Sweetie, I said "UNLESS" you have a need for it or are running hgh. Making the point not to run thyroid without a need. And yes I know about that product...FROM YOU! ; )

I'm no pro. That being said, read my post in the exercise forum Basics for the beginners here at eroids. That with proper diet & your test should get you what you want. But ultimately its up to you brother. Hope this helps you : ) Kmi

Ij just kinda weigh things out usually based on stats and goals and then go with "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line". That being said, I think it will be much easier for you to rock out the body fat through hard core diet first. Not that you are fat or anything just looking at your goal of going up dramatically in muscle when figuring you want to drop bf and gain weight. Might be a pretty big goal by summer but I smoke that bf and actually lose weight and then come back test only and possible tbol going way way big on meat calories in 6 daily meals and push the heavier weight. The 6 pack is not a big if you can have patience with the weight going up. You could come in test and tbol on the beginning of blast and starting week 5 of blast bump to var at 50 ed through week 8 and then jump to 80 ed through week 12. If the diet is lean and big on lean meat and the heavy lifting is in place, you could actually gain a little weight with a lot of net muscle and now you have your foundation. Many different ways to go though with the bf down after a good hard core diet here. Give you a personal example so I'm not just speaking hypotheticals. I dropped 32 pounds in 30 days with diet dialed in big time on a calorie reduction and mega fat and dairy reduction to take a step back once at about your age at the time. Worst 30 days of my life I think but I found it so easy to pull on good quick quality muscle. The other benefit is that fat attracts fat, given I had dropped all my fat and even sacrificed some perfectly good muscle, I found it near impossible to put on fat. Not really trying but I just noticed that is one of the benefits of getting to mega lean. So the real questiion may be , how bad do you want it? The way I did it, not recommending it to anyone, was to eat eggs and some meat only for breakfast (just medium size meal), healthy choice meal for lunch and dinner and had a grapefruit about 9 ish at night. Sucked ass hate healthy choice dinners by day 5 and was starving to death but I got there in 30 days. I'm not the drag it out for months kinda guy so I got ahold of it and knocked it out. Day 31 I'm back to poundijng heavy lean meat and the muscle stacked pretty quick. There are plenty of ways to get there but again, 8 think you take a step back and then move on. Some will come and give you other suggestions so hopefully you will have 3 or 4 ways to choose from because mine is not for everyone. Not many people are willing to take that step back but if you try other things and end up back here and then take the step back....that not a straight line, its also not the shortest distance to goal. You can cut bf and gain muscle but it is tough and would take serious work in every aspect of your game . It is a fight that most people fail at because they end up with one or the other and kinda start over or gain well beyond desired sitting weight and then cut back to desired weight melting fat. Still think the step back now might be your shortest trip to lean and built even if it takes you a bit to get to desired weight.