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Originally posted by roidmanraging
Pheedno, sorry that i'm new to the board, but not new to gear. I'm an old long term use user recently converted to shorter cycles. Speculation it's not, but experience it is. Like many, the real world is my teacher.
I can't agree more that the body is one that likes to have things imprinted and constant in order to reach homeostasis. Going on this theory you are also saying that the longer your body feels it doesn't need it's own natural testosterone the longer it will take to recover once off of gear. This would increase your recovery time post cycle. This is when you lose the most of your gains.
Arthur Rea, the gear guru behind Chemical Muscle Enhancement, is a big supporter of shorter cycles. His rationale is that the post cycle catabolic environment in the body and depression of the HPTA are what reduce the retention of gains once a cycle has been halted. Likewise, it desensitizes the body to the substances once you attempt to go back on. You are then fighting to get back where you once were.
Even with short term cycles your body will get used to having a certain weight on it if you recover your natural test, keep your calories elevated, and body anabolic enough to support and hold the gains made.
As with your opinion on peak levels, you can't tell me that your body makes more gains after the 6-8 week mark than it did up to that point.
*Note: Many people mistake water bloat with gear as actual lean body mass gains.
You asked my age, stats and experience... 27, 5'8, 195lbs at 4.6% body fat (2 weeks out from a state level show) where this is my first NPC show. Last year I trained a national level competitor whom placed. On my resume i've got several bodybuilders, high school and college level athletes as clients.
You also asked about my speculation as to what the pros do. Tom Prince and Bob Chicerillo are both very active on Chad Nicholls board and at times will answer very candidly about gear. Tom's mentioned his contest prep being 6 weeks on, 2off, 6 weeks on. He has also gone into detail about how most pro's have talked to him about doing gear.
I won't highjack this thread, but I will stand by my advice.