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Good post by old Ulter worth reading imo.
and for you guys that like to stay on !
Why your cycle stalls in week 8 and more
So as has been posted a million times it's widely accepted that your cycle will stall in week 8. Search those words and I bet I've posted them 1000 time myself.
What we didn't know was why. Now we know why, or at least how your body does this dastardly deed. You guys remember the study done in 2005 by Shalender Bhasina? The one where they gave men 75-600mg/wk of Test? "Testosterone dose-response relationships in healthy young men" Well the author published a new study that was released a couple months ago.
Measurement of myostatin concentrations in human serum:
Circulating concentrations in young and older men and effects
of testosterone administration.
http://www.afboard.com/library/Meas...nd effects of testosterone administration.pdf
Contrary to what they were expecting to see, it seems that by day 56 myostatin levels were much higher. So in week 8 it was causing LBM gains to stall, you know, like we know they do. But here's the good news. By the end of the study in week 20 they were back to baseline.
The moral of the story is to do 8 week cycles or stay on.
and for you guys that like to stay on !
Why your cycle stalls in week 8 and more
So as has been posted a million times it's widely accepted that your cycle will stall in week 8. Search those words and I bet I've posted them 1000 time myself.
What we didn't know was why. Now we know why, or at least how your body does this dastardly deed. You guys remember the study done in 2005 by Shalender Bhasina? The one where they gave men 75-600mg/wk of Test? "Testosterone dose-response relationships in healthy young men" Well the author published a new study that was released a couple months ago.
Measurement of myostatin concentrations in human serum:
Circulating concentrations in young and older men and effects
of testosterone administration.
http://www.afboard.com/library/Meas...nd effects of testosterone administration.pdf
Contrary to what they were expecting to see, it seems that by day 56 myostatin levels were much higher. So in week 8 it was causing LBM gains to stall, you know, like we know they do. But here's the good news. By the end of the study in week 20 they were back to baseline.
The moral of the story is to do 8 week cycles or stay on.