This will be a long read… I appreciate anyone who takes the time to answer.
Been on TRT exactly 3 months now. Made much better progress than I thought I would over that time. I’m 6’1” and have gone from a lean 163 to an even leaner 175. Some of that’s definitely water from the carb load/glycogen. I’m really happy with the gains I’ve made so far, but it’s definitely tapering off.
I’m 31 now and did my only two cycles when I was 21 and 22. Both consisted of test and anavar. Made good gains but tbh after how I’m feeling on my TRT dose I wonder if that gear was anywhere near legit…
Getting labs done on Tuesday. After working to clear up a couple issues I’m feeling great and think they should come back fine. As long as that’s the case - I have everything on hand and want to get going.
I have a pretty easy time eating right and hit my macro goals every day.
450 carbs - nearly all from oats, brown rice and quinoa
250-275 protein - mostly from chicken
100-120 fat - mostly from unsaturated sources like ghee, coconut oil and pumpkin seed oil
I meal prep a bunch and live onsite at my work so it’s pretty easy. Wife’s also a badass cook and super health conscious.
Typical day looks like this:
530 - First meal - overnight oats
630 lifting - finish around 8 with two scoops of protein factory whey isolate (this stuff is the bomb)
9:00 2.5 cups quinoa/brown rice, 8oz grilled chicken, tbsp ghee or pumpkin seed oil (I prep and bag the grilled chicken and 50/50 rice/quinoa about a week at a time)
12:00 repeat
3:00 repeat
6:00 dinner. Usually whatever my wife’s making but still always complex carbs, lean protein and something green.
9:00 either eat more dinner or more chick/rice but about half as much. Then around a cup of cottage cheese and a scoop or two of casein right before bed.
I really wanted to prove to myself that I could stick to this long before starting my cycle and Ive done it very consistently. Honestly I’m usually starving leading into each meal. Only cheat I do is a fat bowl of ice cream about once a week.
Only powders I do are whey isolate immediately post workout and casein before bed.
Coming into my cycle I plan on increasing the size of all my meals 10-15% and see how it goes.
Vitamins/supps:
Athletic Greens drink every morning - I love this shit.
Creatine HCL
GSH - just started this a few days ago. Doing 100mg subq 5x a week.
High quality fish oils
I’m planning on running for 16 weeks but will get bloodwork monthly throughout.
Planning on:
250mg test cyp e3d
150mg deca e3d
(Both from flash)
~considering~ adding in some anavar for the first 6 weeks because I love that pump.
I have a ton of caber and aromasin on hand, but I’ve never taken either. I know some will say run the cycle for a few weeks and use as necessary but what do you guys think would be a good “lowest end” protocol or starting point? The aromasin I got is 25mg tabs and the caber .5. I was thinking 12.5 eod on the aromasin and .25 maybe e3d. Also best spacing with or after my injections?
Also what about injectable GAC and products like that? I have about zero experience with them but it makes sense that it would be a solid addition.
What am I missing guys?? As far as goals obviously I want to build some good lean mass, but I’m also young and have a family and really don’t want to get into a bad health situation.
I’ll post more about my training when I have a chance. Also throw up some progress pics and long my diet/progress throughout.
Been on TRT exactly 3 months now. Made much better progress than I thought I would over that time. I’m 6’1” and have gone from a lean 163 to an even leaner 175. Some of that’s definitely water from the carb load/glycogen. I’m really happy with the gains I’ve made so far, but it’s definitely tapering off.
I’m 31 now and did my only two cycles when I was 21 and 22. Both consisted of test and anavar. Made good gains but tbh after how I’m feeling on my TRT dose I wonder if that gear was anywhere near legit…
Getting labs done on Tuesday. After working to clear up a couple issues I’m feeling great and think they should come back fine. As long as that’s the case - I have everything on hand and want to get going.
I have a pretty easy time eating right and hit my macro goals every day.
450 carbs - nearly all from oats, brown rice and quinoa
250-275 protein - mostly from chicken
100-120 fat - mostly from unsaturated sources like ghee, coconut oil and pumpkin seed oil
I meal prep a bunch and live onsite at my work so it’s pretty easy. Wife’s also a badass cook and super health conscious.
Typical day looks like this:
530 - First meal - overnight oats
630 lifting - finish around 8 with two scoops of protein factory whey isolate (this stuff is the bomb)
9:00 2.5 cups quinoa/brown rice, 8oz grilled chicken, tbsp ghee or pumpkin seed oil (I prep and bag the grilled chicken and 50/50 rice/quinoa about a week at a time)
12:00 repeat
3:00 repeat
6:00 dinner. Usually whatever my wife’s making but still always complex carbs, lean protein and something green.
9:00 either eat more dinner or more chick/rice but about half as much. Then around a cup of cottage cheese and a scoop or two of casein right before bed.
I really wanted to prove to myself that I could stick to this long before starting my cycle and Ive done it very consistently. Honestly I’m usually starving leading into each meal. Only cheat I do is a fat bowl of ice cream about once a week.
Only powders I do are whey isolate immediately post workout and casein before bed.
Coming into my cycle I plan on increasing the size of all my meals 10-15% and see how it goes.
Vitamins/supps:
Athletic Greens drink every morning - I love this shit.
Creatine HCL
GSH - just started this a few days ago. Doing 100mg subq 5x a week.
High quality fish oils
I’m planning on running for 16 weeks but will get bloodwork monthly throughout.
Planning on:
250mg test cyp e3d
150mg deca e3d
(Both from flash)
~considering~ adding in some anavar for the first 6 weeks because I love that pump.
I have a ton of caber and aromasin on hand, but I’ve never taken either. I know some will say run the cycle for a few weeks and use as necessary but what do you guys think would be a good “lowest end” protocol or starting point? The aromasin I got is 25mg tabs and the caber .5. I was thinking 12.5 eod on the aromasin and .25 maybe e3d. Also best spacing with or after my injections?
Also what about injectable GAC and products like that? I have about zero experience with them but it makes sense that it would be a solid addition.
What am I missing guys?? As far as goals obviously I want to build some good lean mass, but I’m also young and have a family and really don’t want to get into a bad health situation.
I’ll post more about my training when I have a chance. Also throw up some progress pics and long my diet/progress throughout.
