pin once or twice a week?

liftedgift

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What do yall do? I've heard people say that the half life is too short and if you pin once a week then by day 5-6 it's mostly gone? Is that true?

Has anyone tested both ways and noticed any difference?
 
What do yall do? I've heard people say that the half life is too short and if you pin once a week then by day 5-6 it's mostly gone? Is that true?

Has anyone tested both ways and noticed any difference?

Half-life of what compound..? They're all different...!!!
 
Test e has an active life of about 10 days so in theory once a week is good but many will choose to inject it twice a week to keep more stable levels.
 
Half-life of Enanthate is about 5 days..... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2333732

Might be best inject once every 5 days...

I was talking about active life not half-life. Anyways that stuff is confusing.

Half-life: The period of time required for the concentration or amount of drug in the body to be reduced to exactly one-half of a given concentration or amount.Active life: Refers to the period in which the amount of a drug in the body is enough that it will still produce the desired effects for which it was administered. Or conversely, inhibit natural recovery of normal bodily function. It is dose dependent.

Personally i'd inject it twice a week.
 
I was talking about active life not half-life. Anyways that stuff is confusing.



Personally i'd inject it twice a week.

It seems to be to you....

I mentioned half-life because its appropriate in this case (when discussing a multiple injection protocol) The compounding of these half-lives to give maximal blood concentrations after 4-5 half-lives..... Hence if the half-life of Enanthate is about 5 days it makes it easier if you inject every 5 days when trying to work out blood levels at any given time..

Half lives aren't set in stone. There's a lot of variables to be considered. The value of 5 days is a commonly accepted average value. It can be substantially longer or shorter than this as it depends on a plethora of factors.

Esters spontaneously react with water. The blood within your body is a water based solution, hence testosterone esters break down naturally to some extent once they hit the blood stream, but this process is also facilitated via enzymes known as esterases (also present in the blood stream).

When you inject your oil it creates a depot with a specific surface area exposed to the blood plasma within your muscles. The oil containing testosterone ester at the exposed surface area interface leaches out slowly into your body's blood stream.

Lower volume injects have a larger surface area to volume ratio to begin with than larger injects, therefore injecting small volumes of gear decreases the half life of testosterone ester within your body.

There are so many variables to consider affecting this process, that it is impossible to give a very definite value for each ester, they are nothing but guides.

Hope that helps....
 
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Awesome info, you say it would be better to inject every 5 days. Say I wanted to do 500mg a week would you switch the dose from 250mg to 500mg depending on if you could be in the same week 5days from then, or does it not really matter that it is the exact same week?

Honestly I think I would play it safe and just do 2 pins a week.
 
lots of people do the Monday and Thursday pin schedule. when I cycle that will be mine.
 
Just go for 2 pins a week if that's what your leaning towards. I pin once with a blend of 300mg enanthate and 300mg decanoate, I'm relying on the decanoate ester keeping blood levels to a degree of stability
 
Just go for 2 pins a week if that's what your leaning towards. I pin once with a blend of 300mg enanthate and 300mg decanoate, I'm relying on the decanoate ester keeping blood levels to a degree of stability

As with my above post:

When you inject your oil it creates a depot with a specific surface area exposed to the blood plasma within your muscles. The oil containing testosterone ester at the exposed surface area interface leaches out slowly into your body's blood stream.

Lower volume injects have a larger surface area to volume ratio to begin with than larger injects, therefore injecting small volumes of gear decreases the half life of testosterone ester within your body.


Single pin, slower release of compound..

Double pin of half the amount, quicker release of compound. (so long as both are of the same ester).. (and you inject in a different place)....
 
Awesome info, you say it would be better to inject every 5 days. Say I wanted to do 500mg a week would you switch the dose from 250mg to 500mg depending on if you could be in the same week 5days from then, or does it not really matter that it is the exact same week?

Honestly I think I would play it safe and just do 2 pins a week.

500mg every 5 days, ignore what week your in it doesn't matter... Every 5 days 1-2-3-4-5 (pin) 1-2-3-4-5 (pin) and so on......!!!!
 
It's really not the important, make sure you lift, eat well and you'll grow regardless if you pin 1 or 2 per week.
 
Wouldn't it be better to keep levels up and not allow the blood plasma levels to drop to its half life?

Your forgetting the compounded half-lives from previous injections.... Plus the single pin of 500mg creating less surface area/mg of compound, slower release....

Bangs head against wall...!!!!!!!

Like crazycat' says bang it in, and eat well, train hard... It doesn't really matter that much with specifics, if you understand the science it helps but thats all, everyone responds differently anyway...
 
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