How to take steroids: choosing the right drugs and regimens for different ages

Modern bodybuilding has evolved greatly. The harmony of shapes, volumes and quality of muscles replaced the massiveness and extreme dryness of bodies with fantastic volumes.

If during the era of the “Golden Era” of bodybuilding, athletes used one, two or three drugs and took them for two to three months. They used a scheme with an equal interval between doping. During the break, the athletes restored metabolic processes and hormonal levels.

Today, modern bodybuilders performing in competitions use doping in an “eternal course.”

This is the name given to the sequential use of a complex of anabolic steroids without pauses in the use of hormonal anabolic agents. All steroid courses are connected to each other by “bridges” (by taking light hormonal drugs that maintain an unnaturally high level of testosterone in the athlete’s body). Of course, it is tens of times less than when taking the hormonal complex itself, but it is enough to maintain muscle volume, strength and mass without the “kickbacks” that occur during PCT.

Unfortunately, a return to the previous sports form is inevitable. This “rebound phenomenon” is triggered by the body due to awakening from a deep catabolic coma caused by steroid use.

What does a professional steroid course mean?

This course of anabolic steroids can also be called heavy; it is definitely not for ordinary gym goers.

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• Firstly, such a complex poses a serious danger to the athlete’s health.
• Secondly, it is complex in every sense and requires a strict regime, which only a professional bodybuilding athlete can adhere to.
• Thirdly, it is absolutely not suitable for a beginner and is not even recommended at all.

Curse - look up the dictionary

Try typing the word we are discussing into a search engine. Search on Wikipedia. What, it wasn’t found? It's clear. After all, “curse” is one of a number of slang words. And yet, this verb has two meanings in the bodybuilding environment:

1. The bodybuilder uses pharmaceutical drugs to support his gym achievements.
2. A bodybuilder can specifically name the intake of a course of steroids or hormones.

You can often hear that a person works hard, but cannot achieve the desired relief. “I have squeezed everything out of myself, this is the limit along the way - I have to push myself.” This case can be classified as the first group. For example, you will say that you are going to take a course starting tomorrow. This simply means taking medications, that is, the second group.

I say this so that you can understand your interlocutors more specifically. Although, the essence is the same: medications-use-muscles.

Preparing for a steroid cycle

Before shelling out impressive sums for the transformation of hormonal drugs, the athlete must examine the body. If any system or organ is sick, it must first be cured.

For example, with long-term use of oral anabolic steroids, work deteriorates, or even chronic gastrointestinal ailments appear. If, during examination, an athlete is found to have gastritis or a pre-ulcerative condition, then the course should under no circumstances be started until the gastritis is cured.

The same goes for other organs. Before starting the course, you should undergo an ultrasound examination, do a cardiogram, and check the dynamics of pressure changes over a daily period of time. The next step will be the task of blood tests.

List of blood tests:

• liver tests - alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, gamma-glutamyltransferase, total bilirubin, total protein, albumin;
• general blood analysis;
• blood sugar test;
• blood test for hormonal levels: pituitary gonadotropic hormones and prolactin, estrogens and progestins, assessment of androgenic function.

After the athlete has examined his health, he needs to move on to purchasing steroids and auxiliary drugs, post-course therapy products, and sports nutrition. It is very important that the athlete has the entire list of medications available before starting the treatment.

Very important! During the steroid course, monitor hormonal levels and other indicators, as well as blood pressure. Alcohol should be excluded from life, and diet and sleep should be adhered to.

The police are often in the rocking chair

This criminal case is far from the first of its kind. Active counteraction to the spread of anabolic steroids and other potent substances prohibited from free circulation began in 2016–2017, when the list of prohibited drugs was significantly expanded.

Today, the black market offers three groups of prohibited medications: psychotropic substances, for example, clonidine or azaleptin - they are, in particular, used by criminals to steal property from citizens after drinking alcohol together; drugs for rapid, or rather, emergency weight loss - sibutramine and prescription diuretics; and about fifty varieties of anabolic steroids (boldenone, nandrolol, methandienone (methandrostenolone, dianabol).

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An employee of the Main Directorate for Drug Control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation prepares anabolic steroids for destruction

Photo: RIA Novosti/Oleg Zoloto

A series of tragic cases, scientific research on the dangers of anabolic steroids and a number of international scandals involving doping in high-performance sports forced the security forces to pay attention to this area of ​​the black market. Moreover, the fight against this phenomenon today is international in nature.

The government has expanded the list of drugs prohibited in sports

Drugs to support the course

• Cardiomagnyl is an antithrombotic agent that promotes blood thinning. It should be taken 75 milligrams before bedtime.
• Enalapril and Metoprolol - for increased blood pressure. Enalapril ½ tablet in the morning and Metoprolol ½ tablet in the morning and evening.
• Proveron is a drug that improves spermatogenesis and prevents testicular atrophy. Taken in the middle of the course and on PCT 50 mg per day.
• Anastrazole is an ambulance when estrogenic side effects occur. You should take the drug at the first symptoms, 1 mg per day until the symptoms disappear.

Amateurs get beaten

Officers from the Russian division of the World Anti-Doping Agency have become frequent guests at semi-professional and professional powerlifting tournaments last year and this year.

“Scandals at tournaments have become frequent due to the fact that when WADA officers appear, all applicants and some participants are withdrawn from the competition en masse,” says Izvestia’s interlocutor, who moves in weightlifting circles. According to the source, these audits are generally a positive experience, although a number of problems arise. “Often the financial costs of doping tests fall on the athletes themselves, and the amounts are significant - more than 10 thousand rubles,” says Kuznetsov.

According to Andrey, total wrestling began with athletes and will probably help make strength sports “clean” in the future. “But the greatest public danger is precisely the use of anabolic steroids among amateurs - in gyms and fitness centers,” says the interlocutor.

Photo: Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation

Equipment for a clandestine laboratory for the production of anabolic steroids

They plan to punish with a ruble for doping

The government is preparing to toughen the fight against the use of banned substances by athletes

According to him, unscrupulous instructors, hooking “pioneers” (as newbies in the gym are called in jargon) on the testosterone needle, start small - offering to buy vitamins and dietary supplements. He recommends stores, and after that, when the amateur gets involved, he invites him to buy a “banned” product from him.

“The price of methane (the colloquial name for a wide range of anabolic steroids. - Ed.) is quite low. The substance is usually purchased in Belarus or Moldova. Most often by mail. A greedy “trainer” pushes goods in his gym at a price two to three times higher than what he himself paid. The income is like that of drug dealers, and this is not a figure of speech if you have at least 10 students,” says the expert.

According to him, there are drugs that can be legally purchased over the counter that will also help build muscle mass, but they cost a lot of money. “Six months before the serious persecution of methane, a coach on steroids could prepare a candidate for master of sports in powerlifting at almost the cost of the drugs - for about $100. Today, for legal medicines, this amount has increased to 800 thousand rubles. There is also an option to prepare purely - but this requires years of training,” explains Andrey.

Photo: Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation

Anabolic steroids seized during one of the special operations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation

Russian weightlifter disqualified for doping

The interlocutor believes that steroids will very soon leave big sport. “This is a dead end for an athlete - it is impossible to remove traces of use from the body at once. This takes from a year to three years - if found in the body, it’s a career-end. And every year detection technologies become more and more advanced. For example, in Sweden, during the world powerlifting championship, a dog trained for doping was used,” says Andrey.

What anabolic hormonal agents to use and dosages

1. Testosterone propionate and cypionate (enanthate) (the dosage of propionate at the peak of the course is 100 mg per day). The dosage of cypionate (enanthate) is 500 mg per week.
2. Nandrolone decanoate (400-500 mg per week).
3. Trenbolone hexahydrobenzylcarbonate (200 mg per week).
4. Primobolan (dosage at the peak of the course is 600 mg per week).
5. Methandienone (60 mg per day).
6. Turinabol (40 mg per day).
7. Oxandrolone (40 mg per day).

Testosterone propionate is used at the very beginning, as a drug with a pronounced anabolic profile and serves for an aggressive start. The drug gives energy and sports aggression.

Methandienone, turinabol, primobolan are used as basic, background drugs.

Testosterone cypionate or enanthate, nandrolone and trenbolone hexahydrobenzylcarbonate work as powerful mass-gainers.

Oxandrolone is a bridge agent and is used during PCT and as a “bridge.”

Table No. 1: An example of a course of hormonal drugs for gaining muscle mass lasting 105 days.

Table No. 2: An example of a course of hormonal drugs for gaining muscle mass lasting 105 days.

Secret tip

You can cruise as you like, but this is sometimes not enough. Educated doctors who guide bodybuilders in taking courses of drugs suggest some tricks. Diet and training are a banal but golden secret. You can’t build muscles without strength training, and if you’re lucky, the effect will quickly fade away.

Already decided on the way to exercise - look for a diet suitable for the medication. For example, a hormone with a fat burner requires drinking a lot and consuming at least 250 g of protein per day. Doctors are strictly against the desire to take courses for anyone under 20 years of age. It's better to wait until 26.

Pros advise beginners in serious bodybuilding not to expect 100% success only from pharmacy. This is simply an opportunity or assistance in building muscle. It doesn’t matter whether you heard it for the first time or have long been familiar with the concept of cursing, the main thing is to do everything wisely.

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Nutrition on a steroid cycle

The diet when using steroids should be high in protein. An athlete should consume at least 4 grams of protein, 5 grams of carbohydrates and 2 grams of fat per 1 kilogram of weight per day. Particular attention should be paid to sodium intake. During a steroid cycle, there is a high risk of increased blood pressure. During a course of anabolic hormonal drugs, meals should be frequent. The intervals between doses should not exceed three hours.

Bridge and PKT

At the end of the cycle, having reduced the daily dose of steroids to a minimum, you should add a light hormonal drug in small doses and take it in the morning so that the effect of synthetic testosterone completely disappears by night.

Taking it in the first half of the day minimizes the suppression of endogenous testosterone. The human body begins to produce it in the morning, and by 6 o'clock in the morning the level of the male sex hormone reaches its maximum.

On the “bridge”, drugs with an anabolic profile and mild side effects (oxandralone, masteron) are most often used.

Despite the higher androgenic activity, it is advisable to use methandienone as a maintenance drug.

The anabolic agent has a short effect, unlike others, which makes it possible to increase the daily dose; the last dose of the steroid should be taken before lunch.

At the end of the steroid course, it is necessary to take blood tests, and at the end of the course of therapy, the bodybuilder must repeat the tests. Usually, hormones and organs return to normal, but if test results deviate from the norm, PCT needs to be extended.

To restore the liver, it is best to undergo a two-week course of treatment with injectable heptral at a dosage of 400 mg per day.

To restore spermatogenesis and endogenous testosterone after completing a steroid course, you need to take Prignil at a dosage of 5000 IU per day for a month, and Proveron 50 mg per day for two weeks.

How to take steroids correctly

For athletes and amateurs, health should be a priority. Everyone who switches to doping sometimes thinks about taking it permanently. This is not surprising, because after several years of training a person understands that this can be achieved in just a couple of months. Don't be fooled. If you take hormonal drugs and do not follow the rules, you can push the body to the limit or, worse, death. Every beginner wonders: how often can you take steroids? It depends on experience, the chosen drug and, of course, individual characteristics. Each course implies different concepts. So, for an inexperienced athlete, a full-fledged stage is taking boldenone tablets, and for a chemist, taking several drugs at once. The degree of disturbance in the body, hormonal balance, and recovery time depend on this. After taking doping, no matter whether it is safe or more serious, you need to get tested and undergo an examination. Hormonal tests will make it clear how much the production of your own testosterone is suppressed. Post-cycle therapy is carried out for different periods of time using antiestrogens and testosterone boosters. The duration of recovery varies, it all depends on the age and severity of the funds. To understand how to take steroids without harm, it is important to study how the body interacts with certain substances. Find the golden mean and you will always be toned and in good shape. Experts recommend taking a break from anabolic steroids at least 3 times a year, that is, taking breaks between uses of 1.5 - 2 months.