This is a very common question and often times its blamed on bunk gear. Reality as every vet on here knows is you can grow on underdosed gear. The problem with not "feeling" your cycle is in your head and on your table. Steroids simply boost recovery. That's all they do in a simple talk. So if you're recovering at an accelerated rate, doesn't is just blast full view into your thinking that FOOD must also be there at an accelerated rate? You wanna be a Porsche but your cruising a pinto on the food bracket. You don't FEEL the gear, so now how do you correct this? Up them complex carbs!! Yams, granola, 12 grain bread, brown rice etc. If you even think your diet is ontrack, just try this; 2cups cooked oats, yogurt, 50 gms whey and juice in a blender 2 hours before the gym. If you get there and literally grab heavier weights and get so damn pumped you feel like king kong, your diet sucks!! Those muscles are literally starving for constant nutrition. By time the brain sends hunger signals you're already in a starvation mode by at LEAST 4 hours. Food is now and always will be the king on muscle growth. The faster YOU figure out your body, the faster and better you will be at growing on or off cycle. Many of us on cutter cycles or completed cutter cycles can attest to NOT feeling their cycles. We are carb depleted. No carbs...no pumps of insanity. Are we still growing? Pictures tell the story...YES. Modifying food for your goal is the key to success. Which is why its very clear that on TEST ONLY you can cut, bulk, recover, run faster, and feel great!!! Food controls this. IF your goal is lean mass....that translates to eating big and healthy but cut out the garbage. No beer, pastas, fast foods, and candy. Supplement those calories with more veggies and complex carbs. Weight lifting burns ONLY carbs. Common fact. So weight lift your butt off, get the pumps, and burn them carbs.....THEN hit low impact cardio to burn off the fat stores. As we know cardio burns fat IF the body is primed. Meaning that our body would rather burn sugars. But I'm off track now in a way. Hopefully, someone reads this and can understand why their pumps and gains are off. Feeling the gear working is done with food and recovery and focus on the weight stack. Know your goals and eat to attain them. http://www.eroids.com/forum/training-nutrition-diet/weight-gain/hardgain...