree... I think people can start a bulk at a minimum of 12% bodyfat. So even if you followed my advice, you would still need to lose 6% body fat.

Also, don't confuse knowledge for experience. I do know a lot of things, but I am not nearly as experienced as many other people here. I just want to be clear on that, there are plenty of people here who I would personally listen to over myself.

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Send0 said:

I've had some tendonitis in my forearm and bicep that never completely goes away. In the last week I've started to get tingling in my fingers; which I know is a side effect of GH.

So it got me wondering if maybe my tendonitis has been a GH side this entire time and I just didn't connect the dots. Guess I'll find out in a few weeks as my GH and IGF levels go back down.

Keeping my fingers crossed

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The Phoenix said:

It is. I had the same issue whenever I would take it. Just decrease dosage (space out same IU's) to maybe every other day.

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dted23 said:

12/29/21
BW 204

Super need to eat, I got busy and haven’t eaten today.

Back day was okay. Still limited by a glute I can barely use.

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CJ275 said:

I'm still going, just haven't been posting here, only in my log. I forgot.

Weekly Weight/Nutrition Update:

Weekly average weight of 211.0 lbs, down 1.6 lbs from the week prior. Water weight continues to fall off, I'm feeling great, still pretty lean, so I'll continue to stretch out my cycle.

I just finished 13 weeks, up 9.3 lbs from the start. Was taking roughly 400 mg week of Test and NPP, I'll continue on with just 800 mg Test. I've never run Test this high, so we'll see how it goes. Really looking forward to pinning only 2x/week vs the EOD I've been doing.

3946 Cals
385g C
295g P
134g F

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CJ275 said:

I'm still going, just haven't been posting here, only in my log. I forgot.

Weekly Weight/Nutrition Update:

Weekly average weight of 211.0 lbs, down 1.6 lbs from the week prior. Water weight continues to fall off, I'm feeling great, still pretty lean, so I'll continue to stretch out my cycle.

I just finished 13 weeks, up 9.3 lbs from the start. Was taking roughly 400 mg week of Test and NPP, I'll continue on with just 800 mg Test. I've never run Test this high, so we'll see how it goes. Really looking forward to pinning only 2x/week vs the EOD I've been doing.

3946 Cals
385g C
295g P
134g F

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Charger69 said:

With or without an AI?


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CJ275 said:

Without. But I have a bunch of Adex on hand, just in case.

I've never gotten out of the 30's for E2, using up to 500 Test.

We'll see how it goes.

I'm prepared to pull the plug immediately at any time, this is like OT at the end of the game.

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Charger69 said:

The power of estrogen will be seen.

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