T3 and the Modern Athlete By: TJ

The following article is for educational purposes and not meant to replace a doctor's advice, the
author in no way means to encourage the use of any medicine without a prescription from your
doctor. As always this article is the property of the author (TJ) and permission should be requested
from him and ******** before using elsewhere.

So you've decided to use T3 to help you shed fat now that you've read up on it and gotten past the nay sayers
who expound the ills of shutting down your bodys own production of natural thyroid. Wonderful, T3 when used
correctly can be a great addition to any diet and cardio plan. Read that again boys and girls, IN ADDITION TO ANY
DIET AND CARDIO PLAN!!! If you've turned to T3 because you think it's a magic pill that will allow you to eat like
crap and still lose weight you've been listening to the wrong advice. Can you lose weight/fat while using T3 and
still eating junk food, unfortunately yes to a degree. I say unfortunately because this fact often leads people to
do just that, it starts with a cheat meal that turns to a cheat day, which eventually has the athlete eating
whatever and whenever they want and still they lose some weight. So what's wrong with this if the eventual out
come, weight loss that is, is reached? The first problem is the weight you are losing may not be fat if your eating
like crap, the second is what happens when you stop the T3 cycle and your metabolism is suppressed
temporarily, if you were eating sloppy during the T3 usage your most likely to keep following that pattern and
the combination of a slow metabolism combined with sloppy eating results in rebound weight gain. So in the
end what have you really accomplished outside of being able to eat what you want with out getting any fatter
for a month or so? And that's if youre lucky and the rebound weight gain doesn't push you past your starting
weight!!!
Now that I have your attention and you know what NOT to do, let's concentrate on what TO do. Just like any
other chemical we find in our arsenal, T3 can and is used in a variety of ways when it comes to dosage and
length of cycle, both for cutting and bulking. This article will deal with cutting use only. There are some who
prefer to "hit it hard" and go high dosage with a quick taper down at the end losing a great amount of weight in
a short time, but this way tends to eat as much muscle as fat in my experience and you end up looking basically
the same as when you began, except that you weigh less and are smaller. There are those who like to use the
same dosage throughout the cycle with no taper up or down figuring if your metabolism is going to be sluggish
anyhow why waste the days using it at a low dosage when you could be burning more fat on those days. Then
there are those who slowly taper up, maintain the highest dosage for a set time and then slowly taper down. It's
the last group I'll concentrate on here, as this is the system that has shown it's best overall results with those I've
worked with.
Let's start with the dosage, T3 is a very individual drug, when it comes to dosage I've seen guys use as high as
250-300mcg/day and others as low as 25mcg/day where both athletes lost fat and reached their goals. As a rule
I start everyone (and for now I'm dealing with men I'll pen an article on womens usage in the future) at
25mcg/day. I usually base the time of the cycle on their individual weight loss goals, if it's a smaller amount I'll go
3 weeks tops, if it's a lot of weight to lose we'll go 4, 5 and sometimes 6 weeks. I generally dont go over 6 weeks
with anyone, as T3 tends to stop working in most people after that amount of time. Id rather they run 4 weeks
cycles with 2 weeks off where they use an ECA stack or Clen during the break to continue to lose fat, then run
another 4 week cycle. So the 1st 3 days in this cycle would be 25mcg/day, then the 2nd 3-day period is
50mcg/day, etc. The typical 21-day cycle will look like this:
Days 1-3.................. 25mcg/day
Days 4-6...................50mcg/day
Days 7-9...................75mcg/day
Days 10-12................100mcg/day
Days 13-15................75mcg/day
Days 16-18................50mcg/day
Days 19-21................25mcg/day
As you can see the dosage is increased by 25mcg/day every 4th day until the maximum dosage is reached for the
subject, in this case 100mcg/day, then lowered the by the same 25mcg/day increments every 4th day until the

end of the cycle. Given that most of the people I've worked with have tried everything else and are still
considerably overweight when they start, the full 4-week cycle is often used instead of the 21-day cycle. The one
I've used lately with the most success is as follow, remember the jumps are still 25mcg/day but this time you
increase/decrease the dosage every 4 days:
Days 1-4...................25mcg/day
Days 5-8...................50 "
Days 9-12.................75 "
Days 13-16...............100 "
Days 17-20...............75 "
Days 21-24...............50 "
Days 25-28...............25 "
Note: You could also do the 3-day increase/decrease and hold the maximum dosage of 100mcg/day for days 1019, but some find 100mcg/day makes them too uncomfortably warm and they sweat too much, especially during
the warmer months.
There you have it, simple yet effective. If you remember to supplement your diet with plenty of protein (which
every lifter should anyhow), eat a clean calorie controlled diet, drink 1-2 gallons of water per day and to take a
mild steroid cycle to minimize muscle loss you should be able to see rapid fat loss with this cycle. I should also
mention that some people like to stack T3 with Clenbuterol for even better results. Ive purposely left this out as
I will be including Clen in Part 2 of this series. Good luck and may you all reach your cutting goals!!!

T3 and the Modern Athlete Part 2 By: TJ

In part 1 of T3 and the Modern Athlete I touched on various properties of T3 and mainly its use by male athletes
for cutting body fat. In Part 2 Id like to dig deeper and discuss a few other areas of T3 usage, among them the
popular T3/ Clen cycle, T3 in bulking cycles, rebound weight gain and womens cycles. Response to Part 1 was
overwhelming to say the least and I realize Part 2 is way over due, I hope it was worth the wait and answers the
questions you still have on T3. As with Part 1 please realize that this article is the opinion of the author based on
personal experience and the experiences of friends, ex training partners, gym mates and clients it is not intended
to be a recommendation to use T3 nor is it intended to be a medical how to, ultimately how you use it and
whether or not you use it for athletic performance gains is your choice and yours alone. With that said lets dig
in!!
1. Thyroid Suppression
2. T3/Clenbuterol Cycle
3. T3 in bulking cycles
4. Womens Cycle
5. Timing of dose
6. Rebound Weight Gain
Thyroid Suppression
Lets start with the biggest misconception still around where T3 is concerned, that is suppression of natural
thyroid output. Im amazed that this drug has been used now for the past several years by literally thousands of
athletes with few if any reported cases of thyroid shutdown yet the 1st thing someone says when a person asks
about T3 is it will shut down your natural thyroid and youll be on T3 the rest of your life. Numerous studies
have been done and show that cessation of exogenous T3 does not shut down your natural thyroid. The 1st
study was done in 1951 by M. Greer (1) and showed that patients that were misdiagnosed as hypothyroidism
that later had their medicine withdrawn showed no shutdown of their natural thyroid as their thyroid returned
to normal within 2 weeks. His studies also showed that it didnt matter if the patients thyroid had been
medically suppressed for 30 years or a few days they both returned to normal within two weeks. Hence my
mentioning in Part 1 of a sluggish thyroid post T3 cycle and my suggestion that you continue to eat clean, do

cardio and use a fat burner like the Ephedrine/Caffeine/Aspirin stack, Clenbuterol or an over the counter fat
burner until your natural thyroid output returns to normal. Numerous studies have been done since Greers that
have confirmed his findings. As with any medicine there are always exceptions to the rule and there have been a
few people who claim to have had their own thyroid function permanently damaged by T3 usage but in my
experience this only occurred when ridiculously high dosages were used, if you adhere to the dosages
recommended here in you should be fine.
T3/Clenbuterol Cycle
This has to be the most often used cutting combo used today for fat loss in weight trained athletes, or at least
the most talked about. Both drugs when used on their own are effective fat burners through differing pathways,
but used together they have a synergistic effect and create a very potent fat burning cycle. The medical
reasoning for this is long and complicated and not necessary to understand at this point but it is out there for
anyone to research should you need to know, in simple terms each not only do their own job but also help the
others fat burning process so that in effect, as they say, 1+1=3. So what dose do you use for each drug? For the
T3 I suggest you use the same dose scheme I outlined in Part 1, again I took some flack over the lower dosing as
some feel you should go higher but as I said from my experience anything over 75mcg-100mcg/day (for men,
womens dosage should go no higher than 50mcg/day) usually burns much too much muscle tissue in addition to
fat tissue, unless that is your goal I would stay with as small a dose as you can get away with where you can still
tolerate the increased body temp, for most men that is 75-100mcg/day, for most women that is 50mcg/day max.
*Using Clen will increase your body temp also so you will have to monitor both drug dosages to see what you
can comfortably tolerate. Clenbuterol dosing is a very individual thing, some cycles recommend 160mcg/day at
the maximum dosage some 80mcg/day but the 1 thing most agree on is to start low and ease your dosage
upwards as you feel comfortable with it the 1st time you use it. With subsequent cycles you can start at your
maximum tolerable dose or slightly lower and then increase the dosage over a few days until you reach your
maximum again as some people report the maximum they can use differs from 1 cycle to another. Which brand
and whether you use tabs vs. liquids could also have something to do with the differing max doses. I would
suggest you start your 1st cycle of Clen with 20mcg/day and increase by 20mcg/day until you reach the upper
maximum you can use based on the side effects. The most common side effects are shaking, jitteriness, anxiety
and raising of body temperature, basically the feelings you get when youve had way too much caffeine or cold
medication are what your looking out for. When those sides get to be too much cut back to the last tolerable
dose. A popular Clenbuterol cycle is 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off. For men I would suggest starting at 20mcg/day and
going up to 100-120mcg/day or like I said whatever you can tolerate, stay there until day 14 then end the cycle,
women should try half that max dose but if you can tolerate more and want to use it then go for it this is
definitely a trial and error process. Take 2 weeks off and then repeat if desired, again starting at or near your
maximum dose that you figured out with the 1st cycle. When stacking with T3 the question becomes what do
you do on the 2 weeks your off Clen but still are on T3? Thats really an individual decision for you to make, you
could rotate an ECA stack or a Gugglesterone with the Clen cycle so that your doing 1 for 2 weeks then the other
for 2 weeks. Or you could simply take 2 weeks off after the end of the Clen where your only on the T3 for the
next 2 weeks, youll be at your mid to max dosage of T3 by then so youll still be burning fat just fine. Then after
the 4 weeks of T3 youll be done with both the T3 and the Clen and you could start a ECA stack for 2 weeks if you
are ending the cutting cycle and want to protect yourself against rebound weight gain while waiting for your
natural thyroid levels to return to normal. If you have more fat to lose you can cycle off T3 for 2 weeks as I said
in Part 1 and repeat the cycle again. When to use Clen again will depend on when you used it last, remember 2
weeks on, 2 weeks off. Theres nothing to say you cant cycle T3 ad ECA together while you wait to add the Clen
back in, just remember whenever you come off the T3 you want something in your system to help burn fat while
you wait for your natural thyroid to return to normal. Also remember that Clen cycles are like T3 cycles in that
theres several different cycles currently popular, and youll most likely get different advice to the length and
type of cycle by asking more than one person. The advice I give is based on those Ive had use it and report back
to me their results and feeling on it. Im all for experimenting but until something comes along that proves to be
better Ill stick with the 2 weeks on/2 weeks off cycle advice where Clen is concerned.

T3 in Bulking Cycles

I briefly touched on using T3 in bulking cycles and many members seemed confused as to how a fat burner could
help with a bulking cycle. T3 is a drug mainly known for raising ones metabolism and burning fat, and possibly
muscle tissue, when used at higher dosages (> 75-100 mcg/day for men, > 50mcg/day for women), but at lower
dosages (12.5-25mcg/day for men, that for women) it causes a faster conversion of carbohydrates, proteins,
and fats. Its the increased conversion and absorption of nutrients that increases the results of your bulking cycle
when you use it with a bulking cycle. When you run a bulking cycle you do so in conjunction with a higher
protein/higher calorie diet because we know in order to grow muscle we need to feed the body nutrients, so
there are plenty of nutrients to be converted, thus the bulking cycle gets a push if you will yielding better
results. I can tell that literally every single person who has taken my advice and tried using a small amount of T3
daily with their bulking cycle has reported better gains than they usually get without it. Ive even had success
using 25mcg/day every other day with a bulking cycle. When you consider the low cost of T3 at such small a
dosage its definitely a cheap insurance to better gains.
Womens Cycles
Although women have been known to use T3 with good success I always hesitate to recommend a cycle to them
for the simple reason that women seem to be much more sensitive to T3 than men are. The rebound weight gain
can be significant if the post T3 period isnt monitored stringently and an over the counter fat burner isnt used.
That said if youre still set on using it here is a simple straightforward 21 day cycle, again using the 3 day ramp up
and ramp down method.
Days 1-3...............12.5mcg/day
Days 4-6...............25mcg/day
Days 7-9...............37.5mcg/day
Days 10-12...........50mcg/day
Days 13-15............37.5mcg/day
Days 16-18............25mcg/day
Days 19-21.12.5mcg/day
If you want to run it longer than 21 days, you can add in more days at the maximum dosage or use it in 4 day
blocks with the ramp up and ramp down. Again please remember women are more sensitive to T3 than men and
the rebound weight gain can be much more significant if your not ultra vigilant with the post T3 period, keep
eating a very clean diet with calories below maintenance, and use either Gugglesterones, ECA stack or any other
over the counter fat burner you feel comfortable with to help boost your natural metabolism until your system
recovers, which could be anywhere from a few days to about 2-3 weeks.
Dosage Timing
T3 has a life that doesnt necessitate multiple daily dosing, so taking your entire daily dose at once is usually
recommended. That said if your cycle requires you to take 100mcg/day or more I usually recommend splitting
the dosage in and taking it twice per day just to insure if you are sensitive to the drugs possible side effects
you limit the exposure. Again I would suggest taking it in the morning, then around dinner time if a 2nd dose is
necessary. I know that for myself, certain brands cause an upset stomach if I take more than 50mcg at a time, so
at 75-100mcg/day Id split it into 50mcg in the morning and the balance at nighttime.
Rebound Weight Gain
Rebound weight gain is inevitable when using T3, the best you can hope for is to minimize it. A good start is to
make sure you use at least a small amount of a steroid with the cycle, this will help you to hold on to the muscle
mass you already have. The best thing you can do is to take a post cycle over the counter fat loss product such as
ECA stack, Gugglesterones or some other similar product. What your looking for here is the continuance of the
fat loss while your system returns to your normal thyroid output. This should occur with in 2-3 weeks, so during
that time continue to eat clean, do cardio, drink plenty of water and take the over the counter fat loss product.
Youll know when your thyroid has returned to normal when your body temp returns to normal. Women are
especially warned to be very vigilant here, most people are eager to eat more when their cycle ends but this is
not the time when using T3, you need to make sure your metabolism has been restored before splurging a bit.