Totally aggre with cani. My only concern is ITTP or and epo during training or in competition, or both.
I don't know. You would have to adjust your protocol to your competitive season I guess. For example, using EPO/ITTP or both, you would probably go for your "corrective phase" while you are in early pre-season and be on maintenance phase while you are in-season. Come off during the post season break. Repeat... I would be rather careful with my monitoring during the in season because viscous blood takes a toll on the heart. So, yeah, starting the corrective phase early pre-season would make sense to give your body a chance to adapt and to titter the dosage you would be using.
If your competitive season is very short or you only have one big competition, you might want to just use it just before the competition to improve performance for only that event (like drinking beet juice). I think some athletes use it a while before their competition to have rather high RBC count (after 24 hours, the only way to detect EPO is having an unusual number of RBC. But if you can prove with samples that you were alreay high, they can't do much. Then again, we are not tested in our league).
Now, to me it doesn't make sense to use something to have a better performance once. I think you have more results when you use PED's to train harder and avoid overtraining because, IMO, the results will last after you are off. It is just a way to push your body beyond what it could normally do and then, it adapts to that higher threshold. Some people are very shy discussing PED's yet they drink 4 liters of BeetJuice before a run to gain an edge. I know guys that almost died on "Yohimbe" yet they act all offended when someone is using Modafinil to be more productive. They frown upon EPO but sleep in hyperbaric chamber every night. It is pure hypocrisy and it is too late. Profesionnal sports is "broken". We are so used to seeing athletes performing inhuman task that seeing only what could be achieve naturally would be boring.
Loading in the off season and maintening in season is pretty much what Victor Conte was doing with his athletes (sprinters) that had a rather short season You might not like the man but he did get spectacular results. He took the guestwork out of the equation but, again this is just my small spectrum of personal experience, a lot of athletes use everything under the sun to make them better. Our team's doctor does pretty much the same thing as Conte did.
EPO scares the crap out of me personaly. The really long half life makes it harder to control, you can't really "wash out" and you have to monitor your blood level very carefully. If ITTP proves to be a suitable alternative (not quite sure yet, maybe SubQ would be different) then I would use a similar protocol and probably combine them both but using a lot less EPO to avoid side effects...
Edit: Victor Conte procotol:
http://news.bbc.co.u...ics/7403158.stm
Edited by cani!, 16 January 2015 - 03:00 PM.