Winstrol Cycle - The Guide for Body Builders

If you are new to the world of body building and if you wish to achieve the body that you’ve always dreamed off, don’t you wish there was a handbook for that? The ultimate guide to achieve your desired biceps or triceps.

Well the not so secret formula is not just slaving yourself in the gym for hours and hours. The cuts will not just come from lifting at least not all.

New to this?
If your new to this and wants a steady and solid tissue and muscle gain minus water retention, then Winstrol may just be the one for you.

Be On the Loop
Before starting out any fitness or in this case fitness aid regimen, make sure to equip yourself with enough information. Do not just listen to hearsay or testimonials. Do your research and make educated choices.

Like in any drugs, there will be side effects. It is better to use compounds that has a short active life. This is to make sure that the steroids are off your system fast should you decide to stop the cycle.

Ester Who?
Ester is used to delay the release of testosterone into the system. Some steroids with ester are Enanthate, Cypionate and Propionate. These have slow release effect and has an active life of ~two weeks.

Testosterone is very effective in quick strength and muscle gains. So if you’re a neophyte, going slow may just be the way to go.

Win with Winny
Winstrol or commonly called Winny is an oral steroid which brings steady gains in muscle mass compared to other steroids. It is very popular in the market and said to be produce in various underground laboratories in 10mg and 50mg tablets. While it is also available in injections, many newbies prefer the tablet forms. It does not matter as to what time you take it as long as you take it before a mean to avoid any tummy upset. Most body builders use Winny to preserve muscle tissue and reduce body fats hence the ‘cut’.

Cocktails Anyone?
To achieve the ‘cut’, most body builders use Winstrol to help them retain lean muscles and reduce fat, if you wish to heighten the anabolic effect of the cycle, they may stack it with testosterone. Stacking it with a drug called Trenbolone will help the user to get very hard and defined appearance at the same time reducing body fat with the aid of good old cardio and a proper diet.

ABCs of PCT
When taking in something artificial such as hormones, it may take a while for the body to again produce these hormones naturally. It’s like the body taking a break or a vacation when the hormones is in full force action. The body needs to know that it needs to produce the hormones again. Hence, the PCT.

Sidetrack the side effects

Like in anything, make sure to take this with a grain of salt. There are side effects. The liver might take a beating with Winstrol so make sure not to use this drugs excessively. Do not drink alcoholic beverages during the time that you are on Winstrol, this is not a very brilliant idea. Of course, taking Winstrol with a medical condition is also not a very brilliant idea.

Winstrol for Newbie
Here is an ideal guide in taking in Winstrol if you are new to this.

Winstrol
Week 1 50mg daily
Week 2 50mg daily
Week 3 50mg daily
Week 4 50mg daily
Week 5 50mg daily
Week 6 PCT
Week 7 PCT
Week 8 PCT

Beginners Guide to Geneza Pharmaceuticals GP Sust 270 Cycle

There are a lot of questions about GP Sust 270 dosing. Due to sustanon's GP Sust 27 of esters, it is a little difficult to wrap your head around sometimes. Hopefully this will help clear up some of the confusion.

Sustanon is a Testosterone Blend. Each Lab has its own mix, but generally speaking it will contain 3 to 5 types of Test.
Below are several of the Test Esters that might be found in a sust blend and the half life of each:
Testosterone Acetate (1-3 Days)
Testosterone Propionate (3 Days)
Testosterone Phenylpropionate (3-5 Days)
Testosterone Isocaproate (7-10 Days)
Testosterone Decanoate (15-30 Days)

Geneza Pharmaceuticals GP Sust 270 has these amounts per mL:
20 mg/ml Testosterone Acetate
30 mg/ml Testosterone Propionate
60 mg/ml Testosterone Phenylpropionate
60mg/ml Testosterone Isocaproate
100mg/ml Testosterone Decanoate


Looking back quickly at the half life of the esters of test, you see that half of those used are fast releasing (around 3 days) and half are slow releasing (at least 10 days). Now before anything else is explained, let compare GP Sust 270 cycle to a Test Enanthate cycle with a Test Prop kickstart. Typically with a Test E cycle, you start to feel the test enanthate kick in sometime around the 5th week, so I will use week 5 as the Test E fully kicked in for my example.

Ok, so this Test E cycle will look like this:
Weeks 1-10 Test E @ 500mg/week
Weeks 1-5 Test P @ 150mg EOD (this totals 525mg/week)

It is clearly shown here that for weeks 1 to 5 we are taking a total of over 1gram of test. This is split into 500mg Test E which slowly pools for weeks, and 500mg of Test P which is used up within days. This should be fairly straight forward so far.

Onto the more complicated stuff now... What we are looking for in a cycle is a gradual build-up of test (for about the first week), followed by several weeks where we want to keep blood levels as steady as possible (usually 500mg/week of test), followed by a gradual coming-off of test (again, about a week of the test slowly leaving the body).
GP Sust 270 is an excellent drug to keep these blood levels steady if you inject it properly, and you only need to use 1 compound instead of 2 like in our Test E/P example. The tricky part is figuring out how much test is actually in the body with all these various esters in there.

For the first 5 weeks of GP Sust 270 cycle, the long esters are not present in numbers high enough to consider useful because they are still pooling. The only ones we need to worry about during this time are the fast esters. I will use GP Sust 270 for this cycle layout,
this consists of 110mg fast esters and 160mg slow esters.
So if we are looking for 500mg/week for these first 5 weeks (using EOD injections) we can easily do this by taking 1ml per injection.
4 x 110mg = 440mg/week. (**Note** the 4 is how many injections/week you get with EOD shots)

Weeks 1 - 5 GP Sust 270 - 1mL EOD

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As the longer esters begin to kick in, you can drop the dose. If at week 6 you drop to 500mg TOTAL test/week (since both fast and slow esters are both active at this point) we drop to a little under 2ml/week, which works out to 1/2mL EOD.
270mg * 1/2ml = 135mg * 4inj/week = ~540mg/week

Weeks 6-10 GP Sust 270 - .5mL EOD

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This is good enough, but if you want even better blood levels, you will need to taper down the test over the span of a few weeks when the slow esters begin to kick in.... lets say weeks 4-7. During this time we want between 1ml EOD and .5ml of test EOD....obviously this is .75ml EOD.
270mg * .75 = 202.5mg * 4 inj/week = ~810mg/week

Weeks 4-7 GP Sust 270 - .75mL EOD

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What does this all give us now?
Weeks 1 - 3 GP Sust 270 1mL EOD ( ~1080mg/week)
Weeks 4 - 7 GP Sust 270 .75mL EOD (~810mg/week)
Weeks 8-10+ GP Sust 270 .5mL EOD (~540mg/week)

Hopefully this is easy enough to understand. The 1grm/week of GP Sust 270 may look intimidating at first, but by now you should realize it is no different from what the Test E/Test P doses are.

Anavar – Cutting Cycle

Anavar or oxandrolone is actually a drug made in the last century. By then it suffered many transformations and today is used as a anabolic steroid derivate which is replacing some atoms in the bio molecular structure. Anavar is used worldwide, but its most common usage is as a steroid that helps you gain and preserve body mass. Anavar is not one of the strongest steroids, but it can astonish you with the end result. Anavar is in a form of tablet, so you don’t have to take it intravenously.

Side effects

Anavar won’t leave many consequences in your organism. Because of its mild nature it will not leave any trace on your liver. Because it’s really mild, many female athletes and bodybuilder use it. Just like any other steroid, Anavar can have some serious side effects, but they are really rare. Experience has showed us that Anavar users are really pleased with it.

How Anavar helps in fat loss?

Avatar is a steroid that has effect not only on your muscles, but also on fat loss. His molecular structure is made like that so you can also lose fat while using Avatar. This doesn’t mean that you can stay at home, take Avatar and fat will magically be transformed into muscles. You still need to go out and practice. This only means that Avatar can help you in that process of losing weight.

What dose should I take?

This can only decide your doctor, but there are some simple rules with Anavar. It’s not recommended to take less than 20mgs per day, because this is the minimum dose that provides you some results. The maximum dose you can take shouldn’t be over 80mgs per day.  This is a range where everyone can fit in. More than 80mgs per day can be harmful for your organism, but if you go over 100mgs per day, you will have negative effects on your organism, and the result will be the same as is when you take 80mgs. So you shouldn’t insist in taking higher dose.

Anavar cycles

Anavar main purpose is to make sure that you will have enough strength after you finish taking it. It also helps in your muscle creation, but primary effect will be strength. Anavar is not just like any other steroid. It can be used longer, because of its specific structure. During the therapy, Anavar will not totally shut down your HPTA, especially if you are taking minimum doses. This steroid is particularly popular because it does not aromatize. Aromatizing is a process where steroids are turning into estrogen. HPTA shuts down if you use some other steroids with more testosterone. Anavar can even be used in the brakes you make after each cycle. It’s recommended that you take post cycle therapy after using every steroid, so you have to take post cycle therapy after just using Anavar. Post cycle therapy will help your organism to recover and will help you to keep impressive results that Anavar has provided you. Anavar will stay in your organism shortly after the cycle is over – about three weeks. Many other steroids for oral usage stay in your organism for about 8 week, and intravenously taken steroids can be in our blood flow for months.

Is Anavar for me?

Anavar is a steroid that can be used by men and also by women. It has almost no consequences on our organism and minimum side effects and that’s why women use it rather than men. Medically looking, Anavar is the best steroid for persons with bone pain or osteoporosis.  Doctors recommend using only Anavar or stacking it with Halotestin, Proviron, Equipoise, Primobolan, Winstrol and HGH. Anavar is not a steroid for those who had some kind of heart disease or storke, blood clots, high level of cholesterol or high blood pressure. Also it’s not recommended for persons with kidney or liver problems.  Pregnant women shouldn’t use any type of steroid, so this one shouldn’t be used by them too. If you feel any symptoms of these diseases you should stop using Anavar and contact your doctor. If you abuse Anavar usage, you can lead you into deep depression, insomnia or even changes in your libido.

How Does Frontloading Improve a Steroid Cycle?

Frontloading is becoming more popular practice in bodybuilding as bodybuilders have noticed frontloading benefit in form of extra quick rise and stabilization of androgen level in blood. Bodybuilders have looked for long time for effective was to promote better and successful steroid cycle, by combining available medical data with experiences of each other, because formal clinical research in the area were actually pretty scarce. Through method of try and mistake, they have experienced benefits of frontloading.

It has become popular today among many bodybuilders to start with frontloading steroid cycle when they use heavy esters. They do so because they want to negate prolonged visible effect to achieve desired level of energy and body constitution. Others use another way to achieve the same effect -by boosting steroid cycle with oral drugs or solutions with no esters that promote faster consumption in system.

Both methods achieve similar result, boosting levels in blood faster to promote better exploitation during early first period of response, the period when your body is responsive for growing and will accept and respond to hormonal signal to achieve better muscle build-up.

How to apply frontloading?
One can calculate precisely necessary intake to achieve invariable discharge by calculating weekly amount. For example, taking testosterone enanthate every third day in 250 mg amount means you will need 583 mg for one week. For effective frontloading, double this dosage and intake it before the 1st half-life of the 1st dose, i.e. this means you will take testosterone-enanthate for 4 days.

You can also get the same effect with propionate or acetate. If you were not applying frontloading but simply taking 250 mg on three times per week schedule as in this example, you would stilly be building levels of steroids even in week two, and you could expect to achieve steady desired level only in the third week.

Because of prolonged release and visible effects, and with the fact that you have to wait for weeks before you notice any, it indeed might seem frustrating to have to wait this long into regular administering of steroids. It happens because blood level has to store larger amount of steroids to enable body response that enables muscle growth and has visible effect on body constitution.
Positive frontloading effects

Frontloading will give you better visible results in first two weeks and partially in a third as well, particularly with ester variations that have prolonged action. The point with frontloading is that with doubling the dosage in first couple of weeks you will create steady level of drug in system that will remain there until you administer next dose, promptly creating steady steroid level that you want to achieve.

Most bodybuilders trying frontloading have reported that muscle growth is indeed significant during first two to three week of frontloading in steroid cycle; results will become less impressive after some month and half to two months of frontloading, which is a queue about best period to apply the method.

Obviously, during frontloading you will flood hormonal system with steroid hormones giving it necessary boost to respond faster and more effectively. To put it simple: you will jump start your steroid cycle with frontloading, which is especially beneficial because your body is highly responsive to impulse to grow.

Additionally, with faster response you will apply this cycle for less time meaning that you will achieve smaller effect on your hormonal system, particularly on hypothalamus and pituitary gland that will make recovery of your body hormonal status easier and faster, enabling sooner and easier restitution of usual androgen hormone production.

What is the Ideal Steroid Dosage to Maximize Fat Loss?

How high a dose of anabolic steroids needed for good acceleration of fat loss?

Even the 500 mg/week dosage level, as a total of all the steroids used in the stack, is sufficient for substantial improvement in fat loss compared to the natural state. There’s some further improvement as the dosage increases to about the 1000 mg/week level.

In a few cases there have been remarkable results with quite low dosages, such as 250 mg/week testosterone or even 9 mg/day Dianabol (as odd as that number is, the specific case really was that amount.) However, that’s unusual, and appears to be correlated with the individuals having somewhat low natural testosterone. Generally, 500 mg/week is a reasonable minimum for a fat-loss steroid cycle.

Whether to lose fat first and then gain muscle, or do it the other way around, will depend on the case. A simple rule of thumb though is to accomplish the personally-easier task first.

For example, if you know you can drop 10 lb of fat relatively easily but adding 10 lb of muscle will be a challenge, then by all means lose the fat in the first few weeks of the cycle, preferably with quite high volume training. Your body will then be in a highly responsive state for muscle gain in the following weeks, due both to the previous high volume training and due to a homeostatic tendency to return to previous weight, in this case with muscle gain. More importantly than any reason why, this simply has been found to work very well.

Or if on the other hand if you find it hard to get much leaner than your present condition but you know you can add the planned amount of muscle in a matter of weeks, then add the muscle first. This will aid in the following fat loss, both because the added muscle increases metabolic rate, and again because of a homeostatic tendency to return to accustomed weight, in this case with fat loss. And again, regardless of reason, this too works very well in practice.

Gaining muscle while losing fat simultaneously can be done, but generally isn’t the optimal approach. Being a possible unintended outcome in some training scenarios, where very intensive programs with intent of maximum strength gains might result in some fat loss despite best efforts at sufficient eating. But as a deliberate plan, most times wouldn’t aim to accomplish both fat loss and muscle gain at the same time in a steroid cycle.

The Five Basic Stipulations of Proper Steroid Cycles and Responsible Steroid Use

1. No individuals under the age of 24 should engage in any anabolic steroid cycles what so ever.
2. Testosterone must be the very first and the ONLY anabolic steroid used in the very first beginner anabolic steroid cycle, and Testosterone must also be included in all cycles, no exceptions.
3. Cycle lengths should be kept as short as possible.
4. The lowest effective dose in order to provide gains should always be utilized before increasing doses.
5. An absolute minimum of stacked compounds (no more than 2 at any given time unless absolutely necessary) should be used in any given anabolic steroid cycle.

Detailed explanations of the five stipulations:

1. There is no specific age for each and every human that has been determined to be the age by which the human body and its subsystems (especially the endocrine system, which is our primary concern here) have fully matured and developed. The ultimate final age by which we all reach full growth and maturation is determined by our genetics and to a lesser extent, our lifestyle habits. Every individual’s genetic ‘programming’ is different, and therefore some individuals will fully mature at a younger age while others may reach full maturation at approximately 24 years of age, and others will perhaps mature at an even older age. It is general knowledge concerning the endocrine system that Testosterone levels in males are continually rising until the median average age of approximately 24 – 25 years old, at which point these levels reach their peak and begin to decline. The Hypothalamic Pituitary Testicular Axis (HPTA) which controls endogenous natural Testosterone production is a very sensitive network. Furthermore, there is no specific ‘test’ that one might be able to undergo in order to determine if he/she has reached full maturation of the human body’s subsystems. Therefore, the average median age by which almost all human beings reach maturity has been determined to be 24 – 25 years of age. Some may mature earlier (as mentioned earlier) and some later than this. By engaging in anabolic steroid cycles and introducing anabolic steroids to the body prior to the age of 24, the risks of severely and permanently disrupting and damaging the endocrine system is extremely high. Only after the age of 24 – 25 do the risks of considerable and permanent HPTA damage drop drastically.

2. Testosterone is literally the original anabolic steroid, produced naturally within all humans and most animal species. It is considered the safest anabolic steroid one could use for this reason, due to the fact that it is the hormone that each individual’s body already produces, already uses, and is already accustomed to. Therefore, the use of Testosterone for the purpose of performance and physique enhancement is simply the equivalent of introducing more of a hormone into the human body that it already manufactures and uses.

Furthermore, all first cycles for bare beginners to the world of anabolic steroids should always use some form of Testosterone-only as their very first anabolic steroid cycle. Solitarily run Testosterone cycles provide the user with a safe compound (Testosterone) that the human body is already accustomed to naturally, as all humans already produce Testosterone endogenously. This will allow the user to gauge their response to the most basic anabolic steroid, Testosterone. It is from this gauging process that individuals can assess their potential responses to other anabolic steroids, as the chances are that if an individual responds horridly to a basic Testosterone cycle, then there will likely be a higher chance of the individual responding even worse to most other compounds which are essentially modified analogues of Testosterone.

As explained above, solitary Testosterone-only cycles are the ideal beginner first-time anabolic steroid cycles. The problem with stacking multiple compounds in a beginner first-time cycle lies in the fact that it is quite a potentially dangerous practice. A hypothetical beginner who has never used anabolic steroids or whom has never run a cycle before would not know what to expect upon use. It stands to reason that if a stack of several different compounds are run for a first cycle and the individual reacts in a very negative manner (or experiences a particular very undesirable side effect), there will be no possible means for this individual to figure out which anabolic steroid is responsible for the bad reaction if a cocktail of several anabolic steroids have been stacked in one cycle. This would become possibly life-threatening if said reaction were to be a very serious mortal reaction (such as an allergic reaction, for example).

3. Duration of use is an extremely very influential factor but very easily understood, as it need not be explained that the longer a particular anabolic steroid cycle is run, the increased incidence of side effects will also present themselves as the duration of use becomes longer and longer. The recovery of natural endogenous Testosterone production also becomes increasingly difficult following the termination of an anabolic steroid cycle if a cycle is run for longer and longer lengths of time. Various anabolic steroids may exhibit higher degrees of HPTA suppression and shut-down than other compounds, but all anabolic steroids exhibit this effect of HPTA suppression and eventual shutdown as duration of use continues. Severely atrophied Leydig cells in the testes following extremely long cycles will have far greater difficulty re-engaging endogenous Testosterone production again due to desensitization to gonadotropins resultant of long-term suppression/shutdown. Ideal cycle lengths for short-estered anabolic steroids should be in the range of 8 – 10 weeks, and for long-estered anabolic steroids, 10 – 12 weeks. Any longer than this and the individual runs high risk of increasingly difficult HPTA recovery.

4. The issue of utilizing the lowest effective dose is simple: make progress with the lowest possible dose first, grow into this dose, and then increase the dose as required (which is on average, several cycles into beginner use). Many individuals (mostly beginners) tend to engage in extremely ludicrous activity whereby a brand-new first-timer will run 500mg/week on their first cycle, then proceed to 700mg/week on their second cycle, and then 1,000mg/week on their third, and so on and so forth. This is absolutely unnecessary, and, not to mention not very healthy at all. As mentioned earlier, many anabolic steroid users (both beginners and experienced users) severely underestimate the power of these hormones and most usually when individuals do things like that, it is because they claim their gains and progress has stopped. The culprit is usually a flaw in their nutrition or training (or both), not in how many mg per week of total steroid they are using. These details and concerns must be kept in mind. A very important detail for all individuals to understand in relation to anabolic steroid doses is that the human body only manufactures approximately 50 – 70mg weekly of Testosterone (depending on various factors such as age, lifestyle habits, genetics, etc.). Considering this, we can use logic to conclude that: 500mg is approximately 7 – 10 times the amount that the human body produces. Suffice to say, 300mg weekly should then be perfect for any first-time beginner cycle.

5. Quite simply put: the use of more than two compounds stacked in any given anabolic steroid cycle is completely unnecessary for the average casual recreational anabolic steroid user. The stacking of three or more compounds in a single anabolic steroid cycle is only necessary for competitive bodybuilders and professional athletes. Increasing the number of anabolic steroids utilized in a single cycle increases the weekly dose of total steroid, which thereby increases the risk and intensity for side effects tenfold, and presents increasingly harsh stressors on the human body

Things to Consider Before Starting a First Steroid Cycle

Discipline and dedication are principles that you are going to have to master if you are serious about bodybuilding, being consistent with your diet and training will help you succeed in achieving your goals. Don't have tunnel vision in thinking you will only build muscle if your taking Steroids, below are some of the main principles you need to consider before taking any anabolic steroids.

AGE
In humans endocrine system is not fully functional until an average age of 25yrs, although the main development is up to around 21yrs it still fluctuates a little bit up to its fully functional age. There is a risk of permanently damaging HPTA if you take steroids too young and you could end up with symptoms of andropause and HRT for life. Symptoms could be Limp dick, low libido, depression, low energy, low endurance, erection problems and many more but.......are these the types of symptoms you want to have in your 20's?. Believe me its hard to cope with these in your 40's yet alone in your prime of your life.

Around this age your Testosterone levels are the highest they going to be in your life naturally, so use what you have and don't take the risk of damage, I am passionate about this because I've seen it many times with young kids wanting to looking like their heroes and they think the answer is in an injection/tablet.

Taking steroids too young can also cause problems with development, one other main problem is premature sealing of your epiphyeal bone and the consequences mean that you wont grow as big as your genetics could allow you to, there is a test which can be done to see if your growth plates have sealed yet but the average age is around 21yrs old.

TRAINING
You need a few years of hard training under your belt before even considering taking any kind of anabolic support, people who jump on a steroid cycle to soon without having some quality years under their belt usually results in injuries, it takes time to develop your connective tissue, tendons and nervous system to heavy overload training. Slowly getting your own system use to these kinds of extreme's will only help in muscle growth later on when you do decide to start taking anabolic steroids.

Build a solid foundation for muscle tissue to grow and maintaining and development will be far greater than without it. Many younger guys will start cycling before they have reached their genetic potential which is crazy when a good solid diet and training program will be far beneficial and productive to muscle building.

Workouts should be mainly focused on basic movements with a priority of over loading the muscle each and ever time you train, increasing your strength and ability to lift in proper form will help with building the foundation for future development.

DIET
A lot of younger bodybuilders don't know how to eat. Researching and understanding how your own body responds will help you get to your natural limit, the right food at the right time and a full understanding of proteins, carbs, and fats will only help you succeed in achieving your natural goals. Keeping a diet diary will also help you understand the importance of macro, nutrients, calories and should help you see in which areas you could be going wrong in adding lean muscle tissue.

No matter how much anabolic support you have it will be worthless without proper nutrition, food will help build and maintain your valued muscle weather its natural, cycling or in PCT. Adjusting your food intake and consuming muscle building foods coupled with a solid training program will help you achieve your natural limit and foundation before you start Steroid use.

This area is a huge problem with the younger guys and I can't express enough how important diet/food is when first starting out, post and pre training nutrition are very important and understanding how to load and feed the body will help push growth and create a very natural anabolic environment.

How Effective Is An Anavar Only Cycle?

Anavar, or Oxandrolone, is one of the most popular oral anabolic steroids used today. Originally designed for the treatment of AIDS-related muscle wasting, alcoholic hepatitis, treatment of osteoporosis, trauma recovery and other weight loss illnesses, its popularity amongst athletes grew due to its potent muscle building effects and good safety profile.

If you’re below the age of twenty-one, we don’t suggest using anabolic steroids, Anavar included. However, if you’re set on using anabolic steroids regardless of our advice or anyone else’s, Anavar is certainly an option due to it not aromatising and converting to estrogen, as well as its mild overall effects. For a first cycle or introduction into the world of using anabolic steroids, going to the oral route is often favourable. That doesn’t leave a lot of options, but Anavar is one of them. Dianabol can also be used alone, but this compound does cause estrogen levels to rise, will impact testosterone production moderately and cause the steroid user to experience symptoms of low testosterone. Because Anavar is a dihydrotestosterone (DHT) related anabolic steroid, its androgenic effects can cause libido to increase, even though endogenous testosterone may be inhibited, making it an excellent choice as an oral only based steroid cycle. But how effective is Anavar used alone?

Today we’re going to look at a study done at the University of Southern California in 2004.  Thirty men over sixty years of age were given a relatively low Anavar dosage of 20mg every day. Twenty of the healthy and untrained men, got Anavar and the remaining ten got a placebo. The study lasted for twelve weeks and looked at a number of parameters. The men did not exercise during the trial.

One of the parameters measured before and after Anavar treatment was a cross section of the thigh muscle. This would indicate muscle mass accrual from Anavar use. The figure below shows the results.




The men using Anavar gained far more muscle mass than those using the placebo. The figure below indicates how much of this muscle mass was maintained after the study ended, and unfortunately, its not much.



A similar result was seen in muscle power from the Anavar group as shown below. The lat pull-down, leg extension and leg press were all tested which showed a more dramatic increase in the Anavar group. But again, these strength gains faded away leaving around 5-10% remaining after discontinuing Oxandrolone.




However, all was not lost post Anavar treatment. Fat loss was maintained more so than the muscle mass and strength gained from Oxandrolone after twelve weeks. Fat mass fell after two weeks and this loss was still evident twelve weeks later.



Other parameters tested were the men’s luteinizing hormone (LH) levels, cholesterol, PSA markers for prostate cancer and liver enzymes. There were no adverse effects in any of these.

Limitations of this study are that the men were untrained. The results are promising showing gains in muscle, strength and fat loss are evident in untrained males, and these results could be expedited with a high protein diet, training and cardio program. We don’t suggest using Anavar alone and not training, but instead consume a calorie surplus for more muscle mass, or calorie deficit for wanting to lose fat mass.

As with any anabolic steroids used alone or in combination, a post cycle therapy (PCT) will be needed, and Anavar is no different. Although a mild androgen on natural testosterone production, Oxandrolone is inhibitive so using drugs, such as Tamoxifen and herbal products will be needed post cycle to boost testosterone output.

Boldenone Use and Cycles

The use of boldenone is gradually becoming more respected by many top athletes, and more than just for its appetite-enhancing properties. I suspect that in previous years bodybuilders have not found boldenone use as beneficial due to the preparations available to them. One popular brand of boldenone undecylenate is Ganabol; a vetinary preparation of boldenone has just 50mg per 1ml of oil carrier. Even a modest dose of 400mg per week would necessitate the administration of 8ml of oil which, bearing in mind the user will probably also be cycling other steroids, a real inconvenience. It is this author's view that a minimum of 600mg/week of boldenone undecylenate is needed for beneficial effects, ideally 800-1000mg/week. With preparations such as Ganabol, doses of 800-1000mg/week would require 16-20ml per week, which is not very practical.

Given the mild nature of boldenone, one should not expect dramatic gains. One may compare the gains from boldenone to that of methenolone (primobolan) for example, in that the gains are slow and steady, however generally quite retainable post-cycle. As there is little aromatisation, little water weight will be put on, so many may be disheartened at the beginning of a cycle when compared to an AS such as testosterone, which will put on several pounds of water in the first week. However one must remember that this water will be lost post-cycle, and if one can gain 1lb of muscle per week then little more can be asked of any AS. Given the relatively long half-life of the undecylenate ester (at least 8 days) and the mild nature of boldenone, it is best taken for a minimum of 10-12 weeks. Users do tend to suggest that the drug is best utilised in longer cycles. PCT should begin approximately 3-4 weeks after the last shot of boldenone undecylenate. Although many people claim boldenone is useful for cutting given its low aromatisation rates and increasing vascularity, the amplification of appetite is a negative aspect for cutting. Thus it is my opinion that the best use of boldenone is as part of a bulking cycle. This use gets the most out of boldenone's benefits – namely increased appetite.

Alternatively boldenone could be stacked with other non-aromatising drugs such as primobolan (methenolone) or masteron (drostanolone) where the small amount of estrogen produced by boldenone is beneficial and the resultant gains should be lean and more easily kept. Given the long undecylenate ester (11 carbons) normally attached to boldenone, injecting the hormone twice a week is more than sufficient, although favourable for stable blood levels over injecting once per week. If one purely wants to use boldenone for its appetite enhancing properties, lower doses of 400mg/week should suffice for this purpose, although the full benefit of boldenone in my opinion is not achieved at these lower doses. Some example cycles are outlined below (I recommend in all cases 500IUs HCG is administered weekly from week 1 throughout the cycle as this will significantly aid recovery by helping to stop shut-down from fully occurring):

Novice Mass Cycle
500mg Testosterone Enanthate/Cypionate pw, weeks 1-12
600mg Boldenone Undecylenate pw, weeks 1-11
Dianabol 30mg ed weeks 1-4 (alternatively the injectables can be doubled in the first week for a front-load)
PCT – 3 weeks after last testosterone injection

Low-aromatising Mass Cycle
800mg Boldenone Undecylenate pw, weeks 1-12
600mg Primobolan (Methenolone Enanthate) pw, weeks 1-13
(Optional – Anavar 60mg ed, weeks 1-16)
PCT – 3 weeks after last Primobolan injection

Advanced Mass Cycle (For very experienced users – recommend regular bloodwork before, during and after such a cycle)
500IUs HCG pw, weeks 1-18
1000-1500mg Testosterone Enanthate/Cypionate/Sust pw, weeks 1-16
500-750mg Deca (Nandrolone Decanoate) pw, weeks 1-14
800-1000mg Boldenone Undecylenate pw, weeks 1-14
150-200mg NPP (Nandrolone Phenylpropionate) eod, weeks 14-18
150-200mg Testosterone Propionate eod, weeks 16-18
100-150mg Trenbolone Acetate eod, weeks 12-18
(Optional kick-start with 40-50mg dianabol ed weeks 1-4)
PCT – 3 days after last Trenbolone Acetate injection

The Importance of Testosterone Inclusion in Every Cycle

It is a well-known set-in-stone rule that Testosterone is such an essentially important hormone that it must be included as the primary base compound in every single cycle as either a primary anabolic compound, or at the very least as a supportive compound in the role of TRT. A ‘primary anabolic compound’ is defined as a compound within a cycle that acts as one of the primary contributors to muscle accrual, and must usually be run at supraphysiological bodybuilding doses to do so. A perfect example is a cycle consisting of Testosterone and Dianabol (Methandrostenolone) in which Testosterone is run at 500mg per week alongside Dianabol at 30mg per day. In such a case, both compounds are utilized at bodybuilding doses (supraphysiological doses), and are therefore acting as primary anabolic compounds. A cycle consisting of Testosterone, Dianabol, and Proviron (Mesterolone) at doses of 500mg/week (Testosterone), 30mg/day (Dianabol), and 25mg/day (Proviron) is a display of Proviron not acting as a primary anabolic while the other two compounds do. The role if Proviron in this case is that of a supportive compound, as it is run at a dose too low to be considered a ‘bodybuilding’ dose, and Proviron itself is not a very strong anabolic compound by any measure.

The use of Testosterone in a cycle that includes, for example, Testosterone at 100mg/week, Trenbolone at 400mg/week, and Masteron (Drostanolone) at 400mg/week is the perfect example of a cycle in which Testosterone is not a primary anabolic compound. In this case, Testosterone then takes upon a supportive role of TRT (Testosterone Replacement Therapy) in order to merely maintain normal physiological levels of Testosterone during a period in which the body’s own endogenous production of Testosterone will be suppressed and/or shut down (as a result of the anabolic steroid cycle). This is a perfect description of the use of Testosterone at TRT doses during cycles, and this concept, as well as the reasons behind it, will be further expanded upon slightly very shortly in this article. Whichever the individual’s decision may be, the concept that Testosterone must be run in every single cycle is a basic stipulation of proper and responsible anabolic steroid use. It is a basic rule that Testosterone must be included in every cycle run – there are no exceptions to this rule.

Why Must Testosterone Be Included In Every Cycle?
Testosterone is, quite plainly, the original anabolic steroid; it is the body’s primary androgen that is necessary for a myriad of proper physiological functions. It is a hormone that is manufactured naturally inside all humans and the majority of animal species. It is because of this that Testosterone is considered the safest anabolic steroid, as mentioned many times throughout this article. It cannot be stressed enough that this is because it is the hormone within each human being that is already secreted, already utilized, and is already accustomed to. The logic then follows that the use of Testosterone for the purpose of performance and physique enhancement is easily described as the act of presenting greater amounts of a hormone that the body already secretes and utilizes into the body in order to maximize levels of these hormones for a temporary period (a cycle).
It is through this logic that it has also been determined, as a solid ground rule to anabolic steroid use, that every single first cycle for should always be a cycle of Testosterone-only (any selected variant of Testosterone) as their very first cycle. Testosterone-only cycles introduce the user to a safer anabolic steroid (Testosterone) that the human body has been previously accustomed to naturally for many years prior, as all human beings previously manufacture and utilize Testosterone endogenously. What this opens for the individual anabolic steroid user is the ability to gauge their reaction to the most basic anabolic steroid, Testosterone. It is the result of this gauging procedure that the user can assess his potential reactions and responses to other anabolic steroid analogues and derivatives. This is because the rationale behind the process dictates that there is a high probability that if an individual responds nastily in various undesirable manners to a basic Testosterone cycle, then there will likely be a greater probability of the individual responding in an even worse manner to the majority of other anabolic steroids, which of course are essentially modified analogues of Testosterone.

MODERN ANABOLIC ANDROGENIC STEROIDS CYCLING

A comprehensive look at modern Anabolic Androgenic Steroid cycling.

If you are planning a 10 week cycle, the goal is to be at highest blood concentrations for as many of the 10 weeks as possible.

If you use a long ester such as deca at xmg/week, it will take you 4-5 weeks to build up to max blood concentrations possible for xmg/week. So half of your cycle is not wasted, but you are not maximizing efficiency.

When coming off a cycle, the waiting period before clomid therapy begins will vary depending on the type and dose of the AAS. If you ran 400mg/week of deca for 10 weeks, a month after your last shot, will will still have around 150mg of esterified deca in your system. This is more than enough to prevent recovery. This is the reason why recovery is more difficult with a deca (or another long acting ester).

Most guys go with "time on=time off." This will not work with long esters as I have demonstrated above. For at least a month after your last shot you are in what I call a "time in-effiency" period where you are no longer reaping the benefits of you AAS but you are not recovering either. The goal of the modern cycle is to minimize this wasted time.

The key components are:

1) Front end loading this cuts down on wasted time in the beginning of your cycle waiting for the doses to reach full theraputic levels. This concept has been used before but (as far as I know) I was the first one to quantify it mathmatically. Zyg has taken the math one step further with a graph showing, visually, the importance.
The use of orals in the beginning of a cycle is a popular component of a cycle. While I don't feel it is a nessecity, it too is a (different) type of front end load.
For the advnaced BBer, dbol should be taken in the beginning of a cycle as well as loading the injectables since the anabolic response from dbol is alleged to be by a different mechanism than most injectables. If one had to chose between a dbol load and and injectable load, in most cases, the injectable load should be prefered over the dbol load.

2) Injection frequency This is crucial to obtaining even blood concentrations of androgens. Ideally, the more often injected, the better. An acceptable rule of thumb is "inject at half of the half life." For instance, if the half life of a steroid is 7 days, this should be injected at least twice weekly. For cycles that involve multiple injectables, the injections should be fractioned out and divided up based on the injectable with the shortest half life. For instance, if you were doing a test propionate and deca cycle, the old school way to do it would be to inject the prop EOD and the deca once a week. Both compounds should not be viewed as separate, but together with total androgen concentration taken into consideration. If you injected the deca only once a week, probably along with one of the propionate injections, that day will have a much larger spike on total blood androgen concentrations. Instead, the deca should be split up and taken with the propionate injections, EOD. This way there is no one day of the week that has a "spike" and even blood concentrations are maintained throughout the week.

3) Ending the cycle Switching to shorter esters toward the end of a cycle makes perfect sence however not too many guys incorporate this practice perhaps because of the lack of variety of drugs. The modern cycle should include replacing long ester injectables with shorter ones so that recovery time is made more efficient. The necesity of switching to shorter esters toward the end of a cycle depends on the type of drugs used. Longer esters such as deca and eq should be replaced with shorter acting versions of these compounds no later than four weeks before the end of a cycle. Medium length esters such as t-enanthate and cypionate should be replaced no later than three weeks before the end of a cycle. A couple examples of appropriate replacements are: trenbolone acetate and testosterone propionate. There is no need to "load" these compounds in the middle of a cycle since
1) they are already "fast acting" and
2) blood androgenconcentrations are already high.

4) Recovery With the replacement of the faster acting injectables toward the end of a cycle, the "wasted" time between the end of a cycle and beginning of clomid therapy is reduced. For instance, if 100mg TA is used ED, clomid therapy may begin in as little as 5 days after the last shot. This tremendously impoves time efficiency. Clomid therapy usually last for four weeks. An excellent thread posted by The Iron Game describes this in further detail Clomid FAQ's .
When the above recomendations are made, your cycle itself is made much more efficient and if recovery time is made more efficient as well, time "off" AAS may very well be reduced so that the overall efficiency of AAS use over time is tremendously improved.