[quote]Prisoner#22 wrote:
You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Building muscle takes time. Using AAS for very short peroids is not going to build muscle that you are going to keep. It may add short term increases in size due to water retention, and increased creatine storage, but true muscle gains are going to take longer than a few days, and that is all you really have before you are shut down.
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That’s interesting, and for practical effective use of AAS i’m sure that longer cycles and accepting shutdown are the way to go.
True muscle gains presumably means protein synthesis, satellite cells adding their mass to the whole as I believe is current theory. In this context any protein synthesis that happens is real growth and as it is augmented by natural T daily it would, in theory, be augmented by even 1 day of AAS - albeit the difference would be barely noticeable, but i suspect there would be a difference nevertheless.
This thinking follows the idea that muscles are built, generally, day after day, i.e. a year of growth can be shown in terms of 365 days of growth rather than specific growth periods discrete from the ‘day to day’
Unless there is time time delay factor that means unusually high levels of AS gets ignored for a short while, which would mean very short cycles would be out of the system before having any effect beyond the norm.
I dont know if there is research on this specifically, or how long it actually takes for HPTA suppression, and whether it happens in steps but it’s a fascinating area.