In decades past, Dianabol was one major bodybuilding staple. Bodybuilders would consume them by the handful back in the 1960s and 1970s, before the oral toxicity issue really came to light. And, as history has shown, the bodybuilders of the time seemed to overcome the use and live to ripe old ages, as we see today. Dianabol was an extremely popular steroid for making off-season and pre-contest gains, and is still very widely used today as an aid to injectable testosterone. Dianabol is very good as a ‘jumpstarter’, or a compound which makes a cycle felt immediately, instead of the 3 to 4 weeks it commonly takes for injectables to begin working.

In terms of gains, Dianabol is responsible for a great deal of other effects of which you may already have some awareness. Muscle hardness increases all over the body. The bodybuilder gets stronger and is able to complete more repetitions than normal. New size comes a a steady rate during early cycles, and body fat is peeled away with much in the way of dietary changes. In essence, you will get bigger and stronger and leaner from using Dianabol.

On the negative side, Dianabol has the usual effects you find in oral anabolic steroids – mainly, toxicity. The liver is forced to process Dianabol, and long-term heavy use can lead to blood polyps which may eventually turn into cancerous tumors. In the past, bodybuilders would remain clean in the off-season, and then use Dianabol and other steroids mainly in the pre-contest phase to ‘grow up’ to a show. Today, athletes tend to blow up very large in the off-season using steroids, so there could be some serious risk in not letting the body have a break, due to the use of Dianabol in both the off-season as well as the pre-contest phase.

Another particular side effect – which can be either positive or negative, depending upon how you look at it, is incredible back pumps. These blood buildups resulting in amazing pumps while training can occur anywhere in the body while using Dianabol, but the back seems to be the area most reported by trainers. Plenty of liquids, as well as supplementation with potassium can help counter these massive pumps, although some bodybuilders enjoy them immensely. There are points when they can become so intense that they not-so-gently pull on the chest muscles, making it harder to breathe. Upper back pumps can be very desirable when training for wider and thicker lats, but when the lower back fills with blood, deadlifting time might be over for the day.

Most users just chalk up these insane pumps to the fact that Dianabol is a very effective drug, and blood flow increases for a variety of reasons. Most users learn to work around them, or even to embrace them. After all, blood flow to the muscle groups of the body results in the transport of amino acids to these fibers, giving the muscle receptors the tools they need for growth. If you use Dianabol, these pumps may just be something you learn to live with – and possibly learn to love.

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