The flexibility of a Dianabol cycle tends to be quite limited in its scope of application because it is an aromatizing oral anabolic steroid.
It has already been stated many times that the main applications of Dianabol are in the areas of bulking up, strength gains and mass gain.
This is generally favored among users whose goal is to gain a fairly significant amount of size and strength and who do not have concerns about water retention and bloating.
Dianabol moderates the aromatase enzyme, which moderately suppresses estrogenic activity, which is the main cause of water retention issues.
Limitations to this cycle include the hepatotoxic nature of oral anabolic steroids, and users are advised not to run this compound for more than 6 weeks at any given time in a cycle.
For this reason, the cycle examples presented here focus primarily on bulking, strength, and mass addition, which generally remain unchanged with respect to the three levels of users (beginner, intermediate, and advanced).
While we have discussed the limitations of bulking compounds, it is important to remember that virtually any anabolic steroid can be utilized as a fat reducing or cutting agent in a cycle.
However, using anabolic steroids like Dbol for such purposes is not ideal, especially as there are many other anabolic steroids that are better suited for such a role.
Aside from its general limitations, it is actually a compound that tends to stack very well with many other compounds, and stacks exceptionally well with some compounds.
These exceptional compounds are compounds of similar nature where the user's goals favor strength gains, muscle mass gains, and bulking.
There are even compounds that are not considered exceptional mass building compounds but stack extremely well with Dianabol.
Because Dianabol favors strength and size as its primary use, it tends to have a complementary nature with other compounds that also favor strength and size as their primary use.
In light of the aforementioned limitations of Dianabol, this seems to be a positive aspect of Dianabol.
Typically, Dianabol is often stacked with testosterone (such as testosterone enanthate or testosterone propionate), an anabolic steroid with similar properties and characteristics to testosterone.
Nandrolone Decanoate (aka Deca Durabolin) is the second most commonly stacked anabolic steroid due to its complementary properties.
Nandrolone is most commonly used in conjunction with testosterone, and can be seen in the most popular and very common testosterone/nandrolone/dianabol stack.
This stack is well known as one of the oldest stacks, pioneered by bodybuilders in the golden age of the 1970s, and has been one of the most commonly used stacks ever since.
Beginner Dianabol Cycle
Example Beginner Dianabol Cycle (12 weeks total cycle time)
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1-12week |
- Testosterone Enanthate
300-500mg/week |
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1-6week |
- Dianabol 25mg/day |
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This beginner cycle is more of an introductory cycle, presenting only the basics needed to understand and use the compound.
Testosterone Enanthate is commonly used by many beginners, and as such is the compound of choice for many who are new to steroids in general.
Testosterone enanthate is run at a dosage of 300-500mg weekly, and the specific dosage to run within this range is up to the user.
The reason for this decision is that all beginners should utilize a testosterone-only cycle at least up to this point, and as such, the user should understand what levels, doses, and responsiveness their body has to testosterone doses.
Testosterone itself tends to have a positive anabolic effect early in a cycle, typically within the first few weeks (hence the "kickstart" described earlier).
Testosterone enanthate, on the other hand, has a role to play in the first few weeks of a cycle, slowly building up its effects as the cycle progresses.
Near the end of the cycle (4-6 weeks), the full effects of Testosterone Enanthate will be noticeable and fully experienced by the user.
At this point, the compound is essentially unnecessary and may be discontinued in week 6 due to hepatotoxicity (due to the C17-alpha alkylation of the compound).
Intermediate Dianabol Cycle
Intermediate Dianabol Cycle Example (12 weeks total cycle time)
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1-12week |
- Testosterone Enanthate 100mg/week - Deca-Durabolin 400mg/week |
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1-6week |
- Dbol 25-50mg/day | |
An example of this intermediate cycle would include Nandrolone, and as mentioned earlier, Nandrolone is one of the other compounds that works very well with this powerful oral steroid.
Testosterone itself has been reduced to a TRT range dose simply to maintain normal physiological levels of the hormone, and as such, testosterone is utilized as an ancillary compound in this cycle rather than the primary anabolic.
(Dbol) Dianabol itself has been increased to the upper range of 50mg daily, and the idea here is that Dbol (along with Nandrolone) is utilized as the primary anabolic compound.
However, it is important to understand that for most users, anabolic is a very powerful compound to begin with, and the addition of nandrolone only enhances the strength of the overall stack, making it unnecessary to increase the dosage.
That's why the typical dosage of D-bol is 25-50mg daily, and it's up to the discretion of the user to determine if their body requires an increase in dosage or if they can get enough gains from a lower dosage in this range.
Advanced Dianabol Cycles
Advanced Dianabol Cycle Example (8 weeks total cycle time)
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1-8week |
- Testosterone Propionate 25mg every other day (100mg/week) - Trenbolone Acetate 100mg every other day (400mg/week) |
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1-6week |
- Dbol 50mg/day |
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This example Dianabol cycle contains some advanced compounds in the stack and therefore falls into the advanced phase.
Trenbolone itself is considered an intermediate advanced compound, and the nature of the short ester compounds used in this cycle (Testosterone Propionate and Trenbolone Acetate) also qualifies them as intermediate advanced tier compounds.
The use of shorter esters results in a shorter total cycle length, allowing the user to experience the 'kick-in' of the compound much sooner in the cycle.
Because of this, it should be clear that the purpose of Dianabol in this particular anabolic cycle is not only to be used as a kickstart compound, but is now an integral part of the cycle alongside Trenbolone.
This combination should provide dramatic strength and size gains if the user's diet is properly adjusted.
Finally, as we can see, testosterone has once again been relegated to a supporting role, maintaining normal physiological levels of testosterone while the other two compounds act as the main compounds.
