Is it worth doing just one cycle of anabolic steroids?

Many people are unsure whether it is worth doing just one cycle of anabolic steroids and never touching hormones again, in an attempt to accelerate results in the safest way possible.

Most of the time, it is not worth doing just one cycle of steroids, especially when the goal of the maneuver is to try to obtain more results in the hope of reducing the harm.

Unfortunately, things are not that simple and it is possible to end up worse off than before the cycle.

What happens when we do a steroid cycle

Anabolic steroids and other anabolic hormones amplify the effects of training and diet according to the dose and genetic potential of the user.

They also help the body build muscle by increasing its ability to create proteins and reducing their breakdown.

Basically, when you are on a cycle, you are optimizing all the processes that increase muscle mass and prevent muscle loss.

If you use steroids to the point where your levels rise above your natural levels, you will have much greater results because you have more hormones than before.

But few people stop to think that when the cycle ends, you will no longer have the benefits of above-normal hormones and you will go back to training under the same “rules” as before – with your own hormones.

In other words, during a steroid cycle, hormone levels are much higher than normal, something that the body cannot naturally sustain after the excess is out of the system (when the cycle ends).

Furthermore, even after performing post-cycle therapy correctly, it can take months for aspects such as libido, energy and the ability to gain muscle to return to their previous state.

It's common to lose gains after a steroid cycle , and even if you manage to hold on to some of them, your body, energy, and even libido are likely to be unstable for quite some time.

People who have used steroids far beyond their natural limit may feel like they have retained more results.

However, this is mainly because they were still far from their natural limit and could achieve the same results just by training naturally – they just shortened this journey by using steroids too early, of course, at the cost of side effects.

Is it worth doing just one cycle of anabolic steroids?

Most of the time, it's not worth doing just one cycle.

Reinforcing: when starting an anabolic steroid cycle, anabolic hormones (such as testosterone) reach supraphysiological levels – above what you could have naturally.

This generates several benefits that favor the gain of muscle mass and strength, allowing you to train harder, more frequently, with less rest, practically giving the impression that the use of steroids is something close to the super soldier serum.

Well, at least until the end of the cycle.

At the end of the cycle, even using all the auxiliary drugs in the famous PCT, even if you pay extra attention to supplementation, using creatine, pre-workouts, megadoses of vitamin E and D, tribulus, whatever…

The tendency, over time, is that you will return to the same size as when you were natural or worse (depending on the number of cycles done and how you take care of yourself in each post-cycle).

Some swear by their lives that they can hold on to most of their gains after the cycle.

But this only happens on two occasions:

You used steroids before reaching your natural limit and after the cycle you were able to maintain it because this development was already yours by right (you just accelerated the process)You are cycling often enough to generate more gains than losses. In short, the gains you make using steroids, you only maintain with them.

In the end, you will have the cash cost of buying hormones, you will have to buy post cycle therapy, you will have to spend money on tests, you will definitely have side effects (I don't know how severe they will be, but they will always occur) and it may affect your natural hormone production for a time that varies from person to person, all to lose most of the gains when you stop the cycle.

Of course, some still think that spending a few months with more muscle mass is worth it (for a special occasion or involving money, no judgments).

However, if your mindset with anabolic steroids was that doing just one cycle would give you more lasting results and avoid side effects, unfortunately things don't work that way.