Best Time to Take Anavar?

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Some point in the future I’m going to start a cycle of Test-E (300mg per week) and Anavar, 50mg ED

Regards to the anvar, when would be the best time to take it. I’ve heard having it as a preworkout. I train at 5.30am so having it an hour before would mean waking up very early just to take it.

If I was to take it with my preworkout drink 15 min before, would I be limiting the effects of the anavar. Also, is it best to have the 50mg in one go or in two 25mg doses.

Not starting a cycle anytime soon but just trying to research at the moment for when I do.

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Take it before you head to the gym. No reason to overthink it. It has a fairly long half life (8hrs?) so it’s fine in the AM.

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All 50mg in one go?

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FWIW it peaks 1 hour after you take it. I’ve taken mine 30mg in the morn and 20mg an hour before heading to work out. As @iron_yuppie said it had a long half life… 8-10 hours so it’s not super critical.

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That’s how I take mine. Except I do 20 and 30 with the thought that it would be a higher peak pre workout. Doubt it makes any difference though.

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I ran almost the same cycle, and did the var at the end of the cycle. I wish I would have done more test. The var will make you look good, but it wasn’t the extreme body change I was looking for. Maybe 300 will work better for you, but it seems the consensus is that 400 or 500 works much better.

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With is having such a short half live (relative to most injectable AAS) is it worth taking on non-training days? Is there some level of blood concentration required to maintain for it to work? If possible I would only take it on days that I train, otherwise I feel like it might be a waste.

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Take it every day. Just because you’re not training doesn’t mean you’re not recovering, which is when most anabolics do all their real work.

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That’s fair, I hadn’t thought of it like that

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I’ve never taken anavar on non training days, and I’ve had great luck with it.

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This thread has a little age on it, but still deserves a response.

For muscle growth there are three fundamental stages:

  1. Stimulus
  2. Recovery
  3. Adaptation

Stimulus is likely the shortest time period.
Recovery can take a few days.
As the muscle recovers it is then that the adaptation begins to occur.

AAS has a two actions that I am aware. One it inhibits cortisol from binding to the androgen binding sites. The other is that it repairs damaged muscle fibers and ideally makes them stronger and larger.

AAS are beneficial in all three phases: Stimulus, Recovery, and Adaptation. Allow it to do all the work that it is capable of doing in all three phases.

Ideally you should take Anavar as frequently as you can so that you can flatten the curve as much as practical.

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Oxandrolone has a half life of roughly ten hours in otherwise healthy men and women.

Given the high doses people tend to take nowadays (at least 20mg/day, with many pushing 50-100mg/day which I think is insane) just taking it once per day should be good enough, 24 hours later you are going to have around a 80% fluctuation in blood concentration of oxandrolone

so if you are taking 50mg/day, the nadir is still going to be more than high enough to facilitate anabolism

If you were taking something with a REALLY short half life like dbol (3-5 hours) I can understand dosing multiple times per day but even then I think people are just nit-picking at that point

I understand bodybuilders tend to be very focused on small intricate details like counting calories, tracking macros etc and every tiny edge you can eek out to get an advantage over your fellow competitors matters

But ultimately if I’m taking dbol (I’m not, but have tried it briefly at between 5-20mg/day and I don’t understand why anyone would feel the need to take more than 20 if they aren’t a competitive bodybuilder) am I really going to notice better gainz over four weeks because I’m taking it 2-3x daily vs just taking it in the morning before I go to gym?

I doubt it… Dbol is generally considered a harsh drug and you can only sustain “safe” (I use safe in quotations because any amount of dbol is going to skew lipids quite significantly and you often wind up with increased BP, increased RHR etc on something like dbol)

Are you really going to eek out an extra pound of muscle tissue over four weeks by dosing dbol 2-3x per day vs 1x per day?

With anavar maybe you can use it a little longer (8 weeks etc) but even then… you’re taking the hormone, it’s in your system the next day at the time of dosing again… Even if it’s only in your system for most of the day (like dbol) that duration of time is enough to facilitate enough of a pharmacological benefit

And one could also argue you’d have a much higher cmax with once per day dosing… is that peak concentration more important than steady state considering we are dosing every day regardless??

The only rationale I can see behind the multiple times per day dosing is perhaps more steady influx of the hormone decreases the degree to which you’d wind up with estrogenic or androgenic side effects… with anavar this isn’t really relevant unless you are exceptionally sensitive you you’re one of those people pushing like 100mg/day or something insane like that.

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Sublingual 30 minutes pre workout.

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What about non training days? Before bed? In the morning?