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NO2 Suppliments

Nitric Oxide is one of the most popular muscle building supplements on the market now. Can it actually help muscle gains or is it hype? What I’m about to say may surprise you.

What are NO (nitric Oxide) supplements?

NO supplements are supposed to increase Nitric Oxide in the blood. NO Supplements contain arginine, with most in the form of Arginine-alpha-keto-glutarate. Nitric Oxide has hundreds of functions in the body, especially with blood flow, nerves, and cell communication. It acts as a vasodilator(increasing blood flow) in the body by relaxing the smooth muscles. Nitric Oxide (NO) is formed when the amino acid arginine, is broken down by an enzyme into citruline.

Why do bodybuilders take NO supplements?

To get better muscle pumps, increased strength and muscle gains, and for sexual health. It is thought that nitric oxide plays a crucial role in muscle building based on some indirect studies and theory.

NO supplement studies:

It sounds like NO supplementation is a important supplement, but there is no legitimate scientific studies showing NO supplements increased strength and muscle gains. Most of the NO advocates are using indirect reasoning to support the use of NO as a muscle builder. For example, they believe that since NO could help muscle gains because of the increased blood flow to the muscles. Other studies such as published in Am J Hypertens. 2007 Aug;20(8):825-30, showed an increase in NO production after resistance excercise. This has then led some to assume, that NO may then be involved in causing increased protein synthesis post-workout.

The problem with all these assumptions is that arginine doesn’t seem to convert to Nitric Oxide at the recommended dosages. If you go through all the studies done on high doses of arginine, you will see no increase in vasodilation (increased blood flow). It increases vasodilation only at high doses when injected. The reason why we can’t get to those levels orally, is because it is much higher than the level that causes stomach upset. So arginine will convert to nitric oxide, just not at the dosages someone could withstand orally, without getting really sick. I suppose someone could start injecting it, but NO supplements aren’t THAT good to warrant it! No legitimate scientific study I could find has been able to show a difference, in either muscle gains or strength.

Final thoughts:

NO supplements seem to be nothing more than junk. The vasodilation effects some people “experience”, seems to be nothing more than placebo effect. Therefore it’s not going to be a Viagra alternative either, for those who seeked arginine for helping impotence. Many reputable experts, who aren’t affiliated with supplement companies, also believe NO is a waste of money.

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eq and winnie will lean you out and help you gets those cuts for the summer…if you wanna bulk a little throw in a low dose of test to keep things functional…..

wks 1 – 10 test.e @ 250mg ( 1 shot a week)
wks 1 – 10 eq @ 400mg ( 2 shots a week )
wks 6 – 10 winnie @ 50mg ED ( use the 50mg tabs )

You will get nice lean gains from this cycle especially if its your 1st time using this cycle.

Remeber your PCT !

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Here is a very interesting read i found while searching the net …

The genesis for this article was a thread on one of the smaller bodybuilding boards titled Cycling for Pennies. Written by Dogg (he is known by his prior “hardcore” writings fame), his one post eventually inspired him to write over 25 pages of material, outlining his philosophies on a wide range of bodybuilding topics. He has garnered a loyal following directly because he was writing about subjects seven years ago that have became staples in bodybuilding today. What follows is a drastically pared down version, briefly touching upon some of the many issues he discussed in his various posts. It’s Dogg’s intention to use this article as an introduction to a series of articles he will write for AE, discussing in much greater details some of the points addressed here. Meuller: As Dogg and I have a lot of the same ideas, he asked me to interject some of my thoughts in these articles along with his.

Dogg: Without sounding cocky I am a very advanced bodybuilder down here in
San Diego–cruising at 285lbs or so and going up over 300 this year. I came from a very, very hard gaining and skinny genetic structure (140lbs about 10 years ago) so gains have never come easy and I didn’t start super supplements until I was 225 clean (took me 6 years). (I use food as my chief anabolic).

What I am amazed at is the number of 180 to 220lb bodybuilders on the net who spend ungodly amounts of money and use so many different exotic compounds thinking that it is the end all super stack of all stacks. And they take huge, huge risks in trying to acquire these drugs. I have had an abundance of pro and top amateur friends to gain the knowledge that pretty much these top people in the sport are blasting high amounts of test as the base drug in the offseason to put on pro size with mostly one (sometimes two) other compounds (usually fina, or equipoise or some other non exotic drug and GH if it can be afforded). I firmly believe you will gain 2 times the amount of muscle off of 2 grams of test either alone or with another compound than having some kind of exotic stack involving 3 to 6 exotic hard to get expensive compounds. The receptor site theories have proven to be bunk. The cheapest and best stack I can think of anyone doing to put on major size is a gram or two of test with arimidex to keep water off with fina 75 to 150mg every other day for 4 weeks –then 2 to 3 weeks of cruising (test at 300-400mg and clomid at 5 (day one), 4(day two), 3(day three),then 2 every day for 2 weeks)–and then back on everything full again (maybe equipoise used instead of fina this
time) for 4 weeks (then 2 to 3 weeks cruising again etc etc)—if you can’t gain gobs of muscle on that nothing exotic (masteron, etc etc etc) surely isn’t going to do it for you. Testosterone is always the base for any gaining cycle of any pro friend I’ve had or top people with whom I talked with off record. I have never even been over 1000mg of test myself (yet) but I see guys spending and using 10 times the amount I do weighing 70lbs less. I think there is a major problem when the easiest, cheapest and most potent things are right in front of people and they are off searching for substance B-737
undecylate in bulgaria.

Meuller: All too often we’ve seen 180-220 lbs bodybuilders obsessed with some irrelevant minutiae of bodybuilding, arguing the merits of using anavar stacked with creatine or how dosages of primobolan should be divided up in order to maximize size. Just the other day in the gym, I heard two wannabe bodybuilders actually discussing the merits of using creatine stacked with various fruit juices. Now admittedly, I train at 24 Hour Fitness, not the most hardcore gym on the planet, but I literally had to laugh out loud listening to these two idiots taking each other incredibly seriously over an issue that has about as much relevance to the gaining of lean body mass as what kind of underwear I choose to put on prior to my foray into the gym. I know that both Dogg and myself receive countless emails from bodybuilders looking for that one special compound, you know the one I mean, the secret steroid that all the pros are using and no one else seems to be able to get their hands on. The steroid that if only I could manage to obtain, I’d be kicking Coleman’s ass all over the Olympia stage in no time. There is a major problem when the cheapest, easiest, and most potent drugs are widely available and bodybuilders are blaming their lack of success on everything but their food intake, work ethic in the gym, or cycles that wouldn’t make my girlfriend grow.

Perhaps the biggest secret in bodybuilding is that there are no secrets. There are no secret stacks, there are no secret drugs, the amateurs and pros that we see in Flex and other magazines are using the same drugs that are readily available to you or I. Ask any top amateur or pro what his favorite steroid is and you’ll undoubtedly get the same answer from everyone: TESTOSTERONE!! 2 grams of test a week is going to put size on you unlike anything else, I don’t care how exotic or expensive. You show me a rare DDR steroid that supposedly is 50X as anabolic as testosterone and runs $600 per bottle and I’ll show you a GC/MS assay of cheap steroids you could pick up in Mexico for $20. Anavar? A drug I put my girlfriend on if she wants to gain a few pounds of muscle. Primobolan? A steroid I’d give to my kid if he had the flu. Ok, these drugs may have their place in a bridging cycle, but believe me, no bodybuilder attempting to gain brutal size need to concern himself with mass cycles containing impotent steroids like anavar and primobolan.

Dogg: I am of the opinion that people should use the lowest dosages possible that will keep them gaining. If a newbie bodybuilder starts off with 2 grams of T every week and a high dose of fina etc, etc and eventually taps out on that where is he going to go? 4000 a week? I believe one should make their way up 750, to 1000 to 1200 to 1500 and so on slowly thru cycles. I am an advocate of the 4 week on 2 week cruising (then back on) method not because of receptor site saturation but due to 3 very important (to me) factors…

1) I lift extremely heavy and I push the limits for 4 weeks and I just need 2 weeks to kind of regroup myself and then go balls to the wall again with poundages for the next 4 weeks

2)Same with food intake-I religiously get in 500 to 600 grams of protein and I have to give myself a little break for those 2 weeks (I only go down to
400grams or so) or I’ll go crazy

3) I think it’s of utmost importance to keep yourself regulated HPTA-wise. If
your endogenous test levels diminish due to constant months of high androgens
when you do finally come off those size gains fly out the door…if you can
keep your endo test somewhat normal you wont get the huge problems that keep
most bodybuilders bouncing up and down in bodyweight like yo-yo’s..namely
getting colds and flu’s/injuries/depression/lack of aggression and appetite
(which usually means test to estrogen ratio out of whack)…During the
cruising period the 300-400mg of test will keep you from losing any muscle at
all and the clomid and arimidex will get you as close (via 2 different
routes) to homeostasis as possible.

Meuller: Repeat– We are not advocating that a newbie run out and start
injecting himself with 2 grams of testosterone per week in an attempt to gain
as much size as possible? Let me quantify what we are trying to say. At
some point, 2 grams a week of testosterone may become a necessity as you
reach the upper limits of size your body will grow on bodybuilding drugs.
Just as we all have a natural limit to how big we can get naturally, we also
have a limit to how big we can get using performance enhancing drugs. You
look at bodybuilders like Ruhl, Yates, or Coleman and you’re seeing men who
have virtually maxed out their ability to add more muscle. Did Dorian’s
physique change noticeably from year to year during his last several
Olympias? Has Coleman’s? Sure, perhaps they come in a little tighter,
Coleman may fluctuate 10 lbs in bodyweight from year to year, but
realistically, these guys reached their genetic limit to add muscle long ago.
Now the massive amounts of drugs they take are simply to maintain the
incredible amounts of LBM they have accrued over years of training, eating,
and juicing. And this article isn’t being written for the Yates, Colemans,
or Ruhls of the bodybuilding world, I seriously doubt they’re coming to AE
for advice. This article is written for you, the aspiring bodybuilder,
someone who wants to gain as much muscle as quickly as possible but doesn’t
know how. Let’s say you’re an aspiring bodybuilder with good genetics and
want to start your first cycle. If you start out at 2000 mg of test a week
with other assorted steroids, where are you going to go from there when you
eventually stop growing. You should seek to start with as low
of an effective dose as possible and work your way up, always bearing in mind
that your cycle is probably the last reason why you’re not growing. You show
me a 180 lb bodybuilder that’s not growing on 750 mg of test a week and 50 mg
of methandrostenolone per day and I’ll show you someone who isn’t eating or
training correctly unless he’s 4’11”.

A good starting dose for a newbie is in the range of 750-800 mg of
testosterone per week, stacked with another steroid like methandrostenolone
(50 mg/day in divided doses), trenbolone acetate (75 mg ED), or even an old
standby like deca (600 mg/week). Use of an anti-aromatase like Arimidex is a
must. As Dogg advocates, steroid cycles are times during which your body must
be pushed to its limits. All too often you’ll see so-called bodybuilders
(bodybuilders in their own mind really) begin a cycle and maintain the same
kind of eating and training habits they adhered to pre-cycle. Will they
gain muscle? Most definitely, several double-blind medical studies have
proven that moderate dosages of testosterone will add small amounts of LBM
and cause a slight decrease in body fat without any change in diet or
exercise programs. But then again, that’s not really bodybuilding now is it?
Bodybuilding is an attempt to build yourself up to what you consider to be a
physical ideal, and for more AE readers than not, that means brutally huge
size. Brutally huge size is the result of two primary actions 1) brutal
workouts and 2) a brutal eating schedule. Steroids assist in both of these
endeavors, allowing you to train harder in the gym and increasing appetite so
one can consume more food. There is also a limit to how much of this the
psyche and body can take, regardless of how tough you are mentally or how
genetically gifted you may be. My workout partner and I have been training
balls to the wall for the past 2 months with the singular goal of my reaching
310 lbs. We agreed that once I reached this weight, we would take 5 days off
from the gym and do nothing but rest as much as our respective schedules will
allow. In all seriousness, we both breathed a sigh of relief when I stepped
on the scale Monday night and it read 312 lbs, because we were both very
nearly at our breaking point. We agreed to finish out the week as planned (I
didn’t expect to break 310 until Thursday or Friday) and then take all of
next week off. You’re seeing more and more top bodybuilding gurus advocate
training cycles in this fashion, Dogg advocates 4 week training cycles,
Trevor Smith from Nuclear advocates 6 week, and I advocate 8 week cycles.
Doggs 4 week training cycle involves cruising for 2 weeks after the initial
four weeks (as discussed above) to get the HPTA back in check and then back
on full bore again. You can either keep doing that indefinitely or stop the
4+2 regimen whenever you deem in necessary. Regardless of whether it’s
4+4, 6, or 8 weeks, at some point your body needs a break when you’re doing
everything right in and out of the gym.

Robbie

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Here is a basic steroid cycle but with a couple of advanced compounds , you could use this cycle to build lean gains or to help along side a cutting routine with a good diet. The injections are done every other day with weekends off , so monday , wednesday and friday.

Test Prop 1ml/100mg EOD for 8 weeks
Tren Ace 1ml/100mg EOD for 8 weeks
Winstrol 50mg (oral) Every day (including weekends) last 4 weeks

so for this cycle you would need 30ml of test prop , 30ml of tren a and 140 10mg winstrol tabs or 28 50mg winstrol tabs

Remeber Your PCT also …

clomid 300mg day 1 , 200mg day 2 , 100mg day 3, 50mg day 4 – 14
Nolva 40mg day 1 – 7 , 20mg day 8 – 14

You should start to see lean gains and a loss of body fat in about 2weeks from starting the cycle!

Robbie

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There is no doubt that steroids are most effective when they are administered in a sensible and logical manner. This requires that the athlete observe certain rules. A basic requirement is that the steroid intake be divided into cycles. By a steroid cycle most mean a 10- 12 week application of a single compound or a combination of two to three different steroids, followed by an interval of discontinuance of the same length. As is often shown, such a type of administration does not make much sense for a continuous and lasting progress since a considerable part of the strength and muscle mass that was gained gets lost during the long interval of discontinuance. The reasons why athletes choose such an intake schedule are attributed to the fact that there are those who continuously emphasize that steroids are principally only effective after a period of several weeks and injections more than twice a year considerably increase the risk of damage to the organs. With regard-to the apparently limited effect it must be said that, if that was true, today’s pro bodybuilding would be at the same performance level as thirty years ago. As to the second contention, the risk of damage to the body, let us tell you that if that was true there would be no more bodybuilding pros because all would be dead. The fact is non-stop use of steroids in ambitious athletes is the norm, resulting in continuously higher performance levels as can easily be recognized when looking at the photos in the various “muscle magazines.” If, for example, an athlete becomes a world champion at the age of 24, this not only shows his perfect genetics for this sport but also a period several years long of almost non-stop steroid consumption.

By a sensible cyclic application of anabolic/androgenic steroids we mean several timed intake schedules which, on the one hand, observe the basic rules for the intake of steroids and, on the other hand, are coordinated with the goal of the individual athlete and particularly the characteristics of the relative steroids that are taken. Principally, one should begin with a relatively low dosage and gradually and evenly increase it in order to maintain the positive nitrogen balance in the muscle cell. Since oral steroids begin to show their effect within several days and result in quite a rapid saturation of the receptors, their intake is limited to 6-8 weeks. Following that, the use of steroids is discontinued or the athlete switches to another (oral) steroid. It is also shown that the combination of two to three steroids in moderate dosages is much more effective and also guarantees a longer duration of effect than when only one steroid is taken in a high dosage. With the right combinations one will be able to obtain a synergetic effect if the athlete pays attention to selecting steroids which have different influences on the factors of strength, tissue buildup, and recovery. A stack which fulfills these requirements, for example, would be Deca-Durabolin as an anabolic basic steroid with depot character, Sustanon to promote recovery and general mass buildup, and Oxandrolone to increase body strength. The stimulation of various receptor types over a limited period leads to the best results. The buildup- effect can be maintained over several months if the steroid combination is completely changed no later than every eight weeks, if the athletes alternate the stronger and mostly androgenic cycles with the weaker and predominantly anabolic cycles and when the dosages are continuously graduated. A long and even reduction of the doses at the end of the cycle helps in normalizing the body functions and preparing the organism for a suspension of the intake.

Robbie

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For today we have a classic mass builder for beginners and intermediate users. This cycle will give you about 10-15 kgs if you will train hard and eat enough protein, vitamins and amino-acids. Also do not forget about good rest.

Weeks 1-4 Dbol (methandienone) 30-40mgs ED
Weeks 1-12 Test Enanthate/Cypionate 500mgs (250mgs 2x/Week)
Weeks 1-10 Deca(nandrolone decanoate) 400mgs (200mgs 2X/week)

PCT

HCG 1500iu on the 1st/5day of PCT, start HCG and clomid 2 weeks after last inject.

CLOMID THERAPY:
Day 1 300mg
Days 2-7 100mg daily
Days 8-14 50mg daily

For more information regarding PCT please join HM Forum and ask this question on PCT rubric.

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Welcome ,

Right i thought id post up a review of Geneza Pharmaceuticals , i previously tried the UG Brand so i thought id share my findings and results with you all!

First off this is the cycle i did ..

GP Test Enanth 250 @ 500mg each week (12weeks 2 x injections / week)
GP Deca 250 @ 500mg each week (12weeks 2 x injections / week)
GP Methan 10 @ 30mg Each day (week 1 – 4)

Well this is a basic mass bulk cycle and one ive tried many times before with many different brands (Human Grade and UG labs) so i know what results i should be getting while on cycle.
Well first impressions start with the Dbol , i was only using a low dose @ 30mg each day but it still seemed very effective, after the 1st day i noticed the pump in my biceps and the fuller feeling i normally get in my arms when on dbols, by the third week i had gained a solid 4lbs through eating a good clean diet.
Only problem with these dbols is that by the middle of week 4 i had terrible back pumps even though i was running it at a low dosage.
Ive run Dbols before at 50mg ED for 4 weeks and not got these back pumps so im unsure why i got them at a lower dose, maybe something lacking in my diet or maybe the tabs where overdosed ?
The GP Test Enanth was a painless injection and quite smooth even with a 25g needle, i could feel the test kicking in by the end of week 3 , i got a sense of well being and balls like peanuts lol !
The Decca was also painless and smooth , by the end of week 8 i had but on 10lbs i did have a fair amount of water bloat but that was to be expected, i did also notice that by week 5 i had quite alot of back acne but again this is normal for me and was expected.
At the end of the 12 weeks i had gained a impressive 16lbs but after my PCT i kept 12lbs , still quite impressive, i looked alot fuller and was very happy with the results.
So all in all apart from the back pumps on the dbol Geneza scored quite highly with me!
It was a good cycle and i was happy with the results , i wouldnt say Geneza where Human grade quality but they are a very close UG lab version !

They score an massive 8 / 10
and i would recommend them , now im looking forward to Geneza Tren !

Robbie

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Advanced cycles are very different from intermediate and beginners cycles. This is because by the time a bodybuilder or athlete has reached the level where they could be rightly called advanced. They´ve probably reached a point in their career where they are very able to identify the compounds which work best fort them, as well as the dosages they respond best to. In fact, that´s almost what I would consider the defining characteristic of an advanced steroid user. Advanced users have typically done a decent amount of steroids, and know what dosages they´ll need to use in order to achieve their goals. I think in order to be considered an advanced steroid user, you must meet certain criteria: eulogy

* You´ve done over 5 cycles
* You´ve stacked 2 steroids and one other drug (an anti-estrogen, clen, etc…) in one cycle
* You´ve done cycles for at least 2 different reasons (i.e. cutting, bulking, strength gain, etc& )
* You´ve done Post Cycle Therapy and kept more than 50% of your gains

Most of my recommendations for considering yourself an advanced steroid user are self-explanatory. Basically, my worry here is that no matter how many cycles you´ve done, if you´re losing half of your gains from each cycle, then you have a lot of work to do to figure out what you´re doing wrong after your cycles end. There´s really no way around that fact & if you´re not keeping half of your gains, then something is going wrong when you end your cycles. Before you jump into an advanced cycle, with multiple compounds and drugs, you need to get your post cycle in order. If you´re losing more than half your gains from every cycle… then something isn´t in check. You aren´t an advanced steroid user you´ve just used a lot of them. But, if you keep most of your gains from each cycle, and meet the other 3 criteria for being advanced, then this cycle is for you!

Here´s a sample of an advanced bulking cycle:

Week 1 – 6 Testosterone Enanthate @ 500mg Each Week
Week 1 – 12 Tren Enanthate @ 600mg Each week
Week 1 – 6 Dbol @ 50mg Each Day
Week 7 – 14 Testosterone Prop @ 100mg Each Day
Week 7 – 14 Winstrol Injection @ 50mg Each Day
Week 1 – 14 – Nolvadex @ 10mg Each Day
Week 15 – 17 – Nolvadex @ 20mg Each Day
Week 15 – Clomid @ 100mg Each Day
Week 16 – 17 – Clomid @ 50mg Each Day

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Week 1 – 12 Testosterone Enanthate @ 500mg Each Week
Week 1 – 12 Boldenone Undecylenate @ 400mg Each Week
Week 1 – 4 DBOL @ 25mg Each Day
Week 8 – 12 Winstrol @ 50mg Each Day

Ok, so what we have here is a cycle that uses moderate amounts of anabolics. A cycle like this, which makes use of Testosterone as well as Equipoise will produce noticeable results in both strength as well as size, and will produce a nice, hard look to the physique. Since this is a lean bulking cycle, I´ll assume that the user will be following a diet which is high in quality calories. Protein intake will need to be high to take full advantage of the steroids being used. Conversion to estrogen is not much of a problem with Equipoise, although it´s going to happen with the Testosterone. Keep some Arimidex on hand, and if your nipples get sensitive or you are retaining too much water, use it at .5mgs/day.

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Here is a simple cutting diet and all the relevent training dieting information to go along with it.

8 Week Cutting Cycle

WEEKS 1-8 : Winstrol 50mg Every Day (mon – fri. Gives liver a break a weekends)
WEEKS 1-6 : Trenabol 75mg Every Day (mon – fri. Gives liver a break a weekends)
WEEKS 1-8 : Testosterone Propionate 100mg Every Other Day (mon, wed, fri)
WEEKS 4-8 : Masteron 100mg Every Other Day (mon, wed, fri)

YOU CAN GET ALL THE ITEMS FOR THIS CYCLE HERE !

PCT

With this cycle PCT should start at week 8

WEEK 8: 40mg Tamoximed/100mg Clomid daily
WEEK 9: 30mg Tamoximed/ 50mg Clomid daily
WEEK 10: 20mg Tamoximed/ 50mg Clomid daily

DIET WHILE ON CYCLE

Eat every 3 hours – 5/6 times a day

Calories should be aprox 1000 less than your normal daily intake using a 40/40/20 method (40% protein , 40% carbs , 20% fat)

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