[quote]joyfull wrote:
[quote]Mr. Walkway wrote:
thereâs no need to reach your âgenetic potentialâ before starting aasâŠ
but you should at least look like you lift weights before you start IMO.
you donât want to start aas when youâre generally weak/inexperienced. your lifts will skyrocket and your joints/ligaments/connective tissues will suffer because they are not accustomed to the strain. [/quote]
this is why i love walkway. thinks for himself and gives good advice.
the entire concept of reaching your âgenetic potentialâ thatâs parroted on forums is so stupid. if youâre doing everything right then you will approach your potential asymptotically but never actually reach it. that might mean half a pound of muscle for a yearâs hard work but making gains at all means youâre not at your potential. then finally youâre in your 40s or 50s and start to decline. so âwait until you reach your genetic potentialâ is basically saying to never take AAS.
plus itâs always stated in terms of âpaying your duesâ as if you need some forum dipshitâs approval, or the âfitnessâ communityâs permission. and the poster will generally fuck off and do what they want anyway. whereas if you explain that itâs just a waste of money and youâre gonna fuck up your joints and get injured, and thatâs why itâs better to hold off, then people are much more willing to do whatâs in their best interest.
i donât think you can give hard numbers to reach first. the standard should be based on how fast youâre progressing given hard and smart training and dieting. at the soonest, hop on once you canât make weekly progression on the heavy compounds. ie canât add 5 lbs to the bar on squat, bench, deadlift etc each week. for some thatâs a 800 lbs total others it might be 1500
not aimed at anyone btw. i didnât even read the comments just needed to be said.
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The problem is that most people think theyâre training hard and smart when theyâre not, and are looking to use AAS as an easy fix. This is why numbers are used as a gauge of how hard and smart theyâre actually training.
Someone totaling 800 is either not training hard, or is too early in his training life to have encountered plateaus that require seriously figuring out his bodyâs response training and diet and adapting them to overcome these plateaus.
If heâs serious about this lifestyle, he would have found a way to overcome stalls in training and his results would show it. If heâs not, why start AAS on a whim when heâs probably not going to be doing this after a couple of years?
This is not about paying your dues.
This is about very basic common sense.