Intro, brief stats, and question

[Burrito]

Hola Senors,
This is my first time joining such a forum and after browsing it for a few days it seemed like it’s pretty legit.

I started working out about 15 years ago, although there has definitely been a few lay periods in that time frame. A little over 2 years ago, I was able to get back into it pretty diligently again. Since then I’ve spent the majority of the time focusing on strength, with some hypertrophy focused periods occasionally worked in for a time here and there. Bench is my weak point, and best lift there is 305. My deadlift is alright, with my best pull being 540. And the squat ain’t bad with a recent max of 520, and it was undeniably good depth. LBS people. I’m about 5’9 and currently 215lbs in the 16-18% BF range.

Anyways, I’m tired of being a natty athlete. The aches and pains are catching up. And I have zero energy for anything outside of intense workouts. EDIT Banned. The plan is to dip my toes in with 300mg test cyp/week…Still considering if I should do a 16 week cycle and then PCT, or just drop down to trt range (about 125-150mg/week) after running and continuing forth. Any thoughts? I’m in my early 30s.

 

[TBU]

Welcome aboard! I think your start is good. Did you do blood work before? I would tell you what to do if I seen your pre cycle numbers. Do some blood work. And I can help you out more.

 

[JB_rD81]

Welcome! A lot of knowledge here, read up and don’t be afraid to ask, but keep the questions within the constraints of the rules…

 

[PNWmuscle]

Take @TBU ‘s suggestion and get bloods done. I would say depending on that would be a good factor on if you should pct or go TRT. If you’re in a decent range, maybe pct would be best. If you’re on the low end, TRT might be. It’s all individual though and depends on you and what the pros and cons of each would be

 

[johnjuanb1]

Welcome aboard!

 

[futureICUdoc]

Welcome to the forum bud

 

[Nacville]

Welcome

 

[Poppy]

Welcome

 

[Dirtnasty]

Welcome

 

[JLee]

Welcome to UGM

 

[Ominous]

Welcome. And as mentioned above you need bloodwork done before starting, during and after. Only then can you know what is going on.
If you pct after. You need to know what level you are going back to. So you need to know before hand what your “normal level” is.
Personally I would do 500mg. Per week for 12 - 16 weeks.

 

[John]

Diet is the most important thing, and I see you didn’t even bring it up, so @Burrito what’s your diet like

 

[Burrito]

I’ve considered whether I should Just jump to 500mg/week for test. But I keep thinking 300-350 would be better. Thoughts are, never ran test and unsure how my body will respond. At 300-350 mg/week the potential for side effects should be lowered and I shouldn’t have to run any SERMS or Estrogen blockers to keep water retention or chance for gyno down. Also, by not jump right up to 500mg/week I’ll still have that available to me as a new dose in the future. I’m thinking that by doing so I’m prolonging the gains to be made, while hopefully mitigating the need to use huge doses too soon in the future.

 

[Burrito]

I had blood labs done about 6 months ago and my Total T was 611ng/dl and Estrogen was in normal range. However, it wasn’t a full endocrinology report and it didn’t have my free T on there and I can’t find it to see if SHBG was on there along with any other levels.

I did have another blood lab done a little less then a month ago, but I still haven’t received my results. Perhaps they were lost in the mail. I’ll call about them today.

How important is the full endocrinology report vs the standard blood labs? Is knowing the total T and E levels enough?

Thanks for the reply.

 

[Burrito]

My diet is pretty good. I eat 3 whole meals a day with a couple snacks in between. A typical day is blueberry french toast in the morning w/ Cary’s low cal syrup. The french toast batter consists of 3 whole eggs a few tablespoons of egg whites, a tablespoon of chia seed, salt, pepper, cinnamon, tablespoon brown sugar, little bit of milk (1%) and dash of vanilla extract. And then I add a cup of wild blueberries to the bread while its cooking.
Lunch is typically about a cup of white rice, 4-6oz chicken bone broth and about 8oz lean ground beef/bison combo, and carrots.
Dinner is more white rice and bone broth with about a 10oz ny strip and a spinach OJ smoothie.
Sometimes I’ll do the spinach smoothie as a snack and add plain greek yogurt and some other fruit and I’ll have a salad at dinner.
The go to snack list consists of hard boiled eggs, protein bars/shakes after gym, fruit, Popcorn on the stove popped in tbsp olive oil, half peanut butter sandwich etc.
I’ll usually allow myself to get a pizza every week, some chinese take out, and a fat sub sandwich. I won’t do a full cheat day, but rather I’ll swap one of my normal meals for one of those options. I’ll never do two pizzas in a week…and don’t have much of a sweet tooth that can’t be satisfied by a tasty smoothie.

 

[Bigmurph6]

Welcome to ugmuscle

You need to read the rules because I needed to edit your post we do things very different were not a market place if you came here for that your in the wrong place

 

[Burrito]

I read the rules. If the post that was deleted was interpreted as a marketplace type question then it seems more a matter of opinion. I clicked @johnjuanb1 avatar and was confused by the proffered promotion and sought clarification. I’m still not sure how it broke a rule.

 

[Trollus]

300 should be plenty to start. I’m at 200 as a high trt dose. The effect at 200 is amazing.

 

[Poppy]

Leave it alone brother.

You can get the best advice on diet, harm reduction, enhancement right here on this forum. All of your “transactions” with sponsors should be kept between you and them…off forum.

Please read the rules…again

 

[Mossy1985]

Welcome aboard