Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Steroid Cycle - Dbol And Primobolan More Plates More Dates

Arnold Schwarzenegger's steroid cycle from the golden era of bodybuilding is a topic that is often heavily debated.
There's a lot of speculation around what kind of drug use the golden era bodybuilders deployed to get the physiques that are so sought after nowadays.
While Arnold himself never detailed exactly what he took, we have a handful of credible sources of information that all seem to overlap in their descriptions of his steroid use.
Despite this information being very accessible, it often goes overlooked because it is buried in the nooks and crannies of the internet.
There is such an overwhelming amount of content on the internet now that this information has become increasingly more difficult to find over the years.
While Arnold likely experimented a bit here and there, this article will detail what he built his physique on, and the staple anabolics he very likely used throughout his Mr. Olympia reign.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Briefly Touches On His First Steroid Cycle In Arnold Schwarzenegger's autobiography "Total Recall - My Unbelievably True Life Story" he gives some insight into what his first steroid cycle consisted of, and when he started it.

The first thing of note is that he discovered steroid use before the 1967 Mr. Universe competition while researching about the training methods of the East Germans and the Soviets.
There were rumors that they were using performance enhancing drugs to get superior results from their weightlifters, shot-putters, and swimmers and he soon found out that steroids were the drugs that they were using.

Arnold goes on to touch on how he went to a doctor to ask for a prescription of anabolic steroids.
He simply asked:
Can you let me try it?
The doctor agreed, and he was then prescribed an injection every two weeks and pills to take in between.

Keep in mind, this was Arnold's first steroid cycle ever.
His dosages may have titrated up in subsequent cycles, and he probably experimented with different anabolics at some point at least once or twice.
The more muscle you gain, the higher your requirements will become for increasingly high amounts of calories, training volume, and drug use to support additional hypertrophy above and beyond what you have already achieved.
While Arnold didn't state exactly what he was prescribed, we get some useful insight into the administration practice of each compound (oral and injectable) and what type of drugs would probably fall into these two categories at that time when considering all of the other information from other interviews we have compiled over the years.
At this point, we know he was using one injectable compound and one oral compound.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Interview About Dianabol Use In another interview Arnold more or less implies that he used 3 Dianabol per day.
It is well-known in the community that Arnold was big on using Dianabol back in the day.
https://youtu.be/szGZ0bMxcTg?t=7
Obviously he's not actually straight up saying "this was what my cycle was", but we can put two and two together based on his prescription for pills and an injection from a doctor, Arnold talking about Dianabol himself, and the widespread information that's passed through the grapevine reinforcing his Dianabol use.
It all culminates to paint a pretty convincing picture that Dianabol was the oral steroid in question that Arnold used.
What the injectable compound was is mainly what is debated about.
After doing some digging, I uncovered some pretty convincing information suggesting that the injectable compound was Primobolan.
Steve Davis Outlines Golden Era Steroid Cycles In 2012, Ric Drasin interviewed Steve Davis to discuss steroid cycles from the golden era.
Both men trained at Gold's Gym with Arnold in the 70's and had personal insight into what golden era stacks consisted of, as they literally took the same stacks themselves.
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