Testosterone Dosage

Testosterone Dosage, what is the magic number? One CC per week? 500mg per week first cycle? 750mg per week? One Gram per week?

Today we are going to go into figuring out what testosterone dosage is appropriate for your goals. The conventional cookie cutter response is “500MG TEST PER WEEK.” People will scream that on the internet and non steroid users will repeat it like parrots to other non steroid users who ask for advice on forums. This is fast food advice. It’s not what you want and it’s definitely not what you need. Keep reading.

The first thing I have to let you know is that response to steroid dosage is genetic. I have proof. 2 guys can inject 250mg of testosterone on Monday, then take a blood test on Wednesday and have significantly different levels of total testosterone in their blood. Why? How? The answer is Metabolism. We all have unique and individual abilities when it comes to metabolizing (destroying and removing) drugs from the body. This mostly has to do with enzymes and things happening in your liver. It’s not uncommon at all to see guy’s total testosterone numbers around 2300ng/dl on 500mg testosterone per week. But it’s also totally normal to see guys with 3500ng/dl total testosterone on that same dosage of 500mg test per week. I have even seen blood work of guys on that same dosage hitting 6000+ ng/dl blood testosterone levels, essentially tripling another guy’s 2300ng/dl numbers all while taking the same 500mg per week testosterone dosage. The above examples clearly illustrate the absolutely massive difference in genetic response to anabolic steroids and testosterone dosage between individuals.

Something I really enjoy being able to do here at bodybuilderinthailand.com is show my face and show video of all my bodybuilder friends, let you see who I am and then give you information. This is something I would have really valued when I was learning about steroids. I had to learn from a lot of faceless individuals with “Avatars” on forums etc. The reality is when you ask a question on a steroid forum you have no idea who those people responding to you are. You have no idea what their credentials or experience are, yet they will give you anonymous advice about injecting drugs into your body and you don’t even know if you’re taking advice from some 16 year kid who “read about steroids” and is now pretending to be some kind of expert on an internet forum. A lot of people who give advice about steroids on the internet forums have never used steroids before.

What do different common dosages of testosterone feel like?

Let’s start with 250mg per week. This feels natural. You will get some mild increased strength and performance in the gym you your are natural and start at this dosage and you will be able to slowly gain a little bit more muscle if you were stuck at a natural limit plateau. The most interesting thing about this dosage is sex drive. Sex drive on 250mg testosterone per week is intense. For me and most people I know this is the dosage has the best effect on sex drive, even better than high dosages like 1000mg testosterone per week. Injecting testosterone causes a cascade of hormonal events that involve tons of different sex hormones and brain activity change. Using only 250mg seems to be low enough not to cause the cascade of sex hormone changes that higher dosages can. Essentially, injecting 250mg testosterone dosage just replaces your natural testosterone and adds a boost of about 30% more. But the reason why it can still provide a nice boost in the gym (and maintain a lot of muscle gained from using higher dosages) is that the levels are elevated high all day and all night long. When your testicles are making testosterone as a natural, they are constantly adjusting the amount of testosterone they produce throughout the day and at night while you sleep. When you replace the natural testosterone that your testicles produce with a testosterone injection, the levels no longer fluctuate and are high all day and all night long. This is the primary reason why a low dosage of testosterone like 250mg per week can still have a muscle building effect etc. It’s like taking your testosterone levels and taking the equalizer on a stereo to turn them all up equally. Boosting the lows, mids, and highs.

Moving on to what being on 500mg testosterone feels like. Ok, this is the dosage where you start feeling “heavy”. There is a strange phenomenon relating to what it feels like to be on high testosterone dosages. I don’t think its possible to explain to someone who hasn’t used steroids, similar to the way that you can’t describe what salt tastes like or convey the exact feeling of smoking weed etc. lol but Heavy testosterone dosages make you feel “heavy”. The more you take the more you start to feel “bogged down” almost as if with each extra CC (1ml dosage of testosterone) you take the feeling is as if you are strapping a 15 pound backpack to you to carry around. High testosterone dosages are very stressful and while they are great for building muscle they are not a pleasure to use. At a testosterone dosage of 500mg you are just scratching the surface of this effect. You are knocking on the door so to speak, you won’t actually feel the effect of being bogged down on 500mg per week, but when you do eventually increase the dosage and feel the ‘heaviness’ of testosterone, you will be able to recognize that the signs were there on 500mg per week. Fascinating stuff to experience.

Estrogen may or may not be a concern at this dosage but it more than likely WILL be an issue and you will start to learn to listen to your body for signs of high or low estrogen. If you aren’t taking an anti estrogen like exemestane or arimidex while using 500mg testosterone per week you will most likely get gyno (bitch tits), have water retention in your skin causing your definition to be blurry, get acne (especially white head body acne), high blood pressure, and your prostate may become swollen making it hard to piss (this is because high estrogen ‘sensitizes’ the androgen receptors in your prostate which then respond to your steroid testosterone levels and increase the weight of the prostate. Not fun. So once you hit 500mg of testosterone per week you have got to have an anti estrogen tablet on hand. If you do not, then you are playing with fire, and it is foolish. I am dead serious about having proper medicine to prevent side effects from steroids so my policy has always been human pharmacy grade products only. If you have an aggressive case of gyno and you are literally growing a female breast you need to know for god damn sure that your anti estrogen you have on hand is legitimate and not some underground knock off, because then you are fucked.

500mg testosterone dosage causes pretty good long term slow muscle and strength gains. You can really gain a lot of muscle on this dosage, it just takes a LONG time along with super dialed in diet and training. On 500mg per week you will not ‘feel like you are on steroids!’ although you may have a placebo effect and think that you do feel lol. A lot of guys are set on doing a first cycle of 500mg testosterone dosage per week and believe that once they start that they will ‘blow up, explode with muscle, mutate’ except for an extremely rare genetic few, this is simply not the case and the gains will be very slow but continue for a long time without hitting a plateau. However, 500mg of testosterone per week will maintain huge quantities of muscle mass with ease. Building muscle takes higher dosages of testosterone than it takes to maintain the muscle mass once you have already achieved it. 500mg is a dosage where most steroid users, even advanced steroid users, can maintain the bulk muscle mass they’ve achieved over long term.

Finally, most steroids need to be cycled with testosterone at the same time in order for them to work very well at all. Even steroids like trenbolone will be lackluster in firepower without testosterone. However a testosterone dosage of 500mg per week is perfect for supercharging any other steroids in a stack. Testosterone has huge synergy with other steroids and injecting some testosterone into your body when you use anabolic steroids such as winstrol, anavar, anadrol, trenbolone etc. will multiply the anabolic steroids’ potency exponentially.

I’m going to skip ahead right now and talk about what it feels like to be on 1000mg or 1 gram of testosterone per week. 1 gram of testosterone is where you experience the full power of testosterone injections. This is what I call ‘the threshold dosage of testosterone.’ On a gram of test per week you experience the full effects of testosterone on the muscle building process and are able to rapidly gain quality muscle bulk. You will ‘feel like you are on steroids’. Along with this feeling of being ‘on’ comes increased responsibility and less room for mistakes when it comes to preventing and controlling side effects. At this dosage you will experience bitch tits and water retention along with sky high blood pressure (swollen prostate also likely) unless you take an anti estrogen tablet regularly. Don’t get scared, I’ve used 1000mg of testosterone plenty enough to tell you that it’s not some kind of life altering event or anything. It just comes with increased risk and responsibility. Most experienced guys know that between 750mg-1500mg of testosterone injections per week is how you make monsters. Beyond this level, there is a strong diminishing return in terms of muscle gains versus side effects. If a guy came up to me and told me he was dead serious about trying to become a bodybuilder and he had been training in the gym and doing his diet with passion for a few years already, then I would tell him that he needs testosterone injections and that with his goals the best thing to do would be to take 1000mg or 1gram of testosterone per week. It sounds high, but I’m just being honest about what is required to meet those goals. No sense trying to conceal the truth about how much testosterone it takes. We don’t need to sweep this under the rug like bodybuilders have done for decades now. Let’s just come right out and say it 1000mg testosterone dosage per week is more or less the threshold dosage required to become a freak. It’s fairly uncomfortable to be on 1000mg+ testosterone per week. It will cause some mood swings, a lot of ‘heaviness’, affect your breathing, and make you sweat a lot, also your blood pressure is going to rise. Period. Point blank.

Overall if you want to be a bodybuilder you need to be taking testosterone. It isn’t an option. It is a requirement. Those natural guys who compete in speedos on stage are not bodybuilders. They call themselves “natural bodybuilders” but they actually just look like starved holocaust victims and have in no way built up their bodies by the time they are presented on stage. If you want to be a professional athlete, you have to inject testosterone. If you want to be a bodybuilder you have to inject testosterone. Harsh reality to some but it’s true.

Now you know about testosterone dosage

-dan the bodybuilderinthailand