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Sassy,
Seen you mention DeFranco shoulder warm-ups (I believe that is what you call them)
I had rotator cuff surgery in 2005 and still have issues today, can you tell me or point out where I can find out more about this method please?
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Thanks Sassy, appreciate the videos and the link.
Joe DeFranco ROCKS!
I'll be using the stretches and the rotator stuff, fighting a slight shoulder impingement right now and it sucks.
What are you doing about it? Chiropractor?
Sassy, I recently had a girl ask me and I had no good answer for it. How do top female pros deal with and manage virilization from aas use?
Can't speak for the pros - you can't look at someone and assume they cycle or not. The virilization is basically part of the deal - but how well each person's natural body chemistry manages it and the duration, compound and frequency of cycling will contribute.
Do women run the same kind of PCT as men? One of the aims is to minimize estrogen during PCT for men, to stop its inhibitory effect on the hypothalamus, increase LH and FSH, and resume normal testosterone production. I take it that this is not the goal for women?
Completely different - women don't need to 'resume normal test production', and likewise, the major hormone for women is not stopped by an exogenous test source. Generally the monthly menstrual cycle comes back on its own when compounds clear the woman's body. Sometimes it takes longer, sometimes it needs some "PCT" to get it going - think stuff like HCG and all the stuff that would fall under the usual treatment if a woman has trouble w/ her menstrual cycle, e.g. trying to get pregnant.
You do hear about metabolic problems that women sometimes experience from too aggressive dieting during contest prep. So I think there's more tied into over all metabolism & metabolic function & estrogen for women in extreme cases of dieting than for guys - the thing is that for women, competition prep goes completely against all the things that nature has in place to help ensure the greatest chance of a safe pregnancy. And that's where things start to become problems in different ways than for men.
Are women a lot more sensitive to AAS' anabolic capabilities than men? A women's cycle might have 30mg of deca a week. This kind of dose wouldn't do anything for a guy after 5-7 weeks.
The easy answer is take a look at the proportions of test in men vs. women. For women estrogen is the dominant hormone. Maybe a good comparison of androgenic effects due to a big bump in proportional amount of testosterone naturally for women, vs a cycle would be a natural guy, vs a guy running say, deca w/ no AIs -water retention, gyno, moody, etc. Its not so much the total amount of testosterone as it is the bump in proportion between normal test & estro levels for women or men. 30 mg of deca / week would be fairly androgenic for women, because proportionally, that's orders of magnitude more test than women naturally produce. Further, it aromatizes and produces even more estrogen, so w/ the strong androgenic sides, there's even more estro. That amount for guys is only a small increase relative to the natural amount of test produced. The amount of estro as a result of aromatization, and the impact on guys, relative to the natural amount of estrogen in their systems.
The last thing to comment on is the end result - guys would be running deca to get big - build mass, etc. and might be ok w/ carrying the extra water, get the gain of more well-protected joints w/ deca specifically, etc. For women, there's no desire for water retention. Also deca is fairly long acting - for guys its great because its less frequent pinning, and for the amounts they normally pin, that's a nice thing. For women, the longer ester means sides will be more aggressive because they are present longer, and if you don't like the sides or its just too much (again considering the small amount that is still very large proportional to the amount test women naturally support) - you still have to wait for the compound to clear. This is why most people would only recommend a very short acting compound - usually anavar or winstrol, if more aggressive / more experienced, maybe test prop. But not test cyp or enanthate.
And lastly just the additional sides of high bp, etc.
Apologies if the questions seem stupid, I'm not very well-versed in how these drugs are used for women! Just trying to learn.
Sassy, what do you do the last week of your contest prep as far as your carbs and water intake? Do you go low carbs all week then increase at the end of the week or high at the beginning then low then high again? Also, do you deplete water throughout the week or just deplete the day before and do you switch to distilled?
Hi Sassy,
I am asking for a female freind who has been an AAS user for some time. I believe she cycles on & off for 3 weeks at a time but I am not sure of dosages.
My question is have you ever heard of any older female AAS users ever had to introduce any female hormones such as progesterone to mitigate some of the AAS sides?
A bit more background:
Age 50
Has had a hysterectomy; so only natural hormonal production is adrenal.
Maintains a very lean physique so possibly little estrogen conversion from body fat.
Most pronounced problematic sides: sleeplessness, hair thinning, & workout recovery takes longer than it used too.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Why is she cycling on & off every 3 weeks? I kinda feel like saying its time to revisit the whole AAS strategy. Also does she get regular bloodwork (I'm thinking of thyroid specifically) and what is she cycling? Is it stuff that aromatizes or not? If she's had the hysterectomy, is she on any estro replacement therapy to support it?
I can only answer a few of these but will ask her about the rest.
I do not know why on & off every 3 weeks but can speculate this is what an EX told her she should do...Hmmmm right there big mistake eh?
No regular bloodwork. I did suggest that many times.
test C & Deca so yes i would assume aromatizes.
No estro therapy that I am aware of.
Thank you for your suggestions.