Unless you want to compete at the elite level, why take steroids at all?
What other reasons are there apart from wanting to be bigger, leaner, lift more?It's human nature to want more
After much thought I don't have a problem with this, just as long as you want more for your own reasons rather than to be the biggest guy in the gym or make people jelly etc etc
What other reasons are there apart from wanting to be bigger, leaner, lift more?
It's risk vs reward and up to each person to decide.
I don't see the risk being worth it to just have ripped abz for summer. Others might.
Bazza if you took steroids I'd lose all respect for you. Your perfect as you are.
What other reasons are there apart from wanting to be bigger, leaner, lift more?
People like things now, now damn it!
The documentary admin posted had a douche like that in it. He didn't even know how to train nor had any size and jumped on roids because he wanted it all now.
If newbies want to juice they will juice no matter what info you give. Personally I could care less as it is their life to screw up, just be honest with people that you use so you don't give false impressions like a lot of kids role models do.
I was thinking about this the other day and was wondering about people's advice regarding WHEN someone should start taking steroids and other hormones.
There is a lot of advice out there as to when, from "you should lift X amount" to "you should have been training for X time" and it all seemed very arbitrary to me - and to an extent it is. I never understood why people picked these because of this, as if when you achieve the above you're magically able to take steroids and benefit from them. I had a big long think about this and what the criteria for taking steroids REALLY were and this is what I came up with:
When you're a natural trainee, your training will either work or it will not . Being natural allows you to figure out what works in your training. What exercises, rep ranges, volumes, intensities etc work best for you. "I've stalled in this lift so should I eat more, make a form adjustment, do a high volume cycle, change the frequency" and so on.
If you start using hormones before this point, you do not learn this. You never have the chance to. Your strength and mass stops increasing on your 500mg of testosterone a week, so what do you do? You think instead "should I up the dose? maybe add an oral? change of steroids?" while if you had waited until you're more experienced you would have just done the damn thing that got you out of your rut when you were an unhormonized trainee.
I think this is very unclear for a lot of people. Lots of people will know this inside but they are not very good at putting their thoughts onto paper for whatever reason and invariably say something like "you are not ready". I think this is a bad approach as it doesn't explain to the young un's WHY this is a bad idea, as well as prohibition being incredibly bad from a psychological standpoint because if you tell someone not to do something without giving a damned good reason they will just go and do it anyway
Yeah i understand what your saying, but you need to also realise that whilst they are using steroids they can still learn everything such as new techniques, new grips, stretches and basically everything to do with the sport. You make it sound as though they have half their brain missing once they decide to use Steroids, and this simply is not the case
They still have all their options open in life.
i just want to take a little, not too much, just to gain like 7 more kilos
You do not really have the opportunity though, if you're taking gear then how do you know if a technique alteration or if a routine is working? You will always get better and improve so it could be an absolute car crash for all you know but you would improve regardless. The motivation to fix your form would also be lost for the majority of people. I sure as shit know I don't address form or technique unless I'm not going anywhere in the lift
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