update on first cycle

[fball5]

Just a little update for you guys.
I just finished week 5.
This was my cycle:
dbol week 1 to 4 50mg
test e week 1 to 10 250mg bi weekly.
I still weigh 195, my weight gain has not dropped at all yet.
Near the end of week 3 i started getting a little bit of acne on the back of my neck but it has cleared up and gone away. No anger issues at all.

I Have noticed huge strength gains in my shoulders.
seated military press i am doing 225 for 4 (bar touching top of my chest every rep)
-before i was only doing around 155 max.
Bench has gone up a bit to a 345 one rep max.
Noticed huge gains in my squat now repping 385 for 4.
incline dumbbells 110 for sets of 6.

all in all everything is going well. the shoulders is the biggest shocker in strength gain. its unreal.

[peanutbutter]

nice .

[IAmTheWalrus]

the shoulders is the biggest shocker in strength gain. its unreal.

That's Dbol for you! Be prepared for more strength increases in the next couple of weeks. That Test E is just about set to kick into high gear. Be careful with the shoulders though... that's a BIG increase in weight on the military press. Make sure you are nice and warm and have a lot of blood and fluids flowing in the shoulder before you do those presses. People often find with such dramatic strength increases that the joints feel fine while on the cycle and then hurt like hell once off.

Keep pushing it in the gym. Use that extra strength and extra endurance to bust through plateaus. Use it to do more volume, more sets, and extra intensity techniques. Since your shoulders are obviously much, much stronger... take a break from the heavy lifts and run the rack on dumbbell presses or do some high-rep tri-sets to have your shoulders begging for mercy. You should be pleasantly surprised just how far you'll be able to push yourself.

[bigbench]

When strength increases are so rapid, try to avoid doing any types of max's. I know the temptation is there to see how much you can lift for one rep. But that is putting your tendons and ligaments under the most strain gives you a higher % rate of injury. Stick with lifts around 6 reps and up.