Does the water weight from steroids look more like fat or muscle and does it make your face look fat?

[teamnatty]

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[StellarLabs]

Any type of steroid, whether anabolic or corticosteroid, can cause water retention. The corticosteroids tend to cause more of a bloated appearance in the face specifically. If you are on gear, it’s very important to always stay on top of your bloodwork.

 

[FearsomeCOR]

IME if you keep hydration consistent and bodyfat (as well as e2) under control, the water from gear will go almost entirely IM. I certainly have never had a fat face from anything I’ve used. The more fat you actually are, the worse it’ll be exacerbated.

 

[brr2496]

IME if you keep hydration consistent and bodyfat (as well as e2) under control, the water from gear will go almost entirely IM. I certainly have never had a fat face from anything I’ve used. The more fat you actually are, the worse it’ll be exacerbated.

So many people do not respect hydration. It always bewilders me when I come across people who say they rarely drink water.

 

[chadmack]

IME if you keep hydration consistent and bodyfat (as well as e2) under control, the water from gear will go almost entirely IM. I certainly have never had a fat face from anything I’ve used. The more fat you actually are, the worse it’ll be exacerbated.

That right there

 

[Rot-Iron66]

Most of the muscle gained by drugs is fake bloat. Unless you have a long time of natty hard work and maxed out your potential, you will lose most of it.
(Think of a balloon being filled with water, and then drained, not real tissue).
Look at Dexter, Victor Martinez (he's back on gear) and tons of them. Some look like they never touched a weight... Fake..
People dont want to hear this, but after 48 years of doing this (38 yrs natty before TRT) you bet your ass its true. and its also fine and OK.

Just dont think its "lean tissue"its fucking water and glycogen stretching your fascia... (Most people).

 

[celrin321]

depends on a lot of factors like people said above. estrogen matters a lot for me.

obviously this can be the case but doesn't have to be. most bodybuilders in the later stage of contest prep get "death face" of super sunken in cheek bones (before diuretics or even nuking their estrogen with letro etc.) while taking stupid amounts of anabolics.

I don't think low doses should matter at all but on cycle it's a different question

 

[Hablooblah]

Most of the muscle gained by drugs is fake bloat. Unless you have a long time of natty hard work and maxed out your potential, you will lose most of it.
(Think of a balloon being filled with water, and then drained, not real tissue).
Look at Dexter, Victor Martinez (he's back on gear) and tons of them. Some look like they never touched a weight... Fake..
People dont want to hear this, but after 48 years of doing this (38 yrs natty before TRT) you bet your ass its true. and its also fine and OK.

Just dont think its "lean tissue"its fucking water and glycogen stretching your fascia... (Most people).

"Most of it" is a bit much. Youll lose alot but if you stay on a stout therapy dose and keep diet and training on point you can easily keep most of your gains roughly 70-75%, some keep more... You do build ALOT of real tissue it's not all glycogen.

 

[Bullseye Forever]

Any type of steroid, whether anabolic or corticosteroid, can cause water retention. The corticosteroids tend to cause more of a bloated appearance in the face specifically. If you are on gear, it’s very important to always stay on top of your bloodwork.

Deca and Npp are my 2 most favorite compounds to use for bulking but deca hirs me worse on my fave swelling up looking bloated then Npp so i stay away form deca I didn’t understand why the difference I guess it’s jus me

 

[ldog]

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Never forget diet and its importance. Throughout the years, I’ll always liked adding a DHT compound to my program which helps with some water weight. My two cents.

 

[Meetketchup]

Water and glycogen. For every 1 gram of glycogen stored, your body retains 3 or 4 grams of water. If you are lean, you tend to fill out. If you are overweight, you tend to look more bloated.