Hey, friends. I'm 39, been on TRT for a year, using 175mg/wk of test cyp to get my test level to about 1500. It has been a huge improvement! I did a couple of dbol-sust cycles 20 years ago in college and got good gains that I held and improved upon over the intervening years. I'm obsessively precise with my diet and training, and did about as much as I could do with my natural training which brought me to about 195# at 12-14%. It seems I could never hold muscle if I dieted to get lower BF, but I was ok with it since I don't compete and don't plan on it.

Once I got a year of TRT under my belt and realized I'm never going back, I decided the time is right to start cycling. Fertility, immaturity and premature use before maximizing potential are all out of the picture of this point.

I picked up some extra test E andEquipoise while out of the country and got myself started on my first cycle. I'm 8 weeks in and just hit 600mg/ wk of Equipoise after tapering up to ensure it was a good med for me. I've read so much that says Eq is best for long cycles--18-20 weeks, so I plan mine that way. I figure I'm not going to damage my rebound with a long cycle since I'm on TRT, anyway.

Just as an aside, I started this cycle at 181# and about 12%. I had lost 12-15 pounds after a month of being out in the forest doing some field work. I just couldn't eat enough. But I did get good protein, so I didn't lose too much muscle. I'm posting this after 8 weeks because I'm new to the board and I think it would be great to have any comments and to document this for myself. This site is amazing. I'm grateful to have found it.

My plan is to blast/ cruise until I'm happy with my results. I imagine that will be ~200# and 8-9%. I'll probably go maintenance after that and only cycle if my goals change or something begins to slip.

As far as my diet, I'm super clean all the time. I have been happy with IF for the last year, and fast 16 hours and eat for 8 hours a day. Honestly, I haven't noticed any negatives compared to the 6 meals/ day lifestyle I've followed for 25 years, and it makes life so much easier.

I eat 30% above maintenance on training days, with 50% of my calories post workout. On non-workout days I eat right at maintenance. On training days my diet is higher in carbs and on non-training days I eat 50-75 grams of carbs. I get 1.5g protein/ pound BW per day, mostly meat and eggs. I don't really drink alcohol and I don't enjoy junk food or salt, so I really don't have a cheat day more than once or twice a year. For me cheating is going out to a restaurant and eating something healthy that I didn't prepare myself so I can't log the macros/ kcal's!

Before my cycle I trained 3 days a week, heavy and basic. Since starting my cycle I've upped it to 6 days a week with 3 on and 1 off. Still fundamentally heavy compound movements, but some more variety of rep ranges and additional exercises while on this split.

I put this stuff in here because I don't want to fill in the charts below...

Thanks for checking this out. Please chime in if you have criticism or tweaks. I've learned so much already from this board and I've only been on a week!