For the record, regarding my frontloading equipoise, I got very sick from front loading equipoise and enanthate at the same time around this time , lmao, so be careful lol,
here is another decent run down on front loading:
Frontloading really doesn't mean running higher levels of steroids in the earlier part of the cycle. It means using a dosing protocol where levels almost immediately reach what will be the later steady-state levels of the drug. When not frontloading, and simply using the drug at the same dosing as will be used throughout it takes several to many half-lives for levels to build up to where they will ultimately arrive. Instead, one can inject on the first day an amount equal to that which is on average injected per half-life, plus what will be the ongoing dose. This will lead to fairly promptly having the same levels that will be the case throughout the cycle. If a drug's half-life is two days and the ongoing plan is to inject daily, then to frontload the first day's injection is three days' worth. If a drug's half-life is six days and the ongoing plan is to inject every other day, then to frontload the first day's injection is four times the ongoing amount. Because there would be 3 injections per half life so you would need to add another one. It's fairly common, when users don't frontload, the results would be minimal or difficult to detect in the first couple of weeks and even to some degree into the third week. This is particularly true with long-acting esters. Another factor is that rate of muscle gain isn't as high when starting from a higher level.
Some drugs which have relatively long half-lives. When such a drug is being used, then the amount in the system at any given time is not only that resulting from the dose just taken, but also a further amount that is remaining from previous doses. Therefore, by using a steroid cycle as an example, suppose someone is dosing 100 mg/day of a steroid which has a half-life of 7 days, and over the long term this is giving him the levels he wants. Once well into his cycle, after any given injection he will have in his system not only the 100 mg that he just injected, but another 700 mg remaining from the previous injections. So, if on Day 1 all he does is inject 100 mg, he won't have nearly the levels that his cycle, over time, will eventually produce. He would need to inject 800 mg to be in a comparable place.
Frontloading is the practice where a calculated larger injection amount is used on Day 1 to promptly bring levels to the same value that they would eventually stabilize at.The amount to use is the amount that is on average taken in one half-life of the drug, plus the injection amount that will ordinarily be used. So for example, let's say an individual is planning on using 600 mg/week of test e, taken as 200 mg three times per week. Considering the half-life at 5 days, then on average the amount taken per half-life (per 5 days) is 5/7 of the 600 mg. That works out to an average of 429 mg taken per 5 days. So the frontload amount is that amount, plus the usual ongoing amount of 200 mg. If being highly exact this would work out as 629 mg, but as 600 mg is a more convenient figure, this would be more than close enough. There's no problem in rounding up or down the number a little. So on Day 1 the injection would be 600 mg. This would not produce unusually high levels, but instead would promptly get levels to where they need to be. If not frontloading but just doing the 200 mg 3x/week schedule, even at the end of two weeks levels would still be building. Only by the third to fourth week point would they be nearly at their stabalized value.
Another good example would be EQ since it has a long half-life and so if there was no frontload, it takes a longer time for levels to build. This is why many say that it takes 6 weeks, or some similar figure, for it to show any effect. Actually EQ is capable of contributing well by the end of the first week, if the levels are there, but in the situations being referred to levels are not there due to lack of frontload. Due to the long half life of EQ, a large frontload is needed. The first injection be an amount equal to about 2.5 times the amount that will be used per week. So if for example the ongoing dosing will be 400mg/week, on the first day the frontload should be about 900-1000 mg. The dosing can either be split into a few shots per week or into the first day.
Most people don't do this, and as a result they experience little effect from EQ until many weeks into the cycle. For this reason, it's widely claimed that EQ cycles need to be long or otherwise they do not work, but this really is not so. Instead the problem is failure to frontload, or failure to fronload sufficiently.
