No - you plateau over and over. And that is when you switch up - not add AASOriginally posted by Acupuncture
Sitting in your shoes I realize what you see: You see a teenager that wants nothing but size gains, but doesn't want to work for them in the gym....just simply to take a "magic pill" to gain size. Well I've worked my ass off in the gym for the last 2 years straight, going 6 days a week, and have noticed incredible gains that I never would have thought possible. But you know what? Like anyone, I noticed a plataeu, that no matter what I did, I couldn't increase my size or strength. And isn't that supposed to be the time to take AS?- you see THAT IS exactly the problem. You THINK you know what it takes - but you don't. Simply adding AAS will not only fuck with a fragile endocrine system at an adolecent age - but it will cause you to never really learn how to train correctly and the only way you will keep gains is to stay on large stacks. Not good, nor healthy...
When you plateau you need to look at the entire picture and ask yourself a few questions:
- Am I simply overtrained?
- Have I outgrown my current split?
- Have I actually plateaued in strength or hypertrophy (still gaining weight)?
- Have I been properly prioritizing for hypertrophy, strength or deffinition?
- Have I figured out my supercompensation curve - did it change?
- Have I acatually plateaued - or am I doing the same work in a shorter period of time (Power Indexing)?
- Does my diet suck right now - does it match up correctly with my training goals?
- Have I been eating correctly?
- Have I been sleeping enough?
- Are there too many external stressors in my life right now?
AAS IS NOT A WAY TO BRAKE THROUGH A PLATEAU! Especially not for a teen under 225lbs. AAS are supplements used by athlete's with mature endocrine systems to increase protein synthesis and recovery time, decrease cortisol and likeliness to overtrain, as well as fuel workouts.