How to Naturally boost Testosterone. Returning back to fitness following a short holiday

Thought it was time for a long overdue fitness blog post. Cant believe the last one was mid July!

I must admit I slacked off a bit during the end of July and early August. We actually had some decent weather here in the UK midlands and I found it more than a little difficult to get motivated in the week before my holiday which started on 15th August. Just a week off down on the Somerset Coast with my lovely 4 year old daughter.

I've started another program. I had seriously thought about re-starting Vince Delmonte's No-Nonsense Muscle Building. However, prior to going away, I did a bit of internet trawling for e-books on natural Testosterone boosting. I came across one "Naturally boost testosterone & build muscle" by Gerald Hall. It made quite interesting reading and I'd recommend it to any guy interested in a T boost the natural way.

Moving on to workout related stuff, I am doing a new program, developed by "The Muscle Nerd" Jeff Anderson, called "Optimum Anabolics". This program promises fat loss AND muscle gain. A bold statement if there ever was one. It breaks down like this...

You use your body's ability to "hyper-adapt" to the stresses you put it under. It is a split body workout routine spread out over a maximum of 5 days. You build your workout volume over a 3 week period to the point whereby you are on the verge of overtraining. At the start of week 4, and for the 2 subsequent weeks, you reduce your volume to 3 sets per exercise so your body "hyper-adapts" to the stress and load you subjected it to in the previous 3 weeks. This works on the theory that your body will be tricked into thinking it needs to build muscle to adapt to the continuing stress.

By then, the body will again get used to the reduced workload, so it is again time to start progressively overloading your body again for weeks 7 to 9. This time, there is a different twist. I don't want to spoil it for you, but even this bit amazes me that I really must try it. Weeks 10 to 12 are another "hyper-adaptive" reduced load cycle, and so the cycles continue.

It seems that Jeff Anderson has given this program some serious thought, and as he is a respected fitness writer, I am quite happily giving this program the attention it deserves. I'm 1 and a 1/2 weeks into this program now, and must admit, following a high volume routine is very challenging. Consider the time in the run up to Xmas a thourough trial of the program.

I started the program at 175lb and 18% body fat (based on his bonus e-book on calculating your body fat) on Sun 23/8/09. I weighed myself yesterday and there was a 1lb loss due to water, but its far too early to be seeing significant results. I will see do my measurements at the end of each loading and hyper-adaptive cycle as I think that will probably be the best way of assessing the results.

Incidentally, I have a FREE e-book written by Jeff, on how you can naturally boost testosterone. Simply click HERE to download it.

I will keep you posted on the progress of my latest workout.

Neil

All quiet on the blog post front!

Its been a while since I posted a blog on here. I now have a "day job" and as an off-peak gym member, the only way I have been able to get to the gym during the working week has been to get my lazy ass out of bed and to the gym for opening time at 6:30am!!!

As you know I started the TT transformation contest blog and then sort of got bored with TT and wanted a different sort of challenge.

Well, I decided to give Vince Delmonte's No Nonsense Mucle Building a shot. However, following the TT mass building program that I did for 3 weeks, and a couple of weeks rest, I have found that Vince's workouts are just far too time consuming for me to do. They were taking me over an hour in the gym as they are 5 supersets of 3X15 reps for 2 workouts and 6 supersets for the other. Plus, I was finding it inconvenient to fit in some cardio to minimize the fat gain. I have also "ballooned" in the belly (although I still have a bit of the 6 pack that was starting to develop before I started bulking), so I have decided that I am going back to TT for fat loss again.

I have no doubt that "No Nonsense" is a great program as I have found the workouts really challenging. The members website is fantastic too with forums, workout downloads, etc. I have an incling that I will go back to complete this, probably during the winter when it will seem more sensible to "eat more", but at the moment, I am pressed for time now that I am working, and only have time to spare for long workouts at the weekend, which is really the time I want to spend having fun at the gym as I used to. I cannot give the time that this program requires at the moment, and I would not wish to do things half heartedly!

So back to Turbulence Training then! I must admit it was great to be doing the fat loss workouts. I am going "Old School" and doing the 2K4 workout which alternates between an A & B workout so it is less complex than the ones I had done before. I am also enjoying being able to do interval training. I started TT again on Tuesday and will go in again tomorrow morning , Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon, so as to get back in to the Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday routine.

I went in and did some more cardio this morning. Steady state on the cross trainer for 15 minutes, and then a big challenge, 6 sets 20 second intervals at level 19 (out of 25) with 40 seconds rests in between. That was tough, I could just about handle those 20s intervals, and I was gasping for breath still by the time my cool down has completed! Given that I have been on the cross trainer twice this week already, I think tomorrow I will do some dumbell swings. They are a different take on intervals and quite a different sort of challenge. I have done these before as can be noted from the transformation contest blog.

My left ankle seems to be playing up again so I have bought an ankle support which will be needed as I see tomorrows workout has loads of lunges and bulgarian split squats (which I think is what agravates it!!!)

Anyway I am going to close down for tonight as I will aim to get to bed shortly so as to get up at silly o'clock. Night folks.

Neil