We have all most likely heard this advice. I have been recently been thinking that there are a couple of flaws with this line of thinking.
How does one know what dose will get them to their goals without a little experimentation?
Many who cycle / blast are doing so while in a caloric surplus. More gear means more of the weight gain is going to be muscle when the water drops off. Lots of guys gain 20 lbs, but 10 is water, 5 is fat, and 5 is muscle. What if using a bit more changes that to 25 lbs, 12 is water, 10 is muscle and 3 is fat. It seems like using higher dosages could lead to less fat gain, and not needing to diet and lose muscle after the cycle, and may result in less cycles being needed.
It seems the recommendations of what a first cycle should be have lowered lately. I have been seeing 250 mg/wk of Test being used a lot. I am thinking 250 mg/wk of Test in 12 weeks is not going to result in anything significant, but still will shut you down. If you eat in a consistent surplus on that cycle, you will most likely just get fat, with a pound or two of muscle. Then after PCT, you will be right where you started.
I am not advocating people go crazy, but matching the drugs with the eating and workouts make sense to me. If you want to gain 10-15 lbs of lean tissue over a longer cycle, you are going to need more than 250 mg/wk or probably more than 500 mg of Test. Maybe you could do it with the latter if you were underdeveloped and shouldn’t be using AAS anyways.
Part of what got me thinking this is the difference between my current and my last blast. I have upped things an additional 225 mg/wk of Test, and 40 mg of Tbol over the last one. In 3 weeks, I think I have progressed more than the previous blast which was 14 weeks. I am less scared of eating big, because I know I have the anabolics in there to make the food into muscle. I’ll probably be adding in DHB as well. I have also noticed all the guys I personally know who look and lift like they are on are not doing small doses (and these aren’t the bigger guys at lifetime, they are the guys putting up crazy weight raw, 800 lb squats, 600 lb benches, 800 lb+ deadlifts). One just told me to use a vial a week lol (not ready for that, and I am not advocating that type of use).