Half Life - dumb question

[srsrob8]

I noticed the half life on almost all anabolics is < 24 hours, but most people don't report gains on most things until after 1 week. How is this possible? If it is out of my system for all practical purposes after 48 hours, then either it did something already, or it does nothing at all. I know there might be exceptions (things that work almost immediately, things with longer half lifes), but most prohormones/OTC oral steroids fit this pattern.

 

[Ziricote]

Yeah but there's such a thing as load and saturation over a duration. It's like eating 10,000kcal for one day and then going back to your normal diet; you won't notice a great difference in your overall weight or composition. But eat 10,000kcal over a week, two weeks, three weeks, four weeks... it builds up and it's effects become more obvious.