First Deca Cycle

Stats

Age:25
Weight: 118kg
Height: 6"2
Training experience: 7 years
Cycle experience: 4 previous, mainly test e , dbol , anadrol

For my 5th cycle im hoping to introduce a second injectable into my stack, deca is my drug of choice as i want to use it to build extra mass on top of the test.

Cycle length: 12+ weeks

1-12+ test e 550mg/week
1-12 deca 275mg/week

Hcg 500iu/week

Nolva for pct

Thoughts on this? I’d like to run twice as much test than deca, because of the heavy shutdown effect. Hence the rough dosage, and its convinient for my gear, both dosed at 275mg/ml, not sure if the deca dose is too low though?

Thoughts?

Well I did 250mg/wk for 10, then 400 for two and 600 for two more weeks.
Went up from 68 to 92kgs (ran test at a high dose for 4 weeks after deca)
Diet was spot on, for the first time in my life, and was upto even 5000 calories.
Yet a good 5-7kgs was water and fat mass though, but I didnt mind because I was at a really low body fat % and adding a little fat actually made me look better.

I would honestly say I regret not running deca at 500-600mg/wk throughout the cycle.
The last two weeks, strength was beyond imaginable.
Squat 3.5 plates for 2 reps, deadlift 4 plates for 1 and benched 3 plates for the first time.
Best part is I retained most of my strenght with a mediocre pct of just nolva for 5 weeks.
Increasing my calorie intake even further, post cycle, surely helped in retaining most of the mass.

The crash was definitely noticeable though.
For weeks 3 to 6 from last day of pinning, I had almost zero sex drive.
Everything was working fine, just never really felt like in the mood.
It passed pretty fast. Ran Testo-pro with pct which surprisingly helped accelerate recovery.

But yah basically 400-600mg/wk would be the sweet spot.
If you can afford it and a good pct, I would advice you to run a long cycle with deca
And consider running test for at least two more weeks after last shot of deca.
It will help in keeping gains while the bloat of deca dies away.