Originally Posted by
Silverbimma
Look, I've been through the same shit. I also have pretty high test levels. Mine's were in the 900's when I was 18. I haven't checked since then. Out of all my friends, those who juiced and those who didn't, I have always been the biggest and strongest. For your height, you are pretty big. And you've only lifted 1.5 years? You will undoubtedly get bigger.
Here's my insight from having done bodybuilding naturally since a young age and being 26. I will start with a question. What do you want from your exercise routine? Do you want to see instant results (in a few months) that will come, and inevitably go? Or, do you want to gain muscle slowly, over time, that will stay with you long after you stop lifting? Look, I haven't been in the gym in 4 months. I had some personal issues with moving and my girlfriend and I just didn't have the time or mental energy to do so. I'm still big. I might not be able to curl 65's like I was at my peak, but I can curl 50's easily. People still keep noticing how big I am. They say "oh, well you obviously work out a lot, do you compete?" They ask me "I have a friend who looks like you, he's a football player, do you play football?" Mind you, I haven't touched a weight in 4 months.
Now... Do you think that if I got to where I was using steroids, and I stopped working out, stopped taking my protein shakes, stopped watching what I eat, stopped sleeping exactly 8-9 hours every night, that I would look this big after this much time? I don't think so. I have CLOSE friends who take steroids. I had a close friend who took steroids since 21, not necessarily as injectables, but orals and pro-hormones. He would show up at my house looking bigger than usual. Tan, from going tanning (it comes with getting bigger right?). His new girlfriend he met at the club (some shmeeze with no brain that will leave him soon when he flips out on her). This friend of mine never looked bigger than me, even on steroids and we started working out together and we remained consistent, except that he would fall off whenever he wasn't "on" something. He would brag about his bench press and challenge me to go to the gym and show me he can lift more than me. He would lift a few more lbs than me with his back all arched and terrible form, going down only half-way and getting off the bench acting like an idiot in the gym making people look at him. Then I would calmy get on, put on 3 45's, do my set of 8, and then be happy - happy cause I know I'll be doing the same weight if not more in a half a year. Him, a month or two later he would fall off... Go to the gym half-assed. Go twice a week sometimes, maybe once. Some weeks he would say "I'm taking a week off to recover." Then another month later he would preach to me how he doesn't care about how strong he is, he just wants to look fit. This whole time, I was still looking good, still a big guy.
I had guys come up to me in the gym and ask me for spots. They would then ask me what cycle I was on. I told them I was on protein and l-arginine and whatever supplement I was taking with a little creatine. Then they looked all flustered and were like "yah I'm not taking anything either I'm just on some protein and shit..." Yeah right. The same guys, a few months later, come back in the gym with a beer gut looking at me like I'm doing something wrong, hah.
Yeah, I see guys in the gym getting big all of a sudden. They get a few pimples on their neck and forehead. They start looking bloated and acting different. Funny to me. You think steroids will get you more girls? The hottest girls I have seen in my life were with skinny guys, not big guys. I get hotter girls when I don't even work out. Since I stopped working out 4 months ago, and I don't look as big (not cause I lost muscle but just cause I'm not so pumped anymore) I get a lot more attention from girls.
Girls don't like guys on steroids. Those that do have emotional/self-image insecurities themselves. You think a girl finds it attractive that you put a needle in your ass every other day? You think she finds it hot that you didn't actually do the work to get big, but you cheated instead? Why do you think all roid-heads lie? At least if you do them, don't lie about it. They all act like they got big naturally. Get the f*CK out of here. Then those stupid bitches believe them and tell guys like me and you that "he's natural, he told me he doesn't take steroids anymore." ANYMORE hah. Ok.
All my roid-friends go through depression, emotional instability, trouble sleeping, erection problems, libido problems, etc. Guess what? When I get back in the gym, it will take me 2 months to get back to my prime. But I know that with that 2 months I got a long time till I can go without lifting and I wont feel like shit, won't have to deal with gyno, PCT, joint problems, etc.
One last thing to this long ass post of mine. Don't think that you can't skip a workout, or eat some junk food now and then. Don't make bodybuilding a chore. Enjoy it, do it for fun. Don't get down on yourself cause you missed a week. In that week, you'll see, you'll come out stronger than you were before. Your body needs rest. When I get back in the gym, I'm going to do 3 weeks on, 1 week off. I'm not in it to be the biggest guy anymore. I already got to that naturally. I can rest easy knowing that I was a beast and still can be if I want to. But as you live life, you grow up, and being the biggest guy isn't important anymore. You know what's important? Your family, your friends, eventually your kids if you want them. Your career - to say the least. Bodybuilding was a huge distraction for me for a long time. I don't let it be anymore. You want to live a long healthy life. You don't want to have health problems and be at the doctors office every other week or getting blood work cause you can't figure out why your weiner ain't working. You see, this website is really toxic in some ways. Guys will offer cycle advice knowing they went down a one way street and their testosterone will never recover fully, even if they don't cycle ever again. You already have high test levels. Don't screw that up. You'll be bigger and healthier than all those guys who took a pill and got jacked in the long run. Look at all the old wrestling guys. Bret Hart, Lex Lugar, Scott Hall, not to mention the dead ones... man they look like shit. Take it easy and be happy with your high testosterone levels and know that if you start steroids now, you will get bigger, but at a cost. And those fake muscles don't last buddy. And then when the muscles have shrunk and you look like you did before you even started that cycle, you'll be left with body that may or may not have long-lasting damage (both physically and emotionally). Trust me, I was in your shoes.
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