Frontloading - Anyone do use this?

[Cryptlord]

Anyone a big fan of frontloading? Say 1000mg first two weeks followed by 500mg for the rest?

 

[hehateme000]

i heard its good cuz it saturates the receptors.

 

[OMEGA]

it doe snot do much good in reality

and if your using highly aromatizable items it =super fast bloat

 

[GUARDIAN]

it can lead to problems with sides very quickly if u r prone.

 

[halfcenturian]

Use short esters instead. Frontloading never helped me, bro. Tried it many times.

 

[BOWTECH]

Im personally not big into frontloading either. Say for instance if I were going to run test, and deca I would throw in dbol for the first 4-5 weeks. Or let's say test and EQ I would run tbol for the first 4-5 weeks. Don't really see the point of front loading oils.

 

[todoveritas]

The theory is that steady state concentration (and therapeutic effect) will be reached faster. But this doesnt work for AAS. Why? BC steady state concentration is usually achieved after four half lives. The half life for long esters is days and weeks.

Assuming T1/2 of TestEnanthate is 10 days, then it won't be reached until 40 days. Also, of the several recognized pathways of action, the MAIN one we are interested in, the anabolic component of protein synthesis (transcrption/translation, etc.) takes a good two weeks to occur. No amount of loading dose is going to increase the speed of this process.

The loading dose = the volume of distribution x the desired concentration (i.e. the concentration at steady state).

If you run the numbers for a 500mg weekly dose:
Loading dose = usual maintenance dose / usual dosage interval x kel (t1/2/0.693). This comes out to about 1 gm.
But as explained above, you will get all the risk and none of the benefits.

It does work for faster acting compounds however, thus you may frontload with single esters or orals.

 

[tab1]

Frontloading no, tapering off towards the end, yes.

 

[advanced-stealth]

I do not do it.

 

[Nelson Montana]

Just include an oral the first week to get things off to a more immediate start. That's all the front loading you need to do.