Hey guys I'm sitting at 220lbs, 6"1, 24 years old. Training hard and eating good past 1 1/2 years, was hurt for 3 months before that, and trained mildly to intensely the previous 3 1/2 years before that. My goals are to gain some strength, and of course gain some size slowly and carefully. Just trying to figure out the best first time cycle here and read the newbie board. And from what I can gather I should just start with Test E 500 mg a week alone or with some Dbol. Thing is the couple people I've talked to who I would pick it up from both say that's way to much and excessive, and one guy is saying I should just do 4 weeks of anadrol alone. Anyways that's my info and story, any thoughts great. Cheers.
4 weeks of Anadrol and nothing else is simply a waste of Anadrol. You very well might gain 20lbs, if you eat enough you might gain even more but it's going to fade fairly fast. The minimal time for any cycle IMO is 8wks, with 12 being far more optimal. As for Anadrol itself, this is one of those steroids that should be viewed as a supplement to supplemental steroid use. It's an addition to an already well-planned stack, not part of the foundation and certainly not the foundation.
For a first ever cycle, it's usually a good idea to just stick with one or two steroids. There's no point in adding any more because if you do and if you run into trouble it's going to be hard to know what you're responding poorly to. Further, you can get all you want out of one or two steroids and safely so.
Testosterone is always a solid choice, it's very versatile, you can do almost anything with it and it's very well-tolerated by a healthy adult male. Large esters are normally the best way to go, so Testosterone-Enanthate or Testosterone-Cypionate. Test-E normally comes dosed at 250mg/ml and Test-Cyp at 200mg/ml. Based on that, 400mg-500mg per wk would be a pretty solid testosterone plan for any beginner, and for a lot of guys, depending on their goals all the testosterone they ever need.
You can add Dbol to the plan, or you could add winny depending on your overal goal. 12wks of testosterone at the above dosing with 6wks of Dbol on the front end at 20mg-30mg per day or 50mg of winny the last 6wks every other day to every day depending on your desire.