Ramp up cycle?

[SuperDawgy]

My old training partner stopped by the gym last week and looked great. We started talking about his last cycle and for the life of me i can't figure out why it worked so well.

He did a "ramp up/down" test cycle with EQ and var thrown in.

Week 1 was 300mg enan, 600mg EQ and 40mg var ED
Week 2 he bumped the test to 400mg no change on the others
Week 3-5 went up to 600mg on test no change on the others
Week 6-10 he dropped the test from 600mg to 500mg to 400mg and finished at 300mg. Dropped the EQ from 600 to 400 for the remainder.

He said he diet was far from perfect but somehow he added around 15lbs?
Any guesses as to why it worked?

 

[hammertime30]

My old training partner stopped by the gym last week and looked great. We started talking about his last cycle and for the life of me i can't figure out why it worked so well.

He did a "ramp up/down" test cycle with EQ and var thrown in.

Week 1 was 300mg enan, 600mg EQ and 40mg var ED
Week 2 he bumped the test to 400mg no change on the others
Week 3-5 went up to 600mg on test no change on the others
Week 6-10 he dropped the test from 600mg to 500mg to 400mg and finished at 300mg. Dropped the EQ from 600 to 400 for the remainder.

He said he diet was far from perfect but somehow he added around 15lbs?
Any guesses as to why it worked?

The question to you is why do you think it shouldn't have?? The gains made on the cycle wasn't dose dependent, but rather due to the length of time.....He would have made the same gains if he would have just stuck with 300mg test and 600mg EQ with 40mg of var though out the entire cycle......(the dosages don't make your body build muscle quicker exponentially...for your body still can only produce muscle so fast....water is a different story....so another question is how much of the gains was water vs lean body mass)You must rememeber, test and EQ are long esters....even though he changed his dosages by the weeks, the actual release didn't change as dramatically as you may think....all he really did was made the cycle more difficult than what it required....don't feed too much into it....going up and down in dosages doesn't change the effectiveness of a cycle....nor does it change the recovery time.....ie...even though he ended at 300mg....it's going to take the same amount of time to recover because of the long esters...

 

[wnt2bBeast]

im with hammer

 

[LVTitan]

good advice hammer...gotta spread the love before i can k ya

 

[SuperDawgy]

Good point Hammer, but whats odd about it is that this guy has been doing gear for years. And in the past i've seen him go upwards of 2.5gr a week and gain maybe 5 pounds after 10 weeks. I just thought that maybe he was onto something different.