In truth though, who's to say what will make a person happy and content. As extreme as these lifestyles seem, in a way our lifestyles might seem just as foreign to the average guy. Once your entire extistence is justifed and maintained by being a pro bodybuilder, its hard as hell to let it go. You work so hard withthat goal in mind and so when you get to the point where you learn you'll have to get on 20-30ius of gh and all this other stuff to complete the journey, you've got so much of yourself and your life invested in it, its gotta be hard as hell to do anything but push on. By the time you're a pro I don't think you could let it go if your life depended on it. I'm not a pro, but I often think to myself, morbid as the thought is, that if a doc told me I had to stop lifting and cycling or I would die, I don't think I could do it.