Which stack is better?

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Hey team! 35 years old, been training close to 15 years and seriously for ~8 of those.

I’m coming off a YEAR break from gear (I’d been doing ~1 cycle/year with PCT for the past 10ish years, not quite 10 total cycles and decided to take a break, more as a mental exercise than anything else. I’ll be honest, I have a blast when I’m on gear and I’m a little worried my use could become compulsive so I wanted to take a year off to make sure I could haha)

I’m starting to plan my first cycle back and I’m excited, sort of vacillating between two options and wondering what you fine folks think. I’m going to spend the next ~2 months getting pretty lean (gonna experiment with Retatrutide) before getting on a GROWTH phase. Here’s what I’m thinking:

Option A:

Test 500mg/week 16 weeks

Primo - 400mg/week 16 weeks

TBol - 350mg/week Weeks 1-6

Deca - 250mg/week Weeks 6 - 14

Buuuuuuut as I was starting to price all this out, I found a fun little blend sold by Pharmaqo Labs, 1mL = 200 Test E, 100 Primo, 100 Mast. I’ve done masteron before and I loved it, AND this blend ends up being cheaper (mostly because I was originally planning on running primo 400mg/week = a hefty pricetag for Primo). This lead me to:

Option B

Blend: 16 weeks

  • Test: 600mg/week
  • Primo/Mast:300mg/week

TBol - 350mg/week Weeks 1-6

Deca - 250mg/week Weeks 6 - 14

Either way, planning on cruising on test at around 200mg/week for a few months before 2-3 weeks of HCG followed by ~8 weeks of PCT (clomid/tamoxifen)

Some specific questions I have, besides “what do y’all think”:

  • Anyone have experience with the blends? Wondering if I should expect more PIP
  • I’m not planning on running any AIs because of the Primo/Mast but wondering if I should have some on hand for the transition to just test while cruising (since I’ll only be injecting test at that point instead of the blend)
  • …Anything look like it’ll kill me? hahah

First post on the forum, looking forward to the exchange of ideas!

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Blends are fine if you already know how you respond to every compound in them. If you dont know how you respond and you need to alter it - this is not really an option with a blend.

This is a heavy cycle no matter how you cut it. Frankly if you’re having to ask some of these questions - you probably shouldn’t be running as much gear as you’re planning to. Id expect anyone using this much gear to be my size or bigger.

You’d be better suited doing a more mild blast but staying on cruise dosages or TRT afterwards.

P.S make sure you have recent blind testing samples from your sources mast and primo. You won’t find them here, but other more steroid related forums you might.

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IMO blends are not ideal. I would go with separate compounds so you can take the amounts you want and if you need to drop/change something it’s not an issue

Should always have an AI on hand.

No what your proposing if fine but honestly there are much better stacks for growth.
My go to is test/deca/EQ for injectables and for orals I use proviron with deca for DHT/DHN balance and anadrol mid cycle when lifts stall. This has worked very well for me. In my experience primo is not necessarily worth the price and with the current shortage on primo/mast it’s even more expensive not to mention there are A LOT of fake products out there. Pharmaquo makes awesome gear if your getting it from a good source.