Study: bodybuilders grow on 10mg dianabol per day

Study: bodybuilders grow on 10mg dianabol per day

Way back in 1975, sports scientists at Manchester University in England made a discovery that mainstream science would only come to accept twenty years later. The researchers gave bodybuilders who worked out in fitness centres pills containing the anabolic steroid Dianabol, produced by the CIBA Laboratories. They discovered that these accelerated muscle growth. "Their improvements were significantly greater on methandienone than on placebo", the Brits wrote.

The researchers got thirteen athletes to participate in their experiment, and gave them either a placebo or Dianabol. They had known since 1969 that bodybuilders used steroids and that there was lively clandestine trade in the substances. They also knew that women sometimes took steroids and that stories were doing the rounds of users who took over 300 mg of Dianabol per day. The scientists did their experiment to find out whether steroids really had any effect on athletes.

They gave their test subjects either 10 or 25 mg of Dianabol per day. Some of the athletes started with the steroids and ended with a placebo, and the others did it the other way round. All athletes could tell whether they were using a steroid or the fake. When they were using the blue CIBA pills they felt “prima-donna-ish”, or made, in their own words, “fantastic improvements”. The athletes’ progression is shown below. It is not clear from the article how the researchers measured progress. They did mention though that the group on 10 mg of Dianabol per day made as much progress as the group on the higher dose.

Anabolic steroids in athelics: crossover double-blind trial on weightlifters.

Very interesting thing I noticed in the article is at the end when they say the researchers mentioned the group on 10mg of dbol yielded the same progress as the group on the higher dosage. Curious if it was a controlled study and how they concluded the athletes weren't using any other substances during the study. Good info, makes you think.

Interesting, they used to do a lot on a lot less back then. Training and diet were a lot more and the physiques weren't unworldly.


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i read this a little bit back and another comparrison study on some other compounds as well. the times have sure changed big time and it's really interesting to see what they were able to accomplish with so much less

So true, everything just seems a little backwards nowadays. I can't count how many times I've had someone ask me in the gym what they should "take" to get big. I just shake my head and tell them for starters they can "take" themselves a great diet. Looking at the guys back in the day, it just goes to show you what you can achieve when you put diet and training first and leave supplements as just that, a supplement. At that point, you can achieve more with less

Back when I tried dbol, I grew on 20mg a day. I had my diet and training down pat so that helped me break though when I was stuck at a wall with training

No doubt ..One of the really popular cycles back in the 80s was 10 mg Dianabol and 5 mg anavar. That was if you were hardcore. If not, you stuck with just the dianabol