Starting a thread on the psychology behind why we love AAS so much.
I actually get giddy waiting for a package to arrive, anticipating the faster gains, greater pumps, improved appearance and overall sense of well-being and frankly, alpha male confidence and dominance!
OāHearn is NATTY!! Bahahahahahahahaha
I donāt care either way. Just wish the guy had the guts to be honest like many others in the industry have become in recent years. The gig is up already Mikeā¦we know.
Being a ādevotedā user of AAS for about 3 decades, I considered them more of a tool than a love affair. I had my love affair with competitive bodybuilding. AAS was just one on the important xās in the Y = f(x). I have widely said that bodybuilding is a jealous bitch. āSheā wants 100% commitment and nothing less.
Shane is one of the very best westerns ever made, IMO. And that famous line by little Joey as Shane road off into the valley, āShane, come back!ā
Once upon a time in the west.
When younger, I felt the same way. In the past few years, itās been a struggle to feel well at all on anything other than TRT. I found myself dreading the āuseā just to maintain a physique that I know wasnāt keepable. The things that made me feel like He-man once upon a time just bothers my middle aged body.
Im definitely not shaming anyone as that would be very much a hypocrite of me. I wish I still felt the way @Dgordleis does. I havenāt done any research but on another forum a used to be active on there were middle aged guys stating the same thing. Drugs that didnāt bother them once upon a time now do.
I came to this very late, at around 56 I did a few anavar (sorry @anon18050987 , oxandroloneā¦) and was back in the gym 6 days a week, then read up and saw this wasnāt a great way to go so started taking test (āTOTā).
I do like body changes but Iām finding thatās really hard with my age and training, I work out at a āmartial artsā gym and roughhousing it with 25 to 30 year oldās so Iām looking for a drug that makes me recover better, doesnāt make me feel bad or make me too spotty.
Have tried a few and now probably gonna work my way around the rest of my suppliers listā¦
I have many.
Because I want to train more and taking other recreational pharmaceuticalās makes me feel shite for days I now limit myself to a beer a day and harder drugs to very occasionally.
Not sure if Iām healthier not doing MDMA throughout the year and sticking to AAS but it does mean I can get to the gym.
If I had found AAS to be soo easy to source when I was 30 Iād have probably been dead by now (but if I was ripped, happy and not spotty it may have been worth it!)
I was so deep into a certain image i wanna have, and things i wanna be able to do, when i was a kid, that ever since i started working out and when i found out that there are these āsteroidsā it never even was a question in my mind. I knew what i wanna do and who i want to be when i was 10, so when i was 18-19 and i know there are these āsteroidsā never for a second was that any kind of dilemma for me.
For me, finding out you can take something called dbol, was exactly the same as finding a new exercise and just trying it.
So for me its not a love for steroids. Its just who i am, what i wanna do, and steroids are a part of it just as much as protein and barbell is. I never even considered separating these things. Never even crossed my mind as an option.
I found out that there is such thing as doing smth ānaturallyā all your life and never till this day have i understood the point. Yea, i get the idea, but for me it just doesnt make any sense. Its like some of these average looking women who dont even take care of their hair and dont do makeup. I mean, go to a hairdresser and practice some tutorials on youtube, and a girl can go from 5 to 7 in two days. I never understood why any girl wouldnt want this, and same is with sports. Why would you even do sports if reaching your limits is not the goal? Yea yea, i know all the reasons naturals have and i dont have anything against it, its just that for me its like working half a day and bitching that you dont have enough money.
It doesnt matter what to take and how much, if it gives me 1% extra, why not take it?
I guess it is just mentality and the way we view things. Kind of like some businessman have so much money, they dont even have time to spend it but they still work too much to earn even more even they dont need it and never will - for them it is weird to NOT make more.
My only regret is that i didnt start taking em sooner and in much more aggressive way.
Preach!
(said the old skinny bloke at the back)
He canāt be honest about it, he would no longer be allowed on TV and would lose all his endorsements.
The Rock canāt come clean because he would lose his main source of income.
Steroids have arguably the worst stigma to them, relative to the actual physical and mental impact they carry.
Thatās true. And so the fitness industry sham continues for the sake of the almighty dollar and at the expense of those, especially the young, who donāt know any better.
Everyone has to pay the piperā¦The Rock is no exception.
Iām on the fence about this. Iām probably completely wrong, but I look at AAS akin to drinking, smoking, or other habits that ācouldā lead to paying the piper. Not always. If I truly thought that mild use of AAS was a guaranteed recipe for early death I wouldnāt have done what I did.
Agreed totally. But I am 100% sure looking at The Rock at his age that his is NOT a case of mild AAS use
And thats not taking anyrhing away from The Rockās genetics, work ethic, diet and lifestyle or even knocking him for the drugs. But he is on some major gear to look like that at 51.
I beleive TRT in its purest medical form is healthy and does extend the life of those in medical need. When one goes beyond that, they enter the realm of side effects, typically relative to dose, genetics, cycling, age, etc that may have an adverse effect on longevity. But like anything in life, its a personal decision just like smoking, drinking, diet, etc
āWell, you take a chance getting up in the morning, crossing the street, or sticking your face in a fan.ā ~Detective Frank Drebin
This is how I think of it, too. Itās a tool for me to āfeel goodā. I didnāt take any until two years ago at age 46. I would not take any if I could āfeel goodā without them. They are a pain in the ass to deal with.
Feeling good is subjective and that doesnāt always mean itās the best long term health decision. Iāve always tied my self-worth to my ability to physically perform since I was a young kid. It hasnāt always been a healthy mindset and is a mental health struggle that Iāve dealt with going on two decades and will probably never go away until the day I die. Anabolics allow me to slow down physical degradation, which makes me āfeel goodā.
As I age and my ability to physically perform has declined, Iām willing to possibly sacrifice some time at the end of my life for living the quality of life today that I want/need.
Iāve been an athlete in something all my life, so I was always aware of what it would take to be the best. Tried a lot of different sports and realized I wasnāt going to reach the top no matter what I did, but when I got into powerlifting it seemed more achievable. That being said I waited a long time to use gear. There were several moments where I thought very seriously about it and held off. Ended up totaling 1750 natural and then decided it was time. I spend too much time in the gym to not lift the biggest weights possible.