Pictures before I prepare for first cycle

[cava]

Hey guys, if you didn't see my introduction post, I'm new. I've been researching steroids and hitting the gym pretty religiously for 2 years, though I always lifted on and off. I won't lie, the past 4 months I've slacked with only a solid month or so of routine gym activity. I plan on getting back into a near perfect diet and gym routine when I return to school in a few weeks (I live across from the gym )

That being said, Im starting my first cycle a month after I get back, here are photos before I continue with my plans.

This is really the best photo I could find, that shows me two years ago before I got serious about working out. Clearly, I'm not lucky when it comes to natural strength.



Now, this is me 2 years later after alot of supplements and protein and gymtime. Note, this is not my best condition I've been in, I lost alot of strength and gained some fat this summer.



So yeah, decent progress in 2 years time I imagine. Before I got into my summer slump i had alot of trouble increasing my weight.
I gained about 20 pounds between the two pictures.


I'm aware I'll be torn up for this, I have researched, but my first planned cycle is goign to be 50mg injectable winstrol for six weeks, followed by 4 weeks of nolva. Yes, a winny only cycle. I'm aware its looked upon as stupid, waste of money, I won't be happy with results, and all that, I know.

I'm weary of steroids and how they will affect me, so I decided to take a fairly mild type first, plus I know it will harden me up and burn some fat, so long as I eat and train right of course. Anyway, this is basically my introduction, and I look forward to sharing my cycle in the next month, im thinking I'll get at least a month of solid natural training in before I start the cycle.

[Bigd89]

Your 19, a VERY small fraction of lifting and dieting exp. Horrible planned cycle. This will end badly.

[cava]

Your 19, a VERY small fraction of lifting and dieting exp. Horrible planned cycle. This will end badly.

Could you please elaborate, and I'll be training with a 23 year old who has had 2 pretty successful cycles of test. What could I do to plan this better?

[auslifta]

Get your diet right, it's obviously not right. Train solid for the next 5 years,, this plus diet and you'd more than likely exceed your current goals. Just because your mate did 2 cycles and is 23 does not mean he knows what he is doing, if he did he would have not did them. Your in no condition to even contemplate AAS. Your making good progress by the looks of it, imagine what you could do naturally with a proper diet in another 5.

[gbrice75]

You started the thread, so I expect you want brutal honesty. If not, read no further...

Congrats on the progress so far, but tbh if you were doing everything right, your physique would be much further along at your age, after 2 years of training. The fact that it isn't tells me things aren't all in check. That, aside from the obvious age issue, tells me that using gear at this point is about the worst idea you can have.

I know you don't want to hear this, none of you kids do - but you'll look back one day and say we were right.

Get your diet straightened out, get your workout routine in check, and train natural for several more years - you have TONS more potential, naturally.

My .02

[Lift to live]

Dude if you can't commit to a clean diet and religiously going to the gym without gear what has changed? You said you live across from the gym which is an indictment on you. Spend the next five years committing to eating and training.

[cava]

I appreciate the comments, thats why I came here, to get advice from more knowledgeable people than myself.
I'm aware my diet has been shit all summer, I really ****ed off, including waaay to much alcohol.

And Lift to live, its not taht I can't commit myself to a clean diet, its just harder when your being cooked for for an entire family, I don't get much say. And I don't live across from the gym.. I live far from town, so its inconvenient to get to the gym while I'm home from school.
In 2 weeks, I will be living in a apartment across from the gym.

I've decided to take your guys' advice for the most part, My body isn't in the condition it should be to add gear at this moment, so I will train naturally until I believe it is. Winny doesn't go bad very quick, and either does nolvadex from what I was told. I won't say I'm not gonna do it too soon, but I will say I won't be doing it in a month or two.

[gbrice75]

^^^ glad to hear this bro, smart decision, and I hope you're not just blowing smoke.

You'll be happy you went this route when you look back.