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A study was done on 30 HIV-positive men with weakened immune systems over a 12 week period. 30 of them were given weekly nandrolone decanoate (deca) injections, they titrated the dosages up starting from 200mg/week to a max of 600mg/week.
The study was done to see if there would be difference in muscle gain between the group who were lifting while taking the injections and the group taking injections but not lifting.
The results:
The average LEAN BODY MASS gain for the non-lifters was 3.9kg after the 12 weeks.
For the lifters, the average LEAN BODY MASS gain was 5.2kg after the 12 weeks.
Lifting while taking the steroids only produced a 25% difference. And there were people in the study who gained more just injecting than the people doing both lifting + injection.
Conclusion: Lifting is mostly cope if you are on steroids. You are gonna get muscle regardless if you lift or not, how much muscle you get from steroid mostly depends on your genetics. So lift if you like lifting, but don't kill yourself doing it. Don't lift super heavy. Don't take unnecessary risks. Don't ego lift. Steroids and genetics are doing like 95% of the work for you.
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The study was done to see if there would be difference in muscle gain between the group who were lifting while taking the injections and the group taking injections but not lifting.
The results:
The average LEAN BODY MASS gain for the non-lifters was 3.9kg after the 12 weeks.
For the lifters, the average LEAN BODY MASS gain was 5.2kg after the 12 weeks.
Lifting while taking the steroids only produced a 25% difference. And there were people in the study who gained more just injecting than the people doing both lifting + injection.
Conclusion: Lifting is mostly cope if you are on steroids. You are gonna get muscle regardless if you lift or not, how much muscle you get from steroid mostly depends on your genetics. So lift if you like lifting, but don't kill yourself doing it. Don't lift super heavy. Don't take unnecessary risks. Don't ego lift. Steroids and genetics are doing like 95% of the work for you.
Effects of pharmacological doses of nandrolone decanoate and progressive resistance training in immunodeficient patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus - PubMed
This nonplacebo-controlled, open label, randomized study was conducted to test the hypotheses that pharmacological doses of nandrolone decanoate would increase lean body tissue, muscle mass, and strength in immunodeficient human immunodeficiency virus-infected men, and that these effects would...