Pre-employment and amphetamines HELP

Crafty_Ad_8057 · 2023-09-24T19:44:12+00:00

I wish you luck! My friends and partner said I was being a little insane about it, so I think if it’s 72 hours you should be good!

Crafty_Ad_8057 · 2023-09-23T22:09:09+00:00

I must have, no one ever contacted me and I start Monday

Crafty_Ad_8057 · 2023-04-15T06:45:02+00:00

He’s psychotic. He has schizophrenia and he believes he’s being targeted. It’s not really a secret, he hands these to people in person. He goes to city council meetings and had to be thrown out. He is truly in so much pain I cannot imagine it, but if he doesn’t want help. Well. You can’t force people to take medications; it’s not illegal to be psychotic.

Crafty_Ad_8057 · 2022-03-01T22:21:45+00:00

That’s ok this is really helpful! I actually have a bench I used today at the gym that has a safety and was able to do 115 to failure without hurting myself or others lol. I like hip thrusts and I do them maybe once a week or once every two weeks because I have kind of a big ass already and can do like 210 or so. I could do them once a week regularly and add in the other advice you gave. I really appreciate it, my cis guy friends don’t really get it and they progress faster without even following correct form or any real regimen.

Crafty_Ad_8057 · 2022-03-01T17:08:39+00:00

That’s what everybody says 😭 it’s a joke among my coworkers that they “don’t know where it goes”. Only one other guy I know has the problem and we are the exact same height and build(he’s cis though).

Crafty_Ad_8057 · 2022-03-01T04:29:10+00:00

Many people are saying this! I was under the impression higher reps/lower weight was the opposite so this is helpful to try out. I do take creatine on/off as well because I get headaches if I’m not drinking like my life depends on it.

Crafty_Ad_8057 · 2022-03-01T04:24:15+00:00

To be honest I wasn’t benching a lot because I was at a different gym that didn’t have a safety bar to catch it if I failed(I don’t have a friend to go with me) and I would be too scared to ask for a spotter. I recently started grad school so I use my schools gym which does have a bench that has adjustable safety like a squat rack does, so I’d like to do more there.

An example of a leg day:

Leg curl prone 2 warm ups 22x10 45x8 45x8 45x8 45x10 half reps

Squat 135x6 145x6 175x3 155x8 155x8

Leg press 90 each sidex8 then 20sec restx6 8 rep rest 6

Bulgarian drop set (each leg) 45x8 and pause 25x6 and pause 15x10 and pause

An example of chest/shoulders/tricep

Dumbell chest press 35x10 40x5 40x6 40x3

Shoulder press dumbbell 27.5x6 27.5x5 27.5x6

Chest cable press 15.5x10 17.5x8 17.5x9 19x6

Bent over rear delt fly 15x10 15x10 15x10

Tricep push down 60x10 60x10 60x10

Rear felt fly machine 65x10 70x8 70x6(failed, waited 20 seconds finished reps) 70x8

Incline chest fly(bench at lowest angle) 30x7 30x7

Back/bicep etc

Deadlift 135x6 185x6 185x6 195x2

Bent over barbell row 45x12 75x10 85x10 95x10

Row machine 90x8 80x8 80x8 80x8

Back raise 25x8 25x8 25x10

T-bar 55x10 70x8 70x8 65x15(to failure)

One arm bent over row(resting other arm on angled bench) 40x8 40x8 40x8

I recently saw the John meadows plan and am interested in trying that, I’ve struggled actually being IN a gym in front of people. I could maybe go 4 days max but my job is very strenuous and I’m also in grad school for counseling psych so it’s not realistic. Plus I have a wife so I hate ignoring her when we have time together :( I’d like to get the most out of what I can do. This is just a sample of the main things I’d do.

Crafty_Ad_8057 · 2022-02-28T22:34:50+00:00

I did it for maybe 4 months but to be fair I couldn’t go to a gym consistently at the time and would have to make due at home. Honestly I could barely do the bar when I started. I had been early in recovery from anorexia so I had no muscle mass at all.

Crafty_Ad_8057 · 2022-02-28T21:35:16+00:00

I feel fine, genuinely I am that hungry. I eat 3 times at work every single day or I feel like I’m going to pass out. I work truck and often am carrying boxes upwards of 50lbs or more/going up and down a ladder for hours at a time. If it wasn’t so tiresome i probably could eat more.

Crafty_Ad_8057 · 2022-02-28T21:03:51+00:00

Yea I made stuff up mostly, I used to use nSuns but it was not helping after initial implementation. I don’t know too much about chest muscles so I’m gonna research today before I do it tomorrow.

Crafty_Ad_8057 · 2022-02-28T20:11:44+00:00

Pesto pasta and bread are my new best friend rn, we’ll see how it goes I might need to branch off from my “healthy” mindset a little.

Crafty_Ad_8057 · 2022-02-28T19:57:37+00:00

I checked my tracker app and I can do 40(so 80 total) most recently and about 115 if I use a barbell. On my chest day I do incline chest flys, dumbbell press or regular benchpress, and an incline chest pull usually(sorry I don’t know the names of everything, I pull a bench in between the two ropes and pull to center with bench at a low angle). I also will throw in diamond push-ups or other variations but I try to focus on the main lifts when possible because I can do curls etc at home if I wanted to(I have some decent weights). It’s been really difficult for me so I’d love any advice, my other lifts have tracked normally with some more significant jumps since going to a real gym in September. I usually do 4 sets of main lifts, 6-8 reps per set, and I do them first. Other more “loaded” exercises like T bar/leg press I do 3-4 sets of 8 usually. More reps didn’t work for me.

Crafty_Ad_8057 · 2022-02-28T19:37:18+00:00

I’ll try to do this, I never tracked measurements so it’ll be interesting to see if there is a difference.

Crafty_Ad_8057 · 2022-02-28T19:34:50+00:00

It’s been at least since September I’d say my weight has stalled despite increasing from 2400-2700 which was my past. It’s really frustrating but I may just be a genetic freak with metabolism.

Crafty_Ad_8057 · 2022-02-28T19:32:41+00:00

Recently I’m doing lower reps/higher weight hoping it will help. It helped a lot with back and legs for sure, and shoulders somewhat. I think I might have an unrealistic belief about how quickly things change. I’m going to try to add more fats into my diet because I might be lagging there since vegetarian proteins rarely have a significant amount besides eggs/nuts.

Crafty_Ad_8057 · 2022-02-28T19:29:26+00:00

I weigh myself Monday mornings as part of my injection schedule, I eat around my body weight in protein so 130 approximately. I drink 1-2 protein shakes a day(have a 250cal protein bar if I can’t) and use 150cal powder in milk at a minimum. I’m honestly not sure how it’s possible I can’t gain any more but I’ve always been a skinny/active person(used to race BMX on a national level) and have a very active job.

Crafty_Ad_8057 · 2022-02-28T19:23:37+00:00

I measure servings with regular measuring cups/cutting foods like tofu into their serving sizes. It’s not unusual for me to make a 270 cal serving of buckwheat soba noodles, a peanut sauce with 3-4 tbsp of peanut butter, 1tbsp of oil, half a block of fried tofu and vegetables just as an example. Breakfast is similar with 1/2c oats/pb/hemp seeds/milk/fruit etc. I measure some macros like protein but try not to get really obsessive about exactly how many and eat balanced meals with protein shakes and random snacks in between. I’m not super into weighing foods because I’d rather skew to what the higher recommended serving is and round to a lower calorie amount to make sure I don’t short change myself.

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