HGH, anyone ever done a cycle of it???

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  • reversedarwinism
    reversedarwinism Posts: 1,151
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    just curious, but i assume the sugars you are referring to are complex carbs? eating simple sugars after the workout is not a good thing. i was assuming your meal would be a good protein and a good quality carb like a brown rice and veggies or something of that nature?

    as far as advice on the HGH goes, unleass you are planning to compete professionally as a bodybuilder, i'd say stay safe. i had some friends in university who i used to train with and they had only amatuer aspirations. one guy was fine. one guy had to have a growth removed from his hamstring and his legs are different sizes now. another continued with it and now has a head that looks like a bunch of softballs taped together.

    it's a roll of the dice, i guess.

    That sounds like streroids to me. You aren't going to have the extreme muscle growths like you mention with HGH - ITS NOT ANABOLIC STEROIDS. I appreciate the concerns/ cautions but I don't think many of you realize this isn't anabolic steroids.

    The simple sugars are good immediately after working out because they cause an insulin spike which is anabolic/ anti-catabolic. Simple sugars aren't recommended any other time. Read that link I posted with the first post.
    CityMouse wrote:
    -you've only been working out for 3 months, you haven't "reached a plateau."
    -you still have plenty of room to get in better shape.
    -there is more to fitness than how many pounds of muscle you have.
    -you probably can't gain much more muscle because anymore isn't what your body needs.
    -and seriously...WHY would you want do this again???

    I can only tell you that I know my body. Part of why I'm so interested in this is for increasing bone mass. Its an issue that I am taking care of with lifting weights and diet, but HGH is beneficial to bone mass. Also, anabolic steroids are bad for bone mass. This is the initial reason that I got interested in HGH. The gains (wanting to look bigger) are another reason, but the bone mass thing is actually very important to my future - YES I HAVE BEEN TO THE DOCTOR
    facepollution wrote:
    If you think you're close to reaching a plateau it sounds like you would be better off changing up your workout and looking at your eating habits. I'm pretty much the same size as you said you were (5'9", 145lbs) and if I eat enough decent quality food and stick to workouts religiously I have no problem packing on a good few solid pounds.

    If you're riding your bike a lot, all that cardio could prevent you from putting on muscle, since you need to be in a calorie surplus to put weight on and a deficit to lose it. It sounds more like you need to re-examine your goals. I kind of learnt that the hard way. At the beginning of the year I decided to get fit again, so I really went for it, quit drinking for a couple of months and had a pristine diet. And I did see some really positive changes, I lost a lot of the fat on my abs, and really toned up, but I wasn't putting on much actual muscle. And this was my problem, I wanted (like everyone else!) to put muscle on and get lean at the same time. Unfortunately these things require completely different approaches. For now, I've given up on the ultra-flat abs and decided to concentrate on muscle gain and strength, and I've seen a real increase in both in a fairly short amount of time.

    I know you probably know all of the above, and I certainly can't advise you on the hormone supplements, but personally I would be thinking about the other options before I started needlessly looking for quick fixes.

    I'm always lean, fast, strong and skinny. The cardio makes me feel good. I take in huge amounts of calories and eat good food, mostly for free. No fast food, Junk food and very little resturant food.

    Again thank yall for the concerns/ cautions. I'll do this for yall. I've made my mind up about this, and I'm going to start in a few weeks. I'll let yall know everything about it.
    bombs, dropping down, please forgive our hometown
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    reversedarwinism wrote:
    That sounds like streroids to me. You aren't going to have the extreme muscle growths like you mention with HGH - ITS NOT ANABOLIC STEROIDS. I appreciate the concerns/ cautions but I don't think many of you realize this isn't anabolic steroids.

    no, my friend, i am talking HGH. i wasn't talking about muscle growth with the "growth" on the leg. it was more like a swelling he had to get removed because it wasn't normal. now, as i said, he has two different sized legs.

    the other guy i mentioned with the big head...again HGH...but he continued to use. he has also used several different types of steroids, but HGH can make you grow disproportionately. he certainly has.

    edit: oh, and yes the simple sugars from fruit or something of that nature are good. i was thinking you were talking about an "energy" drink or something like that.
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    reversedarwinism wrote:
    Again thank yall for the concerns/ cautions. I'll do this for yall. I've made my mind up about this, and I'm going to start in a few weeks. I'll let yall know everything about it.

    sounds to me like you already had your mind made up before starting this thread.

    i'm sorry, but you're making a stupid decision. i hope you'll be ok and you're one of the lucky ones.
  • reversedarwinism
    reversedarwinism Posts: 1,151
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    sounds to me like you already had your mind made up before starting this thread.

    i'm sorry, but you're making a stupid decision. i hope you'll be ok and you're one of the lucky ones.

    I pretty much did. I was just looking for testimonials. I wonder what type of HGH the people you know took. Was it injectable? So far, the types I've looked at are powder that you drink. And legal, which I don't know if any HGH is illegal. The first one I looked at uses bovine source anterior pituitary and hypothalmus, plus amino acid bases. Also, I'm only looking into one cycle of use. A few hours ago, a friend of mine gave me websites of two vegetable sources of HGH. Everything I've looked at seems to be safe. May be your friends were taking a stronger version of HGH or the steriods were more involved. I tell you though, you have promted me to look deeper into this and I will tonight.
    bombs, dropping down, please forgive our hometown
  • mookie blaylock 10
    mookie blaylock 10 Posts: 4,042
    reversedarwinism wrote:
    I pretty much did. I was just looking for testimonials. I wonder what type of HGH the people you know took. Was it injectable? So far, the types I've looked at are powder that you drink. And legal, which I don't know if any HGH is illegal. The first one I looked at uses bovine source anterior pituitary and hypothalmus, plus amino acid bases. Also, I'm only looking into one cycle of use. A few hours ago, a friend of mine gave me websites of two vegetable sources of HGH. Everything I've looked at seems to be safe. May be your friends were taking a stronger version of HGH or the steriods were more involved. I tell you though, you have promted me to look deeper into this and I will tonight.

    cool. you seem like a very smart person, so do look into it some more. i'm not trying to tell anyone how to go about their business, just saying that there are down sides and that it's not cool to see someone get into something they'll regret. as far as the HGH goes, i didn't really want to be a part of what they were doing, so i'm not sure about the details, just about the when's and where's of them using it. i'm sure the steroids were a factor in the third case i mentioned, along with the fact that he continued to use it. the second case was either a one in a million co-inky-dink, or the result of what he had introduced to his body. the first one was fine.

    i guess it depends on the person and, as you mentioned, the amounts. if not for health reasons and monitored by a physician, it just seems like a risk for too little reward.
  • reversedarwinism
    reversedarwinism Posts: 1,151
    mookie blaylock 10 wrote:
    cool. you seem like a very smart person, so do look into it some more. i'm not trying to tell anyone how to go about their business, just saying that there are down sides and that it's not cool to see someone get into something they'll regret. as far as the HGH goes, i didn't really want to be a part of what they were doing, so i'm not sure about the details, just about the when's and where's of them using it. i'm sure the steroids were a factor in the third case i mentioned, along with the fact that he continued to use it. the second case was either a one in a million co-inky-dink, or the result of what he had introduced to his body. the first one was fine.

    i guess it depends on the person and, as you mentioned, the amounts. if not for health reasons and monitored by a physician, it just seems like a risk for too little reward.

    Ok, I'm not through looking into it, but what I've founds so far is that the side effects you mention are very possible but are always related to using extremely high doses of straight HGH. Every thing I've found recommends .03mg/kg/day. The "abnormal growth" is a possible of side effect of using much more than that. Also, what I discovered is that the products I've looked at aren't straight HGH, but rather send signals to the pituitary to produce "teenage levels". Obviously this is a cheaper and less direct supplement. What I've read so far indicates that it is also safer. Now, the product my friend has told me of today is even cheaper and I barely looked at it. Looks like what I'm willing to spend on this is the cheaper, more natural, and safer version, but I'm still going to look into all this. May be even make my choice of a product tonight.
    bombs, dropping down, please forgive our hometown
  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    reversedarwinism wrote:
    Ok, I'm not through looking into it, but what I've founds so far is that the side effects you mention are very possible but are always related to using extremely high doses of straight HGH. Every thing I've found recommends .03mg/kg/day. The "abnormal growth" is a possible of side effect of using much more than that. Also, what I discovered is that the products I've looked at aren't straight HGH, but rather send signals to the pituitary to produce "teenage levels". Obviously this is a cheaper and less direct supplement. What I've read so far indicates that it is also safer. Now, the product my friend has told me of today is even cheaper and I barely looked at it. Looks like what I'm willing to spend on this is the cheaper, more natural, and safer version, but I'm still going to look into all this. May be even make my choice of a product tonight.

    How much are you paying for this and what exactly is it called?
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

    "Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
  • reversedarwinism
    reversedarwinism Posts: 1,151
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    How much are you paying for this and what exactly is it called?

    Well, I can't decide tonight. One that looks the best is the first one that I looked at. The recommendation is for a 3 month cycle and is available in powder and pill at $25 dollars a month. This one uses the bovine source antior pituitary plus hypothalmus. I'll post all what I settle on when I decide. I'm too tired to look anymore tonight.
    bombs, dropping down, please forgive our hometown
  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    reversedarwinism wrote:
    Well, I can't decide tonight. One that looks the best is the first one that I looked at. The recommendation is for a 3 month cycle and is available in powder and pill at $25 dollars a month. This one uses the bovine source antior pituitary plus hypothalmus. I'll post all what I settle on when I decide. I'm too tired to look anymore tonight.

    First of all, for that much money you are not getting actual HGH. What you will be getting is most likely just something that is going to pollute your body and upset your stomach. Your wasting your time........stop looking for the quick fix and just work out. It kinda pisses me off to think that people would waste so much money on this crap that doesnt work and is only hurting you when I can barely pay my bills each month. I am a personal trainer and have 10 years of experience in fitness and I can tell you that all workout supplements are a waste besides for whey protein and multivitamins (you likely wouldnt even need these if you just ate correctly)
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

    "Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,337
    Dumb.
  • Purple Puppy
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  • reversedarwinism
    reversedarwinism Posts: 1,151
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    First of all, for that much money you are not getting actual HGH. What you will be getting is most likely just something that is going to pollute your body and upset your stomach. Your wasting your time........stop looking for the quick fix and just work out. It kinda pisses me off to think that people would waste so much money on this crap that doesnt work and is only hurting you when I can barely pay my bills each month. I am a personal trainer and have 10 years of experience in fitness and I can tell you that all workout supplements are a waste besides for whey protein and multivitamins (you likely wouldnt even need these if you just ate correctly)

    Thats what I just said. Its a HGH releaser, not straight HGH. If you think that all supplements are a waste besides mulitvitamins and whey protein, you are wrong. You may be a personal trainer, but you don't know the science. I'm physically fit. I'm looking for something that will take muscle gains to the next level plus add bone density. I've worked out before with just whey protein for long periods of time. It doesn't compare to this time when I've added other ingredients. You don't think creatine and arginine do anything for you? Anterior pituitary sgnals the release of HGH. I looked at a couple that cost about 60 dollars, but don't look better than the 25 dollar one. My best friend is the one that gave me the catolog with the $25 product. He took that one along with creatine and Aftershock by myogenix. His results were obvious to anyone. So far my results are great for me and obvious to people that know me. I haven't started the HGH treatment yet, because I was concerned about the bone density aspect of it. I was just looking for more testimonials here. I didn't know about straight HGH. Straight HGH looks much more dangerous than what I'm looking into. I'm sorry you can barely pay your bills, but I can afford to experiment with this. If it works like I want - great, if not I'll stop taking it and won't reorder. If it hurts my stomach, I'll stop. Either way, I'll post my results here. May be I'll get "quick fix", and you can be pissed about that and that you can't pay your bills and your Packers' dissappointing season ;)
    bombs, dropping down, please forgive our hometown
  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    Realistically what amount of weight are you looking to put on?
  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    reversedarwinism wrote:
    Thats what I just said. Its a HGH releaser, not straight HGH. If you think that all supplements are a waste besides mulitvitamins and whey protein, you are wrong. You may be a personal trainer, but you don't know the science. I'm physically fit. I'm looking for something that will take muscle gains to the next level plus add bone density. I've worked out before with just whey protein for long periods of time. It doesn't compare to this time when I've added other ingredients. You don't think creatine and arginine do anything for you? Anterior pituitary sgnals the release of HGH. I looked at a couple that cost about 60 dollars, but don't look better than the 25 dollar one. My best friend is the one that gave me the catolog with the $25 product. He took that one along with creatine and Aftershock by myogenix. His results were obvious to anyone. So far my results are great for me and obvious to people that know me. I haven't started the HGH treatment yet, because I was concerned about the bone density aspect of it. I was just looking for more testimonials here. I didn't know about straight HGH. Straight HGH looks much more dangerous than what I'm looking into. I'm sorry you can barely pay your bills, but I can afford to experiment with this. If it works like I want - great, if not I'll stop taking it and won't reorder. If it hurts my stomach, I'll stop. Either way, I'll post my results here. May be I'll get "quick fix", and you can be pissed about that and that you can't pay your bills and your Packers' dissappointing season ;)

    You havent a clue
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

    "Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
  • lalalalaaaaaaaa
    lalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    reversedarwinism wrote:
    The guys that I know that have taken it have loved it. Anyone here ever done it? What forms do you reccommend? I haven't looked into the different products yet.

    I've been lifting and riding my bike consistently for about 3 months and following this

    http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/topicoftheweek37.htm

    , and I've gained 15-20 lbs of muscle. Even though my results are obvious and I like them, I think I'm close to reaching a plateau. I've never taken steriods, but I'm very interested in HGH. I wanted to make sure that it increased bone density before I decided on it, and it does do that. Just wanted to check the pit for additional testimonials.
    Eff HGH, man. What's wrong with plateauing after putting on 20lbs of muscle? That's about where I've been at for a year. Enjoy your newb gainz, and then decide where you want to go by manipulating the diet. If you want more muscle, just eat more. If you want more definition, eat less. It's not rocket science, regardless of what the nutcases on bb.com will tell ya. The best body builder is a sane, healthy one.
  • civ_eng_girl
    civ_eng_girl Posts: 2,001
    reversedarwinism wrote:
    I pretty much did. I was just looking for testimonials. I wonder what type of HGH the people you know took. Was it injectable? So far, the types I've looked at are powder that you drink. And legal, which I don't know if any HGH is illegal. The first one I looked at uses bovine source anterior pituitary and hypothalmus, plus amino acid bases. Also, I'm only looking into one cycle of use. A few hours ago, a friend of mine gave me websites of two vegetable sources of HGH. Everything I've looked at seems to be safe. May be your friends were taking a stronger version of HGH or the steriods were more involved. I tell you though, you have promted me to look deeper into this and I will tonight.

    bovine source? does this not set off alarm bells with anyone else??

    brings a whole new meaning to the expression "strong like bull!"

    :rolleyes:
    ~~*~~ ...i surfaced and all of my being was enlightend... ~~*~~
  • reversedarwinism
    reversedarwinism Posts: 1,151
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    You havent a clue

    So where'd you get your information from, huh? You haven't done anything but show you're bitter and cynical. What a surprise coming from you. You didn't answer my question about creatine and arginine. Come on, lets hear it. Surely you're right and the two People I've witness take the cheaper HGH signaling products are wrong. My ex-father-in-law did a fairly cheap HGH treatment like this for other benefits and he had good results with recovering from an injury and said he felt like a million bucks in general. And he's a very, very fit 55 year old man. And surely the tons of people that have taken creatine are wasting their money. You can do alot with vitamins and whey protein and food. But you can do alot more with anabolic pumps, creatine, proper sugars and hormone therapy added. I haven't added the HGH therapy, but the gains I have already achieved blow away any I had with just protein and vitamins. And I'm far, far from being alone on this. Seriously, do you just type out of your ass? There is a formula to getting gains faster, if you know about it or not. You may consider it "cheating", but it works.
    facepollution wrote:
    Realistically what amount of weight are you looking to put on?

    10 to 20 more pounds.

    And I can not stress enough that I eat more food than anybody I know. I always have. I'm one of those that never get fat, at all. The only way I've ever gained weight is with exercise.
    bombs, dropping down, please forgive our hometown
  • lalalalaaaaaaaa
    lalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    reversedarwinism wrote:
    10 to 20 more pounds.

    And I can not stress enough that I eat more food than anybody I know. I always have. I'm one of those that never get fat, at all. The only way I've ever gained weight is with exercise.

    You're just an ectomorph, that's all. It doesn't matter how much everyone else eats compared to you. If you're not gaining weight, you're not eating enough. Period. HGH or whatever else won't help you if you're not eating enough in the first place. Those things will speed up your gains, but nothing overrides the fact that you have to eat more calories than you're burning in order to gain weight.

    If you're not gaining on your current diet, eat more. And if you start gaining more fat than muscle, change yer macronutrient ratios.
  • verb_to_trust
    verb_to_trust Posts: 178
    I think your a little too obsessive about your appearance. It sounds like you work out and take plenty good care of yourself as it is....

    Nobody is gonna care about that little extra muscle. And nobody is gonna stop you walking down the street and say "hey, nice bone mass"
  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    First of all, there arent any quality studies done on arginine. Second of all, creatine does not give the results to make it worth the price. In fact, I found that besides recovering faster from working out when I first start up again after taking a break, it does not really offer any benefits for me........not to mention that nobody knows the long term effects of this stuff. I tried all this shit in high school and early college and it did nothing for me. I have made my biggest muscle and strength gains from eating healthy, lifting, running (both sprints and jogging), and alot of sleep. Why try to be somebody else? Why not just workout to become as big as you can be?
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

    "Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson

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