welcome to figur Performance and anti drugs everybody's favorite topic I'm coach Steve let's discuss how to design your own cycle because I get messages on a daily basis with the most complicated Cycles ever and they're more complicated than an Ikea instruction manual it would probably be easier to build your own closet or your own kitchen cabinets so let's start all the way at the beginning testosterone which is the foundation the base the bioidentical hormone that every cycle should be based on unless you experience hair loss and then you might want to consider nerone but we're
not going to go over that that's been discussed a million times previously the base hormone that you want to start with for your cycle is testosterone now what are the dosages the dosages could range from 100 Mig testosterone inate per week to 2,000 4,000 6,000 depends on your rate of Development I've heard 5,000 milligrams testosterone initate per week it seems like a little bit much to me even though I've personally taken 2,000 milligrams of testosterone inate at the end the end of a cutting phase just to keep the anabolism in place yeah it was a
very low calorie diet so increasing the dosages of your testosterone as the calories come down to get the same amount of analism because you need animalism from food and from performance enhancing drugs and when one goes up the other one goes down so when the food goes up the steroids can go down as well yeah keep that in mind it's very essential that you understand this because a lot of guys in the offseason it just blast their socks off when in reality most of the anabolism is going to come from food and you really don't
need that much anabolic steroids growth own insulin or whatever you're taking to facilitate recovery anabolism hyperplasia Etc yeah start at the beginning you go in steroids start with testosterone first it's bioidentical it's what your body was producing unless you were not producing sufficient amount of testosterone and then you have a medical reason to replace that with exogenous use 100 milligrams 125 milligram 150 maybe 200 milligram 250 300 yeah it highly depends on what you like to start personally I like a little bit more testosterone what's traditionally prescribed in a testosterone replacement therapy or a hormone
replacement therapy protocol I like to start with 1 milligram testosterone anate for each pound of body weight that I have or 2 kilos of body weight so in my case I'm about 105 kilos or 225 lb which is 225 mgram of testosterone anate per week now to be fair one ampul of testosterone comes in 250 millgram so I take one ampule 250 Mig testosterone per week that's my starting dose and you can consider that a generous hormone replace placement a cruise or a bridge in between steroid cycles and that appears to be which is the
case for myself and all of my clients to be the lowest effective dose of testosterone per week which you required to maintain all the size you've built during the offseason when you were doing a real steroid cycle you go down to 1 millgram testosterone per one pound of body weight and you should be able to maintain all your size of strength as long as you're in a decent calorie Surplus so where do we go from here you found out your lowest effective dose of testosterone and then you try to find the highest dose of testosterone
which you can tolerate without side effects now for some people that's only 250 Mig of testosterone per week some that's 500 some that's 1,000 some that's 1500 2,000 I've heard guys tolerate up to 3,000 milligrams of testosterone per week without any real side effects so their lipids are still in range their blood pressure is manageable there's no hair loss or they don't care about hair loss there's no acne they can control their estrogen level there's not too much water attention yeah but it's going to be different for everybody and the only real way to figure
that out is by taking a step-by-step process you do it slow over time you don't go from 250 test to 3,000 and then you taper off until the side effects goes away it's not the correct approach take it step by step 250 milligrams of testosterone per week you give yourself adequate time on that dose to make as much progress as you can before increasing the dose with an increment of 250 Mig first so you go from 250 to 500 750 to 1,000 now the estrogenic side effects you can easily mitigate by using an aromatized inhibitor
preferably aromasin because it doesn't impact your lipids as much as LOL or ridex does or you use an estrogen metabolizing supplement like a diol methane and calcium de glucarate now I've got a whole ebook dedicated to prolactin progesterone and estrogen you can find it on my website Vigor ste.com sshop where all the details are already already mentioned in well more than you'll find anywhere else that's for sure so the estrogenic side effects as long as you control that should also help with the water tension and the potential for blood pressure increases because estrogen water tension
contributes to blood pressure and you can manage your blood pressure with several different methods you can use medication for example an Ace inhibitor or an ARB blocker or Calis which is a little bit off label use but it does keep your blood pressure in a healthy range make sure your electrolyte intake is stable and consistent on a dayto day basis I already did a video about that yesterday I would highly advise you to watch that because consistent electrolyte intake keeps your blood pressure stable as well so the blood pressure in the estrogen you can probably
easily mitigate depending on the dose of testosterone but at one point you reach a dose of testosterone where other side effects start to occur for example hair loss and even though you're using a 5 Alpha reductase inhibitor or special shampoo or research chemical to prevent the progression of androgenetic alopecia they're not potent enough because your dose of testosterone is too high or you get water attention from the dose of testosterone itself even though you're already keeping your estrogen arrange and you're managing your electrolite intake or digestive issues like acid reflex for example or you get
severe night sweats because your metabolic rate is increasing from the dose of testosterone that you're taking or severe anger management issues which happens for some people as well then at one point you'll reach your personal maximum tolerable dose of testosterone you can take per week without causing too much side effects or at least side effects that are manageable and well tolerable if you want more animalism on top you'll have to look at another compound and whatever goal you have and which side effects you got with testosterone kind of depends on which compounds you can add
on top of your maximum dose of testosterone right so there's several different ways to determine that so let's look at your red blood cell count in your homaid level on testosterone only so let's say you were taking 750 Mig of testosterone per week the hematocrit went Sky High you get a lot of aroic action in your body and you get a lot of red blood so count and very high htic rate balone Prima Bolin and tremone are off the table Anadrol as well yeah that's the oral primabol balone tremone and Anadrol because they're way more
eoic than testosterone is so even though you want to increase anabolism your romatic rate is already high on testosterone and these compounds are going to increase your hematic rate a lot faster and further than testosterone was doing especially if you're focusing on your nutrition and you get sufficient amounts of iron and vitamin B12 in your diet so please keep in mind that whatever side effects you experienced on your maximum tolerable dose of testosterone are going to get exacerbated depending on which compounds you choose so for for example you experienced hair loss or acne or both
all the DHD based compounds are off the menu you can't take that because they're going to exacerbate the acne or the hair loss that's no Primo no Mone no wistol no anavar no proviron no super draw no anadol am I missing one I'm sure I'm missing a few but any of the dhdb comp Downs are now off the table you can't take those because they're going to exacerbate the hair loss you have your maximum do of testosterone that you can take maybe it's only 300 mg you're controlling that with finasteride and now suitable alternative anabolic
on top of your testosterone is going to be nandrolone or balone only those two are known not to progress androgenetic alopecia so again it really depends on how you respond to testosterone which other compounds you can take now if you didn't get these side effects but your lipids are really skewed on testosterone only at your maximum tolerable dose it's going to be a little bit difficult on which compounds to choose because most anabolic steroids and some of the serms are going to skew your lipids further so you'll have to put some sort of lipid Management
in place which in in the form of a citrus Bergamot supplementation or red yeast rice or fish oil or reducing your dietary cholesterol intake or increasing your fiber intake there's many different methods get that under control first before you look into some of the other compounds because they're going to skew your lipid levels probably more than testosterone already did and if it's not the case your lipids are acceptable A Winstrol for example a Trenbolone a Mone I think even anavar and most of the orals for that sense they're going to skew your lipids and you
really have to keep track of that to make sure you don't skew them too much and get this weird reading like a 20 HDL and a 200 LDL and then Super H high triglycerides again it all contributes keep that in mind please now last thing you have to look at is your kidney function and your liver function and there's several different things that play into that for example how blood pressure will change your kidney function by itself already regardless of what compound you use or maybe you already had high pre-existing blood pressure before you started
taking steroids again all those things you need to mitigate now look at blood pressure management now some of the steroids were actually examined for their kidney toxicity so if you have impaired kidney function or it's not as high as you'd like it to be tremone and balone or off the table because both were shown to be kidney toxic directly besides the blood pressure increases that these compounds might induce now when you look at the liver I'm sure everybody knows this all of the orals are going to tax your liver to a certain extent so if
your liver enzymes are already off and you see some of the other markers skewed on testosterone only forget about the orals leave them off the table until you get your liver Health checked and everything is back into range now when it is in range you want to add an oral some of the orals are going to skew your lipids a little bit more than others and some of them are going to tax your liver more than others now the dose and the duration also plays a factor in how much liver stress you'll get from an
oral steroid so what I feel is reasonably safe from a liver perspective anavar proviron DHEA pregnanolone and most of the other compounds especially Anadrol superdrol and halotestin put a lot of stress in your liver so those are usually run in short durations maybe two weeks 3 weeks depending on the phase that you're in okay now you take all these side effects into consideration from all the other compounds which could possibly manifest as well as your maximum tolerable dose of testosterone yeah so some compounds are going to be on the table and some of them are
going to be off the table because you'll worsen whatever side effects you already got from testosterone now you'll have to look at the unique characteristics of each steroid by themselves of course when you start combining anabolic steroids with unique characteristics you get a particular synergistic effect and it could be that you're combining only two anabolic steroids or maybe three compounds four compounds five compounds which is not unheard of during contest prep and it doesn't mean they all have to be anabolic steroids it could also be some of the peptide hormones like a growth hormone and
Insulin so I prefer the Golden Triangle testosterone growth hormone and insulin and then the Tetra force can be igf-1 but it seems to be unobtainable whether are that's ingame or in the real world now if you're a little bit confused or unsure which hormone to add on top of your maximum tolerable dose of testosterone please head over to my website Vigor steve.com you should already have that bookmarked there's an article there called the primary and secondary reason to add a certain PD to your protocol and there I go over a complete list of for all
the possible options you could think about and the first reason and the second reason why you would want to add that to your cycle but the option to add them highly depends on which side effects you were experiencing on testosterone only now this list is very very long so I'm not going to repeat that in this video I would highly suggest you go to that article and read it for yourself and give yourself a couple options on which are good and which are bad now the Golden Rule here which was the same for testosterone is
figuring out your lowest most effective dose of the second compound you're going to add on top of your testosterone so let's say you ended up at 750 mg testosterone per week you want to add in trimone everybody's favorite start low 150 milligrams per week that's already 900 milligrams of anabolic steroids combined and make as much progress as you can on a low dose of Trenbolone because you're already getting a synergistic effect because TR Malone is a lot more androgenic and a lot more anabolic than testosterone is on a milligram for milligram basis now the unique
characteristic of Trenbolone of course is that it helps a lot more with nutrient partitioning so whether you use that during the offseason or a cutting phase is going to improve nutrient partioning some of that is coming from the increased igf-1 sensitivity so logically when you look at it when you add tremone and you made a decent amount of progress but you don't want to increase the tremone doses because the side effects of Trenbolone like Anor management or night sweats become untolerable another synergistic effect would be to increase your serum igf1 concentrations and you can do
that with growth hormone or growth hormone secret toog or actual igf1 if you can Source it right so you'll have to look at a total picture and come up with a good conclusion on how to design your cycle yeah on a step-by-step process now in this process you might figure out your highest tolerable dose of trm blow as well let's say that 750 Mig test combined with tremone you end up at 525 Mig tremone per week maybe 700 maybe 1,000 milligrams again it highly depends on you and how much you can tolerate by yourself and
which side effects you you place emphasis on whether that's Kidney Health anger management acid reflux digestion Etc it highly depends on you I can't make that decision for you personally I don't like tremone I prefer primobolan my highest dose of testosterone and prolin together would be 1,000 Mig of testosterone and 1,000 mg of primobolan actually don't get too many side effects from that but it gives me all the results I desire in a caloric deficit I really hope that you understand that with cycling there's a lot of flexibility involved you can't design your cycle 16
weeks out in advance because the body changes and you don't know how you're going to respond to some of the compounds if you're using them for the first time so planning a cycle out 20 weeks 16 weeks 8 weeks out in advance I never do that with my clients we start somewhere and we make adjustments and we end up somewhere and hopefully we're ending up somewhere where the person is healthy and they reach their goals I hope that's one of your goals as well your reach your goals and you stay healthy in the process and
for that a lot of flexibility is required because sometimes you respond differently the compounds your body changes over the years or your supplier runs out of your favorite compound so let's say you like the Sauer on Primo like I do and halfway through your cycle they run out of Primo what are you going to do if your cycle is laid out on paper it's like a project right oh one of the essential parts of the project is missing what are you going to do crisis management you'll have to look at some of the other compounds
or make sure you have adequate Supply but I'll leave that up to your decision so please keep that in mind a cycle is only as good as the result you're getting from it and if you're no longer getting results or you only get side effects you need to make some adjustments and make sure that that cycle works for you and it could be that you laid it out on a piece of paper for the next 16 weeks and after 6 weeks of following a cycle the plant cycle and the actual cycle are completely different keep
an open mind stay flexible make adjustments as they're needed especially regarding your dosages and your food intake because when you eat a lot of food and you get all your micronutrients and you train balls to the wall you really don't need so many anabolics to facilitate recovery because you already get that from the food during a cutting phase or contest prep you can pretty much expect that your performance announcing drug intake is going to go up but during the offseason really you don't need so much guys you don't have to over complicate it all these
protocols that you guys send me with direct messages completely unnecessary really focus on the food the drugs come later okay thank you than you guys so much for watching don't forget to hit that like button which is somewhere down below as well as the Subscribe button and I'll see you guys in the next video
