I have a question that involves gains made and lost. It’s hypothetical so I’m not looking for advice or what to do, it’s just something that I’ve often wondered about and have never heard discussed before. Here goes.
If someone decided to start running a cycle well before he reached his “genetic potential”, would he still lose those gains once his hit his genetic potential or would he be able to maintain them since technically they’re not far beyond what he could’ve done naturally? I often hear you’ll lose all your gains once you stop and I can see that if you’re far beyond natural capabilities, but wouldn’t you be able to still maintain said “genetic potential” if you still trained hard after you stopped. Again, not looking for advice, it’s just a question reagarding gains kept/lost.
I think the question should be about how long it took to make those gains rather than whether or not one has hit his body’s ceiling. Gains made over 10 weeks are not as solid long term as those made over 20 weeks, a year, two years, etc. Your body is used to carrying a certain load and when you disrupt that it takes time to adapt. So putting on 20lbs during a test/dbol cycle over 10 weeks is not the same as putting on 20lbs on two longer cycles spread out over a year. Does that make sense? I think genetic potential is something that gets talked about too much. Unless you’re competing and have truly maxed out what you can do without additional help from chemicals then you’re unlikely to have hit said potential. (I don’t mean you specifically, I mean the general “you”)
But I would love to hear some other opinions on this. If anyone has any good scientific data I’d love to read it.