ummmwhat said:
I was under the impression that alot of it has to do with the amount of estrogen associated with the steroid. The cutting steroids don't cause a rise in estrogen and even cause a decrease in estrogen causing that "dry" look and not letting estrogen promote fat gain (or the bulk associated with it). While also cutting gear is usually alot more androgenic instead of anabolic giving that "dense" look (like DHT -type steroids for example). Cutting roids are more used to keep muscle and harden up while dieting more than to actually lose fat. So for your second question the answer would be no for the most part. Please correct me if i'm wrong
I do have a question for someone more knowledgeable though. If someone was taking test with something like arimidex to completely get rid of most estrogen, could that be used for cutting? just for general knowledge
your basic explaination of the differences is pretty much correct. the steroids used for cutting work better on restricted diets at maintaining muscle mass while loosing fat. you can do what you stated and use arimidex or femera or aromasin with test to lower estrogen conversion and turn it into a cutting cycle. cutting steroids also tend to not cause water retention which will add weight and make your muscles look smooth.
in reality it depends more on when you are cutting as to which products would work better. if cutting right before a contest, tren, winny, masteron, primo, test prop, turanabol, and a few others will work better than eq, any other long estered test, deca, dbol, drol etc as they will make it much harder to control water retention.