is this normal weight gain?!?

[docchiro08]

or am i doing something wrong? my cycle right now is 400mg test cyp per week and 500mg EQ per week. i started out at about 190 @ 11% bf (height is 5'11). my weight has increased to 199 and bf is about 9.5%. i'm into this cycle @ 5 and a half weeks. my diet is damn clean. cal. are @ 4100 a day. my split is 45pro/35car/20fat. protiens consist of tuna chicken and lean pork tenderloin. carbs vary from corn tortilla, brown rice, brocolli, sweet potato, and sweet peas. fats are from the meats and natural pb. this is the same caloric intake and split from my natural bulking cycle that ended about 6 months ago. i gained almost 30 pounds then, but the bf went up a few percentages. the only difference now is that i split my meals from 5 per day to 7 meals per day now. then i was averaging 2 pounds per week. now i'm averaging 1 pound, 1.5 pounds MAX per week, but my bf is still dropping. are these the kind of gains you guys are seeing when cycling and eating right?! i figured i would see a minimum of 2 pounds a week. any help would be greatly appreciated!!

 

[DonCorleone562]

Bro, you're saying that you are pretty much eating the same as your previous cycle. The only thing I can say is that every cycle I gain less than the previous if all other factors are the same.
Is this your 2nd cycle?

 

[docchiro08]

correct, this isn't my first cycle. but it is my first cycle with clean diet. i would imagine with cycles not done properly before, i'd be able to do everything right this time and at least be close to the same gains. are you saying that on a 12 week cycle of test and a 15 week cycle of EQ that with everything done right i could still only gain 10-15 pounds?

 

[evilsupaman]

also take into consideration youre losing bodyfat man. You mentioned on your previous cycle you increased bodyfat meaning some of your weight was infact fat. This cycle you've only put on muscle, and it's more than the scale shows since you've lost bodyfat. Seems to me that when you started you had 169.1 lbs of muscle on your body. 5.5 weeks into this cycle, you have 181lbs of muscle. You have gained 12lbs of muscle so far bro. keep it up

 

[docchiro08]

also take into consideration youre losing bodyfat man. You mentioned on your previous cycle you increased bodyfat meaning some of your weight was infact fat. This cycle you've only put on muscle, and it's more than the scale shows since you've lost bodyfat. Seems to me that when you started you had 169.1 lbs of muscle on your body. 5.5 weeks into this cycle, you have 181lbs of muscle. You have gained 12lbs of muscle so far bro. keep it up

your right bro, i did take that into consideration. i'm just too lazy to do the calculations! haha. thanks for that. i'm one of those guys that is never happy with my body and always looking to improve. i guess the point of this thread was just to make sure i'm on the right track. i also wanted to make sure that the gains i'm seeing are at least average for my cycle and diet. i really got boned on the price of my EQ, but it was the only source around me that carried it. it would be alot of money pissed away if there was something else i could be doing to increase gains. thanks again bro!

 

[dsh89]

Yeah 12 pounds of lean mass in 5 weeks is great. Looks to me as if you are heading the right direction.