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Coming Off For Good

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Surge

Hi people,

In the past I have done a few cycles, always low dose like 250mg test or 50mg anavar or tbol.

I decided to try going natural this year. Weight isn't down that much, maybe 5-7lbs. However strength is way down, I'm maybe at 90% of what I was before.

Is this normal? How has coming off for good or an extended period of time affected you?

I am considering getting a medichecks test done to see if I have low test.

Finding it hard psychologically more so than physically.

Would really like to hear any thoughts you may have.
 
Haha fair point. I definitely overthink sometimes.

I know people say once you take gear it's hard to train naturally, I was just looking for people's experiences of coming off long term or forever.
 
I think I worded my question wrong.

I just wanted to know people's experience of the effects of coming off for good.
 
Surge said:
I think I worded my question wrong.

I just wanted to know people's experience of the effects of coming off for good.
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strength and size will go down, mentally you'll wonder if you made the right choice as ego will take a pounding. you'll then realise your a bitch to the peds, once you get over that then life is fine.
 
Fatbrah said:
@doink s went up when he come off tbf
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I went on, first time, in 1997 or 1998. I stayed pretty much ‘on’ (didn’t know what I was doing/no internet and would come off for 2 weeks thinking I was ‘clearing out’) until 2002, when I stopped jabbing, and dabbled with dbol until late 2003.

By 2011 I hadn’t done gear for like 8 years, started training harder and eating better, and by the end of that year, I was significantly stronger at this point than I ever was on gear.

I went back on whilst I was on this board, before my qualifier in March 2017, and was already ‘gym totalling’ 820 in the powerlifts before I took anything.

I think you can be as strong off, but you need to be fatter/heavier.
 
Thank you for the feedback guys.

@RickJsy

That's interesting, 820 clean is a big total indeed!

I need to get heavier for my height, I've got a lot to work on in terms of diet and improving training further
 
You need to train smart focus on recovery. Maybe change carbs for fats if your a big carb eater
DC 2 day or fortitude is good for natties
 
I don't find my strength drops much during cruises anymore. I think people just automatically let it slip mentally, rather than work hard at holding it. my overall workload def drops.. I cant train for as long & it takes longer to recover after a heavy session. so I train a bit smarter- drop my training split & train more frequent

im taking the plunge this year though & coming off completely, after 5-6 years on blast & cruising. should be interesting :lol: ill NOT be letting numbers slip. ill be working my ass off to hold everything
 
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