THE RISE OF THE DHT - Broserker's PSL Sponsored Offseason Log

[Broserker]

* I’m going to preface this with an apology, because this intro is going to be very full of detail and long winded. I want to give everyone a full insight into my thought processes, and how I plan to approach things thoroughly. If you don’t have any interest in reading all of it I understand, I just want to give you guys a full background on everything to start it out. *


Hello all, and welcome to the beginning of my offseason bulk sponsored by Purity Source Labs. I want to start things off by saying I am ecstatic to be given the opportunity to run these products, and a huge shoutout and thank you to Vision and the guys at PSL for trusting me to do so. The amount of support I have received since joining this forum is overwhelming, and I will always humbly do my part to prove I am worthy of that level of kindness. This log is going to be pinpoint accurate and account for every detail in my bodybuilding journey. I want to put on display how effective the products can be when everything is truly dialed in.



I’ll start the log off with a little bit of backstory, then we will get into the meat and potatoes of things.
I was blessed to grow up with a father who was a powerlifter, and I have been hitting the weights hardcore since about age 13. I feel like it isn’t often that you get the opportunity to have 15 years of training under your belt by 28, so I am very thankful for that. Since then, I have played all sorts of sports, continuing with football through college. I also had several stints of powerlifting and olympic lifting. I have spent a good amount of those years spreading what knowledge I have, and am currently coaching a nice small roster of lifestyle/aspiring competitors as well. This has been my obsession since I knew what one was, and I feel blessed every day getting to actively practice it full time now. With that being said, I have only been training while “enhanced” and eating to compete as a bodybuilder since January 2023. I spent immeasurable amounts of hours researching and compounding knowledge, and taught many people how to properly apply PEDs before I even took the dive myself. That is why to me this is the first real pivotal moment in my young career as a budding bodybuilder. This is going to be my first full “offseason” of growth. I have a solid base of muscle density built up, and my goal is to really take it to the next level here over the next 16-20 weeks. I have always been an intensely driven person if what I am working towards is something I truly love. I can honestly say that bodybuilding has been the absolute apex of that for me. I fall more in love with it by the day, and am totally immersed at this point. It is the first thing on my mind when I wake up, and the last thing I think about every day. I firmly believe I have it in me to take this to the pro level, and I’m giving it all I got to make that happen. I am not trying to just win shows, I’m trying to decimate the competition.

So let's kick it off then, I have established a series of bullet points that will be the core content of this log, and I will be going over the details and thought process behind each one.
Philosophy
Nutrition
Training
Cycle Protocol
Supplementation


1.Philosophy​

My mindset has always been a little different than those around me, and it took me many years to figure myself out and learn how to apply it correctly. I have never been satisfied with the daily routine of things, and always wanted to be outside of the box. This first really struck me when I spent years working as a chef in the fine dining spectrum. Sure, it is very easy and very effective to follow the normal guidelines and work with everyday ingredients to reach a tasteful result. I did that for a while, but in a short period of time the burnout began to set in. My creativity was dead, my desire to go to work every day was dwindling. This wasn’t the first area of my life where this happened to me either, and I was wondering if I was just a shithead. Soon after, my brain began to ask questions like : what would happen if I lit this on fire? What if I turned this into powder? What happens if I pour liquid nitrogen on this? It wasn’t long before my experimentation reignited my fire, and taught me the valuable lesson that I am simply just not meant to color within the lines. I spent so much time learning about what others did, I never took the time to realize that it really is all about learning your own way. The real growth happens when you stop adhering to the lessons you are taught exactly, and start applying them with your own touch. Everyone can do something they wake up motivated to do every day, this mindset is how you keep pushing the envelope long after that initial spark burns out.


You’re probably wondering how this is going to tie into a bodybuilding log, and I would be thinking the same thing… This opened my eyes to a large life revelation, you can be good at something by doing the research and following molds that others applied. But, if you want to be elite, and stay elite when the motivation runs cold…You need to move a whole lot differently. I plan to implement this fully into my bodybuilding journey. I want to let go of the reins and ideals set by others, and trust my instincts. I put in the work, I gained the knowledge, now it's just time to act intuitively and stop thinking. If I want to stand out in a line of other competitors, why would I do the same shit they are doing? Take the unconventional route

Here is a quote by Tim Grover that really resonated with me, and honestly cemented a mental state that I already believed in :

“Picture a lion running wild. ⁣ He stalks his prey, attacking and killing at will, and then goes in search of his next conquest. ⁣ That's what his lion instincts tell him to do, he doesn't know anything else. ⁣
⁣He's not misbehaving, he's not bad, he's being a lion. ⁣ Now... lock him up in the zoo.⁣ He lies there all day, quiet and lethargic and well fed.⁣ What happened to those powerful instincts? ⁣ They're still there, deep inside, waiting to be uncaged. Let him out of the zoo and he goes lion again, preying and attacking. ⁣ Put him back in the cage, he lies down.⁣”

All in all, this is the philosophy behind my plan this offseason. We aren’t going to be following a strict caloric intake day by day, not going to be doing the same movements in the same order, we are going to listen to the body. I will obviously still be tracking everything for my own progress and for the sake of the blog, but be prepared to see things change throughout. I’m going to keep it spicy and keep myself guessing every day. No cage, no reins, no bars, no nothing. ⁣It is entirely possible to be extremely disciplined without going through the same bullshit every single day.


2. Nutrition​


As a chef, this is probably my second favorite part of bodybuilding, and the one that came to me the easiest by far. I think it is absolutely insane that a lot of dudes spend years eating the same couple of things day in and day out. I love eating, and I love eating good food more than anything. I’m hoping I can teach you guys some of my methods and show off some neat tricks I’ve come up with. I like to work with as much organic whole food as humanly possible, you won’t see me do a “dirty bulk” ever. The laundry list of ingredients you can’t even pronounce on most foods bodybuilders eat these days should be very alarming. I am a firm believer that executing a diet that is both macro friendly and nutrition focused yields much cleaner bloodwork, and a much cleaner overall look. Everyone has something different to say about what works for them, this is how I prefer to do it. Obviously, if things get to a point where I simply can’t eat enough of the ultra clean foods I like to eat, then I will have to make a judgment call and introduce something out of the norm for me. At this point in the game I have yet to experience that, so it's not planned. It is the off-season, and I am not going to say you will never see me eat a cheat meal or something like that, but 95% of the time it's going to be clean and organic whole food.

My main focus will always be proper digestion, there is no use in hammering food all day if you aren’t absorbing it correctly. I have a pretty refined regime in this area I feel, and will be detailing that in the daily supplements section. Of course, I do my best to tailor my food in terms of balance, but extra help is usually necessary when the calories get high.


As far as food amounts, I am coming off of a little cruise and cut, so my food isn’t going to skyrocket out the gate. My body is set up to rebound both food and cycle wise. I will slowly work my metabolism up as I always have, but don't worry there are going to be days where you will see me really put it down and try to grow. The goal is to have my food really ramped up a month or so into this, also when the compounds will be coming into their peak concentration in my blood. I do not plan to have a set amount of calories I consume in the day, I have never bulked with preset macros and won’t start doing it now. I will be logging every food I eat at the end of the day to compile data and show you guys exactly what is going into me. But other than that, I will be eating off of my own intuition. In my experience, I have never once had an issue growing with this method, so I am sticking to it. If in a few weeks I realize that I am not progressing how I want to, we make notes and adjust from there.

3. Training​

If nutrition is in second place, training absolutely takes the cake as my favorite time of the day every day. I have loved lifting from the moment I tried it for the first time. To me, there are few things in life that offer such immense personal growth in so many areas. I love going pedal to the metal in the gym. I am going to lift like a demon, I fully intend to push the envelope harder than I ever have before, and if you know me that is really saying something.

I have always been pretty transient in the way I train in the sense that I just love change and variety. I certainly believe there are things that need to be done on a weekly basis, but they don’t always have to be done in the same exact fashion. I don’t really like the term “shocking” the muscle as Arnold used to say, but there really is something to be said about the stimulus that constantly tweaked movements provide. I keep 3 gyms in my rotation, and they all have vastly different options equipment wise. I use this as an advantage, and am constantly training my body in a myriad of different movements. The movements are not the only thing that will vary, I will also employ a lot of different rep ranges and techniques throughout.

As far as split goes, I just came off of a long stint of Push, Pull, Legs. Therefore, I will be using my preferred “bro split” type training style where I hit one or two muscles per day. I have always liked this more because I feel like I can generate much more power and control in my lifts because I’m not worried about leaving gas in the tank for the next body part. This is a long and slow offseason, so I don’t really plan to bind to anything training wise for the entire duration. We are going to take things day by day and listen to the way my body is feeling. I typically start off these types of phases with a lot of volume and lower weights, and slowly dial the volume back and start moving more weight as time goes. Not to mention, I truly feel like I make more gains off of this type of split.

Cardio wise I plan to keep up with it year round. I will likely do somewhere in the area of 20 minutes a day of actual LISS cardio, then aim for another 10k steps of just casual walking.

I will post my entire workouts daily, and do my best to log the weights/reps used at least on the compound lifts to give you guys a general idea of progress and what I like to work with.



4. Cycle Protocol ​

Alright, so this is where things take a turn into the realm of the interesting and exploratory. I am going to double down on my “out of the box” style here, and we are going to run a really nontypical offseason bulk cycle. If you were expecting it to be the cookie cutter test, dbol, npp or deca, dbol, etc. this is definitely not it. I want to try and stay relatively lean the entire offseason while I push food as hard as possible. So, keeping that in mind, this is how we came up with the stack.

I am a full on DHT lover, and I firmly believe they are vastly underrated in terms of anabolic properties. Most of my current physique was built off of solely Test, Masteron, and Anavar. I believe the really wet compounds certainly have their place, and do really well for some people. I just seem to respond better to DHT, and this is some research into if I can stack on a lot of mass using “dry” and “mild” compounds in comparison to things like the 19-nors. The nutrient partitioning that DHT derivatives offer is very exciting, and I have yet to see someone run a full stack of them and really hammer the food down to see what the results are. They are always typically used in contest preps to produce a certain aesthetic, which they are notoriously good at. But, I think this cycle could really shine on the bulk too.
So, let's get into the details of the cycle. On the injectable side of things, we will be using Test Enanthate, Primobolan Enanthate, and Stenbolone Acetate. I have never run Sten before, and have only heard great things, so I am very excited for that part of it. The Test and Primo will be run for the entire duration of the bulk, and Sten will likely only be the first 6-8 weeks of the cycle. I plan to pull blood work for the first time somewhere around when the Sten will be dropped. There is a possibility if the bloods are clean I pivot to a different injectable towards the end of the offseason, but for now the plan is to just ride out test/primo.

On the oral side of things my current coach wants to see me use Anadrol early on in the cycle, so after a week or two I will likely be adding that in. I don’t like to do orals right out the gate, so I’m going to give it a minute to assess digestion and the pumps/feeling from the stenbolone before adding something heavy like drol in the mix.

Lastly, we will be trialing some Yk-11 at some point. The reason behind Yk-11 is because of the synergistic effects it has in conjunction with other DHT, as well as to test the theories of it being used to actively inhibit the action of Myostatin. Yk-11 is unique in the sense that while it's called a sarm, it is in reality just another DHT derivative. Most of its proclaimed effects while synergized with other AAS are largely just speculative without any firsthand accounts logged (at least that I could find). With that being said, this cycle will be pretty interesting from an experimental science perspective. It will be used for pretty short stints at select moments throughout my bulk, I will keep you guys in the loop in that aspect.

I plan to use no form of AI until I pull bloodwork or develop high E2 sides. I don’t typically aromatize very heavily, so I’m not expecting to have issues here. This will also be a little science experiment to see if Primo does indeed act as an AI for me personally. If things end up happening where I fall on the side of my E2 getting too low, we will adjust dosages and/or pivot to something else. This is the initial plan with the initial iteration of compounds, but it is a long offseason and there is room to swap some things around if it doesn’t play out like I intend.

Out the gate we will be running :
Test E - 500 mg/wk
Primo - 500 mg/wk
Stenbolone - 350 mg/wk
HGH - 4 IU Daily (split am/pm)

Everything will be pinned daily, because oil volume is going to be pretty extreme lol.

My pin site rotation : Glutes, Pecs, Ventro, Triceps, Lats, Side/Rear Delt



5. Supplementation​

This is going to be a long list, but I have been tinkering around with different supplements and ingredients over the past year, and feel like at this point I have it pretty nailed down. With this stack, I am always feeling really good and my blood work has been spotless to this point. I am lucky enough to be sponsored by some really good brands. That helps me out a lot with the cost of things so I am able to keep the body running like a well oiled machine.




Workout Supps :
Nutrabio Creatine Monohydrate
L-Carnitine
Preworkout (swap between stim and non-stim depending on day)
Glaxon Astralyte
Whey Isolate
Nutrabio Carb Powders
5mg Cialis (taken PreWO)
Amino Asylum Stampede


Digestion :
Pancreatin Enzymes
Revive Digest Aid
Revive GI +
Glutamine
Revive Daily Greens
Project AD Matador
Revive Fiber


Heart/Blood Pressure/Lipids :
Sports Research Fish Oil W/ EPA + DHA
CoQ10
Citrus Bergamot
Red Yeast Rice
Cardarine (will use for first ~8 weeks)
Aged Garlic
Telmisartan (only if needed)

General Health :
Turmeric
Orange Triad Multi
Beet Root Powder
Berberine + Cinnamon
5-HTP
Saw Palmetto








Alright, that about wraps up my introductory info. I hope you guys enjoyed reading along so far. I will officially start the cycle and start training balls to the wall on Monday. Today and tomorrow will be spent organizing and meal prepping all of my stuff to be ready to go. In the meantime, I will be dropping some food porn and other fun content leading up to training. I just spent the latter half of the summer rehabbing a torn rhomboid. After a ton of deep tissue work, a run of bpc-157/tb500, and full band mobility work daily… My body is feeling about as good as it ever has. I’m charged up full tilt both mentally and physically, ready for war on both ends. This is going to be a fun and long ride, so buckle up!!!

[Phill]

pure dynamite

[Broserker]

We are on the eve of the true beginning, and man am I excited. Yesterday I increased food quite a bit, came in at around 3200 cals. Today, I increased that further and digestion is still perfect and I am starving. This is going to be a hell of an offseason. I have the daily supplement boxes all loaded up for the week... Tonight I am going to finish portioning meals once the rice cooker is done, and preload a week of pins. I will post my entire day of eating below, and be back for some more spicy updates tomorrow.

Meal 1 :
8 oz egg whites
3 whole eggs
100g cream of rice
150g blueberries
1 scoop whey isolate

Meal 2 :
200g jasmine rice
50g fingerling potatoes
225g chicken breast

Meal 3 :
2 scoops whey isolate
33g almond butter
5 rice cakes

Meal 4 :
225g sweet potato
200g grass fed sirloin
100g kimchi

Meal 5 :
2 pumpkin spice english muffins
340g greek yogurt

Totals :
3775 calories, 305 grams protein, 385 grams carbs, 95 grams fat

See you guys tomorrow for some real fucking action.

[Phill]

up those calories, big man

[Broserker]

Update from yesterday, was running late to work so didn’t get to post. Will post again later tonight with results from today.

Hope everyone is having a great Labor Day so far!! First day of training today on the high food and cycle, and man was it awesome lol. Had 150g carbs and a scoop of Apollon Hooligan with 25 mg of Anadrol preworkout and that shit was absolutely insane from a pump perspective.

This brings me into my next topic, mastering intra and peri workout supplementation. I can’t stress how important it is to time these things correctly from a performance and recovery standpoint. Today I had a heavy dose of carbs roughly ~60 minutes before my lift with a glucose disposal agent, then on my way to the gym drank half a scoop of Nutrabio Leg Day and finished the scoop while lifting. This combo lets me perform at a high level for long periods of time and I seemingly recover at insane rates using this method. If you are trying to gain and are in a caloric surplus and aren’t doing something similar already, I encourage you to try it out.

Training wise, I made my return to high volume today and it felt absolutely amazing. Strength and endurance are in a great spot already and it has me hyped up for another couple of months of this. Capped the lift off with 30 minutes of cardio, will go for a long evening walk tonight as well.

Daily food intake and workout below.

Meal 1 :
100g cream of rice
1 banana
16g almond butter
8 oz egg whites
3 whole eggs

Meal 2 :
225g baby red potatoes
225g organic chicken breast
15g avocado oil

Meal 3 :
225g 90/10 grass fed beef
2 Dave’s Killer organic burger buns
40g fat free cheddar cheese
G Hughes maple bbq

Meal 4 :
200g grass fed sirloin
225g sweet potato
100g kimchi
Scallions

Meal 5 :
5 apple cinnamon rice cakes
32g almond butter
340g Greek yogurt

Other food :
2 rice crispy treats
1 scoop Nutrabio Leg Day
Venti oatmilk shaken espresso

Totals :
3900 calories, 266g protein, 400g carbs, 115g fat


Workout :
Pec Deck Fly
80x8
140x15
180x12
200x9

Incline BB Bench
135x12
225x12
275x10
315x11
345x8

Single Arm Chest Press
70x12
90x15
110x13
140x9
Double Arm
160x12
180x10
200x9

Cable Press
60x15
80x13
90x11
60x10
50x8

High Incline Cable Fly
30x15
40x14
50x11
50x12

Seated DB Lateral Raise
25x15
35x15
40x13
40x11
25x10

Cable Upright Row
110x15
150x15
200x13
200x11

[Broserker]

Afternoon gents,

Had an absolutely killer leg day today, one of my best sessions ever in my opinion. I'm really nailing the intra workout nutrition and endurance during my lifts has been through the roof. I'm finishing just as strong as I start, and that is a big win in my book. It is creeping up on my first full week of the cycle, and I have to say I'm an absolute fan of Stenbolone so far. The pumps are out of this world, and in combination with Anadrol its a wild ride. My digestion is still on point, appetite is up, and blood pressure was 120/68 this morning. I'm feeling dynamite all around and things are falling into place. I will drop the workout below, and will make another post tonight with the full day of eating.

Workout :

Pendulum Squat (absolute maximum depth, some pause reps)
1 PPS x15
1 Plate/25 per side x15
2 PPS x13
2 PPS x11
1 PPS x10 (drop set, failure)

Single Leg Press
4 PPS x15
5 PPS x14
6 PPS x12
6 PPS x10 (failure)

Lying Hamstring Curl (iso hold, slow eccentric phase)
80x12
90x12
110x10
130x8 (failure)

Leg Extensions
160x15
180x15
220x12
240x10
140x10

Hip Abduction (iso hold, slow eccentric)
200x15
240x13
300x10
300x9

Walking Lunges (barbell)
135x12
185x10
185x10

[Broserker]

Back with some updates on my full day of eating. As I said in the introduction, my daily food will be largely intuitive, and based off of look and feel. I don't want to blow up too much with water or fat on this bulk, so if I'm feeling the bloatlord creep in, I'll be dialing it back. Today will be a lower day, and with lighter training loads to finish out the week I will probably keep it pretty tight until my first round of lifts next week. I always preach, there is no point in hammering food all day if you feel like a bloated buffalo. You can grow very well off of a moderate surplus if everything else is kept tight. Right now, on my lower days I am stacking up heavy carbs around my training and tapering down as the day goes on. This method typically does really well for me as I'm still able to perform at 100% in the gym.

Next week, you will likely see me mix it up a bit with some more variety in food choice. I always like to stick to the same few foods right out the gate to make sure the body is handling it all correctly. From there I will add an item or two a week to see how digestion is and go from there.

Meal 1 :
120g cream of rice
150g blueberries
1 banana
1.5 scoops whey isolate

Meal 2 :
175g grass fed NY strip
200g jasmine rice
100g guacamole
2 tbsp pico

Meal 3 :
225g organic chicken
250g jasmine rice

Meal 4 :
225g 93/7 grass fed beef
250g jasmine rice

Other food :
Prime Bites protein brownie
Labrada Lean Body protein shake

Totals :
3157 calories, 261g protein, 383g carbs, 48g fat

[Broserker]

Have some check ins for you guys. I am weighing in at 251 this morning, so roughly 17 lbs of gain in the first week. I typically bloat up with crazy glycogen instantly whenever I introduce wet compounds, so not surprising at all to me. It was difficult for me to even pose correctly after such rapid body changes and with how full I am feeling. Either way, part of growing and have to trust the process. The water retention will level out as the DHT fully saturates. Today will be a back and bicep workout, back day is game day for me this off-season so this will be my highest food push so far.

[Broserker]

Had a killer back and biceps workout today, strength and endurance are seemingly getting better by the day. Starting today I will be employing low, high, and normal food days. I will be using the high days on my pull and leg workouts, regular days for push sessions, and low days on rest days. The cardio will be cranked to 35 minutes fasted starting tomorrow in an effort to keep the bloat off while I continue to push food a bit. This is a long offseason grind, and I want to take it slow and try multiple methods to see how I respond. Either way, I certainly feel like the body is in a state to slap on some serious mass.

Workout :

Neutral Grip Lat Pulldown
100x15
140x12
200x12
250x10

Anchor Bar Pulley Row
170x15
200x13
250x11
300x9

Pin Loaded Iso Row (single arm)
140x15
180x12
220x10 (failure)

Converging Lat Pulldown
120x15
150x15
180x11
200x9

Barbell Row (dead hang, no momentum)
135x10
225x12
275x12
315x8

Rope Pullover (deep eccentric stretch, iso hold)
60x12
80x12
100x9
70x8 (failure)

Alternating DB Curl
40x15
50x12
55x11
60x9

Preacher Curl Machine
80x15
100x12
120x11
100x8
80x6
60x5


Food -

Meal 1 :
8 oz egg whites
4 whole eggs
5 slices ezekiel bread

Meal 2 :
135g cream of rice
35g almond butter
1 scoop whey isolate
150g blueberries

Meal 3 :
Chipotle Bowl
chicken
steak
double rice
pico
tomatillo salsa

Meal 4 :
225g 90/10 grass fed beef
300g jasmine rice

Meal 5 :
340g greek yogurt
150g blueberries
90g Bob's Red Mill rolled oats
1 scoop whey isolate

Totals :
4030 calories, 321g protein, 431g carbs, 95g fat

[Matt88]

Those legs are looking massive brother! Keep killing it!