FrancisK haha OK, I MAY be letting loose a bit... so here's what I like about the cycle (dbol and primo, var if available) for a first: it's conservative, so you don't blow your wad out the gate with crazy dosages. This stuff was all pharma back then of course. So starting with pharma dbol... Dbol usually boosts appetite and size considerably at 20mg, after the 6 week front load any appreciable E2 from the dbol quickly clears, and the added strength/size would provide a good boost. Then, var, minimally suppressive and dry/hardening, var has been shown in research to only suppress free T by like 40% or so long-term at higher doses... added in along with primo which has a popular/well known tolerable side-effect profile.. this reads almost like a cycle of minimally suppressive supplements compared to the 500mg test cycle everyone starts with nowadays. They didn't even have creatine back then, so this would have seemed like magic.