Just about to do some bloodwork, but because I have O positive blood, the Blood Bank is after me always a couple days in advance of when I can actually donate again. It’s nice to be needed… So probably in a few days I’m gonna go give blood. Then 48 hours after that, I’ll be at LabCorp getting my blood work done. I wanna see how that affects it because I’m right in the middle of this cycle actually towards the end of the cycle, and I wanna see what my lipids and my numbers look like. One bummer is that the total male Wellness Blood test does not include an E2/ Estradiol test. I’m gonna ask them why, they have an estradiol test, but they market it as if it’s only for women. There’s got to be someway that guys on TRT get to test their estrogen levels. I have a prescription aromatase, inhibitor, Anastrozol. I’ve just been saving it, I keep refilling the prescription, but I’ve never needed it. I’ve been saving it for when I do higher levels of test coming up this spring. But I got something. I’ll get LabCorp to add the estrogen to my hormone testing.
I actually find it kind of funny that some guys ask to see pictures of my food. You guys probably think I only own one bowl and one fork. But that’s how I cook my food man. I just cannot get fat eating meat and rice and vegetables. This is 6 1/2 ounces of lean ground beef cooked down and drained, about 2 oz of leftover ham, brown rice mixture, big fat handful (about a cup and a half) of my usual vegetables. That puts it at about 40 g protein, 45 grams of carbs, 25g fat. About 450 calories. The rest of my meals today are made up of one post workout bowl of brown rice and vegetables with a 50 g protein shake, I always have a protein shake 50 g first thing in the morning. And then one total meal replacement shake from one of my favorite companies. It has 50 g of protein, and all the right combination of carbs and fat, and it’s about 530 cal. So it fits right into my 2200 to 2300 cal a day diet right now.
Today is leg day, so I’m about to go and make my hack squat machine smoke. Normally, I include deadlifts on my leg day, but I may have to skip them today because I worked my back really hard yesterday, and my lower back feels like it’s on the verge of being a little weak still. I may have to switch up my workout and separate back day from leg day if I’m gonna do Romanian/stiff legged deadlifts and regular deadlifts on my leg day. Either that or on back day, I’m gonna have to switch to chest supported T bar rows. It was the t-bar rows yesterday that stressed my lower back out a little bit. It feels good, it did not get painful and it’s not a pulled muscle, but I can definitely tell I worked it. The last thing I need is a pulled muscle in my lower back. So I might skip the deadlifts today and put them in on my next leg day.
I think on my next cycle, which is gonna be higher doses, higher calories, higher protein, and workouts as intense as I can stand them, I may have to come up with a different workout split. I’ve never had luck with the push/pull/legs kind of a split. Always seems like my shoulders get lacking. And I really want to hammer my shoulders. I’ve got great development this time and I’m very pleased with what I see in the mirror. I wanna keep my shoulder development and my bicep and tricep development on the good track. Maybe I’ll start investigating different splits. As I said, at the beginning, I’m looking for a certain aesthetic rather than every muscle in my body being huge. I’m not interested in being the kind of guy that could start a campfire with the friction between his thighs, but I do want the muscular quads and the tight glutes to stand out. Nothing dumber looking than a guy who clearly only does arm day and traps, and then walks around thinking that everyone is impressed with him. Most guys my age overwork their traps and they end up looking more like a coffin or a magic marker. They don’t look wide by having big wide delts, and even if their delts are wide, it makes them look thinner because their traps are too big.