NPC European Pro

​​📝 Bodybuilding Contest Preview: NPC European Pro

The contest with the best line-up before Mister Olympia is approaching, the NPC European Pro that will take place from October 8 to October 10 in Alicante, Spain.

❕Great names of bodybuilding like Big Ramy, Regan Grimes, Rafael Brandao or James Hollingshead are going to compete, apart from the appearance of old starts like Lukas Osladil ✔️.

❕Due to the Coronavirus situation, the Top 3 will be awarded with a direct pass to Mr Olympia 🎫, therefore all participants will strive to arrive in the best possible condition.

🇧🇷The Brazilian athlete Rafael Brandao, after having done the contest prep during the entire quarantine with Flex Lewis in the Dragons Lair 🐉, arrives with a spectacular physical condition and very good forms, he is missing some size but I see a possibility of him being in the Top 3.

🇬🇧The British athlete James Hollingshead has one of the best physical conditionings I have ever seen, with a very low fat and water percentage ⬇️ and perfect form being trained by Patrick Tuor.

🇪🇬The Egyptian athlete Big Ramy arrives with a brutal size as he has us used to ... Now the only thing left for him is to up his conditioning game, under the tutelage of his current coach, the Doctor Death, I have no doubt that ihecan arrive in an incredible condition.

🇨🇦The Canadian bodybuilder Regan Grimes will probably surprise the public, in the most recent photos he has been seen with a brutal back 🦍 and a mid section more typical of a classic phisyque bodybuilder than an Open Bodybuilding athlete.

❕What are your Top 3 picks? Pay attention to the show, because after it a prize awaits.

#bodybuilding #competition #judging

​​🔖 Pro tip of the day: carb cycling

Carb cycling is a plan that consists of rotating High, Moderate and Low carbohydrate intakes according to your daily workout plan and to the end goal of your diet.

👨🏼‍🔬According to the current research, when the amount of glycogen is lower the basal metabolic rate increases 🔥 (in part due to the enhance mitochondrial density), increasing fat burning up to three times the amount of fat that the control group burned (but it can also cause a greater loss of muscle 🙅🏻).

📝One of the simplest methods of carb cycling (and very useful to see how your body reacts to it) is known as "Fuel for the work required", the premise of this method is simple, adjust 📈 the amount of carbohydrates consumed depending on the training needs.

❕An example of this routine would be on leg days using high carbs 🍚, on upper body moderate carbs 🍙 and on rest days low carbs 🥩.

❕If your goal is to progress in a specific muscle group, just change the high carb days to the days of that specific muscle group ✔️, if you train a strong muscle group the first thing in the morning ☀️, it would be advisable to do the high carb day the day before, since muscle glycogen is not lost at night, only liver glycogen.

#nutrition #protip #carbs #glycogen

​​🔖 Pro tip: Substitute T4 for T3 in a combination therapy

Nowadays combined T3 and T4 therapies are often prescribed to mimic the normal function of the thyroid glands, people who undergo these therapies obtain a significant improvement in their quality of life compared to the previous situation, but there is a way to improve even more the well-being sensation.

👨🏼‍🔬As it can be seen in the publication of the New England Journal of Medicine of 1999, in the article by Bunevicius et al. , the replacement 🔁 of part of the T4 in therapies with a high amount of it (doses greater than 50mcg per day of T4) by T3 caused a large number of improvements in patients such as:

❕Greater energy.

❕Better concentration 🧠.

❕An improvement in well-being.

❕Reduction of side effects such as: dizziness, heat, chills, blurred vision and nausea 🤮 among others.

📝Protocol

❕The protocol consists of reducing the dose of T4 by 50mcg and replacing it with 12.5mcg of T3.

❕As we can see the reduction is given in a percentage of 4:1 therefore to avoid possible side effects I would recommend 👍🏻 gradually decreasing the dose of T4 by 4mcg for each 1mcg of T3 included until reaching the replacement of 50mcg of T4 for 12.5mcg of T3 ✔️.

#protip #health #T3 #T4 #protocol