Losing it after retirement is due to "use it or lose it" principle. Try to remember that adding as much muscle as many do on AAS is not natural, hence the need to constantly adapt your program and chemical/hormonal balance.
Kevin claims he can get it all back w/in 16 weeks...
Lee Priest, known for his candor and honesty to a fault, claims when on cycle he only does 200mg a week of juice.
Lee Priest...actually he has said many different at times conflicting things...for example he claimed he never tried testosterone and gave a laughable reason as to why...I laughed but the interview was suppose to be serious...
Someone here once said a pro like Ron Coleman would either need his HTPA replaced, or a really really really long PCT. :toofunny:
Back when Kevin was half owner of that gym in Maryland he liked to party. He had his band going and he liked to have fun. He would literally stop working out for almost half the year and during this time he worked hard at trying to make his band a success. He also pursued acting a little bit.
Many cruise for parts of the year and then run a cycle on top of that...there really is no PCT. I mean these guys are trying to maintain mass beyond their genetic limits...what choice do they have?
This is a very necessary and informative post.:jaw:
Kevin Levrone back then:
Kevin today:
Plus we have to add "muscle memory" which includes a fascia that is now not a barrier to increased size back up to what it was stretched to previously and genetic freak.
"well his time off probably served as a prime in some respects and the GH/slin protocol that was used back then was more along the line of what Milos Sarcev openly discussed years ago."
theoritcally yes, as long as training and diet and nonAAS supplementation was done to keep the muscle. Its not a matter of the muscle being gained with steroids its more dependant on genetic limits that define how much muscle can be carried without juice. This is why you want natural test production restored to its full potential asap. Again my first point is the deciding factor overall.
you'd keep it so long as you weren't way over your genetic max. almost nobody really reaches that anyhow
so long as you let some time pass between the end of PCT and when you start the cut you wouldn't loose any more muscle during the cut than otherwise. Very specific wording there to "than otherwise". you still have the ability to loose muscle instead of fat depending on the details of your cut
the amount of years training has nothing to do with it. some guys reach genetic max quicker than others.if you haven't been lifting and eating right for the past 10-15 years, then you aren't close enough to your genetic limit that it matters
I suppose if you have low testosterone levels its possible, but I can't really imagine your normal person hitting their max by 26, if they started at 16 and just were natural.
"Genetic limit" is a generic phrase...
) the body wants to hold less muscle (or doesn't want to build as much muscle). Growth Hormone declining as we age has a lot to do with this limitation. Sex hormonal levels as well as balance and ratios also are more important as we age. For example a moderate reduction in estrogen might do more for us old guys then younger guys.
not only that. what about some one say of vietnamese bloodline and his family is all small boned and no one has ever been over 180lbs.....this guy if training for a few dedicated years could reach his limit very fast imo.
I dunno tho, cause likely in that scenario the reason his family is not so big is lack of dietary protein..... the asian diet is light on that. and even then he's likely to be starting in the 130-140 range, so it still would take a good while to hit 180s, as you are looking at 50lbs, so at least 8-10 years, given say 15lbs first year and 5 a year after that.
