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Sounds like a good bet. I am not against steroids, i just think it is a big leap i am not willing to take, at elast not yet.
How many pounds have you increased since you began with ostarine? and how are the side effects treating you?
is it worth it?
Yeah that's my attitude on steroids as well, I've read up and thought about them but I'm not yet ready to go to the dark side. I've enjoyed my dalliance in the grey with SARMs, I'll come back to 'roids if/when I feel a need for something more extreme.
The pounds on the bar have gone up steadily. I've yet to have a workout where I haven't progressed at least a few of the lifts, while when I followed the same bulking protocol on creatine I did sometimes plateau.
My recovery has also been better, before taking ostarine I occasionally overdid it on a workout early in the week and was dragging later on, while since adding it in I've rarely been sore.
Unfortunately I didn't track my LBM change carefully, as this was a personal experiment and not something I planned to post about it until I saw your thread. I can see a clear difference and I got some compliments from friends over the holidays, but to show you hard numbers I'll have to point you to some of the progress logs out there.
Before starting it I skimmed over a bunch of logs on body building forums, the consensus came down to much of what Chris said in the GLL post: do 6 to 8 weeks and expect somewhere in the 5 to 10 lb gain range, as long as you're not already at your genetic limit. If you Google "osterine bulking log" you'll get plenty of reading material on other people's results.
Sides-wise I've gotten off easy. No change in libido or mood, so either it hasn't been T-suppressive or the effects are weak enough not to affect me.
In week 2 I had a couple days in a row where I was getting flushed after meals (like I had just had a carb load) which was strange but harmless, and around week 5 I noticed some headaches and fuzziness for a few days which have since passed.
It's worth it for me--clear benefits, minimal sides, acceptable cost. Whether it makes sense for you or not depends on if the cost is reasonable and if you have troublesome sides. The risk factors for trying it are low--if you notice a sudden plummet in libido you can stop taking it and it'll clear up shortly.
That Anabolic Minds thread had a number of suggestions on things to keep on hand in case you saw any gyno or the like, I don't think it's a big risk but if you're feeling cautious you could grab some of that too. I picked up a few of their recommendations in case I feel anything off when I go back to normal.