leva runs with r andro rx!

Hey guys. New log here. Sponsored log this time! Iron mag labs was generous enough to let me try 2 bottles of r andro! I was sent in this direction by Wesly Inman, because this is his favorite forums! Wes speaks highly of this product and ive been waiting patiently for it to come! I finally got my 2 bottles yesterday and i started this morning.

Ill be taking 600 mg a day, 3 tabs in the morning and 3 tabs on the evening. Im taking liv 52 as well. Ill be Taking a fish oil supplement and i may be ordering some play again now for my joints.

Im following westside barbell programming with some modifications for sport specifity. Im an amateur strongman and have quite a few competitions lined up this year.
Monday- max effort lower body
Tuesday- speed effort upper body
Wednesday- recovery/extra workout
Thursday- speed effort lower body
Friday- max effort upper body
Saturday- recovery/strongman training
Sunday- off

Diet

Im doing a mix of carb cycling and back loading. I have 2 high carb days that are placed on my max effort nights, between 2 and 3 medium carb days placed on my speed/strongman days and the other 2/3 days are low carb on my recovery/off days.
I keep carbs to a minimum until after training each day and i fast from the last time i eat until roughly 11am the following day.

Current body weight
260lbs

Current lifts

Squat-350x1
Axle bench-250x1
Bench-235x3
Conv deadlift-500x1
Axle push press-205x3

as promised, pictures

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these were taken 2 days ago, but are still very recent.

also

Levalexi's profile | MyFitnessPal.com

my food log

on to the good stuff
speed upper day!!

seated axle speed OHP
80x3x9, mini orange band, added about 50lbs at the top of the lift. 5:32. fastest time ever for my speed upper sets!

standing OHP axle lockouts
115x2x8
135x2x8
135x10
if i fail an OHP, its always just about at my forehead level. i like these to help with that

elbows flared tricep extensions
20lbsx4x25

supersetted with

mini red band pull aparts
4x25

straight arm fat bar push downs
50x10
60x10
70x10
80x10

seated rows
190x3x8

supersetted with

mini orange band side delt raises
3x12

straight bar curls
40x12
50x12
60x10

100 100s(situps, leg raises)
25,25
25,25
25,25
25,25

ankle sled drags
45lbsx350 steps

thought about doing some weighted hangs for time, but i didnt, was cutting it too close to the bus schedule. overall it was a good workout, not sure if i can comment if the stuffs starting to kick in, but it should within a few days!

Flat dumbell press
35x10
40x3x10

Fat gripz s.bar curls
50x5x10

Medium MAG grip pulldowns
120x3x12

Wesly shrugs
45x3x10

Standing cable side bends
60x3x10

Standing cable crunches
60x3x20

15 minutes of sled work
10 with 90lbs
5 with 45lbs
Various types of grips etc. Worked mostly lats,chest and upper back

belt squat marches
3 stances on the platform, 90lbsx50 steps

really good day today. did a bit more than i should have for a mini workout, but i can afford to do those things while on gear. The sled work was great. i love sled work. my recovery from my max effort workout yesterday was superb, i should have been sore after pulling a 500 conv deadlift, but i was perfectly fine.

Speed lower today

175x12x2
Roughly 100lbs of band weight too. 15:15 my time was terrible, but all of these were going up fast

Speed deadlifts
250 bar weight 8x1
240lbs roughly of band weight. 5:30

Banded seated ssb good mornings
110x5x5

Inverse curl
145x4x10
I was shocked with these. Haven't gone this low assisted yet for that many reps

Hip band kicks
4x25,25 n,s,e,w

100 100s
25,25
15,15

First set was easy. I smoked it. Second set i struggled to get the 15 reps for situps.

Landmine oblique twists
25x3x20

Strict single leg reverse hypers
25x2x15
25x20

Good workout today..plenty of energy. Ill have measurements and weight tomorrow when i wake up. Im loving this stuff so far.

great training day today.

max effort upper day.

4 board presses
185x3
235x1
285x1
315x1
the 315 was a struggle, but it went up. a definite grind. never held that much weight on a bench before. the plan with that is to slowly progress down to a no board. not sure how long it will take, but ill probably alternate between benching and overhead pressing weekly.

bamboo bar incline presses
80x5x8

elbows flared tricep extensions
20x20
25x20
30x20
35x15

swiss bar rows
115x10
135x2x10

mag close grip pulldowns
60x10
70x2x10

face pulls
30x3x10

chain side delt raises
20lb chain each hand 3x12

sled drags
45lb ankle walks, 200 steps
45lb hyper extension drags 50 or 60 pulls

i made the mistake of visiting my parents today and checking their freezer. turns out my mom made needhams.... needless to say, my concept of calories has gone out the window for the time being...
this stuff is great so far. plenty of energy in the gym, muscle hardness, my libido is a bit low, but thats not due to this, just real life issues with my wife :-/

Trained with the coach today. He came up with some interesting things that may help me along the way.

The first was putting the small bars in the top hole of the power rack,then pressing and holding against them for time. These were brutal. I used an axle for all 4 sets,with 25lbs on.

75x3x30 seconds

Next was axle with chains on it pressed overhead and held for time
105x1 min
105x44 sec
105x30 sec

Next i set up the skinny bars to about knee level and pulled against the rack
115x40
205x35
205x32
205x23

Did power cleans against bands next. Nothing heavy
95x3x3 against half of the mini red band


Upper body sled work
20 minutes various weights

Got some good ideas today . If i work some of these in,i will be in good shape. One was to load up the belt squat machine,grab the largest medicine ball and practice the stone clean with it

Loving this so far. The coach thought was going to be smoked from yesterday. I played along haha

Awesome start man, ty for coming here too. Glad to have you and yes you will love this forum and the members here :)

Max effort lower today!

i went in wanting to max out of SSB squats, but after talking with the trainer, he suggested i should retest a max from 8 weeks ago, so i did

wide stance squats-using the texas squat bar, 65lbs
barx5
115x5
155x3
195x2
245x1
295x1- 270 was my old pr, i was mistaken and thought i was doing 285 here
315x1
335x1

335 itself isnt an overall pr, but it is for my wide stance squats. i personally hate wide stance, except for squatting onto a box. i never feel like im going deep enough, even though i am. but 335 went up easy, i had no doubt id get it. i got some insight on working up to a 1rm, where as previously id work up in triples until i couldnt do anymore. the coach told me to warm up, make bigger jumps .

SSB seated good mornings
155x5x6

inverse curl
125x8
125x7
115x6
100x3
i went heavier on these and did amrap on each set. couple weeks and i may be able to do a GHR, maybe even sooner!

100 100's
25,25x4

reverse hyper, pendulum swing
90x3x12

landmine twists
25x18
25x16

my bodyweight is staying about 257ish, despite me eating like shit lately. getting back on track today though.

Happy to have you here, and I'm along for the ride.

So IML is really pushing the 600mg?

BRB reading everything.

Welcome to the forum and glad to have you here

good start, following along.

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Originally Posted by Grape Ape

Happy to have you here, and I'm along for the ride.

So IML is really pushing the 600mg?

BRB reading everything.

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No, this again is my suggestion. We need exceptional results in a short time for him competition wise.

For some reason I thought Leva was running 2-300mgs of Super Epi andro + 2-300mgs of Randro combined..but I might be wrong. Let's wait and see what he says!!!

Good work in this log so far. Exicted to see how you like this and compare results to DMZ 4.0-

Good luck with your log. Going to be short if you only have 2 bottles. I don't think 20 days is long enough. You plan on getting more???

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Originally Posted by WesleyInman

No, this again is my suggestion. We need exceptional results in a short time for him competition wise.

For some reason I thought Leva was running 2-300mgs of Super Epi andro + 2-300mgs of Randro combined..but I might be wrong. Let's wait and see what he says!!!

Good work in this log so far. Exicted to see how you like this and compare results to DMZ 4.0-

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that was our plan, but you managed to get me 2 bottles of r andro to log instead of 2 bottles of epi andro to run with this. i just never felt like buying 2 bottles of epi andro afterwards. maybe depending on how my finances are after my 30 day log, ill try to find 2 bottles of epi andro.


and testosteronet, i purchased 2 bottles, IML sent me 2 bottles, and ill be buying another 2 bottles within the next month, so ill have enough for 60 days.

speed upper today. this was a horrible day. it was my wifes and mine 2 year anniversary, so we got some molly. didnt get to bed until 2am or so. but i couldnt fall asleep until like 6am. called out of work and then woke up at noon.

speed axle seated press, doubled mini orange. these were painfully slow today. so slow, i didnt bother timing it, and just tried my best ot move the bar as fast as i could.
90+50lbs band tension 9x3

axle floor press
115x5x10

medium grip pulldowns
100x10
120x10
140x10
160x10
180x10

facepulls
30x4x25

hyper extensions
bwx4x15

seated chain side delt raises
20 per hand 3x10

ab swims
32 sec, 36 sec,37 sec, 34 sec
i was shooting for total time on these. i should have pushed harder to hit the 40 second mark or so, but i was pretty beat up.

s. bar curls
40x12
50x12
60x12
70x10

hyper bench side bends
bw x2x12
doubled mini rep x12

ankle drags
45lbsx400 steps

sled good mornings
90lbsx27 pulls

hip kicks
4x25,25

despite feeling like shit, i never felt like i was out of energy to do anything today. my sex drive is meh, but again not due to the r andro. i was able to do some carido with the wife for about 90 minutes last night with no problems.

weighed in at 255 today, which is consistent. pumps at the gym are good, but nothing over the top like when i was running Sdmz 4.

a lot of people are reporting being hungry all the time, im quite the opposite. im never hungry. but i make sure i eat plenty.

Thanks for the clarification. Subbed for your run. So far so good!

no problem man

nothing to report for yesterday, and doubtful for today. i came down with something that had me explosively shitting my brains out all of yesterday. i went to work, but 35lb buckets of safe paw felt like 200 lbs, and shoveling show took a lot of energy. i got home and went to bed. still couldnt sleep till about 1am when my wife got me some night time cold stuff. i was going between cold spells and hot spells, sweating my ass off. im feeling a bit better, and i feel like my strength has returned, but im not 100%.

absolutely no appetite yesterday or today. been trying to get my calories in with saltines and ginger ale.

its doubtful ill go to the gym today, but i may and just do some sled dragging and do my speed lower tomorrow.

Did my speed lower today as kind of a measure of my recovery from my illness. It was alright. The squats kicked my ass hard. I finished all 12 sets and each rep was fast,but it took me nearly 17 minutes. The deadlifts were easy though.

Speed squats-mini red band. About 100lbs at the top
190x12x2

Speed deadlifts-mini red somewhere between 220 and 250 at the top.
275x8x1 4 minutes

Banded hyperextension with rows
Mini red doubled
3x10,12

Inverse curls
110x4
100x4x4
After my first set, i took the 10 off because I don't think it makes much of a difference. Dynamic days I'm going to do less assisted weight and low reps just to change things up.

I called it there. I wanted to make the 538 bus home so I could call it an early night. I skipped out on abs,but i figure i got enough ab work in on Wednesday while i was shitting my brains out.

Ill see how tomorrow goes. Got to work,but it will be light stuff, no blasting thankfully

couldnt make it to the gym yesterday, so i made up for it today. still not 100% recovered from my bug i had, but im getting there. lower rest times on some things were kicking my ass and i was breathing heavily. still an awesome day though


seated, no back support axle overhead press
25x2x5
75x3
115x2
145x1
170x1 (old pr was 165 on a normal bar)
180x1 held it at the top for 5 or so seconds
185x1 again , held it at the top for 5 or so seconds

these were really really good today. the last 2 reps didnt go up without a bit of a grind, but they were going up. probably could have shot for 190, but i liked the sound of 185

swiss bar floor press. each set had presses with the 3 outside handles. our bar has 4 handles, with the middle set being V shaped.
125x4x5,5,5

t bar rows- all weight is plate weight
45x10
70x10
95x10
120x10
145x10

single arm landmine rows- all weight is plate weight, each arm
25x10
50x10
75x10

face pulls
30x4x25

supersetted with

ezbar curls
65x4x10

45 degree chain delt raises( inbetween a front and side raise)
20lbs per handx3x10

ankle drags
45lbsx220 steps

batwing drags (80 ft track)
45x2
90x1
135x1
180x1
225x1
180x1
135x1
90x2

side drags, shoulders packed(80 ft track)
90x2


this stuff kills my hunger oddly enough. bodyweight was 253 today after my workout. i dont get really good pumps like everyone else is, but im comparing them to SDMZ 4 pumps, which were the illest. strength is still way up. i can probably afford to cut my calories for a bit. between being sick and feeling like shit. ive just been eating like crap. pretty much see food eat it.

Max effort lower today.

Power cleans

135x3
155x3
185x2
205x1- pr,old one was 200
225x1
230- made the clean, failed the catch.
First time doing power cleans in like 6 months. They are something i need to get much better at because i hate continental cleans. Its a mental game for me and i need to win.breaking 225 is definitely a start.

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Weight Behind the head hyperextensions
25x3x10
Changing the leverage definitely increased the difficulty exponentially. These werent a breeze like they usually are

Inverse curls
145x3x10

Reverse hyperextension
Single leg full swing 45x15 (each leg)
Strict single leg 45x15 (each leg)
Both legs pendulum swing 90x10

Single arm sled dragging,anti torso rotational exercise
135x6 trips (80ft)

Rear delt rows
90x4 trips (80ft)

Farmers bar side bends
135x3x10 each side


No real changes to report. Got another contest picked out for the end of april. Middleweight goes up to 241,which is more realistic i think.

Still no real changes in mood,apatite, sex drive. No hair loss,but im not prone to it

Speed upper today

Seated axle press orange mini bands, about 50lbs at top
95x9x3
7:22 . These were a bit rough,but i managed.

Close grip axle bench
115x5x8

Axle overhead press chain hold
105x48 sec
105x40 sec
145x42 sec
145x32 sec

S. Arm push downs
85x10
90x2x10

Facepulls
35x3x10

Supersetted

Rope cable curls
35x3x10

Ankle drags
45x130 steps

Heel to toe drags
115x4 trips 80 ft

Batwing drags
135x8 90 ft trips

Sled good mornings
90x1 trip 80ft

Sled pull thru
90x1 80ft trip


I did a lot of sled work today. Wasnt really feeling weights today. Ill do a shit ton of upperbody sled work tomorrow as well as some arms.

Weighed 254 today, so everything i lost when i was sick has come back. Pretty sure im just full of shit though. Nothing has really changed much. Ive gotten more hungry, but other sides are the same.

So would you say your a non responder in this case?

I know personally Epistane and DMZ were useless for me. I suspect a few other compounds as well. I probably lack some enzyme.

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Originally Posted by Grape Ape

So would you say your a non responder in this case?

I know personally Epistane and DMZ were useless for me. I suspect a few other compounds as well. I probably lack some enzyme.

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i really couldnt tell you to be honest. im responding to some of it. im just not getting a lot of the sides others are getting. my recovery is up, to the point where i can go ham every day and not be sore the next. my strength keeps going up and doesnt seem to stop so far. i havent failed any of my max effort attempts.

though i think im going to stop after im finished with the 4 bottles i have. i dont want to spend 160$ on something that im not positive is working 100%


yesterdays workout
Did a lot of upper body sled work. Too much to list or to remember. But i did probably 40 minutes or so.

I ended up getting a lot of forearm work in with the fat bar attached to the sled. That made things terrible . Stupidly terrible.

Then i attached the fat gripz to the crossover handles and did sled rows. Worked up to a couple trips of 180.

Thats when things got interesting.

I took a battle rope, attached it to the prowler and did a couple sets of hand over hand sled pulls. Worked up to a top of 430 in 56 seconds. Not good,but not bad either. Im not really set up well for it,just sitting on a box with no foot holds,but thats what makes it interesting.

Ive got a truck or a truck with a trailer to pull the end of april. Never done that before. Will be fun


todays workout


Speed lower today

Speed squatz mini red bands,about 50lbs a piece at the top. Didnt time these
210x10x2
These felt good. Only 1 or 2 reps were slow. Some sets i can get in the groove squat down without a plop,others i think about it and it just feels forced.

Speed deadlifts
300x8x1 3:06
I threw on the doubled reds and couldn't lock it out. I took off 25lbs and still couldn't. I rested a few minutes and i swapped to the mini orange which added 100lbs total to it. Disappointing. The coach thinks i may be over trained a tad.

Belt squat ssb good mornings
45lbs+65lb ssb x10
70lbs+65lb ssb x10
95lbs+65lb ssb x10
115pbs+65lb ssb x2x10

Inverse curl
100x3
90x3
90x3

Roller model reverse hyper extension
70x3x6

No abs today. I haven't been wanting to do them. Its so boring. Im going to have to force myself to do them at the start of my workout. Though i did my 100 100s at work yesterday.


Everythings about the same still. Nothing new to report. Ive got 1 day left in this weeks rotation and im going to do a sort of deload next week

Max upper today. Finally got the 10" log in. So i decided to use that today! Don't really have any log pr's to break so i did incline log press.

Incline log press
61x3
111x3
141x3
151x1
161x1

Maxed out here sadly. Kind of discouraging.

Log clean and press away
111x2x3

Viper press
111x5x3

Didnt go heavier on these. Could have. Just wanted to keep things light and focus on technique a bit.

Spiral rope push downs
45x4x12

Double pully fat gripz lat pulldowns
85x10
100x4x10

Neutral grip face pulls
40x4x15

S.bar curls
50x4x10

Left arm facepulls
35x4x12

My whole left upper body is about an inch smaller than the right side. Its especially noticeable on my rear delt.

Kettle bell side bends
60x3x15

Chain side delt raises
20/hand 3x10

Ankle drags
45lbx 130 steps forwards
45lbx 130 steps backwards
45x33 steps left side leading
45x33 steps right side leading

Today was the first day i woke up with any sort of doms. Hamstrings were a bit sore from yesterday.

Im starting to meal prep again tomorrow, i just haven't cared lately. Thankfully the r andro has kept my body under control.

Yesterdays workout
Took the whole weekend off from doing pretty much anything. Should do me some good. I laid out some rules for the last 3 weeks or so of my run and im going to stick to them. Should be easy enough. Im back on carb cycling and counting calories.

Max effort lower today

18" deadlift
135x5
225x3
315x1
405x1
455x1- new pr. Last 18" was 450. DOH
500x1- good way to end it. I had to hitch near the end,but just a little bit. Mixed grip for this

Power cleans
135x3
155x3
175x2x3
Ive been doing some band stretching to losen my mid back a bit. That seems to have fixed the problem i had with my 230 pull. The catch is much smoother now. I recorded everything and will cut it up to post later.

Btn hyperextensions
20x12
30x12
40x12

Banded doubled mini red hamstring curls
3x30,most reps with a pause

Hollow core holds
40sec
34sec
28sec

Did some anti rotational sled dragging afterwards. I took the ball attachment . Pretty much a 3" diameter ball with a padeye
45x2 trips each side
90x2 trips each side
90x1 trip each side,with hand behind back

Sled side bends
135x1 80 ft trip each side

Strict Reverse hyper
45x3x8


Still sitting at 255. Been getting a lot of acne and some bacne lately. Nothing else really to note.

Speed upper today. Despite yesterday, its still kind of a deload for me.

Axle speed bench,40lbs of chain total
75x9x3 (rings,close,extra wide)

Bradford bamboo press
50x5x8

Fat straight bar pushdowns
40x10
50x10
60x10

Tbar rows
45x10
70x10
95x10

Facepulls
30x3x15

Hammer curls (reps per hand )
20x10
22.5x10
25x10

Standing chain delt raises
20/hand x3x10

253 today. Attribute that to water weight. The vein is starting to be more defined with a pump. I can see it about halfway up my bicep now

Missed Wednesdays sled work and Thursdays speed squats due to real life stuff. I hate real life sometimes.

Changed this weeks speed work up for a deload after last week's failed deadlift

Ssb speed squats with 80lbs of chains 7:33
155x5x5

It was hard doing more than a couple reps per set. Its been about 3 months since I've done anything over 2 reps for speed work.
Chains were a good change up too. It was much harder,but a good exercise in keeping tight

Speed deadlifts,80lbs of chains
225x5x5
No time for this. I was helping the owner run the monolift so he could do his squats.

Inverse curls
160x3x15

Strict 1 leg roller rev. Hyper
25x3x10

Dumbell curls
20x10
22.5x10
25x10

The uss chairman showed up with tomorrow's event equipment after that so i got my lower back and ab work in helping him carry all that in. Still need to hit them tomorrow as well.

Adding some things into my training for a contest prep phase. On my max effort days,i will be doing my ME work and then something supplemental with what ever strongman equipment i can find to compliment my upcoming events.if this is not possible, ill be doing a barbell carry over instead.

These will be every minute on the minute sets for 5-8 reps.

Things have been about the same, I've cleaned up my diet a lot, having food prepped has helped haha. Still stronger than ever,recovery is through the roof still. Plenty of energy all day

max upper today

3 board press
145x3
195x2
235x1
285x1
295x1
300x1

incline bench
135x5x8

1/4 dips
bwx16
20x16
20x12

ball grip dual pulley pulldowns(weight per hand)
35x12
50x12
60x12
70x12
80x12

cable rope high pulls
35x3x15

fat grip straight bar curls
40x3x10

cut my workout a bit short today because i was ticker boy for the mens lanes at the competition today. there were some strong motherfuckers there today. one guy pulled 650 at 18 inches for 8 reps.
i need to get refocused because ive lost my way the past few days. lots of shit going on at home :-/
my hammies are really fucking sore from yesterdays workout. its a bit odd. im already sore from todays benching too. i did a lot of helping and setting up and lots of moving of farmers handles.

went in today to do some sled work and some lats. the coach was also benching with a bunch of guys so i wanted to see that. he hit a 505 in a shirt, which was pretty impressive.

10" log rows
61x10
111x10
131x10
151x3x10

GHR situps
bwx3x15

prowler drags- 50 ft trips
180x2
280x1
380x2
280x1


red mini band stuff
banded hip kicks
25 each leg, N,S,E,W
pull aparts
4x25
stretches
4 sets

did probably 30 minutes of sled dragging work, various upper body drags and some ankle drags too.

Yesterday's workout

Farmers walks

270x50ftx2
450x50ftx2
510x50ftx1-pr
550x11ftx1
550x21ftx1-with straps

Belt squat good mornings
5 minutes, 5 reps every 30 seconds
70lb on the belt, 38 on my weighted vest

Cable low rows
130x12
140x12
160x12

Ghr situps
10lbx10
10lbx10, bwx5
10lbx10, bw,x5

Roller reverse hyper, tilted forwards
25x3x10

Sled work

Side bends
135x5x10, each side

Some lat work between sets of side bends

Recovery still seems tanked. Not sure why. I've been getting plenty of sleep. Im just waking up with doms now.

Speed upper today

Axle bench with 40lbs of chains
115x9x3
No time on these, but I'd say about 7 minutes . I definitely could have taken shorter rests

10" log dead stop presses
111x5x5

Vbar pulldown/triceps pushdown
40x10
50x10
60x10
70x10
85x10

Medium MAG grip t bar rows
70x10
95x10
120x10
45x20

Low cable rope highpulls
30x3x10

Seated Arnold press
25x10
30x10
35x10

Still sore from yesterday. My doms weren't full blown. Not sure why my recovery has tanked. Could be I'm adapting to the compound or anything.

Weighed in at 252 today, in the evening.
Libido is alright. Can still get it up, but when you're in a broken sexless marriage, you're not in the mood much.

No hair thinning, family history of dying with a full head of hair. No darkening or quickening of facial hair, but to be fair, I can't grow much any ways

I had a wicked good upper back and lat pump today.