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Should I take steroids?

Tatyana

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I do not take steroids, I am a nattie. However, I do read voraciously, and I know a lot of people that do take steroids, amateurs and pros............

I do have a concern that people think that steroids are the 'easy' way to get big.

I will even assert that most people do not have a solid grounding in nutrition or training before they take steroids.

One of the impacts of this is seen all too frequently on this board, so many questions about side effects and medical problems.

I found this and I thought it would be food for thought, open up a discussion about why so many young men think it is necessary to take steroids.

I don't even agree entirely what this gentleman says, I don't think anyone under the age of 30 should take steroids, UNLESS you are going to compete, AND you have the ability to do really well.

This is not like 'I want to compete' like 'I want a pony' or 'I want an action man' sort of want.


I will start this out by saying that I am sickened by the posts I see on many boards by 16-18 year old kids that have been training for sometimes only MONTHS that are asking about how to best go about using pro-hormones or steroids. Let’s get something strait first. Unless you are at LEAST 21 you have no right even considering doing them. WHY? Well, if you need to ask that, you haven’t done your homework and you should be disqualified already.

Now that we are talking about 21+ year olds, lets make a few more distinctions.

1. How long have you been training?
1.1 How long have you been training CORRECTLY (for YOUR body) and dieting correctly.

Even if you have been training for 10 years and have been doing a bunch of stupid “pro” style training and eating like a little old lady, you haven’t really been training yet. I know, because I did the same thing for over 10 years and made about zero progress. I knew a bunch about bodybuilding, except how to train myself at a volume and frequency level I could recover from, and how to feed myself properly. But I could tell you EVERYTHING about all the “pro’s” and how they did it—USELESS!!!!

Now what about if you have been training for 2-5 years and have actually made great progress? What constitutes great progress? I’ll go out on a limb here and give you some generic lift numbers that translate pretty good in the real world for average (if there is such a thing) trainees.

A bench of at LEAST 250-300 lbs for at least a few reps
Dipping with at LEAST 75+ strapped to your waist for 6-8 reps
Rows and/or pull-downs with at LEAST 200 for 6-8 reps
Military or dumbbell shoulder press with at LEAST 150-175 for 6-8 reps
Squatting/deadlifting at LEAST 350 for 6-8 reps

And yes, some people may be dismally low at 1 or 2 of the lifts due to bad leverages, abnormally low slow twitch fiber composition, etc. but if you can’t hit at least 3 out of 5 of those numbers, or you are a very short/small statured trainee, you need to get your training and diet in order and pay some more dues. If these numbers seem light years away, or totally out of your reach you probably don’t have the big factors of training and diet even remotely dialed. Simple as that! MOST trainees can and will hit, or come very close to these numbers while training clean. But…..most are miles away…

So……..they decide to get involved with gear way before it’s time. Then before they are willing to even pay their dues about learning about proper gear/ph use, post cycle therapy, and all the ins and outs, they ask a few questions on the forums that are often responded to by another young inexperienced trainee and have their way with it.

AFTER I could squat and deadlift 400 for 10 reps and bench 300 for reps I decided I wanted to try gear. I then spent a year and a half studying EVERYTHING I could get my hands on before I tried a moderate short cycle of 8 weeks of test and deca. Granted I’m pretty dense and most people would be able to come up with a well thought-out plan in less than the year and a half it took me. But the point is unless you are willing to learn everything you can from reliable sources you just should be dabbling.

Now, back to the original question of the topic. Do you REALLY need to use bodybuilding drugs? This answer will greatly vary depending on what you want your physique to look like. The chances are slim for the average guy, with average genetics to build even a mid-level competitive physique without them, but MOST guys are not really looking to be that big anyway. Most guys want a lean strong looking physique that will turn heads wherever they go, and want to be able to take their shirt off and be proud. And you don’t need 19-inch arms to do that.

Now the sad part. I come across people all the time doing gram plus a week gear and PH cycles that don’t even look like they train and can’t bench 200 for 10 or squat 275 for 10. This is primarily because they are clueless about how to eat and train, and believe the gear will iron-out all these mistakes—THEY ARE WRONG! Unless you know how to grow clean, you are unlikely to be successful in the long term by simply throwing a bunch of gear at the problem.

This is bodybuilding turned upside down and inside out. If you can’t make pretty fair gains training clean and invest some time to build your poundage’s up before jumping on the gear wagon, you need to reevaluate your training/diet, and you commitment to this sport, no matter what you reasons are for being involved with it.

Everyone who has read my posts knows I am not anti-PH/Steroid, but the horse must come before the cart.

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I like this thread. But my question to you is you dont want ppl saying I want to compete and this and that and if they do they need to do well. What if you havent competed before how would you know how you are going to do? Are you saying you should train naturally first to see how you would do?

I think another thing to add is you should be able to hit those lifts with proper form. Form is so key. I see other guys at the gym barely doing more weight than me and they are herky jerky and looking ridiculous. I think its very important and I agree you should eat clean and big and learn how to grow and learn how to get really strong naturally first.

I myself would like to plan on using gear but I think I am going to wait until I compete naturally in another year or 2 and I want to see if I can hit the 200lb mark off season first natty.

I hope I didnt miss the point of this thread lol.
 
Also I know there are too many variables to really know this BUT. Say you have pretty decent genetics that you can see. What I mean is you train hard and properly and you have most things dialed in and you grow pretty well off that. You notice yourself blowing up real damn well if you try. I think its important to assess how big you think somone all natty can get under those circumstances. I think ppl will be quite suprised as to how big someone can get being natural by just having shit dialed in properly and knowing how to effectively trick their body to trigger more muscular hypertrophy quicker.

Like I said too many variables to know for 100% but under those circumstances I just wanna hear what you think and others think and im interested in hearing about the other aspect of this thread as well.
 
This is a great post. I jumped into using steroids when I was 18. Now I know I was to young but then I hadn't done enough learning. Thats why these forums are great.
 
I fully agree with your statement

"I will start this out by saying that I am sickened by the posts I see on many boards by 16-18 year old kids that have been training for sometimes only MONTHS that are asking about how to best go about using pro-hormones or steroids. Let’s get something strait first. Unless you are at LEAST 21 you have no right even considering doing them. WHY? Well, if you need to ask that, you haven’t done your homework and you should be disqualified already."

it's alarming to me how many teenagers arrive on this forum wanting advice on how to dianabol only cycles,when their bodies are already flooded with natural testosterone.
 
Yep they are gunna fuck themselves up and then preach to everyone else why steroids are no good and they will leave out the fact they were puttin dbol in their fuckin wheaties at age 16 or some bs like that.
 
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