First Cycle After 2 Yr Break. Bad Idea?

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First off, I’ve been lurking on and off for years. Just registered only to post due to the specificity of my concerns. This isn’t going to be the shortest thread, but I feel like I have to give as many important details about myself to make sure we can communicate clearly about what would be best for me right now and others in a similar situation.

Now, I’d like to think I have a solid background with lifting heavy things since I was really invested during the years I was doing it, but unfortunately I had a shoulder injury two years ago and ever since I wasn’t really able to properly train. I visited the gym every once in a while (with some training at home) just so I don’t go out of shape.

Throughout the whole time I kept my discipline with my eating habits, so other than most of my strength and some pride, I lost nothing during this long ass break. I am not out of shape, I just miss the iron.

Incompetent doctors (shitty country to live) couldn’t fix me, so I had to leave it to time. I’m much better now. In fact, pain is completely gone. I want to start lifting again. I lost any ambition I had for strength and glory, but I’m pumped up for some aesthetics. I’m really motivated to do some bodybuilding stuff, and that’s what I plan on doing for the summer.

University will end soon, so during the summer vacation I’ll have enough time and resources to do this. My question, finally, is whether it’s a good idea to do a cycle (and my FIRST one at that) for this. More specifically - I’ll do a cycle, I’ve already decided that! But for how long should I train after such a long break before it would be reasonable to take AAS? A month? Two? A year? Is it a really bad idea to do roids right at the beginning of my training after two years of time out?

Some history:
I’ve been lifting since I was 15. I’m currently 22. By the time I was 18 I had about 1100 lb. total @ 80-ish kg. body weight. Never really cared about aesthetics, just did strength training - mainly powerlifting and later on some strongman and then olympic lifting for a summer at a bootcamp thing.

I’m currently 68kg. at 5’6" height. Kinda light weight, but because of my height I’m not thin. I still have spot on motor culture and darn near perfect technique on all my favorite exercises. So yeah, if I’m missing anything important, let me know.

Peace out.

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Train for at least a year or two before jumping on. Getting too strong/too big too quick will put you at risk of tearing a muscle or tendon.

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What was your shoulder injury?

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I never really injured myself per se, it just started hurting little by little with time until I could no longer do any pressing exercises, so my time off training consisted of things that just excluded shoulder and chest exercises. I’ll be damned if that did the trick, but I did some yoga and it might be incidental that around that time I felt the issue was going away, or maybe that’s what made it better.

iunno

Doctors in both the capital and in my hometown just didn’t really felt like doing their job I think. Back home they told me that I was sleeping on my arm under the pillow so that’s what caused it. Here, where I live now, as they were looking at the x-ray they said it was some genetic stuff that was incurable. In any case, shit’s solid now.

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I’ve got to agree with cougar, 6 months to a year bare minimum would be, from an avoiding injury standpoint, the safest option. You’ve trained before and you say your diets pretty keyed in so i’d just take the year to train, diet, build a base and learn as much as you can about steroids. Better safe than sorry, and rushing into roids will almost always make you sorry you did.