Training on 10mg — is it realistic
37 posts
Started reta 9 weeks ago. Training intensity is noticeably down at 8mg, worried 10mg will end my lifting window.
Lifting 4x/week, mid-to-high volume, avg 75 min sessions. At 8mg I'm hitting sessions but feeling gassed around minute 50 that I wouldn't have felt at baseline. Heart rate is higher at comparable loads. Recovery between sets is longer.
Anyone hold lifting intensity at 10+mg or does it just become impossible?
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26 posts
Hitting sessions at 10mg but I dropped one session per week and cut volume 20%. The cardiovascular cost is real. Intensity (load) is holdable, total work output is not.
31 posts
Pragmatic answer — periodize. Lifting season runs on 6mg max. Loss-maximization phase runs on 10mg for 8 weeks, training becomes maintenance-only. Don't try to do both at max effort.
- BPC-157 · 500 mcg · 2x/day local to knee · sub-Q
- TB-500 · 5 mg · weekly loading · sub-Q
31 posts
Intra-workout carbs help more than you'd think on reta. 40g cyclic dextrin starts to bring the gas tank back at minute 40.
37 posts
@macrosguru trying this Friday. Hadn't considered intra-workout because appetite is so blunted but that's separable from substrate availability.