While I typically agree with most of your posts/advice @blshaw , for Tren I wouldn’t necessarily say I “disagree”, but perhaps it affects people differently. For instance, as I said above, Tren added a good deal of strength when I took it a few times to experiment in the offseason, but once I removed it, while I was still taking high doses of Test/EQ, I lost a pretty significant amount of strength. While on, and this is offseason mind you, I was up to doing 405 on barbell incline for 8 clean reps, but when I remove it [Tren A], I was back down to 3 plates and a quarter plate for reps. When I attempted 405, I could barely do 1 maybe 2 reps, and struggling. Maybe it was just me, but my strength loss was noticeable.
Although now that I think about it, 99% of the time I really only took Tren A during my 10-12 weeks of dieting before a contest, and that was to try and maintain my strength levels for training purposes since I was in such a caloric, and carbohydrate, reduced state. It also helped keep my aggression up for intense training, it really noticeable also hardened my muscles and brought out more striations, etc. It’s super high anabolic properties were helpful for increased nitrogen retention/protein synthesis while in a greatly reduced caloric state as well.
Again, for the record, that compound is SO hard on your organs, blood pressure, your mental state, tren cough, night sweats, etc that it really is not worth all the risk, ESPECIALLY for gym rats looking to make gains. You can do just as well with your basic Test, Deca, EQ, Dianabol, with much less harm done to your body.
Any of you out there taking AAS, I highly recommend you test your blood pressure often, on/off whenever, I only started really paying attention to my general health a few years ago, after passing 40, and I have high BP and I’m on Lotrel 10/40 now. My doc really laid out what high BP does to your heart, and ESPECIALLY your kidneys, and it’s very, very bad. In addition, I got a calcium score heart test around Thanksgiving and my score was in the hundreds…look it up, that is not good. So, went to cardiologist last Fri and had echocardio gram, cartoid test (thank god results were clean, only slight enlargement of my LV, but doc said it’s pretty common in athletes, but abusing AAS for too long, too high a dose can greatly enlarge it, then you end up like RIch Piani). THIS Friday i do a stress test and a vascular test!!! So yeah, all the shit you are doing when you are younger, you WILL feel some effects when you are older, and the more abusive you are, the shorter your lifespan. Luckily, I do cardio several times a week, lift 4-5 days a week, eat very clean/little red meat, cycled on and off instead of staying on forever, so I didn’t do much damage, thank god. But I highly recommend everyone on here who reads this go get these tests done. Most good insurance will cover 100% of these costs, mine does, United Healthcare.
SOrry for the long post but man, when you’re young you think you’re invincible, and that taking all these AAS to get a jacked as possible is cool and all, but you are doing damage to your body that WILL come back to bite you in the ass. I’m not saying to NOT take AAS, but if you do, back the doses down, cycle on and off appropriately, check your BP and GET ON MEDS if high (my doc said that most men that carried a high amount of lean muscle had high BP), and go to your doc 3-4 times a year for bloodwork and checkups. It’s MUCH easier to fix things if you catch them early, like I”m doing now, but the longer problems persist, the more they fuck your body up. Think about what I’ve said.