A buddy of mine has been beating around the bush about wanting to do a steroid cycle. He's worked himself into a fine lather looking at all the websites that offer steroid advice, even though I told him just to hit eRoids and learn. Anyway, I sent him my cliff-notes version on the subject and thought I'd share.

BTW, I know someone is going to get upset about my PCT consisting of just GnRH, but i've done the labs and it worked beyiond expectations for me. Good enough that I may be able to come off of TRT after this next cycle if it works this well.

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For the purposes of where you're starting out I'm going to keep the conversation to a basic Testosterone cycle. There are a ton of other steroid compounds out there, and all of them have their place as far as I'm concerned. Also, I'm of the opinion that steroid laws are stupid and that congress adressed a sports cheating issue by over-reaching in a way that negatively effects the average person.

Starting off, even if your testosterone levels are at a healthy level additional testosterone will have a noticeable effect. However, you need to know your levels before you start. I do labs before, during and after cycle in order to ascertain whether or not I'm doing anything wrong. Because of this I've never gotten into a place where my health has been in danger. There are two ways to do this, either you tell your doc what you're planning on doing, or you use a service like www.privatemdlabs.com and get the tests done on your own. I've chosen to do the second option once I went off the TRT reservation.

A bit about Testosterone. I'm sure you know what testosterone is, it's the male sex hormone, it's the hormone that imparts the male physical characteristics. It's been studied for decades, and has been used in athletics since the 1940s. The main side effects of Testosterone usage are increased growth of body hair, oily skin, acne )on the back and shoulders usually), increased sex drive, testicular atrophy, and an over sense of well-being. The big negatives usually associated with steroid usage are gynoclemastia (bitch tits) and hair loss. The first is a matter of incorrectly managing your hormones (i.e.allowing testosterone to aromatize into estrogen in the body, therefor counteracting the effects of Testosterone and turning you into a girly-man), and the second is a matter of genetics.

As I see it there are three parts to a steroid cycle.

Hoarding (Buying all your cycle supplies)
Cycling
PCT (Post Cycle Therapy)

Here are all the supplies you will need for a cycle. Testosterone Enenthate, AI (Aromatase Inhibitor), GnRH, Syringes, and alcohol wipes.

There are literally hundreds of places that you can buy Testosterone from on the internet. Here are a couple of places that I can personally recommend.

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For AI I've been using cem-meso.com I use Arimidex because it has done a good job of keeping estrogen in check for me, but that's why you do the mid-cycle labs, just to confirm. You can change to a different AI if Arimidex doesn't work for you.
http://www.cem-meso.com/ancillaries/aromatase-inhibitors/liquidex-30ml-1...

GnRH is a peptide that kicks you testes back into gear after you come off of cycle. Remember your body will see the influx of huge amounts of testosterone during your cycle and shut down your boys. That's why you get testicular atrophy. I used to do a much more involved PCT that included three different compounds, and now with GnRH it's much easier. One shot and you're done. I get it from here...
http://www.purchasepeptides.com/buy-peptides/buy-gnrh-triptorelin-100mcg...

If this DOESN'T work, you will need to run the old school PCT, and that's why we do post cycle Labs!

Lastly for syringes and pre-injection alcohol wipes you can either buy them at your local pharmacy (some won't sell them without a prescription) or buy them online, just search for medical supply stores. You will be wanting a case of 3ml syringes with 18gauge needles, and then a case of 1 1/2 inch 23-25gauge needles. You use the 18g needle to draw the Testosterone from the vial, and then replace the needle with the 23g (or 25g) to inject. Search YouTube for videos on proper Intra-Muscular injection techniques and you'll get it. Remember to rotate sites, you don't want to be injecting in the same spot every time.

OK, so now that you've got everything you need, you're ready to run your cycle! Congrats! For your first cycle just keep in reasonable. The Test E (Testosterone Enenthate) is probably 250mg/ml, so to keep the math easy let's go with 500mg/wk. This will mean two injections per week. When I do this I do one injection Sunday night, and one Thursday morning, This keeps the plasma levels in my body as level as possible with twice a week injections. Honestly you won't notice a difference (aside from the placebo effect) for 2-4 weeks, but that's OK because it's going to keep working for 2-4wks after your last injection. Remember this going in and don't get down if you aren't destroying the gym in the first two days. You should really commit to between 8 and 10 weeks on in order to see good results. Start your AI in the third week. With Arimidex I usually take .5mg every third day and increase if I get tender nipples or my labs come back with high estrogen.

So the cycle looks like this

Weeks 1-10
Testosterone Enenthate 500mg
Weeks 3-10
Arimidex .5mg E3D

GnRH four weeks after last testosterone injection.