Been training on and off for 25 years. Always natural.
5'10 180 lbs in better shape and more lean mass than the billionaire who wants to reverse his ageing.
Most likely maxed my genetic limit even though spent 15 years training without major diet knowledge.
Test levels feel okay.
Still I just wanna blast a cycle or 2. Maybe put on 20 pounds in a year.
Will it frick me up in the long-term?
Will I be able to hang onto the gains?
Worth it?
I'm really kinda interested.
everyone says "just one cycle" and then they roid for years and completely frick up their hormonal profiles
just don't touch it, that ain't a rabbit hole you wanna go down
beta af
this, i fell for this roidtroony meme via mpmd and greg douche. all the roid gains melted and for 6 months i felt tike a depressed zombie with barely functioning dick and 0 sex drive with perfect pct and even after 2 years i have minor hormonal related issues.
Try an aromatse inhibitor for 2 weeks
how would that help? any experience?
Aromatase inhibitors prevent to enzymatic conversion of testosterone to estrogen, thereby blocking the negative feedback loop that leads to reduced endoganous testosterone in anabolic steroid users. This requires starting them a few days before and stopping a few days after a cycle.
The lead time is less if you're using a steroidal aromatase inhibitor like aromasin because they destroy aromatase - your body must produce more aromatase, which takes a few weeks or months. You can stop using aromasin and anabolics on the same day.
So:
Day -3: Start AI.
Day 1: Start anabolics cycle.
Day n: End anabolics cycle. If using aromasin, stop AI.
Day n+3: Stop AI.
Anyways, you fricked up but it's not unrecoverable.
That said, you should be **VERY** cautious with using aromatase inhibitors to recover natural testosterone production. Take the lowest dose once every 7 days for 8 weeks. Get bloodwork every 2 weeks.
If test hasn't returned to baseline, take lowest dose once every 5 days for 8 weeks.
Then continue reducing time between doses until test returns to normal. Once it's normal, gradually taper off AIs.
Along with that, do everything to increase natural testosterone production. Consume pro-hormones like cholesterol (raw eggs milkshake for me). Get sunlight and red light therapy especially on your balls. Get sufficient sleep. Do 4 hours of LISS cardio a week. Frick a beautiful prostitute to improve confidence. Get your vitamins & minerals.
if you gotta ask and say things like "i'm kinda interested"
there's a fine line between just trying it and being a full blown drug addict
Let’s assume you go on a cycle. You get more muscle mass and stronger during that time. However, after you get off the cycle your body is going back to its regular hormonal environment, and as a result you will lose any significant muscle mass gained under steroid use. The only way to maintain your gains while using steroids is to continue blasting until you croak.
Unless you want to live two months looking bigger only to lose your gains, or unless you want to continue blasting until you die I don’t think it’s worth it.
You most likely haven’t maxed your natural potential. Maybe focus more on diet knowledge and pick up on all the gains you missed out on for 15 years by not eating properly.
not worth the brain damage
For what purpose?
You're better off trying to lower your resting heart rate to below 50, you'll get a stronger heart, lower stress, and fatter wiener.
A few cycles of only test is harmless and mostly beneficial.
lmao at a retado
HOW THE FRICK is it beneficial?
you permanently increase your satellite cell count which gives you a permanent strength and size bonus even if you get off the juice. You build muscle, a portion of it you will keep indefinitely, which makes you more resilient if you fall or suffer the odd car crash. You look more fit and have more vitality. But the biggest of them is: you have more energy, none of you teen phaggots or early 20s assmunchers will get this point however because you are too young to have experienced the drop in energy as you get older. More energy = more activity = less sedentary activity. Boost to libido too.
>you have more energy
LMAO for those 2 months you're taking it sure. After you feel depressed and have a limp dick for 6 months if you're lucky. There's already couple of testimonies of this exact thing earlier in this thread
You beta phag. If you cannot take a few months of low test life then you either do TRT doses or get back on the juice PHAGGOT. Either way, the other benefits I mentioned stay with you.
>roiding since 2006
>still looks barely bigger than some ottermode Indian kid.
just eat more eggs
no injections, same benefits, can be done for life
Roiding is completely safe as long as you get your blood work done
t. Derek, MPMD
No. And don't take my word for it, actually read and research. I have trained for 13 years and wanted to try roids quite a few times. Everytime I'm fed up with my gains and ready to pull the trigger I add test+var+hcg+ai+serms to the cart and do final research before clicking confirm and I always end up discarding the cart. Go to ug bb forums and spent weeks/months looking at cycle logs, reviews etc. There's not a single person who was happy with the decision of doing just one cycle and there's a few reasons for it. The results are not what your delusional mind expected it. Definitely not after PCT is over with. You might look pretty good on the cycle and even partly during PCT but after it's all said and done and you are trying to recover your normal test producition you will look practically identical to your pre-cycle especially if you really just did one cycle and it was a mild cycle.
Then a second one is that training on roids kills your motivation to train natty. The pumps, and the recovery and the visual gains during cycle are just so amazing that after experiencing that its near impossible to continue training as natty. And then thirdly, the side effects. Even though they are fairly unlikely if doing a mild cycle and doing everything "right" you can still end up with gyno most notably. Any other long term damage is really unlikely but if you aromatize easily have fun getting your breasts chopped for 10k then and spending months on recovery and always having scarred boobs.
There's basically only negatives. However if you are 40 and it's so fricking over for you then just perma b&c till you die. Who cares we are freaks. Or stay natty.