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So about 18 months ago the wheels sort of fell off, literally. I was training hard, on a light cycle of this and that, grappling hard twice a week and lifting 4-5 days a week. I was still squatting fairly heavy and alternating in and out with deadlifts. Then I went into a hard throw when sparing and my calf blew out. After the calf healed up I could never do the grappling at any level anymore. My knees were just shot. the right one was so bad the leg would atrophy after 3-4 sessions of grappling. Then my back started to get worse. Dads and squats were just not possible over a couple plates. Then 225 blew out my back. So I have not squatted or done deads in 4 months.
I had an MRI on the back and there is mild to moderate degeneration in the lumbar spine. At this point I can't even do leg presses. So I fought against it. Tried a number of strategies that have worked in the past to get back to the squats and deads and I think the body is just finally getting too old to do some of the exceptional human stuff anymore. 55 was the wall me thinks.
So after trying physiotherapy and some BS meds, cycling GH and some anabolics, and a number of other strategic stuff I have come to a place where everything is going to be different at least for a while. Heavy stuff is out. Slow and controlled is in. Legs get work on cardio and other more athletic stuff like cardio machines, heavy bag work, some running, leg extensions, leg curls, calf work. I may have the right knee looked at at some point after the summer. I think I might have a bone spur or something. It was worked on 31 years ago so probably there is some chips and junk in there which is holding me back from even pushing the little stuff.
I took up yoga a month ago. Feels like my man card took a lit but all that stretching and holding those poses helped my felxibility in places I didn't know I was stiff. The back seems better too as in less pain. I don't think, at least at this point, it has cured anything but I hear a lot of stories that it is restorative over time. I am not built for yoga. My shoulders and arms are way to large to do some of that stuff. The best part is all the hot young women in yoga pants sweating 2 - 15 feet away.
So things have changes a lot in the last year and half. At the gym it seems I have dropped from the jacked crowd to the older guy crowd. I'm getting in there 3 days a week with 2 yoga days outside the gym. 1.5 years ago I was at the gym 4-5 days a week and hitting the dojo hard 2x a week. Huge change. I don't look the same. I have pictures from back then. I have a harder look in the face and body and my hands looked like mits from all the grip fighting. Now I look softer. It fucking blows. I am off AAS and GH and on a SARM and a little bit of SERM and a little aquirt of GHRP2 before bed most nights. I tried all the healing peptides and nothing gave me anything significant.
So that's it. I'll see where the chips fall over the next couple months. Maybe the decreased pounding in the weight room on top of yoga will give me some restoration. The way the back and knees are heavy squats and deads are out from here forward. I will probably do a light cycle at some point starting in the next couple months but I need flexibility mroe than mass right now to work the joints range of motion in this yoga stuff. I have an idea that it might stimulate stem cell activity which would be restorative. They live in the ends of your joints and tendons, which is where the stress is placed during these activities. I should probably stay as close to natural as possible to let hte natural process happen if it's there to happen. So probably not much happening as far as PEDs for at least a while.
So off AAS for 6 weeks today. My BP and pulse are great again. Outside of the joint issues I feel pretty healthy. Will get some blood work done soon enough probably in another 6 weeks to see where I'm at. Still haven't made up my mind if I will continue with a little bit of SARM/SERM combo for support along with GHRP. Probably will continue those unless the SERM starts effecting my eyes.
OK thats the end of the drivel. Any of you guys dealing with similar? Seems like this is a facts of life bit part I am playing here.
I had an MRI on the back and there is mild to moderate degeneration in the lumbar spine. At this point I can't even do leg presses. So I fought against it. Tried a number of strategies that have worked in the past to get back to the squats and deads and I think the body is just finally getting too old to do some of the exceptional human stuff anymore. 55 was the wall me thinks.
So after trying physiotherapy and some BS meds, cycling GH and some anabolics, and a number of other strategic stuff I have come to a place where everything is going to be different at least for a while. Heavy stuff is out. Slow and controlled is in. Legs get work on cardio and other more athletic stuff like cardio machines, heavy bag work, some running, leg extensions, leg curls, calf work. I may have the right knee looked at at some point after the summer. I think I might have a bone spur or something. It was worked on 31 years ago so probably there is some chips and junk in there which is holding me back from even pushing the little stuff.
I took up yoga a month ago. Feels like my man card took a lit but all that stretching and holding those poses helped my felxibility in places I didn't know I was stiff. The back seems better too as in less pain. I don't think, at least at this point, it has cured anything but I hear a lot of stories that it is restorative over time. I am not built for yoga. My shoulders and arms are way to large to do some of that stuff. The best part is all the hot young women in yoga pants sweating 2 - 15 feet away.
So things have changes a lot in the last year and half. At the gym it seems I have dropped from the jacked crowd to the older guy crowd. I'm getting in there 3 days a week with 2 yoga days outside the gym. 1.5 years ago I was at the gym 4-5 days a week and hitting the dojo hard 2x a week. Huge change. I don't look the same. I have pictures from back then. I have a harder look in the face and body and my hands looked like mits from all the grip fighting. Now I look softer. It fucking blows. I am off AAS and GH and on a SARM and a little bit of SERM and a little aquirt of GHRP2 before bed most nights. I tried all the healing peptides and nothing gave me anything significant.
So that's it. I'll see where the chips fall over the next couple months. Maybe the decreased pounding in the weight room on top of yoga will give me some restoration. The way the back and knees are heavy squats and deads are out from here forward. I will probably do a light cycle at some point starting in the next couple months but I need flexibility mroe than mass right now to work the joints range of motion in this yoga stuff. I have an idea that it might stimulate stem cell activity which would be restorative. They live in the ends of your joints and tendons, which is where the stress is placed during these activities. I should probably stay as close to natural as possible to let hte natural process happen if it's there to happen. So probably not much happening as far as PEDs for at least a while.
So off AAS for 6 weeks today. My BP and pulse are great again. Outside of the joint issues I feel pretty healthy. Will get some blood work done soon enough probably in another 6 weeks to see where I'm at. Still haven't made up my mind if I will continue with a little bit of SARM/SERM combo for support along with GHRP. Probably will continue those unless the SERM starts effecting my eyes.
OK thats the end of the drivel. Any of you guys dealing with similar? Seems like this is a facts of life bit part I am playing here.
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