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This is where great miscalculations are often made when planning a steroid cycle. While you might think that your one steroid injection is completely out of your system in 14 days, the reality is that the steroid will be active in your body for upwards of 6 weeks! Because of these half-life calculation errors, the build up of anabolics in your system can reach dangerous levels and you'll have taken plenty of steroids that your body cannot even use. The build up of anabolics can be especially troublesome when drugs with long half-lives are administered weekly. The drugs are often active for 2 months after the athlete believes the drugs have been metabolized. That often translates into an athlete being "on cycle" with active anabolics still in your system during the period of time you wrongly believed you were "off cycle."
For example, take a look at this common cycle of Sustanon 250. Novice users commonly cycle 10 cc’s of Sustanon 250 in a five week cycle at a dose of 500 mgs per week. After they have finished 10 shots of sustanon the user will take 1 month off after his last injection before starting this cycle again. Take a look at the following diagram of how sustanon breaks down in the body. First you'll notice that there are peaks and valleys of available anabolic steroids in your system. The problem here is that the goal of any steroid cycle is to fully saturate your available steroid receptor sites and keep them at 100% saturation (but no more than 100% saturation) throughout the entire cycle. In the diagram below, you've got a roller coaster ride of anabolic availability where half the time you've got too much in your system and the other half the time you don't have enough. Second, you'll notice that four weeks after your last shot, you would still have 3mgs of testosterone active in your body. Although this small amount of hormone may seem insignificant, it is actually quite dangerous. Your body will not return to its baseline levels of natural testosterone production until there are no excess hormones in the body. Repeating this cycle only makes it worse since it translates into a never-ending cycle where you're back on anabolics before your body can return your hormone levels to normal and for the drugs to completely clear your receptors.
| Injection | Day | Total mg in blood/day |
| 500mg Sustanon | 1 |  49 mg |
| 2 | 44 mg | |
| 3 | 39 mg | |
| 4 | 35 mg | |
| 5 | 31 mg | |
| 6 | 28 mg | |
| 7 | 25 mg | |
| 500mg Sustanon | 8 | 72 mg |
| 9 | 64 mg | |
| 10 | 57 mg | |
| 11 | 51 mg | |
| 12 | 46 mg | |
| 13 | 41 mg | |
| 14 | 37 mg | |
| 500mg Sustanon | 15 | 83 mg |
| 16 | 74 mg | |
| 17 | 66 mg | |
| 18 | 59 mg | |
| 19 | 53 mg | |
| 20 | 47 mg | |
| 21 | 42 mg | |
| 500mg Sustanon | 22 | 88 mg |
| 23 | 79 mg | |
| 24 | 70 mg | |
| 25 | 63 mg | |
| 26 | 56 mg | |
| 27 | 50 mg | |
| 28 | 45 mg | |
| 500mg Sustanon | 29 | 91 mg |
| 30 | 81 mg | |
| 31 | 72 mg | |
| 32 | 65 mg | |
| 33 | 58 mg | |
| 34 | 52 mg | |
| 35 | 46 mg | |
| 36 | 41 mg | |
| 37 | 37 mg | |
| 38 | 33 mg | |
| 39 | 30 mg | |
| 40 | 27 mg | |
| 41 | 24 mg | |
| 42 | 22 mg | |
| 43 | 20 mg | |
| 44 | 18 mg | |
| 45 | 16 mg | |
| 46 | 14 mg | |
| 47 | 13 mg | |
| 48 | 12 mg | |
| 49 | 10 mg | |
| 50 | 9 mg | |
| 51 | 9 mg | |
| 52 | 8 mg | |
| 53 | 7 mg | |
| 54 | 6 mg | |
| 55 | 6 mg | |
| 56 | 5 mg |
As, you can see from this diagram, cycling sustanon in an attempt to achieve even hormone levels in the blood is very difficult. The first problem you will encounter while attempting to achieve even blood levels with sustanon is the different release rates of the 4 testosterone esters that make up the drug. Sustanon is made up of 100 mgs of testosterone decanoate which has a half life of 14 days. The next drug in this stack is 60 mgs of testosterone isocaproate which has a half-life of 8 days. The third drug is 60 mgs of testosterone phenylpropioate with its 6 day half life. And finally the last ester is testosterone propionate which has a half life of 4 days. So not only is it extremely difficult to map out the life of these different testosterone esters, but in addition, sustanon is only dosed at 250 mgs per ml. This means that if you are using ampoules, you have no choice but to dose the drug in multiples of 250mgs. When you add other drugs into the mix, things get even more complicated. Even the injection site you chose makes a significant difference in a steroid's half life! For example, steroids injected in the butt are metabolized at a different rate than steroids injected in another muscle like the delt.
And this is the beauty of Dino Strong's Anabolic Gameplan. This awesome book shows you how to smooth out the peaks and valleys in your cycle so that the levels of steroids in your blood remains almost perfectly constant... Now, you're cycling at a level where your receptors are completely saturated, but never over saturated. You're producing the most phenomenal muscular gains you could ever imagine and you're not wasting a drop of anabolic goodness or experiencing the side effects that come from an over saturated system!
In Anabolic Gameplan, Dino explains all about the active half-life of steroids and esters. In easy to understand terms, he explains all about the active half-life of all the oral steroids and the active half-life of all the injectable steroids. And he explains how the injection site impacts a steroid's half life as well.
The goal of Anabolic Gameplan is to show you how to create a perfect cycle each and every time. A perfect cycle is one that includes enough anabolics to stimulate your receptors to cause sufficient muscle gain while limiting that amount so as to avoid over-saturated receptors and steroid overlap. And, Anabolic Gameplan makes it even easier by providing you with numerous perfectly designed example steroid cycles for you to follow straight out of the e-book if you prefer not to design your own. Example cycles ranging from the simple to the more elaborate.
In addition to learning the secrets of building perfect steroid cycles each and every time, you'll also get to meet the Fab Five. The Fab Five are the five most important bodybuilding compounds in existence that can be combined to produce the most anabolic, muscle building and fat burning cycles ever. The Fab Five are the most beneficial body building growth factors. They are Testosterone, Human Growth Hormone, Insulin Growth factor, Insulin, and Thyroid. And Dino will tell you everything you need to know about them to build truly astounding muscularity.
