How to Cycle Steroids for Beginners
Beginners are at the most influential stage of their anabolic steroid use journey, not only in the pre-use phase, but also in the actual beginner/novice phase of their first few anabolic steroid cycles.
This is because novice anabolic steroid users, as well as those who are still researching to participate in their first anabolic steroid cycle, are at the highest risk of being exposed to a vast amount of misinformation, false claims, myths, and dangerous guidelines regarding proper use and anabolic steroid cycle protocols.
A major problem in the world of anabolic steroid use is the fact that the medical establishment has distanced itself from the community that uses anabolic steroids (for the purpose of enhancing athletic performance and physique), so the development of proper cycling protocols has largely been left to individuals with no formal training in human physiology, biochemistry, or medical education.
The few individuals who do have a background in these scientific disciplines have been successful in steering the direction of education down the proper and truthful path.
However, the internet and the world is full of dangerous misinformation, personal opinions, and conflicting information and views.
This particular guide to proper anabolic steroid cycles will provide real, practical information backed by proper explanations of how actual use, dosage, and various guidelines relate to knowledge of proper human biology and biochemical function.
Most of the proper safety protocols and guidelines related to how a beginner or someone new to anabolic steroids should use anabolic steroids are very clearly explained in the introduction to this article.
In particular, the following guidelines and facts were clearly outlined in the introduction to this article
- Why newcomers or beginners to anabolic steroid cycles should use only testosterone in their first anabolic steroid cycle and the next few subsequent cycles.
- Why stacking should not be done on the first cycle.
- Why every prospective anabolic steroid user should maximize all natural pathways before deciding to use anabolic steroids.
All these points and more have already been covered and answered in as much detail as possible, so there is no need to repeat all the explanations here.
Features of Anabolic Steroid Cycles for Beginners
Anabolic steroid cycles for beginners are a learning curve, just like any practice in this world.
The first cycle and the two or three cycles that follow are performed according to a specific methodology to allow beginners to experience, measure, test, and explore their own body's response to these hormones.
The first cycle should always be considered an exploratory trial run, as each individual's response to hormones at the supraphysiological level is different.
That's not to say that you can't make significant muscle gains or make remarkable progress, but the first few cycles of a novice anabolic steroid user are meant to allow the individual to learn about themselves and learn first-hand about the effects of testosterone.
To ensure that a beginner's first cycle goes as perfectly and smoothly as possible, a few preliminary considerations should also be taken into account:
- Ensure that you have sufficient nutritional and training experience to make meaningful and safe progress on your beginner anabolic steroid stack (discussed in the previous post).
- Ensure that your nutrition and training methods are properly organized and as complete as possible for proper progression
(For example, if you're bulking, your calorie intake should be high enough to support new muscle growth, and your training should also be properly coordinated and complete before joining the stack).
If you don't meet these requirements, you won't make as much progress or gains as you'd like, and often no progress at all
(Beginners often wonder why anabolic "steroids don't work" when in reality the problem is not with the anabolic steroid, but with the individual's improper or inadequate nutritional habits and training methods).
- Make sure you have the proper financial arrangements in place.
Individuals who are not prepared to invest the appropriate amount of money needed to construct a proper cycle will invariably end up with an improper cycle that will result in failure and damage.
If you ignore this important preliminary consideration, you will regret it.
Anabolic steroids are very serious drugs that are not cheap and should be utilized with proper background knowledge.
Individuals who are not serious enough or capable enough to invest the appropriate amount of money are not serious enough to use anabolic steroids.
- Very importan : Before you start, you need to make sure you have all the proper drugs, ancillary drugs/compounds (e.g. SERMS, AIs, etc.), supplements, and all the necessary components for your cycle.
The internet, gyms, and the world is full of people who started using anabolic steroids too quickly before making sure they had all the ingredients.
If you rush to start a cycle without having all the ingredients (including the full amount of anabolic steroids needed for the entire cycle), you are at high risk of experiencing side effects that you cannot afford due to the lack of ingredients.
If gynecomastia is an issue for you, many people have started cycles before they had SERMS or AI, resulting in fully developed gynecomastia (breast tissue).
These are all basic preliminary considerations that are especially important for beginners to anabolic steroid use, but also apply to all three tiers of users (beginner, intermediate, and advanced).
The Best and Worst Anabolic Steroid Choices for Beginners
It is important for every beginner to understand what are the right and not so right choices for a cycle, and which ones are just acceptable (not outstanding choices, but not terrible ones either).
It has already been established that the first cycle consisting only of testosterone is the best and safest choice for a beginner.
The reasons for this choice have already been made very clear.
Taking this into account, the choice of the most appropriate compound will be discussed here.
One important detail that every beginner should be clear about is the fact that not only should oral anabolic steroids not be used in a cycle, but under no circumstances should there be a cycle consisting solely of oral anabolic steroids.
The decision to run a cycle consisting of only one anabolic steroid, without any injectable compounds, is usually the first decision made by beginners or individuals looking to start using anabolic steroids.
This is usually due to a fear of needles, which is something that must be overcome, and once overcome, it becomes much easier from there on out.
Oral anabolic steroids are not designed to be used alone (by themselves), instead they act as ancillary compounds to a solid base cycle that should always include injectable compounds, of which the essential injectable compound is testosterone (for every cycle).
The injectable compound is the primary compound for every cycle, while all oral compounds are secondary or 'kickstart' compounds (more on this later).
So while there are a variety of injectable compounds that need to be injected very frequently, there are also beginner-friendly compounds that don't need to be injected as often.
For example, testosterone enanthate or testosterone cypionate is known to be a long-ester compound with a very slow release period and a long half-life compared to other fast-acting anabolic steroids such as testosterone propionate.
Long ester compounds like testosterone enanthate are typically used by beginners, and are very suitable for beginners because beginners and first time users are typically shy, intimidated, or squeamish about needles and injections.
Once again, anabolic steroids are very serious drugs, and any individual considering using anabolic steroids must follow proper dosing protocols.
If an individual is not serious enough to perform proper dosing via anabolic steroid injections, then they are not serious enough to use anabolic steroids.
The following list is in order from the most appropriate compounds to the most inappropriate.
The Ideal Beginner Compound for Your First Anabolic Steroid Cycle
- Testosterone Enanthate
- Testosterone cypionate
- Sustanon 250 (blend of 4 esterified testosterone variants)
- Testosterone propionate
An ideal beginner compound for use in subsequent beginner anabolic steroid cycles
- Testosterone Enanthate
- Testosterone cypionate
- Sustanon 250 (a blend of 4 esterified testosterone variants)
- Testosterone propionate
- Equipoise (aka boldenone undecylenate)
- Deca Durabolin (aka Nandrolone Decanoate)
- Injectable Winstrol (aka stanozolol)
Moderately acceptable beginner compounds for use in a subsequent beginner anabolic steroid cycle (ideally to be included later after gaining cycle experience)
- Nandrolone phenylpropionate
- Oral Winstrol (aka stanozolol)
- Dianabol (methandrostenolone, methandienone)
- Anavar (oxandrolone)
- Injectable Primobolan (methenolone enanthate)
- Oral Primobolan (methenolone acetate)
Compounds that cannot be used at all by beginners (only intermediate or advanced users):
- Anadrol (Oxymetholone)
- Masteron (drostanolone)
- Trenbolone
In the case of anabolic steroids such as Testosterone Enanthate, Testosterone Cypionate, Sustanon 250, Nandrolone Decanoate (Deca Durabolin), and Equipoise (Boldenone Undecylenate), these steroids are known to be long ester compounds.
As mentioned earlier, this means that due to their long half-life, they should be injected twice per week with the full dose divided equally into two injections.
For example, for a 500mg per week testosterone enanthate cycle, you would need to inject 250mg on Monday followed by 250mg on Thursday.
This is to keep the peak plasma levels of the hormone stable and constant.
While some individuals may benefit from once weekly injections, twice weekly injections are ideal to maintain stable and consistent peak plasma levels.
Failure to do so will increase the incidence and intensity of side effects due to unstable peaks and troughs in plasma levels.
For more information on the half-life of individual specific anabolic steroids and specific dosing instructions, please refer to each individual anabolic steroid profile.
Beginner cycle examples
The following cycle examples are listed in chronological order.
In other words, the following cycle examples are examples of cycles that a beginner would slowly gain experience with as they progress from their first cycle, to the subsequent cycle after that, to the third cycle after that, and so on.
As the beginner gains cycle experience, they will slowly add other compounds to 'test the waters', but it should be clear that the beginner's first two or three cycles should consist of testosterone only.
Example beginner cycle (12 weeks total cycle time)
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1-12week |
-Testosterone Enanthate 300 - 500mg /week |
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Beginner cycle example #1 (total cycle duration 14 weeks)
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1-14week |
-Testosterone Enanthate 300 - 500mg /week -Balance with 400mg per week |
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Beginner cycle example #2 (total cycle time 12 weeks)
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1-12week |
-Testosterone Enanthate 300 - 500mg/week -Nandrolone Decanoate 400mg/week |
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초보자 사이클 예시 #3 (총 사이클 시간 12주)
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1-12week |
- Testosterone Enanthate 300 - 500mg/week 400mg/week |
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1-4week |
- Dbol 25 mg/day
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Oral Anabolic Steroids for 'Kickstarting'
'Kickstarting' is a method that should be used by beginners when they have gained enough cycle experience to stack oral anabolic steroids with other compounds.
This is a technique in which the user includes oral anabolic steroids in their cycle for the first few weeks (usually in conjunction with injectable anabolic steroids that are taken over a longer period of time due to the long kick-in period).
The kick-in period for most injectables (especially long esters) is several weeks into a cycle, so you typically won't experience any positive effects until then.
Using oral anabolic steroids for the first few weeks will allow you to experience the positive anabolic effects of oral while the effects of injectable compounds slowly increase.
By the time you discontinue the oral compound (or near the end of its use), the anabolic effects of the injectable compound will be in full force and the transition will be almost seamless.
Dianabol is one anabolic steroid that is commonly utilized as a kickstart compound for this effect due to its significant anabolic strength.
