BuffMaltese
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Beginning stats: 47 years old, 6’, 175 lbs.
Started on 12/10/25. Increased testosterone from 150 mg to 200 mg per week, added Primobolan at 133 mg per week, and kept NPP at 100 mg per week. Also running 3 IU of HGH.
This comes off the back of a very successful cut. I dropped to roughly 14–15% body fat eating around 2,000 calories per day while using 1–4 mg of retatrutide for about 11 weeks. Calories are now up to roughly 2,500 with the goal of attempting a slow recomp. Retatrutide has been reduced to 1 mg per week since it was clearly affecting my sleep.
For now, the plan is to keep all doses exactly where they are until bloodwork in about 4–6 weeks. No rush to change anything without data.
Mentally, I’m a bit torn on the idea of increasing doses. On one hand, I’ve had an honestly insane response to TRT paired with low-dose NPP and HGH. Recovery, training tolerance, and overall performance have been better than I expected, and part of me thinks, why mess with something that’s clearly working. On the other hand, there’s that voice saying the clock is ticking and if I’m ever going to push progress, now might be the time as I get closer to 50.
Primary goals are improved recovery, the ability to train as much as I want, and continued strength and performance gains, not chasing a cartoon physique. That said, I’m already starting to look noticeably enhanced, which I’m not entirely sure I’m comfortable with. My forearms are getting borderline ridiculous in terms of vascularity. It’s fun to look fit, but I don’t really want to explain or justify what I’m doing to people. This feels personal, and I’d like to keep it that way.
After adding Primo, I’ve experienced some bouts of pretty extreme fatigue. Around the same time, I picked up a virus from my daughter. I haven’t been sick in a long time, so that alone could easily explain how I was feeling rather than assuming it was compound-related.
For now, the focus is patience, consistency, and letting bloodwork guide the next steps instead of emotion or urgency.
Started on 12/10/25. Increased testosterone from 150 mg to 200 mg per week, added Primobolan at 133 mg per week, and kept NPP at 100 mg per week. Also running 3 IU of HGH.
This comes off the back of a very successful cut. I dropped to roughly 14–15% body fat eating around 2,000 calories per day while using 1–4 mg of retatrutide for about 11 weeks. Calories are now up to roughly 2,500 with the goal of attempting a slow recomp. Retatrutide has been reduced to 1 mg per week since it was clearly affecting my sleep.
For now, the plan is to keep all doses exactly where they are until bloodwork in about 4–6 weeks. No rush to change anything without data.
Mentally, I’m a bit torn on the idea of increasing doses. On one hand, I’ve had an honestly insane response to TRT paired with low-dose NPP and HGH. Recovery, training tolerance, and overall performance have been better than I expected, and part of me thinks, why mess with something that’s clearly working. On the other hand, there’s that voice saying the clock is ticking and if I’m ever going to push progress, now might be the time as I get closer to 50.
Primary goals are improved recovery, the ability to train as much as I want, and continued strength and performance gains, not chasing a cartoon physique. That said, I’m already starting to look noticeably enhanced, which I’m not entirely sure I’m comfortable with. My forearms are getting borderline ridiculous in terms of vascularity. It’s fun to look fit, but I don’t really want to explain or justify what I’m doing to people. This feels personal, and I’d like to keep it that way.
After adding Primo, I’ve experienced some bouts of pretty extreme fatigue. Around the same time, I picked up a virus from my daughter. I haven’t been sick in a long time, so that alone could easily explain how I was feeling rather than assuming it was compound-related.
For now, the focus is patience, consistency, and letting bloodwork guide the next steps instead of emotion or urgency.
