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Thursday, February 14, 2013
ARE YOU getting the most from your bodybuilding gym exercise? It’s understood that if you’re into bodybuilding then you should already know the basic know how’s, especially when you’re currently taking or plan to take prohormones or supplements.
It is well understood that you know your supplements and your cycle’s structure, and then if you’re into it to gain, you should better learn the basic structure of a cycle. Most bodybuilding enthusiasts idolize their mentors. It is a fact, and they want to gain as fast and gain more, they result to taking prohormones and supplements, but are they missing something?
Yes! Because taking in prohormones or supplements aside from the doctor’s prescription or instruction from a bodybuilding expert is dangerous because certain rules in taking in supplements have to be followed. You’ll never know its side effects on your body.
That is why bodybuilding experts and pros require bodybuilding enthusiasts to learn and understand the basic structure of a cycle, not only in the daily routine programs of exercise but in taking supplements or hormone products plus your post cycle therapy follow up.
Your structure cycle starts when prohormones or supplements are taken, for example is when a competitor starts to take in prohormones in preparation for a competition to enable him to gain. The subject of supplements in a cycle becomes important because you need to know which supplements are effective, and which ones work best together for your body.
Combining supplements to gain technically is called a “stack” where three or more supplements are stacked for a particular need. Combining supplements can be done for mass-gain, strength, testosterone stack, ripped stack etc. not only does stacking provide for gaining because you can even stack fat burners needed to keep body-fat low.
Although stacking is one effective way for the body’s fitness arsenal, experts in the field however, remind users that one has to maintain a post cycle therapy (PCT), to balance reactions in the body. Effects of coming off your hormone intake can be a risk, and if there is one hormone that one has to watch out, it is the diminishing testosterone (androgen) and heightened estrogen activity which can be taken care of by your PCT.
Your post cycle therapy becomes your hormone controller in your cycle, because it allows an individual to know and learn how to keep levels maximal that is critical for bodybuilding success. Remember it’s not only taking in supplements learn and know about it especially what it does.
Published in the Sun.Star Baguio newspaper on February 14, 2013.
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