Anabolic steroids help you build big muscles, but the main
problem with them is the side effects they carry on. Long cycle are more
effective in building big amounts of muscle gains, but there are big
chances you will experience a huge drop in your lipid profile or such
effects as acne, prostate hypertrophy or even baldness. Beginning with
4th week of cycle many of body indicators begin to worsen, so it is good
to stop on this time. If you do so you can enjoy decent results, and
almost no side effects.
This is the specific of short cycles. Generally, any cycle that has 6
or less weeks is called short cycle. You can organize the cycle in 2, 4
weeks, but every time it has to be followed by at least the same amount
of time for recovery. The most
popular is 4 weeks on, and 4 weeks off letting you to be free of
steroids almost half a year. Short cycles benefits your body in many
ways. Here they are:Preserve muscle gains made during the cycle
Long cycles are followed by long time for recovery during
which you lose a big part of your gains. If you are tired about it than
you can switch to short cycles. Since the time your are “off” is much
shorter, the losses in muscle gains are lower.
It is true that you have not to expected the big muscle gains as you
used to during long cycles. But the main point here is that you are able
to preserve most of it, and all this with no side effects. What can be better than this?!Keep you lipid profile in normal ranges
Anabolic steroids taken even in small doses affect your
lipid levels. You have notice everytime you take steroids there is a big
decrease in good cholesterol (hdl), and increase of bad
cholesterol(ldl). In the first two weeks of cycle the hdl level lowers
with almost 50%, while ldl raises with almost 40% during the first 4
weeks. The further you go, the worse situation is.
During a long cycle good and bad cholesterol levels reach dangerous thresholds
and may lead to heart diseases. The best is to keep dhl level at least
40, the minimum being 35, while the ratio of good/bad cholesterol should
be 3 to 1. Short cycle allow you to keep cholesterol levels under
control and once it finished they return to normal values pretty fast.Reduce the stress you put on liver
Oral steroids used
for a long time affect your liver function. This is a fact and most of
bodybuilders faced this problem. Going for short time allow you to put
less total stress on your liver and let it fully recover in the short time that comes after cycling.
If you already have some genetic predisposition to a liver disease than taking oral steroids,
even for short time, can be dangerous for your health. Most of
injectable steroids have no effects on liver, so you are recommended to
choose one of them.Prevent testicular shrinkage
After just a week of running a steroid cycle the
Hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis (HPTA) begin to shutdown, affecting
the size of testicules. Since this period is quite short, it happens in a
very small degree, letting the HPTA to recover pretty soon once the cycle is ceased. The use of HGH is not necessary, but you can do it if you want.
No need to use antiestrogens
First of all, high estrogen
level is bad for your prostate. Many of professional bodybuilders put
their prostate function down because of taking powerful steroids for
many weeks in row. You do not want it to be this way, so be careful with
your estrogen level. Running a short cycle allow you do not take them at all, but if you want to feel safe and keep the water retention low, you can add them to your cycle.
Avoid side effects as acne, baldness, gyno or prostate problems
For all these side effects there are mainly two main cause:
the dose and the period of administration. The worst is when you take
big doses for long time, than some of these side effects are granted.
Short cycles are safer, since even taken in higher doses the time you
take them is pretty short, thereby side effects are easy to keep under
control.
What short cycles can not give you?
Huge muscle gains. If you are a professional bodybuilder,
than surely short steroid cycles are not what you need. High doses for
long time is what you search to keep up you muscle mass. Meantime, all
those who just look to improve body shape with no other complications
than short cycle is what they need to follow.
Short steroid cycles help you to gain decent amount of muscle mass, with almost no side effects
on your health. Adding up to 10-15 pound of muscle gains during a 4
week steroid cycle is possible. Just make sure you follow a proper diet and exercise program.What is really good with short cycles is that muscles losses during PCT are minimal. Which can not be said about long cycles, after which most bodybuilders lose out much more than 10%-15% of gained muscle.
