Ripped Permanent Muscle: The Oxandrolone Strategy

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Ripped Permanent Muscle: The Oxandrolone Strategy is an article submitted to me from our discussion boards member Nicholas Maffei. It's an interesting look at his personal experiences with the anabolic steroid oxandrolone and why he feels it is the ultimate, safe, oral anabolic steroids for bodybuilders and physique models.

Following his article is an excerpt on Oxandrolone from my online anabolic steroid and drug guide Chemical Wizardry. Chemical Wizardry is the definitive anabolic steroid and physique enhancement drug database. Guaranteed to provide you with the inside information necessary to build a perfect body helping you explode with strength, definition, and unthinkable new muscle mass.

Ripped Permanent Muscle: The Oxandrolone strategy.

Oxandrolone is one of the most amazing yet safe anabolics available today. Also known as Anavar, it is an oral steroid that has virtually no side effects, and it mainly produces strength without water retention. The special benefits of anavar make it the ideal agent for what I call the oxandrolone strategy. The character of ox. Makes it the perfect anabolic to get off of a cycle while keeping most of your gains including strength, and at the same time loosing the water weight and making your gains permanent.

The idea came to me in the middle of a cycle of mainly sustanon and deca and oral winstrol. I had maxed my dosages reaching a peak level of about 600mg deca and sustanon combined and 30 to 40 mg winstrol per day, and I was lowering the dosage weekly to complete the cycle. I was very disappointed with winny, maybe it's just my body type but I felt it made me red in the face. I looked up the indications and found that it increases red blood cell count. Whatever the reason I didn't like it, and none of the mythical things winstrol is supposed to do happened either, no big cutting of muscle, no amazing permanent strength gain. I also tried the injectable with the same result. For whatever reason winny doesn't like me and I don't like it; that coupled with the possible liver side effects finally caused me to discontinue it, as part of my stack. I had wanted to make permanent much of my gains but winny is just not for me.

At the same time I was researching oxandrolone. It was formulated for women and children; in children for growth, as it doesn't close the epiphysial growth plates like most other steroids, and in women to prevent osteoporosis. Anavar has no liver toxicity, doesn't retard semen production, and doesn't cause virilization in women, at reasonable dosages. Anavar doesn't kick around mega androgens in the system either, ( no caveman component!) As I continued research I found it causes a large strength increase via the stimulation of the phosphocreatine synthesis in the muscle cell. On the downward slope of my diamond pattern cycle I introduced anavar at 30mg per day: yeah it's expensive and I didn't want to do that too long. By the second week there was a "real" actual, freaky, strength increase. I mean real because many times on sustanon and deca and even d-bol, I had to pinch myself and ask, " do I really have a strength increase?" Yeah, there is one but sometimes I'm not sure if it's the juice or I'm just getting stronger from heavy lifting and nutrition. However on cypionate one time I do recall a pretty marked strength boost even on 200mg per week. In my short dance with testosterone cypionate, yeah it felt great, but semen production stopped suddenly...(major downer) and when I discontinued it my weight went from 210 lbs to 195 really fast! And my strength fell through the---floor! I couldn't even lift what I had been lifting before starting the cycle. Cypionate is just not worth it for my purposes...not fun.

So, getting back to anavar, I started at 30mg per day and at the same time took my shot of deca and sust -- I figured would naturally taper off. For my build and size I made some pretty amazing breakthroughs. I immediately began benching 120lb with dumbells for 12 to 15 reps with no spot, for me this was a wonderful accomplishment, and I knew 140's and 150's were just on the horizon if I continued my strict lifting regimen. My shoulders were my really lagging body part; I always had trouble even dragging the 70lb dumbells into shoulder press position. Within a few weeks, I went through the 80's, 90's, then 100's for shoulder press. I was freaked that I was dragging 100's across my body to press, (I used a spotter just because I didn't believe it). I then backed down to 90's because I felt I'd get an injury from the 100's and because I'd just read that Arnold had never gone over 90's in his shoulder work. Sure, I spied those 105's -- and they could have gone up too. By week 3, I dropped to 20mg per day of anavar and I was well withdrawn from the other anabolics. I went to 10 mg per day in weeks 5, 6, and 7 and then I decided to nurse my supply, so I dropped down to 10mg, 3x a week for weeks 8 through 12. I worried the strength loss would come, but it didn't.

Five months later after a period of not really lifting at all I finally got back into the gym. I spied the dreaded 85lb dumbells for shoulder press, but first tried the 70's sure I'd lost my gain. But when I was warmed up, the 80's and then the 85's went up fine! I was pleasantly surprised the core strength was still there after a real lapse! The oxandrolone strategy had worked. It is even said about anavar that at 2.5 mg per day it boosts the immune system. In my way of thinking, which is not mega-doseage, anavar gives the most important tool for bodybuilders, and that's strength, while not messing with your hormonal axis, not raising ldl, or blood pressure, and not affecting your liver (at a reasonable length cycle and dose). If you have more strength, you can lift more and in turn build more muscle.

With sustanon, I recently experienced 2 side effects that I wouldn't care to have again, some weird blemishes, and increased sexual sensation, which at first I thought was great, but then I realized there was an over stimulation problem. Hey, I don't want to go back to being a 2-minuet man like some schoolboy!! For these reasons, anavar becomes a very attractive item, and maybe the only anabolic I'd consider, except for maybe hgh, primobolan depot, and equipoise.

The good experience with Anavar has given me a few new, clean, healthy, cycle ideas for big gains. Firstly, using human growth hormone is an anti-aging technique and can be quite healthy; for body building hgh grows new muscle cells, (muscle hyperplasia) unlike steroids that only make existing cells bigger. Hgh also burns fat and strengthens connective tissue and cartilage, but at least 2iu per day must be administered to see any gain from hgh. Steroids increase the effectiveness of hgh and visa-versa, so my future cycle might look like this: HGH, and Oxandrolone, and possibly primobolan depot or equipoise. The combination of these items might grow new muscle mass and add it to the existing and all could be enhanced while suffering no side effects. This type of cycle could be done 2 times a year and the gaps filled with healthful transdermal cream and vitamins. This might not be a cycle for world class bodybuilders, but for sure, it can help you build a kick ass body! Live long and prosper. Nicholas Maffei

This is an excerpt on Oxandrolone a.k.a. Anavar from my guide Chemical Wizardry. Pharmaceutical Name: Oxandrolone (Click here to view the pictures of oxandrolone in Chemical Wizardry.) Brand Names & Countries of Origin: In the US, Anavar was manufactured by Searle Laboratories until it was recently discontinued.

It is now available again as a treatment for AIDS in the US although the cost is extremely expensive.

• Anavar (o.c.) 2.5 mg tab.; Searle U.S. discontinued
• Anatrophill (o.c.) 2.5 mg tab.; Searle FR
• Lipidex 2.5 mg tab.; Searle Brazil
• Lonavar (o.c.) 2.5 mg tab.; Searle Argentina
• Lonavar 2 mg tab.; Dainippon Japan
• Oxandrolone SPA 2.5 mg tab.; SPA I
• Oxandrine 2.5 mg tab.; BTG U.S.
• Vasorome 0.5 mg tab.; Kowa Japan
• Vasorome 2 mg tab.; Kowa Japan

Description: Oxandrolone is a mild, low androgen 17-alpha alkylated anabolic steroid with very low toxicity. Preferred by thousands of men and women users because it promotes protein anabolism and rarely caused adverse reaction. Anavar is primarily used to promote strength and muscle hardness. In the International Journal of Obesity, (1995; 19: 614-624), it was shown that Oxandralone enhanced bodyfat reduction significantly in both the abdominal and visceral stores.

Anavar is manufactured by searle lavatories under the brand name, and by spa labs under the generic name Oxandrolone. The brand name drug is made under a certain number of loss per year. This if it sells out before the end of the year, the product just disappears. Searle does not make more until the next term. This keeps the price of anavar high, and availability low. Anavar is typically prescribed on a 2 - tablet, twice daily routine. The drug is better absorbed when taken right after meals. Woman have started with one tablet twice daily. This is thought to be the optimal dose for women.

The drug can be used in combination with other steroids for optimum results after a plateau is reached on the anavar alone. If some size is required, but no injection is desired, dianabol or anadrol can be combined with the anavar. Here the user would add 1 dianabol tab twice daily or a half anadrol twice daily. Later, and for greater size, going to 4 dianabol tabs, or to two anadrol per day has worked well. For greater gains the user would add an injectable steroid to the cycle instead of the previously mentioned orals. The injection would vary from deca for cutting, to testosterone for weight and strength gains.

Research shows that anavar is the one anabolic steroid least likely to cause any side effects. There are very rarely reports of ill effects of any kind using anavar. There is seldom any fluid gains with this drug, which makes it the drug of choice for athletes with potential blood pressure problems. Anavar is also good for athletes who need to keep their weight down. Therefore, you will find a number of bodybuilders using anavar the last two months before competing.

Some powerlifters claim that this steroid is No. 1 for gaining strength without water weight. Women like Anavar because very little masculinisation in any form have been seen among woman who have used Anavar at a dose of 5 mg daily. Most women start out on 1 tablet per day and go up to three tablets daily. The dosage of 5 mg of anavar per day has worked out to be the optimum. The first signs of virilisaton could include persistent hoarseness, deepening of the women's voice, acne, decreased libido, and/or clitoral enlargement. If any of these symptoms should appear, the woman should end the cycle immediately.

Anavar will not aromatize. This means that it is one of the very few anabolic steroids that will not convert to estrogen at any dosage. This means it will not cause the appearance of a soft look to the muscles nor will it lead to the development of breast tissue in men. Some persons will convert much more of a steroid to estrogen than others. These people can use a dosage starting with 2 tabs twice daily, and reaching a maximum dose of .1 MG of Anavar per pound of body weight. If the athlete plateaus on the drug alone, he might add a small dose of deca that would most likely not aggravate any existing gynecomastia. Or a daily dose of 10 MG of halotestin could be added to the anavar cycle to increase strength and hardness, while having no aromatize in effect.

Anavar is a multi-purpose steroid. Its very low toxicity makes it safe to take, even on lower cycles. It is advised that a high protein diet be maintained while taking anavar to insure its effectiveness. It is been counterfeit under the Spa label. Watch for the Searle liable to be safe.

Effective Dose:

• Men: 6-8 tablets per day or 7.5-15 mg/day.
• Women: 3 tablets a day.

Pharmaceutical Price: $30 for 100 tabs.

Average Street Price: $3/tab

Cycles and Stacks: Oxandrolone is not a steroid to bulk up on; yet, it is often part of a bulking stack. It could be combined with testosterone or Dianabol to accent these highly androgenic compounds.

Side Effects: Athletes claim that this drug is unsurpassed in its ability to promote strength without water weight gains. Oxandrolone will not aromatize at any dosage. Which makes it ideal for steroid users with potential hypertension complications as well as pre-existing gynecomastia.

Counterfeits: Legitimate oxandrolone rarely shows up on the American black market but is found abundantly in Europe; it is Counterfeited under the generic and brand names. The Brazilian Lipidex form of real Anavar, comes under the Searle label in foil templates in strips of ten tabs.

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Author: George Spellwin