bigrobbie
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- Sep 19, 2010
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The popular view of Clenbuterol being an anti catabolic / mild anabolic is still in the minds of many people. I still read forum posts and blogs making the claim, but to the best of my knowledge this has never been proven in humans.
Clen is a thermogenic / bronchodilator, it's great for "get up and go" and it's great on cycle to keep some water weight in check and it's good for PCT to combat the decline in energy some of us get from running "off cycle."
From what I can find online about Clen being an anti catabolic / mildly androgenic (and there is TONS!) I've seen no studies that prove Clen acts like nothing more than a thermogenic fat burner in humans.
The claim Clen is capable of these muscle preserving / muscle building properties seems to be based on observations made when Clen was given to race horses to improve airflow intake or cattle and other livestock with inflammatory airway disease. Trainers and farmers noticed an increase in body weight and a noticable drop in body fat percentage.
Now lets look at this conversion and you will see why Clen is probably dose dependant in order to be anti catabolic / androgenic. 1 mg of Clen = 1000 mcg of Clen. The average dosage humans is 40-160 mcg. The dosage given to race horses for maximum oxygen intake or for cattle with inflammatory airway disease is approx. 1 mg per every kg of the animals body weight! That's 1000 mcg per every 2 lbs the animal weighs!
My point is this...at the meager (by comparison) dosages us humans take, I think we see great energy and fat loss but I don't think it is anabolic or anti catabolic. Now, I think there is merit to the claim that Clen helps keep gains during PCT simply due to the fact that you can still consume higher calories without experiencing dramatic bf gains.
If anyone has any references or links to articles that dispute what I've posted please hook it up and share! I'd love some feed back!
Thanks guys!!
Clen is a thermogenic / bronchodilator, it's great for "get up and go" and it's great on cycle to keep some water weight in check and it's good for PCT to combat the decline in energy some of us get from running "off cycle."
From what I can find online about Clen being an anti catabolic / mildly androgenic (and there is TONS!) I've seen no studies that prove Clen acts like nothing more than a thermogenic fat burner in humans.
The claim Clen is capable of these muscle preserving / muscle building properties seems to be based on observations made when Clen was given to race horses to improve airflow intake or cattle and other livestock with inflammatory airway disease. Trainers and farmers noticed an increase in body weight and a noticable drop in body fat percentage.
Now lets look at this conversion and you will see why Clen is probably dose dependant in order to be anti catabolic / androgenic. 1 mg of Clen = 1000 mcg of Clen. The average dosage humans is 40-160 mcg. The dosage given to race horses for maximum oxygen intake or for cattle with inflammatory airway disease is approx. 1 mg per every kg of the animals body weight! That's 1000 mcg per every 2 lbs the animal weighs!
My point is this...at the meager (by comparison) dosages us humans take, I think we see great energy and fat loss but I don't think it is anabolic or anti catabolic. Now, I think there is merit to the claim that Clen helps keep gains during PCT simply due to the fact that you can still consume higher calories without experiencing dramatic bf gains.
If anyone has any references or links to articles that dispute what I've posted please hook it up and share! I'd love some feed back!
Thanks guys!!