Day 28 of Turkesterone: A weekly summary.
If you havnt read the deep dive analysis into Turkesterone, read it here.
The daily logs can be found here.
Day 28,
Weekly summaryTurk Dosage:
600mg (12 tablets) spread evenly through the day with meals.
Weight:
I've changed how I've structured the graph a little, instead of doing a total average I've changed it to a running 7 day average as I think it paints a better picture.
Analysis:
On 400mg daily I gained 1lb a week while not changing my diet. I went over this in my previous weekly run down but I think this is due to greater water retention or at least initially that was my thinking. That was until I decided to re evaluate my diet...
As a few of you have pointed out, how have I been gaining weight while on a deficit, I didn't really have an answer for you, I just was. Regardless, I didn't like the fact that the data was breaking the basic laws of thermo dynamics, so I investigated.
To my knowledge my daily intake hadn't changed, my diet as far as I was concerned exactly the same. Even so, I went back through my food logs and checked what was happening. To save time I have pre made meals that I can quickly add to my log as in general in a week my meals are the same, I don't eat out or order take aways ever.
On a first pass, nothing was out of the ordinary, calories where as I expected so nothing new there. That was until I decided to check the fridge, my fiancé, without my knowing had changed out a few things:
5% minced beef was swapped for 15%.
While on the surface this doesn't seem like a big deal the 5% calories per 100g is 136, against the 215 calories of the 15%.
I eat 500 grams of ground beef 6 times a week, equating to roughly 500 extra calories per week.
The reason I didn't know this before as she normally cooks for me, while I work during the day and workout in the evenings she gets my meals ready for me (lucky, I know). The only meal I make for my self is breakfast and my shakes.
Still, 500 extra calories a week doesn't account for the weight reversal we have seen. So, I asked her if there had been any other changes to our evening meals, there was.
One of my favourite meals is the roast chicken we have, we have this 4 times a week. Normally (the last 4 months) she cooks this in shallow water to ensure it stays moist, but doesn't add oil. This changed roughly 3 weeks ago, since that time she has been adding a few table spoons of olive oil to the chicken "to make it taste better", she didn't think to tell me on either of these occasions as she didn't realise it would make a tangle difference to the calorific value of the meals.
Its really hard to estimate the extra calories the oil makes, but considering the potatoes are cooked with the chicken and will soak up the oil I've decided to assume 25% of the oil's calories is a reasonable estimate. This brings up my extra weekly calories to about 700.
Roughly 100 a day.
Those extra 100 calories, combined with the Turk has been enough to completely change the direction of my weight change.
This still doesn't particularly account for the weight gain in its entirety, the best I can surmise is that the Turkesterone anabolic effect is allowing my to utilise the calories more effectively thus resulting in the change we have seen.
She is a wonderful woman and i'm incredibly grateful for all her help, but it did make me laugh! Going forward I'm going to keep this diet as it is and have asked her to inform me of any changes no matter how small!
Is there a feel
No changes here, I'll just reiterate what I have said before: There isn't a feel while i'm on Turkesterone, I am a pretty positive guy regardless and don't have many "down days". Turk hasn't changed this, my moods feel stable and unaffected really.
Strength
The best measurement I can give here is my squats, last week John had me forget 1RM % and just squat till you hit 8 reps. before had my 8 rep max weight was roughly 120kg depending on the day.
On Wednesday I managed to hit 122.5kg for 8 for what felt like an RPE of 8, which is awesome. To me this tells me my max has increased, I think my 1 rep max is probably around 160kg. Which is a 10kg increase... which goes directly against what I said last week about how much stronger I feel!
Certainly adds up with my leg measurement increase though.
Final words
Cheers to everyone who is joining me on this little experiment. I'm having a lot of fun with it and to be honest with you all, i'm really excited with the results that I've gotten so far. I went into this experiment expecting both nothing and a legal steroid. Well, I think i'm getting something in-between from my current data. I'm beyond happy with the body part gains, even if they are transient lasting only as long as the experiment its a novel experience putting on what feels like lean mass this fast.
FAQ
Where did you get your turk.
I sourced my own raws
Is it complete with Cyclodextrin
no
What do I think of Ecdysterone
Unsure, I plan on doing an experiment on it like I have done with Turk after a few weeks of this experiment ending
Does it effect your hormones
It shouldn't, all logs we have so far suggest no. I have my blood test soon so I will find out first hand.
Do I think teenagers should take it
Your body, your choice, we don't have the data to say either way
What do I think of X brand
No idea, personally I only trust science.bio, Gorilla mind and my own stuff.
Can I DM you for help
Always happy to help
Why don't you take Dereks Turk
It was always out of stock
Why don't you just take traditional roids.
Honestly would if I could, but Fiancé would not be a happy girl and my line of work would not allow it.
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