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“Designer steroids”

Submitted by RonnyT on Tue, 2014-03-11 00:00

Designer steroids are anabolic steroids or other steroid-like performance-enhancing drugs designed to be undetectable in drug testing. Although anabolic steroids are banned in most athletic organizations and contests worldwide, some athletes have nevertheless sought ways around the bans. Anabolic steroids mimic the effect of male sex hormones on the body, and whether someone is using them can usually be determined by blood or urine tests. Athletes looking for the performance-enhancing benefits of steroids, without being caught by testing, have created a demand for undetectable steroids. This has led some chemists or scientists to research and produce synthetic designer steroids for sale.

 

Training, long-term and short-term anabolic steroid use ---effect on muscle fibers

Submitted by RonnyT on Mon, 2014-03-03 14:43

Recently I posted about a well-known fact, we now call “muscle memory”. Underneath this article you can find the links to these blog posts.

A high-level power-lifter from Sweden that happens to be a scientific researcher was fascinated by this process and wanted to know what long-term (10 years and longer) short-term (cycle of 20 weeks) did to muscles compared to natural power-lifters.

He compared his research with other similar studies. He also wanted to know what the difference could be of training with or without anabolic steroids long term or short term to an isometric contraction such as the dead-lift compared to a maximal explosive exercise such as the squat.

First an overview of the muscle fibers involved.

There are three primary muscle fiber types in humans -- Type I, Type IIA, and Type IIB. Type I are referred to as "slow twitch oxidative", Type IIA are "fast twitch oxidative" and Type IIB are "fast twitch glycolytic" As their names suggest, each type has very different functional characteristics. Type one fibers are characterized by low force/power/speed production and high endurance, Type IIB by high force/power/speed production and low endurance, while Type IIA fall in between. These characteristics are a result, primarily, of the fiber's Myosin Heavy Chain (MHC) composition, with Mysosin heavy chain isoforms I, IIa and IIx corresponding with muscle fiber types I, IIA, and IIB.

 

More on labscale experiments

Submitted by RonnyT on Wed, 2014-02-19 16:18

I made quite a few blogposts on homebrewing. After posting on the fora, I was asked to post som new things on this subject.

micronize raw material


I will use testosterone as an example here , but any raw material can be micronized in theory.All you need to work out is what the raw hormone is freely soluble in.
1. 10 grams of testosterone powder is dissolved into either ethanol or methanol
2. allow to stand for 20 minutes
3. use a 0.22um syringe filter to remove any contaminants from the raw material
4. transfer the sterile testosterone / alcohol solution to a clean media bottle ( volume 500mls )
5. add to the 100mls of testosterone / alcohol solution 400mls of luke warm ( approximately 40c) distilled water
6.the testosterone will immediately precipitate out of the ethanol solution
7.use a coffee filter to separate the raw material from the solution
8. dry the raw material under a lamp for a period of 1 - 2 hours
9. can repeat steps 1 - 8 to obtain a 99% purity of your raw material sample

Bulking and pre-contest drugs and diet of South African bodybuilders during contest season 2010.

Submitted by RonnyT on Mon, 2014-02-17 14:26

We read a lot on the discussion boards and magazines about the use of drugs, the trainings and diet protocols of the bodybuilders. The bodybuilders in this research are no professionals. They are competing in the senior men’s division of International Federation of Body Building South Africa (IFBBSA).  All the athletes registered with the (IFBBSA) were invited to participate in the study. More than 200 invitations were sent out to the existing database – only 19 athletes conveyed their interest in participation. Eventually, only 14 athletes partook in the full protocol. They competed on Provincial and National contests in different weight categories. What makes it really interesting is the fact that the researchers captured all information in schemes. Of course most readers are particular interested in the drug protocols, we call cycles. You’ll find some at the end of this blog-post. It also shows the huge difference in doses. The study also shows the influence of diet –heavy training and diet on blood-pressure, kidneys,  liver and other organs.

In short the effects and side/effects of AAS and ancillaries on the body composition, blood values and the organs of the athletes

Are ab muscles the same as core muscles?

Submitted by RonnyT on Sun, 2014-01-12 14:15

Abs and Core

The core has become a fitness buzzword. People seem to think core training is synonymous with abdominal training, which explains why various websites, blogs, trainers and television home shopping commercials, use that phrase to attract misinformed readers desperate for a six-pack. In truth, the core is much more than a six-pack, and it needs to be treated as such.

It's time to destroy misconceptions about core training and restore its true meaning. Endless sets of sit-ups and leg raises will only take your core so far. Eventually, your core will need to support heavy weight under serious stress when you squat, deadlift, or press. Kick the crunches aside and learn heavy lessons that build insane core strength!

Just because a strong healthy body with a six-pack, a tiny waist and a strong core is important for so many people, the fitness enthusiasts, the bodybuilders, the fighters (MMA, wrestlers, boxers, kick-boxers) but also the general population, especially the young generation that wants to look good with their shirt off and on the beach. There are so much different approaches to reach this goal.  Kettle bells, Medicine balls, jump ropes, slam balls  and suspension kits are only a few of the  instruments  used  to train the  core muscles.  And many gadgets to train the abs more about that later in this article.

Steroids probably result in a lasting benefit for its users

Submitted by RonnyT on Mon, 2013-12-23 18:51

Recently another new scientific study resulted in a lot of new articles on the world wide web. I wrote about muscle memory before (Muscle memory fact or fiction //www.napsgear.net/jm_blog_news.php?id=34 ). The way we look is due to a many different reasons. First of all being our genetic body type.

If you read the diverse articles (including mine //juicedmuscle.com/jmblog/content/whats-your-body-type ) about it you know that some body types can more easily gain muscle than others. Still everyone can become a bodybuilder.

 Microscopy images showing cross sections of muscle fibers with (right) and whiteout (lest) anabolic steroids. 

You are born as a certain body type, mostly not as one of the main three but mostly a combination of all the body types. It is very important for the fact how you will look later in life, how young you started to train. Or how much fat mass you gained when you were young. And how much physical work you did when you were young. The human body adapts to the environmental situation. It is obvious that someone who grew up at a farm and helped working hard and heavy develops an other body then a simular type of person that grew up in the big city never to lift a finger.

Steroids in combat sports

Submitted by RonnyT on Fri, 2013-12-20 14:51

The fact that bodybuilders use anabolic steroids to increase the muscle mass is well known and covered by the media.  In professional kickboxing and mixed martial arts (MMA) anabolic steroids are used to get more (muscle) mass, to increase strength, endurance, pain tolerance and aggressiveness. Last year some Dutch fighters were caught with steroids and they faced the same problems with PCT as other users do. Except these cases where closely followed by the media and the fans.


 
 Some history. In the Netherlands, the gyms had hours where people learned Judo and a bit later Karate, it turned out to be a success and gyms added a dojo, where the students had the change to train all day. Later followed by other fight sports like Savate, Kyokushinkai (full contact karate), Kickboxing, and Muay Thai, at least this is how it happened in our gym.

Some guys combined days in the dojo with power training and/or bodybuilding. Some of them wanted to add extra weight and power and started to use anabolic steroids. These guys became heavier than the standard Muay Thai fighters, originating from Thailand and fought by small lean guys that fought hard and quick. The new generation of Dutch fighters changed the training and fighting skills. Soon the Dutchies ruled in Muay Thai and specialized in knock-downs and knock-outs.

Are women attracted to bodybuilders

Submitted by RonnyT on Sun, 2013-12-15 21:24

We as members of a bodybuilding discussionboard are mostly health conscious we pay attention to our body, we train, maintain  and nourish our body. And we mostly have a bigger acceptance of muscle on the human body, both male and female, then the average population. Still the last few decades the average public accepts the muscular people more than in the days of Arnold. Bodybuilding and especially Fitness went from an obscure subculture to broadly accepted , as I wrote in previous posts on body-image cq muscle dismorphia, movies, moeviestars, music-stars esp. the HipHop  accepted bodybuilding an juicing as part of their life-style.

On almost every website devoted on physical training you can find a section on female physical beauty and lots of male members like to watch and comment T&A (tits and ass). Controversial are the pictures of female bodybuilders. For those females the question how much is too much is even more relevant than for a male bodybuilder. Also because their genitals get bigger and become more pronounced through the use of androgens. Some men like it most of them don’t.

But what do women and girls think of us? How much muscle do they like? As I wrote previously, we have a bigger muscle acceptance and are “used” to muscular people in the gym. Most of us like to work-out and grow bigger not only the get respect from our friends and others but also because we want our body to be attractive to the girls. From experience I know that a bodybuilding physique leads to ooh’s and eewk’s.

The distended bellies

Submitted by RonnyT on Sun, 2013-12-08 15:18

We all recognize that bodybuilding changed during the nineties. Old school bodybuilders where judged by a balanced, symmetrical and aesthetic physique with great definition . Of course other minor points like tanning and an athletic best stage presence are judged to. During the nineties pro-bodybuilders slowly became mass-monsters and the fans they loved it. To reach these goals pro-bodybuilders were forced to consume large amounts of food and large amounts of drugs and peptides.

Old school bodybuilders wanted to achieve a dramatic v-shape. They wanted a very small waist combined with broad shoulders. To achieve that they trained their core muscles and they also practiced a called “the stomach vacuum exercise”.

Who killed women’s bodybuilding ?

Submitted by RonnyT on Sat, 2013-11-23 16:43

This article  is mostly about masculinization. Some people think that a women that takes a certain dose of the male sex hormone testosterone slowly turns into a male.  Some even like the muscle. Hell its bodybuilding. But other feel that they are too deprived, they lost their feminine looks. On this pic you can see that the woman has lost some of her hair and that her hairline suffers from male pattern hair loss (androgenetic alopecia)

Its obvious that the use, or should we say in this case abuse, of anabolic androgenic steroids with the diuretics and the diet robbed her from breasttissue. Most female bodybuilders in that situation take breastimplants, and the american ones mostly buy BIIIG ones!!

It sometimes looks like a male wearing artificial tits, a wig and bikini. This is an opinion, my opinion. I'm very interested in your opinion. I merged a few articles from the net and changed it as you know I often do. I will post some pictures of contest-ready female bodybuilders that look great. Again my personal preference.