Glad you are doing better.
You want to make fitness & activity a habit, something non-optional, to take care of your body. This can be time just doing rehab stuff if that is the priority.
Everyone can find 30 min 3x a week if they really want to.
You're right about it being non optional (well except in some certain circumstances when your base of pyramid is threatened and all time was needed to ensure a new base is there).
But now that the base of pyramid is largely there again, I can find the time (more like 1hr sessions x3 at minimum).
And I'm not one to half ass, so if I feel I can't get the cooking and time consistent it's hard, because will to train is there, but my ability to always cook and manage career and energy and family on top of that is spotty. Like I've been able to train consistently for 1.5-2 years at a clip at best, but never like 5-7 years with good diet the whole time to really transform like some folks. Antidepressants and a better attitude should help me stay productive out of the bipolar highs and lows I used to get.
But I guess I'll just have to start and adapt like usual, just wanted to avoid a false start being unprepared. I could layout my hourly daily schedule, it's brutal, other engineers > mid level exec know what Chinese call 9-9-6 culture (9am-9pm 6 days a week) Corporate meeting all day 9-5 and if they expect IP/content generation beyond, then your working most nights after dinner too. Sometimes I wish I'd skipped college and just became a master electrician, so I was never in debt and earned a decent income (more blue collar) so when the work is done it doesn't follow you home.
Don't want to bore the crowd with my workaholic schedule, but at this point I've been out of gym 6-months and first month or two was fine but by months 3-4 of a high sugar/alcohol summer diet... Yikes I'm gonna have to run off the new love handles.
In the end either find a way to carve the time or just get out of shape.. I know, it's my predicament.
But I appreciate the motivating thinking, hope it bugs me enough to kickstart this week.
Good news go see the Urologist today and 50mg Clomid daily most certainly worked I have good ~500ng/dL free test levels, total test 177 (a little low), and it crushed my minor gyno as my estradiol is still non existent. I wasn't super consistent past few weeks with Clomid, so T levels could be higher still.
So I'll stay on Clomid based TRT (with Floracil 50 reversed my Testicular shrinkage from too much supersession, so wifey is happier).
I might dabble to add in light TRT boost + Clomid as you suggested before (once i get training again) but wanted to get past the doc-RX phase. And frankly my moon face also went away off TRT onto the clomid, helped again with wifey attraction, jaw line returned.
And the cholesterol/heart/liver vitamin and supplement regimens you and Kleen and Smont noted before I've been taking regular and bloodwork looks good, all normal again.
of the Blackstone restoration thanks for the direction on the tool choice.
