Just some background info:

I've been in the 'fitness' game for 5 years now, the first as a long distance biker, the next as your standard gym rat, and the last three as a competitive powerlifter. (Best raw numbers as of now are 500/335/550 at a semi lean 198, I started at 130). I'm now 18 as of a few months ago.

I've been waiting for quite a while to cycle (obviously every teenager wants to juice right away, its just what teenagers want) but I did (what I thought was) the smart thing and waited until I came closer to my natural limit.

As far as height goes, I'm the shortest (male) in my immediate family, my dad was 6', my brother is 6', and I'm sitting at 5'10'' (I've always been the shortest). My brother is 3 years older and hasn't grown an inch since high school (or changed looks wise in general)

So that's my general background.

So I decided a few months back that I'd run something over the summer, and have been doing continuous research on it, and besides for not being 25, I like to think that I'm up to date on most of the qualifications.

I have been looking at mainly oral ph's (family has a history of livers of steel)/aas, mainly because I'm at home for now, and I'm going to college after the summer, so I don't really have an inconspicuous place for anything else.

I keep reading over the profiles, trying to decide what I want to run for my first time at the plate, and while I haven't reached a conclusion, by doing my research, I've found what is out there so I have a better idea of what I want out of the cycle.

My goals are pretty much the global goals... I mainly want to put on strength, with some size gains and fat loss (not really looking for something that will bloat me up). Knowing that there are some things that I should obviously stay away from for now, I'm thinking even if it means I get less results, I'd rather play the safe side and do lowest effective doses of mild (non aromatizing?) compounds for up to 8 weeks.

That being said, does anyone have any recommendations from here? I have done so much research over the past few months, but I'm still stuck on where to get started.


Any help would be appreciated, and if you really think that it is in my best interest to wait 6 or so more years before I go for this, please voice your opinions. I just keep thinking I don't want to look back 20 years from now and say "I really wish I decided to just go for it"


Thanks