makingains said:
So this is my story. I'm 32 been training for 10 years. Long story short I had low test under 300. Cut weight down to 156 before I went on TRT. Went on test-c 250 a week for six months and gained 25 lbs with a loss of 4% bf. I'm 180 now. So I got my blood work back at six months, cbc and estrodial were elevated. Cbc was in range but high and my esteroidal was 93, wicked high. So what's my doc do, takes me off cold turkey. Thank god no sides have occurred. So now I'm going back on trt and want to see what I can do to maximize the trt I'm using. On one shot a weak my test was at right around 900 which is where I want to be but after being on for about 4 months I stopped making gains, I'm assuming it was because my Damn estrogen was so high. I am thinking of going sub Q injections eod and possibly running aromasin with it because of what Dylan says about it reducing the sex hormone that binds and lowers free test and lowering estrogen. Also I take 24 mg albuterol ed. Anyhow I know the first response is going to be take some sarms but I'm not sure I'm sold on them yet. Mainly the cost for what seems like a small benefits. I open to any advice and will listen so hit me with your replies. If you choose to respond be prepared, I ask a ton of questions and will ask and research and ask again before I make a move on anything so just be fore warned.
The answer to your problem is right there in bold bro. You said after about 4 months on you stopped making gains. That is perfectly normal. Your body can only produce so much muscle at a given rate, and as you acquire more and more muscle, your myostatin will increase which tells your body to stop building new muscle and gains will stall out. For every pound of muscle you acquire, your body will also be closer and closer to its genetic limit. This also slows gains.
Don't expect to make any substantial gains at the level you did when first going on TRT. You were severely undersized when starting TRT, and your body responded favorably by building muscle rather easily to get you to a better muscular foundation. Now that you have that, to make further gains on TRT it's going to be extremely slow in comparison. That's just how it goes.
If you want to push further you need higher doses, more compounds, sarms, whatever. There are a lot of choices to make gains, but being on just TRT will only take you so far. That's why it makes more sense to do a blast and cruise if you are on TRT. Cruise at TRT for about 12 weeks, go on blast at higher doses and multiple compounds for 12 weeks, then repeat the cruise again. Something like that is the ideal way if you want to progress further. You just have to remember to come off and cruise after a length of time to let your myostatin come down and let your health numbers baseline