Beginner and High Doses Why?

Some bodybuilders (using the term loosely) want to grow, some bodybuilders want to get lean, some bodybuilders want to maintain, and some bodybuilders just want to take drugs. You could definitely say that all enhanced bodybuilders choose to take drugs, and that is correct. The reason I separated taking drugs from the actual goals related to their body, is that some seem really focused on how many mg’s of drugs they can take regardless if it will benefit their physique.

The way my brain works when it comes to progression is I highlight a short term mission (add size, lose fat, etc) and then construct the most efficient plan to get there…while also considering long term goals and making sure the methods I use now won’t bite me in the ass down the road. That way you can structure a diet and supplement regime that will inch you towards your desired result every single day and not do any more or less than is required.
I’m not here to imply that someone can blow up on 200mgs of Test if their diet and training is up to snuff, that is really only going to get you so far (AKA not far), but it seems that people in the bodybuilding world either prescribe suspiciously low doses or they have zero regards for their bodies and think that more is always better.

What makes someone with little gym experience want to take more drugs than they need? Psychologically it seems very strange to me that someone who could make great progress on 400-500mg of combined AAS would want to run 800mgs of test and 600mg of deca weekly plus 50mg of dbol a day. If we hypothetically took the same person and cloned them and then one did 3 small cycles that each pyramided up and then reached 1.5 grams maybe at 2 years around cycle number 4 or 5 and compared them to someone who did 1.5 grams for 4 cycles and stayed there (both coming off for same amount of time etc), would we really see much difference? Other than the total amount of drugs used (or wasted) of course.

I know the answer is debatable, but I really feel that taking enough to make steady progress is all you need to do. This number is going to go up over the course of your time using and I feel it is extremely immature to deny yourself of easy gains off minimal supplements.

The obsession sometimes seems to be a fetishizing of drugs even more so than with muscle. It’s like bringing ecstasy, cocaine, vodka, and LSD to your first party instead of a few beers. The sad thing is that most of these people burn themselves out and vanish from the gym altogether, and then they are left with bottomed out hormone levels which is not a fun souvenir from a lifestyle you don’t follow anymore.

There is becoming more and more evidence that your body will actually be able to utilize higher doses the longer one stays on and the more usage experience they have, through an increase in androgen receptors. This would certainly explain why a beginner on 1 gram of gear might not look that much more impressive than a beginner on 300mgs. Unfortunately, this information and anecdotal evidence is not enough to stop most of these people from loading up on stuff and wasting their money. Usually, the type of person who rushes the doses is also the same person who completely falls off track with their training and can’t maintain any form of diet year round.

There’s no problem with being on heavier cycles of gear at certain times in your bodybuilding career but save them for when they are needed.

Alcohol and Steroids. Drinking While On A Cycle.

For centuries, people from various civilizations and societies have enjoyed alcohol as a way to unwind from the day and experience a slight level of bliss for a short time. In many countries, alcohol is being served with most meals. Alcohol is a uniter as well as a divider, and responsible for the conception of many of us reading this article today!

Alcohol has a place in society and in many lives and it is important to know about joining alcohol and anabolic steroids.

In bodybuilding and fitness, it’s another story. Alcohol dehydrates muscles that you are trying to hydrate when you consumpt of a lot of water. Alcohol depresses your immune system, which must be ramped up if you want to remain healthy to combat the rigors of your workouts without becoming ill. Alcohol contains a great deal of empty calories which detract from that waistline and deliver the dreaded “beer gut” that no bodybuilder wants to possess. Alcohol saps motivationand introduces a relaxed state to the bodybuilder that needs a bit of a hurried or frantic enthusiasm to wake up and go to the gym.

Bodybuilders use post-cycle therapy (PCT) drugs to help to fight the hormone imbalance that occurs following a 10 to 16 weeks cycle. Following a cycle, estrogen levels tend to be over limit, which leads to bloating and a dreaded puffiness of tissue under the nipple called Gynecomastia. Testosterone tends to be low, as do energy levels. The libido of a bodybuilder will plummet, as his body hasn’t been required to produce any natural testosterone for the past several months.

Most bodybuilders use Clomid, Tamoxifen, or other compounds to help fighting these side effects and to help restore normal and optimal hormone functionality of the body. The body is at a particularly vulnerable time for damage and disruption during that post-cycle therapy period. The use of alcohol during this time is probably more potentially damaging than at any other time in the year. Alcohol rises estrogen levels and drops down testosterone levels. This directly defeats the purpose of the PCT drugs. Additionally, the oral PCT drugs can be very toxic to the liver, as they are essentially oral anabolic steroids.

Alcohol also has a detrimental effect upon the liver. It’s not a great idea to be placing such undue stress upon the organs, particularly when the end results could be lost muscle. You’d better running two orals – an equally dangerous idea – because it would at least lead to some new muscle gains!The bottom line is that alcohol does not belong near bodybuilders and in particular, the bodybuilder in post-cycle therapy. Set your priorities and decide if being a successful healthy bodybuilder means more to you than drinking.

Stretch and anabolic steroid combination produces muscle growth

Imagine: an injury means you can’t train for a while, but you can use anabolic steroids. In this hypothetical situation you can maintain more muscle mass by doing stretch exercises. You may even be able to build up a little bit of muscle mass, according to an new animal study.

The researchers, who work at Kagoshima University in Japan, gave rats Methenolone  in a dose of 20 mg/kg bodyweight. The human equivalent of this dose is about 200-300 mg. The researchers injected the steroid directly into the small intestine. A control group was given no methenolone.

The rats were sedated, which meant that the researchers could stretch the animals’ right-hand gastrocnemius muscle. They did this 15 times a minute for 15 consecutive minutes. The researchers did nothing with the left-hand gastrocnemius.

Twenty-four hours later the Japanese observed that the combination of stretches and the anabolic steroid had boosted the synthesis of Mechano Growth Factor.  Mechano Growth Factor is a stripped down version of IGF-1. Fundamental research has shown that the anabolic effect of MGF is so strong that the researchers are convinced that the combination brings about muscle growth.

The researchers also looked at the synthesis of the anabolic signal proteins Myo-D and myogenin, but found no effect.

“Mechanical stimulation of skeletal muscle in conjunction with the administration of an anabolic steroid induced mRNA expression of Mechano Growth Factor.”, the researchers conclude. “This finding suggests that the combination of anabolic steroids with muscle stretching exercise could promote muscle strengthening in patients with muscle weakness.”

The reason that the researchers don’t attach so much importance to the absence of an effect of the stretch-methenolone combination on Myo-D and myogenin is probably to be found in an animal study. In that study the researchers used no steroids. In one group of experimental animals the researchers kept the right gastrocnemius muscle stretched for 15 minutes and did nothing with the left gastrocnemius.

In another group of rats the researchers stretched the right gastrocnemius 15 times a minute for a period of 15 minutes and did nothing with the left gastrocnemius. This is also the protocol that the researchers used in the experiments when they gave the rats methenolone.

At the end of the week the researchers observed an increased synthesis of Myo-Dand myogenin in the  group. Apparently muscle cells subjected to stretching need longer than a day to boost the production of Myo-D and myogenin.

“In conclusion, passive stretching for a short duration once daily at several days within a 1-week period is effective in the growth of the skeletal muscle”, the researchers conclude in the older study. “Repetitive stretching is suggested to have greater effects than continuous stretching. These findings suggest that passive stretching is useful in the prevention and maintenance of skeletal muscle tone in patients who are unconscious or paralyzed.”

How to use Sustanon 250

• Cycle length – 6 weeks 
• Normally you have to inject once a week. But if you are dissatisfied with the results, try to split it on two shots, if possible.
• Start anti-estrogen from week 2, 10mg/ED and stop 4 weeks after it.
• Start using natural testosterone boosters - 3 weeks after the cycle.
• For maximum efficiency use proteins and special diet
• For better results try to stack it.

Sustanon is a mixture of different testosterone esters. First developed and introduced by Organon as a means of hormone replacement therapy when there is insufficient secretion of endogenous testosterone. Currently, almost all of the mixture of testosterone esters equated to Sustanon, a large number of drugs manufactured clandestinely .

Sustanon contains 4 forms of testosterone :

30mg Testosterone Propionate

60mg Testosterone Phenylpropionate

60mg Testosterone Isocaproate

100mg Testosterone Decanoate

Each form of testosterone, which is part of Sustanon has a different rate of absorption, which allows to maintain constant high level of anabolic hormones in the blood during the month. There is no need to perform frequent injections, for medical purposes Sustanon is injected only 1 time in three weeks. Some believe that Sustanon is a combined course in one bottle, but it is not true, because every component of the drug converted in the body only in testosterone.

Sustanon works just like any other form of testosterone. This means that the main effects of sustanon are:

• Increased muscle mass ( an average of 6 kg per month)
• Anti catabolic effect
• Increased appetite
• Increased blood – increasing the number of red blood cells provides a better oxygen transport , due to which increases endurance
• Increased libido (at the time of taking sustanon)
• Doping control: Time of detection of the drug is up to 3 months.

Sustanon – side effects

Like any other form of testosterone, Sustanon is converted into estrogens. For this reason, Sustanon cause side effects such as gynecomastia, edema, deposition of fat on the female type and the oppression of its own testosterone production. These side effects can be prevented, if applied antiestrogen – Tamoxifen (Nolvadex) or Clomiphene citrate (Clomid).

As a result of reduced production of endogenous testosterone may develop a serious adverse effect of Sustanon is testicular atrophy. This side effect can be prevented if you do not do a course of Sustanon longer than 8 weeks and take antiestrogen. For longer courses require the use HCG.

In the body, testosterone is converted into dihydrotestosterone, which causes the following side effects: hypertrophy of the prostate, baldness, acne and others. This so-called androgenic side effects of Sustanon .

Also, athletes often report fever and flu-like condition during the course of  Sustanon . Like most steroids, Soest increases the level of harmful cholesterol in the blood.

Muscle Building Steroids

Muscle building steroids have changed the way gaming events are being conducted in today’s times. More and more sportsmen have shown intent to take on performance enhancing steroids with an aim to optimize their performance. The curiosity behind steroids has seen a following in demanding sports such as weightlifting, swimming, baseball and football like never before.

In today’s fitness-dominated world, success comes at a cost. Therefore, it is important for sportsmen to emphasize on muscle building steroids rather than waiting for their turn in the rat race. This is important as career duration of sportsmen is getting shorter in today’s times with each passing day and every athlete wants to secure his name and fame on an ongoing basis.

Steroids are synthetic or natural compounds that help in the regulation of certain body functions. They are being used by professional sportsmen to get more out of their bodies and aim for higher. Some benefits of Steroids include increase in muscle mass, strength, and endurance. Other benefits include conserving blood glucose and fast healing of musculoskeletal injuries.

Steroids can be taken in the form of intramuscular or subcutaneous injections, pellet implantation under the skin, application to the skin in the form of gels or patches or as oral administration (by mouth).

Steroids can be classified into two types:

1. Anabolic Steroids: Anabolic steroids, or anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS), refer to a class of steroid hormones that are related to testosterone (hormone). They are consumed with a predefined purpose to enhance protein synthesis within the body cells. Such steroids help in buildup of anabolism in the muscles’ areas.
2. Catabolic Steroids: Catabolic Steroids, or corticosteroids, refers to steroids that are consumed to break down muscle mass. These steroids are even used to minimize body swelling and treat autoimmune ailments.

Intake of steroids is not something to hide about; almost all sportsmen and bodybuilders take steroids in one or the other form in today’s times. The factors that have promoted the usage of steroids in sports such as weight lifting, body building, athletics, and swimming are many. These factors include increased competition, short career span of sportsmen, desire to excel at any cost, increase body endurance, and enhance muscle mass to name a few.

The ideology of modern day sportsmen to ride on an almost invincible winning streak is also one of the greatest contributors towards the popularity of muscle building steroids. It will not be wrong to say that there is a drastic difference in the level of competition in the bygone days and today’s times. The modern day athlete wants to develop a distinctive edge and muscle building steroids help him in his quest for success and glory. Furthermore, the audience is no longer interested in snail race, boring baseball games, low scoring matches, and average appearing sportsmen. Everyone wants to enjoy watching aggressive athletes, big hits & high scoring games, and intense competition right from the word go.

Now that we have identified today’s sports ideology, let us read about a few drugs that are used by sportsmen to get a complete insight into the world of steroids.

Methandrostenolone
Also known as Anabol, Dianabol, and Reforvit, this steroid can enhance estrogen levels as it is aromatizable. It can also increase both size and strength of human body to a great degree.

Oxymetholone
Also known as Anadrol, Oxymetholone is known to have progestenic properties and help in retention of water. It has a very high anabolic/androgenic ratio and is used to enhance muscle mass and strength.

Points to Remember:

• It is highly important that muscle building steroids must be used only after a medical advice.
• The dosage of steroids must be only as per the prescribed limits else the time will not be far when the body shows signs of restlessness, fatigue, over-exertion, and other serious ailments.
• It is best to use over-the-counter products and avoiding the more androgenic steroids.
• Steroids must be used in low doses or for short durations.

The invincible power of steroids should not be feared, but must be respected at all times.
In a nutshell, one should make a judicious usage of muscle building steroids to reap the real benefits. If that can be done, there will be no cause of concern at all. Furthermore, it should not be forgotten that efforts are the foundation on which great bodies are nourished. After all, it is well said that no pain, no gain!

Post Cycle Therapy (PCT) for Female Steroid Users

In the case of pre-menopausal females, tapering the anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) would be the best treatment.

Anabolic steroid administration, like males, causes the HPGA to shutdown. However, stopping the AAS will produce menopausal like symptoms, therefore tapering until menses returns is best. The labs follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), luteneizing hormone (LH), progesterone (P) and estradiol (E2) will be the best indicator. They will show if the HPGA is affected adversely. In marked contrast to a man, the period typically returns within 1-2 months and will occur while tapering.

I would NOT suggest “selective estrogen receptor modulators” (SERMs) or aromatase inhibitors (AIs) for a woman! NEVER! It is the equivalency of forcing them into menopausal symptoms. The HPGA/HPTA are very different. In fact, SERM/AI (such as Nolvadex and Arimidex) are used in Breast Cancer, which includes a significant number of adverse effects. Decreasing E2 in a man is far different from doing the same in a female. E2 and P are the main female hormones. Just imagine how a man feels that receives Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) for Prostate Cancer.