Testosterone Propionate

Quick info about Testosterone Propionate

Testosterone was the first steroid to be synthesized. Now, it remains the gold standard of all steroids.

Testosterone's anabolic/androgenic ratio is 1:1. It is as much anabolic as it is androgenic. Actually, testosterone is the steroid on which all anabolic/androgenic ratios are based. If a steroid is 2:1, then compared with testosterone's ratio, it is twice anabolic as it is androgenic. Hence, we see from testosterone's ratio, it is both anabolic as well as androgenic.

Testosterone is also a relatively safe steroid to use, with some studies showing no adverse effects from 20weeks at 600mgs/week!

Testosterone is usually attached to an ester (i.e. when you buy testosterone propionate, the subject of this profile, you are buying testosterone with a propionate ester attached). The ester determines how long it takes your body to dispose of the steroid in question, and propionate is the shortest ester available with a testosterone base (of course, testosterone suspension has no ester). There are enzymes, called esterases, in your body that have the function of removing the ester from steroids and leaving you with just the steroid molecule with the ester cleaved off. The heaviness of the ester chain, determines how long it takes the esterase to remove it. And that amount of time determines how long the drug stays active in your body. Great, right? Not really; the ester takes up "room" in the injection.

So you see, the longer the ester on the testosterone, the longer the steroid is active in your body, and the less actual test you get. This is because for every 100mgs of testosterone cypionate you inject, only 69.90mgs of it is actually testosterone—the rest is the cypionate ester, which must be removed. On the other hand, with the propionate ester, you'll get 83.72mgs of testosterone! The advantage to longer esters is that they need to be injected less frequently (test prop needs to be injected every other day while you can shoot test cyp once a week). Testosterone Propionate causes the least side effects and the least bloating. For this reason, it's often the testosterone of choice in cutting cycles.

Realistically, every cycle should contain testosterone. Go back and read that sentence again. A beginner's dose of testosterone (i.e. someone on their first or second cycle of AAS) would be in the 250-500mgs range. It isn’t recommended much less than 400mgs of test per cycle for anybody, beginner or not. The more you use the more results you get. Frequently, the more side effects, too (3).

What stacks well with testosterone propionate? Everything! Many people's favorites are Eq (boldenone undeclynate) or Deca (nandrolone decanoate), but anything will stack well with test prop. Tren (Trenbolone Acetate), Masteron, and/or Winstrol are also favorites for many on a cutting cycle, myself included.