Hi all, I am starting my first cycle on the 16th of this month, so that's a week tomorrow. I've got all my roids, and my ancillaries are all arriving this week (hopefully! And no, I won't pin anything until I have all my Aromatase inhibitor (AI), PCT etc physically in my possession, I promise!) so it's game on!
Background
26 years old
5' 11"
185lbs
been training seriously for about 3 years (but I trained for like 5 years before that with practically zero results...)
no idea what my bodyfat is but I'm 6 pack lean
Cycle:
450mg test E for ten weeks
75mg var weeks 1-6
.25mg adex eod
HCG 250iu 3x a week weeks 3-10
PCT is standard nolva/clomid affair
I realise those amounts seem kinda odd, the original plan was to just do a Var only cycle (the horror). After researching on these boards it soon became clear it was a terrible idea, but by then I'd already bought the Var! Oops. So I then planned to do 500mg of test 400 a week but ended up only being able to get test 300 instead, so I'll do a ml and a half of that = 450mg. If the var seems a little high it's just that running it at that dose will mean I finish all my tabs in 6 weeks. I didn't see the point in having any left over.
Diet:
I'd say 90% clean. I won't lie and say it's perfect. I am naturally very ectomorphic, and can get away with eating pretty much anything without getting fat. Lucky me. The downside is I need to fuel my lightning fast metabolism constantly. If I need to eat a pizza or whatever to hit my macros for the day then I'll happily do that. Generally speaking I eat a high protein, moderate carb, high fat diet. I believe that fat should be the most consumed macronutrient for health purposes, and that eating to build muscle and stay healthy are the same thing, but that's another topic for another day... I don't really count calories, the only thing I count is grams of protein. I hit between 200 - 250 grams daily. Once a week I have a ridiculous cheat meal, usually on a Saturday with my girlfriend.
Training Routine (exercises separated by a "/" are done as a superset with no rest between)
Upper/lower Split, mon/tues/thurs/fri
Upper Body A
Bench (5/3/1 percentages)
Incline DB Bench/Rear Delt Row
Lat Blast/Lateral Delts
Biceps/Triceps
Lower Body A
DBSS
Hip Thrusts (Low reps)
Rollouts/Leg Curls
Calves
Upper Body B
Incline Bench/Chins
Triceps/Lateral Raise
Awesome Delt Complex!!!!!!
Rear Delts/Biceps
Lower Body B
DBSS
GHRs (low reps, loads of sets)
Rollouts/Leg Curls
Calves
What, no squats or deads? Would that I could. My back is fucked so I can't load my spine. No squats, deads or overhead press. I can still hammer my legs with the DBSS, hip thrusts and GHRs. They just look really stupid. My shoulder development hasn't suffered one bit from dropping the OHP. All it ever seemed to do was hit my anterior delts, which the bench/inclines do anyway. Focusing on the lateral/rear delts has done more for me than any amount of OHP ever could.
So that's that. I'm not going to go into too much detail logging my workouts, but I'll mention anything noteworthy, like massive increases in strength or whatever (assuming that actually happens!). I'll log how I'm feeling, what I pinned that day, if anything, and just generally anything else I feel worth logging.
I tried to be as detailed as I could there, maybe even too detailed haha. Thanks for reading and I hope you knowledgeable folks can stop me messing myself up too badly! I'll get some before pictures posted up sometime this week.
cheers!
Background
26 years old
5' 11"
185lbs
been training seriously for about 3 years (but I trained for like 5 years before that with practically zero results...)
no idea what my bodyfat is but I'm 6 pack lean
Cycle:
450mg test E for ten weeks
75mg var weeks 1-6
.25mg adex eod
HCG 250iu 3x a week weeks 3-10
PCT is standard nolva/clomid affair
I realise those amounts seem kinda odd, the original plan was to just do a Var only cycle (the horror). After researching on these boards it soon became clear it was a terrible idea, but by then I'd already bought the Var! Oops. So I then planned to do 500mg of test 400 a week but ended up only being able to get test 300 instead, so I'll do a ml and a half of that = 450mg. If the var seems a little high it's just that running it at that dose will mean I finish all my tabs in 6 weeks. I didn't see the point in having any left over.
Diet:
I'd say 90% clean. I won't lie and say it's perfect. I am naturally very ectomorphic, and can get away with eating pretty much anything without getting fat. Lucky me. The downside is I need to fuel my lightning fast metabolism constantly. If I need to eat a pizza or whatever to hit my macros for the day then I'll happily do that. Generally speaking I eat a high protein, moderate carb, high fat diet. I believe that fat should be the most consumed macronutrient for health purposes, and that eating to build muscle and stay healthy are the same thing, but that's another topic for another day... I don't really count calories, the only thing I count is grams of protein. I hit between 200 - 250 grams daily. Once a week I have a ridiculous cheat meal, usually on a Saturday with my girlfriend.
Training Routine (exercises separated by a "/" are done as a superset with no rest between)
Upper/lower Split, mon/tues/thurs/fri
Upper Body A
Bench (5/3/1 percentages)
Incline DB Bench/Rear Delt Row
Lat Blast/Lateral Delts
Biceps/Triceps
Lower Body A
DBSS
Hip Thrusts (Low reps)
Rollouts/Leg Curls
Calves
Upper Body B
Incline Bench/Chins
Triceps/Lateral Raise
Awesome Delt Complex!!!!!!
Rear Delts/Biceps
Lower Body B
DBSS
GHRs (low reps, loads of sets)
Rollouts/Leg Curls
Calves
What, no squats or deads? Would that I could. My back is fucked so I can't load my spine. No squats, deads or overhead press. I can still hammer my legs with the DBSS, hip thrusts and GHRs. They just look really stupid. My shoulder development hasn't suffered one bit from dropping the OHP. All it ever seemed to do was hit my anterior delts, which the bench/inclines do anyway. Focusing on the lateral/rear delts has done more for me than any amount of OHP ever could.
So that's that. I'm not going to go into too much detail logging my workouts, but I'll mention anything noteworthy, like massive increases in strength or whatever (assuming that actually happens!). I'll log how I'm feeling, what I pinned that day, if anything, and just generally anything else I feel worth logging.
I tried to be as detailed as I could there, maybe even too detailed haha. Thanks for reading and I hope you knowledgeable folks can stop me messing myself up too badly! I'll get some before pictures posted up sometime this week.
cheers!
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