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Test Suspension.

Testosterone Suspension is an injectable hormone in a water base that was developed and used for decades and is actually the first anabolic, androgenic steroid used. For the purpose of building mass, Testosterone Suspension has never been surpassed since it was first developed in the 1930´s. Many underground labs also suspend this product in propylene glycol or oil as well (which makes for a very painful injection). It has no ester attached; therefore no ester is calculated into the weight. This is extremely beneficial to the user since 100mg of testosterone suspension will yield 100mg of testosterone unlike the other esterfied testosterones such as (for example) testosterone enanthate which only yields 72mg of actual testosterone per 100mg of total weight. Testosterone suspension considerably raises the storing of glycogen in the muscle cells and because it is dissolved in water it becomes effective immediately. Also making it different from other esterfied hormones is that it only keeps sustained and elevated testosterone levels for 2-3 days due to its micro-crystal design. This forces the user to inject on a daily basis, with better results coming from twice-three time a day use due to its short active-life with the effective dose ranging from 350-1000mg per week (50-140mg/day). One should practice site rotation and should practice injecting in the same spot only once per week at most. It should be noted that test suspension is usually a very painful shot, so it is often cut with something else, such as B-12, or other steroids. And yes, you can mix a water based steroid with an oil based steroid in the same syringe. It looks like a lava lamp, and you can use it as a level if you are building something, but no, there´s no problems with injecting a mixture like this.

Note that due to the water base (though, not an issue if using a product suspending in propylene glycol or oil) the testosterone will most likely settle to the bottom of the vial and that shaking the vial is needed in order to insure even dosing. This is true for all water based steroid suspensions.

As was noted before, testosterone can be considered one of the most powerful mass builders and testosterone suspension can be considered one of the most powerful of the testosterones simply due to the fact that it has no attached ester. This means that you are getting 100mgs of Test per 100mgs you inject; Suspension is the only version of Testosterone that can boast that claim. A growing reason why many athletes are choosing to use testosterone suspension instead of enanthate or other forms (besides the fact that it has a higher amount of pure testosterone resulting in greater results) is that it may be responsible for localized growth at the site inject like winstrol. Most athletes will also only use this form of testosterone in a bulking cycle as it is usually accompanied by high water retention, severe bloat, adipose storage, and gynomastia. This product also has a high level of aromitization into estrogen and coverts to DHT (dihydrotestosterone) as well. Of course, adding endogenous testosterone to your body will result in the shutting down of your own exogenous testosterone levels, as well as the hormones secreted which cause testosterone to be secreted by your testes.

Testosterone is many times not used by women because male secondary sex characteristics may start to appear in female users. However, testosterone suspension will allow women to site-inject and help problem areas common in women such as calves and inner thighs, and can be used in small enough doses, clearing the system quickly if sides develop, that some women use choose to use it. This advantage also means that one can pass a drug test a couple of days after the last injection. This is a great advantage to athletes who will be tested and still want the benefits of a mass drug which can not be tested for easily….many other forms of testosterone (such as Cyp or Enanth) can take 3 months to become undetectable.

As far as results of the cycle, one should be very happy with the results as so far as the diet and training regimen are good. As I previously stated, testosterone is a highly anabolic and androgenic hormone, it has an anabolic (muscle building) rating of 100, making it a good drug to use if one is in pursuit of more size and strength. And if you aren´t in pursuit of more size and strength, then why would you be reading this, right? Well, let´s get on with it and look at exactly what makes testosterone a good mass builder. Firstly, testosterone promotes nitrogen retention in the muscle(2) the more nitrogen the muscles holds the more protein the muscle stores. Testosterone can also increase the levels of another anabolic hormone, IGF-1, in muscle tissue(3). Testosterone also has the amazing ability to increase the activity of satellite cells(4). These cells play a very active role in repairing damaged muscle. Testosterone also binds to the androgen receptor to promote A.R dependant mechanisms for both muscle gain as well as fat loss.(5) Testosterone significantly increases the concentrations of the A. R in cells which are critical for muscle repair and growth.(4, 6 ). Testosterone induces changes in shape and size of your muscle fibres, and also can change the actual appearance and the number of muscle fibres(7). Also of note to both bodybuilders and athletes is that many anabolic/androgenic steroids (like testosterone susprnsion, in this case) can also protect your hard earned muscle from the catabolic (muscle wasting) glucocorticoid hormones(8) that your body employs to maintain homeostasis. In addition, Testosterone has the added ability to increase red blood cell production(9), and a higher RBC count may improve endurance via better oxygenated blood. More RBCs can also improve recovery from strenuous physical activity, and this has obvious benefits for the hard training bodybuilder or athlete. As with 99% of other steroids, Testosterones´ anabolic/androgenic effects are dose dependant, the higher the dose the higher the muscle building effect(10).

Testosterone suspension is best run for at least 8 weeks and depending on the experience of the user one may choose to runs for much longer. Since this hormone is primarily used by more advanced users other drugs are usually incorporated into the cycle. One should opt for other mass drugs such as dianabol and deca-durabolin since the goal of this cycle will most likely be and should be for mass. The user should expect to see rapid muscle growth, water retention, and possibly extra fat deposits. Some athletes will also choose to inject Suspension before a workout or competition (this would increase aggression, and would be especially important for MMA competitors, or those in a sport where aggression is a benefit). I´ve used it for this purpose and found it to be very useful. Many pther athletes will also use it solely for this purpose….every day (painful) shots are just not much fun for a typical 12 week cycle. It is for this reason that most people who use this drug employ it pre-workout and/or competition, and not much more often. A mere 100mgs pre-workout or competition is sufficient, and would benefit competitive athletes greatly enough to justify it´s inclusion during an in-season-cycle.

Lastly, you should be paying roughly $50 for a 10cc bottle of 100mgs/ml from any reputable Underground Lab.

Intermediate Bulk Cycle.

If you´re anything like me, you took a look at the title of this article and wondered what an intermediate is. It´s relatively easy to figure out what a beginner is, because chances are if you haven´t done steroids, you already know that you´re a beginner. And if you´ve been using steroids for nearly a decade (as I have), you would probably have assumed you would need an advanced cycle. But if you fall in this grey area in the middle, then you´re probably wondering what kind of cycles you need.

Well, I´m going to set up some guidelines to figure out whether you´re an intermediate, ok? You´re an intermediate if you´ve been lifting for at least 3 years and have done at least 3 cycles. And I think, to make my definition of intermediate a little easier to understand, I´ll also suggest that you need to have done at least 3 different anabolic steroids, and stacked them in at least one of your cycles. You with me, so far? What I´m saying is that in order to be an intermediate, you have:

  • Done 3 cycles or more
  • Used three different Anabolic steroids
  • Stacked 2 steroids in at least one cycle

If you´ve done all of the above then you are (at least) an intermediate steroid user, and the cycle I´m going to outline here is for you. SO let´s take a look at a sample intermediate bulking cycle, and then I´ll give you the reasoning behind it.

Week
Testosterone
(Cypionate or Enanthate)
Deca-Durabolin
(Nandrolone Decanoate)
Dianabol
(Methandrostenolone)
Arimidex*
(Anastrozole)
1
500 mgs
400 mgs
25-50 mgs/day
0.5 mgs/day
2
500 mgs
400 mgs
25-50 mgs/day
0.5 mgs/day
3
500 mgs
400 mgs
25-50 mgs/day
0.5 mgs/day
3
500 mgs
400 mgs
25-50 mgs/day
0.5 mgs/day
4
500 mgs
400 mgs
25-50 mgs/day
0.5 mgs/day
5
500 mgs
400 mgs
25-50 mgs/day
0.5 mgs/day
6
500 mgs
400 mgs
 
0.5 mgs/day
7
500 mgs
400 mgs
 
0.5 mgs/day
8
500 mgs
400 mgs
 
0.5 mgs/day
9
500 mgs
400 mgs
 
0.5 mgs/day
10
500 mgs
400 mgs
 
0.5 mgs/day
11
500 mgs
400 mgs
 
0.5 mgs/day
12
500 mgs
 
 
0.5 mgs/day

*If necessary.

Ok, so what we have here is a nice bulking cycle that uses about a gram per week of anabolics, on average, and makes use of orals in the beginning to help you see results more quickly. In the beginning, you´re going to be running between 25 and 50mgs per day of Dianabol, which will allow you to see results very quickly while blood plasma levels of the long estered Testosterone and Nandrolone products to build up to their peak levels. I´m a firm believer that when you run a bulking cycle, you want to maximize the amount of weight you gain for the time that you´re on steroids. Typically, people don´t “feel” the long estered products effects until a quite a few weeks into the cycle. That´s why I like to kickstart a bulking cycle with an oral like Dianabol. I look at it as a numbers game& if you can manage to keep 50% of the weight you gain on a bulking cycle, and you gain 25lbs, you´ll end up with more muscle in the end then if you gain 20lbs, even if you lose half. On a bulking cycle, you need to bulk. This is a bit “old school” of me, but to be totally honest, I could never hold 200 very lean pounds until I went to 225 and cut back down (I´m 5´7″).

I think Dianabol is a nice bulking drug, and with the recent emergence of so many quality UG Labs, it´s relatively cheap. It gives the user an increase in strength and size almost immediately, and usually a heightened sense of well being. Of course, some users prefer Anadrol, because it can be a bit cheaper on a mg for mg basis, but really this isn´t enough of a difference to matter, in my opinion. I get headaches on Anadrol, but if you like it, then by all means, substitute it for the Dianabol.

The suggested testosterones in this cycle are long estered testosterone products, and are usually injected every 3.5-7th day. Testosterone stacks well with anything, and produces a nice anabolic (muscle building) effect, in addition to a distinct androgenic effect. Naturally, both of these effects will work together to help you achieve a significant increase in weight-load capacity, and a gain in Body weight.

Nandrolone Decanoate is a good choice for inclusion into a bulking cycle because it is very anabolic and slightly androgenic. It has two primary benefits on a bulking cycle, and the first is of course its ability to help you retain nitrogen, and thus build more muscle. The other very beneficial effect you will experience with the use of Nandrolone is a joint soothing/healing effect. Conversion to estrogen with this product is low, and combined with its other effects, it´s a natural choice for adding into a bulking cycle.

A cycle like this will give the user a good twenty plus pounds of new body weight, as well as the strength that accompanies it. If water retention becomes a problem, or your nipples get tender (a beginning sign of Gynocomastia), add in some Arimidex (Anastrozole) at half a milligram every day.

Steroid Effectivness Chart.

This is a steroid effectivness chart.  Which ones work the best and the worst. You could start planning your cycle according to the chart.  But remember people who gain 25lbs on winstroll may not gain on dball.  Everyone is diffrent. But this is a general idea of how well each Steroid works.

 

HIGH  10
LOW    1

Trade Name Chemical Name Weight Gain Strength Gain Fat Loss Side Effects
Anadrol Oxymetholone 10 10 2 10
Anavar Oxandrolone 2 8 8 2.5
Andriol Testosterone Undecanoate 3 4 4 2
Androgel Testosterone (Crème) 3 4 3 2
Boldenone (esterless) Boldenone 5 7 5 4
Cheque Drops Mibolerone 1 5 1 6
Deca-Durabolin Nandrolone Decanoate 7 6 5 6
Durabolin          
Equipoise Boldenone Undeclynate 5 7 5 4
Halotestin Fluoxymesterone 1 6 5 6
Laurabolin Nandrolone Laurate 7 6 5 6
Masteron Drostanolone Propionate 3 6 6.5 3
Masteron Enanthate Drostanolone Enanthate 3 6 6.5 3
Methyltestosterone Methyltestosterone 2 6 4 7
Omnadren Testosterone Blend 8 8 4 6
Oral-Turinabol 4-chlorodehydro methyltestosterone        
Parabolan Trenbolone Hexahydrobencylcarbonate 5 7 8 7
Primobolan (Injectable) Methenolone Enanthate 4 6 7 1
Primobolan (oral) Methenolone Acetate 4 5 5 3
Proviron Mesterolone 2 4 4 2
Sten Testosterone Blend 8 8 4 6
Sustanon Testosterone Blend 8 8 4 6
Test 400 (T400) Testosterone Blend 8 8 4 6
Testolent Testosterone Phenylpropionate 8 8 4 6
Testosterone Cypionate Testosterone Cypionate 8 8 4 6
Testosterone Enanthate Testosterone Enanthate 8 8 4 6
Testosterone Propionate Testosterone Propionate 8 8 4 6
Testosterone Suspension Testosterone Suspension 9 8 4 6
Testoviron Testosterone Blend 8 8 4 6
Trenbolone Acetate Trenbolone Acetate 5 7 8 7.5
Trenbolone Enanthate Trenbolone Enanthate 5 7 8 7
Winstrol Stanozolol 4 6.5 7 6.5

Dianabol Profile.

Dianabol

Dbol – Methandrostenolone

This was more or less the second Anabolic Steroid ever produced. The first, as we all know was Testosterone, which was produced in the early 1900´s and experimented with by Nazi´s in WW2, in an attempt to produce a better soldier.

Russian Dianabol and Team Sports History

Russian athletes in the 1953 World Championships as well as the Olympic games then used testosterone with great success. After that, John Zeigler, who was a doctor working with the US Weightlifting Team, began a cooperative project with Ciba to develop an equalizer for US atheletes. Flash forward to 1956 and enter Dianabol ; the original trade name for Ciba´s Methandrostenolone… but called “Dbol” by athletes. The original package insert said that 10mgs/day was enough to provide full androgen replacement for a man and Dr.Zeigler recommended that athletes take 5-10mgs/day. Incidentally, this is also the dose that Bodybuilders were reputed to take from then until roughly the 1970´s. Yeah, this was allegedly Arnold´s dose, Zane´s dose, etc… simply stacked with some testosterone. (For any trivia buffs out there, Dan Duchaine´s mail order steroid business operated under the name “The John Zeigler Fan Club”).

Dianabol Steroid Use

Enough with the history lesson, lets get into what this stuff is, and what it does. Well, first off, it´s usually found in pill form, though it can be found as an injectable also (Under the Trade name: Reforvit-B, which is 25mgs of methandrostenolone mixed with B-vitamins). It is a 17aa steroid, which means it has been altered at the 17th Carbon position, to survive its´ first pass through your liver, and make it into your blood stream. It´ll raise your blood pressure (4) and is also hepatoxic (Liver-Toxic), so be careful with it. Although I have known people to take up to 100mgs/day of this stuff and not suffer any ill-effects, and one study looked at that exact dose, and the people involved didn´t suffer any intolerable side effects ( 7). Lets examine this particular study a bit further, though:

In this study, done in the early 80´s, a very high dose of Dbol (100mgs/day for 6 weeks) decreased plasma testosterone to about 40% of it´s normal value, plasma GH went up about a third, LH dropped to about 80% of it´s original value, and FSH went down about a third also (these are all approximate numbers, for the sake of brevity, but you get the idea). Body fat did not go up significantly and Fat Free Mass went up anywhere between 2-7kgs (3.3kgs average gain). The researchers concluded that Dbol increases Fat Free Mass as well as increasing strength and performance. I can only agree, having found this to be the case for me when I did my first cycle (which was 6 weeks of dbol alone at 25mgs/day), I gained roughly 25lbs and kept nearly ½ of it. Since then, Dbol has always had a special place in my heart.

Dianabol Side Effects

As with many other 17aa steroids, Dianabol is also a very weak binder to the Androgen Receptor, so most of it´s effects are thought to be non-receptor mediated, and are attributable to other mechanisms (i.e. protein synthesis as indicated by the production of muscle tissue with very high levels of nitrogen, etc… which was indicated in the 100mg/day study). This also means it only has a modest aromatase activity (2).

How strong is Dbol? Well…on a mg for mg basis, most people agree that it´s stronger than A50…but the reason most people don´t get the same gains off of Dbol is that almost nobody takes equivalent doses (I mean…I´ve heard of people taking 150mgs of A50, but not Dbol, even though the dbol would probably provide more solid gains and be less toxic, I suspect).

So how do we incorporate this stuff into our AAS regimen? Clearly, the inclusion of Dbol at any point in a cycle would contribute to gains, however, I´d speculate that Dbol is most regularly used for 2 reasons:

  1. At the start of a cycle to “Kick Start” gains
  2. As a “Bridge” between cycles, to maintain gains

Lets examine these two uses.

Dianabol Cycle

In order to kick start a dianabol cycle, usually what you do is incorporate a fast acting oral like dianabol (or anadrol) and combine it with long acting injectables (such as Deca or Eq with some Testosterone). The reasoning here is that the oral (Dbol in this case) will give almost immediate results, while the injectable takes time to produce results. The end result is that you start seeing results within the first week of your cycle and continue up until the end with the injectables. This entails taking anywhere from 25-50mgs of dbol (although as little as 20mgs or as much as 100mgs have been reported) for 3-6 weeks at the start of a cycle (average time for a “Kick Start” is 4 weeks, though), and then ceasing their use as the injectables start to produce results.

In order to successfully bridge between cycles (and this means using a low dose of AAS, in this case dbol), you need to recover your natural hormonal levels to pre-cycle levels or to within acceptable parameters, and then you start your next cycle. The idea here is that you won´t lose any gains, but rather a low dose of an AAS will help you maintain them. Typically, you´d use around 10mgs/day of dbol and combine it with an aggressive Post-Cycle Therapy (PCT) course of Nolvadex (and/or Clomid) and HCG. This would give you full androgen replacement from the Dbol and a shot at recovering your natural hormonal levels via the other stuff you are taking. Remember, the 100mg/day dose of dbol in the study we looked at earlier did not suppress Test, LH, or FSH to a degree that would make recovery impossible and certainly not with 1/10th that dose in conjunction with an aggressive PCT.

All in all, this is a very good drug, and a potent tool for quick gains or retaining gains…when used properly and safely.

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