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 In a perfect world, the Steroid Control Act would have never been passed. Twenty years ago, the media and Congress would have never caught a whiff of steroids because its use wouldn’t have been irresponsible. Instead of some users destroying their bodies with it, or blaming other illnesses upon anabolic steroids, people would have just treated anabolic steroids like aspirin or anti-biotics, medications with practical uses to help improve the quality of our lives and performance of our bodies. No, it couldn’t have been that simple. Instead, because of irresponsible users, the media hopped on the anti-steroid bandwagon. Soon, you had soccer moms in Idaho panicking because their middle-schooler on the baseball team might become a 120-pound ‘roided out mass monster overnight thanks to what they saw on television. It was a self-created beast, a self-fulfilling prophesy. In a perfect world, we would have never reached this point. But the reality is that we are here. And some options do exist in a world where steroids are desired, but their use isn’t legal.
The best of the anabolic steroid alternatives would be, of course, to actually get anabolic steroids legally. Visit a physician, and tell him of your lagging testosterone levels. If you have to manipulate your levels with poor diet and exercise practices for a brief time period before the appointment, so be it. Explain to the doctor that you have used artificial testosterone responsibly for most of your adult life. He may write you a prescription for 200 to 300 mg of testosterone Enanthate weekly, which would solve your woes! You may cycle up occasionally to 400 or 500 mg per week, but a maintenance cycle of 200 to 300 weekly mg is a nice lifetime subscription to greater muscle mass, increased strength, and lower body fat levels.
Pro-hormones are probably your best bet if you’re unable to obtain a prescription. As far as anabolic steroid alternatives go, pro-hormones are the best. They possess many of the same powers of oral steroids, and in many cases they are more powerful. However, they also deliver some pretty potent side effects. For this reason, most manufacturers recommend strong pro-hormone products only be used for 6 to 10 weeks in a cycle. After that, a minimum period of three months away from the products is recommended. Pro-hormones are, in essence, temporarily legal anabolic steroids whose window of use closes every year on more products. Use them when you can, if actual anabolic steroids aren’t an option.
There are also a wide range of useful legal supplements which work very well as anabolic steroid alternatives. Mesobolin, Tridenosen and Oral Testibol have been popular for years with athletes all over the world. The best part about these supplements is that they do not lead to a shutdown of HPTA function or natural testosterone production. Rather, they work to augment it, and make your body’s ability to produce testosterone stronger. You can stay on these supplements indefinitely, or cycle them out as you please. They will make you stronger and leaner, although certainly not on the same level as seen with true AAS.
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 Are you looking for bodybuilding coupons? Seeking some shortcuts to savings on the supplements you love for helping you to achieve greater muscle mass, increased strength, and lower body fat levels? Check out these ideas for saving money on bodybuilding products or, in effect, bodybuilding coupons.
Price Comparison
This should be common purchasing practice with any product. Supplements are especially easy to comparison shop, as they are easy to find online. When buying, select a website that will match the best price you can find.
Buying in Bulk
If you use a lot of creatine or whey protein powder, it makes sense to purchase it in lots of 2 or 4 units, in order to shave 5 to 10 dollars off of the price of each. Sellers love selling this way, as they move inventory out fast and they don’t have to worry about high shipping rates.
Buying on expiration date
Suppose you fly through 2 or 3 tubs of protein each month as you eat like an animal on your way to 225 pounds of pure muscle. Most protein powders have a 2-year shelf life. If you were to purchase (locally or from a website) protein with only 6 months left before expiration, you should be able to dictate a discount of up to 50%. Those products are of zero value to the seller once he gets close to the expiration date. If it is an item you are going to use quickly, jump on the bargain!
Affiliate programs
If you own a website, you are probably already aware of the numerous affiliate sales programs out there for bodybuilders which provide sellers with small payments for any purchases made from a particular website if the buyer arrives at that website from your own site. It is commonly used in the supplement industry, and it can be used to your advantage. Set one up, and make a few dollars any of your regular website visitors buys that supplement. Then, when you need your own supplements, make a purchase using your own seller affiliate link as well! Get the best prices around, plus a bonus!
Failing companies
Today’s economy is tough and many firms aren’t doing well. Find a company like this, and you might be able to save some money. Chances are good that if you were to directly contact the owner of one of these firms and make an offer on a few supplements at a price below what he is advertising, but above what he paid for them, you will have a deal! Barter is also useful in this situation.
Now that you have some ideas on how to save some money using bodybuilding coupons, you have no excuse not to put them to work! The next time you’re low on Mesobolin or creatine, don’t just grab some off the shelf at the local grocery store or randomly buy from the first website that comes up on Google. Rather, you should compare prices and employ the techniques listed above to ensure you get the best value when buying bodybuilding supplements every time!
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 When it comes to building muscle, getting stronger, and shedding body fat, there isn’t a single action or category that can help to accomplish this goal. Rather, it is a combination of factors that work together to help the individual transform his physique. The body must be trained using weights. This exercise, over time, requires the muscles of the body to adapt and grow. They only grow when they are resting, which means sleep is an integral ingredient in the muscle building process. Finally, the food we eat provides energy for training and building blocks (in the form of amino acids) for muscle recovery, and therefore growth.
The body building diet is perhaps the most important aspect of the bodybuilding success factor combination. At the very top levels of the sport, all of the guys are training very hard 5 or 6 days per week. They’re all using as much growth hormone and testosterone as the body can handle. At the elite level, the foods that they consume as well as the foods they don’t consume, in addition to the frequency of meals, leads to the champion physiques we see onstage. Well, that, and genetics as well!
The ideal body building diet will consist of a good mix of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. Let’s examine each category and work to define which foods should be consumed to match the bodybuilder’s requirements for each of these valuable macronutrients.
Protein
The bodybuilder should be consuming between 40 and 50 grams of protein at each of hi 5 to 6 daily meals. This equates to 200 to 300 grams per day. Your protein food sources should include beef, chicken, pork, eggs, and whey protein. Avoid sources such as jerky which bring high levels of fat and sodium into the equation.
Carbohydrates
Counting carbohydrate grams isn’t nearly as important as it is with protein measurements. As long as each meal consists of 1 to 2 sources of clean, slow-burning carb fuel, and the bodybuilder isn’t getting tired in and out of the gym, then the needs of the bodybuilder are being met.
Fat
Always limit your fat intake at each meal to 10 grams or less. Ideally, the fats you consume each day should come from clean, healthy sources such as natural peanut butter, egg yolks, and flax seed oil.
It should be noted that in addition to these three categories of macronutrients, the ideal body building diet should include plenty of water, daily multi-vitamins, and lots of sunshine. Remember that your training and sleep also need to be at optimal levels in order for the foods you consume to lead to new muscle growth. If you are looking to compete at the state or even national levels, then it is going to be important to also consider the influence that anabolic steroids such as injectable testosterone have upon the muscle building, and food utilization process. The natural bodybuilder using a standard body building diet will only be able to absorb about 300 grams of protein daily. The ‘assisted’ bodybuilder will end up making use of 400 or more grams of protein daily. Always raise your protein intake significantly if you are using AAS, and drink plenty of water as well to keep your kidneys safe.
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 Are you searching for supplements to build muscle? Have your recent Google and Bing searches left you more lost and confused than when you began? Are the pages of this month’s muscle magazine glossy and graphic, but offering you little useful information? Never fear. You’re in the right place. Let’s look at four of the most useful supplements for building muscle. Once you’ve given the four of them a shot, you will have a solid foundation of knowledge with supplements, and you will be ready to move on to more advanced products.
Creatine
The ability to retain water is one of the chief reasons bodybuilders use anabolic steroids. Granted, there are other reasons, which include greater protein absorption and increased recovery ability. Creatine works to make you bigger and stronger by forcing your body to hold more of the water you drink – in the muscle fibers! Users typically report a few pounds of muscle swelling, along with superior strength on most of their major lifts. Always be sure to drink adequate water when using creatine. Failure to do so can place undue stress upon your kidneys and make for some pretty uncomfortable bowel movements. However, proper use of creatine can leave you 5 to 8 pounds bigger, and much stronger in the gym!
Glutamine
Staying healthy is important for building muscle. Glutamine is one of the most popular supplements for building muscle because it helps to condition your immune system to handle more of what life throws at you. Whether the stress is from your job, from the gym, or any kind of illness a well-meaning loved one passes your way, glutamine makes you stronger and better at defeating illness, stress, and other obstacles to bodybuilding growth.
Tridenosen H ™
If better muscle recovery is your goal (and it very well should be!) then TridenosenH should be very high on your list of supplements for building muscle. This supplement helps you be more explosive on major movements, delivers nutrients to your muscle fibers faster following workouts, and improves natural hormone production, including those of testosterone and growth hormone. It also helps deliver faster expulsion of metabolic waste, resulting in less soreness.
Multi-vitamins
A simple daily regimen of vitamins is often neglected by people spending hundreds of dollars per year on bodybuilding supplements, and this seems to make little to no sense. Not only are vitamins pre-requisite for complete health, but they also play key roles in the muscle building processes of your body. A healthy body is much better at building and keeping muscle. A person who is ill all of the time simply can’t grow like a person who stays healthy. Your daily regimen should include a multi vitamin, as well as vitamins E, C, and B. Fish oil should be consumed with meals as well.
All of the supplements for building muscle in the world won’t help your cause, if you’re not kicking butt in the gym and sleeping eight hours each night. Train hard, supplement right, and take care of yourself – and muscle gain will follow!
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 Prohormone supplements hold what can only be described as a very unique niche in the bodybuilding market. We’re all very much aware of what anabolic steroids are, and the effects they have upon the body. We know that normal mortals have been transformed into monsters in just a year or two using anabolic steroids. Nobody denies their powers. Rather, most bodybuilders wish they had the courage or connections to purchase actual steroids. However, the roadblocks to purchase are many. Receiving, ordering, and possessing anabolic steroids is a felony and can leave one looking at hefty fines and possible jail time. Any public exposure from this can create a very negative stigma. Family, friends and co-workers will consider you a cheater or worse, a drug user, simply because you choose to boost your body’s natural testosterone production to add some size to your body. You’re not exactly a junkie robbing convenience stores to feed your habit, but they’ll look at you the same way.
On the other end of the spectrum sits a category known as supplements. There are sometimes effective, but certainly considered to be lower octane than anabolic steroids. They can range from quite effective, which is the case of creatine, to extremely ineffective, which is the case of dozens upon dozens of supplements which have come and gone in the last 40 years. For bodybuilders without the ability to use anabolic steroids, starting with supplements is the right way to go. For beginner and intermediate trainers, supplements do deliver a ‘bump’ which makes recovery faster and the results seen in the gym better. But at the advanced level, where many guys are actually endorsing lines of supplements, most guys don’t use them. Ironic, isn’t it?
Finally, we reach the middle-of-the-road category known as prohormone supplements. This category of supplements is relatively new in the bigger scheme of things. There was no need for prohormone supplements back in the 1980s and before, when steroids were legal. And the way legislation is going, it might not be too long before this category is completely eradicated. So what exactly as prohormone supplements? Simply put, they are mild version of oral steroids. They are created so that on the molecular level, they are somewhat different from existing steroids which are illegal. They are just as effective.
Prohormone supplements can be wildly effective when used for very short periods of time. Ideally, they should be used for 6 to 8 weeks at a time, as directed on the label. This fits perfectly for pre-contest athletes looking to ‘grow into’ a show and hold existing muscle while adding a few pounds of beef, as they get lean. Or, to kick of an off-season mass-gaining effort, prohormone supplements can be ideal. There can be problems that arise when prohormone supplements are used for very long periods of time. Some of their side effects can be equal to – or even worse – than those experienced by users of anabolic steroids. Used in moderation, however, they do provide a viable alternative to actual steroid use.
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 Being choosy is a very good thing. You’d never want to settle down and marry the first girl that said hello to you in the hallway in high school. Rather, you date a variety of people until you find one with similar interests, temperament, and other attributes to make it a good fit, and one that can last a lifetime. Likewise, you wouldn’t buy the first car you set eyes on in any showroom. Rather, you would want to test drive a few vehicles, and decide upon one with the best return on investment for the dollars you will spend.
Picking bodybuilding supplements, particularly those intended to add pure, unadulterated mass to your frame, is no different. You don’t just want to grab the protein powder with the biggest bodybuilder on the label, nor the one with the lowest rock-bottom price. Rather, choosing from among the man gain mass supplements should be a slow and detailed process.
First, you should analyze your current diet and determine any deficiencies in your current eating plan. Do you miss meals due to tie limitations? Are you lacking protein, or protein AND carbohydrates? If you don’t consume enough protein, then whey protein powder will fit your bill. However, if carbs are missing their mark, then a MRP, or meal-replacement pack, will give you additional needed calories of the carbohydrate variety. Do you eat enough healthy fats? If not, then EFAs or Essential Fatty Acids, Fish Oil, or Omega 3’s should be on the list.
Next, write out your goals. Do you just want to be healthy, or is your goal to add twenty new pounds of lean muscle mass to your frame? The greater chance you desire for your body, the greater amount of impact you will need to make upon yourself with supplements.
Your third step will be to narrow down the list of potential supplements to the one, two, or three products you think will be best for helping you to reach your goals. Remember that it’s best to use 1 or 2 at a time in order to ascertain just how effective they are. If you use ten compounds at a time, you’ll have no clue as to which of them were highly effective gain mass supplements, and which of them were completely useless.
Fourth, it’s time to shop around. Use Google, eBay, and other comparative shopping websites to find which websites offer the precise product or stack of products you desire. Set up a shopping cart in each to determine shipping costs as well – but don’t check out yet! Write down the total cost from each website.
Finally, you will want to make your purchase of the gain mass supplements. It might be easier to buy a product from a website, but you should keep in mind that returns can be very difficult. If anything is wrong with the product, you will need to re-pack the box, drive to the post office, and wait another two weeks for them to receive the package, make amends, and then ship it back to you. There are a lot of failure points in that chain. A better bet might be to find the products you desire offered locally. This will help your local economy, and will allow you to return any stale or improper product easily. Good luck!
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 It is mass gain supplement time, and you know that what means! For a bodybuilder who is tired of measuring calories and counting fat grams, “off” and “season” are probably the two most inviting words in the English language. After spending what seems like an eternity (but was in actuality only 10 to 16 weeks) in a restrictive state, surviving only on clean foods and suffering through daily cardio bouts, the off-season offers the user a chance to cut loose, stop counting and restricting for a while, and focus upon what bodybuilding is truly about – building new muscle!
The off-season is a time to pay special attention to diet, despite the suddenly lax restrictions. You don’t have to worry about limiting certain macronutrients or calories. Rather, you have to be particularly cognizant of our numbers as you work to meet them on a daily basis. You will want to hit you 3500 calories goal each day. You will work hard to consume 350 grams of protein daily – and not a single gram less! Water is essential as well. You’ll need to make sure you are drinking 2 quarts to one full gallon daily, at a minimum!
In addition to the diet, you’ll need to have your training factors nailed down if you wish to proceed in the best mass gain time of your life. Your training should be heavy and uncomfortable. You should be sore as you leave the gym each day, and even sorer when you wake up in the morning and the effects o DOMS begin to fully set in. you should be using movements such as barbell rowing, dumbbell presses (incline and flat), and plenty of squats, leg presses, and deadlifts. This isn’t the time to take it easy. You need to earn the ability to eat all those sloppy calories, and lifting heavy does in fact allow that!
Finally, you will want to choose a mass gain supplement (or two) to help you recover a bit quicker from these tough workouts, as well as to give you the energy you need to make each successive workout tougher than the last. You should start by adding whey protein to two of your daily meal slots. This will not only give you a solid shot of protein in the middle of the day when you need it most, but also make you hungrier for the next meal. Whey protein doesn’t contain fat, which means it will be very quickly digested by the body. Within a half hour of your whey scoops with water, your muscle fibers will be enjoying a rush of amino acids. This will help them recovery and bring them back stronger the next day when your workout rolls around.
If getting sick during this reckless off-season is an issue, then the mass gain supplement known as glutamine might be your best bet. Include a multi-vitamin with your daily meals, and an Omega-3 in the form of fish oil caplets with each meal. Above all, stay positive, lift hard and consistent, and enjoy the off-season!
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 So you have decided to embark upon your very first adventure known as a prohormone cycle! Without a doubt, you are going to enjoy the results that you are about to see. A prohormone cycle is very similar to a steroid cycle. You can’t run it as long, and it’s going to be a lot more intense, but in the end you’re probably going to see some serious muscle and strength gain, coupled with some fat loss, without the detriment of too much harm to your body.
Length
Standard steroid cycles can last up to 16 weeks, depending upon the intensity of compounds you are running. A simple cycle of 400 mg of Testosterone Cypionate could be run for up to four months, if needed. Your liver probably wouldn’t experience too much stress from such a low dose. Granted, if you decided to add 200 mg per week of Deca to your stack, it would suddenly become necessary to limit it to 10 to 12 weeks. The more compounds you added, the more intense the cycle would become – and thus the more negative the side effects. Prohormones, as you may know, are some seriously intense compounds. Many have been banned because, well, they’re just too powerful for some users who tend to use them for too long. If you are ready to run a prohormone cycle, then you are going to want to keep it limited to 6 to 8 weeks at a time, depending upon the instructions that come with the compound. Ideally, you will also want to have a doctor check your blood levels to ensure your liver enzymes don’t jump in too significant of a manner during this stretch as well. Staying on a prohormone cycle too long might feel good at first, but the negative changes you’ll see in the long run certainly won’t be worth it.
Intensity
As mentioned, prohormone cycles are very intense. Be prepared for this. Give your body a break before and after running each cycle. If you are sick or recovering from a serious illness, hold off on the cycle until you feel you are ready. There is nothing wrong with putting off a prohormone cycle. The gains will always be there when you’re ready.
Frequency
Following each cycle of 6 to 8 weeks, give your body a break of 8 to 10 weeks to fully recover from the cycle you just subjected it to. We aren’t machines. We are living beings who are very fragile when it comes to exposing our internal organs to stressful compounds. Don’t risk your health by running prohormone cycles too often.
Obtaining compounds
Choose a prohormone supplement that will be readily available should you like it, and wish to return to using it down the road. Many supplements are offered by new companies which quickly fail, or the supplement themselves are quickly banned. Instead, choose a supplement such as Mesobolin, Oral Testibol, or others that have been around for years, delivering solid results to users.
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 It is important that the bodybuilder take many factors into consideration when choosing which building muscle pills he puts into his body. Some drugs that people may use in their youth, such as marijuana, only deliver a short window of effects which are gone the next day. Running a cycle of any of the building muscle pills, including actual oral steroids, pro-hormones, or other legal steroids, can deliver some life-long effects which should be considered by the user before any of these compounds are used. Let’s examine a few of the factors which will be different for every single bodybuilder.
Genetics
We are all built differently. Some people can drink alcohol like a fish their entire lives, and die at age 98 in a car accident. Others will never touch a sip of alcohol and still succumb to liver failure at a very young age. Genetics plays as much of a role in our vitality and in determining how many days we get on this earth as our lifestyle does. If you know from relatives that you are pre-disposed to suffer from male pattern baldness, high estrogen levels leading to gynecomastia, or any sort of liver disorder, then the world of building muscle pills might be one you should bypass. Believe it or not, the wide variety of pro-hormones and steroid supplement products can have some very positive – and adverse – effects upon the human body. Otherwise, if your family history is clear, all systems go!
Goals
Do you plan on just using bodybuilding to look and feel better about yourself? Or do you plan on entering three shows next year and competing at the state level within 5 years? Most people land somewhere in between, but it is important to decide early on what your goals will be in the sport of bodybuilding, so you will be able to research just how deep into the ‘dark side’ you will have to plunge. You can look incredible as a natural bodybuilder, never touching a drug. But you will need to peruse anabolic steroids to win at the national level, without a doubt. Choose your goals based upon the paths you will have to take.
Resources Available
If you’re a starving artist trying to secure a record deal or a pre-med student eating bulk canned tuna trying to pay for med school, you probably don’t have the money at your disposal to try anything along the lines of muscle building pills. Instead, dedicate your time, money and energy to securing a solid enough future that you’ll have decades of comfortable living ahead of you – more than enough time to buy and try the great variety of oral supplements available!
Age
If you are 16 years old, then oral supplements (and even steroids) aren’t going to deliver as much results as they will when taken when you were 40 years old. Enjoy your youth and the abnormally high testosterone levels you sustain. You shall have plenty of years to sulk at your low levels and jump into oral assistance when needed.
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 When it comes to selecting the best muscle gaining supplements, new bodybuilders are often left scratching their heads as they scan the many listings on bodybuilding websites and advertisements in magazines. There just seem to be so many supplements to choose from! They all seem to offer the world. How many different effects can a single supplement have? With the many glossy packages and creative marketing campaigns, you might think they somehow manage to reinvent the wheel every single year. The truth is, supplements slowly evolve but their packaging and advertising seems to get better each month. It can be confusing for new buyers of muscle gaining supplements, but we can help to make it easier. Here are some criteria you should follow when selecting the muscle gaining supplements that are best for you.
Consider your goals
Choose a supplement that promises to deliver the results that you seek. Obviously, no single supplement is going to ‘do it all’. However, if you wish to gain muscle mass, then you aren’t going to want to choose a fat burner, right? Likewise, if it’s time to get lean for a contest, then a compound designed to add mass and bloat to your body isn’t going to be ideal, right? Think about what you wish to achieve, and then choose a supplement accordingly.
Price range
There are some seriously expensive muscle gaining supplements out there, right? If you have the money to spend, and you think it would be a solid investment, then by all means you should consider taking the plunge and giving them a shot. On the other hands, if you are strapped for cash in this cash-poor economy, then you are going to wish to hold off and select a supplement a bit more in your price range.
Health & family history
Many muscle gaining supplements are completely safe. However, some – particularly prohormone supplements – can be very harsh to the body. If you have a history of liver problems or your family suffers from liver ailments early, then it is probably not going to be in your best interest to use strong compounds such as prohormones. On the other hand, if you lost a kidney as a youth, then creatine or any diuretic are going to be supplements which are definitely on the no-no list.
Keep records
You never want to make the same mistake twice. Likewise, you never want to miss out on an incredible opportunity to repeat wonderful results. Each time you purchase a new supplement, you should record your results. This way, a year down the road when you’re thinking about buying it again, you will know exactly how well it worked for you, what results you saw, and if it was actually worth the money you invested. Plus, if any health issues do arise (rare but possible), you will be able to check your supplementation records and determine if the supplements you were taking were in any way related to the issues you are suddenly facing.
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