
Originally Posted by
Sworder
All steroids will give you the mass that you need with proper training and diet!
The reasoning behind adding more compounds can be plenty. Certain steroids dry you out such as Winstrol, Masteron, and Primobolan. Other will give you a lot of bloat such as dianabol, nandrolone and testosterone.
It is a lot of personal preference when it comes to picking what steroids you include in your cycle. They are all slightly different, but all achieve the same goal, activating the androgen receptor.
The reason I start adding more compounds is to avoid having too much of one; side effects from one compound may pile up if using too much. For example: 1000mg Test E/week will give you bountiful estrogen conversion which may be difficult to manage. A better plan may be to do 500mg Test E and then adding an oral such as 100mg Anadrol/day.
Starting cycles should be 500mg Test, then if your growth starts to slow down using that amount(you should be by your natural limit at that point). You can bump it up and run another compound so you would be running 500mg Test and 400mg Deca. I don't like running Deca too high, makes me just feel weird.. So if I needed to bump it up even more I could do 500 Test, 400 Deca, and 60mg winstrol/day.
The reason for stacking is generally because you want to create a synergy(1+1=3) between the compounds. But! I believe there is a minimum you have to do of each compound to achieve the effect of it.
Because if you would want synergy wouldn't it make sense to run: 100mg EQ, 200mg Test, 100mg Deca, 100mg Tren, 100mg Mast, 100mg Primo, 20mg Dianabol/day, 50mg Anadrol/day the total sum of AAS would be 1190mg(I think). Now IMO! That would be a very sloppy cycle and it would be very difficult to "feel" each compound. 500mg Test 400mg Tren and 50mg Winny/day would be a better combo!
In reality, you don't need anything else than Test/Tren. Those two compounds will get you to any place you want to go! Then, once you are starting to plateau on AAS you can start adding insulin/hGH. So then you can run something like 700mg Test/600mg Tren/10iu slin/6iu hGH... *Note these doses are appropriate if you are trying to achieve a pro card..
It's all about what level your physique is at.
You can mix pretty much anything, you will always want something that will convert to estrogen though as you will feel like crap if you have 0 estrogen.
You can bulk or cut on anything. 500mg Test 400mg Deca can provide a good cut cycle depending on your diet and exercise. The bloat produced is, or should, be irrelevant as it is the body-fat you want to burn. Water retention/bloat will leave after your cycle.
The most common cut cycles will have testosterone/anavar. The cut cycles for competition will have some testosterone/tren/masteron(or primo/winny) the latter 3 for their ability to convert to DHT. DHT conversion is done heavily just below the skin via 5AR. This will cause and produce certain effects more acne, less fluid retention et cetera... There is a misconception that anavar is made for cutting, it is not! All AAS will do so you burn more fat. There are a lot of studies on anavar where body-fat has been reduced and I think that is where the notion is spawned from.
The more androgens you have in your system the greater your body recomp/fat burning will be. The body doesn't recognize individual drugs, they are all known as androgens to the body. Other wise it would be nice to add trenbolone to your natural testosterone production. But the body senses the androgen trenbolone and shuts down its own production of testosterone.
Then there is the ester aspect. The ester used is a reflection of the cycle length. Short esters for short cycles and long esters for longer cycles.