Background
SE Asian, 40, M, 5' 6" (168cm), 172lb (78kg) - thanks generics lottery....
AAS
I first started my cycle back in Oct 2025. I didn't feel the need to overkill the cycle so I started of at a fairly mild cycle of 250mg test e, 200mg primo with anavar 10mg on training days.
In Jan 2026, I had to drop to TRT cruise dose (120mg) due to an injury and completely removed primo & anavar.
By the end of Feb 2026 I attempted to start up a second cycle with small titration of Test P and NPP. Grudgingly though, I had to cut the cycle short as my missus got annoyed and wants me off the AAS for at least 6months before hopping back on again (YES I KNOW! TRUST ME - I just don't feel like arguing with her...). Of course you need to listen to the missus, so I dropped everything and initiate PCT protocol (Last pin as of Mar 24th).
Now you guys are probably thinking you could have easily went to TRT and that's a perfectly acceptable approach. However for me, firstly I don't have much of a choice (missus), and secondly I don't think I've been on AAS long enough, or severe enough, that I would need to consider TRT approach due to severe HPTA shutdown - so this approach back to natural production should be relatively easier (I hope...). We're on the train now so no point turning back!
Training
I've been consistently training since 2019 to this day. I'm very proud of this journey as it was the turning point in my life where everything about training, nutrition, consistency finally clicked in. I dropped from 85kg to 67kg in a span of 3.5months and never really got obese ever again.
I love everything about powerlifting style training but never competed. I did a couple of blocks and manage to hit the 1000lb club as natty. Since then I embraced AAS to potentially push my body to the absolute limits while trying to maintain as much lean physique as possible.
Unfortunately though, I got injured back in Jan. An adductor got slightly torn near the bone from a really basic warmup protocol (so sad...). This was the main reason why I dropped to TRT dose as there was no point maintaining a low dose blast while the body is in recovery mode. I had to skip legs indefinitely until recently, but hey, at least my upper body strength went up!
Right now I'm currently doing 4day/week training consisting of push mechanics (Chest, Tris, Shoulder, Quads) and pull mechanics (Back, Bis, Hamstring, Adductor). Other than the obvious slow re-entry to leg day, I had to dial down the training to maintenance intensity to support PCT (Max RPE8 and 10-12 reps).
Cardio currently sucks. The only one is my 10k steps a day. I'm not going to be surprised if my prolactin/haemoglobin spikes next week in my blood test. Trying to start running again 30min a day in the morning.
Objective of this log
The primarily objective of this log is really to document my PCT journey and get some feedback from you great forum members on something I might have missed and may improve.
Equally important though is that I wanted to show this journey to others in this community and inspire those who may be considering stepping back a bit from the AAS scene, either because they feel they made a mistake or they're just wanting more research material into PCT.
As a secondary objective, we are living in the age of peptides. I wanted to show how these peptides can provide the support to that PCT journey, injury recovery, and lifestyle improvement and give further confidence to those who wants to follow in my PCT footsteps in the use of peptides.
Current Protocol
- Week 1/2 - hCG 500IU EOD & hMG 75IU 3x / week <---I'm currently at the start of week2
- Week 3 - Small break (5 days) <---Blood drawn Monday this week
- Week 4/5 - Clomid 50mg/Nolva 40mg / day
- Week 6/7 - Clomid 25mg/Nolva 20mg / day
- Week 8 - blood drawn and MAYBE more clomid 12.5mg/nolva 10mg / day depending where we're at
Nutrition
I won't dive too deep into this one as I'll be in surplus. At bare minimum I'm aiming at 300C/190P/90F for 2680cals.
Definitely will have a good mix of:
- Two whole eggs per day
- Brazillian Nuts (2 per day)
- Preworkout Banana, WPI, Chobani flavoured Greek yoghurt
- Granola Bowl (Greek yoghurt, WPI, Granola, Strawberries, kiwi, honey)
- Overnight Oats every day (oats, WPI, Yoghurt, milk, blueberries)
- Peanut Butter on 85% low carb bread
- Ninja Creamy protein ice cream (milk, almond milk, WPI, pudding mix)
- Toasty Cheese with ham (any white bread, high protein cheese, smoked ham)
- Chicken/Broccoli/Long Beans/Rice
- Rice Cakes with Cottage Cheese and Smoked Salmon (with a dill of course!)
- Lebanese Meat Pizza (Lebanese bread, high protein cheese, pizza sauce, chicken breast pieces, dice lean beef, bbq sauce)
- Steamed Barramundi with soy/garlic sauce and steamed veg (carrot/cauliflower/broccoli)
- Burrito Rice Bowls (Red Kidney Beans, high protein cheese, Guac, Pico, Corn, Grilled Chicken breast with Taco Seasoning, Brown Rice)
- Almonds on hand
- WPI with Almond Milk on hand
- Carrots (with my own secret recipe 0 cal sweet & spicy salt mix),
- Apples, Strawberries and Kiwi on hand
Supplements
Coq10 150mg
Multivitamin
Creatine 20mg / day
Injectable L Carnitine 400mg / week
Vit E 1000iu
Selenium 150mcg
L-theanine 400mg
Magnesium glycinate 655mg
Melatonin 10mg
Berberine 750mg
Maca 3500mg
Fish Oil 3000mg
Silymarin 550mg
Bergamot 500mg
Ashwagandha
Caruso's Fertile Max (Fenugreek, Korean ginseng, Zinc)
Pre-Workout
Electrolytes
Water 3-4L/day
Medications
I have the following on standby:
- Arimidex / Aromasin
- Ezetimbe
- Empagloflozin
- Metformin
- Telmisartan
- Caber
- Ketotifen
Peptides
Sponsored by @Prymal
- Reta (1mg dose / week) (maintain good insulin sensitivity and GLP-1 benefits)
- DSIP (nightly) - sleep support on top of melatonin
- KLOW (daily) - perpetual recovery for adductor tear and general training recovery
- Semax (Pre-Workout motivator)
Other stack
- NAD+ (100mg weekly)
- Mots-C (1mg) (pre workout)
- SS31 (daily)
- HGH (2IU nightly)
- Selank (as needed - maybe everyday
)
Thank you for giving your time to following this log! I hope that it can be of benefit to someone someday! I don't think I will have the time or energy to update the log everyday due to my autistic kid and team leader role on my desk job, but definitely can assure it'll be frequent!
P.S. Sorry for the poor quality photo shots. I do monthly cupping / needling / deep tissue massage and cupping marks are still there a couple of days later. I'll do a nice one later.
SE Asian, 40, M, 5' 6" (168cm), 172lb (78kg) - thanks generics lottery....
AAS
I first started my cycle back in Oct 2025. I didn't feel the need to overkill the cycle so I started of at a fairly mild cycle of 250mg test e, 200mg primo with anavar 10mg on training days.
In Jan 2026, I had to drop to TRT cruise dose (120mg) due to an injury and completely removed primo & anavar.
By the end of Feb 2026 I attempted to start up a second cycle with small titration of Test P and NPP. Grudgingly though, I had to cut the cycle short as my missus got annoyed and wants me off the AAS for at least 6months before hopping back on again (YES I KNOW! TRUST ME - I just don't feel like arguing with her...). Of course you need to listen to the missus, so I dropped everything and initiate PCT protocol (Last pin as of Mar 24th).
Now you guys are probably thinking you could have easily went to TRT and that's a perfectly acceptable approach. However for me, firstly I don't have much of a choice (missus), and secondly I don't think I've been on AAS long enough, or severe enough, that I would need to consider TRT approach due to severe HPTA shutdown - so this approach back to natural production should be relatively easier (I hope...). We're on the train now so no point turning back!
Training
I've been consistently training since 2019 to this day. I'm very proud of this journey as it was the turning point in my life where everything about training, nutrition, consistency finally clicked in. I dropped from 85kg to 67kg in a span of 3.5months and never really got obese ever again.
I love everything about powerlifting style training but never competed. I did a couple of blocks and manage to hit the 1000lb club as natty. Since then I embraced AAS to potentially push my body to the absolute limits while trying to maintain as much lean physique as possible.
Unfortunately though, I got injured back in Jan. An adductor got slightly torn near the bone from a really basic warmup protocol (so sad...). This was the main reason why I dropped to TRT dose as there was no point maintaining a low dose blast while the body is in recovery mode. I had to skip legs indefinitely until recently, but hey, at least my upper body strength went up!
Right now I'm currently doing 4day/week training consisting of push mechanics (Chest, Tris, Shoulder, Quads) and pull mechanics (Back, Bis, Hamstring, Adductor). Other than the obvious slow re-entry to leg day, I had to dial down the training to maintenance intensity to support PCT (Max RPE8 and 10-12 reps).
Cardio currently sucks. The only one is my 10k steps a day. I'm not going to be surprised if my prolactin/haemoglobin spikes next week in my blood test. Trying to start running again 30min a day in the morning.
Objective of this log
The primarily objective of this log is really to document my PCT journey and get some feedback from you great forum members on something I might have missed and may improve.
Equally important though is that I wanted to show this journey to others in this community and inspire those who may be considering stepping back a bit from the AAS scene, either because they feel they made a mistake or they're just wanting more research material into PCT.
As a secondary objective, we are living in the age of peptides. I wanted to show how these peptides can provide the support to that PCT journey, injury recovery, and lifestyle improvement and give further confidence to those who wants to follow in my PCT footsteps in the use of peptides.
Current Protocol
- Week 1/2 - hCG 500IU EOD & hMG 75IU 3x / week <---I'm currently at the start of week2
- Week 3 - Small break (5 days) <---Blood drawn Monday this week
- Week 4/5 - Clomid 50mg/Nolva 40mg / day
- Week 6/7 - Clomid 25mg/Nolva 20mg / day
- Week 8 - blood drawn and MAYBE more clomid 12.5mg/nolva 10mg / day depending where we're at
Nutrition
I won't dive too deep into this one as I'll be in surplus. At bare minimum I'm aiming at 300C/190P/90F for 2680cals.
Definitely will have a good mix of:
- Two whole eggs per day
- Brazillian Nuts (2 per day)
- Preworkout Banana, WPI, Chobani flavoured Greek yoghurt
- Granola Bowl (Greek yoghurt, WPI, Granola, Strawberries, kiwi, honey)
- Overnight Oats every day (oats, WPI, Yoghurt, milk, blueberries)
- Peanut Butter on 85% low carb bread
- Ninja Creamy protein ice cream (milk, almond milk, WPI, pudding mix)
- Toasty Cheese with ham (any white bread, high protein cheese, smoked ham)
- Chicken/Broccoli/Long Beans/Rice
- Rice Cakes with Cottage Cheese and Smoked Salmon (with a dill of course!)
- Lebanese Meat Pizza (Lebanese bread, high protein cheese, pizza sauce, chicken breast pieces, dice lean beef, bbq sauce)
- Steamed Barramundi with soy/garlic sauce and steamed veg (carrot/cauliflower/broccoli)
- Burrito Rice Bowls (Red Kidney Beans, high protein cheese, Guac, Pico, Corn, Grilled Chicken breast with Taco Seasoning, Brown Rice)
- Almonds on hand
- WPI with Almond Milk on hand
- Carrots (with my own secret recipe 0 cal sweet & spicy salt mix),
- Apples, Strawberries and Kiwi on hand
Supplements
Coq10 150mg
Multivitamin
Creatine 20mg / day
Injectable L Carnitine 400mg / week
Vit E 1000iu
Selenium 150mcg
L-theanine 400mg
Magnesium glycinate 655mg
Melatonin 10mg
Berberine 750mg
Maca 3500mg
Fish Oil 3000mg
Silymarin 550mg
Bergamot 500mg
Ashwagandha
Caruso's Fertile Max (Fenugreek, Korean ginseng, Zinc)
Pre-Workout
Electrolytes
Water 3-4L/day
Medications
I have the following on standby:
- Arimidex / Aromasin
- Ezetimbe
- Empagloflozin
- Metformin
- Telmisartan
- Caber
- Ketotifen
Peptides
Sponsored by @Prymal
- Reta (1mg dose / week) (maintain good insulin sensitivity and GLP-1 benefits)
- DSIP (nightly) - sleep support on top of melatonin
- KLOW (daily) - perpetual recovery for adductor tear and general training recovery
- Semax (Pre-Workout motivator)
Other stack
- NAD+ (100mg weekly)
- Mots-C (1mg) (pre workout)
- SS31 (daily)
- HGH (2IU nightly)
- Selank (as needed - maybe everyday
)Thank you for giving your time to following this log! I hope that it can be of benefit to someone someday! I don't think I will have the time or energy to update the log everyday due to my autistic kid and team leader role on my desk job, but definitely can assure it'll be frequent!
P.S. Sorry for the poor quality photo shots. I do monthly cupping / needling / deep tissue massage and cupping marks are still there a couple of days later. I'll do a nice one later.
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