8 Weeks on AC262
I'm 25yo male, and I used AC262 for two months. First month at 10mg, second month at 20mg.
I used it solo, while maintaining around a 500 calorie deficit and eating more than double my bodyweight in protein daily. The goal during the two month cut was to prevent muscle loss and maintain my big 3 lifts.
First of all, during the first 2 weeks there were no noticeable changes. Especially because of the calorie deficit, I started sweating easily and feeling extremely sleepy during workouts. I asked GPT about it and it said apparently it takes around 1~2 weeks for things like receptors to saturate before the effects fully kick in, so maybe that was why. Up until week 2 my skin was clear and I had no acne.
My big 3 lifts neither increased nor decreased, but smaller muscle exercises, for example bicep work, improved quite a lot in either weight or reps.
The real changes started after week 2. My bench press 5RM increased by around 5kg, and I started getting small acne breakouts every couple of days. But I never got any sort of feeling like being fired up or super motivated. If anything, I actually felt slightly empty emotionally.
For lower body, probably because I was cutting, everything stayed stalled and maintained.
After the first month, when I increased the dosage to 20mg, I experienced strength increases across basically everything. shoulders, biceps, triceps, chest, etc. But because I was still cutting, my lower body was still stuck at a plateau. Then by week 7, my back squat 5RM finally increased by around 5kg too.
In the end, after losing around 6~7kg over two months through a 500 calorie deficit and high intensity weight training, my total went up by around 10kg.
Also, I measured my InBody before and after the cycle, and despite losing 6~7kg, my skeletal muscle mass actually increased by around 0.5kg. Pretty interesting.
Now to talk about the side effects and negatives.
I used a product from receptorchem and taking it is genuinely painful. It irritates every mucous membrane in your mouth and creates a burning sensation that takes around 20 minutes to disappear. Mixing it with water or anything else changes nothing, and if anything, trying to eat or drink while the burning is happening makes it even worse.
So what I ended up doing was holding water in my mouth, then using a needleless syringe to spray the AC262 directly under my lower teeth and immediately swallowing it. That way the AC262 passes before touching most of the inside of the mouth. The throat still stings a bit, but compared to getting it on the tongue or other areas inside the mouth, it’s manageable.
As for side effects, maybe because of the calorie deficit and intense training too, libido definitely decreases. Also, maybe it’s just in my head, but semen felt slightly more watery. I also had slight mood swings and occasional feelings of wanting to give up.
For PCT, I started taking enclomiphene orally at 12.5mg per day starting 2 days before the cycle ended. My energy and libido immediately came back hard. I took it for around 4 days, then stopped because I got lazy, but my increased total and skeletal muscle mass are still maintained.
Right now it’s been around 20 days since the cycle ended, and all the gains I got from AC262 are still there. Honestly, I’m very satisfied with the cycle. It also seems like AC affects smaller muscle groups more strongly in terms of strength increase (forearms, biceps), while larger muscle groups are affected less. Especially for lower body lifts
Still, considering I lost around 6~7kg during the cut while keeping my strength intact, I’m pretty satisfied overall.