Hey Alex,
Hope all is well!
You received first-class advice from Seymour! What separates us, here at MGs from other sites, is that we have a lot of real people here…like a family of like-minded individuais who genuinely care about their health and the health of others. You will learn very quickly who the guys are around here whom you can trust.
The idea that you must kill yourself in the gym because your using gear is not correct. You will feel stronger, more aggressive and will find yourself wanting to do more. However, this is when you must control that urge and instead of doing more exercises, use that urge and take each set to a place you’ve never been before. Mind-muscle connection is one of the most important components of growing muscle and yet, one of the most ignored.
I suspect that if you could try to feel the muscle, see in your mind the muscle growing, the fibers expanding, and learn to flex/squeeze the muscle(s) as you lift, I promise you new growth.
As far as legs are concerned, I have used this shock routine with some of my clients very successfully. Even, high level bodybuilders. Legs are always, one of the areas that are more difficult to grow and sometimes we just need to shock them.
Try this: Squats super set with Leg Curls
0. Warm-up with three sets of leg extensions and seated leg curls or standing (I prefer seated) and squeeze the muscles at the top of the movement. On the leg extensions, keep your toes pointing up and and back, all throughout the movement. Squeeze at the top of the movement for 3 seconds.
1. Squats and Leg Curls - 10 sets of 10 reps with 75% of your max.
2. Rest 90 seconds or less between supersets.
Squats: Go all the way down slowly, feeling the weight and keeping your back straight by focusing your eyes on a particular spot above your eyes line, close(r) to the ceiling. This will ensure that you keep your back straight. On the way up, explode but don’t lock your knees, you want to keep tension at all times…and slowly repeat…you might even want to place a 2x4 under your heels or a 10 lb weight…this will keep the focus on your quads.
In less than 1 month, you will see a difference!!!
This should be finished in less than 20 minutes. No time to mess around!!! Time yourself. Use your phone or a timer to time yourself and make sure that in 20 minutes you’re done. This is very important!!! Keep this workout for 6-8 weeks only! It’s intense. Each workout, CHALLENGE yourself to beat your previous time/workout. Try for 19 minute next workout…again, challenge yourself!!!
Take yourself to a place you’ve never been before…you’ll have to psyche yourself up…but it’s a good thing…even today, I psyche myself up by thinking that if I don’t make it in a certain time or lift a certain weight my kids and wife will get hurt or taken from me…this brings me to a place that failure doesn’t enter my mind…no one is going to hurt my family…NO ONE!!! See what’ve mean???
We all have different ways to psyche ourselves up…this was just an example that you can use and/or find your own.
You can follow up with 4 sets of Leg Presses and DB Romain Deadlifts where you lower your DBs all the way down and only bring them up to knee level. Check out the technique on YouTube and practice it with a lower weight first and again using the mind-muscle connection…I have to close my eyes sometimes to get there..once you fins that sweet spot, try to replicate that heavier weight…Mext workout try Hack Squats instead of Leg presses and switching you like to Barbell Romain deadlifts…if unprecedented that. I like using DBs because it’s easier for me to find the mind-muscle connection…but that’s an individual thing.
Sorry for the long reply. Glad to hear you are going to lower you dose to 300 mg ( 2 weekly shots of 150 mg) and then take 20-30 mg of Anavar…if it’s real gear, you won’t more than that. Save the Winny for a later time when you have more experience and use it towards the end of a cutting cycle.
Next time, I’ll address the need for omega-3’s when taking orals and what liver protocol you should to take. In fact, Seymour also knows the protocol and can tell you about it.
