Counter productive to maintaining your health?
I have yet to lose significant musle mass or strength post cycle. Good diet and training have sustained my muscular gains in each case so far. There is a little dip in strength mid way through pct that I have noticed but the recovery is pretty complete by the end. I assume much of this for me is the loss of excess water from the test.
If an individual is beyond their normal genetic limit for muscular mass/strength then removing the aas from the body will indeed result in an overall loss of muscle mass and strength over time but if diet and training are good this would be a long slow decline as opposed to some overnight magical disappearance of 50 pounds of muscle.
The real secret to significant muscle mass is not drugs. It's careful selection of your parents combined with excellent diet and training. The drugs certainly move things along faster but if you don't have the genes, the training, and the diet, the drugs aren't going to get you to a point where being on for 2 years or longer is even justifiable.
By justifiable I mean that you could rationalize risking your health for an IFBB pro card and a career as a circus freak. I'm not sure this is actually a good reason to risk your health but at least it's an argument. The I want to be a heavily muscled gym rat so I'll just risk put my health at risk argument doesn't really strike me as "productive".
