8 Days in so far, thought I'd give a little update.
Only running 15mg of LP Ostarine - I seem to be running a very low dose compared to other peoples logs.
Most run 20-30mg+ for 8 weeks, I only have enough for 4 weeks, but I can obviously acquire more.
The one thing I noticed is that my wrist is doing well - some of you may know from my other posts my left wrist is fucked. I've been taking Ostarine, Glucosamine and Peptan Collagen. Well one of those is working because I can bench without pain - albeit when I got for 5 reps or less I use a wrap on my left wrist.
Strength: I've PR'd on three exercises so far, flat bench, DB incline bench and Skullcrushers. 5kg on bench, 2.5 on crushers and incline. Now this probably isn't because of the Ostarine - I'm more leaning towards it being due to my wrist not hurting allowing me to push myself harder.
Endurance: I don't wanna oversell it because this could be affected by many factors, but once I get going at the gym I kinda just keep going, exercise after exercise. This is something I would definitely like to attribute to the Ostarine, because I started experiencing it very soon after taking it (like day 3 I believe). Essentially I just feel like I can gym for longer, not extra reps, just an overall feeling of having more endurance. I usually do Flat Bench, Incline DBs, Skullcrushers, Rope Pulldowns, Tricep Extensions and some variant of flies and then by that time I'm fried. Well atm I find myself doing those and then looking for other exercises to do like dips, overhead extensions, machine BP etc etc.
Buying Motivation? I've been working out a lot harder lately and also upped my protein intake (even though it was already adequate tbh) a part of me just feels like, you know, if I'm gonna be taking stuff I should be working my ass off. So in a sense, even if these capsules were empty I'd probably still make progress because I feel obligated to work harder than I ever have.
(they're not really empty, they are green capsules filled with white powder - I checked!)
Burning shoulders and pumps: I've always had issues getting a pump in my muscles and I've never had a good mind muscle connection that so many bodybuilders refer to. I can do the movement and focus on the exercise, but I don't feel that connection they're referring to whether I'm doing 30 reps or 5. I've been getting this pumped feeling in my muscles lately though, sometimes not even during workouts - I could be flexing for fun and I'll feel this tightness in my biceps that I've never felt before, almost like they're popping.
Shoulder burn however - this is something I've never felt before either and I'm not sure whats causing it.
My shoulders are on fire during chest workouts, especially my left one. I'll bench and then here by my 4th set my shoulder will be burning so much that I have to stop. It's not sore and it's not joint or ligament/tendon pain - I know what that feels like. It just burns, I try to push through it but by like rep 3 I gotta stop. Very strange. It goes away after about 4-5 minutes though, completely - and then I'm good to go.
Okay that's a lot of text for only 8 days in, but that's how I feel so far. Will update again in a week or so.
