0ni
Registered Rustler
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
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