Last day (kinda)

Today is the last day for the pro-hormone part of which means I start PCT tomorrow. Has the stack done anything for me so far? Sure has... has it done as much as I would have liked? Not exactly. It had a positive influence on the amount of weight I can lift and it also allowed me to run not only faster but longer as well. But I have fallen a few pounds shy of what I wanted to gain. Sure I may have gained faster than what the average is for someone working out unassisted but what I did gain seems rather meager for a ph cycle. Some users have reported that their gains continue through the PCT so it will be interesting to see if mine do... granted I am not expecting too much more weight gain since that seems to have slowed a bit.

lol oops

For some reason I still have quite a bit more of my protein powder left. That can mean one of two things... either I have missed more days of it than I thought ( I tend to eat food on the week ends)or the small scoop I have been using does not give an accurate measurement... I am used to using this so I know what a normal amount looks like and I though I was using a normal amount, or least something close to it.
So in short now I am not so sure about how many calories I was getting on average.

I probably don't update this as much as I should

Yeah I know it has been a while since my last update but not that much has happened. I am still gaining on both strength and weight but the amounts of both have started to slow down a bit. I weighed in earlier this week at 170lbs which means a gain of roughly five pounds so far, maybe a little more if I consider the amount of fat that I lost. In terms of visual changes my chest is starting to fill in rather nicely, which is great considering how terrible my bench numbers are. Overall I am rather pleased with the results so far but would like to get another 4-5lbs out of this. Hopefully I can manage that with the time I have left. I am coming to the end of the pro-hormone phase of things but since I have averaged about two pounds a week I should be able to reach my goal if my gains continue the way they have so far.

Well I feel different and now I am starting to look different

It took roughly a week before I started noticing changes to my overall mood. I don't know how to describe it exactly but everything just seemed a better. Things that would normally annoy me were shrugged right off. I find this odd since most people report increased aggression on these compounds. But since I have two weeks to go (not counting the PCT) maybe the aggression will come later. Only time will tell about that.
In terms of my body changing my muscles are starting to look much fuller. I was a bit taken back when I noticed my shoulders in one of the gym mirrors yesterday. I finally have a bit of width to me. Granted I was not "small" before but this is just about the first time since working out that I have looked at myself and been wowed.

Things are looking up (weight that is)

I saw a slight increase in my weight on Monday when I weighed myself at the gym. Not sure if I can attribute it to my change in diet or the M-1D and Masterdrol. Considering how crap my diet was in the days preceding I expected to see a slight loss mainly do to water loss. I'll be sure to get on the scale again today and see what's what. If I am seeing a gain in weight this early then I may end up hitting that upper average of 20lbs of weight gained.

A week or so

It has been a week and a day since I started the stack. And yes while I am still a few days from when this is supposed to really kick in I now believe that my increased quality of sleep is from the stack... why exactly I really don't know.
Today at the gym I will being doing week two of my HST routine and if everything goes as I am expecting it to I should sail through the difficult bit as a result the stack kicking in. While I am there I might as well weigh myself to see if there is any change from last week although I doubt any significant change.
My change in diet is going OK but could be better, drinking that many calories in a day gets a bit bothersome occasionally but as long as I don't chug the shakes down I manage.

err oops

I just realized that I still have not taken any before pics. I have some pics from a few weeks before I started the stack so those will have to do if I don't get around to taking any pics this weekend.
My appetite seems to be slowly increasing so I am taking that as a sign that things are going as they should. Increased metabolism as a result of an increase in LBM and all that, still more than a week away from the usual time period that users experience noticeable weight gain.

early after affects (or should that be effects)

It may be a bit early to say but I think this stack is having an odd affect on my appetite. I know from previous experience that yohimbine messes with my eating pattern and it seems to be doing that again. I have used it (the yohimbine) in the past and discovered that is not only destroyed my appetite but also made my stomach rather irritable, a great help when you are trying to lose a bit of weight no so good when you are trying to gain. The good news is that is not exactly happening this time. My appetite is untouched but the irritable stomach thing still happens, while it is no where near as bad as it has been it is a bit of an inconvenience. It is just a bit of speculation at this point but I think it I change up the spacing of my meals a bit the problem should fix itself.
Also I am not sure why but I seem to be sleeping better, as far as I can tell there is nothing in the stack that should be having a beneficial impact on my sleep and even if there was I have not been taken it long enough to have such a benefit. More on that later if it continues.

Day 2 (there is no day one so don't bother looking)

I have just taken my second dose of the second day and I am about to head out to the gym. So far all the pills are a bit of a hassle but not really that bad. The methyl 1-D are easy to swallow and don't do that float around your mouth thing as you are trying to swallow and the methyl masterdrol disintegrate quite nicely under the tongue... that particular method of delivery is new to me but it seems to get to where is is supposed to be. Of course I am basing that on the fact that I can feel the stimulants in the pills (the yohimbine in particular) but I am still over a week away from the added strength and mass gains.
Anyway off to the gym.

On routine and diet

It is not enough to simply take a few pills, you also need to have a good routine and diet. With out a good routine and diet there is no point to taking anything.

The routine that I have chosen to use is a HST based routine. I will be at the gym three days a week doing a full body workout each day comprised of eight different exercises. HST routines are broken down into three different sections lasting two weeks each. In each section I work towards my max for that particular rep scheme. As I mentioned previously I have done a HST routine before with good results so I have high hopes for this go around. And just the add the fact that both the Trifecta Stack and this routine run for six weeks is just coincidence.

The routine as seen in a handy grid:

For my diet I a planning to get roughly 3700 +/- a bit either side. Roughly have of that will come from weightgain shakes, not the best way but one of the easiest. I should be able to consume the remaining 1700 through normal meals. If the weight gain does not go how I want in the first few weeks I have some leeway to adjust things in either direction.

A bit of a primer

Starting Sunday I will begin the six week entry level prohormone "Trifecta Stack" from LG Sciences. Some may say I am jumping the gun a bit in deciding to use a prohormone but I don't think that is the case at all. I am at the right age, fitness level, and experience level to make this jump. Sure I am not at my genetic limitations yet but I have always been a hard gainer and since my gains have slowed to a crawl why not get a little help?

Now simply taking a few pills each day is not going to do much unless I have a good routine and diet... and hopefully the time I have spent getting those two in order over the past week or so has been worth it. The routine I plan to use for the six weeks uses HST principles as its backbone and since it is a hypertrophy routine it should be well suited for a cycle. I have used it is the past with good results and can't wait to see how differently things progress this time. Now diet is the real sticking point for me, the level of maintenance calories that I need averages around 3000 with weight gain coming at around 3700. That number may seem high but since I plan on taking two 1000 calorie shakes a day eating normal meals I should easily intake enough calories to equal weight gain.

Well that is enough for now. More on my cycle, routine, and supplementation later.