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Which results to expect with SARMS
As a bodybuilder working out to gain muscle mass, have you ever reached a point where your utmost attempts no longer yield any gains to your body? It can happen to all of us. It means you have just hit the natural threshold beyond which the body can’t reward you anymore for your hard work. This can make you frustrated and feel like a caged bird yearning to break free and fly!
Not to worry. This is where performance enhancement supplements or drugs could help you out of your stalemate. Now, your first thought about performance enhancement drugs maybe anabolic steroids. But, no, I am referring to SARMs, a new exciting class of compounds that are setting the trend in the fitness and bodybuilding circles for performance enhancement.
SARMs, or Selective Androgenic Receptor Modulators, are a set of powerful compounds that can help you to reach your bodybuilding and fitness goals, whether it is to increase muscle mass, cut weight, enhance your strength and stamina or achieve body recomposition. But what kind of results can you expect using SARMs if you want to increase muscle mass? The results to expect using SARMs for muscle mass is what I will tell you about in this article.
First, what are SARMs?
SARMs are a kind of synthetic compounds which were developed to treat conditions like osteoporosis, muscle waste, and other medical conditions. For quite some time, information about SARMs remained largely confined in the laboratory world, where research progressed to unlock what the benefits SARMS could be holding for medical therapies.
However, the bodybuilding and athletic community soon got wind of them, and it set the community on fire as many turned to them as their favorite performances enhancement product. This discovery went all the way to competitive sports, where some athletes secretly used them to win their way to the medals ranks. In time, this dirty secret was outed, so WADA has banned athletes from using it.
Even though both SARMs and anabolic steroids are used to produce the same effect, they work quite differently from each other. Steroids are synthetic versions of the hormone, testosterone. Their job is to stimulate the body to produce male characteristics like bigger muscles, deep voice, etc.
While steroids bind onto androgenic receptors virtually everywhere in the body, SARMs only bind to receptors in bone and muscle, which is precisely where you desire changes to take place. The indiscriminate targeting by steroids can produce ugly results since it turns on receptors everywhere, including the liver, blood vessels, etc. One of the common consequences of this is liver toxicity, which eventually leads to its permanent damage. SARMs can avoid all these frightening issues because they zero down only on bone and muscle. This ensures that they only produce changes there, such as bigger muscles or higher bone density.
Benefits
The benefits of muscle mass increase vary according to your choice of SARM. Virtually, all SARMs can be used to add muscle mass, but some are truly outstanding, enabling you to acquire hard, lean muscle quite quickly and dramatically.
The following are some of the benefits you can expect to see in Ligandrol, one of the SARMs compound. It holds first place among the SARMs which can give you the highest amount of muscle mass gains. Some of these benefits are typical to other SARMS, but some are unique to Ligandrol.
- Ligandrol will give you 5 to 10 pounds of lean muscle gain per month using low dosages such as 5 mg per day
- You will experience increased stamina, libido, quicker recovery from injury and much-reduced pain
- By the 3rd week, you will notice that you lift better, and your cardiovascular power is enhanced. This is explained by the additional muscle mass you have gained, which gives you strength for performing these tasks
- You will also notice increased vascularity as you continue into your cycle. This is noticeable thick threads of veins emerging from the skin
- You will also feel a great sense of well being with no episodes of mood swings
- No bloating issues or water retention.
- No liver harm or high blood pressure levels nor bad cholesterol levels
- No baldness or prostate enlargement
- Results typically kick in by the second or third week
- Little need for PCT as testosterone suppression is usually absent at the end of the cycle
- Ligandrol is also perfect in helping you hold as much as possible to your muscle gains after the cycle. This can extend for four weeks after your cycle is complete.
In clinical studies, Ligandrol proved very effective in treating muscle waste and bone fragility in people with muscular dystrophy, cancer, old age, and osteoporosis. Three studies can be cited to give a sense of the results you can expect from SARM in terms of boosting lean muscle mass.
- Study 1. 70 healthy people gained more lean muscle with minimal effects on their prostate
- Study 2. People taking 1 mg per day gained 3 pounds of lean muscle in 3 weeks
- Study 3. A study on 76 people found that low dosages of Ligandrol were safe. Up to 22 mg, a day can be used
In dosages of 25 to 36 mg once a day, you will see rapid gains of up to 15 pound of lean muscle on Ostarine. This makes Ostarine one of the highest yielding SARMs in terms of delivering lean muscle.
Side effects of SARMs for muscle gain
- SARMs will typically give you few or no side effects. However, some side effects have been noted Witt their use such as
- Gynecomastia or enlarged breasts (men’s boobs) can develop in men if they use high doses of SARMS for more than 4 weeks
- Virilization will occur in women if they use SARMs for more than 4 weeks. Virilization is the development of male characteristics like hoarse voice, and formation of an Adam’s apple
- Infertility can result from long term use or higher dosages
- Acne cases in both men and women especially if they have oily skin
- Baldness in men especially if they have a predisposition
All the SARMs side effects are triggered by their wrong usage: either using them for too long or taking higher dosages than that which is recommended. So simply keep this in mind if you want to avoid the side effects.
SARMs won’t give you any of these
What side effects can one expect from steroids that one won’t get from SARMs? Here are some
- No hepatoxicity – steroids can cause damage to the liver
- SARMs come in liquid or capsule form while steroids are mostly injection.
- Steroids can cause your prostate to shrink which SARMs does not
- The negative impact of steroids on your reproductive system. SARMs leaves it intact
- You can’t easily give up steroids once you start using them. SARMs has no such addictive issues. This steroid dependence can eventually lead to serious situations where you will need testosterone replacement therapy or TRT since the body will be unable to produce its hormones naturally.
Dosage and stacking options
If you want great and exceptional results from bulking SARMs, you can stack them together. You have many choices of stacks to choose from such as the following
- LGD 4033 (Ligandrol) + RAD 140 (Testolone) – take 10 mg of each for between 1 to 8 weeks. This stack can give you amazing results because you will gain between 10 and 15 pounds of lean muscle. This stack is suppressive so a PCT should be taken with it
- S23 10 gm + RAD 140 10 mg + MK 677 20 gm taken for between 1 and 8 weeks – This triple-stack is ideal for advanced users and probably ranks as the best stack for muscle building.
Conclusion
SARMs can give you phenomenal gains in muscle mass and are an excellent choice for this goal. They are not as potent as steroids, but they come with very few or no side effects. This makes them a superior option to steroids as you don’t have to worry about your health as long as you follow recommended dosages and not take them for too long.
You also won’t easily find steroids in the market because they are banned. SARMs can be legally bought as research chemicals, although they are banned for personal use or human consumption.
Because the SARMs market is infested with counterfeits, you as a customer should ensure that you buy from a reputable vendor to avoid being exposed to harmful substances. You can take a look at user reviews concerning this, or you can go for those vendors who have third party lab testing that show high purity for the SARMs content in their products. Also continuously do your research regarding SARMs before you commit to buy.
This is because SARMs are still being investigated, and some of their side effects are being found. Keep in mind that much is still not known about many of the SARMs since they are relatively new. Their long term side effects are therefore unknown.
The experiences of other users can be very informative in providing anecdotal evidence of results and side effects of using SARMs for muscle gain.