A word of advice to you newbie hard gainers
Lately I have been seeing many new members posting and asking for advice on running a cycle because they can't gain any muscle. Yeah a large majority of them are either not eating correctly or enough or not working out correctly. But a small percentage of you might be suffering from low test levels. I see it all the time in the TRT/HRT forums. If you think your eating correctly and lifting right and you still can not gain anything over a period of time you might consider going to get your test levels checked before jumping into running a cycle. Because if you just jump in and pin 500 mgs of test for 10-12 weeks, run a PCT you run a good chance of having a even lower test level after your PCT after your natural test production kicks back in. I'm just saying find the root of the problem before making it worse.
I for example was one of them.
The first 26-27 years of my life I was in extremely awesome shape . Had good muscle mass, low body fat and more than enough strength. Worked physical labor since I could walk until I hit 26-27 years old when I got promoted to a desk job then after that opened up my own company. I worked 6-7 days a week, 10-15 hours a day. I ate like crap and never got exercise. Well I put on a good 60 plus pounds of fat over the next 5 years.
In July of 2009 I said enough is enough. I was always tired, did not sleep but maybe 4-5 hours a night and got IBS really bad. So I decided to get back in the gym and start eating correctly before it was to late. I dropped 60 plus pounds of fat and started bulking again to get my old self back. Well after many months in the gym lifting my ass off and eating like a horse . I was getting frustrated because I was not gaining any muscle and my lifts were not going up. Decided to get blood work and discovered my total test was like 291 on a scale of 280-900. After asking my Dr for help he said my test levels were fine and tried giving me some antidepressants and denied me TRT. After a few weeks of doing more research on this board I decided to self prescribe myself TRT. I starting pinning 200 mgs a week and my whole life changed for the better. I started packing on mass again, my lifts were going up, I was sleeping better, my IBS was gone and my sex drive had really came back. That was a year ago this month.
I Am by no means condoning putting your self on TRT but before you go jumping balls deep in to a AAS cycle at least try to go about finding the root cause of your problem.
Just thought this might be helpful to a few of you new members out there is why I posted my story. AAS is not for everyone .
