Originally Posted by
GearHeaded
well I'll put it this way .. if I could only choose one hormone to take for the rest of my life just for pure bodybuilding purposes (not TRT purposes) and I had to pick from either 200mg of test per week or 50mg of Anavar only per day . I'd go with the Var.
yes you can make very good quality gains with Var , ran for a long enough duration (its a pure 'anabolic', so it does not have much cosmetic effects, it simply helps build pure muscle tissue .. where as test is an 'androgen' and has more temporary cosmetic effects)..
now my ideal advice would be to run Test and Var together . but by itself, Var at 50mg per day is pretty potent muscle builder ( = to over 1000mg of test, minus the estrogen and water retention)
Var without test is still going to build muscle,, but hpta shutdown will eventually occur and being hypogonadal will slow down gains (mainly cause your estrogen will drop to zero). so a test base is definitely recommended, but not required (if you cycle on and off for short durations over a long period of time)
some guys don't think Var is very potent. this is likely cause they are getting fake Var, or they are not running it long enough at a high enough dosage.