I agree with this statement 100%. Why not let things settle, let the body stabilize. Make no mistake, PCT helps your body stabilize, but get off the PCT drugs completely then just train for a while and get your body completely back to homeostasis. Going from all out bulks to cuts and vice versa just strains your body and stresses you out.
Cool. So how are your recommendations relevant to some but not others?
The point he's trying to make is this whole notion of "solidifying" gains is over blown. Regardless what you do, when returning to homeostasis you are going to loose the superficial levels of water and glycogen. This really isn't the case with newly formed muscle fibers.
OP is 4 weeks post-PCT. Is another 4 or 8 or whatever weeks really going to make a significant difference in the grand scheme of things? Like, if he wants to start dropping kcals now in a reasonable fashion as has been suggested, why not?
Thanks for that, bro. 1) I feel like NAC thinks we are morons or something. And 2) Stan is the ****! I love his posts on Instagram!
Oh, wait, Stan recommends this??! Oh well fuk, why didnt you appeal to authority earlier then?! Case closed!!
Its the interwebz, erryones a moron til proven otherwise.
Well see theres the conundrum, hans. A moron would think the rule did not apply to himself...but if I acknowledge it does apply to me, Im not a moron.
Haha! Ok, now we're dancing round and round, fisticuffs and all. I am more than willing to admit that my initial statement and theory is wrong, at least for some people, if not probably most people. However, I know my body and how it reacts, and changing calories and macros quickly doesn't always pan out well for me.
I would personally not change my diet at all. I would push harder in the gym and keep the food in place as your chief anabolic. If your really pressed maybe drop your carbs out, but keep your protein and fats at the same caloric expenditure as on cycle. Add some low intensity cardio in if you want to burn some extra cals, but I wouldn't drop my food man.
Of course. My motivation here has been a reaction against the cookie-cutter dogma, "on-cycle gainz need to be made more permanent over time!!1" which to me seems more a psychological need than a physiological truth.
Lol. Listen bro just keep your protein high and take in enough of your other macros to keep your training as intense as it was before. If that means the same cals, then so be it, or if that means you can cut the cals down then even better. But one very big variable has changed, which is the change in your hormones, so throwing in another change of a very big and possibly the most important variable, diet, you will be seeing alot of flucuation. If your training takes a dip, then that's three major changes. 4-8 weeks with these changes can definitely result in muscle loss. Just stay consistent and keep Killin it
