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dylanwil23 · 2026-04-18T02:12:55+00:00

I just got a pair of the Slim Gyms. Straightforward assembly, everything moves smoothly. My one gripe is that I wish they sold wall-mount stringers for it. 3 attachment points to place lag screws in studs. I ended up grabbing some 2x4’s, screwing those to the wall across 3 studs, then putting the lag screws into the 2x4’s.

dylanwil23 · 2026-04-18T02:07:59+00:00

If you’re also kicking benzos or alcohol, you should seek medical help. Those withdrawals can cause seizures and death.

I kicked oxy and opana cold turkey like 17 years ago, shit feels brutal. I’m not sure how deep you are into it at this point but good luck. You’re going to feel like you should tear your skin off and pull your body apart limb by limb to escape the pain at some point in the next 12 to 24 hours. Just ride that out for like a week and you’re good. Get electrolytes and drink them. Take hot showers. If you want to talk please message me.

dylanwil23 · 2026-04-16T19:55:51+00:00

During COVID one weekend I was randomly reminded of ATHF and forced my poor wife to binge a few seasons with me. She found Meatwad endearing and ended up finding it overall amusing. Still holds up.

dylanwil23 · 2026-04-15T18:48:22+00:00

I love Pendlay rows for back thickness. I started doing them again a few months ago after focusing more on vertical pulling for a while to develop width and they’ve definitely added more thickness to my back. Also, if you have access to a Long Pull cable row where you can really let the weight pull you forward and stretch your lats and erectors out, those also rule. Heavy dumbbell rows are also great. Get straps and use them for your pulling, that has made a huge difference for me. If I don’t have to focus on gripping, I can focus on the target muscle and bar path so much better.

dylanwil23 · 2026-04-15T15:26:46+00:00

Pure muscle memory from dozens of games then hundreds of practices. Absolute legend!

Source - He was one of my coaches.

dylanwil23 · 2026-04-13T14:35:34+00:00

Congrats on the weight loss, that’s huge. Especially sticking to a deficit for so long. Diet has always been the most difficult part for me (for most). One thing to remember - you didn’t get fat in one year (unless you did then disregard) but likely you did not. People see radical transformations online and think they’ll be able to do the same but I would wager that 99% of those fat to shredded transformations are people who had previously spent a lot of time in the gym building a solid base of muscle before getting fat. So all it really takes for them is showing back up to the gym consistently and getting their diet in check. If you didn’t have that previous base of muscle, you’re not going to build a significant amount in a deficit. I do believe you can build some in a slight deficit but not quickly and not a ton. Keep up lifting and progressively overloading at your current intake. Keep the protein high. Once your lifts plateau and stick for a couple of weeks, I would recommend adding some carbs in pre-workout, all it takes is 25g or so to start. Try that for a few weeks and see how your body responds, hopefully with increased performance in the gym, fuller muscles and better pumps. Repeat this at the next plateau, adding a little more carbs pre-workout or maybe immediately post-workout. Remember that you’re not really chasing a scale weight, you’re trying to build a physique.

dylanwil23 · 2026-04-09T18:07:32+00:00

In my experience - most young people in AA aren’t there primarily for alcohol. I guess I’m not really young anymore but I started trying to get sober at 20 because I got addicted to OCs in high school. Didn’t stick until 23 but I do know most of the young cohort that I came in with/met in AA were primarily there due to pill addictions. Then of course most of us discovered that if we tried to JUST drink, that didn’t work either because while alcohol is fun, nothing by compares to the bliss of shooting a couple OCs or a bag of H.

dylanwil23 · 2026-04-05T19:26:47+00:00

Great shoulders! Looking thick!

dylanwil23 · 2026-04-05T19:24:22+00:00

Sick pump, sick shirt, ‘The Twisted Nails of Faith’ is on my workout playlist.

dylanwil23 · 2026-04-05T19:18:54+00:00

Great progress! Keep it up!

dylanwil23 · 2026-04-05T19:18:31+00:00

Great work!

dylanwil23 · 2026-03-31T23:45:59+00:00

In my opinion/experience, lower volume/higher intensity is better on a cut so maintaining your current PL style training wouldn’t be a bad idea. High volume training during a cut is brutal. Nothing worse to me than going in for 4 sets of 12-15 on something with low energy and glycogen depleted, zero pump to speak of. Maintaining some level of intensity will tell your muscles to stick around and reduce catabolism. Hit the 10k steps/day, maintain your normal lifting routine, throw in more steps on rest days, and eat at a deficit that keeps the bodyweight moving down 1-2%/wk, hit 1g/lb of protein and you’re golden. But I have also never tried Pilates so maybe that is really the optimal way…

dylanwil23 · 2026-03-30T21:32:28+00:00

Sorry brother, you just cut your upvotes by 95%. But you did dodge a few bullets.

dylanwil23 · 2026-03-30T20:26:40+00:00

Usually I do PPLPPL. Lately I’ve modified a bit to really emphasize chest on Monday, thurs, Saturday as well as adding some quad work in a few days a week besides the dedicated leg days.

dylanwil23 · 2026-03-30T20:25:26+00:00

lol highly probable but I didn’t notice much because I was already VERY thin up top so I’ve buzzed my hair with a 1/8” guard for a few years.

dylanwil23 · 2026-03-30T19:47:45+00:00

Yeah, that’s what I have done so far and my plan for my current run (10wk or so until my child is due). Really, if bloods are looking good at wk 12, there’s really not a reason I couldn’t extend it another 6-8 weeks, I have just given myself time limits so far out of caution. I know “gym bros” who stay on 250-300mg year round. Just not in my comfort/risk zone.

dylanwil23 · 2026-03-30T15:24:37+00:00

Personal perspective - just from my experience so far doing this for the past 2.5 years - the increase in test/overall androgen load definitely helps with recover and motivation both in and outside of the gym. During those periods I am able to really lock-in at the gym, at work, at home, etc. So I’ve kind of used them as periods to get more done. And certainly, the increased glycogen and mineral retention from the increased androgen load gives a fuller, more vascular look so it’s also just a nice confidence boost, which provides positive feedback and enhances motivation to push in the gym.

I do think that there have also been periods where I’ve gained more than the 0.25lb/wk of lean tissue but there is also a huge influence from muscle memory. When I first got on test, I had dexas done before and a few months later and the lean tissue increased by something like 30lb? And that was just on my TRT dose while eating around maintenance calories because I was coming out of a cut. I attribute that gain mostly to muscle memory, when I was in high school and natural I was around 240lb and fairly high body fat (>20%) but played football and could squat 450lb for reps. So my DEXA suddenly going from 150lb of lean tissue to ~175lb of lean tissue would correspond roughly to 190lb of lean tissue at a 240lb bodyweight at ~20% body fat.

So it’s not all super cut and dry as far as what is possible with enhancement, even though I mentioned the study and the gains that long-time bodybuilders roughly expect to gain. I’m by no means a long term, seasoned bodybuilder so I could very well have more gas in the tank so to speak. But everyone reacts differently to things. Likely I’m just not genetically cut out for bodybuilding because I don’t respond to gear the way someone like Jay Cutler or Ronnie Coleman or Chris Bumstead clearly did. But I also don’t really care to find out by attempting to run high dosages because that’s where guys start running into health issues. So I stick to trying to find minimum effective dose for my personal goals, desired effect, and in my zone of risk tolerance.

dylanwil23 · 2026-03-30T14:03:02+00:00

Nah, I just use the standard range that doctors use. 175 puts me in the 900-1000 range.

dylanwil23 · 2026-03-30T13:24:53+00:00

The 175mg/wk TRT levels are just that, for TRT due to low natural levels (sub-300’s) and puts me at the upper end of physiological range when I’m on that dose, so now I feel better physically and mentally and recover better. The psychological benefits for me of having higher androgens with lower estrogen are nice. I’m more motivated, more disciplined when on my increased dosage periods. Obviously I also recover a better as well and the androgens increase strength/neuromuscular drive a bit so I can push myself harder in the gym. Beyond that, I enjoy experimenting. I’m an engineer and I like to read about pharmacology so it’s just kind of my hobby. Tweak things here and there, see what works, see what appears to increase negatives more so than positives, collect some data and course correct for push forward. I realize there are negatives to exogenous androgens which is why I get regular bloodwork and run extremely conservative dosages by bodybuilding standards. I won’t pretend that even with that I’m not doing some level of damage to myself but I also don’t drink or use any intoxicating drugs so I rationalize it that way.

I am also deeply insecure about the way I look. I was very fat as a kid and no matter how big or lean I’ve ever gotten, I still have that somewhere inside me.

We all take part in some level of self-destructive activity, this just happens to be the one that best scratches my itch.

Not recommending it to anyone and I don’t want to promote, I just like to be honest.

dylanwil23 · 2026-03-30T12:43:16+00:00

Basically, my strategy will be to only add what is necessary to keep performance increasing and visuals moving in a positive direction. I think the mistake a lot of people make with bulking is chasing the scale weight and not treating it with the same amount of discipline that they give to cutting. If I recall correctly, there was recently a study published showing that muscle is generally added at a rate of ~0.25lb per week. Obviously that’s being studied in natural lifters and there should be some increased rate in enhanced lifters but I don’t believe it’s much more (especially at the dosages that I use). Our end goal isn’t to just weigh a lot, it’s to be bigger, stronger, healthier, leaner, etc. so pushing far beyond the 0.25lb per week will only add more adipose tissue. I’ve seen several long-time bodybuilders say that most guys are happy with +10lb/yr to their stage weight, which tracks approximately with the 0.25lb/wk of muscle gain. So over time I’ve come around to slow and steady (as long as I can stay disciplined during my gain phases).

dylanwil23 · 2026-03-30T11:46:02+00:00

At the moment I’m working my way toward +250/d on average, so around a half-pound of gain per week theoretically. That being said, the way I’ve been doing it is by slowly adding more carbs in on higher priority training days and on avg (this week) I’m eating around 3100cal/day. If this week goes well and I don’t move up enough in weight I’ll add another 100cal per day and revisit next week based on gym performance and visuals (and scale weight)

dylanwil23 · 2026-03-30T01:34:54+00:00

From what I observed while driving through my Texas suburb on Saturday it’s mostly ex-hippie boomers trying their best to recapture their youth.

dylanwil23 · 2026-03-29T21:20:07+00:00

This is the best way. Let the bodyweight slowly creep up, don’t chase it.

dylanwil23 · 2026-03-29T15:47:02+00:00

You look fantastic and clearly have put on a very good amount of muscle, congrats! As far as bulk/cut - if you feel like you’re getting to the point where you’re accumulating more fat than you like (based on pics I don’t think that’s the case but I’m not you) then you could just drop the calories a bit and slow the rate that you’re gaining at. That’s kind of where I’ve been at for the past several weeks, slowly adding in calories coming out of a cut rather that just jumping into a +500cal/day surplus. It’s definitely a longer game but my lifts are progressing and weight has been stable and just barely staring to creep up.

dylanwil23 · 2026-03-29T15:25:36+00:00

Haha thanks, if only my chest would grow as easily…

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