Pharmacology for beginners and professionals
Most modern athletes and bodybuilders resort to the use of pharmacological drugs that affect the hormonal system. As a result, the athlete’s body weight increases and strength indicators increase. These people use “pharma” with the goal of placing high in competitions or showing off beautiful body shapes on the podium. Athletes are constantly training, which is why they look so neat on stage.
But for beginners who decide to try themselves in the field of pharmacology, completely different results await them. The rebound after steroids for a beginner will be more pronounced, and the gained weight will go away faster if it is not maintained. After all, his body is not trained and cannot maintain the results achieved through drugs.
Neither give nor take
For many managers of commercial organizations, the fight against kickbacks comes down to a periodic search for “scoundrels.” But one-time anti-recoil actions are ineffective, and buyers, having waited out the storm, begin to make up for “lost profits.”
Roman Bodryakov: As a rule, kickbacks flourish when one person (hired employee) is responsible for collecting information, initial negotiations with suppliers, making purchasing decisions and supporting the transaction, there is no or ineffective control over the actions of the buyer, there is no or ineffective system of incentives for employees in the field of procurement .
Experts advise a “kickback-risk” organization to carry out provocation checks on its employees. This is something like the well-known Mystery Shopping - a technology for checking the quality of service.
Anton Khodarev: Once I had to use the method of provocations in my practice. We created a legend about the supplier company (we even made a simple website on the Internet), created price lists for the products, and, under the guise of a supplier representative, our controller contacted the purchasing department and offered a kickback. One buyer, after a series of contacts, agreed. The buyer, of course, was fired, causing a big internal scandal. After this, employees of the procurement department were notified that management intended to use this method of secret inspection in the future.
It is also recommended to reward suppliers for saving on purchases. But at the same time, it is necessary that the marketing department regularly monitors prices on the market, and commodity experts control the quality of the supplied products. Otherwise, the buyer will buy illiquid assets for two kopecks and receive his bonus.
Listing suppliers is also effective. “If suppliers offer and give kickbacks to category managers for entering the network, introducing new positions into the assortment matrix, placing products on the shelf in several “faces,” then we simply need to redirect this cash flow to our cash desk,” this is how the top managers of the network decided retail with an eye on Western retail chains. As a result, a system of bonuses for entering and collaborating with the chain arose, which, in addition to minimizing the retailer’s risks when working with a supplier, also allowed the suppliers’ kickback money to be used to increase their own profits.
Roman Bodryakov: A peculiarity of the Russian approach to the system of listing and bonus payments is that some Russian retailers collect this money unofficially, that is, without an agreement to provide additional services on the network. Most often, such payments are made either under agreements under which the network conducts marketing research for the supplier (for example, on how it and related products are sold), or simply in cash that is not received anywhere. Since the supplier company does not receive any additional services for this money, the bonuses turn into a simple extortion of cash.
It is also useful to separate the functions of searching for suppliers and making purchasing decisions.
Victoria Osipova: The simplest way to separate functions is when a procurement specialist, based on the results of interaction with suppliers, prepares a competitive table that indicates the purchased items, supplier prices and delivery conditions, and then provides it to the manager or owner for decision-making.
Market price monitoring also serves the same purpose. Information on market prices for products sold and purchased goods is compiled into an easy-to-read form, which allows management to evaluate the effectiveness of transactions concluded by the supply department.
Procurement budgeting is being implemented to manage financial flows and increase the transparency of financial information in procurement, and this is also one of the ways to combat kickbacks.
Anton Khodarev: In our company, the procurement department begins to work according to budgets, which indicate the volume of purchases of certain products, their cost and sources of financing. Procurement budgets are usually drawn up for a year, and then divided into tactical ones - into shorter periods: quarter, month, etc. Not a single transaction can go beyond the established budget. The Treasury makes sure that no payment “accidentally” goes past the budget, and only pays what is agreed upon. Current adjustments to the budget taking into account the current situation (unplanned price increases, needs for additional purchases) are made once a month by the budget committee (or senior manager).
Conducting tenders (competitive bidding) allows not only to select the best offers on the market, but also to minimize the use of kickback schemes by buyers.
Andrey Khramkin,
Director of the Institute of Public Procurement, State University - Higher School of Economics:
In modern Russia, as well as throughout the world, the most effective measure to combat corruption in public procurement is the use of competitive procedures.
Despite the whole range of measures provided for by law to reduce corruption, from time to time information appears about abuses and trials of officials responsible for procurement. There are several reasons, and they are related not only to the imperfection of the current legislation. The guilty officials exhibit a number of common symptoms: legal nihilism, legal illiteracy and lack of respect for the state resources entrusted to their management. With the tightening and improvement of procurement legislation, a process of natural selection is observed in the ranks of corrupt officials: the greedy and stupid go to prison. MAXIM GORBACHEV
What is a rollback and when does it happen?
Your body weight will decrease as a result of completing any course, and a rebound after steroids is inevitable with any training and preparation of athletes. Whoever tells you that after using pharmacological drugs most of the gained weight remains - do not believe him. As a result of finishing the steroid course, your body will strive to return to its previous weight so that balance is established in the body. Therefore, beginners who think to “take the course” once and then study “naturally”, we hasten to upset you, this will not happen. A certain part of the body weight will disappear, and strength indicators will deteriorate.
A beginner, seeing that the results are being lost, sets himself another course, then a second, and so on, persuading him to quit after each time, because after each new course there are better results, and after that a rollback, which is so unpleasant. You can’t support your body weight, and a person who has taken a course once has to constantly look for new pills to maintain his condition. Why?
Steroid withdrawal is a phenomenon that occurs after the end of any pharmacological course. And so, as a beginner or a trained athlete has an interest in maintaining what he has acquired or even increasing his achievements, he begins to set the next course. Whatever you say about chicken breasts and cottage cheese, the achievements that were achieved during the course cannot be returned; rational food and sports nutrition will not help. Recovery after steroids.
What to do if pulmonary fibrosis is detected?
Fibrosis is a pathological proliferation of connective tissue, which leads to a decrease in the size of the alveolar vesicles, that is, the air space. With pneumonia, adhesions of connective tissue form around foci of inflammation. As a result, the porous tissue of the respiratory organ becomes denser, the structure of the lung matrix is disrupted, and the space available for air and gas exchange is reduced.
Pulmonary fibrosis resembles scars and requires self-treatment. The consequences of such a complication of pneumonia may be irreversible.
Thus, fibrosis represents an aggressive but physiologically justified response to inflammation or mechanical injury. The body creates an artificial barrier between affected and healthy tissues. Pulmonary fibrosis as an outcome of viral pneumonia caused by COVID-19 is observed in approximately 15% of cases.
As a rule, small local fibrosis in one of the segments of the lung, unlike multiple diffuse fibrosis, does not affect the patient’s quality of life. However, the complication requires separate treatment, which, if necessary, will be prescribed by a pulmonologist after studying the results of CT scans and functional tests.
Manifestations of fibrosis may include shortness of breath, a feeling of lack of air, and intolerance to physical activity. The goal of a rehabilitation course for pulmonary fibrosis is to restore the previous lung volume. The patient is recommended conservative treatment, including drug therapy, breathing exercises, and lifestyle correction.
It is possible to finally assess the severity of fibrotic changes after coronavirus, as well as their significance, only after 12 months. Therefore, it is recommended to repeat a CT scan of the lungs for fibrosis every year.
How much mass remains after the course
The most popular question that bombards all beginners is how much mass can be left after the course? They want to know specific information in kilograms. It is impossible to answer this question unambiguously. There is a certain algorithm and nuances, following which you can determine how much muscle you will have left.
The point is this: the size of the rebound after steroids will depend on the degree of preparation and training of the athlete. That is, what biological potential of your body did you use to gain weight without drugs? There are two cases.
For example, your own weight is 90 kg and this is the natural ceiling of your weight. This is the body weight you achieved after working out in the gym for three years. You have normal shape, not too dry. We put ourselves on a course of steroids and gained 105 kg. In this case, the rebound after steroids will be more pronounced. After all, maintaining weight that goes beyond the natural ceiling and biological maximum is quite difficult. This explains the frequent weight loss of bodybuilders during rest and refusal of steroids. The mass begins to fall, because it is far beyond the limits of the maximum possible from the natural maximum.
Otherwise, when your potential is 110 kg, and you weigh 90, then if you take the course and gain up to 105 kg, you may still have 100-103 kg left. After all, the body has a reserve and potential, a predisposition to gain weight according to biological criteria. That is, you do not need to break the limit, go beyond it and keep the weight at the same level in subsequent courses.
What does rebound after steroids depend on?
Recovery from steroids depends on what level of development your body is at. If it is below the maximum permissible natural limit that controls your weight, then the rebound will be less, you will be able to save more, and strength results will not decrease so much. In the case when the maximum threshold is exceeded, the rebound after steroids will be more pronounced, because it will be difficult for the body to maintain “not its own weight” and the body will strive to return to normal balance and previous weight, and strength indicators will also drop.
There is no specific period of time during which athletes who have stopped “cursing” return to their biological ceiling. For some it is 4-6 weeks, others can last even six months. Our body is designed in such a way that it does not contain excess ballast that is not used. And it’s impossible to gain weight at once and then keep it off. A parallel can be drawn with a swimmer who floats on the water only when he rows with his hands. If you stop, you begin to drown. The same is true when using “pharma”.
The main side effect of kickbacks after anabolic steroids
But this is not the main side effect of using anabolic steroids. Weight change is not a critical factor and the harm done to the body in subjective vision, there are things that are more unpleasant. The main disadvantage is that in this way, from course to course, you change the lower and upper edges, the starting points of the body system from which weight gain or loss begins.
Athletes “train” in periods and alternate their training in the gym with and without a course, from anabolism to catabolism, “on a course for a month, then a break, and we use 2 reference points that get confused and confused every 60 days.
When you are on steroids, recovery occurs in a short time, anabolism goes off scale, muscles grow to the maximum. After a steroid course, a “catabolic pit” appears, mass is lost, and it takes a very long time to recover, training is not so intense, rest between approaches is increased.
When you are on a course, you have the same ambitions. For example, you train your legs and recover for 4 days. You have a plan that in 4 days you need to squat again. Every day you progress, increase weights and so on. As soon as 2 months have passed and the course has come to an end, you begin to deflate, your legs need to rest not for 4 days, but for at least a week, the intensity of training must be reduced, because there is no replenishment of steroids. Systematic monitoring of progress is not possible, because every 60 days you change the volume, intensity of training and weight. Everything has to start over again and the dots get lost and become out of place.
If you train purely using pharmacological drugs, or give preference to natural bodybuilding, then it would be much easier. We could have our own strength, recovery time and anabolism.
If you give me a penny, you'll be good
The most burning question is how to raise this sensitive topic in a conversation, what to say, what phrases to use when offering a rollback. The topic is touchy...
Dmitry Tkachenko: Before becoming an independent business coach, I worked as the head of the sales department in a company supplying workwear to industrial enterprises. All transactions for large enterprises were carried out using “personal bonus” schemes. There, the experience was gained that formed the basis of the author’s training “O.T.K.AT.—Special Technique of Client Attraction” and the book of the same name. The most important skill that I was taught and that I teach is the ability to conduct a conversation on two levels at once - in such a way that each phrase can be interpreted as both a discussion of the “white” side of the deal and as an offer of a kickback. For example, at the beginning of the conversation it is very good to test out the potential recipient of a kickback with ambiguous phrases: “It will be very profitable for you to be served in ours. We are ready to meet you halfway so that you choose ours. A discount is possible in any form convenient for you.” The Russian language is multifaceted, and the pronoun “you”, often heard in ambiguous phrases, can be understood in two ways: “you” as a person, “you” as an organization. When communicating with an opponent, “you” should be slightly emphasized in intonation - a half-second pause, a slight change in intonation or voice volume perfectly attracts the attention of the interlocutor, telling him that there is a hidden meaning in your words. The second most important skill when dealing with kickbacks is to monitor the potential recipient’s reaction to your ambiguous phrases and understand the implicit meaning of his words. If in response to your phrase like “Of course, it is impossible to reflect all our advantages in a commercial proposal. Therefore, I am ready to discuss any issues to formulate an offer that will fully satisfy your interests” you will hear: “We already have a supplier with whom we have been working for a long time and who perfectly takes into account all our interests and needs,” there is only one conclusion - someone already bought. The only way to work here is to continue the dialogue using the same ambiguous phrases.
Andrey Titov,
general director:
I attended a training session on kickbacks with Dmitry Tkachenko.
One of the many tricks received there and used in the work was a half-joking question to the buyer: “What form of cognac do you prefer - liquid or paper?” Of course, this question should be preceded by a conversation “about birds” or a phrase like “They told me a joke yesterday.” Works like a clock! Alexey Zavyalov,
former employee of a pharmaceutical company:
An interesting practice of “hooking” pharmacy managers into kickbacks was used by Western pharmaceutical companies at the stage of entering the market.
First, on some holiday (New Year, March 8, Medical Worker's Day, etc.) a small but quite valuable gift was given. Then gifts began to be brought “just like that” - once a quarter or after large purchases. At the same time, their cost increased. And finally, “His Majesty’s envelope” appeared - of course, with the words that the medical representative simply did not have time to purchase a gift (he was afraid of making a mistake) for Marya Ivanovna and let her buy for herself what she likes. The next time, the amount in the envelope was already associated with indicators that the manager could influence: the volume of purchases and the absence of overdue accounts receivable. By the way, as far as I know, the pharmaceutical market is the only market where pharmacy managers are fined for overdue accounts receivable: in this case they are not given a kickback. Dmitry Tkachenko: There are several types of buyers. The first of them is a “girl”: a complete lack of experience in this area, ignorance of schemes, etc. The next type is a “woman”: she knows about kickback schemes, takes hints, but sometimes pretends that she does not understand what is being said . A buyer of this type does not make kickbacks a significant (main) source of income: he may or may not take it. "Wife" type. Everything is needed here: money, attention, relationships, and gifts. Usually buys from trusted people. As a rule, if she is satisfied with the current situation, she tries to refuse new applicants in any convenient way.
Finally, the “prostitute” type. She makes money on kickbacks; without kickbacks, further cooperation with her is simply impossible. She doesn’t need gifts, bouquets, informal relationships - just kickback.
Vladimir R.,
industrial equipment sales manager:
Over the years of working with kickbacks, I have developed several simple rules. Never offer (or give) a kickback in the buyer’s office: take him out for lunch, arrange a trip to your company to look at the warehouse, etc. On the one hand, this is a guarantee of your safety: the buyer himself may not know about those standing in his office bugs and video cameras. On the other hand, such issues are discussed more easily outside of one’s home. Do not use the word “kickback” in negotiations. Replace it with a “bonus program”, “targeted compensation for the efforts of negotiators”, etc. When discussing the details of the kickback, discuss all the nuances: how much, when, who... There is nothing worse than the disappointed expectations of a buyer who received less than he expected, and even untimely. Get away from cash. Why did humanity come up with WebMoney and Western Union? So that you are less nervous. If you are “tied up” when transferring a kickback, stubbornly stick to your line: this money is repayment of the debt.
Training during the recovery period or post-anabolic exercises in the gym
For example, you trained your hands “naturally”, you were an ordinary outstanding athlete, you had time and load. Then they decided to put on a course that made you into a monster for 4-6 weeks that can lift, pull and push any weight. We gained weight and increased our performance. But it’s all over and you need to return to regular training on the “buckwheat”.
There is a visual loss of mass, but even worse things are happening inside. The endocrine system does not work in its own rhythm, reference points are lost. Your body is not adapted to the upcoming load, and you are confused with what frequency to train. After the course, your return is not even to the level of natural training, but lower. The weights you should take are those that were used during training and using sports nutrition, and even then not the maximum.
For example, if you benched 100 kg 8 times, during the course you benched 15, then after Khimki you need to lower the bar to 6, or maybe less, because this can be very stressful for the body.
Restoring your maximum performance will not be easy. This will take months, for some it may take a whole year. Most athletes cannot train without steroids and wait until the maximum results come naturally. Therefore, they set themselves another course. The points are lost again, progress is not controlled or managed.
Tags: Rebound after steroids
Author: ForceMan from 3-09-2015, 21:17
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Is repeat CT scanning of the lungs harmful?
Any study using ionizing x-ray radiation is a burden on the body. During the year, radiation exposure not exceeding 15-20 mSv is permissible. For health reasons - up to 50 mSv, according to the current Radiation Safety Standards of the Russian Federation (NRB-99). When treating a disease with a high mortality rate and complications, such as viral pneumonia caused by COVID-19, repeat computed tomography is more beneficial than harmful. Expedient radiation exposure is justified.
