Biggest Cycle Mistake You Ever Made? (Be Honest)

[RS Rudy]

Alright bros, let's hear some real stories...

Everyone in this game has made at least one mistake at some point. No exceptions.

I'm talking about stuff like:

• running way too much thinking "more = better"
• skipping AI and paying for it
• skipping PCT like a genius
• trusting some random "gym coach"
• stacking things without really knowing why

No judgment here - just real experience.

What's the biggest mistake YOU made on cycle?
And what did it teach you?

These are the kind of lessons new guys actually need to hear.

Drop it below

 

[liverpool_96]

I've been quite sensible and conservative on my blasts - only done up to 500mg test 3 times and then used dbol/deca on two of those 3. However my mistake was my last blast and deciding to "bulk" when I was a fat as heck 240lbs up to 280lbs. It motivated me to get in the gym but when doing 8 reps of squats felt like climbing a mountain, I knew it wasn't doing me too good. Also the fact that I have been cutting since October because of being fat before the blast isn't ideal. So what I've learned is to be lean before bulking/blasting.

 

[Crit]

trusting a gym coach for sure, fucking idiot didnt know what the fuck he was talking about

 

[LukeOvEarth]

Fucking hell. My first cycle. Embarrassing but here goes.
I wanted to start TRT and or cycle because I noticed a lot of symptoms of low testosterone, hormonal dysregulation, and other things. Likely from my kratom dependence at the time, and likely other lifestyle factors. I figured that since I’ve already been training for a couple years heavily and that I was around the age of 30 that it made me more qualified. Which is dumb, by the way.
I could’ve gotten away with biting the bullet and removing the kratom and adjusting my lifestyle, but I went the addict way and decided to take the easy way out. Or in rather. This came about in a pretty unorthodox way. I didn’t go to a clinic or a doctor to pursue HRT or TRT - I saw an ad on Facebook of all fucking places for a vendor called Andro Labs Pro. Maybe some of y’all remember them. They were a super sketchy Turkish source. Lots of high concentration blends. No third-party testing, just trust me bro.
I decided that my first cycle would be 300 mg of test per week. The solution that I ordered was testosterone cypionate concentrated at about 300+ milligrams per milliliter. It was harsh stuff, especially for a new user with all virgin muscle. I’d never given myself an intramuscular injection before. My first couple pins were hellacious. Imagine me completely naked, sweating and shaking due to fear of needles, lol. I injected quads with a horse needle and could barely walk for days afterward. I eventually figured it out.
I had a girlfriend that looked like Beyoncé whenever she played Foxy Cleopatra in Austin Powers at the time. Out of the kindness of her heart she started pinning my ass cheeks for me. she would joke about it, putting on the latex gloves and smacking them as she asked me if I’m ready for her to go all up in my ass. miss her.
And one of the worst and most embarrassing parts – zero blood work before during or after.
Eventually I decided against running a standard PCT and have been basically doing light blasts and cruises while running hCG and HMG occasionally to maintain fertility and testicular size.
Obviously I’m here now, several years later and I’ve had plenty of time to work out all of the retarded kinks. I’m currently on a cruise of 150 mg test, 300 mg mast, and 25 mg tren per week. Feeling dope, bloods are stable.
I’ve made plenty of stupid mistakes, and plenty of uncommon ones. If anyone is curious, feel free to ask.

 

[Chemicalreaction]

Fucking hell. My first cycle. Embarrassing but here goes.
I wanted to start TRT and or cycle because I noticed a lot of symptoms of low testosterone, hormonal dysregulation, and other things. Likely from my kratom dependence at the time, and likely other lifestyle factors. I figured that since I’ve already been training for a couple years heavily and that I was around the age of 30 that it made me more qualified. Which is dumb, by the way.
I could’ve gotten away with biting the bullet and removing the kratom and adjusting my lifestyle, but I went the addict way and decided to take the easy way out. Or in rather. This came about in a pretty unorthodox way. I didn’t go to a clinic or a doctor to pursue HRT or TRT - I saw an ad on Facebook of all fucking places for a vendor called Andro Labs Pro. Maybe some of y’all remember them. They were a super sketchy Turkish source. Lots of high concentration blends. No third-party testing, just trust me bro.
I decided that my first cycle would be 300 mg of test per week. The solution that I ordered was testosterone cypionate concentrated at about 300+ milligrams per milliliter. It was harsh stuff, especially for a new user with all virgin muscle. I’d never given myself an intramuscular injection before. My first couple pins were hellacious. Imagine me completely naked, sweating and shaking due to fear of needles, lol. I injected quads with a horse needle and could barely walk for days afterward. I eventually figured it out.
I had a girlfriend that looked like Beyoncé whenever she played Foxy Cleopatra in Austin Powers at the time. Out of the kindness of her heart she started pinning my ass cheeks for me. she would joke about it, putting on the latex gloves and smacking them as she asked me if I’m ready for her to go all up in my ass. miss her.
And one of the worst and most embarrassing parts – zero blood work before during or after.
Eventually I decided against running a standard PCT and have been basically doing light blasts and cruises while running hCG and HMG occasionally to maintain fertility and testicular size.
Obviously I’m here now, several years later and I’ve had plenty of time to work out all of the retarded kinks. I’m currently on a cruise of 150 mg test, 300 mg mast, and 25 mg tren per week. Feeling dope, bloods are stable.
I’ve made plenty of stupid mistakes, and plenty of uncommon ones. If anyone is curious, feel free to ask.

This has to be the best Frist story

 

[Chemicalreaction]

Fucking hell. My first cycle. Embarrassing but here goes.
I wanted to start TRT and or cycle because I noticed a lot of symptoms of low testosterone, hormonal dysregulation, and other things. Likely from my kratom dependence at the time, and likely other lifestyle factors. I figured that since I’ve already been training for a couple years heavily and that I was around the age of 30 that it made me more qualified. Which is dumb, by the way.
I could’ve gotten away with biting the bullet and removing the kratom and adjusting my lifestyle, but I went the addict way and decided to take the easy way out. Or in rather. This came about in a pretty unorthodox way. I didn’t go to a clinic or a doctor to pursue HRT or TRT - I saw an ad on Facebook of all fucking places for a vendor called Andro Labs Pro. Maybe some of y’all remember them. They were a super sketchy Turkish source. Lots of high concentration blends. No third-party testing, just trust me bro.
I decided that my first cycle would be 300 mg of test per week. The solution that I ordered was testosterone cypionate concentrated at about 300+ milligrams per milliliter. It was harsh stuff, especially for a new user with all virgin muscle. I’d never given myself an intramuscular injection before. My first couple pins were hellacious. Imagine me completely naked, sweating and shaking due to fear of needles, lol. I injected quads with a horse needle and could barely walk for days afterward. I eventually figured it out.
I had a girlfriend that looked like Beyoncé whenever she played Foxy Cleopatra in Austin Powers at the time. Out of the kindness of her heart she started pinning my ass cheeks for me. she would joke about it, putting on the latex gloves and smacking them as she asked me if I’m ready for her to go all up in my ass. miss her.
And one of the worst and most embarrassing parts – zero blood work before during or after.
Eventually I decided against running a standard PCT and have been basically doing light blasts and cruises while running hCG and HMG occasionally to maintain fertility and testicular size.
Obviously I’m here now, several years later and I’ve had plenty of time to work out all of the retarded kinks. I’m currently on a cruise of 150 mg test, 300 mg mast, and 25 mg tren per week. Feeling dope, bloods are stable.
I’ve made plenty of stupid mistakes, and plenty of uncommon ones. If anyone is curious, feel free to ask.

Ill say mine so pretty funny not really I started my cycle at around 25 percent body fat around 220 I was going through my Frist divorce been on trt for a long while but decided to make the jump at 500 test and 500 hundred deca got it from a guy at the gym the deca picked it up at a car dealership LMAO save to say It was just straight oil so on top of fake deca I would go out to the bar everysingle weekend it seemed so I drank like 4 to 5 long islands if not more I would go to the gym and after wards reward my self with getting trashed and no sleeping until 3 am on fake deca the test was real I ended the cycle eating fuck all everything bad and still the same drinking habits from 220 to 227 got strong as hell face looked like a water balloon from the test didnt check my blood pressure for the whole 10 weeks thankfully smarter had blood work every 6 months so the next blood work suprisely didn't look like a train wreck but you live and learn

 

[Chemicalreaction]

Oh ya I forgot to add I also had eq the from the dealership 300'mg add for the 10 week monstrosity cycle

 

[dcdogz]

Pinning my quads

 

[Hablooblah]

Probably pretty common but 1st cycle was so scared of gyno I took 2m.g. of arimidex a week for 300 test 150 deca...got bloodwork at week 6 and e2 was at 2 pg/ml....felt and looked like shit...since then I try to keep e2 around 60...never want crashed estrogen again

 

[Howitza1]

For sure mine was my first heavy test/tren cycle. I ran it 8 weeks and felt like dog shit. It was because my blood pressure was infinity/ infinity. Ran too much of each. Did 0 cardio. Didnt have BP ancillaries....just a complete shitshow.

 

[RS Rudy]

I've been quite sensible and conservative on my blasts - only done up to 500mg test 3 times and then used dbol/deca on two of those 3. However my mistake was my last blast and deciding to "bulk" when I was a fat as heck 240lbs up to 280lbs. It motivated me to get in the gym but when doing 8 reps of squats felt like climbing a mountain, I knew it wasn't doing me too good. Also the fact that I have been cutting since October because of being fat before the blast isn't ideal. So what I've learned is to be lean before bulking/blasting.

Yeah bulk on top of high bf just turns into a grind real quick

 

[Bando]

How about taking a hefty blast dose of multiple compounds when I’m too injured to even train and won’t be able to for months? Is that bad? Done that a couple times. I call it a mental health phase.

 

[RS Rudy]

Fucking hell. My first cycle. Embarrassing but here goes.
I wanted to start TRT and or cycle because I noticed a lot of symptoms of low testosterone, hormonal dysregulation, and other things. Likely from my kratom dependence at the time, and likely other lifestyle factors. I figured that since I’ve already been training for a couple years heavily and that I was around the age of 30 that it made me more qualified. Which is dumb, by the way.
I could’ve gotten away with biting the bullet and removing the kratom and adjusting my lifestyle, but I went the addict way and decided to take the easy way out. Or in rather. This came about in a pretty unorthodox way. I didn’t go to a clinic or a doctor to pursue HRT or TRT - I saw an ad on Facebook of all fucking places for a vendor called Andro Labs Pro. Maybe some of y’all remember them. They were a super sketchy Turkish source. Lots of high concentration blends. No third-party testing, just trust me bro.
I decided that my first cycle would be 300 mg of test per week. The solution that I ordered was testosterone cypionate concentrated at about 300+ milligrams per milliliter. It was harsh stuff, especially for a new user with all virgin muscle. I’d never given myself an intramuscular injection before. My first couple pins were hellacious. Imagine me completely naked, sweating and shaking due to fear of needles, lol. I injected quads with a horse needle and could barely walk for days afterward. I eventually figured it out.
I had a girlfriend that looked like Beyoncé whenever she played Foxy Cleopatra in Austin Powers at the time. Out of the kindness of her heart she started pinning my ass cheeks for me. she would joke about it, putting on the latex gloves and smacking them as she asked me if I’m ready for her to go all up in my ass. miss her.
And one of the worst and most embarrassing parts – zero blood work before during or after.
Eventually I decided against running a standard PCT and have been basically doing light blasts and cruises while running hCG and HMG occasionally to maintain fertility and testicular size.
Obviously I’m here now, several years later and I’ve had plenty of time to work out all of the retarded kinks. I’m currently on a cruise of 150 mg test, 300 mg mast, and 25 mg tren per week. Feeling dope, bloods are stable.
I’ve made plenty of stupid mistakes, and plenty of uncommon ones. If anyone is curious, feel free to ask.

No bloodwork + random source + quad pins... you checked all the boxes

Respect for sharing that though

 

[RS Rudy]

Ill say mine so pretty funny not really I started my cycle at around 25 percent body fat around 220 I was going through my Frist divorce been on trt for a long while but decided to make the jump at 500 test and 500 hundred deca got it from a guy at the gym the deca picked it up at a car dealership LMAO save to say It was just straight oil so on top of fake deca I would go out to the bar everysingle weekend it seemed so I drank like 4 to 5 long islands if not more I would go to the gym and after wards reward my self with getting trashed and no sleeping until 3 am on fake deca the test was real I ended the cycle eating fuck all everything bad and still the same drinking habits from 220 to 227 got strong as hell face looked like a water balloon from the test didnt check my blood pressure for the whole 10 weeks thankfully smarter had blood work every 6 months so the next blood work suprisely didn't look like a train wreck but you live and learn

Fake gear, weekend drinking... yeah that'll catch up with you quick

 

[Chemicalreaction]

Fake gear, weekend drinking... yeah that'll catch up with you quick

Ya I learned two things from that I really enjoy long islands ice teas and I have trust issues with people that work at car dealerships

 

[bigrond]

Not my 1st cycle but a bad 1 maybe it was 2nd or 3rd. ran out of test 6 weeks in (started with a partial vial of sus)and only had deca available did just deca for 8 weeks. Emotional roller coaster and hair loss followed. Did not do any cycles for a couple years after that. Never did any blood work back then either.

 

[Hablooblah]

Fake gear, weekend drinking... yeah that'll catch up with you quick

Oh hell ya that weekend drinking put me in a panic after bloodwork. Met a new chick and went out Friday and Saturday for 3 weekends in a row then had bloodwork...AST and ALT were both above 70...havent had a drink since...

 

[Chemicalreaction]

Oh hell ya that weekend drinking put me in a panic after bloodwork. Met a new chick and went out Friday and Saturday for 3 weekends in a row then had bloodwork...AST and ALT were both above 70...havent had a drink since...

It's the worse drinking and gear

 

[Wiseguy]

Biggest mistake I made was thinking more was better. I was young and stupid. Didn't have internet, chat rooms or anything just what we read in muscle mags and word of mouth. Sides hit me hard and recovery took some time. I have had much better gains keeping my dosage all below 300mg per week since that debacle.

 

[foodovergear]

not my first cycle, but thinking of adding 5 compounds during the same time im gonna transform into hulk… still remember tren adrol high test with the stupid btch gf i had that emotional angry psychopath boy.

 

[RS Rudy]

Biggest mistake I made was thinking more was better. I was young and stupid. Didn't have internet, chat rooms or anything just what we read in muscle mags and word of mouth. Sides hit me hard and recovery took some time. I have had much better gains keeping my dosage all below 300mg per week since that debacle.

A lot of guys learn that the hard way. More isn't always better
Staying moderate and consistent usually wins long term

 

[Meetketchup]

Biggest mistake I made was thinking more was better. I was young and stupid. Didn't have internet, chat rooms or anything just what we read in muscle mags and word of mouth. Sides hit me hard and recovery took some time. I have had much better gains keeping my dosage all below 300mg per week since that debacle.

100% You can get so much out of so little and limiting sides makes you feel better which means, you train, sleep, feel better and staying as safe as possible.

To this day I know guys who ran 500-700mg tren in prep, can't sleep, mentally unstable and all the other sides that come with it, while 150-300mg limits almost all of the above yielding similar or even better results.

 

[WED]

Posting for summer when I run Superdrol

 

[Chemicalreaction]

Posting for summer when I run Superdrol

Hopefully your utilizing it on a cut not a bulk

 

[Meetketchup]

Posting for summer when I run Superdrol

A 3 to 4 -week run at 10mg at the end of a cut right before summer. Boom!

 

[WED]

A 3 to 4 -week run at 10mg at the end of a cut right before summer. Boom!

I def plan to ease into it over 4 weeks vs going straight to 20mg. Was going to start with 10mg and increase if needed. I've seen some "influencers" claim they get great results off 5mg....

 

[liverpool_96]

I was considering it for a growth phase in future. My thinking was that to grow muscle takes more effort than losing fat so it's best utilised to enhance muscle gain. Why would it be better to run it during a cut?

 

[Meetketchup]

I was considering it for a growth phase in future. My thinking was that to grow muscle takes more effort than losing fat so it's best utilised to enhance muscle gain. Why would it be better to run it during a cut?

Superdrol = Cut = Money. It holds muscle, crazy strength, keeps you full as possible and a limits fatigue.

Growth Phase = Injectables

 

[liverpool_96]

One step ahead of you my friend, I've ordered injectable superdrol!

I get your point however and will keep it for the last legs of a cut. Thanks

 

[RS Rudy]

Reading through these... some real lessons in here

Same mistakes just in different ways.

Anyone got a story where things actually went REALLY sideways?
Like something you'd 100% warn a beginner about now

Drop it