Cycling Steroids is pointless

[Marcus G]

I think the main issue is that most people don't understand how cortisol works. When your take AAS cortisol is suppressed and gycorgen retention also increases depending what steroids your on this can also be happen with nitrogen and minerals as well. When you come off and cortisol levels rebound which then causes catabolism and your also loose water from inside the muscle (so muscle size) from decreased gycorgen retention. To off set cortisol high protein intake along with bcaa's help reduce rise in cortisol (as well as few other things). There isn't much you can do about the loss of gycorgen retention except maybe using creatine during pct with and in increased carbohydrate intake.

[cousinmuscles]

I think the main issue is that most people don't understand how cortisol works. When your take AAS cortisol is suppressed and gycorgen retention also increases depending what steroids your on this can also be happen with nitrogen and minerals as well. When you come off and cortisol levels rebound which then causes catabolism and your also loose water from inside the muscle (so muscle size) from decreased gycorgen retention. To off set cortisol high protein intake along with bcaa's help reduce rise in cortisol (as well as few other things). There isn't much you can do about the loss of gycorgen retention except maybe using creatine during pct with and in increased carbohydrate intake.

Isn't there more to this, like CNS activation and many other processes in muscle cells, that makes one stronger ? I should have saved snippets and sources lol.

Its not that the gains were lost, I think most of the gains are kept. What you get is an opportunity to train with much heavier weights and thus induce growth. Now if you lose a bunch of water and neural efficiency due to not having a compound are not gains lost - you never had them.