Any advice is appreciated

[rriis]

I have been on the edge of trying gear for a while now. I still need to educate myself alot, but what better way then to get it from you all?

I have been lifting on and off for maybe 15 years. Within the last 2 years I have been really getting more serious about it though. Religiously going 5 days a week, and taking legal supps like protein powder, creatine, ribose. I have experimented with some prohormones, but have found that it costs alot and the results are not that great. I think my last cycle of 1AD cost me around $400.

Anyway, I've read alot of the threads here, and see alot about stacking. I am thinking about doing a cycle of Deca. But I wasn't thinking about stacking it with anything else. What are your thoughts on just using this by itself?

My stats are:
Age - 37
Height - 5'7"
weight - 175 lbs
bf% - maybe around 12 - 14%
max bench - 245

 

[Spidey]

Deca will strongly supress the HPTA and thus natural testosterone production so your sex drive will probably take a strong nose dive. A small dose of testosterone along with the deca will counteract that problem and is anabolically synergistic to boot.

I hesitate to get any more specific as I have never used deca myself. Your best bet is to PM some knowledgable and experienced deca users. Do a search on Deca and I'm sure you will turn up a ton of threads in which people talk about their deca experiences. Look for names like Lawnsaver, JC21, Huckelberry FINAplix, Fonz, Quadsweep, or Bouncer to name a few. They give good advise and know what they are talking about.

Good luck

-Spidey

 

[Stillgoing]

I agree with Spidey. If your looking for a good beginner cycle do one of the following: test only, test/deca, test/eq, dbol/deca, or dbol/eq. Go for 8-10 weeks, no more than 500mg total gear per week. Then do post-C therapy......

 

[Racer-X99]

If you are going to cross over to the dark side you need to consider everything that goes with it. You will be dealing with federally illegal drugs that could cause serious side effects. There is a great deal to consider and you really need to think about it.

Furthermore, a deca cycle only will not impress you. A few of my friends did that and they were not happy at all. Everyone will tell you to run test. With test, you have to worry about your hair, your prostate, acne, your liver, gyno, etc.

In my opinion, joining the dark side was much more serious than I ever thought. I thought take a few injections and grow like weed. You will if you take the right cycle, but there are many things you need to be considering.

I love gear and will be a junkie for a few years until I want to focus on children and a family. Please realize there is a lot to the game in order to do it right. I don't believe in doing things half ass, so there you have my opinion.

I just finished my first cycle of fina/test and it was the bomb. I gained 25lbs. with next to little water weight. I already have my next several cycles stored up and I am adding to them all the time.

 

[rj420]

don't do deca

if you are looking for a safe, yet effective steroid then EQ is your best bet. Deca, as Spidey stated will severely suppress your HPTA (hypothalamo pituitary testicular axis), which: 1) will leave you with no sex drive; 2) longer post cycle recovery; 3) progesterone related sides; 4) extended chance of developing gyno post cycle due to the longer post cycle recovery.

EQ, IMO is a much better option. 400mg/week would be a good starting dosage for minimum of 10 weeks.... 12 weeks would be better as EQ is very slow acting.

 

[ROLGOR]

My advice is to buy low and sell high.

Actually you got some good advice from the bros above. Keep your stacks and dosages small. To many pile on gear that they don't need. Oh and I love fina/test..

 

[rriis]

Damn, alot to think about, thanks for the advice guys.

Lol, I do have wife and kids, thats probably the main reason I havent done this. I would have to hide it from her. I'm still hashing all this out in my mind.

It's much appreciated. From what I have seen, Elite Fitness gear users are very knowledgable with this stuff.

 

[SofaGeorge]

Lol, I do have wife and kids, thats probably the main reason I havent done this. I would have to hide it from her.

Bro, have you ever heard of being honest?

 

[Spidey]

Damn, alot to think about, thanks for the advice guys.

Lol, I do have wife and kids, thats probably the main reason I havent done this. I would have to hide it from her. I'm still hashing all this out in my mind.

It's much appreciated. From what I have seen, Elite Fitness gear users are very knowledgable with this stuff.

Ooh, be careful there man. Relationships are built on a foundation of honesty. Never hide things from your wife if you want your marrage to last. I too have a wife and a son. I discussed the whole issue with her before hand along with my reasons for wanting to do it and the possible consequences of steroid use and we came to a mutual decision that if that is what I wanted to do then she could deal with it. She is not overly enthusiastic about my steroid use but I was and am open with her about it and we are doing fine. If she had been dead set against it and I could not persuade her then I wouldn't have started using. My marrage is more important to me than steroids. Just my 0.02.

-Spidey

 

[Simply Swole]

I couldn't agree w/ spidey more. I too am married and have 2 children. My wife use to be completely against my using AS. She even went so far as to say she would divorce me. AS has been stereotyped bad.(Roid rage, penis shrinkage, Huge freaky muscles, etc.) I had to convince her this was something I was passionate about & would not interfere w/ my family life. She actually likes it better now when I'm on because she says I'm always in a good mood.(<-- Little trick of mine). Give it some time and let her know it will not interfere, and if it does you will stop, no questions asked. Don't lie to you're wife though. My 0.02.