Lifting with peptide cycles

[Waclive]

I've recently started lifting again and experimenting with CJC-1295 and Ipamorelin before bed on the days I lift. I'm curious if anyone has any experience with it and what did you find out from your research? Or have you tried any of the other variations of secretagogues? Has it affected your sleep in any noticeable way?

I'm curious mainly about how you cycled it (I.E. When you pinned, at what frequency, and what dosage) to see if I'm leaving anything on the table as far as the timing of it goes.

Currently I am pinning 250-350 mcg at night before bed only on lift days. I'm wondering if it would be beneficial to go the 5 on 2 off cycle regardless of the lift days or if that's diminishing returns because I'm not lifting all of those days.

 

[cygnus]

CJC/Ipa gave me some uncomfortable facial flushing for about 10minutes after injection, but sleep on the GH secretagogues is pretty great. I've historically been a lousy sleeper but doing a simple 250mcg tesamorelin and 250mcg ipamorelin combo 2 hours after final meal (right before bed) has made a world of difference to me; I do a 5 days on, 2 days off protocol with them. Better sleep = better performance in the gym. I workout a lot, 6x heavy lifting sessions per week, and even on a cut with retatrutide that has me in a 1000cal daily deficit I find that I'm not being severely impacted from a training volume, estimated 10RM max, nor fatigue perspective. Is that all from the GHRH/GHRP? Probably not, but I feel pretty great on them and wish I didn't have to cycle off after 16 weeks to give the receptors a break.

 

[Waclive]

I appreciate you sharing your experience, thank you.
Have you tried any of the others to see if the effect are more noticeable?
Have you always lifted 6 days a week using them?

In my research, I haven't found anything to say I can cycle longer than 16 weeks doing it less than 5 days consecutively or if I am missing any benefits by not doing it 5 days in a row. Makes sense to run both to see what I can learn about it.