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Can you attain your STEROID size WITHOUT taking steroids?

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This can get ugly, hopefuly not. Lets have a good discussion.

Can you attain your maximum level of phisque NATURALLY without using drugs? I mean that if your true potential genetic limit is around 240 pounds - can yoiu get there
naturally and without juice? I know, I know, all pros juice and stuff , but they arent the most hard working and most educated fellows out there.

You might say that, "no. You have to to steroids, people cant get to 240+ pounds of shreded muscle naturally." . Howeever there are some things that need to be thought over. It seems that it IS possible to look like your on steroids with proper training, and proper time (much longer than with juice)...

Here are some points
1) Steroids dont modify you genes. You just reach your own potential size faster. If you could modify your genes with steroids then Arnie would have bigger legs and tom platz would have bigger arms.


2) Steroids do give you more hormones that build muscle. Howeever so does the training and proper eating! Sure you dont get that much through natural means, but still you do gain additional amounts of hormones through hard and heavy barbell work
like squats and deadlifts. Sure you get less amounts that way, but in time it will catch up. Yes it may take you longer to build muscle naturally, but it still IS theoreticaly possible to get there. Plus hormonal levels are not the most important in building muscle, or so it seems.

3) The reason why steroid users can get such amount of muscle is also because of better recuperative powers. A steroid user can recover faster and thus for him the time between workouts is shorter. A steroid user can train a bodypart 3 times per week. A smart and advanced natural trainee might train his bodypart only once 2 weeks. That means that steroid user would get 3x4 = 12 days of training that bodypart in a month while a natural trainee might get only 2. Hence why steroid users get more progress faster.


4) Steroids give you a mental edge. Actually any performance enhancing drug would certainly give you some kind of boost in performance even if it is just a sugar pill. Yoiur mental attitude has just changed, thats all. You can still do that while being natural, watch Dorian Yates blood and guts amnd try to replicate his intensity in the gym! That should work!

5) Steroids blunt your stress hormones. That means that you can train longer and recuperate faster. With steroids you can make more mistakes and still progress, while being natural doesnt give you such an opportunity.

Again it seems that you can still achieve your full size ny neing natural. All it is is that it just will take longer and more know-how. Right? Remember that steroids dont modify your genes in ANY way, or your muscles. All they do is create a byproduct of training in larger doses so progress can be quicker.

Do I mean to say that Ronnie and Markus could have reached their size NATURALLY?
Yes! It would take them much longer but it would seem to be possible. Sure they would be good 5 years older than, but hey, they could probably go on for longer!


Again lets see a typ[ical chart of someones progress in MUSCLE weight per year. The progress is average here not super big or anything.

First year about 20 muscle pounds
second 10
third 10
fourth 10
fifth 5
sixth 4
seventh and later 1-4 muscle pounds per year.


Again a normal induvidual weighting like 165 poudsn be at least ripped at 225 pounds in 7 years. A MR OLYMPIA COMPETITOR! Actually not even every juiced Mr O competitor weigths that much. Shawin weighted at 211 pounds, lee priest i think at 215 pounds.

With weight training many people can add 50-75 or more pounds of muscle. That means that people who arent 98 pound weaklings can often turn into giants, naturally!

Dorain yates started real training at 180. It means that naturally he could have beena atleast 230-255 pounds. Sure he wouldnt be Mr O that fast, but he would have been healthier and probably able to compete for much longer.



Please reply!

btwm keepo the replies goood please. This could stir up a mess. I dont want that! :)
 
Um, i dont know what to say about this. Its good that you are saying that 'roids are not the only way to go, but you are wrong if you think that you can obtain the same physique if you train are natural.

Steroids are used by many to brake through genetic barriers and so, yes they do have the potential to make you alot bigger than you could ever be if you train naturally.

Look at hhh from the wwf. He came in a skinny, pasty weed. A few years later and a shit load of jabs and pills along with sleeping in a sunbed the guy is a different man all together!

Dont get me wrong, he works his ass off in the gym, eats the right way ect. But the fact is, with the lifestyle he leads(travelling, no time to eat, taking shit loads of bumps, injuries....) it is impossible to look as he does no matter your genetic make up.

It also a well known fact that wrestlers, football players, rugby players and other sports people that need strength, size and power use steroids just to maintain weight and strength during the season and along with the other training they have to do.

I dont want to come across as a cocky bastard but im sorry, steroids (along with good food and weights) make you far bigger and stronger than you could ever be without them.

On another note, i hate steroids and all drugs. Anyone can stick a needle in their ass, only a real man can keep clean and have a body to show for it.
 
Well said WPH, its a fact that roids do help maintain mass during on seasons for many sports people and it surely cant be done without them...........i do believe the enormous potential of the human body and the drive that some people have but it is naive to think that people can achieve such results as HHH has without roids and doing what he does on the road.

lol.........pasty weed........i remember those days in wrestling!!!!!!
 
Welsh power house said:
Um, i dont know what to say about this. Its good that you are saying that 'roids are not the only way to go, but you are wrong if you think that you can obtain the same physique if you train are natural.

Steroids are used by many to brake through genetic barriers and so, yes they do have the potential to make you alot bigger than you could ever be if you train naturally.

Look at hhh from the wwf. He came in a skinny, pasty weed. A few years later and a shit load of jabs and pills along with sleeping in a sunbed the guy is a different man all together!

Dont get me wrong, he works his ass off in the gym, eats the right way ect. But the fact is, with the lifestyle he leads(travelling, no time to eat, taking shit loads of bumps, injuries....) it is impossible to look as he does no matter your genetic make up.

It also a well known fact that wrestlers, football players, rugby players and other sports people that need strength, size and power use steroids just to maintain weight and strength during the season and along with the other training they have to do.

I dont want to come across as a cocky bastard but im sorry, steroids (along with good food and weights) make you far bigger and stronger than you could ever be without them.

On another note, i hate steroids and all drugs. Anyone can stick a needle in their ass, only a real man can keep clean and have a body to show for it.

Steroids cant break thrpough genetic barriers! If they could, arnold would have bigger legs! Look at his early photos, he had great genese for upper body (chest and arms) but his legs were always kinda small. Even after lots of roids, his arms and chest were huge , but his legs sub par.

To change your genetics you need to change almost EVERY CELL in your body. By injecting juice into your muscles you are not changing genes. The only way to change your genes is to send a self replicating virus to target specific DNA strands in ALL needed cells (about billions of them). By changing few celss in your body nothing happens. Your cells change, CONSTANTLY! newer build and older die out. To chnage your egentics you would need to change the central mechanism or continually send a virus into your body. Steroids dont do that. Furthermore if sterids could modify your genes than ANYONE could have been humongous. Obviously it doesnt happen. Joe Blow at 98 pounds most likely will NEVER be Dorian Yates at 257 pounds... Why? Because his genetics are not that great, so NO amount of juice would be able to help him!

About sport people, wrestlers and such. Yes they do need steroids to become big ans strong. But we are talking about BODYBUILDING where the results would come in years not in mongths! We have time, sport or actors dont have time.
 
SSAlexSS said:


Steroids cant break thrpough genetic barriers! If they could, arnold would have bigger legs! Look at his early photos, he had great genese for upper body (chest and arms) but his legs were always kinda small. Even after lots of roids, his arms and chest were huge , but his legs sub par.


I disagree. Just look at Dorian Yates back back when he competed against Lee Haney. It wasn't the greatest. He then turned it into one of the most impressive backs in history...
 
Daeo said:


I disagree. Just look at Dorian Yates back back when he competed against Lee Haney. It wasn't the greatest. He then turned it into one of the most impressive backs in history...

He wasnt at his bigggest back then!
He gained quite a bit the following year, all in his back I guess.

That is what "refinement" means. Steroids allow you to make sudden progress. His back was ALWAYS good, it just wanst so massive. But its potential was there, he just plaed his best to maximize it!
 
alex, are you kidding.
Arnold would have bigger legs?
He wasnt at his biggest back then?

dood come on. He wasnt at his biggest because he hadnt taken the juice to get there. Arnold WOULD NOT HAVE the size he had on his legs without the juice.

Do you understand that if a juiced to the gills pro stopped taking juice but kept training and eating just as hard and doing everything perfectly THEY WOULD NOT EVEN MAINTAIN THEIR CURRENT SIZE let alone grow. So what does that tell you. THEY ARE CURRENTLY PAST WHAT THERE BODY WOULD AND COULD NATURALLY BE. They are holding onto more muscle than they could naturally. I am not downplaying these or anyother athletes accomplishments who use drugs. I am saying that you can get past your natural potential by using. NOT by changing you genetic makeup, chemically. But by turning you into a freakin anabolic wharehouse.
Not trying to be a dick, just trying to get my point accross.
 
I'm not sure if any of you have ever read the Adonis Complex, but the author is very involved with determining the genetic limit of muscle mass in relation to fat mass. I can't for the life of me remember his name but I have an old Musclemag in which he developed a formula for which you can determine if someone is on steroids or not just by knowing their bodyfat, height, and weight. He compared the results of pros now and pros before the development of steroids. He came to the conclusion that Steve Reeves was just about at the peak of what a genetically gifted bodybuilder could achieve. If someone wants to know more about the article and this author then I can dig up the information for you.
 
dude said:
I'm not sure if any of you have ever read the Adonis Complex, but the author is very involved with determining the genetic limit of muscle mass in relation to fat mass. I can't for the life of me remember his name but I have an old Musclemag in which he developed a formula for which you can determine if someone is on steroids or not just by knowing their bodyfat, height, and weight. He compared the results of pros now and pros before the development of steroids. He came to the conclusion that Steve Reeves was just about at the peak of what a genetically gifted bodybuilder could achieve. If someone wants to know more about the article and this author then I can dig up the information for you.

Lets see that article!
Post it please!

thanx!
 
Whats the point of this thread? You dont know what you are on about, i am doing sports science in college and one module is drugs in sport...i think i know what i am on about when it comes to steroid use, effects on strength performance and side effects. just because you have read this shit somewhere, does not make it legit facts. We have watched numerous videos and documentaries on this topic and you are clearly in the wrong with your faulse info.

Not trying to sound like a know-all or big head, but leave this go alex. Its all bull what you have said.
 
SSAlexSS, I forgot all about this thread. I think it is in my car and I will look for it tomorrow.
OMEGA said:
hate to break this too you but Reeves experimented with juice:(
1946 - Mr. Pacific Coast
Reeves' Awards
1947 - Mr. Western America
1947 - Mr. America (AAU)
1948 - Mr. World
1950 - Mr. Universe (NABBA)
"In the 30's, researchers tested with anabolic steroids on dogs, they discovered an increase in muslce mass. In the 40's, it is believed that anabolic steroids were given to POWs that were suffering from malnutrition. In the early 50's, athletes in Europe and Russia, were using steroids to increase their strength. Steroids were then noticed after weight lifting records were shattered by Russian lifters. After this, Dr. Ziegler, was able to prove that testosterone had been the reason for the increased performance. In 1956, Dr. Ziegler and the CIBA labs made Dianabol (Methandrostenolone or D-bol). By 1964, all the top steroids were on the market. Doctors used these steroids in certain conditions for patients, to help cure them, yet nobody really knew proper dossages for steroids. "

So you're telling me that Steve Reeves was able to get some steroids before the 50's for his bodybuilding purposes? Where did you hear this from?
 
if the could attain steroid size without steroids, it would not be called "steroid sized" . you are just lying to yourself if you think steroids do nothing.
 
Nice discussion starter, SS. I suspect that was your intent in the first place.

Your theory is dubious, however. Your evidence of Arnold´s legs is extremely thin, at best. You can´t be sure how hard he worked these muscles in relation to eachother.

Also, the post regarding the "history" of steroids. The experiments on dogs also applies to humans. that is, Chinese swimmers who were administered the drug experienced marked gains in lean tissue WITHOUT lifting weights. I´ll stop here as I frantically look for the study in which I found this.
 
I have also seen a study in which humans have gained lean body mass from steroids without training. I can't remember where the study was published but it involved administering 600mg of testosterone a week to non-training humans and they noticed a gain of around 6lbs of lean body mass over the course of around 6 weeks. 6 lbs may not seem like a lot but any natural training athlete knows how hard it is to gain 6lbs of pure muscle mass from training alone. Also, take a look at 6lbs of meat at the grocery store, I wouldn't mind adding that to my body without training.
 
Hmmm...a thought just occured to me.

If the ABCDE program works.. ,the one in the 3rd Supplement review, than you are gaining about 3 or 4 pds lean mass in 2 weeks with 2 or 3 pds of fat. Now i am not saying that natural people can get as big but i think that steroid like gains in lean mass can be made.

Now take this to my situation, i am 252 pds i don't know what % bf but the thing is when i start to overeat than i gain more than 7 maybe even close to 9 within 2/3 weeks. The real question is whether this is lean or not. But in Nov. i weighed in at 239 and now i am at 252 and i would argue that i am just as lean. 4 weeks ago i was 260...Go figure....
 
HE IS JUST SAYING U DO IT FASTER .. LEE HANEY WOULD INSTEAD OF RETIRING AT AGE 31 AFTER 8 WINS WOULD PROBABLY WIN HIS FIRST OLYMPIA SHOW AT AGE 41.

"The reason why steroid users can get such amount of muscle is also because of better recuperative powers. A steroid user can recover faster and thus for him the time between workouts is shorter. A steroid user can train a bodypart 3 times per week. A smart and advanced natural trainee might train his bodypart only once 2 weeks. That means that steroid user would get 3x4 = 12 days of training that bodypart in a month while a natural trainee might get only 2. Hence why steroid users get more progress faster."

but ssalexss as we age we lose natural triggers that help us build .. so lee even thoug he might win at age 41 might not due to his natural deterioration...HENCE THE JUICE.
 
I know I'll probably get flamed for this but I also know I'm probably right: the truth of the matter is that the genetic limits for 80% or more of natural bodybuilders in "ripped" or "shredded" condition are something like let's say 200-215 pounds for a 6'2 man. 215 is really pushing it. Even a guy like say Ryan Reynolds is really pushing it as far as believability.

I've seen some actual studies quoted on this which I'm too lazy to dig up right now. It's true though. Look around at people in the typical gym that work their asses off, look at the stats (actual, not their own guesses) of natural bodybuilders in tested competitions.

The fact of the matter as far as why AAS and other muscle building drugs work is actually pretty simple if you take out all the technical jargon. Humans have had to resist famines for so long that evolution has made it hard to carry an extreme amount of muscle. Supplying the body with extreme amounts of the hormones that were designed to give us enough muscle to throw spears at animals and fight overrides that to some degree.
 
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