Minimizing muscle loss during a Cruise 🚢

[Trest2021]

Hi all, I’m just coming off my latest blast with 400mg Mast E and 500mg Test E. I plan on cruising with 200mg test E pinned twice a week.

December and January is going to be a real busy months for me with moving to a new place/ new job and the holidays.

I will be able to hit the gym maybe 3-4x a week max. I was wondering if the SST family give me their protocol in terms of minimizing muscle loss after a blast.

I have done a handful of cycles before and normally losing muscle during my cruise hasn’t really been an issue I always made sure to train hard and hit the gym 5-6 times but my circumstances changes this time around.

 

[Lee_48157]

Train hard & don’t let your diet suffer. Thats honestly the best advice I can offer.

Often times people will get off a cycle, and stop eating their meals, hitting protein/cals for the day, stop training hard, and will lose quite a bit.

You don’t just get weak when your not on cycle especially if your diet, hydration, sleep, and mindset is on point.

Don’t stress over the minutiae.

 

[dick_starbuck]

Keep your protein and overall calories just about maintenance. Keep your intensity high. If you can only do 3x a week, do P/P/L and on the 4th day you fit in when you can, an arm day. Lower your overall volume to maintenance volume, but the volume you do have strive towards 0-2 RIR on all your lifts.

 

[beefee321]

The two individuals above me gave excellent advice, and I'll just throw this out there, over the years I've found that HGH has helped me preserve muscle during my most prolific cuts while also helping burn fat. I use 4iu a day broken in to two 2iu shots.

 

[smoke99]

Health phases/cruises aren’t as fun obviously, but you should keep the diet the same except for some lowered fats/carbs to maintain and train the same. You can scale back on volume a bit if you’re really plateauing but as long as strength remains where it was that’s a win!!

 

[Aoi_116]

Just the big 3:

- Train the same way that you would to put muscle on, but reduce the volume so you aren’t killing yourself with fatigue.

- Your diet needs to be very on point. This is usually pretty easy but can be hard when you get busy or have a lot going on.

- Probably the most important is prioritizing recovery. Get as much sleep as possible. Inadequate sleep is literally the destroyer of gains and stalls progress at a minimum.