Steroid Guide Review

A Detailed View On A-Rod steroids Use

Statements from New York Daily News-

To add further fuel to this A-Rod steroids fire, Sports Illustrated’s own Selena Roberts has wrote about his entire life with this muscle enhancer in her book on Rodriguez. She has even made the bold claim that his first use with the drug started in HIGH SCHOOL! She made these claims after his statement on his high school career.

A-Rod said that in his sophomore year he just barely was able to bench one hundred pounds. Then astoundingly, a short six months later he put on an incredible twenty to twenty pounds. But that’s not it, he went from an un-impressive one hundred pounds to tripling this previous best. On a personal note; by any means, that’s one shocking jump that would be impossible unless something helped him a little bit, that is! Going from one hundred pounds to three hundred ten pounds would be a feat only possible with chemical enhancement.

One of his high school teammates also told Selena Roberts that A-Rod steroid use started as preparation for the season. Then after making this press statement she later said that Alex’s first uses were probably due to peer pressure. She also said that she even felt sympathetic for him. Everyone around him constantly pushed him to be performing at his greatest. more…

Here is the continuation on of the Post Workout Nutrition Myth Series

6. The best meal to consume following a post workout meal is a good SOLID meal.

This is where we can start to apply some of the novel information presented above. While we know that our post workout window (is it really even a window any more? 24 hours is more like a giant garage door) lasts for at least 24 hours, we can’t assume that the responses to repeated meals will all be the same.

This is where research by Borsheim and pals (2002) comes in. This landmark research shows that the best thing to consume after our post workout meal is… another protein shake! In fact, if we time it right, we’ll get the same huge increase in protein synthesis. Talk about a double whammy for our muscle growth! Now considering how crazy people get when it comes to a single post workout meal, imagine how they’ll react when you tell them that they can double that effect!

Also, for those who have a hard time accepting the reality explained in myth #5, you’ll get an even bigger response from the second drink, compared to what you get from the first.

7. Insulin sensitivity is enhanced for an hour following a resistance training bout.

The term insulin sensitivity gets thrown around in the strength-training world, as only the most vague of concepts. From here on, lets universally define it as: the inverse of the quantity of insulin required for an effect of a given magnitude. In other words, high insulin sensitivity requires low levels of insulin to do the job. Make sense? Now that we have a working definition, we need to destroy the myth of the one-hour post workout window once and for all!

We know that both endurance exercise and strength training will enhance insulin sensitivity in the long term. This is a good thing. Unfortunately, with all of the hype surrounding the post workout window, people have started throwing out numbers related to how long insulin sensitivity is altered. While we know that heavily damaging eccentric exercise will actually reduce insulin sensitivity (Asp et al., 1996), this should be an extreme condition and not our regular response. So if you’ve overdone it a bit, back off and heal up! more…

The world of strength training is obviously full of contradiction and confusion. Just pick up any standard bodybuilding magazine and you’ll see different people with drastically diverse views, all telling you that they have the one method to help you achieve your goals. But through all of this crap, every now and then we find certain principles that we can take to the grave and apply universally.

Examples include: “lift heavy weights and you’ll get big,” “cardio helps with weight loss,” and “Canadian men are hung like moose.”

Another such principle is the post workout nutrient window, which states that during the time immediately post workout, our bodies are in a state of shock and physical disarray, resulting in an opportunity for enhanced nutrient absorption and accelerated recovery. In fact, it’s pretty safe to say that since its inception a decade ago, this scientifically “proven” idea has revolutionized the way we look at nutrition.

Unfortunately, this principle has become so engrained in our subculture that much of it has mutated and become dogmatic in scope. While the general principles remain, many of the studies on which they are based were done on populations that aren’t completely applicable to us, such as animals or endurance athletes.

Despite the emergence of new, more applicable science, we’ve had a very difficult time in adapting our thinking to these current and better-suited ideas. Making the situation worse is the fact that everyone seems to have their own input about what post workout nutrition should be!

This stems from what I like to call the “telephone-chain effect” (derived from the lesson-yielding children’s game), which illustrates how easily messages can change when passed through a chain of people.

How it works is that one person will dictate something to another, who in turn tells this same information to someone else, who then repeats it to another, and so on. By human nature, each person will subtly alter the message, by leaving out some parts, embellishing others, etc. to the extent that by the time you get to the tenth person, the original statement of “Hey sugar, could you mop up the mess in the pantry with the Swiffer?” becomes warped to something like “Shugart is a messed up panty sniffer.”
True as it may be, obviously the point of the latter statement does not even remotely resemble the original.

But since this article is not entitled “The Top Ten Things Wrong With Our Post Workout Information,” let’s get to the myths that have developed, and the current reality. more…

Get More Out Of Your Oral Steroids and Prohormones By Taking Them With Grapefruit Juice

Here’s some info that some of you may know or have seen posted elsewhere. Basically, if you drink 250ml of grapefruit juice with your oral steroids, it will increase their absorbtion, blood serum concentrations, etc…There was a study done specifically with some 17A drugs, but I decided not to copy it here. The article I did copy (below) is alot more reader-friendly and less technical.
If you are too lazy to read the article, here’s the

Summary:

Drink 250ml of grapefruit juice (thats 8.4 ounces) with your oral steroids, and you just need to drink it once per day, even if you take your oral steroids or prohormones spread out throughout the day.

I’ve seen studies where absorbtion of some drugs was increased by up to 500%!

Also…before you ask about the effects of grapefruit juice on oral rec drugs the answer is YES, this applies to ALL ORAL MEDICATIONS/DRUGS.

Here’s the article:
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Deca Durabolin is comprised of an injectable steroid substance that typically used in conjunction with various other drugs of the same nature. Deca Durabolin was introduced to much fanfare in the early 1980’s when bodybuilding as a sport and as a lifestyle was just beginning to come into its own and gain legitimacy as a respected field.

The drug’s clinical generic name (Deca Durabolin is its trade or brand name and is manufactured by the company Organon) is actually Nandrolone Decanoate.

At its basest level, the drug is a type of progestin that is created by altering its carbon make up. Some steroid users have lauded Deca Durabolin for its medical properties, though little research has confirmed these claims.

For example, many believe the substance improves collagen in the body as well as the durability of bones. This is especially important to individuals who earn a living off of their bodies and, as such, require them to be more than simply attractive vessels. Rather, they must make their bodies temples of strength and monuments of earning power. more…

Unless you are a pro and are on steroids all year round all good cycles come to an end, and it is important that you make use of certain compounds (esp clomid) to aid a speedy and maximum recovery or you may stand to loose all that hard earned muscle gained during the cycle.

What is recovery & why do we need to recover?

When we take anabolic steroids our bodies receive an excess supply of androgens, oestrogens and or progesterones so our own production of natural testosterone is shut down. This is not a problem during a cycle however, when we stop taking steroids and their levels in our body begin to fall our natural test levels still remain low and inhibited and thus unless we do something to rectify this we will begin to loose mass at a rapid rate!

In order to understand how we recover and how the drugs act on the body I will briefly describe the Hypothalamic Pituitary Testes Axis (HPTA). The hypothalamus controls the production and release the gonadotrophic hormones - follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinising hormone (LH) from the anterior pituitary gland. FSH and LH stimulate testosterone production and secretion in the testes. more…

Most are interested in having and understanding the answers to very simple questions, such as, “Which steroids should I use? How much of them should be used, and for how long? What other drugs are needed in combination with the steroids?” However there is no single correct answer for everyone.I do need to stress that there is no recommendation that anyone “should” use these drugs. We are discussing use by those who have already made that decision for themselves.

The first thing to be considered is, “What are the goals?” And perhaps the second thing to be considered is, “Are those goals reasonable or should they be changed?” All too often I am asked questions from people who wish to add a lot of muscle and cut a lot of fat simultaneously and who want to use the mildest and safest drugs and they want to know what they should do. more…