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Below you'll find some charts derived from a popular half-life calculator illustrating how adding test prop to a Sustanon cycle can help to kick-start it quickly, extend it beyond its normal length, and cut the time needed to start PCT afterwards by around half.
The benefit of Sustanon is supposed to be sustained, even hormone release using a combination of long, medium, and short esters. The downside, of course, is the slow initial buildup of these levels in the blood and their agonizingly slow, lumbering decline courtesy of the isocaproate and decanoate esters.
Most of you are aware of front-loading and kick-start strategies, so the idea of using test prop in this role isn't exactly groundbreaking. What may be interesting to some of you though is seeing an example and what it can look like visually.
Half life calculators like the one used here can be pretty handy with dose timing and overall hormone leveling. By knocking down the peaks and filing in the troughs, we have a better chance of approaching something resembling stability. Needless to say, maintaining stable test levels will simplify the task of limiting any potential sides by helping us nail down the minimum effective AI ancillary dose needed for your particular cycle.
This example requires 20mL Sustanon 250 (5000mg total), and 10mL test propionate 100 (1000mg total). All together, we're looking at a conservative cycle worth around $120 or so, depending on your source.
For the car guys here, we want test levels to look like a fat torque curve - that is, tabletop flat all the way to redline. We do that in this example by front-loading the Sustanon using a double first dose on day 1 (500mg) along with one test prop injection (100mg) on day 1, then another 100mg test prop alone on day 3. Sustanon injections continue at 500mg/week injected twice a week (every Sunday and Thursday in our first example) until the last injection on the first day of week 10. Then, 5 days later when our levels are starting to drop from the shorter esters falling out, we start back up with test prop at 100mg EOD, using up the remaining 800mg (shown in purple).
As you can see, using this approach brings test up to respectable levels by the end of week 1, keeps us level throughout, prolongs the cycle out to almost 13 weeks instead of 10 or 11, and allows test levels to fall off the cliff as the shorter propionate ester clears out by week 2 post-cycle. By that time, the long esters are negligible and it's getting to be PCT time.
The second example shown is a simple variation using the same front-load but Sustanon 250mg injections E3D, so it's a little harder and faster.
For reference, here is a simple Sustanon only chart as well, showing a 3-4 week wait for test levels to drop.
Whether this is worth and extra $30 or so for the test prop is entirely up to you, but it sure seems to make sense to me.
This all assumes the your gear is dosed properly and that these half lives are accurate. I used 3 days for propionate, 4.5 days for phenylpropionate, 9 days for isocaproate, and 15 days for decanoate. These half-lives may be a little long, but are probably not terribly far off, at least as they relate to each other.
Also, you can geek out on adjusting your dosages and improve this curve further, but for the sake of simplicity, we'll just leave it be.
The benefit of Sustanon is supposed to be sustained, even hormone release using a combination of long, medium, and short esters. The downside, of course, is the slow initial buildup of these levels in the blood and their agonizingly slow, lumbering decline courtesy of the isocaproate and decanoate esters.
Most of you are aware of front-loading and kick-start strategies, so the idea of using test prop in this role isn't exactly groundbreaking. What may be interesting to some of you though is seeing an example and what it can look like visually.
Half life calculators like the one used here can be pretty handy with dose timing and overall hormone leveling. By knocking down the peaks and filing in the troughs, we have a better chance of approaching something resembling stability. Needless to say, maintaining stable test levels will simplify the task of limiting any potential sides by helping us nail down the minimum effective AI ancillary dose needed for your particular cycle.
This example requires 20mL Sustanon 250 (5000mg total), and 10mL test propionate 100 (1000mg total). All together, we're looking at a conservative cycle worth around $120 or so, depending on your source.
For the car guys here, we want test levels to look like a fat torque curve - that is, tabletop flat all the way to redline. We do that in this example by front-loading the Sustanon using a double first dose on day 1 (500mg) along with one test prop injection (100mg) on day 1, then another 100mg test prop alone on day 3. Sustanon injections continue at 500mg/week injected twice a week (every Sunday and Thursday in our first example) until the last injection on the first day of week 10. Then, 5 days later when our levels are starting to drop from the shorter esters falling out, we start back up with test prop at 100mg EOD, using up the remaining 800mg (shown in purple).
As you can see, using this approach brings test up to respectable levels by the end of week 1, keeps us level throughout, prolongs the cycle out to almost 13 weeks instead of 10 or 11, and allows test levels to fall off the cliff as the shorter propionate ester clears out by week 2 post-cycle. By that time, the long esters are negligible and it's getting to be PCT time.
The second example shown is a simple variation using the same front-load but Sustanon 250mg injections E3D, so it's a little harder and faster.
For reference, here is a simple Sustanon only chart as well, showing a 3-4 week wait for test levels to drop.
Whether this is worth and extra $30 or so for the test prop is entirely up to you, but it sure seems to make sense to me.
This all assumes the your gear is dosed properly and that these half lives are accurate. I used 3 days for propionate, 4.5 days for phenylpropionate, 9 days for isocaproate, and 15 days for decanoate. These half-lives may be a little long, but are probably not terribly far off, at least as they relate to each other.
Also, you can geek out on adjusting your dosages and improve this curve further, but for the sake of simplicity, we'll just leave it be.
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