STEROID BRIDGING. YES OR NO?

[Geardepot]

Steroid Cycle Bridging is a process to bridge two steroid cycles together with a compound that wont restrict recovery of your endogenous hormone production and hopefully still be able to possibly carry on gaining or at least hold onto all the new tissue gained within the completed steroid cycle.
There are many issues you may want to consider with “bridging”. For starters, every anabolic steroid known to man will suppress testosterone production when used in doses sufficient to promote muscle gain.
The next issue is the simple and more general fact that you are not going off steroids with a steroid bridge, and are potentially exacerbating the negative health aspects of their use, such their effects on serum lipids and cardiovascular disease risk. If you are spending your entire year going from strong cycle to lesser oral e.g (Anavar) cycle, you are undoubtedly always going to be negatively altering your lipids (orals tend to be particularly harsh here, in fact). You may be putting yourself in some notable risk as the years progress.
Recovery of your HPTA is vital to maintaining your gains, and if you run longer cycle protocol's and shutdown your own hormone production for a very long time, the longer your shutdown the harder it is to recover. Shorter cycles are better for you HPTA and recovery. Would you rather shutdown your own system for 20 weeks or 6weeks? The shorter the better for recovery but also the compounds used within these cycles will make a big difference to how quick you recover, some weak low suppression compounds will be far easier to regain function.
The ideal bridging hormones would be Hgh, Igf and slin as these would allow full recovery of your HPTA and if your diet and training are in order you should maintain the new tissue what you have gain from the finished cycle and in some cases produce further gains.
The bottom line is, your off time is supposed to be “off time” for a reason. This is the time to let your body get back to its natural state of hormonal balance, and for you to enjoy a period where you are not using steroids and perhaps placing certain strains on your health. Take advantage of this time and use it for what its worth – keeping you healthy and happy.
GD

 

[joemarine]

Steroid Cycle Bridging is a process to bridge two steroid cycles together with a compound that wont restrict recovery of your endogenous hormone production and hopefully still be able to possibly carry on gaining or at least hold onto all the new tissue gained within the completed steroid cycle.
There are many issues you may want to consider with “bridging”. For starters, every anabolic steroid known to man will suppress testosterone production when used in doses sufficient to promote muscle gain.
The next issue is the simple and more general fact that you are not going off steroids with a steroid bridge, and are potentially exacerbating the negative health aspects of their use, such their effects on serum lipids and cardiovascular disease risk. If you are spending your entire year going from strong cycle to lesser oral e.g (Anavar) cycle, you are undoubtedly always going to be negatively altering your lipids (orals tend to be particularly harsh here, in fact). You may be putting yourself in some notable risk as the years progress.
Recovery of your HPTA is vital to maintaining your gains, and if you run longer cycle protocol's and shutdown your own hormone production for a very long time, the longer your shutdown the harder it is to recover. Shorter cycles are better for you HPTA and recovery. Would you rather shutdown your own system for 20 weeks or 6weeks? The shorter the better for recovery but also the compounds used within these cycles will make a big difference to how quick you recover, some weak low suppression compounds will be far easier to regain function.
The ideal bridging hormones would be Hgh, Igf and slin as these would allow full recovery of your HPTA and if your diet and training are in order you should maintain the new tissue what you have gain from the finished cycle and in some cases produce further gains.
The bottom line is, your off time is supposed to be “off time” for a reason. This is the time to let your body get back to its natural state of hormonal balance, and for you to enjoy a period where you are not using steroids and perhaps placing certain strains on your health. Take advantage of this time and use it for what its worth – keeping you healthy and happy.
GD

For "off times" is there a basic amount of time that most people will begin to reset? IE 4 weeks off will clear most 12 week cycles?
If you taper off and use a PCT is the base off time decreased at all?

Thanks

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