Thats a shame i hope he comes and looks on the board some time and starts to post again it would be good for us all to see his progress again.
Its going to happen at some point that some 1 upsets another but just keep thinking of the good advice and the other folk that can inspire your training and the insparation Jon can give to others.Hope all is well with you.

You wake up every day knowing that even if you dont mean to..you will piss some one off.. way i see it.  


And with forums its 100x that.. things can be mistaken and also its a formula for little arguments.. im on various forums from bb'ing to local news to gaming.. and each site you will have arguments..it happens..

Im sure ive annoyed some one here and i know ill get annoyed at things  too..


So anyway..end of story .. lets not drag this on

OK, I've been off creatine for the past 3 weeks and struggled to keep the same pace of WOs as when I was on it. My strength seems to have been halved! Especially when doing the cardio which used to last berween 30 - 40 minutes at the end of the WO but I've barely managed 15. So back on creatine + beta analine; which  has been suggested as being a good stack. The BA makes my face tingle or rather burn after about 10 minutes and this lasts about an hour. I've been told this is to be expected. I've just started taking it today and my WO seemed to pick up a bit. Also considering getting some Anavar. Researched the subject and got supps to assist it, e.g. Saw Palmetto, milk thistle etc. For a male, 40 milli grams taken at 10, 10, 10, and 10 per day seems to be sufficient. I intend to take it for 28 days to see the effects. The only worry I have is the possible effect it has on the prostate as mine is slightly enlarged due to age. So if my peeing starts slowing down even further then I'm off it. I won't start the cycle until 24th May when the creatine + beta alanine has really taken hold.

I have to be honest as my diet went to pot as during the nice warm weather we had last week I spent it in the Lakes! But I'm back to a sensible eating regime.

Day 2 of the "creatine + beta-analine" regime and I think its working.  Certainly I find that taking it immediately before WO and then also immediately after as I have been advised, seems to be working. Cardio was much easier today as were the weights. Its gonna take me some time to get used to that tingling feeling though! I checked my blood pressure but its perfectly normal. I have a naturally slow pulse of 60. When I last went for a medical this startled the doctor who took it several times before he believed me

I still don't like that beta-analine amino I take as it make my face tingle, but will stick with the cretaine+beta-A combination as it does seem to assist with my WO. Certainly when I wsn't taking it my strength and stamina dropped.
I have increased my cardio to try and cut some fat before I start the anavar cycle. BUT today that damn hamstring started to ache so I immediately stopped. I intended to do 45 minutes power walking in the treadmill and actually got to 43 when the ache started!
So its nack to the ice-packs again (Tank did you get any for you dead leg?) I always keep 2 in the fridge now!  
Don't know if I mentioned it but I've also ordered some Finsitride from India to cover possible prostate problems along with saw palmetto which I already have. I've cut WOs to 4 days now, I train to failure, and cover no more than 2 muscle groups per session.

:Last week diet went all to Hell as I was out in the Lakes in the sun. (I've got a convertible car and did a bit of geriatric posing!) but diet back to something PJ and Kez will approve.

Just back to training after a fairly disastrous 4 weeks; what with 'flu, damaged knee etc etc. 45 minutes in gym almost killed me (well not quite) The knee wont allow me to do treadmills so it onto the cycles. Managed 15 minutes before almost falling off! Now I've started again I've go to keep it going. I've got 7 pounds to lose. Reference the knee, the physiotherapist doesn't seem to be doing any good so maybe it gonna be keyhole surgery to sort out the ligaments.

4th week of physio and at last the massaging and pummeling seem to be doing some good. Still got a sore knee and not using the treadmill but managed 20 minutes continuous on he cycle.
A warning to all new bbers. Get warmed up before training.  The phsyio said that the knee ligaments have tightened up most probably because I didnt stretch them properly before doing powerwalking on the treadmill. Once they cause problems then there is a knock on effect up the thigh tendons and into the small of the back. The back is where the massaging is taking place, and the knee is feeling better. Weight now 10 pounds over 15 stones; this has GOT to come off before I go back to Madeira for the winter!!!!

i sympathise with the knees jon, i have had years of knee problems  

Yes Kez, knee problems bugger up the cardio!

Physio is doing my knee good.. Im on to treadmill for 10 minutes and cycles for 30 minutes following her suggestion. Anyway she told me that she has another patient who does bbing.  Seems this is a young guy, 18 - 19, and he is in because of a bicep problem.  He admitted to her that he takes steroids (test).  However he has been overdoing the lifting bit; trying to lift more than his body can take.  The result is that his bicep has torn a splinter of bone away from where it connects to the bone. The bicep is OK but the bone isn't!   H'es gonna be in plaster now for some time as the physio says this damage is worse than a simply break which is normally across the bone whereas this is down it.
I'd never thought of that sort of injury before.

Been doing some serious work on the triceps when the cardio was off the timetable and notice that I'll probably need another foto as they are bigger than previous!   Getting back to cardio again thank God and weight is dropping. Want to get back to 15 stones before I start another cycle.