androgel?

[slayer1]

Hey guys here's my stats just 2 put em out there
5'9
220
24yrs old
12-13% bf
Serious lifting 8yrs

Well I've thought about cycling put up a few posts and know id take a basic 500mg of test cycle to start off...thing is money can be tight..and I'm workin on that...but a buddy of mine came up on androgel and he said I could get some benefit from taking like 10-20g a day...would anyone recommend doing this before I ever tryed a normal cycle of just test? I just came off dieting from 240 to 220 and lost good bodyfat and didn't lose much strength or mass actually feel as big if not the same as when I was 240..any tips guys? Much appreciated

[slayer1]

Bump

[40plusnewbie]

I used that stuff, or very similar stuff, and didn't notice any effects AT ALL. Maybe it was just me but I didn't even notice any change in libido AT ALL. To me it was a complete waste of money, and if I remember correctly it cost me about 75%
of what a 20ml vial of test cyp 250mg/ml, domestic, shipped cost me recently and that buy was not the cheapest domestic buy out there either.

[millionairemurph]

ok, you must mean 10-20mg a day. Here is the thing. androgel is meant for testosterone REPLACEMENt . the body makes about 25mgs a day of test. So if you take anything, say 5mg of an external source of testosterone or any other aas for that matter, your body will stop proding natural test at somepoint. So in order to function properly as a man, we know you'll need about 150-200mgs a week. If you want to make larger gains that you would normally make ( which is why guys take steroids ) you will need more testosterone than you make already. Transdermal testosterone just isnt very efficient. 100mgs on your skin doesnt equal 100 mgs in your blood. i dont know the fraction, but its a small amount. if you knew the amount that actually penetrated the skin and got into your blood stream, and worked the math backwards to make 500 mgs a week, i guess its workable.
other than the fact that i dont know at what rate the test is absorbed into your blood stream. Meaning you dont want your hormone levels rollercoastering up and down, thats bad for growth and bad for side effects.
If you use testosterone propionate you would be able to easily control when the test was getting into your body for sure, and exactly how much you were using.

bottom line, save your $ and use test prop when you can