Let me start by saying this: This post is not meant to sound judgemental or criticize anybody in any way. I personally do not do steroids, but what people do with their bodies is their own business and no one else has the right to tell them any differently. I’m not here with an “I’m natural so I’m better than you” attitude. This is purely a “Curious George” matter for me…
After reading the Street articles I began to wonder what exactly people ARE using steroids for these days (I mean people I can actually interact with, not some statistics I can read in a book or magazine). So, quite simply, why do YOU use steroids? Are you in training for a sport? In the offseason? Just to look good nekkid’? T-replacement issues? I just think it’d be cool to see what people’s motorvations’ are…
Sports performance… and something I think a lot of other guys might have…
a love for experimentation… I was never into any rec drugs…But I always loved improving and I always loved seeing what traing variations, food variations, supplements and pharmaceuticals will do to me and my performance.
I use them to accelerate the rate at which i make strength gains for combat sports. I’m not getting any younger and if I can use AAS safely to obtain my goals quicker then why not? I’ve used recreational drugs in the past and relatively speaking I find the use of steroids morally and medically more acceptable.
After years of training, your body eventually hits a plateau, your biological and genetical limitation. You still go to the gym week after week and try harder and harder to overcome this thing that stopped your progress dead in its tracks. But there is absolutely nothing you can do to make any improvement in size or strength. Then you meet someone who tells you how they went through the same thing, and start telling you how they overcame it. Your lack of progress has been frustrating you for years, so you decide to take a walk on the darkside. At least that’s what happened to me.
(Once your on the darkside and realize the possibilities that your now capable of? its hard to go back. You think to your self ‘maybe I should just take creatine’ Then you ask yourself, ‘would I rather increase my max bench 30lbs or 100+lbs over the next 8 weeks?’… i love it here on the darkside)
I use for sports performance also. To me body appearance is an added benfit. In no way do I use for bodybuilding or shows.
Like scrappy mentioned I also never used rec drugs but have always enjoyed the experimentation of diets, training styles and AAS and how they affect my sports performance.
To be honest, I am totally vain. I’m a recreational bodybuilder and I will never hit the stage. Along with hardcore tanning, I use AAS to better my appearance.
I have, what I would call, the same condition as an anorexic, but in reverse. When I look in the mirror, I see myself skinny. Most like to point out to me that at 252 lbs, I am FAR from skinny. Being in my early 20’s at 6’1 and 147 lbs was embarressing. It took me years (aprrox. 8) to diet properly, consume enough calories, train my balls off, and naturally grow to 215 lbs. I reached, what I considered, was my plateau. I have been cycling on and off for only the past couple of years to bring myself to the body weight I am at now.
Will I ever reach my goal? Probably not. I don’t have a “final” goal. I set small goals for every cycle I do. As long as my body will continue to grow, I’ll let it.
I also like it on the dark side…
I actually like injecting myself…gear give me a sense of being in control over my body’s hormonal state and being able to coordinate that with diet and training is just fun…
I also like walking around when I’m on and looking at people and smiling, thinking that I know something they don’t…It’s just fun…
am I sick?
because I’m old and feeble. without aas I’m about as strong as a gerble…also, I’m probably the oldest man in the world with priaprism…man it’s a real bitch trying to take a piss when your dick is almost permanetly hard.
Cool replies, fellas’. One thing I’d like to add that I should have put in the original post…if you “use” for sports performance, what sports exactly are you training for? Keep em’ comin!!
I use for a bit of a different reason. Work. I’m a steelworker for an industrial construction company. Its one of the most physically demmanding (and dangerous) jobs you can have. I was strong enough to hack it before i got on any gear, but now i’m that much better at what i do. Often times on a jobsite you need to react quickly and with all your strength to accomplish what has to be done, and keep yourself and the people you’re working with from getting badly hurt or even worse. I think that steroids have given me a definite advantage. I’d also point out that i dont use them a whole lot, maybe one or two cycles per year, generally over the winter (less busy time of year = more time to hit the gym).
And, not to diminish what i said above, but i also like experimenting and the side effects of looking awesome aren’t half bad either. Admittedly i started using a bit too early in my career, i think my first cycle was when i was 18 (i’d been training for ~2 years by then). It’s caused me some problems, posture mainly, but i took the time and made the effort to correct it.
I use for bodybuilding and for vanity putposes. To me steroids are nothing more than supplementation. I am just supplementing my hormone to continue to grow bigger and stronger and make improvements. It in my mind is simmilar to supplementing with creatine, or tribulus or ZMA e.t.c. You are adding something to the body to help increase performance.
I like having little balls…My old set was too big, I always sat on them. Plus I would bruise girls asses…I liked that, but they didn’t. Plus lil nutts make your dick look bigger. Thank You.
I use aas because I like the look and feel. I enjoy going to the gym and getting an incredible pump, and having veins completely covering my arms. I also am a nut and never feel big enough or lean enough. I started using purely for vanity, but I am now going to be doing my first show come june.
Ouch, Erika! lol I think you and the P-DOG are gonna end up married. You guys already have the squabbling part down pretty good. It usually takes years to reach that peak!
I started at about age 40. You just don’t recover like the young guys unless you have their hormone levels. I do one or maybe two cycles a year, nothing huge or drastic and it helps me stay at a higher level strength wise than I could without it. I like the side effects too.
