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You cannot gain 20 pounds of muscle on a safe oral cycle

UnrealMachine

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The title says it all. There are physiological limits on the rate at which muscle mass can accrue and gaining 20+ pounds of real muscle (and no muscle memory) in the duration of an oral cycle (~6 weeks) isn't going to happen.

Needless to say, I call bull**** on Primordial Performance's big fat advertisement thread for Tren Liquid Vade that's just a few threads away. No one is going to gain 20 pounds of muscle in 6 weeks, but the thought sure makes you want to reach for your credit cards huh? Eric, i have no problem with you, but you know that title is bull****, and now people are PMing me asking about stacking Tren and Superdrol so that they can gain 30 pounds... Hopefully this is not the prevailing mentality here as I find it completely unacceptable and a definite precursor to less safe-oral cycling if people really believe they can gain that much.

The only way gaining that much LBM is possible is through muscle memory, or if you are relatively new to training weights (and therefore shouldn't be juicing it up in the first place).

It is easy to gain large amounts of weight on cycle, most of the oral steroids here will fill you up with large amounts of temporary weight in the form of water and glycogen. If you keep stuffing your face during PCT, a lot of the weight can stick around, but in the long run it's irrelevant because it's just weight and only a fraction of it is muscle. When you go and do the cut that your bulk now necessitates, you'll find that out.


This should all be fairly obvious. If you could gain 20+ pounds of LBM on a cycle then you'd have to gain ridiculous amounts of strength... Think about how much your benchpress and squats increase per LEAN 20 pounds you add, it's a ton. And finally it's obvious because anyone gaining that much muscle on an oral cycle would be an IFBB pro in less than a year and that's obviously not happening.

Gaining that much muscle is a fun fantasy, it's a good goal, but it's also unrealistic and if you try to gain more muscle than you can gain, you'll probably end up with a lot of fat (been there done that).
 
thank you for posting this maybe people will actually read this and take it into consideration when they make outlandish claims about there gains, i saw on another forum some guy gaining like 15lbs off of 1 cap pmag and 1 cap of bold :hmmm:
 
With that thread title Primordial Performance was really asking for this ownage if you ask me.

But, what took you so long to post this?
 
good post man,

"Anthony Pitruzzello, PhD, came up with a potential achievable range of approximately 1.5 to 5 pounds of additional lean muscle per month, after researching scientific studies."

Carruthers, Pitruzzello, Joleti, Baye, Davis, Garrison. Rate of Hypertrophy. Supertraining on Yahoo, April 2008.


now if ur the special genetic breed of people who can maximize at 5 lbs natural .... does AAS really quadruple your growth rate??? studies?
 
honestly 20lbs of muscle in 6 weeks is impossible on just about any sane levels of any sort of gear. I can think of a couple ways you could manage it probably, but it would be risky.
 
Nice post. I have seen this mentality more and more lately. People are judging the "sucess" of their cycle based soley on how much weight they gain. And when it's been a few days and they have only gained 1lb, they call bunk.

It's getting pathetic really. WEIGHT... is just that...WEIGHT. IMHO, the 3 week SD cycles are just straight dumb.
 
Its really not that radical. I did this naturally when I moved from boxing back to weight lifting. From a golden gloves fight at 129 to a weight of 155 within 30 days. Ive seen several people put on that kind of weight as well. Most of them are not as trained as they should have been pre cycle however.
 
Its really not that radical. I did this naturally when I moved from boxing back to weight lifting. From a golden gloves fight at 129 to a weight of 155 within 30 days. Ive seen several people put on that kind of weight as well. Most of them are not as trained as they should have been pre cycle however.

I can gain 15 Lbs in one month no problem and never go to the gym. It's called beerdrol. It's frikin saweet.

haha alright harry..

but he's talkin about lean muscle... not just weight.. i've put over 20 lbs on in 4 weeks after wrestling ended.. don't mean its muscle.
 
TexasTitan obviously starting out underweight is another matter, i could starve myself to 130 pounds and from that point with a combination of being underweight and muscle memory I'm sure I could get back to 200 in no time. But we're talking about bodybuilders cycling here.

And about Primordial Performance, it doesn't matter what they have to say, i think most people here recognize advertising when they say it, and Primordial Performance has some great products that are going to sell regardless of my opinion of their one thread title.
I just wanted to address that and a few other posts and stuff I've seen recently.
 
The company has such a good reputation but you make a very valid point Unreal. Bs marketing is everywhere, you would think that Eric would evaluate his marketing ploys as it also has an effect on how consumers view the company and it's other products.
 
PP might not even post in here....but if they do that would be great..I love this thread and nothing has happened yet..lol..!
 
im up 17 pounds on a mdrol / xtren cycle.. im only on day 11. im sure im gonna lose alot of it once im done with the full 6 weeks, but dam it feels good...
 
im up 17 pounds on a mdrol / xtren cycle.. im only on day 11. im sure im gonna lose alot of it once im done with the full 6 weeks, but dam it feels good...

... damn haha. well if by the end of the 6 weeks u can have 17 LBS of MUSCLE! then that'll be a hell of a cyle.
 
what do you mean you cant gain 20lbs in six weeks? man, I put on 20lbs of lbm every cycle with 1t liqua vade, pre max and phyto test stacked. toco 8 and sustain alpha for pct helps solidify the gains. :p

funny topic though.
 
anybody ever been locked up? i used to see crackheads go in there weighing about 100 lbs and leave 2 months later swole than a bitch!! come right back next month skinny as **** again!!
 
hell yea, i think crack is the key! im fixin to throw my CEL products out the window.. & get on that chedda
 
Thanks for calling it like it is, Unreal! It's really sad to me that supplement companies do this, but I think I understand the trend behind it. Unfortunately, the masses are stupid. So in order to sell products (that may very well be effective and of high quality), deception is used in order to compete with the other supplement companies who are using deception. Case in point: Protein jugs. I'm sorry, but nothing settles to HALF of its original volume during shipping. I noticed recently that ON, who I think makes pretty good products, made all their jugs larger than they used to be. Was this necessary? Absolutely not! But most people are too stupid to read a label, so if two jugs are the same price, they grab the one that looks bigger. It's a sad state of affairs...
 
anybody ever been locked up? i used to see crackheads go in there weighing about 100 lbs and leave 2 months later swole than a bitch!! come right back next month skinny as **** again!!

personally im lucky enough to only have a few over night trips there... but ive had alot of friends get locked up in the east coast jails/prisons.. where they say a tab of dbol is cheaper then cigs and weed in jail.. but when u have nothing else to do but lift and sit in a cell all day youd blow up too... one of my buddies worked in the kitchen.. and got all the free food he wanted.. it was the stuff they served the guards too so u know it had to at least be decent.. he gained like thirty pounds in 6 months with no roids.
 
exactly! ive seen it happen.. those guys come out solid. lol, cigs were expensive, good thing thats not my cup of tea. i was the tattoo artist
 
Eh, I doubt those guys care about this thread as it is technically illegal to sell that compound now, right?

The problem with sensationalistic marketing is that the n00bs are the most susceptible to it. Those guys are also the ones who probably shouldn't be using steroids in the first place. But, the idea of dramatically altering their physique like that might be very tempting.

As you can probably guess by my username I have no problem with them selling the compound, don't get me wrong. But, when it comes to companies that want to establish a good reputation (which I think is even more important in this industry than many others), traits such as responsibility and HONESTY should be extremely important. True, nobody can 100% prove conclusively that it is impossible for anyone to gain 20 pounds of muscle in 6 weeks using their product, they know damn well nobody will get near that. Even if you're new to weight lifting and did everything right I don't think you could pull it off.
 
mostly every supp company does this though.

The one that doesnt, will only gain my true respect.

I still buy from companies that have silly marketing though, cuse a lot of the time the products are good.

I guess im just used to companies over hyping their products.
 
It would take a good amount of juice,GH, and Slin for a trained person to gain that much muscle in a short period of time. I know Primordial is out to make a buck but these types of ads (from several companies) turn people off from supps after enough disappointments.
 
If they are smart they will just stay away. If they defend the claim then they will make it worse. If they backpedal on the claim then they will make it worse. Better to just leave it as is. All the companies make claims like this and the mentality is that if they don't make comparable claims then people will think their product is weak -- and they are probably right. Peoples' expectations are ridiculously high. Anyone with any kind of knowledge knows it is impossible to gain 20 pounds in 6 weeks but 20 pounds of water weight is achievable and a lot of the people buying supplements do not make that differentiation -- they just look at the scale.
 
Its really not that radical. I did this naturally when I moved from boxing back to weight lifting. From a golden gloves fight at 129 to a weight of 155 within 30 days. Ive seen several people put on that kind of weight as well. Most of them are not as trained as they should have been pre cycle however.

When you moved from a weight of 129 to a previous weight of 155, correct?
The go word here is previously 155.

Any person, half related to exercise science, can tell you that you cannot gain 20 lbs of lean body muscle in 4 weeks ...aint happening bro'

Now, I've gone from 225 down to 180 and then shot up to 205 in 7 weeks and had pretty low bf. This was because I had low bf before at 225 not because I actually gained a fresh 20lbs of lbm.
 
I don't think PP was actually serious about 20lbm when he posted that ... I think eric mentions that in one of those threads.
 
good post man,

"Anthony Pitruzzello, PhD, came up with a potential achievable range of approximately 1.5 to 5 pounds of additional lean muscle per month, after researching scientific studies."

Carruthers, Pitruzzello, Joleti, Baye, Davis, Garrison. Rate of Hypertrophy. Supertraining on Yahoo, April 2008.


now if ur the special genetic breed of people who can maximize at 5 lbs natural .... does AAS really quadruple your growth rate??? studies?

AAS is used for many reasons, however, in the bb world, it is used to push one past their genetic potential. This is why many say to only use once you have TRULY reached what you consider "your natural genetic" potential to be.

So yes, well no, you cannot say 4x the potential but it reacts differently in everyone.

You don't need someone to post studies, there are many out there, just search.
 
subbed for Primordial Performance reply. BTW, does this site offer freedom of speech to it's members? Hope so.

To a certain extent however people have been banned by crossing that fine line ... this isn't bbcry.com
 
anybody ever been locked up? i used to see crackheads go in there weighing about 100 lbs and leave 2 months later swole than a bitch!! come right back next month skinny as **** again!!

I've had a fe guys that I know who have gone in the joint around 155 and did 3-4 yrs and came out 205-215 and "stout" looking, more strong man swole than bb stage ready. However, I've never seen someone go to jail (which would have to be the place since prison would call for more than 8 weeks) and come out "swole than a mofo".
 
What gets me is that every time a see a thread (not every time but many) the only interested result is "gains". It is always what weight gain did you have after 4-6 week pct?
Then, oddly, I see the same people 10 months later at their previous weight before cycle.

I've now started seeing more and more people doing many cycles just to keep that "swole" look.
This past yr was the worst on many boards that I visit. Guys are doing 5 sd cycles in one yr, stacked with "name that product".

It is really getting out of hand.
 
What gets me is that every time a see a thread (not every time but many) the only interested result is "gains". It is always what weight gain did you have after 4-6 week pct?
Then, oddly, I see the same people 10 months later at their previous weight before cycle.

I've now started seeing more and more people doing many cycles just to keep that "swole" look.
This past yr was the worst on many boards that I visit. Guys are doing 5 sd cycles in one yr, stacked with "name that product".

It is really getting out of hand.

Also, M-drol is "bunk" if they only gain 10 pounds in two weeks.
 
What is a reasonable muscle wieght gain for a good cycle?

eleventy million.

actual muscle? reasonable is in the 1-2bs a week range. Longer cycles closer to the low end tend to work better, sometimes if you are really aggressive diet + training wise you can hit 2.5lbs in a week, but you tend to do that at the cost of adding fat on top.

All the BS about losses from PCT being loss of muscle because of not restarting your testosterone levels fast enough are just that, BS. most of it is that a high percentage of the gains were water, excess glycogen retention, and fat, all of which start to disappear as the compound is out of your system and your calories start to go down.
 
eleventy million.

actual muscle? reasonable is in the 1-2bs a week range. Longer cycles closer to the low end tend to work better, sometimes if you are really aggressive diet + training wise you can hit 2.5lbs in a week, but you tend to do that at the cost of adding fat on top.

All the BS about losses from PCT being loss of muscle because of not restarting your testosterone levels fast enough are just that, BS. most of it is that a high percentage of the gains were water, excess glycogen retention, and fat, all of which start to disappear as the compound is out of your system and your calories start to go down.

Excellent!

I would think by the 4th cycle in 8 months that one would start to realize this...
 
well I've got a show in may so I'm going to do SD 20/20/20/20 with the TREN and I know
I can get 20lb off of the TREN (they said I will) and I see people getting 25lb off of SD
all the time (my friend did he was 120lb now hes 145!) so I will get 45lb out of this cycle
I can get 2 cycles in before the show so that's 90lb!!! im going to be HUGE!
 
Excellent!

I would think by the 4th cycle in 8 months that one would start to realize this...

Ya, after a few oral cycles I realized that most of the time it inst worth it; lean mass gains are minimal and glycogen and water storage is high, while your on... Real AAS is where its at...
 
well I've got a show in may so I'm going to do SD 20/20/20/20 with the TREN and I know
I can get 20lb off of the TREN (they said I will) and I see people getting 25lb off of SD
all the time (my friend did he was 120lb now hes 145!) so I will get 45lb out of this cycle
I can get 2 cycles in before the show so that's 90lb!!! im going to be HUGE!

Yeah, I have this guy at work, 20yrs old, great body (no homo) lol but, he wants to take ph's and put on 40lbs of lean muscle before his show in July. I say that is 6 months away and you want to do what?
Also he wants to come in at sub 6 percent bf...
I've talked to him DAILY until I am blue in the face.
He still comes up everyday saying he found this or that on the net and do I think it will give him the 40lbs of pure lean he's after.

Ahhhhh, I say to do that you must cut down to the weight. so you may have to gain 70lbs in order to keep 30 lean. I don't thin he understands me...im kind of tired of talking to him. I got no idea what else to tell him. Today, when I see him, I am just going tosay "dude, it won't f'in happen". Shoot for a smaller class.
 
Unreal, thanks for this post, it should be stickied as I'm amazed again and again what expectations people have when (ab)using AAS. Most of 'em shouldn't take roids, anyhow as they have ****ty physiques even after the cycles. You are one of the few exceptions.
 
Unreal, thanks for this post, it should be stickied as I'm amazed again and again what expectations people have when (ab)using AAS. Most of 'em shouldn't take roids, anyhow as they have ****ty physiques even after the cycles. You are one of the few exceptions.

x2! Nice post Unreal.
 
Needless to say, I call bull**** on Primordial Performance's big fat advertisement thread for Tren Liquid Vade that's just a few threads away. No one is going to gain 20 pounds of muscle in 6 weeks, but the thought sure makes you want to reach for your credit cards huh? Eric, i have no problem with you, but you know that title is bull****, and now people are PMing me asking about stacking Tren and Superdrol so that they can gain 30 pounds...

Ok let me take a break from the Muscle Feeder research for a minute and try to understand your complaint...

Are you upset with our 20lb claim? Or are you upset that people think they can gain 30lbs of muscle if they combine pro-steroid A and B?

If someone thinks they can gain 300lbs of muscle if they take all the advertising claims of a dozen pro-steroids and add them together, would that still be my fault?

Hopefully this is not the prevailing mentality here as I find it completely unacceptable and a definite precursor to less safe-oral cycling if people really believe they can gain that much.

The only way gaining that much LBM is possible is through muscle memory, or if you are relatively new to training weights (and therefore shouldn't be juicing it up in the first place).

It is easy to gain large amounts of weight on cycle, most of the oral steroids here will fill you up with large amounts of temporary weight in the form of water and glycogen. If you keep stuffing your face during PCT, a lot of the weight can stick around, but in the long run it's irrelevant because it's just weight and only a fraction of it is muscle. When you go and do the cut that your bulk now necessitates, you'll find that out.


This should all be fairly obvious. If you could gain 20+ pounds of LBM on a cycle then you'd have to gain ridiculous amounts of strength... Think about how much your benchpress and squats increase per LEAN 20 pounds you add, it's a ton. And finally it's obvious because anyone gaining that much muscle on an oral cycle would be an IFBB pro in less than a year and that's obviously not happening.

Gaining that much muscle is a fun fantasy, it's a good goal, but it's also unrealistic and if you try to gain more muscle than you can gain, you'll probably end up with a lot of fat (been there done that).

[Somebody please hurry up and gain 20lbs in 6 weeks with TREN LV so this guy can sleep at night.]
 
Ok, back to research...

You guys know the Muscle Feeder is never going to be released if I keep spending my time in these mud fights right? sheesh...
 
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