posted Wed, 10/19/2011 - 15:22
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When starting a cycle before reaching your natural limit, do you keep the gains you made?
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Im sorry, what I meant to ask was if I ran a cycle now, weighing only 160 at 5'11'' and I gained 15-20 pounds, would I keep that?
Yes, assuming you did a good a pct and kept sufficient calories and protein intake while in pct
If you want to go past your natural weight you gotta get into hgh
Yes. Logically, it would harder for a person that has reached their natural "limit" (this is really subjective and I challenge you to find anyone who can definitively prove they cannot naturally add any more muscle) and uses AAS to get past it, to keep their gains.
Muscle loss post cycle is largely overrated IMO. Assuming a good pct is done, and calories and protein are kept sufficient for the new tissue you have built (the number one factor in my mind), I seriously doubt anyone would lose any significant amount of tissue. Water retention can easily account for 5-10lbs, and this is lost quickly post cycle, and I believe a lot of guys may mistake this for muscle loss.
The solution here is to use an moderate AI on cycle when using highly aromatizable compounds like testosterone, to keep estrogen at normal levels, which in turn should stave off excessive water retention.
DefconDepends on PCT, workout, diet, but if you start before you reach your natural limits, you tend to gain more muscle on a cycle than someone whos already naturally big
tread-mGains you keep are determined by the quality of the gains you get on cycle and determined by your diet and routine after the fact....thats the simple part and then you ask a hundred other questions. Are your hormones in line did you jumpstart properly and on and on....diet and work