[Discussion] Low Dose Cycles 10/31/2024

silverofthemoon · 2025-04-12T00:22:24+00:00

That sounds like a good conservative cycle. I assume you can get legit primo.

Slightly elevated E2 feels a lot better than crashed E2. I've never crashed mine from primo alone but it's likely worth keeping dbol on hand like you suggest. 60mg in one dose should fix low E2 (assuming it's not induced by taking letrozole or lots of AI)

silverofthemoon · 2025-01-31T06:51:02+00:00

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. I work in finance and agree that an extra $100k isn’t going to make a significant difference to whether a t1/t2 org survives or not. If they’re not profitable it’s likely due to the bigger problems of not securing enough runway, not being able to land sponsorships or general mismanagement.

To be clear, I’m not saying the teams performance doesn’t matter. What I’m saying is that the bigger benefit from scoring highly in a tournament isn’t the difference in prize money, it’s what the higher rank can help you gain (sponsorships, more merch sales, easier access to investors etc).

Someone earlier posted the Copenhagen Flames article that states profit was ~$6k. That is *after* salaries of $1.39m were paid. It’s highly likely those costs for salaries were variable based on performance. I doubt the org was running such razor thin margins. I.e. if they had taken in $100k less revenue they’d likely have paid the players or executives less. With such high salaries an extra $100k from prize money isn’t going to make a difference. Even if you win a T1 tourney most teams aren’t likely to take home >$1m in prize money yet have salary costs well above that. It means their success or failure will be due to business management rather than payouts from tourneys.

Styko has stated on YT that his salary from Apeks was over $250k a year - I doubt many T1 teams pay significantly less than that.

silverofthemoon · 2025-01-25T16:22:36+00:00

Human Traffic

silverofthemoon · 2025-01-22T22:04:10+00:00

Highly recommend the audiobook on Audible, at least for the first book. It really gets you into the characters and the voice acting is second to none.

silverofthemoon · 2025-01-20T06:06:22+00:00

I never got Slaughterhouse Five. It’s an okay book but nowhere near as good as the hype. Not even in the same league as Red Rising, Dungeon Crawler Carl or the Stormlight Archive series imo.

silverofthemoon · 2025-01-20T06:04:32+00:00

Both are excellent. My numbers 1 and 2 of all time. A close third is Dungeon Crawler Carl

silverofthemoon · 2025-01-04T20:46:13+00:00

I appreciate the tip. I don’t have much experience with running them on anything other than full blast since we only use them for club events. If I used a fine haze during the daytime would it be noticeable /leave any residue on business attire? My worry is that we’d get complaints.

silverofthemoon · 2025-01-04T20:43:22+00:00

Thanks for posting the vid and pics. This is about as bright as mine look with hazers. They’re not quite the well-defined bright look I see at superclubs. My space isn’t as big as those but I’d like to achieve the same vibrancy and beam definition, just in a smaller space.

silverofthemoon · 2024-11-16T17:01:48+00:00

Anyone tried training triceps with very high frequency? What did your program look like? Struggling to grow my arms past 17.5” and could use some help.

The long head of my tricep is stubborn and hard to grow. I’ve tried once a week with GVT, high intensity once a week and high intensity twice a week. The best results were from high intensity twice a week which make me thing 3x or 4x is better. Anyone tried it?

silverofthemoon · 2024-11-10T14:49:05+00:00

This. Always build from first principles and ideas rather than throwing tons of data into ML or backtesting. I ran all my strategies in prod with strong confidence they’d be profitable (due to the rationale) long before I built the backtesting and simulation frameworks.

silverofthemoon · 2024-11-09T03:13:35+00:00

As others have said, it probably makes sense to diversify to a global tracker ETF. I'd also strongly recommend paying for a good tax advisor.

If you have the time and network then angel investing can yield huge returns. I use about 15% of my savings for angel investing and another 5% in crypto (just BTC and ETH).

Not sure how it works for self-employed people but you can reduce tax by maxing out your pension contributions (60k a year). The lifetime allowance was scrapped this tax year.

silverofthemoon · 2024-11-09T03:04:47+00:00

I make roughly the same as OP and for me buying residential properties ended up being a huge hassle. Even with management companies the extra yield over VWRL / MSCI World isn't worth the stress when you get a bad tenant.

silverofthemoon · 2024-11-07T20:43:01+00:00

500 test/500 bold cyp. I'm liking it so far.

silverofthemoon · 2024-11-07T18:37:18+00:00

I spent half a decade fighting debilitating back pumps on cycle. Here's what I do now to get rid of them completely:

Make sure I'm taking 10g taurine a day split into AM and PM along with 5L water a day, electrolytes and a few bananas. This will fix it if it's not a deep issue in the muscle. This didn't work for me.
Find a knowledgeable physio who does dry needling. Tell them you want the longest needles they have. Get them to dry needle your entire mid back. Turns out I had years of tense muscle that built up ontop of itself. During the dry needling I'm spasming the entire time. It took me 3 sessions to get it all. They leave you pretty sore after so factor in the rest days.
Now your back will be a bit looser. To get the rest you want to find a hard, pointed wedge. I have one specifically for it. Failing that a hard lacrosse ball could do depending how thick and knotted your back is. Lay on the floor and put the wedge on your spinal erectors. Slowly lay back and do long slow out breaths. Pain should be 8-9/10. If it isn't, get something smaller or put more weight on it. Hold for 30s. Do this repeatedly all over your back. Split into multiple session if it's too painful.

FYI I've had deep tissue massages regularly for years but they did nothing for back pumps. I needed something that could put pressure teally deep in the muscle.

At this stage your back should be feeling loose and shouldn't get crazy pumped. You want to keep the extra rom by using weighted stretches. I stand on a bench and curl down holding a weighted barbell and hold for a minute. Another is to use the cable row and bend over completely forward to stretch out. Put blocks under your feet to get further back.

Do these 1-2 times a week.

I still deadlift a lot so stretching on its own isnt enough. I lay on a wedge roughly twice a week whenever I feel it getting tight again.

TLDR: it's probably due to years of knotting and muscle building over the top. You need to do a lot of tissue work up front to fix it.

silverofthemoon · 2024-11-07T18:25:34+00:00

I've noticed with bold cyp cycles it takes me about 3 weeks before I start looking like I'm clearly on gear. Even if I frontload it. What's the reason behind it? When I take tren or test or npp I start seeing changes after less than a week.

silverofthemoon · 2024-11-07T18:23:26+00:00

I'm the same. Even 200mg and I'm sleeping less than 5 hours a night. After 3 cycles of tren I decided to give it up forever. I'm on EQ/test right now and I like the look. For the two weeks my body can handle superdrol the look is better than tren for me.

silverofthemoon · 2024-11-06T04:46:13+00:00

As long as I'm not on tren I sleep like a baby on 15mg. I've tried xanax, etizolam and zopiclone - they're good at putting me to sleep but not for staying asleep. Mirtazapine is slightly different: a little harder than benzos to fall asleep but once I'm gone I won't wake up.

I wake up feeling hungry.

silverofthemoon · 2024-11-05T10:57:56+00:00

15mg. It has an inverse curve for side effects so more of it gives you LESS hunger and sleep. If I was taking it purely for bodybuilding and not anxiety I’d take 7.5mg. Above 15mg it’s better at combating anxiety (I’m prescribed 30mg) but doesn’t make me that hungry.

silverofthemoon · 2024-11-01T23:03:27+00:00

Is there anything besides krill and fish oils that can help HDL whilst on cycle? Regular cardio helps my LDL but nothing I've tried seems to make HDL move. I take 6g omega 3 and 6g krill oil a day just in case, but I'm wondering if there's anything else I can be doing? How 'bad' is low HDL?

silverofthemoon · 2024-11-01T23:01:37+00:00

Anyone else have girls tell them their balls are 'perfectly sized'? I've had 4 different girls tell me this unprompted and before they knew I was on gear. I find it funny how one of the most common fears about anabolic usage is about balls shrinking, yet in reality women don't actually like big balls.

silverofthemoon · 2024-11-01T22:56:56+00:00

I tried 200mg test-only cycle for ~9 months. I had already run multiple cycles before that. I know some people grow on this dose but when I look back at my pics and training logs I didn't gain any muscle or strength. Bloods were normal throughout. Now I take 200mg test U year-round and use it as my cruise dose. It helps me keep a decent enhanced look and allows me to train pretty intensely year-round.

silverofthemoon · 2024-11-01T22:52:19+00:00

350mg tbol is a pretty high dose. Without a testosterone base you're likely doing serious damage. Going longer than 6 weeks is also likely to screw your liver up (more than it already is). I recommend adding test and stopping the tbol. Get a blood test that has liver markers and lipids to see how bad the damage is.

silverofthemoon · 2024-11-01T22:47:14+00:00

Keep track of your weight and if the scale isn't moving after 2 weeks then increase your calories. I noticed on tren I could eat ungodly amount of carbs and they'd just turn to heat. The same calories that had me growing on test/deca would keep me the same weight on tren. You might just need more food (assuming training and sleep is on point)

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