If you have ran through a few cycles you have probably all experienced this. You’re thinking ”damn this 500mg/wk of test e I am taking is working fantastic, let’s bump up the dose to make it even more fantastic.” Making it more fantastic is usually not the case though. What will likely happen is that now you are going to retain more water, you start getting acne and you start getting moody. You have to adjust your AI to compensate for all this and your hormones are all out of whack now, turning a fantastic cycle into side effect ridden cycle without any further gains. That is a broad generalized example to sort of get my point across that adding more gear into your cycle doesn’t necessarily equate to more gains, but can produce more unwanted side effects.

Now on to some real life examples that have happened to me when hitting the point of no return. My last cycle I was cruising along just fine with one of my main components being 1-test cyp. Solid steady gains (in this case fat loss and muscle preservation), increases in vascularity and hardness were progressing nicely from week to week on 500mg/wk. I figured “damn, things are looking great with this dose so why not bump it up to 750mg/wk”. Mistake #1 in that cycle. Not a good idea. No additional benefits/gains were noticed beyond what was happening with 500mg/wk, but I did start noticing a negative side effect. All the increased dose was doing was leaving me with hard large knots where ever it was pinned. It felt like someone put a golf ball in my quad or ass if I pinned it there and it would last for almost a week. Very annoying and uncomfortable to say the least. Above 500mg of 1-test cyp was the point of no return. Lessoned learned there.

Unfortunately I had another point of no return in that cycle. This time it dealt with the mast I was taking. That stuff was drying me out nicely and making me hard as a rock and the dose was perfect so I didn’t need an AI either. So mistake #2 now. I figured “why not get even drier and more chiseled, so let’s up the dose on the mast.” Well, long story short, I didn’t get any harder or drier, but I threw that delicate balance of using it as an AI out of whack. Now my estro is crashed. Not fun. I hit my point of no return with the mast. So now I need to pin some more test p to fix that situation and try to get back to normal and resume my original planned cycle and doses. A lot of monkeying around that could have been avoided if I just stuck with my original plan and what was working in the first place.

Hopefully you are able to find a moral somewhere in this post. I guess one of the main points I would like to get across to people when they build a cycle and a lot of other people have commented on it and got you all set up to go is don’t go changing it mid-cycle thinking adding more of this or that is going to make it a more successful cycle. That is why all those suggestions were given to you in the first place so that your cycle will be optimized when you start it. Don’t change it or you will end up at the Point of NO Return.