Q: “I’m 5 weeks into my 14-week steroid cycle but am running into some injury issues. I think I can make the entire cycle without necessarily hurting myself a lot further. But the knees are definitely holding back my leg work and I have significant pain around one of my scapulae. I don’t want to throw in the towel, though I’m not preparing for any contest. What do you suggest to maximize my cycle, given the injury issues?”
A: By far the most productive thing would be to put your gains so far in the bank, end the cycle now, and start your next cycle anew when healed.
I know it’s frustrating to do, and having a “quit” attitude goes along with not accomplishing much, while having a “push through” attitude goes along with being an achiever.
However, being smart – picking the right times to tough it out and the right times to act strategically – also goes along with achievement.
This should be considered: The wait time until your next cycle should be proportional to the length of your last period of use. For simplicity, here we’ll allow the same number of weeks “off” as “on.” This is moderately aggressive steroid cycling. You might choose a different proportion; if so, you can plug in your own proportion. The principle applies no matter the proportion.
With an equal number of weeks “off” as “on,” if you complete the 14 week cycle, then you’d wait another 14 weeks after that before starting your next steroid cycle. That would then be 23 weeks from now, as you’d have another 9 weeks left in this cycle. And those 9 weeks will be of at best impaired effectiveness.
So that’s 23 weeks before being able to really forge ahead.
In contrast, if you strategically end this cycle now, in only 5 weeks from now you can be doing a fully effective cycle.
You’d have that cycle finished well before you’d otherwise have been able to start a second cycle. You’ll be way ahead.
Anabolic steroids in and of themselves don’t cause great muscle gain. They enable getting much more out of your training and nutrition. I’m not telling you anything you don’t know: training is the principal real cause of results.
Anabolic steroids allow more and harder training and allow getting more results from training. Where training is compromised by injury, anabolic steroids are limited in what they can do for you.
If cycling steroids – using them in some weeks of the year but not others – by far the most efficient practice is to use them in weeks when able to train properly.
This doesn’t mean abandoning a cycle because of minor problems, but when training really will be comprised, usually it’s best to cut a cycle short. This gives better long term results because it enables getting to the next cycle more quickly, and gets the most out of each week of use.
About the author
Bill Roberts is an internationally-recognized expert on anabolic steroids and performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). He received a bachelor degree in Microbiology and Cell Science and completed the educational and research requirements for a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry at a major American university.
Bill entered the nutritional supplement industry prior to completing his doctoral thesis but his education was invaluable so far as being able to design/improve nutritional supplement compounds, since it was in the field of designing drug molecules and secondarily some work in transdermal delivery.
His education was not specifically "geared" toward anabolic steroids other than expertise with pharmacological principles having broad applications. This has allowed Bill to provide unique insight into the field of anabolic pharmacology with knowledge of points which he would not have known otherwise.
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