Underground Steroid Handbook 2

size shrinkage, and fat accumulation. This happens to both men and women, but, as I
mentioned before, women seem to get magnified versions of these symptoms.
Why do athletes go off steroids? Many fear that the drugs are damaging their health, so
the steroid use is limited to perhaps eight to twelve weeks out of an entire year. In some
instances this is rational thinking, as the more potent steroid cycles/arrays do contain
(relatively) toxic drugs such as Anadrol, Halotestin, and Parabolan/Finajet which could
cause health problems it used over longer periods of time. Many other arrays are so
benign that stopping them after a two or three month duration of therapy may actually be
counterproductive, as the individual may not have reaped the anabolic benefits of the
less potent arrays which do work best over many months time. The possibility is that the
athlete may still be perfectly healthy, but stop the anabolic therapy based on an
unjustified fear that he is not. But, since I believe that the basic reason for using steroids
is to make the athlete happier than he was while training naturally, it he has a fear for his
health, no matter how irrational it is, then he most certainly is not happy.
Many athletes stop the drugs because of a moral sense. Even though the general
population views drug use in competitive athletics as immoral, many athletes hold just
the opposite view: using steroids when not training for a competition is 'not right'.
Steroids are serious medications and should not be indiscriminately used while playing
around off season. I should interject that many athletic events which steroids are
associated with are now drug tested, and off season drug use has actually increased
because of this. Also, ironically, because the injectable steroids are thought to be so
troublesome to clear from the body, these athletes will use oral steroids exclusively,
which for the most part, are more damaging to the liver and kidneys than injectables are.
Drug testing has changed steroid use: it is now more prevalent in the off season and the
drugs used are potentially more harmful to the athlete's health.
Many times the decision to go off the drugs is simply a financial one: the athlete cannot
afford to use the drugs year 'round. I have not mentioned prices much throughout this
text, but a simple Deca/Dianabol stack of moderate dosage (200mg Deca per week,
20mg Dianabol per day) can be fairly inexpensive, about $75 per month, sometimes
less. For all that these medications do in a positive sense, some steroids are real
bargains. All too often athletes use steroids which are not cost effective. Although I
mentioned that an Anavar/Testosterone Undecanoate stack was a favorite of mine, it
would cost at least $300 per month on the black market. I think that for most steroid
users, this is an overpriced stack.
A very good reason to go off steroids is to adjust the metabolism back to a normal,
unenhanced state so that the baseline blood tests can be done. And an even better
reason would be because the athlete really does have a health problem that could be
remedied by stopping all steroid medications. And of course, if the athletic event is drug
tested, then the athlete must, de facto, get off all offending medications.
What I've just described are a few of the reasons an athlete would consciously cease
steroid therapy. There is the other side of the coin, though, the athlete who won't get off
steroids. And this is probably the type of person who needs to get off the drugs more
than the other types discussed. This leads into why I periodically stop steroid use: as an
exercise in psychological self-discipline. I stop using steroids to periodically prove that it
is myself who is controlling the drugs, and not vice-versa. I'm afraid some athletes do
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