Question about time off in between cycles

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Thanks for replies - I guess my question was if the decline after 30, as people have mentioned, is due to cycling (assuming done responsibly) or a natural decline that would have occurred anyways. If it is due to steroids is there any research backing this up? Or is it all done anecdotally.

There are pros that swear their natural test levels are normal when coming off despite running 20 week long hard contest prep drug cycles throughout their careers. Each person is obviously different but this information is all over the place and its hard to understand what to expect if continuing to cycle.

Every male has their testosterone levels naturally decrease as they age, regardless of whether or not they weightlift or exercise. It's just part of getting older and the natural degradation of the human body.

You should take everything with a grain of salt when it comes to what other people preach as it pertains to fitness and steroids. Professionals are paid to say certain things. Also pros are genetic abnormalities, that's why they were able to become pro in the first place, so what they do is completely irrelevant for the average cycling gym guy.


What exactly is your concern? If your fear is ending up on TRT and don't want to take that risk then you shouldn't cycle. You can't really preconceive any hard set expectations because like you said in the same paragraph everybodies body is different.