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well, thats a few more days out of the way, weight and condition seem stable, which is a good thing!  only a few more days untill i get a hinged pot, and some small movement in my elbow.  am getting a really weird twitching all the time in my arm which i cant control, but i guess its because im not moving it

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Doh, forgot to check it came through!! Glad it's arrived safely with you, keep me posted.

Just to update you on the other lad who tore his arm that went on Udos, John Buckland (reason I thought we could help you!), is now nearly 100% recovered.

I spoke to him briefly on friday and he's about 6 weeks ahead of schedule on his recovery - he went to 1 physio session and got told what to do, went to the next and was told he didn't need to do anything more, suffice to say his consultant was blown away and has written a letter to the effect. John didn't use any pain killers/anti-inflamms at all, just diet.

He said he's going to write up what went on, so I'll drop you a copy when he does.

As above - chin up!!

it arrived the next morning mate!- fantastic!
thats great news mate!  i cant us anti imflamatory drugs and the like, so to hear someone else doing well is ver positive news!
 
really easy to incoporate into diet, and though very early days im feeling good about it, more on that as the weeks go by :-)

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althought im sure udo's is brilliant, my mate who has just had his pot off from tearing his tricep went to physio and they said he is already twice as strong as a normal human being lol.

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althought im sure udo's is brilliant, my mate who has just had his pot off from tearing his tricep went to physio and they said he is already twice as strong as a normal human being lol.

ha ha!  yeah i suppose the medical community see things a bit differently!
 
how did your mate do his tricep?
 
the real headfcuk will be starting back training, and not knowing how hard to push.  get it wrong and its doing it all over again. as far as ive been told there wll be no warning or pain, it will just go again

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Daz you get to learn to listen to your body, after playing football and boxing I,v had all sorts of injuries, nothing as major as yours I must admit apart from the knees but the older you get the wiser you get and it,s the same with bodybuilding know your limits and stay with them you will still progress but you WILL learn to listen yo your own body.

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Daz you get to learn to listen to your body, after playing football and boxing I,v had all sorts of injuries, nothing as major as yours I must admit apart from the knees but the older you get the wiser you get and it,s the same with bodybuilding know your limits and stay with them you will still progress but you WILL learn to listen yo your own body.

hi mate! i thought i had learnt that over the past few years, but obviously not enough!
 
sitting some courses at the moment, with the company rachel works for,  getting onto the workshops  for the biomechanics, VERY interesting stuff, shows how alot of the things we have learnt over the years and been taught is flawed, and actually leads to more injurys. i thnk the biggest one being the trend for core work, but as i go through the course and the reading, it becomes apparent how wrong this is for most people.  awesome courses.
 
just on with learning origins and insertions for the entire body now. . . . . :-)

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Glad to hear about the condition stablising mate.

Also, I remember touching on biomechanics and insertions and origins and it's so facinating.  It blows my mind learning stuff like this.  I must make more time to brush up on it.

One thing I meant to ask you.  After reading the PCT bit you wrote in IB's journal.  How did you get so clued up on the endicrine system?  It's like you know more than Dr's!!

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We are always learning mate been there with the coarses loved all that stuff.
Glad your filling your time constructivly

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We are always learning mate been there with the coarses loved all that stuff.
Glad your filling your time constructivly

if your ever looking for more courses mate, i would recomend the one day biomechanics workshops they do,  would be very good for your clients.  its a pretty new thing, but the screens for pelvic, spine and nerve problems and prescribed exercises in the first day have a huge impact on most people with all kinds of back, shoulder, hamstring etc etc problems. i have been doing them for a few months and no longer suffer with my back where physio and chiro made no difference, its also got rid of most of my shoulder problems, as they are all linked.   worth 8 cpd points as well lol

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One thing I meant to ask you.  After reading the PCT bit you wrote in IB's journal.  How did you get so clued up on the endicrine system?  It's like you know more than Dr's!!

just personal interest mate, reading medical text books, research, talking to people, reading forums, experimenting with my own use, having a doctor that will do regular bloods so i can see what works,  all combines to give a reasonable understanding!  stll alot more i could learn though, but im more focused on other learning at the moment, as i dont think a greater knowledge in that area would benefit my bodybuilding

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althought im sure udo's is brilliant, my mate who has just had his pot off from tearing his tricep went to physio and they said he is already twice as strong as a normal human being lol.

ha ha!  yeah i suppose the medical community see things a bit differently!
 
how did your mate do his tricep?
 
the real headfcuk will be starting back training, and not knowing how hard to push.  get it wrong and its doing it all over again. as far as ive been told there wll be no warning or pain, it will just go again

fell off a R1 and his elbow hit a tree at 100mph lol
 
it took 3 weeks for the quacks to realise it wasnt connected as the xrays couldnt penetrate his dense arm and he wouldnt fit inside the other scan machine thing
 
but his arm is back upto 18.5inch 3 weeks after pot now, not quite same as good arm but got awesome cuts in tri and bi!, it looked like a girls arm when the pot came off but it seemed to grow with every rep there after.
 
he has been doing the physio himself to get full movement back and its really painfull stretch but if you keep doing it it gets better good.
 
just make sure you dont take any AAS that can decrease collagen synth.
 
and make sure you get enough glucosamine etc aswell as your 03 and the likes

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fell off a R1 and his elbow hit a tree at 100mph lol
 
it took 3 weeks for the quacks to realise it wasnt connected as the xrays couldnt penetrate his dense arm and he wouldnt fit inside the other scan machine thing
 
but his arm is back upto 18.5inch 3 weeks after pot now, not quite same as good arm but got awesome cuts in tri and bi!, it looked like a girls arm when the pot came off but it seemed to grow with every rep there after.
 
he has been doing the physio himself to get full movement back and its really painfull stretch but if you keep doing it it gets better good.
 
just make sure you dont take any AAS that can decrease collagen synth.
 
and make sure you get enough glucosamine etc aswell as your 03 and the likes

have all the suppliments in my diet, am off everythin AAS wise at the moment. decided to have a total break for a few months, seeing as i will be losing muscle anyway.  will be offset by not doing much or burning many calories but keeping diet high.
 
when i do go back on i think it will be low dose deca for a while. 

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my mate is on low dose EQ, meybe better than deca for shutdown and things not sure

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my mate is on low dose EQ, meybe better than deca for shutdown and things not sure

interesting mate, cheers. i never got much from eq when i ran it, but at the time i was looking for gains.  not too bothered about shutdown, though ED could well be a problem on deca only, though i think the same can happen with eq anyway

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So good to see you keeping yourself busy, can you imagine how much you're going to rock next year armed with this new knowledge

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cant wait for the pot change on thursday, this one is getting a bit wiffy.... lol

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Stick a knitting needle down it and wave it at anyone who messes with you... Ewwwwww!

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God your right mate can smell it from here!!

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Oust should help with that. Or the students favourite;

Awesome pic, but Tony you're not doing yourself many favours posting up tips on preventing the gag reflex and then a picture of a guy touching his toes - Ak

Ewwwwwwwwwww !!

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its even worse today, but never mind, i get a shiny new one tomorrow!

arm has been twitchin non stop today, and driving me nuts

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Is it that kinda vinegar smell that hits the back of your throat lol

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Good to hear in your posts you are not letting this set back get you down to much dazc.
I hope all goes well as it alreay sounds you have come back stronger and are hitting all the marks in getting back to the gym.
Daz

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hinged pot on today, arm feels awfull, cant support the weight of the pot.  huge amount of muscle loss on my bicep and tris, arm would probably measure 15 inch, and soft.  was 17 1/4 cut before this

bugger.

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Muscles are great, they play ball when you want them to with patience and good care. You'll be back up to speed in no time, you're doing really really well at being positive - keep it up :-)

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cheers flick. the day i can get into the gym to train legs will be a good one, at least then i will be progressing, as legs will grow, then be bigger when upper body comes back to where it was

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And when will/can that be?
 
There was a dude at my gym, leg in plaster, broken in two places and the psycho was doing chins off a smith machine with just one leg on the floor!!!

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it must be nice to get a little movement.  it won't be long and it will feel much better.

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And when will/can that be?
 
There was a dude at my gym, leg in plaster, broken in two places and the psycho was doing chins off a smith machine with just one leg on the floor!!!

was hoping to get there this week, but arm is tender.  i think by the begining of next week it will be good to go!  a nice litte leg session would be awesome!

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it must be nice to get a little movement.  it won't be long and it will feel much better.

its lovely when its resting on something, but painfull to lift it, but i think that will settle down quickly

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Have they given you an estimate of how long before you get the pot off totally?

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Have they given you an estimate of how long before you get the pot off totally?

for the past 2 weeks i thought  it was 4 weeks from today.  its actually another 6.  so 8 weeks in total.  i wasnt a big guy before, so im going to be tiny by the time its off!

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Have they given you an estimate of how long before you get the pot off totally?

for the past 2 weeks i thought  it was 4 weeks from today.  its actually another 6.  so 8 weeks in total.  i wasnt a big guy before, so im going to be tiny by the time its off!

muscle memory mate. Honestly it will take 1 or 2 weeks to get the glycogen levels back up once u start training upper body again and u will be bigger and better than before.

Was just going to say about muscle memory.

On another note Daz, honestly mate when I met you at the finals I wouldn't have said you were small at all.

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LOL @ wiffy smells, there was s guy who used to train in our gym in the 80s that smelt like that permanently. He never washed his kit and would zip it up in a bag each time....yuk!! (RIP Stuart, you know I loved ya!!)

As everyone says mate, muscle memory is a wonderful thing. I'm sure even mine remembered after a 15 year lay off

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cheers jack, rack and kitty!  have devised myself a little  rehab routine this morning, to slowly stretch out the arm and work towards getting to the limits set on the hinge, cant extend it that much yet.  also movibg the arm to get the brachiallis working,  a little bit on bicep movement,  and by lying on my back elbow pointing up, i can extend the arm up to work the tricep and get some blood flowing.  over the next few days im going to do the tricep move with some light tension to keep some cns connection and base strenth in it.

so feeling a bit more positive.

rack-  i had gained nearly half a stone of lean muscle since nottingham, and bf had actually dropped a tiny bit as well.  fair to say that pre injury i was very happy with where i was, hence why i was so positive about doing well in the u90kg's this year! 

well, forwards to next year.   legs of a giant commences next week, if i can add a couple of inches, mainly to hamstring, a good chunk to the medialis, and some good extra calf, then it will actually have made the task slightly easier, as progress on legs has been slow the past months.

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diet has had to change, cooking my regular meals makes too much washing up or is too hard to eat at the moment.  so in case anyone is interested, heres what im eating on a typical day.  getting up at 9, and going to bed about 12.  yesterdays eating was-

9am  60g whey in milk, 30ml udos, glucosamine, chondroitin, multi vit, apple
10am  2 bagels with butter, large glass fresh fruit juice
12pm  jacket potato with cheese, 200g cooked turkey, dairy milk, crisps, pint milk
3 pm chicken + salad (spinach, rocket, peppers, grapes, apple, cucumber, tomato, EVOO, sesame oil, WW vinegar), 4 slices white bread with butter, boost bar.
6pm,  chicken and ham tortellini, in tomato sauce.  glass fruit juice (tropicana- tropical)
9.00  chicken + salad (spinach, rocket, peppers, grapes, apple, cucumber, tomato, EVOO, sesame oil, WW vinegar)
10.00 3no bagels
11.30 60g whey in milk, 30ml udos, 50g oats

also eaten in the day, 150g cashew nuts,  couple of apples, banana, pineapple, kiwi

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Whats the EVOO stand for bud.
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extra virgin olive oil

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