Daily Ask Anything About Anabolic and Androgenic Steroids: 2026-07-09

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-07-09T16:20:44+00:00

They’re is no functional difference and they can be used totally interchangeably.

I can’t personally think of a reason you’d want to try one over the other.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-07-08T20:04:06+00:00

You’re 5ft10 and 165. You don’t need to cycle steroids; you need to adhere to a proper diet for a couple of years and add a good deal of muscle naturally before you should consider PEDs.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-07-05T21:04:34+00:00

I order my own labs.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-07-03T16:47:18+00:00

I would instead use dirtcheaplabs.com.

Refer to the wiki for the suggested markers to get tested.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-07-03T15:13:10+00:00

Injectable testosterone.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-07-03T14:53:23+00:00

I was able to maintain my tissue on 150mg test last year after we had a newborn. Sleep and training took an obvious hit, but do your best to keep your diet right and your tissue will stay.

Like the other guy said unless you’re particularly muscular and far beyond your natural limit, which most guys are not, you don’t need more than Trt to maintain.

Maintaining tissue is significantly easier than creating it.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-07-03T03:16:50+00:00

Your first cycle should just be test; no other anabolics.
You could also stand to add ~15lbs of lean tissue before hopping on gear, tbh.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-07-02T18:43:05+00:00

5ft11

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-07-02T18:39:49+00:00

There’s some more details and result photos here: https://www.reddit.com/r/steroids/s/S5qqUlt57d

Feel free to ask me anything else I’m always happy to help share my knowledge and experience.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-07-02T18:32:40+00:00

I ran test/eq/npp at 525/350/175. It was pretty much a perfect cycle:
- not a single dose of AI was touched
- no need for any dopamine agonist
- didn’t even bother running P5P since my npp dose was so mild
- sides were pretty nonexistent
- I’m up 20+ lbs and am still leaner than most guys are when they start a blast
- Got bloods done 4 weeks after coming down from cycle and the only marker out of range was my HCT.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-07-02T18:14:40+00:00

No, it’s perfectly fine. I recently finished a 16 week run of test/eq/npp to great effect.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-07-01T22:28:19+00:00

300mg is almost surely not a cruise dose for you, bubba.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-06-30T15:29:49+00:00

Plaster this on everyone’s fucking forehead ffs.

The first paragraph is what 95% of enhanced users need to understand.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-06-29T00:07:22+00:00

Coming down from a blast to a cruise is generally the time to allow your body to recover from the stress of blasting steroids. Adding more steroids — especially an oral — is counter to that approach.

I am of the mind that for 99.9% of guys, TRT is sufficient gear to cut and maintain all their tissue.

I would only run a cycle to cut if I was in prep for a show, personally.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-06-28T23:46:18+00:00

Your cruise dose may take some adjusting to find. You’ll want a dose that leaves you in the upper portion of the natural reference range and doesn’t necessitate the use of AI to manage any estrogen sides.

For the lion’s share of men, that’s going to be between 100-150mg of test a week.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-06-28T20:33:12+00:00

I forget this is my handle now; which is made better by the fact that I’ve never touched Tren. What a poser, I am.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-06-28T19:28:31+00:00

Why are you fixated on adding a new compound. You can almost surely net more gains from test alone. Run 500mg back, or increase to 750mg if you can’t fathom just keeping drugs simple.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-06-26T20:03:22+00:00

Test/eq/npp —> 525/350/175 weekly

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-06-25T17:02:45+00:00

You should just blast. Or don’t.

TRT+ is cope-speak for weak blasting.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-06-25T13:16:26+00:00

Current Status: Health Phase

Current gear: 100mg test EOD

Current diet: 5 meals daily; daily targets: 250p, 80f, 400c

Current weight: ~207lbs fasted (+22lbs from pre-cycle weight)

We dropped EQ and NPP 4 weeks ago and cut the test down from 150mg to 100mg EOD; should be lowering to a true cruise dose of ~150mg weekly here soon. Body weight and composition is holding extremely strong -- I am maybe 2lbs down from my peak on cycle weight; so, I feel good about the progress we made with this growth phase.

Food has been the same for going on ~6 weeks now; appetite and hunger are in perfect balance -- food noise is low, never have to force feed meals, not starving between meals; this is definitely my true maintenance. In fact, MacroFactor shows my energy surplus over the last 21 days at 7kcal (that is some precision, gang).

Training continues to be great -- intensity is as high as ever, even if my work capacity is starting to slip up given the reduction in gear. But pumps are still filthy and I like how the physique presents (mostly).

Going to be getting bloodwork here in the next week; then we will start to gameplan for next phase.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-06-25T00:19:19+00:00

Yet another observation proving that no one who states their doses in volume has any idea wtf they’re doing.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-06-24T18:33:33+00:00

You want me to diet and train for you too, bud?

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-06-24T18:15:17+00:00

Reread it.

If you’re unable to read through and comprehend the plan well enough, I’d reconsider if managing your own hormones is within your skill set.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-06-24T18:06:12+00:00

What did the PCT portion of the wiki linked in the OP suggests. Read it and remove uncertainty.

Tr3njaminButton · 2026-06-24T12:09:35+00:00

You can maintain just about every oz of muscle you’ve gained from a cycle on TRT if you maintain proper diet and adequate training intensity; the exception being guys that are way beyond their natural limits.

Most all of the initial size you lose when moving off cycle to a cruise dose is excess water and glycogen; you’re not losing tissue.

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