some steroids increase strenght , hardness , vascularity ,
Heavy hitter growth inducing steroids like testosterone,deca ,dbol and anadrol cuase weightgain but like mentioned also cuase bloating in the lower abdominals and extra water retention.
Drugs like winstrol , tren, primo and masteron can all be used to keep muscle while a person is dieting down and losing bodyfat to come in really lean and shredded.
For contest purposes the drugs make all the differance between winning and losing.
If a guy can't drop the water he will look smooth , winstrol and tren can actually pull water from under the skin and give a tight look one desires.
Masteron and haloteston is know for giving a dense hard look to the muscles cuasing freaky looking seperation and the illusion of being chisled from stone .
If one is never gonna compete they really wont see any great benifits to using winstrol, masteron , haloteston visually becuase they will never be low enough in body fat.
although winnie ,tren ,haloteston and masteron can show very goood results with guys at as high as 10-12% bf
the real magic of the drugs show when someone is 8% of lower
If one choses to use the drugs above and is a higher bodyfat they can do as they wish , they will get some results in growth and strenght but the drugs will not make them magically drop lots of bodyfat ( minus tren , tren from everyone I have spoken to and my own results is it will shred the bf% right off yea with a decent diet and some extra cardio tren almost makes it to eazy)
Sometimes one is forced to use masteron,winnie,anavar,primo due to the fact they might have some gyno or get bloated eazy off the testosterone derived drugs such as dbol,test,anadrol and even EQ .