If the goal is 5 to 10 lb LBM improvement as measured post-cycle – measuring at end of cycle will give a greater number that may not be really meaningful if planning to be “off” most of the time as it sounds like you do, then that is pretty easily achieved, and ought to be done with one 2-week MAG-10 cycle (at the low end of the scale) without adding anything at all, and the high end with two or three cycles.
But, that doesn’t mean that adding the orals or taking 2x/day is overkill, as getting results faster is a good thing and if not desiring to go past that 10 lb, simply by doing fewer cycles. Besides this, a really key or maybe fair to say the key to why use anabolics in the first place is triggering what one might call a quantum change (a jump of discrete units, nothing inbetween) that would never occur naturally. These are from satellite cells fusing into mature muscle cells thus increasing their number of nuclei and thus increasing their protein synthesis and size capacity permanently, and possibly also triggering differentiation of satellite cells into mature muscle cells of their own right.
Simply “plumping up” the cells where they are pushing closer to 100% of what they can be for the number of nuclei they have is only a temporary change.
Low-dose androgen use can fail to achieve or not achieve much of this sort of change. Higher doses will trigger events that don’t occur at lower doses.
So if suppressed anyway, and not having toxicity issues such as too much 17-alkylateds for too long (actually any amount is too long for permanent use) or estrogen problems or skin-related problems, no reason not to really trigger these changes. Except one, that it may but also may not be harder on the hair if subject to male-pattern baldness than lower dose accomplishing the same results for example by lower dose over longer time. (Of course, accomplishing less results, effect on hair will be less too.) Really it’s not clear to me whether that is so or not but to consider everything, it may be possible that the higher-dose/shorter time protocol could be harder on hair. Not drastically different if at all I think though.
For PCT, Clomid 50 mg/day, except 300 mg on first day, or Nolvadex 20 mg/day, except about 100 or 120 on first day.
When doing this, putting a number of 2 on / 2 off cycles back to back is fine. The reasons not to do so really would be if training plan or fat loss plan syncs up better with the next two “on” weeks having extra time inbetween.