I said young man...

[Zander1983]

...you better be eating your meat and potatoes!!!

If you're anything like me at the moment, your body is a natural steroid factory that you should be exploiting with all your might!

 

[IronLion]

amen to that, from 19-21 I put on 40 pounds of lbm naturally. And I wasn't new to training either.

 

[natedog]

...and here I thought you were about to break out with "YMCA" .

 

[Zander1983]

amen to that, from 19-21 I put on 40 pounds of lbm naturally. And I wasn't new to training either.

That gives me a lot of hope I'm 20 and have been training for four years (absolutely not properly for three, and correctly for one). If I gain 20lbs of LBM in the next year I will be over the moon.

 

[IronLion]

You have to understand though, and I think you do, eating is the most important thing a natural (or juiced) athlete does, second is sleep, third is training, and fourth is taking time off.

I put on 40 lbs, but I got real fat, then cut back down, then blew up then cut back down...over the period I put on 120 lbs and lost 80...so you see it isn't simple to grow with a six pack

 

[spatts]

I'm not a pubescent boy, but I'm gonna eat my meat and taters anyway.

 

[IronLion]

that reminds me I got some mac and cheese and ground beef to eat...nuthin like poor man's hamburgerhelper

 

[Zander1983]

I'm not a pubescent boy, but I'm gonna eat my meat and taters anyway.

Spatts, I feel like I'm cheating on my girl just by looking at your new avatar.

 

[IronLion]

yeah who is that?

 

[spatts]

LOL....me 4 years ago. Seems as though I traded boobs for guns.

A fun reminder of another life, anyway.

 

[IronLion]

Guns are sexier....you can't buy them

 

[spatts]

Well, thank goodness, because I don't have 5K layin around!

 

[IronLion]

it would shorten up your bench stroke a lot....you wouldn't even need a shirt if you went big enough

 

[spatts]

Hm....I bench to my stomach, so they'd have to be some saggy'uns. lol

 

[coolcolj]

Spatts you look fairly lean there,

I guess youa re even leaner now? Or are those not real...

 

[spatts]

Um...when did this turn into a thread about my breasts? lol

I was actually fatter there, but much skinnier. I was about 125 pounds (5'9"). Since then, I've added about 40 pounds of lean body mass. Thank to the mass, and nursing my son, I'm pretty much missing ALL that.

 

[Zander1983]

Um...when did this turn into a thread about my breasts?

I think that was my fault

Anyway, back on topic...

My body genuinely feels like a testosterone factory at the moment. I hope my eating, rest, training and girl can keep up. I can sense the pounds being packed on in a very, very big way

 

[The Red Dragon]

I think I shoulda trained since 15. I guess 17 is not so late, when does puberty end?

 

[Zander1983]

I think I shoulda trained since 15. I guess 17 is not so late, when does puberty end?

17 is a great time to start. You'll be raging with hormones for quite some years yet...

 

[JollyRogers]

when does the male test/GH go down, I am 22 and right now I feel like im on a peak, more so then when I was 19, would you say our test levels are highest at 17-25???

 

[Zander1983]

I know it varies amongst individuals, but I'm no expert when it comes to physiology.

 

[Backlash]

would you say our test levels are highest at 17-25???

Hope not - I'm 25 now. I've been lifting for several years, but not well/seriously until recently.

 

[Mike_Rojas]

I'm 34 and making good gains. I weighed 160 in october, now I weigh 190 - mostly muscle gain. My "natural" state is too be skinny and weak.

I've decided I've been 190 long enough - now I'm moving up to 200.

 

[blinddeafmute]

Guns are sexier....you can't buy them

Hmmm. You can buy guns by injecting that crap in them like that freak that somebody posted earlier.

Either way, they are all fake, and therefore less attractive in my mind. Im not much of a boob man anyway, I like a plump bootie.

Sorry if I strayed back off the original subject, I came in a little late. Plus I like the topic of spatts boobies better anyway

Anyway, nice new avatar Spatts. First time I have seen your face. Your a very good lookin girl!

 

[blinddeafmute]

Hope not - I'm 25 now. I've been lifting for several years, but not well/seriously until recently.

If that is true, then I really fucked up.

I was very active until around 17 or so, then I started smoking a lot of pot and partying. Got a desk job and didnt do shit until a few months ago. Im 25 now.

 

[BodybuildingUniverse]

meat, potatoes, ragin hormones, spatt’s boobs...GREAT thread!

 

[natedog]

Personally, I have had a lot easier time making gains after 25 than I did before. I worked out in high school quite a bit, and off and on after that, but my diet wasn't so great. I was bigger than the average guy, but that was mostly genetics. When I was 26, I hit the gym seriously and put on 40 lbs in 6 months, naturally. I don't think I would have had an easy time doing that at 18.

Even if natural test/GH/whatever levels are higher between 15 and 25 or whatever, I don't think the body is primed to store mass at that age nearly as well as it is after 25. Look at the pros. If natural hormone levels played that much into it, the top guys would be in their mid 20's. Instead, with a few exceptions, all of the top competing pro's are in their 30's.