rmtt, do you change your diet for this? How so?
A lot just depends on what I'm trying to accomplish. Last year with the little blast I ran, I was trying to add weight....I just bumped my calories up over my TDEE by 250 per day. I stayed at that until I seen two things happen.
1. Weight gain stopped
2. Log Book stopped progressing.
A lot of times my weight gain would stop...but I would still be beating my logbook. Only when both stalled would I then bump it up again by another 200-300 calories. I did this for about 8 weeks...and gained 12 lbs. A lot of it was muscle memory though.
Once I went back on TRT...I just kept doing the same thing. Now as I am sitting at about 200lbs.....my last pic I posted under my log shows that I think I'm starting to gain a little more fat than I want.
So what I did 3 weeks ago when I bumped my test and added Primo was I kept my calories where they were at...but I swapped some of the carbs out for fats. I was getting enough protein, so I replaced about 100 grams of carbs with "good" fats.
Trying to see if I could get some "recomp" going on.
Now here is the funny part. I am still at the same total caloric intake. I'm anal about this and I weigh everything I eat. But in 3 weeks I have dropped about 1.8lbs and things are starting to tighten up more. I assume better nutrient partitioning due to the increased dose...and also maybe better insulin sensitivity since I dropped some carbs.
So I will see where this takes me. Since I have gotten older...I follow more of a "mini-bulk" for maybe 6-8 weeks...and then a small deficit for 2-4 weeks. Each time I will get back to certain bodyweights...but I will be just a little bit leaner at that weight than before.
In the past I would just go all out and gain 20+ lbs...then end up having to diet too long. The way I do it now is a slow process, but I think it allows me to hold on to more muscle when I do diet.