SHORT CYCLES - VET opinions please

[clman8585]

I really don't know about 2 weeks only short cycle... I believe you should aim for at least 6-8 weeks.... Maybe you can make some gains in 2 weeks, I never attempted that. Maybe you can get good results who knows, no1 ever did this... well no1 I know. But there's a thing you have a to consider; your hormones will go up and down and this is going to be hard, mentally speaking; I'm pretty sure that its also bad physically speaking. PCT is a bitch, personally on Clomid, its emotional madness. I really hate PCT, so I always keep my cycles 12-16 weeks. Its your call tho, but man my advice is to aim for at least 6-8 weeks.... 8 weeks in fact..

No one does it cause it doesn't work

 

[Dickey]

What is your opinion on me beginning AAS after I prove my ability to myself to gain weight with my diet and workout protocol. Is it then acceptable to use AAS to accelerate yourself to your natural peak physique? Also do you believe there are any inherent risks in running two week cycles? If not then why not give it a try? I think most of what ppl have been trying to tell me is it is not the most efficient way to cycle. So they say its a COMPLETE waste.

I'd like to tell you that you need to wait until you are at your absolute genetic potential and only then use it to push past that point, but realistically how many people actually get to their genetic potential before cycling. What I will say is this, when I first started steroids, I was using them as a crutch, not a tool. I would have a sub-par diet, didn't really know how to train etc., and would end up losing most of my progress within a few months because the AAS was making me big, not helping my diet and training make me big, if that makes any sense? The best thing I ever did for my physique is to go natural for a while and learn what different types of training to for my body, same as nutrition, and as a matter of fact I canceled my plans to cycle this year to get more in tune with my diet, because that still isn't all that great. My point here is that it isn't just about gaining weight, it is about learning how to manipulate and sculpt your body.

I commend you for trying to find as much information as possible, even if some people don't agree with it, just make sure you don't get so caught up in going against the grain that you miss out on good info from knowledgeable people. Short cycles are not a complete waste, and can be used effectively, as can long cycles. My point is that until you get every aspect of diet training and nutrition in order and know how you respond to each, it is mostly a waste, maybe not a complete waste but mostly a waste, and really aren't necessary or recommended for a beginner. Short cycles are going to have the same side effects and possible risks of longer cycles, they are not going to be any more detrimental than longer ones. I think what people are trying to say here more than calling you an idiot is that simple cycles are a VERY tried and true method, and screwing around with short cycles is just making shit way more complicated than it needs to be. By all means once you have some experience with AAS, try out some short cycles and see how it works for you but I would get some AAS experience under your belt first. For example, lets say you take a compound that you react really badly to and it keeps you from training or training at 100%, assuming you can narrow down which one is doing that and cut it out, lets say you lost a week of training, now you only have 1 more week of on cycle training. What I'm saying is it's easy to read study's or people's writing, but actually being on AAS and having personal experience with it is completely different than reading about it. And believe me there a LOT of people with a LOT more experience and more book knowledge on pretty much every aspect of this world than I do, so listen to them. I'm not saying don't keep reading and learning from different opinions but the experience a lot of these guys provide is invaluable

 

[SamSport]

No one does it cause it doesn't work

yeah if you're being realistic then that's impossible

 

[Norsegod]

It's like when we get one type of ridiculous post, we get a barrage of the same or very close to the same for the next few days. Is there really that many lazy/ illiterate people out there? I pity 'da fooooos!

 

[Test Rage]

It's like when we get one type of ridiculous post, we get a barrage of the same or very close to the same for the next few days. Is there really that many lazy/ illiterate people out there? I pity 'da fooooos!

Dude, thanks for the welcome! ***8593;

And for all the negative energy folk on here,, im assuming you are on tren or in the midst of an unsuccessful pct! Thanks for the feedback.

So I guess im going to do an 8 week prop cycle. Im going to attempt this at a later time. Im going to get myself to 175 lbs before I do it. I will earn the right to use gear. Thank you guys.

 

[KingPen]

Thanks KingPen. I really appreciate it. Just curious. have you read any of Roberts write ups? he seems to be very knowledgeable. If you can gain real muscle in 8 or ten weeks time, with solid dosing during two weeks do you think its not possible to keep a couple pounds. And be able to repeat this because the Hpta is still veryy ready to respond and recover.

I personally don't think that you'd gain much of any muscle in only 14 days....Regardless of any amount of anabolic you may be taking in that time period. Two weeks is simply not enough time for your body to substantially change.

For me it seems like "gains" don't really start coming until 6,7,8 weeks into a cycle... I personally think the best route for anyone to go is to run a slightly longer cycle, 15-20 weeks at least. People talk about gains dropping off 10-12 weeks in.. Thats BS, you will keep growing no doubt. Up your Calories, maybe up your dose a bit. THE GAINS COME!

 

[snowpatrol123]

Dude, thanks for the welcome! ***8593;

And for all the negative energy folk on here,, im assuming you are on tren or in the midst of an unsuccessful pct! Thanks for the feedback.

So I guess im going to do an 8 week prop cycle. Im going to attempt this at a later time. Im going to get myself to 175 lbs before I do it. I will earn the right to use gear. Thank you guys.

You don't need to "earn the right" to use gear, we aren't the keepers of the gains by any means...90% of the feedback may not have been positive but it is ALL meant to help you. EG: Negative response to two week cycle idea because it's a bad idea. 175 is still small, but it will be a better start. Eat eat eat, shoot for 185-190 and if you have to settle for 180.

 

[banzi]

Pro body builders are getting way bigger and freakier than they were in years past.. AAS use and trends change (which may be one factor, as well as insulin, nutrition, etc.)..
I'm not really up on the trends (old school test deca cycles are best for me imo), but one of the trends now is LONG cycles, running for 14-20 weeks followed by 'cruising' low doses of testosterone after that. Guys do this because going ON/OFF and ON/OFF and running all this Pct and going through the emotions of being off after being on etc.. is a lot to take.
Long cycles followed by cruising doses seems to be having good results both physically and emotionally for a lot of guys, and perhaps why it is a popular trend. This is the exact opposite of what your proposing with short cycles, lots of pct and then back to short cycles. .you'll be up an down and all over the map.
Personally I'd rather be on a long cycle and cruise then go through all the crap involved with short burst and short cycles. But everyone is different.

If you are going to take gear then there is no point coming off, its a waste of time and money, cruise on 250mgs of test E, then cycle up and down 3 or 4 times a year.

 

[Mad- scientist]

Npp or tren is going to completely shut you down most likely in 2 weeks. The only way this theory of 2 week cycles could yield any true muscle would be with test suspension which is active in your body within around a hour combined with something like anadrol or D-bol. Your still going to probably shut your self down pretty bad. And you most likely will not keep a lot of muscle.

I use to do 3 week cycles of pro hormones with no testosterone base when i was younger. And i can honestly say i gained some good weight i would end up keeping around 4 to 5 pounds of pretty dense muscle. But it always disappeared after about 4 to 6 months. I don't recommend oral only cycles but i think that is the only way your idea would even have the possibility of working combined with test suspension.

What you need to do if you want to cycle is gain at least 10 to 20 pounds of weight naturally. Figure out some way to do it. The thing that sucks is any short cycle is going to involve lots of injecting. And for a first cycle you don't want to be injecting something 3 times to 4 times a week it can get very annoying and possibly kind of scary if you hate injecting stuff. I honestly recommend sticking to 500mgs of test E a week for 3 months with Ai's, hcg , and proper PCT. I have learned the more complicated you make a cycle the more that can go wrong.

Just do the base recommendation cycle. Honestly something like NPP will shut you down in about a week. So being shut down is basically inevitable you can not avoid it. The only possible ways to not be be shut down and take steroids are complicated and have their own dangers. A lot of guys use to take like 5mgs of d-bol every day and claimed it didn't shut them down. But i am by no means recommending that its a out dated very bad idea on multiple different levels. Basically you need to spend a good amount of time getting bigger naturally. And then do a basic 1st cycle like testosterone for 3 months.

 

[Test Rage]

It's like when we get one type of ridiculous post, we get a barrage of the same or very close to the same for the next few days. Is there really that many lazy/ illiterate people out there? I pity 'da fooooos!

Dude, thanks for the welcome! ***8593;

And for all the negative energy folk on here,, im assuming you are on tren or in the midst of an unsuccessful pct! Thanks for the feedback.

So I guess im going to do an 8 week prop cycle. Im going to attempt this at a later time. Im going to get myself to 175 lbs before I do it. I will earn the right to use gear. Thank you guys.

 

[thades]

An 8 week prop cycle would be solid, and about the shortest I'd go with any sort of entered compound. That being said, I've had good successful with suspension cycles for 4 weeks. Even with suspension, I wouldn't go less than 4 weeks, just doesn't make a ton of sense. If you used suspension for 4 weeks, or even prop for 6 weeks with HCG, I couldn't see you having much of an issue with recovery. As people have said before, one's ability to recover is more based in genetics and age, or at least I would argue....unless someone is running some crazy cycles for a veryyyy long time.

 

[JRider]

Guess you already get what you are looking for. The consensus is short cycles are generally a bad idea, especially for beginners like you, for many reasons.

I do not see much a following for Bill Roberts. He had a theory how you can recover easily if your cycles are kept short like for a duration or two weeks. His argument is that the complete shut down process, from pituitary to LH/FSH to test production, take a while and he proposed that two weeks is probably not long enough for a complete shut down, which leads to a quick recovery, which he proposed for a duration of four weeks.

My main problem for his theory is that he did not prove any of that, either with published papers or backed up with blood test results.

On the contrary, we have see how steroids like tren or deca can shut you down, really quick.

What is more, even though you can achieve high supernatural hormone levels optimized for muscle growth. The actual protein synthesis/muscle building process takes time. 2 lbs of weight is very easy in two weeks but 2 lbs of pure muscle, one short two week cycle after another? Show me the prof please?

Lastly, in a very general sense, our body loves to achieve homeostasis. Repetitively put your body's hormone levels up and down in 2 on 4 off cycles just does not sound right.

 

[Ocean Rhino]

I guess everyone was blown away by the minutiae OP dazzled us with and forgot he's 22 fucking years old. Too early for AAS. You still have probably 3 more years of peak, natural testosterone in you that you should be figuring out how to take advantage of. You should be lifting heavy, doing complex core movements and eating at a surplus with enough protein to feed your goal lean body mass. Check out Wendler's 5-3-1 program, add some high volume with a proper diet and voila, goals!

Check out these links for more information (I take no credit for these threads, they are just excellent information from the local board lords that I think sum up a lot of info in one spot):

THE BEGINNERS GUIDE TO STEROIDS AND PROPER NUTRITION by 3J

My First Cycle: Planning and Executing a Successful Cycle

Standard Post Cycle Therapy (PCT's)


Get smart, get fed, get fit, get jacked.

 

[Test Rage]

Guys, I want to thank you for your thoughts and advice. I am now of the opinion that I should prove to myself I can manipulate my body through natural means for a while. I would like to put on at least 15 more lbs before my first cycle. This will take a long time for me; as I have previously stated, my body really seems to burn through nutrients. Maybe ages 22-24 will be enough time for my metabolism to gear back slightly and then with a healthy natural test level I will be able to add mass and it be kept lean. I then will cycle test at various doses/esters/durations for a while and figure out what im doing with my AI's and Pct's. I understand the consensus and the reasons provided.

Very tempting to get into AAS for a guy like me who seems to not be able to pack the weight on quickly or keep it. My body is awsome in every way except for that it lacks mass! It is lean flexible strong. Just not enough weight behind me to accomplish what I want.

Thanks for the welcome. I hope to make some friends here. Some of you guys I can tell really do care. Im the type of guy that cares alot about what I do and the people around me. So good luck to all on your goals this 2014.

I will be commenting and annoying because thats how I learn. Just a fair warning! haha

 

[Roush]

My body is awsome in every way except for that it lacks mass! It is lean flexible strong. Just not enough weight behind me to accomplish what I want.

After my first injection I put on 33 lbs in 5 months by simply taking a small and safe amount of testosterone (200 mg e5d)

worked just fine for me.. didn't play around with short 2 week blasts, or 8 week multi chem cycles, or pct, short cycle pct and then back on, then back on pct and so on and taking every drug under the sun constantly going up and down.
Just a basic steady supply of test.

keep it simple, gain results!

5 months of small dosage of test.. mass gained without crazy complex cycles
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