Dianabol (commonly called DBol) is the quickest way of building mass and strength fast. This is fast acting, short half life steroid.

Unlike most of the other powerful anabolic androgenic steroids out there, Dianabol is mainly used in an oral tablet form rather than injections; although an injectable form also exists.

Dbol is one of the rare steroids out there which was created purely to enhance athletic performance in steroid users, rather than originally developed for other purposes such as to treat medical conditions or for use in animals. It is providing big muscle and strength gains which boosts nitrogen retention and works fast, making this a staple compound in most advanced stacks.

The primary areas where Dianabol excels is for mass and strength building. It’s also often used at the beginning of a bulking cycle to bring about fast results early on.

The important benefits and effects of Dianabol are:

• Increases mass rapidly
• Increases nitrogen retention
• Boosts power and strength
• Enhances and speeds up muscle recovery
• Reduces fatigue allowing for longer workouts
• Lower androgenic effects than other steroids
• Works well with many other steroids
• Doesn’t require painful injections

One of the most common uses of Dianabol is as a bulking steroid during the off-season, due to the fact it can deliver rapid and high quality mass building results.

Being such a powerful steroid, Dianabol is very effective even at low doses. Excellent results can be achieved with only 15 mg daily. A more common cycle dosage for most steroid users is to increase it after the first two to three weeks up to 20 mg to 30 mg per day. As expected, the higher the dosage the more pronounced you can expect side effects to be. The most advanced users who are confident in controlling the side effects are known to go to 50 mg daily.

If you want a big rise in Dianabol levels quickly ready for an upcoming workout, taking then whole dosage in one go makes sense. But if you have an extremely long workout or other athletic activity being prolonged throughout the day, a more staggered dosing of Dianabol (Dbol) makes sense – because this steroid has such a short half life of several hours, levels can drop quickly.

The trade off with multiple doses during the day is you will never reach the maximum blood level of Dianabol compared with a single full strength dosage. If you’re using a higher dosage of Dianabol daily, precautions are greatly required when considering taking it all at once – only the most experienced users should consider a single dosage of 50 mg of Dianabol.

Most Dianabol tablets come in strengths of 5mg, 10mg and 15mg, making it simple to design a dosage schedule even of the smallest amounts. While Dianabol is available as an injection, this is not common or as easy to come by as the pill form and the vast majority of users prefer the tablet for its very fast acting effect.

Dosage amount is not the only factor to consider with Dianabol: timing is also critical.

As an oral steroid, Dianabol works fast but also leaves the body fast. It has a half life of just three to five hours, so most people choose to break up a daily dosage into multiple smaller doses throughout the day (such as two or three) to ensure blood levels of the steroid don’t drop. If you want to experience a peak in Dianabol levels however, taking the whole dose at once in timing with your training schedule, you can experience the maximum benefit right when you need it.

Dianabol Cycle Length
The maximum length of a DBol cycle should never exceed six weeks due to the high risk of liver toxicity that comes with oral anabolics.

Dianabol is hepatotoxic so is damaging to the liver when used in high doses and/or for long periods of time. Therefore, 6 weeks Dbol cycle is the standard maximum recommendation for using Dianabol, with at least a 6 weeks break in between cycles.

Typical Dianabol Cycles
As an oral anabolic, Dianabol is the perfect kick starter compound to get your gains going quickly at the start of a cycle, while also being highly useful to smash through plateaus.

In fact, these are the two core reasons the majority of people use DBol and for good reasons:

• Kickstarting a cycle
• Breaking through a plateau

Kickstarting a cycle is often done in a mass building off season cycle. Dianabol provides the rapid mass gains you want, while your other injectable steroids are building up in the body. Dianabol will deliver dramatic gains in weight during this time which you can then compound upon during the rest of your cycle.

A mid-cycle plateau is something we all face at one point or another, and Dianabol has a powerful use in this situation as well. This is the point where gains are slow or you feel like you’ve come up against a wall and can’t make further progress no matter how hard your workouts are getting.

Rather than continuing the cycle with little to no gains, adding Dianabol provides a huge boost and can literally knock that plateau wall down and have your gains looking up again very quickly.

The reason that Dianabol is almost always used for these two specific purposes in a cycle is because of its hepatotoxicity where you certainly don’t want to be using Dianabol for an entire cycle that runs for 8 weeks, 12 weeks or longer.

DBol can be used with almost every other steroid besides other orals like Anadrol. This makes Dianabol a very versatile steroid that will fit right into any cycle, whether you’re teaming it up with just one other steroid or multiples in a more advanced stack.

It is critical to note though that Dianabol is not recommended to be used along with another C17-aa steroid because of the increased load on the liver this combination would result in. This includes Anadrol, Anavar, and Stanozolol based steroids like Winstrol.

Most steroid cycles will only be able to fit in one of these uses for Dianabol due to the break required in between. However for the most advanced hardcore bodybuilding cycles that run well beyond 12 weeks, DBol can be often used for both a kick start and a plateau breaker while maintaining the required break.

Dianabol-only cycle
It’s not recommended to run a Dbol only cycle. The suppression of testosterone makes it too high risk and this is why at a bare minimum Dbol should always be cycled with at least a testosterone compound like testosterone enanthate.

Dianabol is almost always used in a cycle with other steroids. One of its primary uses and benefits is as a kickstart compound in a cycle. Being an oral steroid, Dianabol starts taking effect very quickly compared with most injectables.

Therefore, taking Dianabol at the beginning of the cycle for a few weeks, combined with your chosen injectable compound or compounds, gets results going almost immediately while the injectable compound’s anabolic effects start kicking in later.

Beginner Dianabol Cycle
A beginner cycle using Dianabol will rely on this steroid for muscle and strength gains and also include testosterone compound to provide the much needed testosterone support and to keep testosterone levels on track.

A beginner Dianabol cycle can be as simple as the following, while then adding the desired amount of testosterone into the remaining weeks of the cycle.

• Week 1-12 – 500 mg per week Testosterone Enanthate, 0.5 mg/eod Arimidex
• Week 1-6 – 25 mg per day Dianabol

Intermediate Dianabol Cycle
Users of this level might run Dianabol for a longer period at the start of a steroid cycle and at a higher dosage, while combining it with testosterone and potentially other steroids as well.

Week 1-16 – 750mg per week Sustanon 250, 0.5mg/eod Arimidex
Week 1-14 – 400mg per week Deca-Durabolin
Week 1-6 – 50 mg per day Dianabol
Advanced Dianabol Cycle
An advanced Dbol cycle makes use of a higher dosage of Dianabol while combining with at least one other powerful steroid such as Trenbolone or Deca-Durabolin.

Week 1-12 – 1000mg/week Testosterone Enanthate
Week 1-10 – 600mg/week Deca-Durabolin
Week 1-6 – 50mg/ed Dianabol
Week 11-16 – 50mg/eod Trenbolone Acetate
Week 13-16 – 200mg/eod Testosterone Propionate
Week 1-16 – 4iu/ed HGH; 0.5mg/eod Arimidex
*ed – every day
*eod – every other day

Hardcore Dianabol Cycle
The Dbol cycle below is not something I can recommend in the name of safety. Doses of this nature are extremely dangerous, as they severally open the door to adverse effects.

Week 1-16 – 1000mg/week Testosterone Cypionate
Week 1-8 – 600mg/week Deca-Durabolin
Week 1-6 – 50mg/ed Dianabol
Week 9-16 – 600mg/week Equipoise
Week 13-18 – 50mg/ed Dianabol
Week 17-24 – 200mg/eod Testosterone Propionate, 100mg/ed Trenbolone Acetate
Week 1-24 – 5iu/ed HGH, 1mg/eod Arimidex

Dianabol is capable of delivering quick and impressive results. Within just a few weeks it’s possible to gain up to 20 pounds of muscle mass. That level is thought to be at the highest end of the spectrum.

With muscle gains of between 10-15 pounds being very impressive during this relatively short period of time, water retention needs to be taken into account here, with your true gains potentially not being seen until you’ve knocked out any water retention after the cycle or during PCT.

But your results will differ from the next guy based on many factors: diet, your workout regime, genetics and body type, and of course what if any other steroids you’re using along with Dianabol (Dbol).

These are the big gains you can expect when using Dianabol:

• Fast and huge gains in muscle mass
• Immense strength gains
• Faster recovery
• Enhanced endurance

Along with increased muscle mass, a massive boost in strength can be expected. Although strength gains aren’t often the first thing we think about, Dianabol is still considered to be one of the best steroids for strength gains available and this contributes tremendously to your results thanks to the added ability to go harder in the gym.

The SERM’s Nolvadex and Clomid, plus HCG is a recommended post cycle therapy following a cycle containing Dianabol. Using these drugs help your body to restore natural testosterone production (function) quicker than if no PCT was undertaken, so you can avoid the symptoms of low testosterone following a cycle.

Since a DBol cycle also includes at least one other steroid, PCT protocol is not specific to Dianabol itself and will also depend on the other compounds you’re using and how powerful their androgenic effects are.

The goal of PCT is to boost natural testosterone production and although PCT alone does not raise your testosterone back to its normal level, it provides a base which then allows the body to slowly build back up to a normal production of this critical male hormone.

All in all, it can take several months to get your testosterone back to its natural level after a Dianabol and other steroids cycle.