I wish that was one of the benefits.
Posted this US Army study in another thread here:
300mg of Test E for six weeks led to an average of 3.4kg of weight gain and a bodyfat percentage decrease of 0.7%. The best responders for each variable may have gained 3.9kg and lost 1.2% bodyfat, respectively (based on the Standard Error).
Daily prop is a lot more stable as far as blood levels of testosterone vs. weekly pinning with Test E, and due to the lighter ester weight, 350mg of prop is significantly more testosterone than 300mg of Test E. If gains really do come on fastest in the first three weeks, my results really aren't that unusual are they?
Also interesting is that 100mg a week of Deca led to a little fat loss, but 300mg actually led to a little fat gain.
Of course, small study size (30 subjects) yada yada but we don't have all that much research to go on, especially not on healthy men.
My entire reason for posting this thread was to log for myself what doing things my way instead of the 500mg for 12 weeks modern broscience approach would do for me, and those who read along. I didn't know what would happen. Turns out that for some people, you don't need to seriously damage your heart and fertility for some results. Of course if you wanna go IFBB Pro, more sacrifices have to be made...but that was never my goal. I just wanted to add some lbs of lean muscle and maybe lose some fat since my progress had slowed down significantly.
I now also know I need to keep sleeping regular hours and leave the tobacco out of my life if I want to maximize my success, with or without exogenous testosterone in my life. Lack of sleep especially really fucked with me and I need to not do that. I had no idea how bad tobacco was for gains though!