Maximizing my effort while on TRT

[300winmag]

Trying to shred some weight, not advocating doing a full cycle or even mini, just thinking what 200-250mg a week might do. Anyways some info, 30yo male. 5'10, 200lbs. I have low T and have been on TRT for about a year a little more. Before I started I weighed 230ish and in the last 6 months have lost 30lbs. My problem is the last 10-15 lbs or so have been stubborn. But before I gained all the weight I weighed 185-190 and had a 36in waist. I was in the service so I was in shape, not cut up but in shape. Now I weigh roughly 10-15lbs more than before, but my waist is the same. So leads me to beleive between working out and TRT I have more muscle mass, how much hard to say. But still have a flab that I would like tightened up and think I need to drop another 10lbs to be happy.

Now I dont want to do a full blown cycle from what I gather is 12 weeks and anywhere from 400-600mg of T per week, along with post cycle stuff and what not. Nothing against a full blown cycle, just dont want to pack on tons of muscle and worry about all the extra meds and what not.

Currently I take 100mg of test E every 6 days and my levels are in the 550-600 range with HCG. Now my question is doing a mini cycle of maybe 2-250mg would that help shred the fat and build muscle? All the while overall dropping weight? Personally at 30 I would think it should be closer to the 800 range. At 100mg every 6 days I was around 450ish, then with Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) I bumped up to 600ish.

Right now I work out 4-5 times a week with 30mins of Cardio at least then weights. was doing a calorie deficit diet now doing closer to maintain. I have enough test to do a full blown cycle if I wanted, have all the Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) I want. I dont have an Aromatase inhibitor (AI) and cant get one. But I do have some liquidex, which I tried in varying doses while on my current regimen and definitely dont need it, made me feel like crap.


Any opinion, or am I going down the wrong road.

 

[halfwit]

Diet is where you're lacking my man. Increasing your dose to my TRT protocol (haha) won't be the answer you're looking for. Can increasing your testosterone levels aid with muscular hypertrophy and/or aid with fat loss? Possibly. Will it be far easier (and cheaper) to do so by fixing your diet? Absolutely.

I'd head over to the diet section and post up your diet in 3J's sticky thread. Just be sure to read all the rules he has set up for it to save yourself some time. If you're really bad at diet planning (like me), you can always hire him through his service - which I and many others have for fantastic results.

My .02c

 

[300winmag]

ok thanks. kind of what I was thinking. Running a calorie defecit for a while, mainly a clean diet, one bad day a week. But with summer and plateau in place I think im stuck.

 

[halfwit]

ok thanks. kind of what I was thinking. Running a calorie defecit for a while, mainly a clean diet, one bad day a week. But with summer and plateau in place I think im stuck.

Yeah, I'd definitely see what the diet gurus have to say. I lost well over 35lbs with 3J in 16 weeks, so I can tell you he's that good.

 

[300winmag]

ok thanks. I also ordered a calorie counter one that used skin temp and heart rate. Hoping that will give me an accurate picture of my caloric burn on a daily basis.

 

[3J]

hw is right... its all about diet.. its 80% diet... try to work it out... post in my free diet advice thread if you have a hard time.. if your looking for personalized services from me email me at 3jdiet@gmail.com

 

[300winmag]

thanks 3J. I may do that. Im hoping this bodybugg can give me an accurate picture of BMR or BMR and activity. Claims to be within 10%, I think that will really help, or least cut down in experimentation of how much to eat etc.

 

[3J]

if you check post 1 of my free diet advice thread i have bmr and tdee formulas that come pretty close also

 

[newtohrt]

Diet is where you're lacking my man. Increasing your dose to my TRT protocol (haha) won't be the answer you're looking for. Can increasing your testosterone levels aid with muscular hypertrophy and/or aid with fat loss? Possibly. Will it be far easier (and cheaper) to do so by fixing your diet? Absolutely.

I'd head over to the diet section and post up your diet in 3J's sticky thread. Just be sure to read all the rules he has set up for it to save yourself some time. If you're really bad at diet planning (like me), you can always hire him through his service - which I and many others have for fantastic results.


My .02c

How hard is it to follow the diet, if you don't mind my asking? I work in an environment where it would be very hard to eat 6 or more meals a day - unless I ate 5 of them before and after work. Thanks

 

[3J]

How hard is it to follow the diet, if you don't mind my asking? I work in an environment where it would be very hard to eat 6 or more meals a day - unless I ate 5 of them before and after work. Thanks

i can customize a diet for just about anything

 

[totalburnout]

Also, an easy fix without knowing your routine is to switch cardio to post lifting. You shouldn't be exerting the effort, running down glycogen stores and diminishing performance by performing cardio prior to lifting. That strength component will be the most important aspect to increasing LBM and dropping bodyfat, outside of your sleep and diet.