Help on Deca and Test stack

[TRA]

Yeah, I've read it, Ill post a good while from now and we will see If I can live by what I said haha. I love casual lifting tbh, I just wanna give this a go just to see how far I can push it since I have the time.

I understand the reference of casual lifting to be your norm, but not during your cycle. Still want to throw in that AAS improve recovery and effectiveness and for me I had to work harder to get the added benefit. I had a cycle where I got injured (unrelated to lifting) and was mid cycle and opted to continue. When my workout intensity decreased and lifts were not as frequent I saw progress come to a near halt. I was stronger and recovered better but without adding more work I just cruised and didn't optimize the potential, in fact, basically neutralized it.
I would urge that you make sure you can take in the required clean kcals and if you decide to go ahead attack your lifting like nothing else, with common sense to avoid injury.

[Domtux]

I understand the reference of casual lifting to be your norm, but not during your cycle. Still want to throw in that AAS improve recovery and effectiveness and for me I had to work harder to get the added benefit. I had a cycle where I got injured (unrelated to lifting) and was mid cycle and opted to continue. When my workout intensity decreased and lifts were not as frequent I saw progress come to a near halt. I was stronger and recovered better but without adding more work I just cruised and didn't optimize the potential, in fact, basically neutralized it.
I would urge that you make sure you can take in the required clean kcals and if you decide to go ahead attack your lifting like nothing else, with common sense to avoid injury.

Thanks for the anecdote. Yeah, I've already started the workout plan and eating I plan to do later, so I can test it out. I think things should work out. A problem I have is that I eat at a University dining hall (I'm a researching grad student, its really cost effective) for almost all of my meals, so getting the calorie numbers down is hard. Any suggestions there? I essentially have infinite anything, but I'm not looking to bring in a scale with me haha.

[TRA]

Thanks for the anecdote. Yeah, I've already started the workout plan and eating I plan to do later, so I can test it out. I think things should work out. A problem I have is that I eat at a University dining hall (I'm a researching grad student, its really cost effective) for almost all of my meals, so getting the calorie numbers down is hard. Any suggestions there? I essentially have infinite anything, but I'm not looking to bring in a scale with me haha.

I would play around with an online nutritional database (for example, google 'nutritional information chicken breast' and use one of the ones that come up that is user friendly and that you like). You can select per chicken breast rather than grams and it will give you the approximate grams per breast, per medium sweet potato, per cup of x, etc. and you can eyeball from there. Just watch your weight and adjust. Not ideal but should work. Might be difficult first run because of possible bloat from test if e2 a little high (apex not dialed in), etc. There is some margin for error but you don't want to let kcal get out of hand or do too few so you waste the cycle.

May want to post up the diet issue in the diet and nutrition section and get some input there, as I'm sure there are a lot of pearls in that forum!