He knows where his views come from! lol but he does plenty of videos for the ladies as well. My wife has implemented tons of his techniques and her glutes have never looked better! Thank you dr mike! lol
Stir fry is my go-to...bunch of veggies, chicken or beef, olive oil, garlic and ginger paste, season to taste. Brown rice optional, sometimes scramble some eggs in with a little soy sauce. I could eat thousands of calories like that, though maybe it's just me.
Just the video i need. I'm 5 1" and currently weight 89lb. I'm been going true some stress for the past year. Do to it, I don't get hungry or get full right away. My friend Mary Jane been really helpful lol. We skinny people need more videos like this 😁
As a former skinny person, the best thing to do is just eat a lot and workout consistently. I’m really ever hungry, particularly when I’m stressed or depressed, but you just have to force feed yourself. Lucky for you won’t need 4,200 calories a day like I do to slowly put on weight.
Thanks Dr Mike!! My cut just ended today. Used your videos and since January did a cut, maintenance, and mini cut and went from 194.8 to 169.2. Back to my normal self instead of the bloated power lifter!
I hate the new trend of having the "coming up" preview at the start of the video. It's a 15 minute video that I'm about to watch not a three hour movie releasing next year.
It's part of the TH-cam game. The preview is meant for people who are scrolling by or just curious. Not really meant for people are going to watch anyway It's done for the same exact reason as movies: to get people's interest
@@maplelootI actually don’t think that’s true at all. I’ve heard content creators in various areas talk about how metrics show even having a very short opening will cause people to switch off, so they’ve gotten rid of them… That’s how pathetic the average attention span has become.
@@rodygaming2605 The difference is being enhanced means you can still slam wendys burgers and maintain a 12 pack. Whether you believe it or not, I've personally seen it with buddies that have done and are on cycles. I have to weigh every bit of food i eat and if i lose a pound a week, its a fucking miracle. Ive watched someone eat at least 3k calories in fast food after every workout for weeks at a time. Someone with veins popping from their abs. That's the difference.
My favorite: He said he didn't like the Germans from 1939 to 1945...then he said he was just kidding. No wonder he has so many Lambos; as it turns out he was just swole George Soros the entire time.
As a natural in my late 40’s I’ve put on 1.6lbs of weight a week over 25 weeks. Body fat increased from roughly 16% to 19%. 92kg to 110kg. Am waking up weight. Cut due soon. 🎉
@@michaeldc951 Thanks man. I take creatine, tongkat Ali, and beta alanine and hmb before working out with a coffee. These help. Probably helps that I gained a lot in my mid teens to about age 22. Before these latest gains hadn’t trained for 10 years. No trt as my testosterone was high when last tested. Oh I eat a shed load of Greek yoghurt 1kg a day with honey. Never ever done PEDs, nearest I tried was Ajuga Turkestanica which I’m not sure if it helped but just made me want to chase women 😂 Hope this helps 🙏
Thanks man. I take creatine, tongkat Ali, and beta alanine and hmb before working out with a coffee. These help. Probably helps that I gained a lot in my mid teens to about age 22. Before these latest gains hadn’t trained for 10 years. No trt as my testosterone was high when last tested. Oh I eat a shed load of Greek yoghurt 1kg a day with honey. Never ever done PEDs, nearest I tried was Ajuga Turkestanica which I’m not sure if it helped but just made me want to chase women 😂 Hope this helps 🙏
Amazing doctor Yes we want a video on how much weight I should put in as per my conditions Age is above 40, intermediate experience to weight training Working out 4-5 days a week Currently at 16percent fat
Heyy! Can you please make an educational video on how woman should grow muscle with minimal bodyfat ideally, and the best nutrition and lifestyle to go along with it. Also, how to calculate macros and or best diet for optimal results. PLEASE 🙏
Those videos definitely exist on their channel already, and the differences between men and women aren't really much different. If you want to gain muscle, you'll have to be in a surplus and gain a bit of fat with it too.
Hey Scott or any other RP intern reading this: Yes, please regarding the "How much weight should I gain personally" video. Also, I'd like to suggest a video that outlines how to properly transition from a Cut to a Bulk as well as from a Bulk to a Cut. Both, in terms of diet as well as in terms of training. Kinda like a follow up to your older video "Training on a cut vs training on a bulk". Thank you.
I’m about 5-10Ibs left in my cut. 1500-1800 calories. Can’t wait to start my lean bulk of 2800 calories! I calculated my maintenance at approx 2500 based on my weight loss and calorie tracking.
@@michaeldc951 I’m an office worker and I lift 4-5 times per week lol 2800 is a 200-300 surplus for me. If I’m not gaining enough I’d adjust to 3000 or do a small cheat meal per week.
@@michaeldc951Dont be. My maintenance is at 2500 at 240 lbs. Been fat my whole life. Sucks when you can easily eat 3000 of clean food and still be a lil hungry.
Absolutely how much weight should I gain video wanted. I am 54 year old lifelong skinny F#$@ that went from 130 to 157 over last 2 years. Got a dexa and had 24% bodyfat. Just went down to 145 since March and took about a month off of lifting due to to stress, injuries and a crazy life. Restarting now with slow bulk planned.
I've always been the "skinny" kid growing up. Graduated college at 6' 135lb, ran a lot for sports, very active. Now I'm 33, 170lb @ 16% body fat (according to scale), and don't do cardio anymore. Trying to get up to 185-ish. Weightlifting 5 days/week. A video on how to gain weight for someone with my body style would be great!
Irrelevant to topics, but I'm currently in an intense cutting phase. No gym for 1.5 year and garbage diet. Normally around 80kg and got up 110. 10kg down 20 to go!
This is really silly. If you're thinking about bulking and cutting, you should already have that stuff dialed in, sorry. I had to use the scale to know it was working.
Did 400-800mg testosterone for a year came off went through the horrible withdrawals but came out of it all with a decent amount of tissue. Back to natural for now & may just stay natural. From personal experience I went through some up and downs - prefer being natural BUT that time on cycle did build muscle and I did keep about 50-60% of it so I’d say it was worth it. Not promoting this as a good idea but i trained for over 10 years natural have decent genetics and got fed up with the progress after 10 years so I’m glad I did it. It definitely wasn’t a smooth ride but worth it overall and YES in my experience you do keep some of the gains and you can return to your natural hormone levels. I did it for just shy of a year, used other stuff like masteron, anavar, winstrol, tbol and cycled hcg half way through for about 8 weeks. I didn’t do a pct either. As for this diet advice I’d say spot on as usual. Most of what I lost when I dropped the doses and came off was water and glycogen.
having gotten insulin resistance from my own sugar related habits and maltrodextrin packed supplements i appreciate this video. in retrospect a cup and a half of rice with some butter was infinitely safer than any weight gainer supplement for my specific situation.
@@TomWhitchurch It took a few weeks after the initial presentation, preface was mistakenly ordering a weight gainer supplement in a haze of undergrad workup stuff. Initial symptom was feet neuropathy followed by burning number one, was doing ROTC stuff and commuting early in the morning so i did not research and developed insulin resistance as a result. Lol.
I’d like see a personal gain weight plan. I’m 45 and lost weight over the years and I look too lean.. Changed my formula 22 years ago because I felt bad looking “scary”. Now I want to gain muscle for Judo and be scary again. I don’t think I could ever be as big as I use to be without having a heart attack. I need you Mike.
What’s the best diet for gaining weight, because I’ve been eating 150g of fat and 300g of carbs nearly everyday and I still haven’t gain any weight my metabolism off the charts here and I can’t figure out what else to eat because I’m so busy with my main diet
Question Dr. Mike: In Jeff Nippard's OVERRATED video, you said dedicated bulking/cutting is more effective than recomping - but in another video, you said that someone in their first year of serious training can just try to maintain their current weight since their body loses fat & gains muscle fairly well during that time. Is there a video you have or can make about what's better for someone in their first year of serious training - and what the pros & cons to each approach for a person in that first year? Thanks!~
My 2 ct coming from someone who just made it's first year of training: I aimed at just eating enough protein regardless of how much calories I would eat (If I wanted to eat, I would eat but tried to eat healthy). In the end my weight stayed the same but gained muscle (and thus lost fat). I'm quiet happy how it turned out but I'm still fatter than what I want. So I will go into a cut soon. The question is what is your starting point? Are you fat? Then a slight cut is a possibility. Are you skinny really not much fat, go in a bulk (the more muscle you have, the more fat you can have and still have a low body fat %). Skinny fat? Dr Mike has a video if I remember correctly, but you could do all 3 possibilities, cut or bulk or maintenance, all will work at first. Depends on what you want, you will always gain more muscle with a bulk but you will gain some fat so you have to be ok with that. You can cut but it is not recommended because you will just look skinny with the lack of muscle. Maintenance well both gaining muscle and loosing fat will happen, but you won't finish shredded. All in all, if you want to look more bulky, know that with clothes on, nobody will see a 6 pack, but having somefat will visually give the illusion of being bigger, so that could help to wait before cutting. Happy training!
@@ChikitoPOWA Thank you for your input💖💖 My starting point is 130lbs. I’m nearly 140lbs trying to bulk. Thinking I may just go for maintenance for a bit, or cut slightly to see if the body fat goes does a bit. I guess I’d kinda say I’m skinny fat, but even then not really. I don’t even have a the small gut I had anymore since starting to train haha
I like how the advice is "eat just until slightly uncomfortable" Whereas my advice would be "eat until you're just barely not hungry" easily gain 1-2lbs per week.
im 6'3'' 220lbs. at one point in my life i was over 300. after losing that weight, i have alot of excess skin despite a rather low body fat % now. how should i go about sizing up to fit in my skin better?
So you're saying the fact I went from 367 lbs to 139 before joining gym has left me with high fat cells still. I assume that would affect muscle gained as it would go back into the fat cells first. Up to 160 now 19 months going to the gym. But I'm at a point where I feel amazing, but haven't gained much strength. Was getting close to going on a cut to see if a second bulk would do anything, but now I'm tempted to just maintain
After 19 months you should have some pretty serious beginner gains? I would definitely question your gym routine, because something must be pretty wrong
@@benj1b At the start I now think my test was causing issues but when I went from 139 to 145 I had to maintain around that weight for a op I decided against in the end. I spent about 8 months at that weight but my lifts all started dropping massively, then when I decided that I didn't want the op I was 146-147 and decided to go on a bulk my aim was to go 0.5 a week up to 160 it took longer then planned. My strength levels are only slightly up from before my lifts starting plummeting around 145 I'm now 160, I'm hoping it is a form improvement thing. from when I started when I did 3 day anything goes for about 2/3 months. I've been on a 4 day upper lower or 5 day upper lower ppl. Upper days are normally 2 freeweight compounds into 2 machine compounds A row a Pulldown/Pullup And Flat bench / Ohp / Incline Bench. Followed by 3 isolations a Latraise on the Incline press & Chest Press day and A chest fly on the bench and ohp day into triceps and biceps after those. Thinking about going on a cut to 150 ish then trying to bulk again or just staying where I am for a bit. I am 27 now and only started lifting after I went from 367 > 139 in just over 2 years so I'm not really prime. But Like I said at the start I think I had test issues, didn't know about it at the time, But I was always cold even in summer couldn't sleep all night without waking up and had another big issue. I had all these issues in till I went past 153ish so even if it was all fat I'm probably more healthy now, Defo feel better
@Jodor-- I'm glad you're feeling better, and by the way, congrats on making such a huge transformation. That is amazing. I don't if you've tried, but you should get some blood work done. It sounds like you may be anemic. But you're definitely still in your prime. Try doing an actual program and following it strictly including weight increases and push yourself beyond your comfort level and make sure your nutrition is good and you should have no problems making some gains. But I'm assuming your health is good. Good luck to you my friend 🫡
To answer the question of when should you stop adding weight as a natty, could the answer be when you're putting on weight but no longer feel the benefits in the gym, I.e. strength isn't going up. Energy levels don't feel better, and you feel more fatigued than normal in between sets. I could be wrong but I feel like there's a sweet spot where your strength and energy levels peak. (Just a guess)
I'm 177 right now, coming from 311lbs, I've got rolls of loose skin. Shit sucks. Cutting down again after a few months at maintaining around 180. Trying to go to 168 before maintenence again.
Thanks Dr. Mike. Great information here. For far too long I was addicted to looking at the scale. Could never figure out how I could lose 6lbs from bedtime to the next morning. Water weight ! Currently on a cut and running 175mg test/wk and 20mg Anavar daily. Low doses but still messes with the scale big time. It really just comes down to that looking in the mirror 20x per hour.
Gaining has ALWAYS been a struggle.I mean my nickname was “Bones” well into college!😩Now?Had a total colectomy and due to dental issues?On a “soft” food diet since last November.Then add in being a runner and ADHD fidgetter?!😅I just started trying to add in at LEAST 500 more calories a day and have increased my levels in my training.Time will tell🙏🏻🥲Perfect timing for this post.Thanks!🙌🏻🙏🏻
That sounds so rough, sorry you've gone through all that, but good on you for pushing on. I also had a hard time gaining weight when I was younger because of GI issues, but after some mirtazapine for making me hungrier, I got to a healthy weight
Dr Mike please do a collab with GBRS group. Would love to see your knowledge applied to tactical operators in military or law enforcement and the specific athletic requirements of those roles. Whilst also getting us jacked obviously!
Dr Mike, I thought it might be an interesting topic for one of your next videos to discuss the science on whether muscle tearing equals growth or is antithetical to the best growth curve. I know it has been said a lot in the training community, but when I became a NASM trainer, I heard differently. Seems that tearing means repairing and not recovery, so I’m sure your insight would be appreciated. Dale Smith Former CPT/IFS/SPS
@@eddiebarton7217 perhaps you should qualify that, because in my training and experience as a medical expert in the Navy and Remote Medical Practitioner, that is not true. You can repair while recovering, but recovering (rest) does not require repair (injury). Thus, the point of my question is: do we actually NEED to tear muscle (or have any level of muscle damage) in order to gain the benefits of the SAID principle?
I’m a month into my training now and I am just finding it very hard to eat enough. I started out working out 3 days a week moved to 4 because I was doing too much in one day. I’m using the RP diet app to help track my macros. I started to gain weight but then I lost weight. I weigh less now than when I started. My appetite increased when I started working out but not enough. I feeling like I’m stuffing myself.
Hey Mike, Can you just do the same or alike for Fat loss from begginer 35% + to 15-12% Body Fat percentage journey and what challenges comes with progess, bodily changes and hunger increase (metabolism shootup), handling it healthy and most important how the Diet should be modified according to progressive fat loss. Would be really helpful guide in the process if you do it. From your knowledge. Thanks ❤
I feel like I eat so little and still can’t lose weight. I lift 5 days a week and can’t tone up. I was a cyclist for 10 years so maybe my view is warped on how much food one needs to consume. I still bike now but only 2 days a week for 3 hours total.
Eating enough food is harder than I expected. If I eat high calorie junk, I feel awful and dont have energy to lift or do cardio. I've been tracking and you can see month after month increase. 9 months later and I'm up almost 300 calories a day and all of my clothes are too big. Not a bad problem to have
Yes Dr Mike I wanna know how much to gain weight personally. 40 y.o. once again beginner (trained on and off my whole life but got back recently, 1.5 years consistent training RP style), hardgainer ectomorph (I know you don't believe in body types but just to give you an idea). Currently stuck at about 160lbs 36" waist but lean arms. Was 140lbs pretty lean with abs 1.5 years ago.
Diet question. Scenario is im blasting 525 test alone, eating 3400 plus calories, with extra junk i dont track daily. Could not get the scale to move. I cut decently at 2300-2500 to lose fat. Any suggestions and reasons why? Im guessing most answers and the correct answer will be eat more. Also i realize more information is probably necessary.
Please do the how much weight to gain video, this subject is very helpful for me because I am trying to eat 4000 calories or more everyday and I feel like this isn’t doing that much for me
Regarding the point about getting too fat and increasing fat cells which then cause more hunger: I dropped from 310 to 250 and am taking maintenance breaks and such per your other advice. I plan to lose more of course. How bad does this issue tend to be for people? And will it subside over time?
I went from 320 to 170 and I hate to tell you bud that fat guy appetite stays with you forever. You could literally put pounds of clean food on my plate and I can eat it all . For me volume eating kinda works just eat tons of lower calorie foods .
I am on TRT, and I never really appreciated bloating and water retention until this last year or so (been on TRT since 2018, 2021 had a life event that brought me from 225 down to 185, spent the last 2ish years trying to put the weight back on but more aesthetically for context). Since the fall I have been tracking CICO, and there were a few times since I'd notice (usually cause it was the weekend and I was at the bar, or just out in general), my weight would swing between 5-10 lbs in only a few days....never have I actually noticed that before.
any protein supplements WITHOUT Lysine/Methionine amino acids? Ive got Cystinuria and cant have either of those in it and even all the vegan stuff they pump the amino acids back into it. Plant based is also a problem unfortunately (which I am obviously)
I'm 6'1 200lbs, I lost 110lbs, in the end I was down to 2000 cal to lose 1 lbs a week. Now I'm bulking I started at 3000, didn't put on weight for a month, upped to 3250, no weight gain, upped to 3500, no change, now I'm up to 3700 last week, weight still not moving bit it's only been a week. How the hell is this possible
Ok so I (6’1” 160lbs) worked out consistently for about a year and half. Ended up basically maxing out at 180lbs, got depressed and have fluctuated between 160 and 185 for the last year or two. I tried to just get fat and I couldn’t even do that. It seems like every time I got a bit heavy I’d lose the weight because I’d get so tired of forcing food in my mouth and I wouldn’t eat for a day or two or I’d get sick. I restarted Monday and I just wanted to say I’m really glad I found your videos. So fuckin funny, reasonable, knowledgeable, and well spoken. Do you have any advice for someone who has trouble eating enough calories like me? I’m doing good right now, but I’m afraid I’ll have one of those days.
Just slowly ramp it up. I find eating a good breakfast super early in the day helps so I'm ready to eat by lunch. I'm 5'9 was like 155 early 20s, managed to get up to 185, down to 175. Things like nuts and grabola bars are really good too, super calorie dense
Liquid calories bro. I started every day with an 800 calorie shake - 16oz milk/oat milk, 2-3tb peanut butter/nut butter, 1 banana, whey protein powder. Besides that, drink shakes with lunch and dinner too. The liquid calories are the cheat code for us naturally skinny small appetite guys
Hahaha, I am on another side of the scale. Relatively fat dude, who's gaining muscles and tries to get leaner. I am natty and don't use currently any sports nutrition, like protein shakes, creatine, etc. All this will come later in my journey. So far I am super happy with my results, where I simply cut the junk food and reduced the carbs. Assuming that I had 121kg of weight, 20-25% of which was a pure fat, I try to get around 2g/kg of proteins daily (around 180-190g if you recalculate). Near to no sugars, reduced carbs. Morning I eat 500g pack of faf reduced cottage cheese (almost no fats, some carbs and 60g of protein) with some honey and sesam, pumpkin, etc seeds. For lunch I have around 300g of chicken breast with vegies and some (very little) rice, noodles, whole grain toast, etc which gives me around 60g+ more. I eat it mostly in two sets, otherwise it feels somehow too much. During the day I snack on some cheese, different nuts (peanuts, almonds, cashews) where I get around 20g-30g more. After training and unfortunately before sleep there is a salad with canned tuna or shrimps or air fried chicken breasts and olive oil/balsamic vinegar/both. That's anothe 30g of proteins, which I get. Despite being short on around 20g of protein, I have steady gym gains and weight loss of 10kg over the period of 3 months, which makes me extremely happy! It's hard to stuff yourself with that many healthy and protein rich food to reach that 2g/kg target, but the results are worth it every second I look into the mirror! In several months I'll probably slightly reduce the amount of food and replace it with protein shakes. We'll see where it brings me then :) I hope, this will help somebody with the same goals like mine! Have a great day everyone!
First three months at a legitimate TRT dose (not super TRT) I put on 15LBS without blinking. The fluctuations in water weight is pretty gnarly. I tend to wake up four-five pounds of lighter.
A video on fat/carb/protein intake for natural vs enhanced would be interesting, I see a lot of enhanced people eating very low fat and very high carb I assume because of insulin and not needing fat for hormones but that's not ideal for someone who is natural
Dr.mike is a specimen. It feels like he’s not scripted. That means all that nonsense just flows from his brain to his mouth in a coherent, albeit crude, fashion. Incredible. 😂
And that noise he makes at 10:13,.. who wouldn’t typically edit that out of the Final Cut? 😂 You can call dr.mike a lot of things, but authentic-less 😅 is not one of them.
Maybe dumb diet question: Is it enough to only eat lots of protein on the days that you train, or should you be eating the same amount every day? So for example, say you do 3x per week full body training, is it enough to only eat big on those 3 days, then cut back and not eat so much on non training days? Say you can only afford enough meat and protein powder to eat them on those training days. Assuming you eat healthy-ish on those other days, can this be an effective system?
Dr Mike. You advocate for staying natural as long as possible. If your test levels are on the much lower side (Free=10, total= 882) is jumping on TRT seen as more beneficial than problematic in your opinion? I’m a natty but feel the side effects of low T and truly wonder if TRT would help me get out of this easily irritated, weak and exhausted phase. I’m no bodybuilder but am a former athlete and I still go to the gym to maintain normal functional strength. Would love to hear your opinion on this!
I’m attempting at gaining 0.5 pounds a week on this upcoming bulk. I think 16 weeks and gain 8-10 pounds ish. Been working out for 10 years so muscle gain feels very minuscule so I feel it needs to be slower weight gain
Do a video on how to lower hematocrit and hemoglobin on trt. Even on 120mg test c a week at 58 years old my hematocrit is 58 and hemoglobin 19.9. I donate blood and it has my ferritin down to 7. Just started 65mg of vitron c iron supplement to help with ferritin.
bulk until you can't walk to the fridge, then cut until you can walk again
LOL
Been bulking for years. I can still make it to the fridge or at least a computer to order dominos
Ha!
@@DM-qd7gw I love ordering dominos from my desktop computer
Thank Kyriakos for this blessed upload Dr.Mike!
Every time I hear or read his name, I simultaneously hear, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
@@tankjones513 As we all do brother... as we all do... We shall never escape his world ending roars.
"you look sorta skinny"
omg thank u ive been trying to cut
never a compliment to any guy
Agreed. Skinny!!!!! Dang it, cut us over!!! I've literally done that.
This bullet point format is really the best, looks so good.
whooa Dr. Mike rocking a GBRS shirt? The collab we never knew we needed.
Please don't collab with the RAC!ST FAMILY
Mike!!!!!! There are many women who see you. Please talk to us too, thank you! I love you! Thanks for so much valuable information! Peace! 💓
He knows where his views come from! lol but he does plenty of videos for the ladies as well. My wife has implemented tons of his techniques and her glutes have never looked better! Thank you dr mike! lol
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Add 10% to the male body fat recommendations
How to gain weight and have an appetite for foods that won't cause heart disease or Type 2 diabetes is this bigger question.
Stir fry is my go-to...bunch of veggies, chicken or beef, olive oil, garlic and ginger paste, season to taste. Brown rice optional, sometimes scramble some eggs in with a little soy sauce. I could eat thousands of calories like that, though maybe it's just me.
Eat mostly whole foods: lots of potatoes and dairy. You wont even want to look at food
Don't gain too much weight, and neither of those should be a real problem. Especially if your cardio is good.
I’d recommend Stan efferdings vertical diet then.
@@j.e.t.v4016Potatoes are trash to bulk because they are super satiating, i'd say some rice that doesnt absorb much water when cooking is good
Just the video i need. I'm 5 1" and currently weight 89lb. I'm been going true some stress for the past year. Do to it, I don't get hungry or get full right away. My friend Mary Jane been really helpful lol. We skinny people need more videos like this 😁
As a former skinny person, the best thing to do is just eat a lot and workout consistently. I’m really ever hungry, particularly when I’m stressed or depressed, but you just have to force feed yourself. Lucky for you won’t need 4,200 calories a day like I do to slowly put on weight.
Thanks Dr Mike!! My cut just ended today. Used your videos and since January did a cut, maintenance, and mini cut and went from 194.8 to 169.2. Back to my normal self instead of the bloated power lifter!
I hate the new trend of having the "coming up" preview at the start of the video. It's a 15 minute video that I'm about to watch not a three hour movie releasing next year.
I just dont want a joke spoiler! 😂
you must be fun at book readings. ninny.
It's part of the TH-cam game. The preview is meant for people who are scrolling by or just curious. Not really meant for people are going to watch anyway
It's done for the same exact reason as movies: to get people's interest
@@maplelootI actually don’t think that’s true at all.
I’ve heard content creators in various areas talk about how metrics show even having a very short opening will cause people to switch off, so they’ve gotten rid of them… That’s how pathetic the average attention span has become.
@@amorfati4927short openings in the form of like logo intros, yes, but previews are huge for retention
Please do one for weight loss natty vs enhanced!
THIS!
There is not difference at all.
@@rodygaming2605 The difference is being enhanced means you can still slam wendys burgers and maintain a 12 pack. Whether you believe it or not, I've personally seen it with buddies that have done and are on cycles. I have to weigh every bit of food i eat and if i lose a pound a week, its a fucking miracle. Ive watched someone eat at least 3k calories in fast food after every workout for weeks at a time. Someone with veins popping from their abs.
That's the difference.
I don't watch this for advice, I just watch to laugh at all the jokes. LOL! But fr, thanks for the coaching!
My favorite: He said he didn't like the Germans from 1939 to 1945...then he said he was just kidding. No wonder he has so many Lambos; as it turns out he was just swole George Soros the entire time.
As a natural in my late 40’s I’ve put on 1.6lbs of weight a week over 25 weeks. Body fat increased from roughly 16% to 19%. 92kg to 110kg. Am waking up weight. Cut due soon. 🎉
That’s some solid gains for being natural and in your 40’s!! No trt???
@@michaeldc951 Thanks man. I take creatine, tongkat Ali, and beta alanine and hmb before working out with a coffee. These help. Probably helps that I gained a lot in my mid teens to about age 22. Before these latest gains hadn’t trained for 10 years. No trt as my testosterone was high when last tested. Oh I eat a shed load of Greek yoghurt 1kg a day with honey. Never ever done PEDs, nearest I tried was Ajuga Turkestanica which I’m not sure if it helped but just made me want to chase women 😂 Hope this helps 🙏
Thanks man. I take creatine, tongkat Ali, and beta alanine and hmb before working out with a coffee. These help. Probably helps that I gained a lot in my mid teens to about age 22. Before these latest gains hadn’t trained for 10 years. No trt as my testosterone was high when last tested. Oh I eat a shed load of Greek yoghurt 1kg a day with honey. Never ever done PEDs, nearest I tried was Ajuga Turkestanica which I’m not sure if it helped but just made me want to chase women 😂 Hope this helps 🙏
Amazing doctor
Yes we want a video on how much weight I should put in as per my conditions
Age is above 40, intermediate experience to weight training
Working out 4-5 days a week
Currently at 16percent fat
Heyy! Can you please make an educational video on how woman should grow muscle with minimal bodyfat ideally, and the best nutrition and lifestyle to go along with it. Also, how to calculate macros and or best diet for optimal results. PLEASE 🙏
Those videos definitely exist on their channel already, and the differences between men and women aren't really much different. If you want to gain muscle, you'll have to be in a surplus and gain a bit of fat with it too.
Hey Scott or any other RP intern reading this: Yes, please regarding the "How much weight should I gain personally" video. Also, I'd like to suggest a video that outlines how to properly transition from a Cut to a Bulk as well as from a Bulk to a Cut. Both, in terms of diet as well as in terms of training. Kinda like a follow up to your older video "Training on a cut vs training on a bulk". Thank you.
I’m about 5-10Ibs left in my cut. 1500-1800 calories.
Can’t wait to start my lean bulk of 2800 calories!
I calculated my maintenance at approx 2500 based on my weight loss and calorie tracking.
I would die on those calories 😢
@@Jacobfreakintimes I wouldn't immediately die on 2,800 but I'd lose about a pound and a half a week. The joys of doing endurance running and cycling!
I’m jealous that you can bulk at 2800 calories!!!
@@michaeldc951 I’m an office worker and I lift 4-5 times per week lol 2800 is a 200-300 surplus for me.
If I’m not gaining enough I’d adjust to 3000 or do a small cheat meal per week.
@@michaeldc951Dont be. My maintenance is at 2500 at 240 lbs. Been fat my whole life. Sucks when you can easily eat 3000 of clean food and still be a lil hungry.
Love your videos, always prefer a smooth low voice against a high pitch headache, plus jokes always on point
greg reference
Absolutely how much weight should I gain video wanted. I am 54 year old lifelong skinny F#$@ that went from 130 to 157 over last 2 years. Got a dexa and had 24% bodyfat. Just went down to 145 since March and took about a month off of lifting due to to stress, injuries and a crazy life. Restarting now with slow bulk planned.
Great videoI. like the GBRS too.
I've always been the "skinny" kid growing up. Graduated college at 6' 135lb, ran a lot for sports, very active. Now I'm 33, 170lb @ 16% body fat (according to scale), and don't do cardio anymore. Trying to get up to 185-ish. Weightlifting 5 days/week. A video on how to gain weight for someone with my body style would be great!
Not eating enough food. hire a coach. metabolic growth is hard af to self-manage
Potato’s potatoes potatos !! Carbs!
What's tators fat hobbit
Po-day-does
@@AnthonyA-t8f Mr man !! You are a true man ! Blesss your strong jacked body from the Mr rp himself !!
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew!
I can’t get down enough. Oats are my jam. For some reason I prefer to drink my calories.
Trenken, Trice, and Trencolli
Trenboloney sandwiches
Irrelevant to topics, but I'm currently in an intense cutting phase. No gym for 1.5 year and garbage diet. Normally around 80kg and got up 110. 10kg down 20 to go!
Good luck,just remember to not cut too fast and keep hydrated and get your protein in
That's a big frickin bulk buddy:D
Jesus Christ
Wait u went from 80 to 110 and wanna go back to 80🗿
@@maksimhezel2787 oh yeah... Bulking... That's what it was...
Incredible transformation in the thumb nail 👍
ANOTHER GOLD VIDEO
no one ever makes this analogy between natural and enhanced on nutrition
Instead of focussing on the scale, focus on...
1) Strenght in the gym
2) Recovery time
3) Sleep quality
4) Mirror
This is really silly. If you're thinking about bulking and cutting, you should already have that stuff dialed in, sorry. I had to use the scale to know it was working.
5. Posing
"Number 1 is FAMILY." - Dom Torreto
Dude, your humour is everything and its probably the main reason I subscribed 😂
"Follow your heart... and your bodyweight" 😂
Thank you for this video! Not much out there in terms of natural vs enhanced approaches. Really appreciate it!
Would love to see a “how much weight should I gain depending on my conditions” video
Did 400-800mg testosterone for a year came off went through the horrible withdrawals but came out of it all with a decent amount of tissue. Back to natural for now & may just stay natural. From personal experience I went through some up and downs - prefer being natural BUT that time on cycle did build muscle and I did keep about 50-60% of it so I’d say it was worth it. Not promoting this as a good idea but i trained for over 10 years natural have decent genetics and got fed up with the progress after 10 years so I’m glad I did it. It definitely wasn’t a smooth ride but worth it overall and YES in my experience you do keep some of the gains and you can return to your natural hormone levels. I did it for just shy of a year, used other stuff like masteron, anavar, winstrol, tbol and cycled hcg half way through for about 8 weeks. I didn’t do a pct either. As for this diet advice I’d say spot on as usual. Most of what I lost when I dropped the doses and came off was water and glycogen.
Perfect video timing, debating on whether to keep cutting or start a bulk
If you have to debate, your likely still fat
having gotten insulin resistance from my own sugar related habits and maltrodextrin packed supplements i appreciate this video. in retrospect a cup and a half of rice with some butter was infinitely safer than any weight gainer supplement for my specific situation.
Try drinking pear juice. It'll bulk u faster and safer than that crap
Meant to add pure pear juice organic not that major supermarket shit
How did you know you had insulin resistance? I’m thinking this myself since I always seem to get light headed after large amounts of carbs
@@TomWhitchurch It took a few weeks after the initial presentation, preface was mistakenly ordering a weight gainer supplement in a haze of undergrad workup stuff. Initial symptom was feet neuropathy followed by burning number one, was doing ROTC stuff and commuting early in the morning so i did not research and developed insulin resistance as a result. Lol.
I’d like see a personal gain weight plan. I’m 45 and lost weight over the years and I look too lean.. Changed my formula 22 years ago because I felt bad looking “scary”. Now I want to gain muscle for Judo and be scary again. I don’t think I could ever be as big as I use to be without having a heart attack. I need you Mike.
so hire a coach lik
@@JoshuaKevinPerry Didn't ask you, nobody.
Could you please do superhero workout plan videos for Captain America, Spider-Man, Aquaman, and Deadpool or Wolverine.
Especially Spidey for us skinnier types.
Yes please make a video of how much wight I personally should gain!
GBRS Shirt spotted! Dr Mike, please do a training critique for GBRS with DJ and their S&C coach Vernon Griffith
Honestly, I just train hard and eat healthy basic foods. Even at 39 years old I’m blessed that my body just likes that I treat it well.
As a habitual creatine user I'm definitely in the enhanced category
What’s the best diet for gaining weight, because I’ve been eating 150g of fat and 300g of carbs nearly everyday and I still haven’t gain any weight my metabolism off the charts here and I can’t figure out what else to eat because I’m so busy with my main diet
The 8 weeks are nearly perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years feasting.
I want a video about how Much weight I need to gain
I want this too
Yes!
+1 definitely need that video.
Exactly 7.81 lbs
Hi I'm new here. This guy reminds me of Jocko Willink way he talks, voice, humor, maybe something in face similar Greetings from Poland
Question Dr. Mike: In Jeff Nippard's OVERRATED video, you said dedicated bulking/cutting is more effective than recomping - but in another video, you said that someone in their first year of serious training can just try to maintain their current weight since their body loses fat & gains muscle fairly well during that time. Is there a video you have or can make about what's better for someone in their first year of serious training - and what the pros & cons to each approach for a person in that first year? Thanks!~
My 2 ct coming from someone who just made it's first year of training: I aimed at just eating enough protein regardless of how much calories I would eat (If I wanted to eat, I would eat but tried to eat healthy). In the end my weight stayed the same but gained muscle (and thus lost fat). I'm quiet happy how it turned out but I'm still fatter than what I want. So I will go into a cut soon.
The question is what is your starting point? Are you fat? Then a slight cut is a possibility. Are you skinny really not much fat, go in a bulk (the more muscle you have, the more fat you can have and still have a low body fat %).
Skinny fat? Dr Mike has a video if I remember correctly, but you could do all 3 possibilities, cut or bulk or maintenance, all will work at first. Depends on what you want, you will always gain more muscle with a bulk but you will gain some fat so you have to be ok with that. You can cut but it is not recommended because you will just look skinny with the lack of muscle. Maintenance well both gaining muscle and loosing fat will happen, but you won't finish shredded.
All in all, if you want to look more bulky, know that with clothes on, nobody will see a 6 pack, but having somefat will visually give the illusion of being bigger, so that could help to wait before cutting.
Happy training!
@@ChikitoPOWA Thank you for your input💖💖
My starting point is 130lbs. I’m nearly 140lbs trying to bulk. Thinking I may just go for maintenance for a bit, or cut slightly to see if the body fat goes does a bit. I guess I’d kinda say I’m skinny fat, but even then not really. I don’t even have a the small gut I had anymore since starting to train haha
Dr.Mike you are the Yoda of bodybuilding. "Broda"
I like how the advice is "eat just until slightly uncomfortable"
Whereas my advice would be "eat until you're just barely not hungry" easily gain 1-2lbs per week.
I’m glad dr Mike never did standup, cause he’d put us all out of work. Thanks for the content!
Dr. Mike dropping the "Don't Die Challenge" at the end of the video
im 6'3'' 220lbs. at one point in my life i was over 300. after losing that weight, i have alot of excess skin despite a rather low body fat % now. how should i go about sizing up to fit in my skin better?
So you're saying the fact I went from 367 lbs to 139 before joining gym has left me with high fat cells still. I assume that would affect muscle gained as it would go back into the fat cells first. Up to 160 now 19 months going to the gym. But I'm at a point where I feel amazing, but haven't gained much strength. Was getting close to going on a cut to see if a second bulk would do anything, but now I'm tempted to just maintain
After 19 months you should have some pretty serious beginner gains? I would definitely question your gym routine, because something must be pretty wrong
@@benj1b At the start I now think my test was causing issues but when I went from 139 to 145 I had to maintain around that weight for a op I decided against in the end. I spent about 8 months at that weight but my lifts all started dropping massively, then when I decided that I didn't want the op I was 146-147 and decided to go on a bulk my aim was to go 0.5 a week up to 160 it took longer then planned. My strength levels are only slightly up from before my lifts starting plummeting around 145 I'm now 160, I'm hoping it is a form improvement thing. from when I started when I did 3 day anything goes for about 2/3 months. I've been on a 4 day upper lower or 5 day upper lower ppl. Upper days are normally 2 freeweight compounds into 2 machine compounds A row a Pulldown/Pullup And Flat bench / Ohp / Incline Bench. Followed by 3 isolations a Latraise on the Incline press & Chest Press day and A chest fly on the bench and ohp day into triceps and biceps after those. Thinking about going on a cut to 150 ish then trying to bulk again or just staying where I am for a bit. I am 27 now and only started lifting after I went from 367 > 139 in just over 2 years so I'm not really prime. But Like I said at the start I think I had test issues, didn't know about it at the time, But I was always cold even in summer couldn't sleep all night without waking up and had another big issue. I had all these issues in till I went past 153ish so even if it was all fat I'm probably more healthy now, Defo feel better
@Jodor-- I'm glad you're feeling better, and by the way, congrats on making such a huge transformation. That is amazing. I don't if you've tried, but you should get some blood work done. It sounds like you may be anemic. But you're definitely still in your prime. Try doing an actual program and following it strictly including weight increases and push yourself beyond your comfort level and make sure your nutrition is good and you should have no problems making some gains. But I'm assuming your health is good. Good luck to you my friend 🫡
To answer the question of when should you stop adding weight as a natty, could the answer be when you're putting on weight but no longer feel the benefits in the gym, I.e. strength isn't going up. Energy levels don't feel better, and you feel more fatigued than normal in between sets.
I could be wrong but I feel like there's a sweet spot where your strength and energy levels peak.
(Just a guess)
I'm 177 right now, coming from 311lbs, I've got rolls of loose skin. Shit sucks.
Cutting down again after a few months at maintaining around 180. Trying to go to 168 before maintenence again.
Dr. Mike, please include women in that video about what body fat percentage to stop bulking at.
This is a MEN’S channel
go do pilates fool 🤡🤡💀
Thanks Dr. Mike. Great information here. For far too long I was addicted to looking at the scale. Could never figure out how I could lose 6lbs from bedtime to the next morning. Water weight !
Currently on a cut and running 175mg test/wk and 20mg Anavar daily. Low doses but still messes with the scale big time. It really just comes down to that looking in the mirror 20x per hour.
“I don’t even know what’s going on anymore Connor!” 😭
Gaining has ALWAYS been a struggle.I mean my nickname was “Bones” well into college!😩Now?Had a total colectomy and due to dental issues?On a “soft” food diet since last November.Then add in being a runner and ADHD fidgetter?!😅I just started trying to add in at LEAST 500 more calories a day and have increased my levels in my training.Time will tell🙏🏻🥲Perfect timing for this post.Thanks!🙌🏻🙏🏻
That sounds so rough, sorry you've gone through all that, but good on you for pushing on. I also had a hard time gaining weight when I was younger because of GI issues, but after some mirtazapine for making me hungrier, I got to a healthy weight
I recommend cannabis and calorie dense foods like nuts and cheeses.
just drink as many protein shakes as possible
Dr Mike please do a collab with GBRS group. Would love to see your knowledge applied to tactical operators in military or law enforcement and the specific athletic requirements of those roles. Whilst also getting us jacked obviously!
Very nice video as always. Some how I just enjoy listening to Dr. Mike as if I were listening some ASMR stuff " Music for my ears! "
Dr Mike,
I thought it might be an interesting topic for one of your next videos to discuss the science on whether muscle tearing equals growth or is antithetical to the best growth curve.
I know it has been said a lot in the training community, but when I became a NASM trainer, I heard differently. Seems that tearing means repairing and not recovery, so I’m sure your insight would be appreciated.
Dale Smith
Former CPT/IFS/SPS
repair = recovery
@@eddiebarton7217 perhaps you should qualify that, because in my training and experience as a medical expert in the Navy and Remote Medical Practitioner, that is not true. You can repair while recovering, but recovering (rest) does not require repair (injury).
Thus, the point of my question is: do we actually NEED to tear muscle (or have any level of muscle damage) in order to gain the benefits of the SAID principle?
@@dalesmith1700 yes
I’m a month into my training now and I am just finding it very hard to eat enough. I started out working out 3 days a week moved to 4 because I was doing too much in one day. I’m using the RP diet app to help track my macros. I started to gain weight but then I lost weight. I weigh less now than when I started. My appetite increased when I started working out but not enough. I feeling like I’m stuffing myself.
Video on how to plan how much weight to gain given goals and other parameters would be great
Would love more videos on weight and eating. Personally it is the hardest part of lifting for me as I am naturally built like a crack addict.
I’m about 5kg and 6 weeks into my 4 month bulk so this is good to watch. Once I get to 115kg (currently 105) I’ll cut down
My prayers have been answered. Hard gainers rejoice 🎉
Hey Mike,
Can you just do the same or alike for Fat loss from begginer 35% + to 15-12% Body Fat percentage journey and what challenges comes with progess, bodily changes and hunger increase (metabolism shootup), handling it healthy and most important how the Diet should be modified according to progressive fat loss.
Would be really helpful guide in the process if you do it. From your knowledge. Thanks ❤
2:50 please lord. fully fully cover bulking and cutting
for nattys
Super new to the channel but really impressed. Going to be using RP for a program and really excited. Thank you for doing what you do.
So much good stuff in the archives.
I feel like I eat so little and still can’t lose weight. I lift 5 days a week and can’t tone up. I was a cyclist for 10 years so maybe my view is warped on how much food one needs to consume. I still bike now but only 2 days a week for 3 hours total.
slowly increase you calorie intake. Start walking everyday/start with 1 mile running a day as well.
The European accent preceded a Milka Maxxx candy advertisement! I'm watching from Deutschland. This was too funny!
+1 for video about "How much weight should I gain based on my conditions?"
Ayee the GBRS Gear I love it!!
Eating enough food is harder than I expected. If I eat high calorie junk, I feel awful and dont have energy to lift or do cardio. I've been tracking and you can see month after month increase. 9 months later and I'm up almost 300 calories a day and all of my clothes are too big. Not a bad problem to have
Yes Dr Mike I wanna know how much to gain weight personally. 40 y.o. once again beginner (trained on and off my whole life but got back recently, 1.5 years consistent training RP style), hardgainer ectomorph (I know you don't believe in body types but just to give you an idea). Currently stuck at about 160lbs 36" waist but lean arms. Was 140lbs pretty lean with abs 1.5 years ago.
Definitely the how to gain depending on where I’m at video please!
That was great life advise. Don't die
Diet question. Scenario is im blasting 525 test alone, eating 3400 plus calories, with extra junk i dont track daily. Could not get the scale to move. I cut decently at 2300-2500 to lose fat. Any suggestions and reasons why? Im guessing most answers and the correct answer will be eat more. Also i realize more information is probably necessary.
Please do the how much weight to gain video, this subject is very helpful for me because I am trying to eat 4000 calories or more everyday and I feel like this isn’t doing that much for me
Regarding the point about getting too fat and increasing fat cells which then cause more hunger:
I dropped from 310 to 250 and am taking maintenance breaks and such per your other advice. I plan to lose more of course. How bad does this issue tend to be for people? And will it subside over time?
I went from 320 to 170 and I hate to tell you bud that fat guy appetite stays with you forever. You could literally put pounds of clean food on my plate and I can eat it all . For me volume eating kinda works just eat tons of lower calorie foods .
I am on TRT, and I never really appreciated bloating and water retention until this last year or so (been on TRT since 2018, 2021 had a life event that brought me from 225 down to 185, spent the last 2ish years trying to put the weight back on but more aesthetically for context). Since the fall I have been tracking CICO, and there were a few times since I'd notice (usually cause it was the weekend and I was at the bar, or just out in general), my weight would swing between 5-10 lbs in only a few days....never have I actually noticed that before.
any protein supplements WITHOUT Lysine/Methionine amino acids? Ive got Cystinuria and cant have either of those in it and even all the vegan stuff they pump the amino acids back into it. Plant based is also a problem unfortunately (which I am obviously)
I'm 6'1 200lbs, I lost 110lbs, in the end I was down to 2000 cal to lose 1 lbs a week. Now I'm bulking I started at 3000, didn't put on weight for a month, upped to 3250, no weight gain, upped to 3500, no change, now I'm up to 3700 last week, weight still not moving bit it's only been a week. How the hell is this possible
Ok so I (6’1” 160lbs) worked out consistently for about a year and half. Ended up basically maxing out at 180lbs, got depressed and have fluctuated between 160 and 185 for the last year or two. I tried to just get fat and I couldn’t even do that. It seems like every time I got a bit heavy I’d lose the weight because I’d get so tired of forcing food in my mouth and I wouldn’t eat for a day or two or I’d get sick. I restarted Monday and I just wanted to say I’m really glad I found your videos. So fuckin funny, reasonable, knowledgeable, and well spoken. Do you have any advice for someone who has trouble eating enough calories like me? I’m doing good right now, but I’m afraid I’ll have one of those days.
Just slowly ramp it up. I find eating a good breakfast super early in the day helps so I'm ready to eat by lunch. I'm 5'9 was like 155 early 20s, managed to get up to 185, down to 175. Things like nuts and grabola bars are really good too, super calorie dense
Liquid calories bro. I started every day with an 800 calorie shake - 16oz milk/oat milk, 2-3tb peanut butter/nut butter, 1 banana, whey protein powder. Besides that, drink shakes with lunch and dinner too. The liquid calories are the cheat code for us naturally skinny small appetite guys
Hahaha, I am on another side of the scale. Relatively fat dude, who's gaining muscles and tries to get leaner. I am natty and don't use currently any sports nutrition, like protein shakes, creatine, etc. All this will come later in my journey.
So far I am super happy with my results, where I simply cut the junk food and reduced the carbs.
Assuming that I had 121kg of weight, 20-25% of which was a pure fat, I try to get around 2g/kg of proteins daily (around 180-190g if you recalculate). Near to no sugars, reduced carbs.
Morning I eat 500g pack of faf reduced cottage cheese (almost no fats, some carbs and 60g of protein) with some honey and sesam, pumpkin, etc seeds.
For lunch I have around 300g of chicken breast with vegies and some (very little) rice, noodles, whole grain toast, etc which gives me around 60g+ more. I eat it mostly in two sets, otherwise it feels somehow too much.
During the day I snack on some cheese, different nuts (peanuts, almonds, cashews) where I get around 20g-30g more.
After training and unfortunately before sleep there is a salad with canned tuna or shrimps or air fried chicken breasts and olive oil/balsamic vinegar/both. That's anothe 30g of proteins, which I get.
Despite being short on around 20g of protein, I have steady gym gains and weight loss of 10kg over the period of 3 months, which makes me extremely happy!
It's hard to stuff yourself with that many healthy and protein rich food to reach that 2g/kg target, but the results are worth it every second I look into the mirror! In several months I'll probably slightly reduce the amount of food and replace it with protein shakes. We'll see where it brings me then :)
I hope, this will help somebody with the same goals like mine! Have a great day everyone!
First three months at a legitimate TRT dose (not super TRT) I put on 15LBS without blinking. The fluctuations in water weight is pretty gnarly. I tend to wake up four-five pounds of lighter.
I thought Dr. Mike got a crazy tan in the thumbnail 😮
Fuckkk besides having the best knowledge on how to build a good health muscular body … your jokes and dry humor is just too chic ! ❤
How much weight should I gain personally? Please make a video for this question! Thanks
Overreaching explained please, especially why and how to functionally overreach.
Was just starting to take the gym serious again. And this time i want to maintain 195 lets get it.
Just have good genetics and you don’t have y worry about all of this
A video on fat/carb/protein intake for natural vs enhanced would be interesting, I see a lot of enhanced people eating very low fat and very high carb I assume because of insulin and not needing fat for hormones but that's not ideal for someone who is natural
Dr.mike is a specimen. It feels like he’s not scripted. That means all that nonsense just flows from his brain to his mouth in a coherent, albeit crude, fashion. Incredible. 😂
And that noise he makes at 10:13,.. who wouldn’t typically edit that out of the Final Cut? 😂
You can call dr.mike a lot of things, but authentic-less 😅 is not one of them.
Maybe dumb diet question: Is it enough to only eat lots of protein on the days that you train, or should you be eating the same amount every day?
So for example, say you do 3x per week full body training, is it enough to only eat big on those 3 days, then cut back and not eat so much on non training days? Say you can only afford enough meat and protein powder to eat them on those training days. Assuming you eat healthy-ish on those other days, can this be an effective system?
So when I become an advanced healthy person, *then* I can start roiding out. I get the hidden message Dr. Mike, I get it.
This stuff is free and Im STILL paying for it O,,o
Dr Mike. You advocate for staying natural as long as possible. If your test levels are on the much lower side (Free=10, total= 882) is jumping on TRT seen as more beneficial than problematic in your opinion? I’m a natty but feel the side effects of low T and truly wonder if TRT would help me get out of this easily irritated, weak and exhausted phase. I’m no bodybuilder but am a former athlete and I still go to the gym to maintain normal functional strength. Would love to hear your opinion on this!
I’m attempting at gaining 0.5 pounds a week on this upcoming bulk. I think 16 weeks and gain 8-10 pounds ish. Been working out for 10 years so muscle gain feels very minuscule so I feel it needs to be slower weight gain
Do a video on how to lower hematocrit and hemoglobin on trt. Even on 120mg test c a week at 58 years old my hematocrit is 58 and hemoglobin 19.9.
I donate blood and it has my ferritin down to 7. Just started 65mg of vitron c iron supplement to help with ferritin.
I prefer saying the full renaissance periodization than the simpler and shorter RP strength, but you can combine it so its longer to say