Test / EQ question...

[jongalt]

I'm planning to run a test / EQ cycle and could use a little advise. I've done a lot of reading on here (a few other places too) and have gotten some conflicting info. My primary goal is to work through a shoulder injury. It's not major, I don't think, but it's enough to limit workouts significantly. I've taken about 3 months off from the gym completely and have lost like 15 pounds of hard-earned gains. SUCKS. Anyhow, I figured I'd give the EQ rumors the benefit of the doubt and try it out.

Some of the sources I've read say Test doses over 250mg or so a week will retard healing, others say it's less about the Test and more about the ego and heavy weight that usually accompany it. My understanding is, I'd have to run EQ in the 400-800mg range for 12 weeks to get decent results. I'm cool with that, but I'm wondering what kind of Test dose I'd need to go along with it.

If I run EQ at say, 500mg/wk, can I run Test at 250mg or should I run it at 550-600mg? What kind of sides would I risk at the lower dose? If I front-load the EQ, do I have to also front-load the Test or can I just run it normally and let it catch up eventually? If I throw in a low Decca dose, how will that affect things and what would be a good dose to "keep the grass watered"?

Stats:
33yo
5'6
150ish now.....165-170lbs when I'm training and eating correctly
20 years of training
novice on gear (I ran a cycle of test years ago when I was far too young and knew everything about nothing at all)

Any advise you guys can throw my way would be great.

 

[Northern Nutrition]

IMO youre not ready to cycle yet. You still have some healing to do. Adding steroids into the mix will only make you push yourself and risk further injury and/or delay proper healing. By all means hit the gym and work your legs HARD. But take it slow and steady with your upper body so as not to flare up your shoulder injury.

 

[jongalt]

IMO youre not ready to cycle yet. You still have some healing to do. Adding steroids into the mix will only make you push yourself and risk further injury and/or delay proper healing. By all means hit the gym and work your legs HARD. But take it slow and steady with your upper body so as not to flare up your shoulder injury.

I hear ya, man. Rest assured, "slow and steady" is the plan regardless of whether AAS are involved. What I'm proposing is more of a medicinal cycle than a aesthetic one. Lord knows, I have no business at all running a cycle for the normal reasons when I'm 15-20 lean pounds off where I know I can be natty.