+ 1 pre-contest advice needed!!!
[this is also posted in the ladies lounge, btw]
I'm doing my first physique show in a little less than 17 weeks and would greatly appreciate any advice!!
A little background:
Two years ago I competed in bikini, and that was a disaster. First of all, i do NOT have a "bikini" body - I naturally have a much larger frame and more muscle than most girls. Also, I didn't even start thinking about competing until 12-15 weeks out and I needed a LOT more time than that, so i resorted to the crazy restricted calories and obscene amounts of cardio... what do you know I piled it all back on and more within 6 months of the show.
I decided on competing again, this time in women's physique, and have taken it super slow; also stepped into the eroid world ;). I did my first cycle of 10mg var for 7 weeks, no strict dieting & hardly any cardio. My next, and current/ending cycle was 100mg primo/week and 20mg var ED for 11-12 weeks... my diet is somewhat "clean" (oatmeal, ground chicken, veggies, rice, protein shakes, occasional berries/pomegranate, etc) but by no means a super strict diet. Also threw in some random cardio but nothing meaningful; just lifting heavy. I loooved the results from this cycle, both appearance and strength. The last picture i posted shows the results from before my first cycle to now (http://www.eroids.com/sites/default/files/gearpic/44862/image_5.jpg). My strength from both cycles went up like crazy, I'm now benching 155 for 8-10, deadlifting 245 for 8, squatting 275 for 8; before those numbers were around 75, 175 and 175. My last day of var was last night, and my last injection of primo will be thursday.
Currently, I'm 170-172lb, 5'5-6"ish, probably between 15-20%BF (my guess would be on the high end of that, 18-19?)
As for diet: next week, at 16 weeks out I'll probably start dieting, with one "cheat" meal/week until 12 weeks out. I'm going to follow a pretty basic, 6 meal/day cutting diet, but if anyone has any good diet advice, I'd hear that out too!
For the cycle: I'm going to take off 6 weeks, I knoww i should wait longer than that but if we're being completely honest, I probably won't be able to... Originally I was planning on doing another run of the same cycle for the show (var & primo), but maybe even lowering the dose of primo a little - I had a few sides, nothing crazy or unbearable, but I thought lowering it a little might help. Was also planning on going acetate instead of enanthate.
OR, I was contemplating winny instead of var, mostly for the harder look - however I know the sides could be worse, and I've read about joint problems, in which my joints already suck.
Any thoughts, or different suggestions for pre-contest cycle??
Lastly, just wanted to hear some opinions regarding clen/ECA, and even nolva for pre-contest? I'm really, REALLY hesitant about clen & ECA, but I just want to hear a few opinions, although assuming they'll all be negative lol. I'm hoping the diet/cardio will take care of everything, but my biggest fear is not cutting up enough, and my second biggest fear would be using clen or ECA and then piling it all back on again. And I also read a few things floating around about using nolva pre-contest to dry out more? Would like to hear a little more on that as well.
Sorry for the super long post, I tried to organize it as best as I could! Any good advice would be fantastic 
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My wife has tried both clen and an EC stack pre-contest. With the EC stack it curves her appetite but she sees better results with clen. But the clen also makes her hungry so that drives her crazy lol
With clen make sure you start at a low dose and then ramp up. My wife always does 20/20/40/40/60/60/80 and then holds at 80mcg ED (2 weeks on, 2 weeks off). Also take at least 500mg of taurine ED because clen depletes the taurine in your liver. Since you are doing physique I would drop the clen at least 1 week out because it can cause your muscles to look flat. Do more research on clen before you use it though.
For the nolva she has run it a few times with success. Her protocol is as followed
1st week 5mg BID
2nd week 10mg BID
3rd week (Contest week) 20mg BID
4th week 10mg BID
5th week 5mg BID
I'm not very familiar with primo in women so I can't comment there. But for the var she always drops it 2 weeks before contest because of the water retention it causes. Everyone is different though. Some of her friends/competitors drop it 1 week out and some run it all the way up till contest.
For diet look into carb cycle. We've always had great success with that.
lol.......... some strange stuff going on right there...... but if it works for her so be it.
What do you mean?
How old is she?Mak asked her age for a reason friend, we have to follow the rules before giving advice!
http://www.eroids.com/forum/steroids-qa/steroid-cycles/before-you-start-........
You never ask a woman her age ;) jk. I looked through her forum posts before I made my post.
What is your age? Just making sure we are not giving out cycling advice to a kid.
Sorry Vitamin-V with an A. Im stupid today!
My advice would be talk to Vitiman -V he is the contest, pre contest, diet/shred guru. My guess would be that he can and will give you enough knowledge that you will surpass your intended goal.
My wife uses clen the only side for her is she gets a little shaky some times. She lowers the dose to fix that right now she is prego so she don't Take it at the moment. She has also been successful at loosing weight and keeping it off. We researched it for over a year before she decided to run it. I would recommend u to do plenty of research before u use it because everybody reacts differently. I wish u the best of luck u are looking amazing.