akn
Musclechemistry Member
Q: “I’ve always trained naturally and have made good progress, though now things have gotten stuck. One thing I don’t like about steroid cycles is all the planning. I’m an instinctive trainer. For example I’ll want to do pyramids for a while, then do ladders for a while, then another thing. Whatever it is, I just keep adding weight each week till it’s not working for me anymore, then I move on. How can I use anabolic steroids to match my training style?”
A: As you say, generally steroid cycles are planned out in detail. But actually, this is not necessary except that post cycle therapy (PCT) must be planned. And even there, once having a PCT plan, it can be put in place at any time desired, rather than having to be at a pre-scheduled time.
To accommodate your free-form training style, first a hard limit should be set on duration of steroid use. I’d suggest 8 weeks, though you could make it as much as 12 weeks. It’s necessary to be dedicated to this. When and if the limit is reached, steroid use ends and PCT begins, no matter how much “on a roll” you might be at that moment.
Second, a hard limit should be set on the balance of weeks “off” to weeks “on.” Illustratively, one-to-two would be a minimum ratio and very aggressive; one-to-one would still be aggressive but not so greatly; or two-to-one would be conservative and yet can be very effective.
When starting your “off” weeks, you’d be dedicated to allowing the number of weeks planned.
A free-form part aspect of steroid use comes in would be that you would decide use based on where you were seeing fastest and most efficient progress. You’d preferably end before reaching a stagnation point, but certainly would end if that point appeared. The sooner you end, the sooner the next cycle can start. The importance of this cannot be over-emphasized. So the most efficient thing is to keep these cycles relatively short, probably in the 4-8 week range, and in each case preferably end as progress begins slowing substantially rather than halts.
This way your use is matched to your periods of best gains, and you’re not locked into any pre-planned schedule.
A: As you say, generally steroid cycles are planned out in detail. But actually, this is not necessary except that post cycle therapy (PCT) must be planned. And even there, once having a PCT plan, it can be put in place at any time desired, rather than having to be at a pre-scheduled time.
To accommodate your free-form training style, first a hard limit should be set on duration of steroid use. I’d suggest 8 weeks, though you could make it as much as 12 weeks. It’s necessary to be dedicated to this. When and if the limit is reached, steroid use ends and PCT begins, no matter how much “on a roll” you might be at that moment.
Second, a hard limit should be set on the balance of weeks “off” to weeks “on.” Illustratively, one-to-two would be a minimum ratio and very aggressive; one-to-one would still be aggressive but not so greatly; or two-to-one would be conservative and yet can be very effective.
When starting your “off” weeks, you’d be dedicated to allowing the number of weeks planned.
A free-form part aspect of steroid use comes in would be that you would decide use based on where you were seeing fastest and most efficient progress. You’d preferably end before reaching a stagnation point, but certainly would end if that point appeared. The sooner you end, the sooner the next cycle can start. The importance of this cannot be over-emphasized. So the most efficient thing is to keep these cycles relatively short, probably in the 4-8 week range, and in each case preferably end as progress begins slowing substantially rather than halts.
This way your use is matched to your periods of best gains, and you’re not locked into any pre-planned schedule.
