Hello all I’m a lurker and decided to step out of the shadows because I need some insight on dosing my third cycle.
My first cycle was test prop 500mg a week for 12 weeks with minor sides and good recovery. I ended up bumping it to 700mg for the last two weeks. On cycle I only used an ai at 12.5mg eod (minimal bloat but I did piss out a ton of water after my cycle) and pct only involved Nolva. I don’t have the exact dose on hand but I think it was 40/20/20/20 or 10.
My second cycle was 350mg of test prop and Tren Ace a week and 50-80mg of Anavar ed for 8 weeks. I thought to dose tren and test the same for a baseline given the conflicting comments I read on which to dose higher and lower. The cycle went well except for bloating and lethargy around week four. I ran the same ai dose at 12.5mg eod until I started bloating and jumped it up to 25mg eod which helped a little (feet were mad swollen). I also used HCG at 500iu e3d for the last half of the cycle and .25mg of caber e3d for whole cycle. I recovered better after this cycle than the first - again I only used nolva. I started around 180 and went up to 208 at the end of the cycle and down to 192 after pct. i carried a lot of water even though my test dose was lower than my first cycle and tren shouldnt cause any water retention. My worst sides on this cycle were the bloat, the lethargy I never resolved, and pumps in bjj from the Anavar (I added taurine later on which helped). Also had a strange pump/tightness in my back around the kidney area which was also relieved by the taurine.
For this third cycle I want to run tren and test again and cut out the Anavar (can’t bjj on pumps that hard). Based on how I responded on the first and second cycle, I was thinking of 500mg test prop and 200mg of Tren Ace per week. I was also going run hcg at 250iu e3d throughout the 8 weeks. I’m going to keep the ai at 12.5 and the caber at .25 and adjust if necessary. I’m also gonna have T3 on hand to see if that helps with the lethargy.
However I’ve also read that higher tren and lower test reduces the sides, better for the tren as it’s not competing for receptors (bro science?), and less aromatizing of test since there’s less. so I’m on the fence of whether to do it this way or not. If I were to do it this way I would run tren at 400mg/wk and test at 200mg/wk.
Or I could always just dose the same as my second cycle and try and combat the sides better instead of altering the dosage.
I unfortunately didn’t get blood work done during my last cycle but given my cycle history and my bodies response do you think it’s better to try out high test and low tren rather than high tren and low test?
My first cycle was test prop 500mg a week for 12 weeks with minor sides and good recovery. I ended up bumping it to 700mg for the last two weeks. On cycle I only used an ai at 12.5mg eod (minimal bloat but I did piss out a ton of water after my cycle) and pct only involved Nolva. I don’t have the exact dose on hand but I think it was 40/20/20/20 or 10.
My second cycle was 350mg of test prop and Tren Ace a week and 50-80mg of Anavar ed for 8 weeks. I thought to dose tren and test the same for a baseline given the conflicting comments I read on which to dose higher and lower. The cycle went well except for bloating and lethargy around week four. I ran the same ai dose at 12.5mg eod until I started bloating and jumped it up to 25mg eod which helped a little (feet were mad swollen). I also used HCG at 500iu e3d for the last half of the cycle and .25mg of caber e3d for whole cycle. I recovered better after this cycle than the first - again I only used nolva. I started around 180 and went up to 208 at the end of the cycle and down to 192 after pct. i carried a lot of water even though my test dose was lower than my first cycle and tren shouldnt cause any water retention. My worst sides on this cycle were the bloat, the lethargy I never resolved, and pumps in bjj from the Anavar (I added taurine later on which helped). Also had a strange pump/tightness in my back around the kidney area which was also relieved by the taurine.
For this third cycle I want to run tren and test again and cut out the Anavar (can’t bjj on pumps that hard). Based on how I responded on the first and second cycle, I was thinking of 500mg test prop and 200mg of Tren Ace per week. I was also going run hcg at 250iu e3d throughout the 8 weeks. I’m going to keep the ai at 12.5 and the caber at .25 and adjust if necessary. I’m also gonna have T3 on hand to see if that helps with the lethargy.
However I’ve also read that higher tren and lower test reduces the sides, better for the tren as it’s not competing for receptors (bro science?), and less aromatizing of test since there’s less. so I’m on the fence of whether to do it this way or not. If I were to do it this way I would run tren at 400mg/wk and test at 200mg/wk.
Or I could always just dose the same as my second cycle and try and combat the sides better instead of altering the dosage.
I unfortunately didn’t get blood work done during my last cycle but given my cycle history and my bodies response do you think it’s better to try out high test and low tren rather than high tren and low test?
