1st Post cycle after first cycle
Stats
Height 5'11
Weight 214
BF 14% (gained some fat after EBC)
So im on week 2 of PCT of my first cycle (Test@500mgs for 12 weeks, I started to take anavar on week 9, but I decided to drop it after a week, I wanted to just finish the cycle with just one compound). 2 weeks after last pin I started PCT. Ive been eating a lot of carbs and started to take creatine. Actually gained some weight since my last pin (3.5weeks) My pct is as follows:
Clomid 100/100/50/50
Nolva 20/20/10/10
aromasin 12.5/12.5/6.5/6.5
Well ive been feeling tired, its not that bad but i really miss the way I felt on high test lol (or it could be that I just changed shifts at work)
One thing Ive noticed is that Ive been getting boners for no reason. I could be at work sitting down and I get a boner
I want to fuck everything
My balls are back, I know that even if the size is back it doesnt mean my levels are back.
Still holding on to the strenght i gained, and the size, i now its only been a week on pct but It aint that bad.
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I rather have a Boner than be Depressed and stuff LOL
Honestly, IMO...just stick with some kind of strength training...hold onto those strength gains as hard as you can!! I think it is the most important piece to the puzzle post-cycle...strength equals mass, and mass equals strength. You start losing mass and your strength will follow, and vice versa.
And there ain't nothing wrong with getting phantom boners, lol!!!
hahaha phantom boners
I agree, i have always trained for strength (5x5), except for back. I know my post has no real question or anything like that, but i just needed to tell someone, n i am not going to tell someone from work lol
but just to make sure you are saying keep on lifting heavy in post cycle, and dont change my routine. right?
well...lift heavy, but 'cycle' your training...ya know? You can't push the same weight over week in/week out, even an intelligently designed 5x5 has a periodization structure to it. Every week I hit a body part heavy, sometimes it does turn out to be two, and then I won't do that body part heavy like that again for about 3 weeks. But I vary sets and rep schemes too...but I throw in principles of 5x5 and GVT and supersets/forced reps/drop sets, etc. also. See, It works for me..but it may not work for you....but I am just trying to give you some different ideas that you are on the right track
You just gotta listen to your body...if it hurts or you feel tired, then obviously don't push through. It all depends on what routine(s) you were pulling while on cycle. I would incorporate strength ideas thru PCT and then take a break COMPLETELY for about 10 days...and then go back to the gym and begin rehabilitating yourself. Do more low impact exercises and such...give the joints and tendons a break, work out the kinks, lol.
im in the same boat as you homie - i finished my 1st cycle and started pct 5 weeks ago today (finished pct last sunday). the first week of pct was awful for me though, nolva made me feel like shit and angry as hell. i was incredibly irritable for the first 3 weeks though even after droppng the nolva down big time, so im jealous in a major way of your experience so far with pct lol. anyways, im not really fitted to give much advice due to lack of direct experience, but ive read a lot about how its best to kinda turn it down a lil bit during pct. the logic behind that is that our tendons and joints have taken an ass kickng, and off cycle we dont have the same ability to heal from intense ass workouts. they say 70% intensity which will help you from burnin out. i didnt lose any strength the first couple weeks of pct but was still goin hard as hell in the gym and then started to slowly but surely decline in strength, i think because i was overtraining and not lettng my body heal. just my experience so far bro
Good to know ur experience bro, did u loose a lot of mass? I will do what u recomend makes sense, what do you think of creatine after a cycle sorta like a bridge between ycles? N ur experience is wat i usual read i guess i got lucky lol,
well i went from about 185 lbs give or take up to 225 at the end of my cycle (10 weeks test e 500mgs with 5 week dbol kicker, 2 week prop taper totaling 12 week cycle), but prob 10 or more lbs of that was a mix of fat and water weight. i bulked like nobodys business (dirty bulkng at that lol), and now im down to 213ish. my weight fluctuates 2-5 lbs on a daily basis, so when all was said and done i kept 75% of what i gained and much of what i dropped in weight was fat and water. i slowed down my calorie and carb intake intentionally a few weeks back because my body obvi wasnt using it as effectively (i read once that gear basically makes your food more effective therefore you grow faster). my stomach is gettng back to the way it once was (shredded lol) but i still got a ways more to go on that. i lost 10 lbs on my max bench, and roughly 20-25 on squats and deadlifts but thats okay because i honestly think i look better now trimmed out than i did at my strongest but on the chunky side. ive read creatine helps keep gains but i actually intentionally stopped taking that because once again, i wanted to drop water weight, plus ive been on the shit between preworkouts and the mass gainer i was taking for at least a year strght. i figure its bout time to give my body a rest, but also because i used to have WICKED striations and incredible muscle seperation and definition, but not so much at all anymore and i want that shit back ya feel me?