Turned 33 today. Honestly, I still feel 18 physically. People at work were guessing and most said 26-27. I'll take it. My dad said that for him it was around 45 that he no longer felt 18 and that he did have to start easing up a bit. But he's 63 now and still plays competitive racquetball and goes camping with heavy gear for weeks on end. But it's strange now being the age when professional athletes start to retire. I still feel like my best years are ahead of me.
Business as usual, though. Actually not really, as I am going to try things a tiny bit differently going forward. Going to try and hit the gym twice per day but shorter sessions, 12-15 sets each. One light, one heavy. Or one PL-style training and one BBing-style. Different gyms. My main gym where I have spotters I know and familiar equipment, but also a gym right next to my work. I've fallen into this bad habit of taking Uber to work all the time because I don't like arriving really early or staying really late because of the bus. But in doing that, I can spend that waiting time lifting or tanning, not just waiting on the freaking bus. And Uber is an expensive habit.
It's kinda silly, but I do also get seasonal depression this time of the year each year, so I need to just be always on the move and always preoccupied. I tried to get people together for my birthday for dinner or something, but nearly everyone had an excuse. And I have just had some lonely days recently doing stuff like going to the movies alone, walking a mall alone, etc. If I am going to live the loner lifestyle, a great way is to just really try really making everything about lifting. I'm also going to take some science courses online for free and let myself be absorbed in that.
I still like training full body high frequency even on test. I used to lift on a bro-split, but even without AAS I recover fast. And my numbers just climb so much better on everything doing full body.
Also have been thinking about my second cycle. The mature thing to do is to run a couple bulking cycles in a row and then worry about getting shredded to look good. I need to just say that this is going to be a 2 year investment of bulking cycles, though with minicuts as tools when necessary. I'm thinking test prop and NPP for 12 weeks or so, holding test constant and laddering the NPP up. Test E and EQ is another option, but that's a long cycle and I don't think the results would be any better. Test with primo is also an option, though again a long one. Given that primo has no sides, what about test and primo and EQ, or test/primo/npp? Test with tbol is yet another one, though I feel like test/npp would be much better than test/tbol? This is just a lot of rambling, but I do want to plan so that I can stay motivated in the long run.