As an older guy who at some point or other has made every mistake in the book, I’m going to add my advice to the chorus here.
First, you need size. So you are absolutely right to focus on eating first and foremost. Combine that with a very simple workout routine, focusing on the compound lifts (bench, dead, squat), and maybe doing the 5x5 routine. Do that and eat right and sleep right for a month. See what your gains are.
Second, the reason people are saying that you don’t need juice at this point is because you likely have it in abundance naturally. Your nuts are pumping out more of it now than they ever will. Natural “juice” is the absolute best when you are young because your body keeps everything in equilibrium and you won’t have problems with spiking estrogen or prolactin, etc. Just do yourself a favor (and make everyone on the board happy) and just try to eat right and workout regularly for a month, then assess your gains. I suspect you will gain 10 lbs. and quite a bit of strength. If so, do it again the next month. Rinse and repeat until you are no longer gaining weight or strength. Then and only then would I even consider exogenous juice. I suspect that will be YEARS from now. But you never know. Everyone is different
Third, when you get to that point–and I can tell from the tenor of your posts that you are going to get there quickly because you have in your head that juice is going to solve a lot of your problems–start with a testosterone-only cycle of, say, 400mg per week, divided into every third day shots or even every other day. Run that for 12 weeks. Continue to eat well, but while on juice, watch your macros, with particular attention to protein. You need about .85 of a gram per pound of body weight (because you don’t need protein for your fat, and given how skinny you are, I suspect you are sitting at 15% body fat at most).
Fourth, before you start, run blood tests for total test, free test, estradiol, prolactin, and LDL/HDL/total cholesterol. You have to have a baseline. Then run those same tests again after the first month of your 12-week cycle and see where you are. Post the results here, and smart mothers like
@NeuroRN and
@TBU,
@Poppy. and
@John will give you advice on how to adjust your dosage.
Fifth, do proper PCT at the conclusion of your cycle. Read the posts about proper PCT on this board and ask questions. Nolvadex and HCG are IMHO the compounds you should be using for your PCT. In fact, because HCG helps your nuts to continue pumping out “natural juice” even when you are on exogenous testosterone, it is good to run at a low dose continually throughout your cycle. It also will help you recover faster during PCT. Again, you have a lot of reading and learning to do to get this right. Why is that important? Because if you do not, your nuts will shrink to raisins and MAY NEVER COME BACK, meaning you will be injecting exogenous testosterone for the rest of your life For the old fucks like me on the board, that doesn’t matter; we don’t have that long left anyway! But for a 21-year old, you really do not want that now.
Sixth, don’t get offended by this or the other paternalism being exhibited towards you in this thread. Again, most of us have made mistakes in this area, and those mistakes have come back to haunt many of us. We’re just trying to avoid you making the same error.
Good luck. You came to the right place. This board is full of wisdom, camaraderie, experience, knowledge, and caring. Don’t forsake all of that.
