Hi Ernest.
You said it.
If your cycle is 10 frames long, so it starts of f01 and ends on f11 (where the last frame is the same as the first).
Then you would animate in Blender and set the end frame to f10 (1 frame short).
Once your animation is complete, make sure you have cyclic modifiers on all the relevant controls and then change the end frame to be 1 frame short of 5 loops.
What’s the easiest way to do this?
Click in the End frame input box and type “* 5” and press enter (that’s asterix for ‘times’) – viola.
Just make sure you don’t type over the existing number.