[Calum]

Helloo Calum . Bro in your opinion masteron enathate which can be the biggest peak dose …. 800-1000/ week ?? And with ratio 800-1000 mast enath can have together test enath at 500-600 or and more can go the test and mast ?? Combine together and little npp or tren a 100-150/week ( have masteron enath for the reason I don’t know if can find good primo … ?

and all this test e/ mast e for period 14-16 weeks max until change to trt ??( Start test e 300 / mast e 400 and now I am at test e 400/ mast e 600 go up the dose after 4 week and calculate to go after 3-4 week 600 test e / 800 mast e little tre a or npp 100-150

Hi Vasilis

You’re correct in saying the more you escalate the mg/wk for masteron, the higher the tolerability to the testosterone, but just remember this will be acute, and as you continue the escalation, the tolerability will skew somewhat the higher the testosterone rises (alongside the risk/reward of course).

‘Maximum’ ceiling of exposure to masteron is really going to depend on your goal, but given as a DHT derivative holds a lower level of androgenicity, holds high tissue selectivity, and doesn’t convert to E2 (quite the opposite as we know), we can push this fairly aggressively as/if needed.

To give you a specific number individually is not possible, but I’d estimate somewhere in the region of 1-10mg/kg/wk.

For this specific case, if you find 400mg/wk test is tolerable with 600mg/wk masteron, great, you could then proceed (if needed / if desired) with 450-500mg/wk test and 700-800mg/wk masteron.

If 400mg/wk test ends up causing issues, simply escalate the masteron and hold the test.

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Hi!

A question about peak week:

I’m going to compete next week. In peak week I will train Sunday to wednesday, it will be depletion workout like this: legs, back, chest and arms/shoulder.

Thursday load begins and saturday the show. On this days many people rest, but others not.

Do you think that is good to train that thursday and maybe friday, it’s mean untill one day before the contest (obviously not a depletion workout) and if you think that is good how you will do it for that two days?

Regards!

Hey!

Firstly, best wishes for your show, enjoy the final process and stay cool and collected!

Personally I would favour recovery over stimulus in that final week, for a Saturday show depending on fatigue status I’d have either Thursday AND Friday as total rest (just posing), or just Friday (doing final pump orientated session on Thursday so help partition the load).

Just remember any activity in that final stage of the peak is essentially mobilising and expending the nutrition you’ve added during the load, so the more you do here, the more you’re going to potentially have to compensate.

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Hey Sir, my boyfriend is really interested in working with you, he did the application form but never get an email or so. I want kindly ask if you have free spots for coaching in 2022?

Best regards

Hey Consita

Best if he emails me directly otherwise it’ll be added to a long waiting list – calum@teamprocoach.com 🙂

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Hi Calum

What are you currently doing with your bb’ing goals food/training/PED wise?

I remember like almost two years ago you and your GF/wife were trying for a baby. I was wondering if you were able to regain your fertility again and if so, what did you do?

If these are too personal, you do not need to answer them

Hi Roy

Of course, so at this moment in time my day to day is very much focused on primarily my coaching, and managing my business and the coaches who work beside me within the team.

Competitively I will not compete again, as I’m simply not willing to (not have the resources to) dedicate the time to my personal endeavours over that of my athletes.

It’s very much coaching only for me from here, which I absolutely love.

I’ll always train, just not with the intentions of stepping on stage again.

As such, I’ve had a drastic change in nutritional approach and PED usage.

There is simply no need for me to be 300lbs+ anymore, so nutritionally I eat to my baseline energy requirements today, mainly intuitive, I rarely track now as I have a good eye for it.

Enhancement wise, I’ve been on 125mg/wk testosterone (enth) for the last 18 months, and 2iu and growth hormone daily, this is a spot I feel great at, maintaining around 260-270lbs comfortably eating not a lot really! I’d imagine most days at 3500kcals ish.

Fertility wise you’re correct in saying I’ve built the foundations here for conception, which we’ll aim to do next year once we’re ready.

The protocol I ran/will run again is simply;

1000iu’s HCG x 3 per week

75iu’s HMG x 3 per week

and when needed towards tail end of protocol, clomid 25 mg every day.

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Hi Cal,

Exceptional content content you’re putting out, both on here and social media.

I’m reasonably tall at 6’3” and currently sitting at 100kg so lots of filling out to do.
All my lifts are continuing to progress nicely week on week pretty much across the board. However in terms of body composition I’m well past the point of “visible abs”. Does this mean I’m essentially done in terms of gaining body weight for this phase and in need of a tidy up ?
How would you approach this ?
Current Trt dose is 0.5ml sustanon per week and Cals are at 3700.

Thank you

Regards
Danny.

Hi Daniel!

So yes you’re right in saying body composition in general would be a good marker to govern receptiveness to response, generally speaking higher levels of adiposity being held MAY WELL equate to poor blood glucose management, higher systemic inflammation, potentially hindered recovery as a response to this.

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Using home skinfold measurements can be useful, and of course photos.

Check your fasted (and post prandial) blood glucose (ideally we should be sitting in the 4.0-5.5mmol/l range), check your resting heart rate, check your sleep quality, when these start to slip, it’s time to tidy up and solidify your set point.

Performance can rise still when body fat is higher, but you will get to a point where this becomes unproductive.

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What dose of hgh do you prefer calum? Now splitting 3iu in am and pm 1.5iu.

And would you escalate dose up of hgh? If yes, to how many iu’s?

Very nice thread!!

Growth hormone can be a fantastic non androgen based ancillary within the stack design, with the capacity to aid not only recovery and wellbeing, but (somewhat indirectly) tissue accrual and even lipolysis.

Check out the diagram for actionable pathways for rHGH, I’ve circled our primary concerns there for purpose of use.

Dosing generally falls within the 1-2iu/day range for females, to the 2-6iu/day range for males.

If you can budget in more than 6iu/day than crack on, but appreciate you’re probably burning a hole in your wallet for not much further benefit there, and if you have legit reliably dosed real GH (which if you’re going to these numbers you probably don’t), more than 6-8iu is a LOT of growth hormone.

I’d also recommend trying to test the GH you’re securing to review reliability, as this is probably the most faked / under-dosed PED of them all, due to the mark up available on doing so relative to the price.

Hope this helps ?

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Hi Cal,

What would you suggest for very stubborn calves? I’ve tried various methods for periods without any results.

Seems like whatever I do, they just won’t grow.

I know there’s a large genetic element, but I would really appreciate any ideas to make them at least look somewhat normal!

Many thanks

I also have terrible calves, but I also don’t train them hard enough, so that’s my excuse lol.

Treat calves like every other muscle group;

– prioritise them at the start of the workout, a minimum of 3 times per week

– improve execution and get incredibly good at contracting then, lengthening and shortening them

– spend time in both extremities of the range / rep

– get strong there with accuracy

– get good in the 8-12’s, but also in the 15-30’s

– pick better parents

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Hi Cal

Just a question regarding how you manage your time and any tips in regards to turn management?

From the outside you seem to be able to handle what must be 80 hour weeks with ease,

Use LOADS of Dial In and use PROCOACH10 when buying it to be extra productive!

Haha only kidding (it is good though!).

So time management literally relies on your ability to prioritise your time, if it’s of high priority, you get it done.

I split my tasks into higher and lower priority tasks, higher priority gets done in my most productive time windows (early morning, late evening), lower priority gets done when I’m generally working at sub maximal cognition (midday / early evening).

Diarise everything!

Buy a note pad and note down everything in your mind, your to do’s, your actionable steps for the day, everything.

Organise your workload effectively, I use Google Drive to house all client sheets / programming and its easy to pull up anything needed within seconds, organise any clutter.

Also appreciate those handling high workloads just work A LOT too, its simple, if you do more, you get more done!

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What dose of hgh do you prefer calum? Now splitting 3iu in am and pm 1.5iu.

And would you escalate dose up of hgh? If yes, to how many iu’s?

Very nice thread!!

Growth hormone can be a fantastic non androgen based ancillary within the stack design, with the capacity to aid not only recovery and wellbeing, but (somewhat indirectly) tissue accrual and even lipolysis.

Check out the diagram for actionable pathways for rHGH, I’ve circled our primary concerns there for purpose of use.

Dosing generally falls within the 1-2iu/day range for females, to the 2-6iu/day range for males.

If you can budget in more than 6iu/day than crack on, but appreciate you’re probably burning a hole in your wallet for not much further benefit there, and if you have legit reliably dosed real GH (which if you’re going to these numbers you probably don’t), more than 6-8iu is a LOT of growth hormone.

I’d also recommend trying to test the GH you’re securing to review reliability, as this is probably the most faked / under-dosed PED of them all, due to the mark up available on doing so relative to the price.

Hope this helps 🙂

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Hi calum !
I know telmisartan is the best for bodybuilding with his benefits and his life time , but i have only candesartan . That is good too ? It has the same benefits like telmi?
What the recommended dose and when is the best to take it?

Hi Anon!

There are a selection of ARB’s available, largely dependent on where you are in the world and what is accessible, telmisartan for instance can often be troublesome to find in specific countries, and more accessible in others.

There isn’t a great deal of difference clinically between Telmisartan and Candesartan, I quote “there were no significant differences between telmisartan and candesartan in reduction of systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) in patients with essential hypertension”.

Cited, fairly good read this – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29589977/#:~:text=There%20were%20no%20significant%20differences,0.26%20mm%20Hg%20(95%25%20CI

On the topic of Candesartan dosing relative to the likes of Telmisartan, dosing of Candesartan typically ranges from 16mg/day – 32mg/day.

Cited, I’d suggest definitely reading this one – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4303500/

As always guys, when it comes to prophylactic measures like the above, I would generally advise working alongside a medical professional, instead of playing trial and error.

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Philipp

Be VERY patient with your dose escalations, I’d literally just add 50mg onto whatever your physiological TRT was initially, and introduce 100mg of primo alongside, then add a little more once we reach the first sticking point, continue to do this holding test the same, once the primo is around 250mg a week, bump your test up another 50mg, then repeat the process.

That’s a very rough outline but just shows you, we DO NOT need to be aggressive with androgen load when your history of exposure is so low to date, just creep above that physiological border first, map out 16-20 weeks of patient escalation in total, then pull back physiological for circa 8 weeks (bear in mind clearance times of the esters in play), then repeat with a tiny bit more next week as your start mg/wk.

For your blood pressure, keep some aerobic work in year round, 40mg/day telmisartan would be pretty smart if tolerable, include some organ support (vital support + love heart), and keep an eye on RBC and blood viscosity.

Hey Cal !You wrote Telmisartan would be smart if tolerable. What do you mean with tolerable ? Did you ever have clients that didn’t get on with it?

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Although fairly uncommon, you do see a small % have digestive complaints from ARB usage, telmisartan being one of the most common in this rare occurrence – https://academic.oup.com/gastro/article/7/3/162/5509979

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Hi Calum, great to have you on here! Does your maximum tolerable dose of testosterone increase once you add in a DHT derivative like primo or once you’ve found your max tolerable dose does it never change?

I’m on my first cycle and and my blood work showed the testosterone I’ve been using is under dosed, so a week ago I increased the dose to put my testosterone in the range 300mg should roughly put me at and have noticed more spots appearing on my back. I haven’t gained any water weight and no gyno scare, so as far as I’m aware my E2 is fine but could this be a sign that im at/over my maximum dose tolerable or just my body adjusting to the increase and just having an outbreak? Cheers

Hi Will

Great question.

So basic state of play here when we look at the pharmacology;

Increase in T > increase aromatase activity > increase in E2 > window of time where that androgen to oestrogen ratio may be a little skewed > higher E2 symptoms may at this point begin to appear.

Does this mean that ratio will remain skewed and E2 will continue to be an issue? No, not necessarily, but it does mean you’re going to be exposing yourself to a window of time where you’re more susceptible to sides.

Look at the half life of the ester you’re using for T, this may shine light on how long it might take for symptoms to settle, i.e. once the specific ester has reached peaked blood plasma levels and settled, you may well see a balancing of E2.

On the other hand, increased exposure to or first hand exposure to a DHT derivative (in the form of primo or masteron) will increase tolerability to higher T exposure, so will the likes of proviron usage.

If you’re planning on titrating test further in the phase you’re in, either add in a DHT derivative now if symptoms don’t dissipate, or if symptoms of higher E2 do subside, add it in before your next T increase.

Even as little as 50-100mg of added DHT derivative can be enough to regain control of T:E2 ratio.

If you’re in a growth phase, I’d tend to favour primo as a primary growth promoter. Masteron I’d usually save for prep / deficit phases, not to say masteron isn’t a growth promoter in nature, it’s just not a very potent one. It would be akin to eating your dinner using a pair of chop sticks, or using knife and fork. They’re both going to eventually mean dinner gets eaten, it’s just one is going to be far more effective than the other.

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Hi Calum,

Unfortunately my gym is limited on leg equipment so no hack, pendulum etc.

I will be using a heal elevated smith squat as an exercise going forward, i have a history of knee issues so will be looking to use a reverse band on this set up.

Could u help explain how i should set up the reverse band for a smith squat please? 1 band, 2 band and where to place on bar?

Cheers

Hi dude

Check this video out at 8:13 in – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd58045TnuU

You’ll see me set up a reverse banded squat, you’d do the exact same set up with the daisy chain on either side on the smith machine!

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Hi Calum.

I was curious to know your approach to deloads.

Do you reduce volume, intensity, or do you opt for a few days off the gym?

What’s the reasoning behind the choice?

thank you.

Hi Andreea

I’m actually an advocate of all of these, it’s just circumstantial.

We can mitigate fatigue in numerous ways, i.e. ;

– reduction in total volume

– reduction in proximity to failure of workload used

– complete rest from training

Realistically the first 2 are going to be used where an athlete is mildly over-reached, i.e. recovery isn’t rock bottom and we have reacted to biofeedback at the right time.

The final option is going to be useful for complete physical and mental restoration.

There is value to both, it’s going to come down to the circumstance you’re being faced with.

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Thanks Bud !

In terms of training volume, are you more a fan of keeping volume the same or increasing sets over the course of a mesocycle on body parts that maybe need to be prioritised ?

Hi Philipp

It depends on the phase we’re in with an athlete, I do like titrating volume on specific key (higher priority) muscle groups across phases where protein accretion is high (i.e. surplus calories, plenty of recovery, low systemic stress, if enhanced, higher androgen load).

I would never however add volume at the expense of recovery, execution or stimulus quality.

More volume done inaccurately is wasted volume, so be meticulous with this.

Also remember not all volume is created equally, i.e. stimulus to fatigue ratios on direct arm work is different to direct leg work, can we titrate quad volume the same as biceps? Think of the recovery demands of the muscle in question, and program accordingly.

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