There comes a point in most lifters lives, where they will ask themselves if it’s time to start darksidin’.
If you are unsure of what I am talking about I’ll spell it out for you.
Pro-hormones, anabolics, or androgens. Steroids if you aren’t following yet still.
I’m not going to get into all the health shit about it. Anyone who is lifting weights heavy enough to tear tendons from bones doesn’t give as much a shit about their health as they let on.
Enough said.
People who want to get as brutally big and strong as possible aren’t thinking about apples and figs and organic sunflower wheat germ sprouts. They are thinking about “what the fuck can I do to scare other people by the sight of me?” in some way, shape, or form.
If you are asking me what I think, then I will answer this question of whether or not to take the plunge, with one statement, and then a question.
My statement is.....
Teenage dudes have ZERO fucking reason to be using anabolics or pro-hormones. None. Not a single one. Your test and GH levels are as high as they are ever going to be naturally. If you’re a teen you have zero reasons to use anything other than a fork and knife to eat the food on your plate.
My questions is....
“Have you maxed out your natural genetic potential?”
If the answer to that is “yes”, I’d also have you ask “how do you know?”
Because your bench hasn’t moved in two years? That don’t mean shit. My bench didn’t move for the better part of a decade because I couldn’t bench for more than a few weeks at a time before my shoulders and pec tendons were killing me. My squat sucked because my technique sucked. My deadlift suck(s) because I suck at deadlifting.
But I didn’t max out naturally for a very long time. And I managed to get to 250+ pounds in decent condition naturally, before I ever took a thing.
If you are sure that you have maxed out naturally, then at that point it’s up to you to decide if you want to take the plunge. The phrase “once you go black, you never go back” applies very well to this scenario. Once you take Darth Vader’s hand, your status as a natural, is over, and you need to learn a whole new language for the most part. If that doesn’t bother you, proceed on.
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| Maybe the darkside of the force had tren in it? |
If the answer to that question is “no”, then my advice for you, is to shut the fuck up, train hard, eat big, condition, and do this until you squeeze every last drop of natural ability from your body. When you can answer “yes” and you want to start darksidin’, ask yourself that other question.
Since there will be without question, some little bitches who read this and balk, I will explain all the reasons why the guy that maximizes his natural ability has such a bigger advantage over the guy that doesn’t.
A lot of what I am about to write isn’t backed by medical studies or scientific lab rats. It’s backed by years of being in this game and knowing the truth. Talking to guys who have used anabolics for years, even decades, that know what the fuck they are talking about.
Simply put, If you want to know about combat, you don’t ask the computer nerd that does combat simulations on his PC, you ask the battle hardened enlisted guy that’s seen it up close. If you want to know about anabolics, you can read lots of studies and scientific text. But if you want to know what they REALLY do, ask guys that have actually spent years putting shit into their bodies.
Knowing your body -
One of the biggest advantages to being natural, is that you really have to experiment to find out exactly what works for you. How much you need to eat to grow, how much food makes you fat, what kind of training you really respond best to, how much sleep you really need, and what supplements (legal non-PH ones) really do something for you, or are just bunk.
In other words, after years of slinging iron and trying various “diets”, and learning how to eat big (or small) you start to know your body.
You understand training stress in its most natural state, and what it really does to you. You have to learn how to manipulate volume, intensity (both perceived and loaded), and you have to experiment to find things that really work.
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| This image alone should raise your natural test levels........ |
When a guy starts using too young, or after just a few years of training, he really doesn’t know a god damn thing about his body. I know tons of guys who use a lot of shit, but don’t look like it. I won’t lie, I laugh my ass off when I see pics of guys using a gram+ of shit a week and they look like nothing. They generally look like nothing, because they never built a real base of mass naturally. They didn’t spend years and years building a natural base. Truth is, there is no amount of “gear” that can make up for this. It’s one of the greatest lessons you can learn about lifting and yourself. And you rob yourself of that gift when you start using anabolics too early.
Do you know what happens when you do this? When you never learned how to put on mass naturally, and get stronger naturally? What happens is, you hit a roadblock and the only thing you know to do is “up the dose”. What happens when your dose can’t get any higher due to side effects? You don’t know how to manipulate your diet or your training. Then your whole “training life” becomes what cycle you need to do next, or what you need to add in to your current one.
Not only that, but if you get on gear and have this big jump in strength, but the truth is your technique sucks, what do you think happens then? Yeah, you’re going to get all fucked up eventually. I still see big guys that can’t even fucking squat properly yet move “decent” weight on it because their cycles have allowed them to. It’s actually quite comical to me, to see a guy that looks like he should know what the fuck he’s doing, but doesn’t have a god damn clue. They wonder why their knees hurt and why their squat won't move. Because no matter what you take, if your technique sucks, you limit your potential.
So in essence, the questions you ask yourself change.
Instead of asking yourself.....
“Do I need more rest?”
“Do I need to eat more?”
“Do I need to lower my volume, or raise it?”
"Is my technique wrong?"
You ask.....
“Do I need more test?”
“Do I need to add in an oral?”
“Do I need to add in an anabolic?”
The first set of questions should always be the FIRST set of questions you ask yourself, your entire training life.
I mean for fucks sake, I read where guys ask what steroid they should take to lose fat. It’s a steroid called dietcardio mother fucker! It’s free, legal, has been around forever, and it works you lazy bitch.
Guys that never understand how their body responds, naturally, under training stress never learn how to properly manipulate their training cycles. They just take more shit and watch their lifts go up. So they have no clue how to manipulate their training in the most efficient manner.
If you like to drag race, and do the own work on your car to make it faster, you know every in and out of that car. You know if something breaks, what it is, how to fix it, and how to make it better.
If you just pay some guy to do it, you don’t have a clue.
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| going fast in a Civic is still gay........ |
Building a base naturally over a decade or more, is fine tuning that drag car. When or if, you decide to add nitro, you know every in and out to how that car works. This gives you a wealth of experience that is invaluable.
You with training knowledge and “supplements” > you without real training knowledge and “supplements”.
Don’t rob yourself of that experience by getting on too soon, because you’re an impatient dickwad.
Pro-hormones - Pluses, minuses......
Cutting right to the shit, pro-hormones are steroids. Period.
You can’t use PH’s and claim natural status, ok?
This isn’t like the old days when Andro was on the shelf, but it didn’t really do anything. The shit you can buy today is no different than using a “real” oral.
The only difference is, you don’t have decades of use behind what you’re using. So you can only ask the other buck-65’er on the bodybuilding board, what it did for him. You also don’t REALLY know what it is you’re ingesting, and what it’s really doing to your body. Most guys that go this route don’t go get blood work done before and after a cycle to see how their body reacted to it.
Not to mention, most guys that comment on this shit just regurgitate shit they have read about what it does to you from some guy that read it from another guy.
With real anabolics, you have both years of research and years of guys who have ran these drugs to get feedback from.
The big plus to PH’s, is that they are legal. That’s about it.
Spoiled, insecure brats -
The reason a lot of guys circumvent the process of getting as good as they can get naturally, is because they want it all now. Usually for reasons of feeling insecure in regards to a pecking order with their peers. Or because of pressure to be something they are not, say for example on the football field. If you need anabolics to dominate at high school football, fucking give up dominating in college. Because you won’t. You’ll get foot broke off in ass every day at that level.
Kids see other kids bigger and stronger and they want that. Which is fine. I did too. But I didn’t mind just eating and lifting and working for it naturally. Most of the kids I know or knew, that used at a young age, didn’t keep lifting. Mainly because they aren’t lifers. They didn’t love the iron. They loved instant gratification.
Is it hard to walk into the gym and bust ass for weeks and months on end and only improve by microscopic amounts? Fuck yeah it is. You think you’re the first guy that trained his nuts off for months on end with almost nothing to show for it? Nothing sucks worse than to be busting ass and have people say stuff to you like “Oh, you workout?”
This is where you get tested.
Are you able to shrug that shit off, put your head back down and do work, or do you cry like a little bitch about it? Doing the latter is still acceptable for a few minutes, so long as you end up doing the former. In other words, yeah I remember crying like a bitch about it in my head and being frustrated. But it just made me work harder and want it more. It didn’t want to make me want to run a cycle though. I was young and I knew I had a lot of room for improvement.
This is all akin to the two kids who both want something, but one is willing to work to earn money for it, and the other just wants to throw a baby fit and hope he gets his way.
Sure in the end, the brat could get the same reward, and someone might say “well that’s all that matters” but that’s bullshit. Life should always be about getting better. Bettering yourself and gaining as much valuable experience as you can. You lose out on an opportunity to gain knowledge, and build some self respect. You also don’t get the appreciation that comes with earning something, rather than crying like a bitch for it.
In part 2 I am going to talk about idiots who use pro-bodybuilder dosed cycles, but don't compete and guys that don't use, that think a cycle would turn them into Ronnie Coleman.
