Anyone ever heard what the standard dbol usage was in the golden era?
It seems like the common compounds were dbol and primo or deca.
The guys says they used 10-15 mg dbol a day and 1 shot of primo (100 mg) a week.
Using the common conversion rate for bodybuilder claimed dosage vs true dosage, I work this out to:
100-150 mg a day dbol and 1000 mg a week primo/deca
I reckon they were more heavy into tablets in those days vs injects.
Doctor Robert Kerr, who was an early steroid researcher offered the following anecdotes in his 1982 book. Numbers were all over the map -
" Sometimes on the road to winning the athlete will be tempted to use anything and everything in order to reach his or her goals. Sixteen years ago, with no real medical guidance, the power lifters and particularly body builders, took literally "anything and everything" that they felt might give them some gains. At a popular southland weight training center some 15 or 16 years ago, the "usual" dose of anabolic steroids recommended to the novice, not by the gym management, but by other body builders was 100 Dianabol tablets, 100 Anavar tablets and perhaps 40 or 50 Anadrol tablets per day!
Can you imagine that? I'll bet that somewhere today someone is still taking similar amounts of medication with no more gains, I'll wager, than those on sensible doses. I spoke once to a world class competitor who admitted to me that he once felt it necessary to take 1500 Dianabol tablets each day! Even with Dianabol at $5.00 a hundred in those days, that's ridiculous just from the price alone, forgetting the expected side-effects from this dose.
One current patient of mine confided in me that he had once found an old medical text of his grandfather's a few years ago in the garage. In that old physician's journal it mentioned the good effects of strychnine on muscle tissue. The grandson did not read that the text said smooth muscle, not skeletal muscle. He probably would not have recognized the difference in any regard, but a great difference there is. Up until twelve or so years ago, strychnine was sold for various medicinal remedies, impotency was one. My patient thought he had fallen into a long forgotten secret from the past and somehow purchased some strychnine tablets and started taking one a day. One of his work-out partners somehow was let in on the supposed secret, and as he wanted to be even bigger than his partner, he took two tablets a day. Another acquaintance discovered the plot and as he wished to be bigger than the other two, he took ten tablets a day! He apparently soon became quite ill and the causative agent was brought to light. The boy lived but all concerned learned a lesson through the Emergency Room physician about strychnine poisoning.
I admire the courage of the one lad in confiding to me his nearly serious error, but, as you can see, some people will do almost anything to reach their goals! "
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" This last year I received the routine laboratory reports back from one of my old patients. He had stated that he was feeling fine and was preparing for a contest, but the liver tests were grossly abnormal. The lab, after seeing the results, ran a test for viral hepatitis and this was read as normal. So, I asked the patient to come in and see me. I read from his chart that he was taking four Anavar tablets per day and 100 mg. of Deca-Durabolin each week. I told him that I couldn't really imagine how that dose could cause the liver picture present on the lab test.
I told him that I thought that he was taking much more than that dosage. He confessed that while training for the contest, he had been unable to train as often as he would have liked due to his job. He was taking fourteen Dianabol and fourteen Maxibolin tablets with Deca-Durabolin and testosterone cypionate in rather large doses intramuscularly each day. No wonder his liver reacted!
After halting all the medication for one week, the liver tests returned to normal. They remained normal after he later returned to the Anavar and Deca-Durabolin dosage. He learned a lesson don't fool with mother nature by using too many steroidal drugs. "
