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Half life confusion, everyone should read this especially newbs

stevesmi

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seems to be a lot of posts with guys confused about what half lives are and what they mean/do.

let me try to explain... its almost like a pyramid scheme.

just cause something has a 2 week half life like with cyp doesn't mean you take it and peak levels get reached after 2 weeks, nor does it mean that after you inject it then 2 weeks its gone from your system.

this is where guys get confused

using cyp as an example, it takes 5 weeks or so to reach peak levels, and it takes 5 weeks or so for the cyp to leave your system where only traces are leftover (this is why guys claim they are still gaining in pct when they are actually STILL ON, and why some guys come off for 4 weeks, declare themselves recovered and start a new cycle, ummm no you are not recovered, you still have traces left and you are still feeling the effects so you are still on)

when you run it 6 weeks you are just wasting your juice and half assing the cycle. hope that makes sense.

can u run it 6 weeks and get good results? yes you can, but its just not the most optimum way to run it and a waste of juice, and yes you will get suppressed so why half ass your cycle?

when you see half life from the time of your particular injection that many mg's will be spread out over 2 weeks, and after 2 weeks half of what you injected will be left of that particular injection. so if you inject 2X per week then THINK about it... you are gonna build up the steroid in the body with each injection and then after a certain amount of weeks reach peak levels.. then once you are done with the cycle it will slowly taper back off on its own from the prior injection after 2 weeks half will be left, then 2 weeks later half will be left again.. but since you also injected prior to that there will be juice left from that too. think of it as a pyramid scheme when its being built up in the body or like a bunch of rats trying to get through a hole one by one until they are all gone. each rat represents a mg of juice leaving the body. it won't happen all in one shot, it will happen gradually

you should start kickstarting your pct with some hcg/hmg/hcgenerate (even better run hcgenerate in the 2nd half of the cycle to keep your nuts plump then kickstart with HCG) while the rats are fleeing through the hole, and then once the rats are almost gone you should start PCT so that when the rats are all gone you won't be left feeling like shit and your own body will be starting to function on its own

another thing i hear from guys is the old 300mg clomid for the first day thing, then doing 100mg and then 50mg. this is silly. you will not reach peak levels by doing this, you will just get a rush to start plus sides, and it will drop away the same way regardless. you cannot cut corners. same for AAS. starting off with 1000mg cyp and then dropping it down to 500mg after a couple weeks isn't gonna stabilize blood levels.. if you let the AAS stabilize itself and reach peak levels itself that is much more practical. so just do 500mg or whatever and stick to it. and if you want to kickstart a cycle run some beastdrol or dbol as a kickstart, both have very short esters and reach peak levels within a handful of days or a week.

hope that made sense, comments? concerns? fire away
 
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Steroid Half life's - anyone new to steroids may be wondering what this means, even some steroid users may also be wondering what this means. So here in simple terms you can read and hopefully understand all about steroid half life's and what this term means.

Basically every drug has a half life, steroids included. If for example, you were to inject 200mg of Decadurabolin once weekly, for 6 weeks, how would you know when you were "off"? Would you be "off" when you had finished your last dose? You would be able to calculate this from the half life of Deca. The half life of Deca is around 14 days. This means that 14 days from your last shot of 200mg of Deca, your blood levels of Deca will contain 100mg of the steroid. Another 14 days from then, i.e. 28 days from last dose, your blood levels will contain 50mg of the steroid. This amount then keeps halving every 14 days. Therefore you can clearly see that when you finish your cycle, even though you are not putting any steroids into your body, you may think that you are now "off", however you still have, and will still have for some time after your last dose, "active" blood levels of the steroid. Therefore you can plan what to use, how long for, and how long off your cycle, based on these half life's.

Below a list of half-life's of the most commonly used steroids, esters and ancillary compounds.

Oral steroids Drug Active half-life Anadrol / Anapolan50 (oxymetholone) 8 to 9 hours Anavar (oxandrolone) 9 hours Dianabol (methandrostenolone, methandienone) 4.5 to 6 hours Methyltestosterone 4 days Winstrol (stanozolol) (tablets or depot taken orally) 9 hours

Depot steroids Drug Active half-life Deca-durabolin (Nandrolone decanate) 14 days Equipoise 14 days Finaject (trenbolone acetate) 3 days Primobolan (methenolone enanthate) 10.5 days Sustanon or Omnadren 15 to 18 days Testosterone Cypionate 12 days Testosterone Enanthate 10.5 days Testosterone Propionate 4.5 days Testosterone Suspension 1 day Winstrol (stanozolol) 1 day

Steroid esters Drug Active half-life Formate 1.5 days Acetate 3 days Propionate 2 days Phenylpropionate 4.5 days Butyrate 6 days Valerate 7.5 days Hexanoate 9 days Caproate 9 days Isocaproate 9 days Heptanoate 10.5 days Enanthate 10.5 days Octanoate 12 days Cypionate 12 days Nonanoate 13.5 days Decanoate 15 days Undecanoate 16.5 days

Ancillaries Drug Active half-life Arimidex 3 days Clenbuterol 1.5 days Clomid 5 days Cytadren 6 hours Ephedrine 6 hours T3 10 hours

Is this not accurate?
 
Excellent post, explained very simply! I do think people get confused about peak blood levels and this helps.
 
Great post steve. I see too many bros running the wrong esters on the wrong schedules and wonder why it isn't working like they expected
 
^^^ read the 2nd to last paragraph. i talk about that in there and explain why i don't agree with doing that. however there is nothing wrong with running it that way if thats how you choose, its your body and you should do what you believe in. i'm not one to judge how people run their cycles as long as that person feels like its working. a big part of fitness is placebo effect anyway, more than people want to believe. i bet you could give someone some grapeseed oil and tell them inject this once a week and you will blow up, and that person will actually gain muscle on it thinking its legit gear. the mind is a funny thing.

the reason i posted this is i want guys to get the most out of their cycles and also understand when they come off that just cause something is a 2 week half life doesn't mean its not gonna keep working past that length of time. too many guys come off for 4 weeks then jump right back on thinking they are recovered when they haven't even had any time off.
 
If anyone wants to front load i consider it a waste excess estrogen, bloating ,not worth it, this is the slow road nothing changes overnite!
 
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