I tend to be the same way, I couldn't get a platform yesterday so I "warmed up" with leg press, went ham on it and I just feel like I cheated myself. never could get a barbell for deadlifts so I did what I could for both heavy and volume leg press but I just feel like nothing beats actual barbell squats and deadlifts.
The way we do the suggested dosage is based off of the way the patent holder suggests taking Mediator PA.
Can you explain a little the differences between your PA and competing brands? For example another brand sells 250mg pills in 60 pill bottles for £23 in the UK. So straight off I realise that's only 20 days supply so would need two bottles but that's still cheaper than the £60 for PAXT. Is there a difference in the PA itself or is it the extra ingredients, senactiv etc. And paying extra for import.
I dont want to go too much into it and take the shine away from the log .. if needed we can maybe make a new thread.
You are comparing to another brand that is 60 capsules @ 250 mg. per capsule, but then you said that would be a 20 day supply. That wouldn't be correct because if that brand is 250 mg. per capsule, it would take 6 capsules to equal 1,500 mg. and therefore it would only be a 10 day supply.
That's a spiderweb of thoughts there. Put really simply I think the first objective is to identify what your #1 goal is. You might have a few different goals. I know you said you were 6' tall but only 177 and putting on size was important to you, it sounds like strength is also important. (they are cohesive and generally correlate but not with a perfect 1:1 ratio.).
There are a lot of different opinions on that and there isn't one correct answer. Like you said, you could go all out on one exercise to beat your previous best but then perform worse on subsequent ones - so which is better? The truth is that no one knows.
This is the biggest challenge often times when you are chasing very heavy very real PRs. I come from an extreme sports background so I accept the risk of injury is always there, but I do my best to mitigate it with intelligent decisions based upon how things are going. I still accept that as long as I'm chasing heavy weights though, the risk is there
Yeah, it really is goal dependent.
If you are training to failure then your rest periods become an important part. Id say 3 minutes is a goos amount of time to rest between all out sets. This way you should be able to progress on more than one lift at a time. Id also recommend to micro load, so that means instead of big jumps in weight that might be very taxing on CNS and increase injury risk, do the smallest possible jumps. I bring 0,25kg and 0,5kg plates to the gym. This way i can always load in a way that is safer but also gives progression.
There is a million ways to do this, biggest is just sticking with what you choose as a way to monitor progress through whatever your planned training cycle/plan is.
@sns8778 has a good joint supplement called Joint XT
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I've never run PAXT solo. I've run it twice.
Early on I used to do the typical volume training bro split workouts. All free weights, lots of pyramiding... the usual popular stuff back then. Fast forward maybe 10 years or so and I got introduced to Mentzer's HIT. I never had much interest in it because I always thought it looked kind of like a lazy person's routine with the single working set and 95% machines rather than free weights, etc. - boy was I wrong. It's a brutal workout if it's done correctly. Ever since then, I've always had a flavor of HIT in my workouts.
oh man I'm glad you said that, I don't really work rear delts at all and this reminded me that I should target them better.
sometimes I can tell i'm a little out of position when I feel some tenderness around the lumbar area while on leg press, although I don't leg press often so it's not really something I practice. my knee jerk reaction for something like that is always to incorporate more RDL's. always seems to fix a sore back for me.
20 reps even with light weight will get my heart rate up! Cardio!
Yeah I shuffled the exercises round a bit and really concentrated on slow essentrics etc.
PA in particular should shift protein synthesis positively and decrease breakdown so it should be helpful in pretty much any type of effort. It’s the kind of ingredient that really is just “amplifying” the signal you are sending."My goal is still to recomp. Trickyest of all goals and the slowest to see progress. I still have fat over my abs so I figure as long as I'm getting stronger and not increasing in weight I should slowly be burning the fat away."
I'm actually wondering if for the sake of this cycle I should push calories just over maintenance in order to give the PAXT a better chance to do its thing
True. I'm a pretty skinny guy. I think most people would say to just get some food down and see what I look like at maybe 185. In the past I could cut on an oral cycle and the waistline would trim up but I wouldn't lose size I recon doing it now everything is just gonna get thinner. But hey I'll see how the next few workouts go. I'll use strength levels as a guide. If lifts go down or even stay the same for a bit then I'll up the cals.
Depends on what your ultimate goal is, if you don’t have a lot of fat to lose then I would almost say cut until you are rid of what you want to lose. Yes you will sacrifice lifts but then when you hit that mark,start your climb up. Run for a while on maintenance to find baseline then add calories to bulk.
I hope that you feel better.
this is why I always start the week with legs lol. then no matter how the week unfolds, legs get it. (well, it's a deadlift day for me)
are you referring to Rosey Palm? Or was it Palmala Anderson? By arms, do you mean forearms?
