What age were you?

[Stoptheslowdown]

When you decided to take the plunge?
This question has been floating in my mind of late. I see lots kids Kids training away for a year, achieving fantastic results and surpassing me in the bulk department. You know the type,young baby face with traps like the hulk.

I was talking to one of few of the youngsters at my gym. Kia Green{ whos great!) this, Ronnie Coleman that, Mass Mass Mass.I showed them a few pictures of my inspirational role models- Franco Zane and the lot, THEY LAUGHED!
Thank god I can still rattle the plates on a heavy squat my ego would have suffered

Some of them are taking way too much outside assistance for their age, I wounder will they truly know what it is to grind for years to break 3 plates on the bench, or a 200kg deadlift. The sanctification when you get there on your own.
Rugby football is very popular here ,And each year the physical standard gets higher and higher, the kids in the youth teams get bigger and bigger.

[Times Roman]

mate,

for me, it was later in life.

the first 30 years or so lifting was just blood and sweat in the gym

[Stoptheslowdown]

first 25 for me.

[luciuswillson]

Mine will be 37 and I am taking the plunge this fall.

[Trevtrev]

I was 28 the first time, and the last time, until I started trt last year at 44

[lovbyts]

I was 45. Almost when I was 18 and again at 26. Thank god I didn't

[sfgiantsfan55]

back in high school say even 10th grade, guys were using (i graduated high school in '88 fwiw)....was working out in football off season doing the old 5 x 5 routine ..guess i was naive, didnt realize how prevalent roids were at my school). Now that im taking hrt and have seen the benefits , i do feel almost cheated all these years.. hell ive made more gains geting my T levels to normal than i have in forever lifting natural. as ive said and will keep saying, steroids are the closest thing to real magic in the whole universe , i always wonder WHEN my levels got low or if they were always just low, i dont know..

[NONAME24]

No offense but why do you care? If they wanna look like Ronnie, Dorian, flex, why do you care? Everyone has different goals .. If they wanna be mass monsters and have a huge gh gut then let them be lol..

[lovbyts]

No offense but why do you care? If they wanna look like Ronnie, Dorian, flex, why do you care? Everyone has different goals .. If they wanna be mass monsters and have a huge gh gut then let them be lol..

Because most of us who are not 19 anymore know not only from personal experience where most of us also wanted to become a body builder but also we see 1000s of kids who also want to go down that road and we know 99.99% wont ever make it due to 1 of the million things life will throw at you and the only thing they will do is spend the next several months or years trying to fix all the negative side effects from running a cycle when young.

[sfgiantsfan55]

i live in Denver... Phil Heath (Mr Olympia 2011, 12, 13) is a local. Dont know him personally but, he often appears on local sports radio doing the whole old Joe Weider routine about working out , taking multi-vitimins , saying your prayers ( maybe thats hulk hogan too lol) getting your 8 hrs sleep..blah blah blah.. and it just makes me ill that he doesnt do something like "oh, yeah, although perhaps i am genetically gifted, i take MOUNTAINS of steroids and hgh)... somehow he always omits that. Kids need to know the truth. also blame the local sports radio guys for letting him off the hook. its ridiculous.

[Black]

i live in Denver... Phil Heath (Mr Olympia 2011, 12, 13) is a local. Dont know him personally but, he often appears on local sports radio doing the whole old Joe Weider routine about working out , taking multi-vitimins , saying your prayers ( maybe thats hulk hogan too lol) getting your 8 hrs sleep..blah blah blah.. and it just makes me ill that he doesnt do something like "oh, yeah, although perhaps i am genetically gifted, i take MOUNTAINS of steroids and hgh)... somehow he always omits that. Kids need to know the truth. also blame the local sports radio guys for letting him off the hook. its ridiculous.

So you want somebody to openly admit that they use a Schedule III drug illegally? Yeah, how dare he doesn't admit to that.

[sfgiantsfan55]

ha nah you know what i mean, i just mean its selling kids a bunch of crap to not let them know the truth.

[hawk14dl]

But if you think about it, most kids can make huge gains by taking a multi vitamin, eating right, and sleeping 8 hours. So he's not really giving them false truths, more like false hope (cause let's face it, no one will be that large without help)

[sfgiantsfan55]

ok,well for most of us, 95% of us, yes eatin right and lifting regularly will produce good results. 20 inch calves? probably not.

[MICKY H]

The thing is 90% of girls think body builders are horrible and unattractive, but hey 10% are left lol