[quote]Maiden3.16 wrote:
[quote]willden wrote:
[quote]Monopoly19 wrote:
I did not take the time to read all 18 pages in the thread. What I can offer you is my own personal experience.
I always wanted to be a freak. I knew from early on that steroids were part of the game. I never had a moral issue with them.
Is it cheating? If your a bodybuilder, I think not (unless you are doing natty shows and claiming natty, then it’s chickenshit). Drugs are tied so heavy to the sport.
If it’s strength sports, it depends. If you are in a drug tested powerlifting fed and using, again, that’s bullshit. If you are in strongman or an untested fed, you have to realize that you will be competing against many other people who are using them. You will never be as big and strong without them, as you will with them.
With regards to health risks, I think they are severely overblown. As someone who is on HRT and has ran 1 or 2 cycles a year for 7 years, my bloodwork has never been an issue. My wife just became pregnant without us trying to conceive (she wanted to come off birth control, 2 months later she was preggers). There are health risks to being this bodyweight however. The heart is not meant to support 270, 300, 330lbs of fat OR muscle.
For me, the pro list is so long and the con list is so short. It’s a personal choice that everyone has to make. I respect any of the people who choose to stay natural as that is hard thing to do with this lifestyle. [/quote]
Are you on HRT because eventually PCT stopped working for you, or you just decided to blast and cruise…or just age? Also curious if you ever regret that now you’re essentially a slave to weekly injections for life…have you tried to restart with HCG or anything like that?[/quote]
Just about everyone that is serious about lifting are slaves to daily and hourly things from pre and post workout shakes to counting macros each meal to doing brutal leg and back workouts twice per week. A once weekly injection does not sound like much compared to all of tge other things we slave ourselves to, especially when it means we will progress better. Now, I have never injected so I cant speak from experience, but it cant take more than 10 seconds to complete. It takes just as long to mix shake.
This being said, the probelem for many is tge legality imo. If tgis shit were legal everyone would be on it including me. Look at hoe many non roid users used the various prohormoneswhen they were legal.
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This is actually a great point, didn’t think of it like that. However I would say that just because you’re into this in your 20s and 30s, doesn’t mean you’ll feel the same way later in life. Who knows where you’ll end up or what you’ll be doing years down the road.
And yeah the illegality is definitely an issue, moreso because it means you can’t trust what you’re injecting into your body than the chances of getting busted. I wonder how many people have spent $$$$ on fake HGH.