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Thread: Aaron Singerman "I'm in the ER. I'm experiencing extreme muscle weakness. I can't stand up assisted"
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08-10-2010, 01:37 PM #226
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get well soon
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08-10-2010, 01:38 PM #227
Congestive Heart Failure runs in my family. My father's had it for 35 years now (he's 75 years old) and my grandfather passed away from it in his fifties back in the 1960s when they didn't have the treatments and medications they have today.
I think I contracted the condition early, at age 35, because I was taking 500-750mg of test per week, 50mg of dbol a day and then drinking energy drinks with pre-workout supplement pills after my 10-12 hour work day and on my way to the gym to powerlift.
The combination of using anabolics, using legal stimulants to wire myself up to lift heavy when I should have been sleeping and having a predisposition for CHF was what gave me this situation to deal with in my mid-30s. At least, that's my best guess as a non-medical professional. It also didn't help that I weighed in the 250s when I've got the frame for being 185-220 (I'm currently weighing 208.)
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08-10-2010, 01:39 PM #228
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Exchanged a couple of texts with Aaron this morning and asked him if there were any cute nurses. He told me there was a gay, black nurse who had the hots for him, but he wasn't Jewish.
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08-10-2010, 01:40 PM #229
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08-10-2010, 01:41 PM #230
Just a general comment about prep that I think many of us forget and then experience rebound on different levels, from 20 lb of unhappy water retention to full on renal failure, and worse.
Consider this - we put in anywhere from 12-20 weeks of prep to do a good, slow dial-in to show day, clean food (note things like no dairy, which occasionally leads to lactose intolerance, potential to not respond well to eating things that haven't been on the diet in a while), water drop, carb manipulation, and potential / unintended electrolyte manipulation and exhaustion from lots of cardio, final training, etc. And then after all of this slow dial-in, the stress of the whole show thing (i.e. probably little or no sleep for the last 48 hrs pre-show), exhaustion, dehydration, we run out and pound volumes of sugar, fat, carb, liquid, alcohol, etc. and then wonder why our bodies tell us to go fuck ourselves.
The body operates best when you make small but consistent changes to arrive at a result. Any major change will produce an equally major change in a rebound direction. We're manipulating everything that contributes to basic metabolism, chemical balance, hormone balance, water balance. Since the body works on push / pull balance there will be reactions at levels that we don't necessarily see, e.g. a hormone rebound, kidneys, etc.
So to that point, the best thing I've ever learned about contest prep is to include a post-show "dismount" that should be paid attention to just as much as the detail of dial in of peak week. Ease out of your contest day just as slowly and meticulously as you did coming into it.
For ex:
- water manipulation - you dehydrated yourself. Ease back into drinking water and not in bucketfuls.
- you probably cut out all dairy- ease back into dairy so you don't suffer from lactose intolerance
- adding back in foods you havent' eaten in a while - e.g. carbs, processed fats & sugars -- and the volumes of food you've not eaten in a while - this is how so many people new to competition go from achieving a goal of finally learning how to master their body weight, getting in stage lookign the best they've looked in their lives, and 6 days later feeling like a complete failure after gaining back 20 lb of water weight)
- alcohol- keep in mind you've extremely dehydrated your body - throwing in simple sugar and booze gives a sugar rush and more dehydration (this is the same as the idea of mixing booze w/ recreational drugs like ecstasy that dehydrate you, and yea, especially stuff like DNP if you recall Mr. Perin a few years ago...)
- many of us have experienced a certain degree of depression and anti-climax after coming down from all the work that goes into contest prep, and then .. nothing.
There's a great article I came across a number of years ago about "Post-Competition Syndrome" -- good read and fairly eye-opening about the extent of what we do to our bodies for competition, and then what our bodies go thru recovering from competition.
Check this out: Post-Competition Perils: Hyperphagia, Adipose Overshoot & Dysphoria
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08-10-2010, 01:43 PM #231
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08-10-2010, 01:46 PM #232
Well I'm glad they caught it & you are able to live a normal life..
And your father is proof that one can still live a long life with CHF.. I have seen guys get really bad & have gotten heart transplants & died.. And also are admitted in the hospital on a regualr basis.. And thats after being off of gear..
Seems like backing off the gear to a small dose or qutting altogether can reverse symptoms in some cases.. I think Silvio Samuel is dealing with this now IMO..
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08-10-2010, 01:47 PM #233
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08-10-2010, 01:47 PM #234
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08-10-2010, 01:48 PM #235
just spoke to Aaron and he has stabilized and feeling "much much better" he will probably be released tomorrow morning.
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08-10-2010, 01:48 PM #236
Jewbacca can convert any man to Jew. They will become Jew faster than Jesse Owens ran the 100m dash in Germany in 1936!
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08-10-2010, 01:48 PM #237
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08-10-2010, 01:50 PM #240
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Was Aaron really a heroin or cocaine addict in the past? I know he said he shot up, but was he an addict? Big difference there.
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