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Growth Hormone part 4

Submitted by RonnyT on Sun, 2013-12-29 16:48

I wrote a lot about the Chinese Growth Hormone which is very popular among bodybuilders, athletes, anti-aging adepts etc.

Underneath this article you can find the links to the articles where I explain, how the different Chinese companies are to be recognized. Jintropin was extremely popular some time ago and the boxes on the left where being sold in mass. When a product brings such high sales and profits, there are always people that counterfeit this product or try to sell fakes. The box on the left is a counterfeit (marked with an F), the box on the right is a real Jintropin box..  A counterfeit is a product that looks like the real product and also contains the same active ingredient. In this case somatropin or rhGrowth Hormone. A fake is mostly a product that looks like the original product but has no active ingredient or another active ingredient. The counterfeited products are mostly under dosed as you will notice 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.

Death of a bodybuilder

Submitted by RonnyT on Sat, 2013-11-16 15:07

An article about about Andreas Münzer, after all these years? Why would I do that? Maybe because after Nasser died I've read so many articles about Andi (Andreas) and how he was abused even after his death. I looked into Andi's causes of death and read more autopsy reports and comparisons and decided to merge all this information.  I will also post images and information of Andi's organs maybe to warn us al. Bodybuilding on a toplevel is very unhealthy, as many other sports on toplevel, but since this is a bodybuilding blog...

Nasser el Sonbatty: "The German media speculated that "Nasser El Sonbaty" would be the next dead German bodybuilder. I was nicknamed "the walking pharmacy" - pure irresponsible speculation."

how long does it take for testosterone to work

Submitted by RonnyT on Thu, 2013-11-07 16:33

     Objectives: Testosterone has a spectrum of effects on the male organism. This review attempts to determine, from published studies, the time-course of the effects induced by testosterone replacement therapy from their first manifestation until maximum effects are attained. 

Design: Literature data of testosterone replacement

Results: Effects on sexual interest appear after 3 weeks plateauing at 6 weeks, with no further increments expected beyond. Changes in erections/ejaculations may require up to 6 months. Effects on quality of life manifest within 3-4 weeks, but maximum benefits take longer. Effects on depressive mood become detectable after 3-6 weeks with a maximum after 18-30 weeks. Effects on erythropoiesis are evident at 3 months, peaking at 9-12 months. Prostate specific antigen and volume rise, marginally, plateauing at 12 months; further increase should be related to aging rather than therapy. Effects on lipids appear after 4 weeks, maximal after 6-12 months. Insulin sensitivity may improve within few days, but effects on glycemic control become evident only after 3-12 months. Changes in fat mass, lean body mass and muscle strength occur within 12-16 weeks, stabilize at 6-12 months, but can marginally continue over years. Effects on inflammation occur within 3 to 12 weeks. Effects on bone are detectable already after 6 months while continuing at least for 3 years.

Conclusion: the time-course of the spectrum of effects of testosterone shows considerable variation, probably related to pharmacodynamics of the testosterone preparation. Genomic and non-genomic effects, androgen receptor polymorphism and intracellular steroid metabolism further contribute to such diversity.

Betaine aka TMG

Submitted by RonnyT on Tue, 2013-10-29 11:46

Another new supplement hyped by the supplement industry. Everybody that saw the documentary “Bigger - Stronger – Faster” knows that this industry sells dreams. But most guys fall for the nice adds, the science backed “evidence” and the pictures of athletes pumped up by anabolic steroids (…and a lot of other “illegal means” ) that REALLY work wonders on your appearance, telling you this supplement is responsible for their gains.

Does this mean ALL supplements and ergogenic means are worthless? Nope ..we all know by now that Creatine has a (modest) effect. And many athletes use it also while on a juice stack. You also know that most of us use silymarin (Milk thistle) to protect our liver. We use whey proteins, because they are much more comfortable to use then chickenbreasts. It’s just that you should put it in perspective and realize that all those supplement companies want to sell you their products. Most magazines just exist because supplement-companies pay a lot of money for advertisements. In the gym the gym-owner sells you these supplements or a whey shake after you are finished training. And we, writers of articles on bodybuilding, often work for supplement companies, that also run magazines, websites and web-shops. Naps doesn’t. So my unbiased opinion.

lisences - registrations - contractmanufacturing

Submitted by RonnyT on Sat, 2013-10-19 10:39

Licenses and contracting.

Years ago when the counterfeit and fake steroids started to ruin the industry. We made the buyers aware of that fact and we started to teach the members via  the messageboards to check the available information on the product and the boxes and leaflets.

What is a license, lets take Sustanon from Organon in the Netherlands as an example. Sustanon is a brand name for a combination of four different estrifications of testosterone. It was meant as a medicine for men with low endogenous (made by their own body) testosterone . Thus mostly older men. These men had to come to their doctor for frequent injections. Not really convenient for both. Thats why scientist started to prolong the effect from testosterone by adding an estrification. Because HRT (hormone replacement therapy) aimed on a balanced bloodserum value without to much peaks, they made that mix of different esters. It was a big succes througout the world and many countries wanted to use this drug for its male population. The brandname Sustanon, Sostanon and Sustenon where used in different countries. Contracters made this product cheaper locally. Bodybuilders know the mythical names like Karachi Sustanon (made by Abbot laboratories) and NILE Sustanon from Egypt. They made the exact formulation and quality that the original company(called license holder) used as standard and They where also allowed to use the brandname.