
Originally Posted by
ouchthathurts
I gotta agree with these dudes. You should grow like hell your first year or two naturally, without AS. A 6 foot 184 lb male is a good base and it sounds like you have a good workout base for maximum gains. The psychologist in me has to ask the question: Who kicked sand in your face that you feel the need to be huge yesterday? I'm 10 years older than you and I trained for years before ever experimenting with juice. And even then, the reason being the closer you get to your maximum natural size, the muscle comes on slower and slower and slower... My first true heavy-duty year, I completely changed my appearance. But subsequent years it became harder and harder even to gain 1-2kg's a year. And now I got father time workin' against me too! I'm digressing now...
You got the world by the ass on a downhill pull at 24. Eat like hell and stick to the mass movements.
Good luck and if you MUST cycle, just try one form of test and stick with it for 10-12 weeks. But an extreme caution here: your body's kinesiology is very balanced naturally. With the use of AS's, you run the risk of increasing the strength of your primary contractile muscles before the tendons have time to adjust to the sheer increase in contractile strength. Since the musculoskeletal leverage in the human is relatively poor, injury would be highly possible. In fact, probable. Consider that your biceps (medial and lateral head) when curling as little as 50lbs has to contract with an extreme force due to the attachment near the rotational axis. Your bicep may be recruiting enough fibers to contract with a force of 500lbs! Can you hear that tendon go SNAP?
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