I think that the drugs being used and your diet play a significant role.
I don’t think it’s the worlds worst thing to blast, check labs, blast again with different drugs, but 2 things usually happen; we minimize our out of range labs “well hdl is only 15 away from in range and hct is just barely over” so we blast again, this is where we start taking unnecessary risks. 2nd thing is the drugs don’t work nearly as well. Like sometimes barely at all, but better than a cruise. And I know we already know this but sometimes we rationalize. You wouldn’t die from doing this for a few years in order to compete or reach an important goal, but the addictive nature of this shows us that we will not simply stop there. The discipline to cruise intermittently to get those receptors primed, is hard for a lot of us. But it’s the best practice. I’ve been blasting since February pretty much non stop and while my labs look pretty good, I’m constantly increasing doses and wished I was getting more out of my drugs. That’s the more significant factor, but rest assured if I did this year after year, I’d probably be risking my long term health big time.
But to your question, traditional length is better for the long term because you give yourself more time to get your health back to baseline. Far better for health.