I also wanted to come back and add this.. After my post I finished reading the rest of the comments here..
From what I gather most of you have just read about gear and have never really messed with injectables per say..
If you want to run short cycles stick with your orals.. Im not going to type a page of reasons as to why this and that, but this forum is not really a forum of hardcore steroid using bodybuilders.. Its more of a supplement forum.. Just being honest.. I have been a member here for many years, but rarely post..
There are plenty of hardcore bodybuilding forums that if you are looking to use gear will be filled with more knowledge than you can absorb..
An injectable lets just use test e here for example, you are not going to see anything usually till around week 4.. It takes a while for an injectable before you see any progress at all..
12 weeks should be your minimum cycle time when using these compounds.. Your body needs time to adjust to your new found muscle/weight etc.. If you think you will run an 8 weeker and make all these gains etc, and contiune to cycle in that fashion and do well you are sorely mistaken..
Also you should run only test your very first time out.. You need to know what drug is affecting you and how,, The need for an anti estrogen or an aromatose inhibitor is not a necessity either.. You first need to know how your body repsonds to the drug you are injecting..
Thinking that you have to take those drugs in conjunction with your test is not at all accurate.. 6 guys can cycle and maybe only 2 of them would need some estrogen control, but you dont know this until you first cycle. running an anti e or AI will also affect your gains.. and if you use too much AI your joints will suffer.. worth mentioning there is not a set number either.. .25 may be what I need per day and it may be what you need eod..
As you increase dose, you increase sides, however i have found over the years that many of my fellow bodybuilding juicers never had any need for nolva or armidex etc.. I myself do need something as the dose climbs.. this truly is an individual thing
As with any cycle be it pro steroids designers whatever, you need your pct in order before you ever start.. YOu dont make the mistake of starting a cycle and then you need an anti estrogen and now you cant find it... NO NO, its fine to have it on hand, but wait to take it.. No need in taking drugs we dont need
Then you have to look at this whole game like this.. If you are scared be it legal or fear that your test, LH and FSH wont return even with pct then stay the hell away from all of this ****.. I mean really, either man up and deal with the consequences if they happen to come along or leave it to those who are aware and willing to deal with what follows...
I have personally seen friends of mine get themselves in bad shape with chems everyone used to use that were "legal" like 4AD stacked with M1t's.. I am well aware they have been banned, but it still does not matter..
Most of the compounds you see people here using are slipping thru the legal loophole system.. they are steroids, they dont have to be converted by the liver to an active hormone, they are 17 alpha's and yet people are under the impression that they are safer than injectables.. Its funny really
I see all of thes elaborate stacks of so many different compounds.. I honestly dont get it.. Im not knocking anyone so dont get your pantys in a wad, Im just saying i have been here a long time and more or less lurk and read..
Think to yourself about the threads here everyday, this sponsored log, this one unsponsered, stacking this and that compound after compound when a simple SAFE shot of test e bi weekly would yield better results and i am positvie a hell of allot less stress on the liver and kidneys...
I have ran regular cycles of what was once considered the norm of steroids like test, deca, tren,prop, primo, halo,dbol etc etc etc as well as the designers as they have came out.. These are chemicals, not supplements and I wish people truly understood that.. I have my blood work checked every six months..and the worst blood work I ever had was after a designer cycle that i had been off of for 3 months prior to my blood test..
Be smart guys..Its not any different than our training in the gym.. More is not always better.. and simplicity usually yields better results than something elaborate..
Happy injecting