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What's up, Jim Bros? Big Paul here with another live anabolic Q&A. Didn't have one last weekend. I was in New York City for the New York Pro. Had a great time there. Met some people. Um, it's a great show. Really enjoyed it. New York City is always fun. It's up the road from us here in Washington DC.
Um, been a kind of a cool week. I am officially one week out. Well, I was one week out. Contest prep tomorrow will be starting. I'll be 16 weeks out from the Masters Worlds. Now, I'm not 100% set on doing the show yet, so I'm not going to fully commit to it until I have um, some results with my contest prep. I just want to see how my body responds.
But regardless, I need to diet down. It's the fattest I've been in a while. Uh, I don't know where my body fat's at, but I guess probably 15, 16% if I were to guess. But I'm about 20 lbs over my last stage weight. I usually stay tighter within 10 lbs or so of my stage weight for contest prep. It just makes contest prep easier when you only have to lose half a pound per week or so.
But I, I've got a good 20 to knock off probably to be ready for the show. We'll see. We'll see where I land. I, I'm about 270 [clears throat] fast right now. Somewhere in that ballpark, um, is where I'm at.
I kick the peeds up a little bit. I usually kind of start tightening things up around 20 weeks out. I'll start doing a little bit of cardio. I get my diet locked down, tighten back up, just sort of ease myself into that prep mindset. I'll be honest with you guys, I hadn't really been weighing and measuring my food for the last year and a half or so. And I really have just been on TRT for the most part, 200 milligrams of testosterone most of the year when I was recovering from my surgery.
I opted a little bit to 300 milligrams and then I started getting some estrogen conversion. And then, uh, I don't know, back at the beginning of the year I threw maybe, I don't know, 50, 100 milligrams of primabolan in with it to help with the [clears throat] help with the estradiol conversion. Uh, but that's pretty much where I have been sitting. Um, so, um, yeah, I mean that, that, that's where I'm at right now.
I ramped up a couple weeks ago. I ramped up to, was it, 300, 300, uh, test, 200 primo, uh, or split the difference between primo, mass, 100 primo, 100 mast. Um, and then this week I just went up to 600 of test and 200 primo, 200 mass. So that's where I'm, where I'm at right now.
I definitely, man, I definitely feel the... It's funny because I used to run way higher doses. Um, but I definitely feel the 600, 600 test and 200 primo, 200 mast. I have not been on that much in a long time, a year and a half or more. Some I've taken in a year and a half. And I also added GH back in a few weeks back and I've been titrating that up too because I haven't run GH really much for the last year.
But anyway, that's kind of where I'm at right now. Um, I bumped up from six to eight units of GH this week and I think I'm going to have to back it back down to six because the water retention was so much. My first couple days my weight jumped up. [clears throat and snorts] I know, six, seven pounds. It was fucking crazy. I usually don't get that much water retention from GH, but probably it's because my body fat's a little bit higher.
But anyway, the starting point, we'll see where I land. I, I was about 250 last time I stepped on stage. I'm guessing I probably will be the same. Um, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll see. Uh, we'll see where I land.
Um, anyway, enough about me. Let's, uh, let's start digging into some of this stuff.
Um, Shane Boswell, the man. Thank you. What's up, Shane? Uh, Matt D. Farmer. Hey, legend. Did you see Molecular's Equipo video? Thoughts on it?
Um, yeah, Josh Perry sent it to me. I briefly watched it. I, I have no idea who that guy is. I, I, I, I'll be honest. I don't really watch other people's content. Um, I, I just don't have time to watch other people's content. Occasionally I'll watch some of Vigorous Steve's stuff or Scott McN, but that's about it. I don't really, if I do watch YouTube, it's history stuff or video games or basketball or football. I don't really watch much bodybuilding content, to be honest with you, because to me it's just periphery noise and I get annoyed by how stupid some people sound when they, they talk about shit.
But I briefly watched it. Uh, I'll have to look into what, what this guy's talking about. >> [snorts] >> I'm sure he's, I, you know, the thing that gave me some initial skepticism, I was watching it and there was a jump cut every 10 seconds and you could see the guy looking down reading from a script the whole time. I don't know who he is. I mean, I'm sure he's probably a nice guy and the information may be completely correct, but it looked like he was reading from a Chat GPT script.
Um, I'll say this about Equipoise. I've been saying this for a while. You've guys heard me say this, and just, just from my anecdotal observations with people running it, I am leaning more and more, more towards, I, I just, I, I just don't know that it should be really in our arsenal as a primary compound. Uh, there's just seems to work okay for some people. I, me personally, I'm not touching the shit.
Uh, I've used it before. I've seen too many people with issues with, um, with issues with kidneys. I've seen too many people with hemoglobin, red blood cell count, hematocrit. It, it is an ecoin, um, uh, steroid. So, some of the downstream metabolites, as the guy was talking about in the video, um, may not be great for us.
Uh, we do know that it, you know, this pathway from testosterone to equipoise to end dione to estrone, there may be other estrogen metabolites that are past the blood brain barrier that cause all kinds of fucking weirdness. Um, it does seem to pretty drastically reduce estradiol and it could be because of how it metabolizes, um, estrogen. There's reduces the dihydrobol bulb known. You guys know how I feel, feel about DHB.
Um, you know, people are always looking for something new and toxic to use. We have, I'm going to sound like the old man, we have, we have stuff in front of us that's relatively safe. You can run at high doses. We know how we, we know what the outcomes are going to be. And a lot of the stuff with bodybuilding, if you want to make gains, it's not these short runs of toxic compounds or compounds that are going to have, uh, higher risk that, that outside of maybe tren, that are going to yield you long-term results. It's really the ability to be able to run high doses of gear for extended periods of time, not be able to make yourself sick, and be consistent with everything. That's what yields results.
Um, Shin Boswell, "Echo did nothing for me. I feel really pretty much used it as an AI at 500 test, 100 echo, 13 weeks and cycle." I did notice my veins pop. The reason your veins pop is because you have in increased red blood cell count, hemoglobin and hematocrit. You have more blood volume.
Uh, Chad Wallace, Chad is one of my VIP coaching clients. If you guys are interested in my VIP coaching program that includes weekly consult calls, you can inquire over at Anabolic Bodybuilding. Anyway, Chad says, "Good morning, boss man. Hope things are going well, Big Paul. Proud to have you as my coach. Glad to be working with you."
SW Wild Cat, "What's up, fellas?" What's up, man?
Hey, Paul G here. "I have lost 155 pounds." Fucking awesome, man. Congratulation. "And I'm about 10% body fat with some loose lower ab skin. Should I get tummy tuck while lean now or do a growth offseason to get surgery later?"
I did mine when I was lean. My, my surgeon told me he preferred me to be leaner when he did the surgery. Um, if you want to hear about my experiences with it, my results with tummy tuck surgery, I have a video up about it. I will forewarn you that surgery is fucking brutal, man. I've had ACL's replaced. I've had my shoulder operated on. I've had probably 12, 15 surgeries. That one was by far the worst. By far the worst.
So, just be prepared for a long painful recovery. And I'll be honest with you, it was like, I, I thought I made a huge mistake initially. Like, the, like 90 days post surgery, my stomach looked fucking horrible. I'm like, what did I do, man? Why did I do this? It, it was, it was a solid year before my abdomen looked normal again. So, just be prepared for that.
Long term, I'm happy with the results, but it's expensive. It's a higher risk surgery. It's very invasive. Super invasive. And expect, expect some, expect some, uh, expect some, you know, recovery time, man.
Um, Shane BW, "What's up?" Uh, SWAT, "I'm hearing 16 weeks of a cut to go from 12% body fat to 67 starting 25 micrograms of T3, 50 mic grams of T4 for the first time. And I want to know what the point, what point you pull labs and how do you adjust these doses?"
I, well, dude, I wouldn't use them unless you need them. Why are you using T4 and T3 without checking your labs first? If you do not, you need the T4 and T3, you should not run it. My experience with T3, while 25 micrograms is an upper end replacement dose, my experience with T3 is that it often is equally good at burning muscle tissue as it is burning fat. And if you have T4 and T3 in normal ranges, I would not run it. That's, I, I generally steer away from it unless somebody is hypothyroidal and needs a replacement dose.
Now, often on T with T4, often with GH, you will see more T4 to T3 conversion because of increased, uh, T3 uptake. GH can do that and sometimes you do need to add in a replacement dose of, of T3. That, that does happen or T4. Sorry, I'm trying to get my camera straight here. It's like drifting.
Um, so that's something to keep in mind. But, um, if you're taking GH, you likely don't need T3 because T3 is going to be elevated from the GHU use. And I would look at other fat burning options. Uh, T3 is an indiscriminate liberator of, of, of stored energy. It doesn't matter if it's protein structures, fat. Uh, I also find, I also find that it seems to deplete glycogen. Like guys just burn through glycogen when they're, when they're on it. So I would, I would just be real, real careful.
Um, J rank, "Great content." Thanks, man. Shane Boswell, "13 dimethyl lamine." I don't know. I can't fucking say that. I guess that's the metabolite from the equipo.
Um, uh, thanks, man. Tina Carlson. What's up, Tina? Force Tanya. What's up, Tanya? What's up, Gem Pros? KD. Uh, what's up, Carter? What's up, Shane?
Let's see here. Tyson, "What do you think about HGH, test, EQ and a mass stack? Would EQ and mass deplete?" Yeah, don't use the EQ. Uh, if unless you have, don't have any other choice.
Hi, Paul. "Would you recommend using filter needles with glass?" And I'm not sure what you mean, man. Um, if you're talking about filtering your gear a second time. Um, I, I've never done that.
"Damn, you're blasting like never before, pal." No, I'm not, not there yet, man. I've run up to three grams.
Uh, "machine impossible. Can't get primo here. We have to use EQ." You can get Primo, man. You can find it. Um, I would run, I would run, honestly, I think I would run tren at this point before I would run EQ. I'm not fucking around when I say that. I'm being dead serious.
Um, at least a lot of the stuff that tren skews seems to be transient and you get, you're getting some unique benefit from it. Tren doesn't seem to drastically elevate hemoglobin, red blood cell count like EQ does. Um, and if you're going to have mental side effects, you [laughter] might as well, you might as well get some results out of it.
Um, hi Paul. "Any opinion on Nivalol? I wanted to use that long term probably for the rest of my life. Fat loss profil doesn't cause fat loss." Beta blockers could inhibit fat loss because the beta receptor specifically, uh, the beta, beta 1, is important for fat loss. Um, um, the nithol is specific to the beta 2 if I'm recalling correctly. Um, it doesn't block both beta 1 and beta 2, though it is a better choice if you're not, if you don't want to limit V2 max and inhibit fat burning.
Um, I am on five milligrams of nivol. Once again, if you need the drug, you need it. I use it for the combination of nivol. According to my cardiologists, we run 5 milligrams of Nubivalol with 40 milligrams of Telmartin and that's more effective than 80 milligrams of Telmartin alone for lowering blood pressure. We're also hitting different pathways for lowering the blood pressure assuming that you're using the Bivival for lowering pulse and blood pressure. It's not a fat burner if that's what you're implying. So, that's completely wrong.
Um, I, I probably, I probably misunderstood what you're saying, but I, I run the combination of both. Keep my pulse low, keep my blood pressure low, but the nibbl is going to address the central nervous system stimulation that happens from synthetic androgens. Tomartin is going to address reninotensin aldoststerone pathway and the stimulation there that's going to cause increased aldoststerone of water retention.
Um, "can you give your specifics slim protocol was when you did it, maybe do the timing and how long before meals, how many times did?" Well, I'm diabetic, so I use insulin every day. It's, I, I just change it based on, uh, food intake. That's, I think this is where people get insulin all wrong, man. Is they think there is a certain protocol they should be using. Um, it's really just, and any, any diabetic will know this. You want to keep your glucose levels in an optimal range. You use insulin to do that.
There is an appropriate amount of insulin. You use too much, you go hypo. You don't use enough, your blood sugar doesn't get low enough. Now, in a performance-enhancing se setting, uh, a lot of guys like to use a pre-workout so they can increase glute forward transport and have, uh, extra carbohydrates, increase glucose metabolism. It, it, it does work. [clears throat]
Um, increase, uh, increased amino acid uptake, u, from the gl, glute for transport. There, there are a bunch of things, but you just, you have to be really dialed in with your diet. You have to be running, if you're going to be running insulin, you have to be running higher carbohydrates. You have to be keeping the, keeping the fats low so you don't end up because it's going to, it's, uh, it's going to increase lipo, uh, god, what is the, um, lipoprotein lipase? Um, right. Yes. It's the enzyme at the fat cell that breaks down lipids and absorbs them in the fat. So, you're going to have increased fat storage as a result of it.
Um, anyway, um, I, yeah, I, there's like no set number, man. I, I will say this, but guys use it incorrectly. Most guys are starting off with a basil insulin, which is safer. Uh, you're not going to go hypo, but basil insulin is not going to really have much of a performance enhance, enhancing benefit other than it's just going to lower your baseline glucose levels.
Um, Shane S, "Are you still on Reddit tide?" No, I dropped all the GLP ones. Um, yes, I dropped all the GLP ones. I have reasons for it. I, I was on Reddit type for a while. I, I guess I can't say the R word. Um, then I went the legit route. Went to my doctor, got a prescription from Marjaro for my diabetes, even though I am type one and a half diabetic. Punch your bingo card.
Um, for those of you that play the big Paul bingo card. Um, so I was prescribed that. That I was running 2 and a half milligrams for about a year and the gastric emptying was just so fucking terrible. I couldn't even eat a contest prep diet. I got my initial contest prep diet from Justin and it, my gastric emptying was so slow I couldn't even eat, eat that food.
Uh, and I have never had issues with gut distension or the turtle shell gut. And since I was running a GLP1, my, my gastric emptying got so slow and my gut got all distended, which I, I've always had a tight waist. And this is the first time in my entire life that I've had issues with that. It's, it's just fucking horrible.
Now, the health benefits, I love the health benefits, the lowered A1C, the lowered lipids. We'll see what happens. My thought process is I'm on a, I'm in a caloric deficit. I'm on contest. I'm going to be starting contest prep. I'm be doing cardio. My A1C should be just fine. It always has been on contest prep without GLP1. Sometimes it creeps up in the offseason because I'm not as diligent with measuring and weighing my food and taking my insulin when I'm supposed to be taking my insulin.
Um, so I am going to, and I see some other coaches doing this now. I'm leaning away from it on contest prep because I, it just seems to, and then not everybody gets side effects. Some people are just fine on it, man. I've seen some people with running high doses and have limitless amounts of appetite and they can still eat and it's just mindboggling to me how different physiology is from person to person.
But I think I'm done with it for a while. I may revisit it after for longevity reasons after the contest prep is over. I've also seen quite a few people now that have been on them for a while come to me for blood work consults that have, um, that have micronutrient deficiencies. Folate, B12, magnesium, zinc, it seems to really negatively affect, um, micronutrient absorption.
All right, Soulcat Wildcat, "What do you think your current body fat is at?" I'd say 15%. If I get on stage at five, I'm having to lose 10% body fat at 270. I'm doing some math here. That would, uh, be 25 lbs. Maybe a little less, maybe like 13.
Um, I don't know. So that would mean I'd have about 20. If I had to lose 10% body fat at 270, that's 27 pounds. Um, that would put me 243 on stage. Okay. So, maybe I'm a little lower. I don't, I don't know. It's hard to say. You, 12 to 15% in that range. I can still see my abs. Pull my shirt up. You can see it. It's not like I have jelly rolls.
Um, "she the hidden E2 from normal E2 looks fine on LCMS test." Yes, we don't test for all the metabolites that are in all these steroids. That's true with all of them. They all have downstream metabolites that we're not testing for. I'm s sure there's some weird proestines and stuff from 19 doors that we, we're not testing for.
Um, Blex Wilin, "Big Brother Paul, what's your opinion on primo ACE tabs still effective composition and mildy two control?" I don't think they work with the shit.
Um, "how do I treat hemoglobin? I'm on hydrate drinks, plenty of water. I dropped two points from my last, um," I mean hydration is going to more effect hemoglobin. Uh, probably the biggest thing you can do is a lot, a lot of times elevated hemoglobin is a result of, um, sleep apnnea being hypoxic at night.
"Hey Paul, who regards from Poland, who do you have for this week's Pittsburgh show?" I don't know. We'll see. Uh, I haven't, I honestly have not paid attention to it. S, I know SAS looked great. When he competed at Fubio Marty, "what's up?"
Uh, "what was Deja Vu from last night, Tanya?" Um, incognito skull. "Hey Paul, 16 weeks of 450 milligrams of test, 300 milligrams of Primo LDL reached 173. Would it be best to leave primo out of my next cycle? Get my lipids with, uh, LDL is not going to go. Primo will lower HDL to a certain degree, but that elevation in LDL is not going to be because of, more than likely, not going to be because of the anabolics."
Now anabolics do affect hpetic lipase which can affect, um, lipids, but that much of an elevation in LDL is usually either one of two things. Your diet sucks, you're eating way too much saturated fat in your diet. Um, or you have genetic dysipidemia. But regardless, you need to get that down.
Um, probably, you know, and I'm not a doctor. This is not a doctor's do medical advice. I would go speak to your doctor. Get on a statin and probably a Zetami. I get that done. I would get your APO test. It, you know, I hear people saying that LDL doesn't matter because if APO matters. Generally, if LDL is up, Apo is going to be up, too. I, they, they almost, there's almost a direct one to one correlation between the two. Um, but you should get your Apo B check. But I, I'd be willing to bet my next paycheck that it's going to be, um, it's going to be, um, elevated as well.
"How would you taper off the R word? I've been on it since October last year to hit my 10% body fat goal. I want to switch to a growth phase." Um, I mean, it's going to taper down on its own because of the halflife. Uh, it's got a 5-day halflife, so it's going to take 25 days for it to reach baseline. My math is correct. Don't quote me on that.
Um, I usually, I would probably just drop down to 1 milligram. Um, "starting mast primo and getting back. Primo's back." Okay.
Uh, let's see. DBBR, "sorry, man. More of an explanation. The filtered needles are to stop microlastic glass shards going into the syringe. But I guess you're answering my question. Thanks again." I mean, if you want an extra bit of caution, I, I don't know if anybody has ever done that. But if you're that concerned about it, I, yeah, I think you're talking about those little, what are they? Wattman filters. The little ones that you pull. You're, I'm too lazy for all that. I can't imagine pulling, you know, doing shots every day. I can't imagine pulling everything through filter before I did it. But if you're risk averse, I mean, it's certainly another layer of, of protection. It's like kind of like wearing two condoms. You could do it if you want to.
Um, I don't know how much I would enjoy it. Uh, for contest prep, "when would you cut HGH?" Depends on the person, what they look like. That's a look, uh, question. If somebody's flat, sometimes I'll leave HGH right in up to the show. If they are a water bag, I'll sometimes pull it out a week out.
Um, it really depends on the look. Um, I will say this, when you pull GH out, generally there's a pretty significant drop in water.
V, "Hey Paul, you ever use mass prop? Um, how does it compare to E?" I mean, same hormone. Mass prop is the only thing you can get right now. At least I, only thing I can, I've seen already answered that, um, there no paid questions today. That's strange. I don't know if my, my settings are fucked up on YouTube again. They, they occasionally turn off my paid questions.
Um, "any issues taken orals with Gilbert syndrome?" I don't know specifically. I'd have to look into that.
Joshua Cares Esther, "I could see estradiol box with trener." You're funny, man.
Uh, Ryan Parsons, "I just spent seven hours at the ER yesterday. Lower back pain, foamy piss, but all kidney and metabolic functioning came back good to go." I'm glad you're healthy, man. Probably just pulled your back. And foamy piss can be just from being dehydrated and eating too much protein. Um, I don't know that you need to go unless you had some sort of acute kidney failure, but it's always good to get it checked out. I drink 3/4 of a gallon to, to a gallon of water. "Your grandfather died in November from kidney failure." Yeah, it, you're, you're focused on it now. You're being, and I would drink more water.
Um, the SLG2 inhibitor can help. Um, but if your kidney markers are fine, then you're probably fine, man.
Oh, there we go. Um, testing, testing. Yeah, they worked. Speaking, [laughter] "here's a big question, Jackass." Love it, man. Love you, brother. "I just wanted to know if mass prop compares to EU whether it's working, um, of an old vial before shortage." I mean, it's going to hit faster. You're definitely going to know you're on it quicker. Usually the big things I notice with Masteron, um, when I'm running Masteron is I just get dried out. There's, there's loss of water retention. That's the main thing I know. Sex drive sometimes increases. Master's pretty mild though.
Um, where did I leave off? Uh, let's see. "Trend draw and high. It must be fucking epic. Would three weeks of that build muscle?" No, 3 weeks is not long enough to build muscle.
"Can lotto of telmicartin be beneficial if already having good blood pressure control?" There is an argument for that. It is a partial PP y agonist. It does seem to have some renal protective issues. But I am hesitant to use medications preemptively for no reason whatsoever. But a lot of guys do. Uh, I, I will say though, people overfear blood pressure medicine. Let's see. Let's see.
Carter, uh, Ryan Park says, "Carter an insurance policy for heart and kidney possibly, but I'm no doctor." Yes, that would be correct.
Um, Lucas, "I also had a distension issue and but increased my fiber intake just because it went away and it went away in day." That's my issue, man. I have IBS and when I push fiber up too high, my, my IBS just gets fucked. I get acid reflux. My stomach's just a fucking mess. That's why you don't see me eating a ton of vegetables. I can, I do a fiber supplement at the end of the day.
Um, let's see here. Uh, Sammy, "I've been on 10 milligrams, I assume, of the R word for a while now, and I'm able to manage hunger, but I still eat if and when I need to." There's no fucking way I could eat on that. 2 milligrams absolutely smashed me. But everybody's different.
Um, "I pain as have you noticed any weight gain coming up?" No. Weights just kind of stayed the same. "10 milligrams of red. Holy fuck." Yeah. In the clinical trials, man, they used, they used, uh, u, I think the two dosing groups were eight and 12. Um, I think they, if I recall correctly, the eight milligram group had, had the best balance of, of side effects versus benefits. And after 8 milligrams, the increase in effectiveness went down.
And that's true with all drugs Kirk because EQ takes longer to peak than test. "How long after starting test and EQ cycle should I expect estrogen suppression to start? Also, how long should I wait to do blood work to see the impact?" Usually takes a few weeks. I mean, it depends on, I mean, the halflife is 10 to 12 days. Depends on who you ask and how you metabolize it. Um, but it's going to be pretty, I mean, it's, it's at 50%, right? I could be wrong about that at 10 days.
So, it's not like it's not present, but I would check your estradile about a month after starting it. But the impression, the suppression, sorry, will, yeah, somebody else just said it. Yes, vegan gains. Yes, that's correct. The suppression will start immediately.
Uh, Joel Hansen, "I think I'm just getting started, man." We'll, we'll see how it goes. "Aloo's question about the thyroid." Yeah, people ask the same. Sometimes I feel like I answer the same five questions over and over and over again.
Um, Ryan, "understand the doses of human log but the timing of what I don't understand. Harris says every other meal. Milo says pre and post worse workout. Others only do pre and post." Um, I, when I am pushing things, I, and this is Justin's philosophy, and I tend to lean towards his philosophy with the carb cycling approach that we're going to use that day where we're pushing the carbohydrates extremely high, keeping the fats low. We're go, that's when you would want to administer the, um, the rapid acting insulin.
And the reason why Justin talks about it every other meal is because Humalogue and Novalog peak at about 3 to four hours, I think. Well, actually, no, they peak sooner. They're active in 15 minutes. I don't remember the exact curve, but they're, they, they can be, it tails off. So, you, you have a three to three to five hour period of time where it can still be active. So, if you're eating your next meal in two and a half hours, there could, you know, just dumb math here, there still could be two or three active, uh, before the next meal.
So, you really have to monitor your glucose levels and see where your glucose levels are at to administer this. So, if you're running it on a high day, there's very little risk of going hypoglycemic. You are getting increased glute for transport throughout the entirety of the day, increased glycogen synthesis throughout the entirety of the day. And here's the problem though. When you run insulin constantly, the more insulin you use, the more risk there is of insulin resistance.
So that's why Justin's philosophy is to just isolate it to the high carbohydrate day. So that way you're limiting, you know, this, you're having two days a week. It really, when you think about it, you know, let's say that Milos's protocol, and I'm not saying it's wrong. I mean, it clearly works. He, he's gotten quite a few people huge. You're administering it pre-workout, five days a week, and we have two high days a week, and we're administering it three times on those high days. We're getting six administrations. It's, it's actually more doing it on the two high days, but we're limiting the window of exposure rather than doing it other every day.
But that's sort of the idea there. Dave, "What's up, big guy? Hope the shoulders back to norm." Yeah, it feels good, man. I trained shoulders last night. It was, it was fine.
Um, incognito skull. "In regards to E2 control, what would using a reminis for around 16 weeks be viable? Would it likely produce more side effects as opposed to increasing anabolic load with DHT?" What? I'm not sure what you mean, man. I'm not a fan of aromomas. I know a lot of people like aromomas. I've just seen a lot of people end up with permanently smashed estradiol from, I shouldn't say permanently, long-term smash estradiol from arms because it is a suicide inhibitor and then you end up with this long-term suppression. Whereas with armedex, you have more control over going up and down. Don't filter out the microp plastic air out of the oil.
Um, uh, let's see here. "How much of a calorie deficit are you in right now? How many low or high days for carb cycling at this point?" I have no idea. Um, it's calorie deficit is impossible to, to calculate because energy expenditure is constantly changing. Metabolism is constantly changing.
I'm doing one high day a week to start off with. That is 900 gram of carbs. My protein is at 300 gram per day. Um, my carbohydrate intake on my medium day, which is my non-h high day training days, is 500 gram of carbs. I have 40 gram of added fat, 300 gram of protein on that day. My low carbohydrate day is 250 gram of carbohydrates, 50, uh, 300 gram of protein and, um, 60 grams of added fat. And I am definitely in a depths on that day. I feel it. My last contest prep, I don't think I ever got below 300 grams of carbohydrates on my medium day.
But it depends on how much fat I have to lose. So, we'll let the body composition dictate that. I am in Justin's hands right now. Um, really, it's about net negative energy expenditure. So, you need to be a net negative energy balance. You can affect that with drugs. You can affect that with cardio. You can affect that with eating less food. But generally carbohydrates are the wild card we leave. Protein static, that never changes.
Um, [clears throat] uh, I'm trying to get to this question. Hey, dude, I don't know why it's not letting me show this paid question. There we go. Scott W, "What's up, Paul? Uh, I was just, I just went up to one gram of test, 500 MP, five I use a growth, two weeks left for my bow. One of the main things I should look out for health, well, the biggest thing with that much MPPP and testosterone is going to be estradiol conversion, man."
Uh, you, you're, you're going to really, really, really, really, really need to pay attention to that. That's a lot of MPP to. I usually would have some a third compound in there to help mitigate estrogen, water retention, watch your blood pressure. Um, when estrogen gets high, that's when you can have a potential issue with prolactin. It's from, if you keep estrogen under control, you're not going to have prolactin issues with Nanderlone. Um, so yeah, you need to, you need to pay attention to that, my friend.
Um, Hermand Nick, "Have you played around with Justin's IQ?" Yeah, I've messed around with it. It's pretty sharp. I know he's con, he's obsessed with improving it.
Um, "any shaving tips for a regular razor to prevent razor burn and ingrown hairs when shaving daily?" Yeah, don't use a regular razor. Get yourself a one blade, except a little bit of stubble. I stopped using a regular razor years ago because of the razor burn. I have really, and especially with men, we have thicker hair. My hair is super thick. Get yourself a one blade. They're like 40 bucks. If you want to get the premium one, it's like $70. Best, best 70 bucks or whatever. Good. You spend, um, B for Yikes.
Yeah, I drink 3/4 of a gallon by the end of my training session early afternoon. Yeah, that's 3/4 a gallon is not enough. I'm on my second one of these. This is 60. Is this 60 oz? Oh, Jesus. I'm way off. It's a 30 oz. So, yeah, I've had a, I drank a, a ghost 16 oz. Um, almost through two of these.
Yeah. So, I'm already at a half, 3/4 of a gallon and it's not even noon. Um, Darren D. Garcia. "Hey Paula. Any advice for growing my hams?" I've had a great overall development. My quads and adductors, but the hams still tend to be falling hot. Yeah, that's a common problem, man.
I, I've had that issue myself. Uh, judges told me I needed to bring my hamstrings up. Um, I think a lot of us just don't pay attention to our posterior chain. Start training like a bikini girl, man. Find yourself a bikini girl leg routine and start doing that. What I like to do is I will train legs twice a week. I will do one workout that's a traditional bodybuilder quad focus workout, which is what we all do, and then I'll have a second leg workout, which is today. It's more of a bikini girl workout. Glute thrust, um, hip hinges, seated leg curls, um, all, all split squats, um, you know, all, all the shit, you know, adduction, abduction, all the bikini girl stuff. You want a big ass, train like a bikini or wellness girl. You want big hamstrings, train like a bikini, bikini wellness girl.
Um, incognito skull. "In your experience, how does 300 milligrams of nandrallone compare to 300 milligrams in ter total muscle gains?" I, people get obsessed with this stuff. I, I, I, I do think nanderlone, in my opinion, was, it got the most muscle gains when I ran nandrolone, but it's the difference is marginal. New muscle protein synthesis is slow and really it's more a thing with nutrition. I, where I, when I experienced my most rapid growth, is when, honestly, when HGH and insulin came into play.
I, here's my thing. Just, just find an anabolic that you tolerate well. Run testosterone, GH, your anabolic as high as you can tolerate. Eat a focused diet, train hard, and you will grow.
Let's see. Ryan, thanks Ryan for the donation. I appreciate that. It says Ryan, but there's a chick in the pick. Must be your lady.
Um, old BS. "When using HGH at night, should I use my insulin an hour before bed to get?" No. No, no, no, no, no. You don't want to take insulin before bed. That's a good way to not wake up in the morning. Not a good idea. Please don't do that.
Um, see here. Uh, Lucas says, "Paul instead of fiber slippery elm and bock root these two have very good impact on gut motility." I will check that out, my friend. Thank you.
"Hey Paul, what's your opinion on the intra day carb cycling that Milos Sartup talks about versus carb cycling through the week? Lows low meals fasting around cardio, high meals around training." Yeah. I mean, what, I'm not super familiar with his programs. I mean, I've seen them before. I've had clients come over from him that send me his programs.
Um, I mean, that makes sense because of glute 4 transport. And you want to keep insulin away from, from cardio windows because insulin is going to blunt fat burning, right? And it makes sense to have insulin around your insulin and carbohydrates around your workout window since we're going to increase glycogen synthesis, glute for transport, amino acid uptake, all of these other things. So yes, that makes sense doing it throughout the day.
You also have to remember that his protocols and programs are designed for people that are training twice a day, people that are doing a very high volume style of training. His giant set program is very high volume. I see a lot of guys that use insulin, do a lot of carbohydrates, and still try to train like Mike Mener, and then they're like, "I didn't get shit out of this. It just made me fat."
Well, no, fuck, fuck. You, you, you train more volume, you're going to have more glute for transport. So, to leverage all of that, you're going to have to do more volume. You can't do a low volume, high intensity style training, expect that that style of, of high carbohydrate intake and insulin to work. So that, that's, you have to match the training to the carbohydrate intake, but I would assume that that's what he's trying to do. And I know his people train twice a day, but a lot of us have jobs, families, and shit. We don't have time for that.
So that's why I, I, I mean, I, I like the idea of his approach. And if I were young and didn't have a career, um, and all I cared about was fucking bodybuilding, that would be very tempted to do that. I mean, his, his style of doing things resonates with me probably more than just about anybody else out there. I think the results have proven out. Now, when it comes to getting people in conditional stage, maybe not. I don't know. But I would say that style seems to be if you want to get massive, that's how to do it.
All right. I'll finish later. My boss is coming soon. All right, dude. Have a good day.
U Pellion, "I use silos every day about 30 grams of fiber shakes in the morning before my I do it in my last meal. What's your stance on?" Oh god, "are you somebody trying to rage bait me on main gaining?" I think it's fucking stupid is what I think. Um, if you're trying to cut and gain muscle at the same time, you end up doing neither of them very well. You're going to look the same this year as you did last year. And the people that do that, you can look at them, they never really make any significant improvements. The guys that are making the most significant improvements are the ones that commit to one phase at a time. Go all in on that. Like, if you need to get big, just get fucking big, then cut it off.
"Given experience prepping athletes with Hashimoto syndrome, any tips for managing thyroid autoimmunity while trying to optimize body composition performance?" I've had a couple people. You just have to be really diligent about managing fatigue. Um, you can't push people with Hashimoto's as hard.
Um, I, I would say probably long, you know, really for contest prep, it's, if you have Hashimoto's, it's better to stay lean in your off season, lean herb, and I'd say stay within 10 pounds of your stage weight. Um, take your contest prep slow fat loss, probably one pound a week, one to two at most. I mean that's beneficial for anybody but you have to be really, really careful.
Um, hi sir. "What's your thought on one style in objection? 50 milligrams daily, three weeks out." Um, I am not a fan of injectable one straw. I've just seen too many people get abscesses from it. Um, I think the risk of abscess and infection is too high. Inflammation, you'll see the dudes on stage all the time that have lumps on them too from Winstrol injections because they knot you up.
"How long can run caver after dropping tren?" Don't use fucking cber, man. God damn it, man. I've made videos about this over and over and over again. Cber is a dopamine agonist, man. You do not want to fuck around with dopamine agonist withdrawal syndrome syndrome. You're not going to have high prolactin if your estrogen is under control while on a 19. That's the root cause of high prolactin. Um, manage your estrogen. You won't have high hyperlactin while on cycle unless you have pituitary tumor. But you don't want to be fucking around with dopamine. Look up, if, if you want, want to find out why, look up dopamine agonist withdrawal syndrome and you'll find out real quick why you do not want to be running ca. It, it, it's like heroin withdrawal types symptoms and some people permanently fucked up their dopamine because of it.
Um, alkiller, "been using test C subQ switch to test E my levels dropped significantly 800 to a,000 last lab was 118. Any ideas?" 11. Okay. Total testosterone is useless. Um, you could have lower total testosterone for a couple reasons. Maybe your free testosterone increased. Free testosterone is the unbound testosterone that's usable by your body. So, if your total testosterone went down, but your free testosterone went up, that's actually a good thing.
It means your body is using more of it. Um, as RB is saying here, it is possible that your test is underdosed. That is also a possibility. So, it's hard for me to determine that without knowing what your free testosterone was. This is, let's see here. "Do you do anything to protect the prostate?" Yes. Keep your estrogen under control. Um, high estradiol has been correlated. They used to say DHT, and I'm not saying DHT cannot, isn't without some implication here, but generally high estrogen is going to be the driver of prostate, um, BPH and prostate cancer.
Uh, "give us a bicep." That's, I have, I don't have the nice biceps like Steve. I have very flat biceps. I, I did not get it, get gifted with the bicep genetics, man. I have 20, 21 inch arms. 20 out of 20 in arms, but I have shitty biceps. I don't know. Good shoulders, good lats, good quads. Big chest, but did not get biceps.
Uh, Ryan, "hey Paul, just want to say thank you. My elevated A was some training. Thank you at Josh Perry." Yep.
"What's, uh, Doug Hutchinson Paul? What's the protocol for testosterone submission pre?" It's a prevential workout. I have yet to use it yet, man. I have to play around with that. Um, I'll get back to you on that, but I'm thinking 5, 10 milligrams, just a small dose.
Um, incognito skull. "In your experience, which variable that you manipulate in the leadup to the show leads the most noticeable change in your overall look?" But water manipulation, getting dried out. Um, when we get on stage, uh, there's a couple things, there's a couple prerequisites. We need to be fat free first. If you aren't fat free before you get on stage, there's no reason to peak for a show. You might as well just keep doing what you're doing up into the show. I like to have people fat free a couple weeks out, at least 10 days out, as fat.
free as we can get them. Sometimes there's only so far you can push people. After a while, the body stops responding. That's a, you know, sometimes fatigue is just going to mount up even more, and inflammation is going to cause more problems, and you just can't push anybody, somebody any further. Especially first-time shows, guys tend not to get sorry, burping up that ghost I ate earlier or drink earlier. Guys tend not to get as lean, um, on their first shows. You get progressively leaner the more shows you do. Um, but peaking is really simple in my opinion. We want to pull glycogen back out without spilling. And then we want to get all the excess water off of you, drying out. And there's some, some magic in doing that. So, you want to be full as you can be without spilling over, and then dry it out. I think most people get obsessed with the full part. And I have yet to hear a judge at a local show tell somebody that they weren't full enough. It's almost always, conditioning needs to be better, conditioning needs to be better, conditioning needs to be better. And it's usually they aren't lean enough to begin with, or they did some sort of crazy protocol to fill back out to make themselves full, and then they ended up [ __ ] spilling over and they look like a wet bag of flour on stage. So, you want to be lean, you want to be dry, and you want to be reasonably full. Unless you're Nick Walker, you don't need to worry about being bursting full on stage and bicep flex.
Um, let's see here. Yep, that's me. Currently running 250 milligrams test, higher with a low dose of Arroen, 12.5 milligrams or something. I would just run Primo, man. What's the maximum T3 dose you recommend for somebody who's? I mean, the upper end of a therapeutic dose is 25. But once again, as I answered earlier, I would not take T3 unless you, you have some sort of physiological need to do so. Now, I do see a lot of guys, this is a problem I've seen a lot lately, bros with low thyroid, and it's often an issue with iodine, cuz everybody uses [ __ ] sea salt. They, they love sea salt and they don't get any iodine because table salt is iodized. It's not like people are eating [ __ ] beets to get iodine, and then they're iodine deficient, and thyroid function declines because of it, and they don't actually need T3. They just need some iodized salt. They need to give up that Celtic sea salt and get some iodized salt. I'm telling you what you need to get to normal thyroid levels.
Um, what's a good test to EQ ratio for an individual who has never used EQ? Use Primo instead. That's a good ratio. Um, PHD, PH Desawn 148. I prefer daily ghosting testy masty 400 milligrams a week. Is this fine or should I change that? That's fine, man. Rise 41, enjoying the last month of my health phase where it's time to blast off, but I love the lean vascular look you have to go through. Thanks, coach. You've done a great job, man. This rebound was insane. And I don't think you can grow like crazy if you're old. An old man legs ain't a thing. Yeah, you, you prove that the rebound works for most people. Final takedown. Currently 12% body fat after a four-month cut. Is this worth going below 10% before starting cycle or is 12% lean enough? I mean, the leaner you are, the more runway you're going to have. If you're 12 right now, you're kind of already at what I consider to be the upper range of an off-season. 12 to 15 is, is as much as I like to let it go in an off-season. I would, I would, I would take a diet break and cut more, man. Get down to like eight so you have more runway. That's my two cents. I mean, you could, you could, I mean, if you're naturally a guy that gains fat, um, I would probably get leaner.
Um, Cody, much love. Paul, what's up, dude? [laughter] Luke, what's up with everyone asking about the baby cycles trip that [ __ ] eating train hard? Well, I guess it just depends on your goals. I mean, if you're, you want to be an open class bodybuilder, you're not going to get there on 400 test and 200 Primo. That ain't going to do it. You got to get up into the grams. But not everybody wants that, Luke. Some people just want to be healthy and fit, and that's okay. I'm getting to that point in my life myself, too, where I just don't care about being a huge jacked bodybuilder anymore. I'll be honest, this last year and a half of just running 200 milligrams of test, I felt great. I slept great. I enjoyed having some meals that weren't like bodybuilder meals. It was the first time in probably eight, nine years where I just lived like a normal [ __ ] person. And I'll be honest with you, it's kind of hard to go back to the bodybuilding lifestyle. I'm, I'm struggling getting myself back into a regimen. I really enjoyed. Um, I really enjoyed just kind of [ __ ] off the last year and a half recovering from my. You would think recovering from surgery would be brutal, but I've kind of enjoyed it.
Um, got a cowboy here with a mask. Uh, Jim X611, when carb cycling for fat loss, do you subtract fiber from the total carbs for the day? Also for fat loss, is it better to eat more fiber-rich carbs like brown rice? Um, yes. I mean, the carb, the fiber is going to affect your net carbs. You just have to be careful with overdoing fiber. Overdoing fiber sometimes can [ __ ] your stomach up. Um, so it really just depends on your, you know, if, if you, if you handle brown rice and you need the food volume to fill you up, that can be helpful on a diet. I don't eat brown rice because it [ __ ] my stomach up. All the husk, the, the rice husk just tear my gut up, man. I, I, they just, just [ __ ] my stomach up. I can't, I can't do it. But it's, it's subjective. Chris Galball. I'm getting to the point in my life, says the guy. It's almost 270 lbs. [laughter] Yeah. Yeah. 270 this morning. It's funny, like once you get the size on, it's really not that hard to maintain as long as you're just halfway eating and training. It's, it's funny. I had all these [ __ ] telling me a year ago that I would lose all of it. After my surgery and coming down and eating like a normal person, I haven't lost a damn thing, man. If anything, I think I'm bigger now than what I was before. Um, once you have, you know, the guys that lose all their size when they come off, it was never real size anyway. It was just a bunch of [ __ ] water retention. That Dball bloat, the Deck of bloat wasn't real contractile tissue. But if you've had decades of training under your belt, hard training, you've followed a structured diet, you've done things the right way, real contractile tissue doesn't come off easily. Um, and it's fairly easy to maintain. Now, that's not to say that you can't get there with 200 milligrams of testosterone. There's no [ __ ] way that you're going to get up there with 200 milligrams of testosterone. You're going to have to push. Um, so yeah.
Uh, incognito skull, what's your favorite fat source on low carbohydrate diets? Uh, I do avocado. I do almond butter. I do almonds. I do olive oil. I do flax oil. I do olives. I've been, I've been on an olive kick lately. Love [ __ ] olives. They got these great green olives at Costco that are just [ __ ] awesome, man. I eat the [ __ ] out of those things. Hey, Paul, is low HDL okay if LDL is low? My HDL is 20. My LDL is 40. Yeah, it's probably fine. Um, get your AOB checked, but that's probably fine. Chances are if your LDL's at low, your B is going to be low, too. All right. Is this coming to an end? I don't have any more questions. It's okay with me. I got to get a workout in. I got a client I got to call with here in a little bit. Um, got a bunch of [ __ ] going on today. Anavar, give up. You're welcome, brother. Glad you watched. Thank you for joining today. I appreciate each and every one of you guys. You guys are awesome. Thank you for all the support as always. Means a lot to me. Um, I am very flattered that people are following me and take my advice. Um, it's, it's interesting. Let's see. Um, anyway, I think I'm going to have to finish this one up. There's nothing coming in really. I'll see you guys on the next episode. Should be, I'm not traveling anytime soon again for the next few months. So, I should be on next weekend. I'll see you [ __ ] next week.