Andy's first bulking cycle

[letsrun4it]

Started Feb 26.

5'11" 177# uknown body fat
Former competitive distance runner, so hardest of hard gainers.

Goal of cycle: Get as strong as possible by adding the muscle, then I'll worry bout getting rid of the fat and holding onto the muscle.

Week 1-12 500mg (250x2) Test Cyp by LSP
Week 1-4 40mg Var ED
Week 1-12 50mg proviron ED

I had some problems with my ag-guys order so I'll be getting my liquidex tomorrow and I'll be running 0.5mg ED.

Diet: Eat everything in sight. Lots of oatmeal, pb&j, whey, tuna.

If I get to week 8-9 and I've just gained so much weight that I'm worried I won't be able to get it off I might throw in 350mg/week of winny depot for the last month and bring my calories down.

Week 1 update: Nothing should have kicked in yet but I'm up to 186 pounds. I'm having a hard time explaining this one, maybe 3-4 pounds of it is extra food in my body from eating so much more. I didn't think water retention would have even started yet. A tiny bit of breakout on my arm, maybe its unrelated to the test.

All comments, questions, or advice welcome.

 

[letsrun4it]

I got my liquidex and have started that, o my it tastes bad. Totally bearable though considering the low doseage.

 

[letsrun4it]

Well I gained 3 pounds from yesterday and this morning I was 191.8, the most I've ever weighed. I really shouldn't be continuing to bloat now that I'm on 1mg/day of arimidex and taking watershed (anti-bloat made by ABS).

I'm doing 2-3 cans of tuna everyday and at least 1 50g of protein shake. I've recently added whole wheat pasta with meat sauce, which I think is great. I use a medium amount of pasta and sauce but really load up on the ground meat. Right now I'm using beef and I'll go to turkey when I'm done. I go through about 1.5 pounds a day of ground meat. So day 12 and I'm +14 pounds of water.

 

[Mr.X]

I got my liquidex and have started that, o my it tastes bad. Totally bearable though considering the low doseage.

mix with lemon juice or OJ taste goes away

 

[letsrun4it]

Now that I'm mixing my liquidex with crystal light it tastes like I'm downing a mixed drink in the mornings.

 

[letsrun4it]

New bench press PR of 240 pounds. I know it doesn't sound like a lot to most of you but I started weight lifting as a 5'11" 133 pound college runner, its taken me 3 years? (im losing track of time) to get to this point. I used to run 85-90 miles a week and when I found out discs in my back were degenerating I had to stop running. Ever since then I've been lifting. The first day I did the bench press my friend put 25's on each side and I failed to get the bar up. I was 19, I could run 31:20 for 10k (5 minute miles for 6.2 miles) yet I couldn't bench 95 pounds. The juice should be kicking in soon so hopefully I get a nice boost.

300 here I come.

 

[letsrun4it]

Taking 1mg of liquidex is paying off, I was at 192.4 a couple of days ago and yesterday I was 190 and today I'm 188, so the bloat is leaving me.

 

[tiggerizme]

Keep it up bro. You'll get there.

 

[letsrun4it]

194 pounds this morning, I think the juice is starting to kick in because the pumps I had yesterday were unreal. I'm not sure its a good thing or not but my forearms felt like they were going to burst through the skin.

My shoulder is starting to hurt-specifically the deltoid on my right side. I'm not new to lifting weights so its not adjusting to a bigger workload or anything I just think I haven't taken enough (any?) days off. Deltoids are constantly getting pulled on no matter what I'm working out so tomorrow I'm gonna lay off of it, ice, take some IBprofun and hopefully by friday it'll be good as new. It actually doesn't hurt too bad while lifting just afterwards I can barely open a door, feels like a dead arm.

Beisdes the shoulder the training is going really well, I feel stronger than I ever have especially on the deadlift. I use a diamond shape deadlift bar- not sure if there is a proper name for that thing- and I'm way up on the weight I was doing a month ago.

 

[letsrun4it]

201 pounds this morning. I have upped my anavar dose to 70mg on the advice of others. Today I set a new PR of 250 pounds on the bench press. My shoulder is still sore but I'm treating it well after my workouts so I'm pretty sure I can get through it.

Var is awesome.

I'm doing everything I can to keep the bloat down but its just gonna be part of this cycle because I didn't start dex right away. +24 pounds in 3 weeks, I'll update in a week.