Pct sets up a scenario where your gains are not robbed but the real work is in the kitchen. You are wanting your body to do something it does not want to do or it would have already done it. So to think you can have your one cycle a year and somehow you can change your genetics is not really the direction of thinking you want to rely on. In a nut shell, to be different you have to be different..lol. you can't expect what you cannot get without gear to come and then stick around for a year witbhout gear unless you change the things that were going on pre-gear. If gear allows you to put on 15 lbs and the gear is gone in 12 weeks then diet and training have to change or at least stay the way they are on gear. Post cycle is a good time for a few weeks to go heavy on weight with less reps and shorter workouts which can convince the brain you need the extra muscle. You then have to give it the ability to keep it. So if you were eating 4000 calories pre-gear and post-gear you are eating 4000 calories in the same way then you are asking the body to keep pains in an identical scenario in which it did not want the gains before. Post cycle you try to up your game, dial in the quality the way you do on cycle and pound the caloric intake lifting heavy in the same way you would on cycle. Create a new environment to satisfy the new you. As well, the higher quality the on cycle gains are, the more likely it will be that you can keep some of them. Once cycle a year will help but to think it will allow gains year after year being the same old you will not work. I'm not saying that was your plan but putting it out there so I know you realize this is all about change, if you want change and I'm assuming you do. One cycle a year without serious change can just kinda put you on a roller coaster where you always end up right back where you started without the change...best of luck

I like gothic's post..
http://www.eroids.com/forum/steroids-qa/steroid-cycles/ive-just-finished...