CoachBeard
Explorer
Finally making myself more visible here... I've been posting in TG (and some Discord) plus Reddit channels... figured it was time to dive in here too. My fitness journey kicked off once I turned 50, and now, closing in on 55, I feel better than I have done in decades.
The start was TRT, the gym and better eating (down from 275 to roughly 235-ish), and then I ran into what I named my 30/30 plateau... getting under 230 lbs while at 30% BF wasn't happening. At 6'2" the comments were always that I never looked THAT big, or that I wore it well... people simply being polite. Being the big guy is all I've ever known. Reta came next, plus a brief CJC/IPA stint in SEPT 2025 before I finally went grey. Titrating up took me to 12 mg of Reta, and my weight down to 210 lbs, and the 205 goal has shifted down to around 190...195 if some muscle goes on. It dawned on me that the last 4 years had basically been one long cut, since roughly 10-12 lbs of those 50 was muscle. So MOTS-C plus Tesa/Ipa have gone in while I begin titrating the Reta down. Even at 12 mg Reta, side effects have been completely absent, but the thinking was that adding lean muscle on a high dose of Reta gets harder.
TLDR: 6'2", M54, sitting at 210 lbs and 26% BF. TRT at 200 mg, Reta at 12 mg, and the new additions are 2 mg Tesa with 300 mcg Ipa and 5 mg MOTS-C (across 3 doses).
Signed, N=1
The start was TRT, the gym and better eating (down from 275 to roughly 235-ish), and then I ran into what I named my 30/30 plateau... getting under 230 lbs while at 30% BF wasn't happening. At 6'2" the comments were always that I never looked THAT big, or that I wore it well... people simply being polite. Being the big guy is all I've ever known. Reta came next, plus a brief CJC/IPA stint in SEPT 2025 before I finally went grey. Titrating up took me to 12 mg of Reta, and my weight down to 210 lbs, and the 205 goal has shifted down to around 190...195 if some muscle goes on. It dawned on me that the last 4 years had basically been one long cut, since roughly 10-12 lbs of those 50 was muscle. So MOTS-C plus Tesa/Ipa have gone in while I begin titrating the Reta down. Even at 12 mg Reta, side effects have been completely absent, but the thinking was that adding lean muscle on a high dose of Reta gets harder.
TLDR: 6'2", M54, sitting at 210 lbs and 26% BF. TRT at 200 mg, Reta at 12 mg, and the new additions are 2 mg Tesa with 300 mcg Ipa and 5 mg MOTS-C (across 3 doses).
Signed, N=1