With the increased popularity and acceptance of Anabolic Steroids in the United States and elsewhere, as personal trainers it is incumbent upon us to become more educated with respect to their proper usage in bodybuilding and...
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With the increased popularity and acceptance of Anabolic Steroids in the United States and elsewhere, as personal trainers it is incumbent upon us to become more educated with respect to their proper usage in bodybuilding and conditioning. My observation as a personal trainer is that they have become so widespread that to ignore continuing education in this area is the equivalent to having one's head in the sand as a professional trainer. Anabolic Steroids are here to stay. Indeed, my conservative estimate is that at any given time probably 30% of my clients admit to being on a cycle or between cycles, and upon questioning I have found that many did not cycle on or off properly. Although I will not provide AS to my clients (this is still a felony in the US), I will provide what I have learned in the way of recent information about beneficial usage of AS through reading and through personal trial and error. More and more of my clients are women and it is exciting to see the field of bodybuilding becoming so diversified with gender. I see more and more women doing intermediate and advanced training routines in the gym. Along with these increased numbers, there has been an increase in the number of women who want to bridge their genetic gap with proper use of AS. Unfortunately, compared to the amount of trials and studies on men, literature and published cycles for women is sparse. In the last 3 years I have been lucky to have been able to train several women who came to me with expressed interest in using AS. In several cases they came to me with a supply of stack that would grow hair on a man let alone on a woman. They were trying to base their decisions on limited information that they derived from gym-talk and a little bit of literature, and I was able to dissuade them by showing them better alternatives. One lady had high blood pressure as a pre-existing medical condition, but possessed and wanted to begin using Dianabol at 20mg/day as well as 100mg of enathate/week. As a matter of course, I do a pre-screening medical interview with all my clients to keep a log of medical issues, last doctor's visit, etc. I remembered that she had been on blood pressure medication and explained to her the side effects of androgenic AS, as opposed to the milder or non-existent side-effects of the anabolics. The look on her face said it all as I could see that she knew that the androgenic could have been a death sentence for her with her medical issues. Being approachable and knowledgeable as a trainer is the best service that I can provide for my clients. Having said all that, I will now describe for the lady readers a very successful cycle which a good friend of mine recently completed. She asked me to personal train her and to provide her with any and all information that I had about a fat-cutting, mildly anabolic cycle. She is very feminine and wanted to retain that while simultaneously adding some quality gains of muscle with good definition.She has a medium build and had been bodybuilding for about 5 years. Also, she is 33 years old. I did a routine medical screening with her and she was able to provide the results of her most recent physical which included blood levels of cholesterol and hepatic enzymes. Everything was within the normal range, and there was no history of blood pressure, kidney, or liver problems. I gave her a rundown on the various problems that can possibly be associated with AS use for women and in general, and told her to contemplate what it was that she wanted to do. She called me two days later and we set up our first training session. First, we did a body fat analysis which rendered results of 21%. Her bodyweight was 127lbs at 5'4" Her chief complaint was the lingering fat deposits around her buttocks, thighs, and tricep area which seemed to defy cardio and a clean diet. I could tell that her gains in muscle had been respectable during her 5 years of bodybuilding, so that was not going to be a major concern. She was not a hard-gainer. First we looked at her diet to see just how clean it was. She had done her
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