ESF doesn't it bother you being on that much deca? I know some pretty big guys with good physiques, who look really good after they finish a show...I see them 2 months later once they start their offseason with a heft dose of nandrolone and they look way worse. The guys I know who do look good in the offseason don't really use deca. The extra few lbs deca might give you over EQ or something, the shutdown that comes with it, just doesn't seem worth it to me
not really, since I know it's temporary. the body can always change. if I don't 'need' to be 'ripped', I don't see a reason in staying ripped year 'round. I spent most of a year at sub-5% and it sucked. if I don't have something coming up where I need to be lean/hard/dry, I'd prefer to be a bit puffy. I'm still lean, as I still have abs and serratus and whatnot, but holding water 'feels better'.. joints feel beter and everything feels 'tighter'. the reason I retired from bodybuilding in '04/05 was because I was burned out. I like being able to eat whatever I want, whenever I want. believe me, if I could get 'fat', I would, I really don't care. getting fat doesn't come easy to me no matter what I eat.
the puffy-deca waterweight falls off pretty quickly, so I can be a puffy 235 one day and skip a deca shot that week and next week I'm 230 and I look much bigger because the separation comes out.. having that in the back of my mind makes me not 'freak out' when I'm holding water. I can do 'before and after' pics that are 2 days apart that look like 2 months apart.
I WAS running 6g a week.. 4g test enan and 2g deca with dbol preworkout, but my body would ache 24-7 from the injections (400mg/ml gear all around), so that quickly got cut in half, and then down to just a couple syringes of a test and deca mix just because I was lazy... I'd even go 10days or more between shots recently because of my schedule.
i'll go another couple weeks at this dose and put on another 10lbs or so, then switch up to a 1500 cyp and 500 tren e for a while.