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Definition: "An ergogenic aid is any substance or phenomenon that enhances performance "
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07.06.2015 |
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This is what happens when women over 65 use oxandrolone
Women over the age of 65 start to lose muscle mass faster than men do and as a result experience more difficulty with everyday activities such as getting up out of a chair, climbing stairs and doing the shopping. Sports scientists at the University of Sydney looked at whether strength training and taking the anabolic steroid oxandrolone might help. They discovered that taking oxandrolone helped increase the amount of muscle mass gained from strength training, but it did not increase muscle power.
Study
The researchers got all the women to do strength/resistance training three times a week. Each session lasted 45 minutes. The women did 3 sets of 8 reps for each exercise: leg press, leg extension, leg curl, triceps pushdown, calf raise and chest press. The load was 80 percent of the weight at which the women could just manage 1 rep.
Half of the women were given a placebo. The other half took 10 mg oxandrolone daily.
Results
The women in the placebo group gained half a kilogram in body fat, while the women in the oxandrolone group lost a kilogram of fat.
Although the combination of oxandrolone and training improved body composition, the women in both groups gained the same amount of muscle power. The tables below show the amount of peak power the women were capable of developing when doing the chest press and the leg press, before and after the 12 weeks.
When it came to standing up from sitting or walking for a certain distance, both groups performed equally at the end of the 12 weeks.
Conclusion
In the women who did strength training without pharmacological support there were no changes in the cholesterol balance or in the liver enzyme concentrations.
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