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Injectable DHT, also known as stanolone, is getting plenty of attention in bodybuilding. But what are the benefits, what are the drawbacks, and how much of the excitement is hype? Dave Crosland and Scott McNally discuss it on Drugs ’n’ Stuff, including Vigorous Steve’s early use, Paul Barnett’s experience and dosing, and potential concerns with using stanolone during a cruise. Then it’s listener Q&A: enclomiphene instead of TRT, loose skin after fat loss, muscle memory and using less gear, injectable oral steroids, and the best injection sites. Plus, estrogen management with Primobolan and Masteron, whether cabergoline is needed with NPP, topical dutasteride for hair loss, and dealing with back acne on cycle. Have you tried injectable DHT? Tell us about your experience in the comments, including any benefits or side effects you noticed. 00:00 Welcome to Drugs ’n’ Stuff 01:30 Injectable DHT (Stanolone): Benefits & Drawbacks 05:40 Vigorous Steve’s Early Use of Injectable DHT 06:25 Paul Barnett’s DHT Experience & Dosing 07:30 Potential Problems With Stanolone During a Cruise 10:00 Injectable DHT: Share Your Experience 12:00 Steroids in a Vape? 16:25 Enclomiphene Instead of TRT? 21:45 Tightening Loose Skin After Fat Loss 24:00 Muscle Memory: Can You Maintain With Less Gear? 28:00 Are Injectable Oral Steroids Safer? 31:00 Ranking the Best Injection Sites 34:45 Primobolan for Estrogen Control: 600 Test / 300 Deca 36:00 Do You Need Cabergoline With Test & NPP? 41:00 High-Dose SLU-PP & MOTS-c 47:00 Estrogen Control: Masteron-to-Testosterone Ratio of 2:1 49:00 Topical Dutasteride for Hair Loss 49:30 Does Methyltestosterone Convert to Methyl DHT? 50:30 Managing Back Acne on Cycle 53:00 Uncle Dave’s Wisdom 01:09:00 Behind the Scenes UK Blood Work Get your Labs done by Dave in the UK : https://evalbloodanalysis.com/home/ Support the Podcast Patreon — Help keep the show growing. Even $5/month makes a difference. https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding Sponsors TRUE NUTRITION — Custom supplements for serious lifters Use code THINK to save https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK STROM SPORTS — Performance supplements trusted by athletes UK: https://tinyurl.com/ydmbfa54 US: https://stromsportsus.com Supplement Source Canada — Top brand supplements with fast shipping http://www.supplementsource.ca Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products

Ron Partlow, Dusty Hanshaw, Andrew Berry and Scott McNally team up for an It’s Just Bodybuilding × Blood Sweat & Gear crossover, looking back at the 2026 Mr. Olympia and the predictions we got wrong. We debate Nick Walker vs. Derek Lunsford, Samson Dauda’s finals performance, the judging, and who deserved to place higher. Plus, Andrew Jacked’s next step, Martin Fitzwater, Hadi Choopan, Keone Pearson, women’s bodybuilding and Women’s Physique controversy, stories from Olympia weekend, and what’s coming in 2027. 00:00 The Primo Shortage Didn’t Stop Bodybuilding 00:20 It’s Just Bodybuilding × Blood Sweat & Gear 01:40 Our Olympia Predictions That Aged the Worst 04:45 Olympia Judging: Did They Get It Right? 07:00 Nick Walker vs. Derek Lunsford 09:15 Samson Dauda’s Olympia Finals Performance 12:20 Did Tonio Burton Deserve to Place Higher? 14:11 Should Prejudging Count as Much as Finals? 21:00 The Listeners Picked Nick Walker 22:45 Regan Grimes, Jordan Hutchinson & James Hollingshead 24:50 Does Michal Krizo Have the Best Most Muscular? 27:00 What’s Holding Andrew Jacked Back? 31:40 Nick Walker Commits to the 2027 Arnold Classic 32:20 Where Does Hadi Choopan Fit in This Lineup? 34:00 Nick Walker as Mr. Olympia: Representing the IFBB 39:50 What Happened With Martin Fitzwater? 44:20 Does Samson Dauda Need a Coach? 49:30 Keone Pearson & the 212 Olympia 50:45 Shaun Clarida & Lucas Garcia 56:10 Andrea Shaw & Women’s Bodybuilding 1:00:45 Lola Montez 1:07:00 Natalia Coelho & Women’s Physique Controversy 1:10:30 Ron & Dusty’s Olympia Weekend Stories 1:26:20 Wheelchair Bodybuilding 1:34:20 Bodybuilding Predictions for 2027 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Andrew Berry https://www.instagram.com/berryswole/ Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Dave Crosland and Scott McNally return to the fake steroid product from a well-known source. They also discuss a recent steroid bust and how making gear from inexpensive raw powders can turn into a business with serious consequences. Then it’s listener questions, including one that cuts through the noise around growth hormone timing. Influencers can make taking GH at a specific time of day sound essential. Scott explains why he thinks timing matters far less than people are led to believe. Dave and Scott also cover second cycles, estrogen levels, YK-11, Accutane, low ferritin, and whether to be honest with your doctor about steroid use. 0:00 Support the show with our Advertisers 2:00 Fake Gear from Euro: An Update 4:30 Bust in Vegas 6:00 The Slippery Slope of Selling Gear 11:22 Injectable DHT for a Figure Competitor? 12:00 Setting Up a Second Bulk Cycle 15:00 More GH on Big Training Days? 16:00 Does Growth Hormone Timing Really Matter? 23:10 Beta Blockers in Poker 25:20 Adjusting Estrogen When Bloodwork Looks Good 27:45 How to Dose a Second Cycle 30:00 Dave Is Back in the Gym 32:30 Adding YK-11 to Test, EQ and NPP 36:00 Accutane During a Cycle or After? 39:00 Safer Solvents for Injectable Orals? 40:30 600 mg of Orals Per Day: Follow-Up 41:40 Low Ferritin on Blast and Cruise 48:00 Should You Tell Your Doctor About Steroid Use? 54:20 Uncle Dave’s Wisdom UK Blood Work Get your Labs done by Dave in the UK : https://evalbloodanalysis.com/home/ Support the Podcast Patreon — Help keep the show growing. Even $5/month makes a difference. https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding Sponsors TRUE NUTRITION — Custom supplements for serious lifters Use code THINK to save https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK STROM SPORTS — Performance supplements trusted by athletes UK: https://tinyurl.com/ydmbfa54 US: https://stromsportsus.com Supplement Source Canada — Top brand supplements with fast shipping http://www.supplementsource.ca Merch Official THINK BIG Merch — Train, represent, support the brand https://think-big.printify.me/products

Skip Hill, Andrew Berry and Scott McNally answer listener questions about starting versus finishing a cycle with oral steroids, using gear during a recomp, and taking orals only on training days. They also discuss minimum dosing to preserve muscle when cutting to 10% body fat, concerns about nandrolone and neurotoxicity, and how a wrestler’s weight class changes the conversation about gaining muscle. Plus, the guys rank ways to get a better pump, talk about fitting bodybuilding into a busy life, address stubborn midsection fat, and critique a 300-pound bodybuilder’s physique. 0:00 Welcome to Blood Sweat & Gear Coaching Q&A 1:40 Oral Steroids: Start or Finish a Cycle? 10:00 Does Gear Help With a Recomp? 13:10 Oral Steroids on Training Days Only? 18:30 Wrestler at His Weight-Class Limit: Can He Use Gear? 29:00 Ranking Ways to Get a Better Pump 34:00 Minimal Gear for Cutting to 10% Body Fat 37:00 Nandrolone and Neurotoxicity Concerns 47:50 Balancing Bodybuilding With a Busy Life 55:40 Why Is He Still Holding Midsection Fat? 1:02:30 Physique Critique: 300-Pound Bodybuilder 1:12:30 Skip’s Word of the Day 1:14:45 Behind the Scenes Check out our Research and Supplement Affiliates here : https://thinkbigbodybuilding.com

Who will finish in the top five at the 2026 Mr. Olympia? Ron Partlow, Dusty Hanshaw and Scott McNally break down the Olympia lineup and the five bodybuilders they believe are in the mix: Samson Dauda, Derek Lunsford, Andrew Jacked, Nick Walker and Martin Fitzwater. They discuss Samson’s latest improvements, why Derek remains dangerous, Martin’s sleeper potential, Andrew’s training change and which competitor could deliver the biggest surprise of Olympia weekend. Plus, the importance of bodybuilding genetics, James Hollingshead’s latest physique update, the biggest prize-money winners in Olympia history, NFL trivia and the must-do attractions in Las Vegas during Olympia weekend. 0:00 Welcome to It’s Just Bodybuilding 2:00 Our Top Five for the 2026 Mr. Olympia 2:30 Is Samson Dauda Better Than Last Year? 6:00 Why Derek Lunsford Is Still Dangerous 7:00 Is Martin Fitzwater the Olympia Sleeper? 9:50 Why Balanced Physiques Are So Dangerous 13:00 Who Will Be the Biggest Olympia Surprise? 13:45 James Hollingshead Physique Update 22:16 Genetic Freaks: DK Metcalf and Elite Genetics 25:00 Why Genetics Trump Everything 26:40 Will Andrew Jacked’s Coaching Change Matter? 31:00 Who Has Won the Most Olympia Prize Money? 57:30 NFL Trivia with Ron, Dusty and Scott 1:09:00 Must-Do Attractions in Las Vegas During the Olympia 🔴 OFFICIAL SPONSOR MUTANT® — Born Different. Born Hardcore! Save with code: BIGRON or DUSTY https://www.iammutant.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW THE HOSTS Ron Partlow https://www.instagram.com/rep300 Dusty Hanshaw https://www.instagram.com/dustyhanshaw08 Scott McNally https://www.instagram.com/scottmcnally1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 TRAIN LIKE HELL APP Ron’s official training app https://www.trainlikehell.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 SUPPORT THINK BIG BODYBUILDING Patreon (Every $5 helps keep the shows going) https://www.patreon.com/thinkbigbodybuilding 👕 THINK BIG MERCH https://think-big.printify.me/products ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ ADDITIONAL SPONSOR TRUE NUTRITION Code: THINK https://www.truenutrition.com/THINK 3rd-party tested — trusted by bodybuilders ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇨🇦 CANADIAN VIEWERS Blowout deals on top supplement brands https://www.supplementsource.ca ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 AUDIO PODCAST Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-big-bodybuilding/id1561623662 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #MrOlympia #Bodybuilding #Olympia2026 #ItsJustBodybuilding