How to train/eat during PCT and post cycle?

[paul606]

Hey all

My first current cycle will be coming to an end in a few weeks. I just want to know how I should train and eat during pct and post cycle. I'm doing 500mg test e/week.

Before this cycle I had always lifted mon, tue, thu, fri; all the other days were rest days. After around 4 weeks of being on e, i felt fine to be able to lift more frequently so for the past 8 or so weeks I have been lifting 4 days on 1 day off repeat. My body is very rarely sore on e compared to how i used to be before cycle.

should i drop it back to the mon/tue/thu/fri or keep lifting 4 days on 1 day off during PCT?

I also know that I should keep eating big and clean during pct, but after pct i want to cut so can I lower my cals into a deficiency after pct?

cheers

[sixfootseven]

Theres a few stickies that talk about this stuff. Either this forum or educational threads


Couldnt post link but its in E.T. its the Tips for keeping gains for moderate user thread

[panntastic]

What was the goal of the cycle cut or bulk?

If you've bulked then continue to train and eat like you were on cycle to allow your body to deal with the added mass you've created.
If you've cut then keep it up for a few weeks then slowly stick to maintenance calories if you don't want to bulk or cut or add calories (500) if you want to gain lbm

[marcus300]

I would personally go with a 40/40/20 split and hit around 10/15% over maintenance if you tend to put on bf easily, if not I would hit around 20/25% over maintenance. Remember your trying to maintain the new body weight/size so work off this structure, your going to be going through a drop in hormones levels so we need to maximize any kind of anabolic effect so keep nutrition clean and higher end. Over maintenance calories are needed to promote the anabolic edge, dietary fat has an influence on androgen secretion, monounsaturated and saturated fat raises testosterone levels but polyunsaturated fat does not so a healthy diet containing O'3 and O'6 will help in this period. As testosterone returns to normal and recovery is nearly there, eating over the calories can be lowered to maintenance of the new found muscle what's been gained during the cycle. Never start dieting in the recovery stage it will strip you of your hard earned tissue.

If you implement more rest days and make sure your C.N.S gets fully recovered but at all times keep training like what you did to build the muscle, what build the muscle will maintain the muscle but slight alteration may be needed in the way you train to help further recovery. Keep the training sessions down to around 30-40 mins and incorporate longer rest days in-between. Long workouts lower testosterone to cortisol ratio, so don't go for long workouts no matter how strong or fit you may feel, short and fast will help with recovery without further stress on your system.

Still concentrate on the basic heavy movements and for me I still focus on HIT type of training, also take more attention on the eccentric part of the lift because this causes most of the muscle fibre damage and if you plan your workouts so they are short but effective you wont put any more stress oyourru system in this sensitive time of recovery

[paul606]

I was well aware of sticking to shorter workouts during PCT, I normally lift for 90 minutes a day!

Halving the amount of time i spend lifting each workout to 45 mins but still lift 4 days on 1 day off, sound okay?

And yes, goal of the cycle was to put on as much muscle mass as possible.

[marcus300]

I'd implement more rest days into your program

[paul606]

I'll go back to my old 4 day split then

mon - chest
tue - legs
wed - rest
thu - back
fri - shoulders
sat/sun - rest

g2g?