The Importance Of Steroids

[Nelson Montana]

What makes the biggest diffference in transforming your physique? They used to say that diet was 75% of your results but I've questioned that from way back. Nobody ever became muscular from eating well. And look at guys in prison. Some of them are jacked -- and they eat slop.

You can't discount food (especially protein) but it's more the training that is a factor. Obviously, drugs help that. But how?

I don't mean to sound didactic, but I get the feeling a lot of people don't really understand how steroids work. Forget all the molecular, chemical claptrap. They do essentially 3 things.

1)...Repair and grow muscle tissue broken down through intense exercise.

2)... Increase blood and water volume thus increasing the size and strength of the muscles.

3)...Utilize and recirculate nitrogen (protein) in order to build more muscle tissue.


So what do people do?


1...Don't train hard enough to sufficient stress and break down muscle fibers.

2...Take more drugs to reduce "bloat."

3...Cut calories in an effort to stay lean.

In other words -- everything that works against the purpose of using drugs in the first place.

Is it any wonder guys are using a gram and a half to look like someone who's been going to Bally's for a couple of months?

And by the way: You're in an anabolic environment FROM DAY ONE when using anabolics. I get the feeling guys are sitting around with their thumb up their ass for 6 weeks waiting for the gear to "kick in." IT'S IN!!! Get to work!


At their best, steroids can give you an extra 10% advantage. That's pretty good. But training half assed and getting that extra 10% will leave you with less gains than if you trained harder and used nothing. Doubling the dosage will not give you an extra 10%. Double the weight. Double the sets.

Now, in the past I've spoken out against the supplement industry. I know how they work. In a lot of ways they're worse than ever but there have also been huge advancements among serious researchers and developers. Whereas in the past, supps would give, let's say a 1 or 2% advantage (not worth it when you can get 100 dianabol for twenty bucks at any gym), today there are supps that can give a 5-6% advantage. That's pretty good. And a waste not to use.

My approach to supplement design was to create products that not only gave an advantage, but an advantage to the guy USING GEAR. Obviously that's a hard sell. But I believe there's a market for it.

Now check it out.

Imagine making the most of ALL the available options? You'd be amazed.

And just for fun...

Look at some of these guys. Sure, they had great genetics. But even so.

This guy used half the gear that most of the members use. How's he compare? http://www.musclememory.com/show.php?a=Nubret,+Serge


Totally natural. Age 50. Big believer in supplements and one of the first proponents of mega dosing nutrients. http://www.fitplus.cz/allpic/mf/f_260.jpg


Comparison of two guys from different generations with unwordly genetics. One claims to use less than a gram. The other used 25 mgs of dbola a day.

http://ironage.us/virtual/arms.jpg


I can hear it now...

"BUT I DON"T HAVE THOSE GENETICS!!!"

Well, you know what -- if you don't have them, more gear won't make that much of a difference. I noticed that right away with bodyparts that were hard to develop. On gear, my chest (always a good responder) blew up like crazy. Yet my calves (which always sucked) still didn't grow all that well.

Back to the original point. Ten percent. That's all you get.

It's time to get the ratio back in order.

TRAINING FIRST.

DIET AND SUPPLEMENTS TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE TRAINING.

STEROIDS -- for the extra 10%.

I know some guys will never get this message. And many others already know it. But there are always new comers to the game and to the dark side. They should know what they're getting into. And they should know the best way to get there.

 

[SpyWizard]

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[glover]

Your entitled to your opinion, but it is subjective. I do agree about the training. Most just do not train as hard as they can. However on the flip side I train to hard and injuries are killing my gains.

 

[solidspine]

ok and tomorrow is Friday, what else is new.

 

[Anthony Roberts]

Your entitled to your opinion, but it is subjective. I do agree about the training. Most just do not train as hard as they can. However on the flip side I train to hard and injuries are killing my gains.

All opinions are subjective..."objective opinions" are known as facts, I believe....

It's not necessarily training harder, but smarter. I worked with Ms. New Jersey (figure) for the last 8 weeks of her prep...I cut her time in the gym from 5 days to four, and from an hour and a half each session to 45 minutes...I halved her training time, and she took first place in her contest!

From my article on her:

It was also at week eight that I took over writing her workouts, and began taking more of a heavy hand in helping her. Her five weekly hour and a half weight training sessions were changed to four weekly sessions, each lasting no more than forty-five minutes. Lower body was trained two times a week as was upper body, and I replaced all of her machine movements with free weights. We stopped thinking "bodybuilder" on lower body days and started thinking "rap video."

(Full article about her and her training: http://www.t-nation.com/portal_includes/articles/2006/06-104-feature.html)

She worked out smarter, not harder.

On the other hand, I'm of the staunch opinion that if you have been lifting/training/playing for years and never been injured, you're a total pussy.

And how stupid are the workouts I see on the internet? Basically, I could write a better workout using a Ouija Board or flipping a fucking coin.

 

[Mrpumped]

I agree with the training, eating and supplement part but the gear part I don't. It's true, more is not always better but more(more food, gear and supps) are what differenciate todays bodybuilders with the past. I just can't believe a pro doing uder a gram a week or 25mg of D-bol a day. That's a lie, peroid. I can uderstand someone not wanting to make themselves look bad for using more but that's the role of the game. You mentioned that some would say I don't have genetics like that and it's true for many. Genetic make-up and physiological make-up play huge roles in the way a person looks whether on gear or not. My take is eat, train, supp and gear tailored to ones desire= desired look.

 

[Anthony Roberts]

But even then...there should only be about 250 people in the world doing the kinds of doses we see here daily...

(Im saying the people doing the grams and grams a week ought to logically be the top 100 professionals - the still competing ones, in other words- and the top 150 amateurs, i.e. the people who have a chance in hell of being professional)

Instead, every other "bro" is doing 2 grams a week...Brotastic!

 

[CO B-man]

Prisoners may eat slop but the government is required to give them a well balanced meal and the bigger ftard bullies take food from the weak to get more calories much like an MRE in the military. Some of them might look and taste like ass to some (I always liked them) but each one contains a 3000 calorie well balanced diet. I often wished I was still in while bulking I would be eating them daily.

Also I can not be convinced that at least a daily vitamin is not promoted by everyone. It could take just one missing vitamin and/or mineral to severly retard the sythesis of protien to muscle. Hence not drin king on cycle. It depletes so many important vitamins and minerals necessary for such synthesis as apposed to the theory its just harming your liver more! well maybe so but thats not the only reason.

 

[digit0x]

But even then...there should only be about 250 people in the world doing the kinds of doses we see here daily...

(Im saying the people doing the grams and grams a week ought to logically be the top 100 professionals - the still competing ones, in other words- and the top 150 amateurs, i.e. the people who have a chance in hell of being professional)

Instead, every other "bro" is doing 2 grams a week...Brotastic!

And thats a good thing for you!

 

[Anthony Roberts]

Prisoners may eat slop but the government is required to give them a well balanced meal and the bigger ftard bullies take food from the weak to get more calories much like an MRE in the military.

Been to prison?

I have.

Don't talk about what you don't know shit about.