Giving Up Drugs

Cycling is the term people use when taking anabolic steroids. Cycling is the period when users are on anabolic steroids. It's most common when using steroids cycling every other month, when you're in between cycles, it's called off cycle, it's common that steroid users use high protein or other protein supplements to prevent muscle loss in between cycles.

Reason To Cycle

While using anabolic steroids it's best to cycle for a few reasons. One reason is to decrease chance of injury during physical activity. Another reason for cycling is to decrease your chance of any type of injury that would prevent you from performing to your best ability physically and mentally. Cycling is also used to further hide the fact the an abuser or addict is using anabolic steroids, and also acts to further fool the drug abuser into thinking that they have their addiction under control.

Stacking While Cycling

'Stacking' is when using two or more anabolic steroids at the same time, most people stack steroids to maximized their results. Stacking can cause users to have dramatic results in their muscle mass or their body tone. Stacking is very common in body building, the reason for that is most body builders need to gain extreme muscle mass and at the same time tone up, therefor using a steroid that may only put mass on an abuser wouldn't help to tone the body, that's where stacking comes into play. At the beginning of your cycle you may want to get muscle mass, but at the same time users want to tone down. Users would start out with an anabolic steroid that puts muscle mass on, then finish up their cycle using a steroid that tones their body so they get the maximum result.

Again this creates a feeling in the abuser that they are in control, by affecting a kind of science to their drug abuse they feel everything is balanced and cared for, when in actuality they are playing havoc with their body's chemical equilibrium and internal organs - notably the heart which, being a muscle itself, is directly affected by anabolic steroid abuse.