my take from most of the posts here is aside from a very select few, most are first timers here grabbing the first thing they can get their hands on to get 'jacked' or 'ripped' or whatever else is slapped in big letter on the bottle lol. And winny is certainly one of the more popular.
Now given that most guys here have little background knowledge (usually) about whats going on and have probably not injected before, an option between a few tabs a day, or a daily injection for 6 weeks should be a no brainer. Once the experience and understanding is there, things change of course.
I can't say I've researched into actual facts about winny 'drying' joints, buts its a personal condition and practically everyone I talk to mentions it as well. but there very well be no sound evidence for it.
As for cutting vs bulking compounds....really??? You sounds like a well educated guy on this topic, and you really consider there no difference? I mean obviously it depends on diet and training, but if you were to eat and train exactly the same on a dec/test/dbol cycle as you would on a prop/tren/winny cycle, you're going to see a pretty significant difference. Hell even the ester makes a bit or a difference (typically prop/ace to cut and enth/cyp to bulk) just due to water retention. I do understand what youre saying however, and modifying diet will modify results, but when you ask for a bulking or cutting cycle, youre going to be given specific drugs for your choice.
I definitely don't disagree with you about guys grabbing the first thing they hear about and wanting to try it without putting in much effort, I was just saying that as far as winstrol is concerned inject is actually better to an extent than the oral form...though I would never tell anyone to jump on anything that would require ed/eod injects for a first or second cycle...one should always learn how to properly inject and become used to doing it properly through as few injections as possible to begin with, i.e. running compounds that require 2 injections per week
Now just because you ask for a bulker or cutter and certain AAS have been deemed a bulker or cutter compound, that doesn't mean that is all they can be used for, that just goes to show what has become the norm for it, whether it is completely true or not...kind of the same thing with the winstrol and dry joints, several people suffered dry joints while on winstrol so it must be the winstrol that caused it so the rumor ran rampant and became "internet fact"...now some compounds, like deca or dbol, have properties that are better suited for bulking than say winstrol or anavar, but that doesn't mean they can't be used to cut and that winstrol cant be used to bulk...I have some pro bodybuilder friends on another site that use deca and dbol in their cutting cycles and throw winstrol or var in on their bulkers, just goes to show that because something has become "the norm" doesn't make it the be all end all facts...tren is one of those compounds that doesn't really have a designation, it seems to have properties for putting on mass and burning fat, and tren and var are the only two that I will say have a direct effect on fat burning though there have been no conclusive studies that tren does
as for comparing cycles for bulking vs cutting, let me ask you this: would you eat and train exactly the same if you were doing a deca/dbol/test cycle vs prop/tren/winny, most likely not which is why the deca/dbol/test cycle has become the "bulking" stack and prop/tren/winny the "cutting" stack, however if you eat a calorie deficit to cut, no matter what AAS you use, you are going to lose fat and lean out if the diet and training are geared for that goal...same thing for "bulking" and eating a calorie surplus...AAS are nothing more than supplements and should be treated as such, they don't cause you to put fat on and none of them, besides tren or var, have a direct effect on fat burning, it all comes down to diet and training...Bloat is easy to control through increased water, more water in=more water out, decreased salt intake, and in many cases through the use of an AI for bloat associated with estrogen
I've ran more than 10 cycles and every one of them have always been Test/EQ with an oral kicker and finisher, though I've thrown tren in for my last two, one bulker and one cutter, and now every cycle I will run from here on out will always be Test/EQ/Tren with a tbol kicker and another oral finisher...the only thing I change is my diet based on my goal of either bulking or cutting...right now I'm getting ready for another bulker and I'm sitting at 5'8" 220 lbs and a true 8% bf...I'll probably bulk to about 250 and around 12%, but I will only change my diet not the compounds that I use