What's up guys! (Plz don't hate on the posing haha I am doing the best I can - never competed)

Stats are 6’6, 247lbs as of the photos below (June 28th)

Ending the cut here for now. Last year I got down to about 239lbs you can see that post in my profile as Summer 2023 Cut/Recomp.
In 8 weeks, I went from 255ish to 247lbs. Nothing like wow incredible results but something I can be happy with. I experimented with some different compounds and was not happy with how they made me feel which led to a less successful cutting phase.

This year I pretty much stuck to the same calorie allotment every day except for rest days. On training days, I ate around 2,750 calories which broke down to 300P, 250C, 60F. On off days I would drop the carbs to 150-200 and keep everything the same. About every 8 or 9 days I would have either a cheat meal or a planned high carb day. On these days I would easily eat upwards of 4k calories.

Training Split: Stuck to a good ole PPL Split the only thing I changed is that I would always prioritize legs after a rest day. Often it was 3 days on, 1 day off. Some weeks it would be 2 days on, 1 day off or a combination of the two. Weeks 1-5 I did 30-40 min of incline walk 5-6 days a week. Weeks 6-8 I did Stairmaster lvl 6 for 30-40 minutes 6 days a week.

Cycle: Weeks 1-5 I experimented with TrenA at various dosages (175, 275 &– 350mg/wk) and overall, anything over 175mg/wk I am not excited about. It didn’t make me instant god mode or feel like a million bucks. Over 175mg/wk I turned into a sweaty, grumpy zombie with a raging libido. Not good hubby material. I did get some more vascularity, but I hated how quickly I was out of breath. Waking up multiple times a night, soaked in sweat just is not for me. As some of the vets have mentioned, it was not a good trade off – pros vs cons do not make it worth it for the recreational bodybuilder. Weeks 1-5 I ran right around 500 test, 400 mast and the varying doses of Tren. The last 3 weeks I kept test at 500 and put the mast at 300mg.

Overall, I got way better results the final 3 weeks of the cut. Something about Tren just made it harder to progress. Not sure if it was poor sleep quality or not being able to train as hard due to being out of breath constantly, or something else. I'm sure I added some muscle and did some recomp when I was using the tren for 5 weeks so I don't want to discredit that but to me it is important that I feel great on a daily basis so I can perform inside and outside the gym.