I did some exercises having not done anything in a while and now I'm in pain.
It made me wonder, if steroids are supposed to be repair muscle damage much faster, do steroid users actually experience muscle soreness? Seeing as it allows you to train a lot more frequently with no need for breaks.
Im not an expert on this but i heard winstrol can be painful in the muscles.
It's a very different feeling. Tight/fatigued. Not tender to the touch like you're experiencing.
Yes you do get muscle soreness even when you take steroids.
I don't remember if it goes away faster or not, probably does.
You have to remember with steroids youre likely lifting heavier, probably doing higher volume and progressing at a faster pace.
Yes but it doesn't last as long.
Eggbert -Sauce?If you're not getting sore while on the sauce you're not lifting hard enough to be on the sauce.
shatefak - Im not an expert on this but i heard winstrol can be painful in the muscles.Water based can be painful to inject but not actually make your muscles sore in general. It will however dry your joints out, but to answer your question, yes you still get sore if you work hard.
You always can get sore on gear or not.. just not nearly as bad. What hurts More is injection site soreness depending on the gear ...that sucks and doesn't help when you are sore.
shatefak - Im not an expert on this but i heard winstrol can be painful in the muscles.Androgens dry out the joints.
jasperb -Oh yeah, thats what i heard. Not the muscles, its the joints.shatefak - Im not an expert on this but i heard winstrol can be painful in the muscles.Water based can be painful to inject but not actually make your muscles sore in general. It will however dry your joints out, but to answer your question, yes you still get sore if you work hard.
The recovery is much faster but they have to shred the muscles to make them grow.
You get sore but not as much and it goes away fast. The pain is from the shot, some get the area injected REALLY sore as fuck, it feels like you squatted for hours...ummm Not that i would do such things
I get more sore because I workout harder.
Where you inject makes a big difference. I'm 47 and just started TRT injections. High up on the butt is the standard my doc did before I started doing it myself. They warned me of some soreness, but I never had any.
When I started doing it myself, I got a little nervous about hitting the precise angle in my glute, and I read somewhere that many used their quads as a substitute. So I tried it 3 times, and after a couple hours that quad hurt like a bitch for at least the next 24-36 hours. It actually hurt quite a bit worse than the usual soreness I get from squatting.
I read in a few places that quads are known for getting really sore due to swelling accumulating at the injection site. Supposedly shoulders/delts do too, though I never tried that.
As far as overall soreness after exercising, I didn't notice much difference. Only difference I've noted (this being the second time I've tried TRT, first was the gel 6 years ago, which was crap) is that I go higher over time in terms of numbers. Without TRT I got to ~300 pounds on my squat for 3x5 before hitting a wall and having to transition to intermediate training; with TRT I got to 340 or so before it got nasty. I assume if I were younger those numbers would have been a lot better - my T levels are horrible normally, and with the TRT they're just average.
Eggbert -None So Blind - Where you inject makes a big difference. I'm 47 and just started TRT injections. High up on the butt is the standard my doc did before I started doing it myself. They warned me of some soreness, but I never had any.
When I started doing it myself, I got a little nervous about hitting the precise angle in my glute, and I read somewhere that many used their quads as a substitute. So I tried it 3 times, and after a couple hours that quad hurt like a bitch for at least the next 24-36 hours. It actually hurt quite a bit worse than the usual soreness I get from squatting.
I read in a few places that quads are known for getting really sore due to swelling accumulating at the injection site. Supposedly shoulders/delts do too, though I never tried that.
As far as overall soreness after exercising, I didn't notice much difference. Only difference I've noted (this being the second time I've tried TRT, first was the gel 6 years ago, which was crap) is that I go higher over time in terms of numbers. Without TRT I got to ~300 pounds on my squat for 3x5 before hitting a wall and having to transition to intermediate training; with TRT I got to 340 or so before it got nasty. I assume if I were younger those numbers would have been a lot better - my T levels are horrible normally, and with the TRT they're just average.I only do quads and delts and never have a problem. My glutes are so full of scar tissue that I can't inject them without tons of pain on entry. I've done everything from chest, traps, tris, bis, lats, quads, glutes and calves. For people on trt subcutaneous is the way to go
Always see you on the steroid threads on here
Presume you've been using a while? You jacked or no?
no homo
Eggbert - if you don't mind giving me a frame of reference - what's up with your scar tissue, how many injections did it take to get there? If I do a shot very two weeks vs every week, I don't see much difference, and the thought of doubling shots and thus doubling the chance of scar tissue gives me pause.
FWIW, my doc said I could do a 100 test shot a week or a 200 every 2 weeks (pretty standard dose from what I see), but I saw no big difference in how I felt after trying it both ways so I simply elected for fewer shots.
And the other topic - I read about a lot of guys who did quad shots and t got much easier over time, they said their muscles got used to it and it stopped hurting, but whenever they moved to a "virgin" muscle it would suck a coupleasure times... That true in your experience?
Yes, as someone who is on TRT therapy, you get soreness. I started working out with a damaged shoulder and to be honest it was hurting when I lifted anything.....today(2 days later) it isn't sore at all but I will have to see how it feels after another session.
Some basic info....
I'm on testosterone cypionate, I take a half of a CC every two weeks so 1CC per month.
Best part of being on the good stuff is the constant pump. Normally I wake up and look in the mirror and my shoulder and traps are shrunk. On test and other things I was always pumped. But yes you get sore
Eggbert -None So Blind - Eggbert - if you don't mind giving me a frame of reference - what's up with your scar tissue, how many injections did it take to get there? If I do a shot very two weeks vs every week, I don't see much difference, and the thought of doubling shots and thus doubling the chance of scar tissue gives me pause.
FWIW, my doc said I could do a 100 test shot a week or a 200 every 2 weeks (pretty standard dose from what I see), but I saw no big difference in how I felt after trying it both ways so I simply elected for fewer shots.
And the other topic - I read about a lot of guys who did quad shots and t got much easier over time, they said their muscles got used to it and it stopped hurting, but whenever they moved to a "virgin" muscle it would suck a coupleasure times... That true in your experience?Picture doing every day injections of 2-3cc's per injection only rotating between ass cheeks for several years. That will give you scar tissue especially using an 18guage needle. This is long before the internet and the only knowledge available was from gym bros or if someone had a copy of the "steroid bible" they could lend.