5 weeks in, up 50lbs!

[dizzle]

Not on my body weight, but on my bench press. I went from bench maxing 275 to 325 in 5 weeks. 10lbs a week! Sad to say that my weight has only gone up 7lbs at the most, more like 5lbs. Yes, I am eating enough (4000+cals), but I might be a litle too active. I've been playing tennis a couple times a week, which I'm thinking might be burning my needed calories. I haven't taken a bf test yet, but I'm positive it's down, I can see a difference. At the least, I feel incredibly stronger than before and feel really good about that. 7 weeks to go.

I'll update more near the end of my cycle.

[Pheedno]

Excellent bro. I wouldn't sweat the weight gain yet. With the weeks you have left, I would expect the best to come.(provided your diet, rest, and training are top notch)

You might want to cut that tennis down to. Depending on what your goals are.

[Jamisun]

Whats your cycle look like?

[dizzle]

My first cycle is:

weeks 1-3 dbol 30mg/day (I had to stop early because of kidney probs)
weeks 1-10 test 400mg denkall
weeks 1-10 eq 400mg spectro labs
weeks 7-12 winny 50mg **tabs
1mg liquidex eod, clomid post cycle

Everything should be kicking in about now, so hopefully i can gain my goal of 15 keepable lbs in the next 7 weeks.

[ripsid]

What kind of kidney problems and what were the symptoms? Curious bro.

Sid

[dizzle]

My plan was to run dbol for 5 weeks but ended up to only be 3 because of huge lower back/kidney pains. It was torture, no matter what position i was in, i could always feel it. I started urinating blood, and went to a doctor. My doc said I had a kidney stone and did a bunch of tests for it, even injecting iodine in my blood and did a bunch of exrays. I stopped the dbol that day I went to the doc and everything cleared up, the stone never came out, so I figured that there was no stone and it was just from the dbol. they were 5mg pink thais. i recovered fairly quickly and will probably save the dbol for a bridge some day down the road.

[GIMMIE'50ft.]

I just had to say wow someone who actually listens to their doctor. So did they find a stone or not, sounds like you got a CT-Scan. The hematuria (blood in urine) in younger folks pretty much means its a stone unless the orals cause it? Im not sure so thats what the ? is for. Oh yeah and props to another Sounder Im on the Eastside and work downtown.

[Jack87]

Damn bro... nIce gains on the bench.... I always get bad kidney pain too from the pink thai d-bols.... I used russians last time with no pain at all and that was at 50mg a day for 5 weeks....

[JP1570]

here's a thought, you may wanna drop the arimidex down a little bit; I haven't had much in the way of weight gains this cycle yet either, and am taking about the same about of arimidex. I'm dropping it down for a couple wks to see how that goes. I'm gonna use letrozole next time...

[dizzle]

JP1570, thanks for the advice, i think i'll try that for a week or so. I'll drop the liquidex and see if I can add a little bit of water on me and if needed, add it again later. i have nolvadex on hand so I don't need to worry too much about gyno.

thanks

[10wheeler]

ey thats great dizzle awesome strength gains bro

[shujaat]

that a quite good gain

[Ex_banana-eater]

the determining factor between your strength and weight gain is most likely your training. change your training to a hypertrophy specific style if you wish to gain more weight.

[Microbrew]

Was this the first time you benched 325? Or were you at that weight before. Remember shit comes back fast, but if not congrats

[dizzle]

at the time, it was the first time i ever benched 325, later wound up at 365lb 3 times with assisted spotted reps at the end of my cycle.

Post cycle, the strength went down more than I thought it should, I now do 335 3 times, but i'm clean right now with nothing in me but creatine.