Testosterone Propionate

[troycityzfinest]

I just finished my first Superdrol cycle. I'm running pct right now. My gains were unbelievable. No joke, everyone said something about the amount of size that i put on. Even better, i am still getting stronger (and i've been off for 2 weeks).

I am ready for the real AAS. I spoke with a friend who has been bodybuilding for years and i told him i was very interested (he thought i was already on to prove my point above). He recommends Testosterone Propionate. He claims it's faster reacting (within the first week and a half) than enathate.

I plan to run a 3 month cycle (or three vials worth @ three shots a week). I'm not sure if it is against the rules to put this or not but i was told Edited

[Dr Pepper]

Read the rules if your not sure... I don't understand what ur question is???

[Family Guy]

Like Dr Pepper say. What is ur question ?? By the way u are new to gear. Do it easy and do test e,c or sust. Prop need ed or eod pinings.

[troycityzfinest]

Sorry, i was in a rush before. My question was why test prop over test e?? I have no idea what "prop ed" is to be honest?

[gixxerboy1]

Sorry, i was in a rush before. My question was why test prop over test e?? I have no idea what "prop ed" is to be honest?

ed= every day
eod= every other day

what are your stats?

age
height
weight

[troycityzfinest]

Age : 19
Height : 5'11
weight : 217

bench : 235 x 8
deadlift : 315 x 6
squat : 305 x 8

If i was to run test enanthate for 12 weeks i read 400mg per week is more then enough for a 20+ lb gain with a clean diet. That would only be 1 shot of week @ 2cc's...

My source (as stated above) recommends 750mg/week...

[Matt]

You do release the serious damage you can cause yourself by using aas at such an early age???

[bjpennnn]

here it comes!

[gixxerboy1]

Age : 19
Height : 5'11
weight : 217

bench : 235 x 8
deadlift : 315 x 6
squat : 305 x 8

If i was to run test enanthate for 12 weeks i read 400mg per week is more then enough for a 20+ lb gain with a clean diet. That would only be 1 shot of week @ 2cc's...

My source (as stated above) recommends 750mg/week...

your source is an idiot and trying to make money off you.

[bjpennnn]

Contributed by: Marcus 300

AAS: Things to consider before starting a first cycle (Great Read)
This is a article I wrote for MD online, due to all the newbies around here i feel I should post it here.



Discipline and dedication are principles that you are going to have to master if you are serious about bodybuilding, being consistent with your diet and training will help you succeed in achieving your goals. Don't have tunnel vision in thinking you will only build muscle if your taking AAS, below are some of the main principles you need to consider before taking any AAS


AGE
In humans your Endocrine system is not fully functional until an average age of 25yrs, although the main development is up to around 21yrs it still fluctuates a little bit up to its fully functional age. There is a risk of permanently damaging your HPTA if you take AAS to young and you could end up with symptoms of andropause and HRT for life. Symptoms could be Limp dick, low libido, depression, low energy, low endurance, erection problems and many more but.......are these the types of symptoms you want to have in your 20's?. Believe me its hard to cope with these in your 40's yet alone in your prime of your life.

Around this age your Testosterone levels are the highest they going to be in your life naturally, so use what you have and don't take the risk of damage, I am passionate about this because ive seen it many times with young kids wanting to looking like their heroes and they think the answer is in an injection/tablet.

Taking AAS to young can also cause problems with development, one other main problem is premature sealing of your epiphyeal bone and the consequences mean that you wont grow as big as your genetics could allow you to, there is a test which can be done to see if your growth plates have sealed yet but the average age is around 21yrs old.



TRAINING
You need a few years of hard training under your belt before even considering taking any kind of anabolic support, people who jump on a cycle to soon without having some quality years under their belt usually results in injuries, it takes time to develop your connective tissue, tendons and nervous system to heavy overload training. Slowly getting your own system use to these kinds of extreme's will only help in muscle growth later on when you do decide to start taking AAS.

Build a solid foundation for muscle tissue to grow and maintaining and development will be far greater than without it. Many younger guys will start cycling before they have reached their genetic potential which is crazy when a good solid diet and training program will be far beneficial and productive to muscle building.

Workouts should be mainly focused on basic movements with a priority of over loading the muscle each and ever time you train, increasing your strength and ability to lift in proper form will help with building the foundation for future development


DIET
A lot of younger bodybuilders don't know how to eat. Researching and understanding how your own body responds will help you get to your natural limit, the right food at the right time and a full understanding of proteins,carbs, and fats will only help you succeed in achieving your natural goals. Keeping a diet diary will also help you understand the importance of macro, nutrients, calories and should help you see in which areas you could be going wrong in adding lean muscle tissue.

No matter how much anabolic support you have it will be worthless without proper nutrition, food will help build and maintain your valued muscle weather its natural, cycling or in PCT. Adjusting your food intake and consuming muscle building foods coupled with a solid training program will help you achieve your natural limit and foundation before you start AAS use.

This area is a huge problem with the younger guys and I can't express enough how important diet/food is when first starting out, post and pre training nutrition are very important and understanding how to load and feed the body will help push growth and create a very natural anabolic environment.

[bjpennnn]

Whats the right age to take steroids (GOOD READ)
"What is the Right Age to Start Using Steroids?

By: Brandon Walsh
This article is being published in hopes of reaching some of the younger people, involved in our great sport of body building, reach their goals without making the great mistake of using steroids too early in their long lives. The problem with this is that most young bodybuilders (BBs) cannot grasp the concept of the future and how long the road ahead really is even with the use of steroids. How do you convince a 14 year old that it will take years before he can look like the Pro BB's in the magazines, and that he may never look like that even with all the drugs available in the world. Well that is what I hope to accomplish within this article.

At what age should you be, before you consider using steroids? This question is not as easily answered as you may think it is. You cannot randomly just pick an age and say that this is the point at which you can now start to consider using steroids.

Between the ages of 12 and 26 a male's hormone levels are on a steady rise until the age of 26. This is when these levels slowly start to decline until they are almost nonexistent by the ripe old age of 40.

When puberty starts in males at the age of 12 there is a huge flux in hormonal patterns in the body, which cause the growth of male characteristics, (deepening of the voice, growth of body hair, growth in height, etc.). These hormone levels increase by themselves so much that they can be compared to that of a mild steroid cycle. Therefore trying to add to what the body is doing on its own by adding in exogenous (outside) Anabolic Androgenic Steroids (AAS) is very counter productive.

Whenever any extra amount of AAS is added to the body, the body recognizes this extra level through a feedback loop in the human body known as the Hypothalamus. Once the Hypothalamus recognizes the increase in hormones which happens usually between 14 and 21 days, the body will shut off its own production of hormones until these levels decrease, along with increasing hormones to decrease these extra levels in the body (cortisone, estrogen). Cortisone and Estrogen are 2 hormones in the body that BBs do not need any extra. The easiest way to try to explain this without getting to complicated, is that the more AAS you put in your body, the more your body will try to lower those levels. When this happens BBs get all the side effects that are normally associated with AAS use, gynecomastia (growth of fatty tissue underneath the breasts in males), hair loss, kidney damage, liver damage, and high blood pressure, just to name a few).

Before you consider the use of AAS you should have already reached your genetic potential. What is your genetic potential? To figure this out you should first look at the weight, height and build of other members in your family. Is this exact, no, but it is somewhere to start. If every male on both sides of your family is approximately 5'7" and weighs between 150lbs and 170lbs and they are all bald by the age of 25, then it would be a good guess that you will also fall somewhere in those ranges by the time you stop growing. Now with working out and eating correctly for 4 years lets say, you would be able to put on 15 or more pounds of muscle tissue (that would mean you now weigh 165-185 lbs.). This is what your genetic potential would be. Now if you started to use steroids at that point, 165-185 lbs you may be able to put on another 15-20 lbs (180-200lbs). If you had started using when you were 125 lbs., and gained 25lbs through the use of steroids, you would still be well short of what you could have gotten naturally (150lbs as compared to 180-200lbs), and now it will be much harder to try to gain another 30-40lbs.

So for a starting point lets say that you need to be at least 18 years of age before you consider using steroids. Now that we have a starting point, lets look at a few other factors that should be considered. Steroids DO NOT IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM makes up for a good diet and workout program. Most people who use AAS feel that this is the time where they can be a little more relaxed in their workouts and diet. Actually this is when they should be even more strict. So before you can think of using at the age of 18, you will need 3 more solid years of good training and eating habits. Minor changes in diet and workouts can result in great gains in mass and muscle as well as strength.

No matter how much assistance you get from AAS, without proper nutrition and workouts you will be lucky to have any gains at all, let alone keep them after the cycle is over. The goal of using any substance, legal or not should be that after you stop using it you don't loose all of that which you have fought to get. What would be the point of spending all that money (steroids are not free) to gain that 30lbs when you will loose it after the cycle is over anyway?

So the better question to ask instead of when can I take steroids, should be, what can I do to get all that I can out of my body without needing steroids?. In order to calculate my progress, I need to talk with my family and doctors, before I try to make a choice like that.

We will start with the age range of 14-16; this is when your hormones are raging. Your body is in full swing of making the best steroids that you can ever get, and it does all this without you even needing to do a single thing. At this point you should start with a solid exercise plan and a basic supplement plan in addition to the regular food that you need to be eating on a regular basis.

For workouts focus on the basic compound movements (Bench Press, Squats, Deadlifts, Barbell Curls, etc.) Working out 4 days a week with at least 8 hours of sleep a night is a great start. Add to that the extra protein that you should be taking and you will definitely start seeing a difference in your body. As for supplements, at this point all I would suggest is a good Meal Replacement Shake, multi-vitamin and creatine. Any shake will work, just add 2 shakes a day to the 3 solid meals that you should already be eating. Creatine has more benefits then I could start to explain in this article, but what I can say is that it will help your strength, muscle, speed, and recovery without any negative side effects.

By the age of 16-18 you will have had most of your growth spurts and you will be ready to change a few more things in your overall plan. You workouts can become a little more specialized as you start using different exercises. As for your nutrition program, all that I would think of adding now would be something such as extra glutamine before bed and maybe a ZMA supplement. You still don?t want to take anything that would alter what your body is doing on its own, so using ZMA and glutamine is just what you need.

Somewhere between 18 and 21 you should be just about done growing, so what should you do differently now? Add more protein! You should be getting at the very least, your body weight in grams of protein per day! And that?s at the very least! By now you will have been working out consistently for quite a while and should know your body very well. What will work and what won?t work should be old news. There isn?t really anything new to add to what is already a great program, other than Tribulus and maybe a pre-workout supplement such as Ultimate Orange. After this point, you can start to consider the use of steroids. What about them? Are they as terrible as everyone seems to think they are? As long as they are used correctly, I don?t think so. When considering their use, I feel that orals should be used as late as possible. These are most harmful on the body and therefore should not be used for a very long time.

Another thing to consider, other than the side effects I have already spoken of, is your sex drive. Some AAS will make your sex drive almost nonexistent and will have a big effect on your sperm count. These drugs in particular should try to be avoided. That leaves mild anabolics. Although they are the safest to use, they are expensive, illegal, and require the use of a needle. Which most first time users do not want to use.

I told you that this is not something that should be passed off very easily; you shouldn?t have to make the mistakes that most of us make by using steroids to early in your life. If used correctly, I think they are fine, but look at what it takes in order to use them correctly. Have you been working out for 5 years straight without more the 2 weeks off every 6 weeks? Do you eat every 2-3 hours, 6 times a day without missing a meal? Do you get 8 hours of sleep every night? This is something that can have a huge effect on your body for the rest of your life, so don?t make that choice in 10 minutes. Good luck and keep growing.

Designer Labs President / CEO *

[troycityzfinest]

I understand fully what i am getting into. I eat 8 times a day. I drink half a liter of water before bed, when i go and piss in the middle of the night i down a casien protien shake. I don't **** around. I am not one of those kids who eat dbols, get on test for a month, get off and stop going to the gym. Bodybuilding is a liftstyle for me. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I lift, before anything. I can understand your concerns.

All i want to know is what you vets think about the 400mg for 12 weeks?

[bjpennnn]

no one is going to recommend a member on this board at 19 to do a cycle. Why dont you stick around here for a few years keep reading and learning and be a part of the community if you mean the things you say. we are all like you man. I learn something everyday and have been lurking around these forums for 7 years. just wait and learn.

[gixxerboy1]

I understand fully what i am getting into. I eat 8 times a day. I drink half a liter of water before bed, when i go and piss in the middle of the night i down a casien protien shake. I don't **** around. I am not one of those kids who eat dbols, get on test for a month, get off and stop going to the gym. Bodybuilding is a liftstyle for me. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I lift, before anything. I can understand your concerns.

All i want to know is what you vets think about the 400mg for 12 weeks?

it has nothing to do with you not being serious. But at 19 you run a good chance of messing up your body for life. When you are in your 30's married maybe with kids and a career. You are not going to want to half to take injections just to feel normal.

Also injecting 400mg once a week is not correct

[Wayacrucis]

I understand fully what i am getting into. I eat 8 times a day. I drink half a liter of water before bed, when i go and piss in the middle of the night i down a casien protien shake. I don't **** around. I am not one of those kids who eat dbols, get on test for a month, get off and stop going to the gym. Bodybuilding is a liftstyle for me. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I lift, before anything. I can understand your concerns.

All i want to know is what you vets think about the 400mg for 12 weeks?

I'm by no means a vet, but this is what I'd honestly recommend.

Go with either 500mg Test E for 10 weeks (This would require you to pin 2 times a week, so 250mg every time you pin) OR if pinning often isn't a problem for you go with 100mg of Test prop EOD for 8 weeks. I personally like Test Prop more, especially if ur using underground gear, you'll know if ur stuff is good or not within a week, but with Test E or C its gonna take 4-5 weeks...

EDIT: As for 400mg/week for Test E, I think its a little low but people have god decent results even at 250mg/week so 400 will suffice, I'd suggest you keep ur first cycle within 8-10 weeks though.

[P3rf3ctionist]

I was going to say pretty much the same thing as most people have already warned you in this thread. Becareful some people in this thread have years of experience and know exactly what they're talking about, e.g gixxerboy1 an 007, I'd definately take their advice as they've been there and done that.

[ScotchGuard]

Be patient. Your body hasn't fully developed its endo system. Good things come to those who wait.

[BennyLom]

I wanted to comment about the use of AAS in teenagers. I don't support it, but I think there's a lot of scare tactics here. Most of my friends cycled when they were 17,18 and 19 years old. They did Dbol, Deca, Primo and Test. They're all fine (some dead but unrelated to AAS use) today and several of them have kids. It is not a matter of: "use AAS as a teen and you are ****ed for life". It's not.

[Ashop]

I just finished my first Superdrol cycle. I'm running pct right now. My gains were unbelievable. No joke, everyone said something about the amount of size that i put on. Even better, i am still getting stronger (and i've been off for 2 weeks).

I am ready for the real AAS. I spoke with a friend who has been bodybuilding for years and i told him i was very interested (he thought i was already on to prove my point above). He recommends Testosterone Propionate. He claims it's faster reacting (within the first week and a half) than enathate.

I plan to run a 3 month cycle (or three vials worth @ three shots a week). I'm not sure if it is against the rules to put this or not but i was told Edited

Any of the testosterones make good 1st cycles. It depends on how often you plan to inject. With TEST PROP you will need at least EOD injections.
With TEST ENAN/CYP you will get by with once every 5-7 day injections.

[Dr Pepper]

Why are people in this thread recommending this 19yo kid a cycle? His 19!!

[troycityzfinest]

I hope everyone had a good 4th. I keep trying to figure out what i want to say in response the the AAS at young age. I sort of want to say he was 16 when he started. None of Arnold's or any other bodybuilders' cycles where supported by PCT. They didn't know what we know now a days. At the same time, i love the way it allows me to train. I can train harder and faster. I mean you can sit here and say it's the easy way out but i am sure anyone here can relate to what i just said. Secondly, it isn't like i didn't do my homework. I'm sticking to one compound because i don't know if i am gyno prone to it or not. If i am I'd run 10mg of nolva / day. My next cycle ill add in Dbol. FUN FACT: Oral steroids pass through your liver 5 times compared to inject-able which is only one pass. I do my homework.