I am planning on getting into another very intense round of total body transformation after being off for about 6 months. Frankly I am not looking too forward to the first month of pain and soreness again but it's time to get back at it. To get prepared I had a complete physical and was relieved to learn that most of my prior conditioning stuck and I kep pretty descent body metrics: very good blood pressure differential and low BP, low heart rate 57, very good blood chemistry with only a slight elevation in LDL and lots of good HDL.
I specifically asked for a testosterone test to see what I have since I am over age 45 and wanted to get this baselined too. I still have a full head of dark hair with a few flecks of gray now starting to come in, fairly deep voice and lots of dark body hair on quads, groin and calves only (never seem to have had it at all in chest or back and only moderate in arms). I want to put on another 10 lbs of lean muscle mass and swap out some fat ratios to get back down to around 190 lbs and 12% bf from my current 218 lbs 16% BF. So the million dollar question is do I have enough hormonal support to still do this naturally? The testos test they administered shows that I have a desirable testosterone target range between 241-827 NG/DL. My lab results come in at 611 NG/DL. I assume that there is some fairly standard expectation of free testos for a given total testos level (?). This result seems to be well into the high side of this range. But, what I do not know though is if this target "normal" range is reduced for age or if its a standard range for men of all ages. Anyone know? Also need an opinion on if it is enough natural testos to be able to sustain a positive anabolic growth state when I jump in hard and heavy with training again?
OD
I specifically asked for a testosterone test to see what I have since I am over age 45 and wanted to get this baselined too. I still have a full head of dark hair with a few flecks of gray now starting to come in, fairly deep voice and lots of dark body hair on quads, groin and calves only (never seem to have had it at all in chest or back and only moderate in arms). I want to put on another 10 lbs of lean muscle mass and swap out some fat ratios to get back down to around 190 lbs and 12% bf from my current 218 lbs 16% BF. So the million dollar question is do I have enough hormonal support to still do this naturally? The testos test they administered shows that I have a desirable testosterone target range between 241-827 NG/DL. My lab results come in at 611 NG/DL. I assume that there is some fairly standard expectation of free testos for a given total testos level (?). This result seems to be well into the high side of this range. But, what I do not know though is if this target "normal" range is reduced for age or if its a standard range for men of all ages. Anyone know? Also need an opinion on if it is enough natural testos to be able to sustain a positive anabolic growth state when I jump in hard and heavy with training again?
OD
