Giving up Roids, how hard is it really

[marky]

Depends on how young you are. The older you get the harder staying off because the recovery can take much longer if at all.
i stayed off for 3 years once. Eventually I came back to my cycling size(and felt much better physically). The strength and size were all back but not the shape and hard look.

 

[pittbull2]

Re: Walking away....

A sign of psychological dependency is a feeling that one "needs" something to be complete.

A while back, I got off a cycle, and after the 4th week of returning to being "normal," I honestly just wanted to go right back on. It made me do some serious thinking about if being on was really worth it.

Gains defintely made it worth it (in spite of the many hassles one goes through to do a cycle). However, I realized that I couldn't afford gear to keep doing it, so I decided to take some time away.

The first two months are hard. You loose some strength. You might loose a little mass. You have to adjust your training because you don't recover as fast.

Guess what....

In time, you adjust. You realize you're pretty darn good without the gear, and you use different tactics to regain the strength gear gave you and your mass starts to come back.

Okay, gear is faster and more rewarding in its own way. However, natural gets results to.

Like anything else, it's just staying off long enough to realize that it's not a big deal to live off it.

Oh, you really need more than 4 weeks off between cycles for the psychological factor. In the 4 weeks you're off, you're still running on residual gear in your system (depends on what you used) and it's not unusual for things like Clomid to give you an extra boost as you come off as well.

After you're off ALL the gear, that's when you face what being without is like. It's humbling, but hey, humbling is good for the soul. [/QUOTE



Very well said Bro, esp the last part ,humbling is good for the soul ,because so many of us
just worry about how big we are and how many heads we turn but never worry about
our soul.

 

[stacked8]

I think that it depends solely on the individual and like others have said, how happy you are with yourself. I think that all of us started taking them or will start taking them because we lack something in our life.

When I started about 6 years ago you would have had a hard time convincing me that it would take such a grip on my life at times, in numerous aspects. When I'm on my confidence level in everyday life is through the roof, whether in the gym or talking to my boss at work. When I'm off I'm thinking about being on and in turn, it is nothing more than a viscous cycle.

I say get it out of the way when your young and responsibilities are low. I know that someday down the road I will eventually be too pre-occupied with my love for fast cars and my family(ie. wife and kids) that I won't have a choice to hang it up. Unfortunately I don't think that I will ever totally give them up unless I don't have a choice, such as a medical problem or an ultimatum from my girl. Fortunately for now I'm healthy as a top and my girlfriend has no problems with me being on because she likes my physique when I'm on and loves my sex drive.

I strongly suggest that if you have an obsessive/compulsive nature in life to consider other outlets for happiness, because they are right 100%, you'll never do JUST 1 cycle. Good luck with whatever decision you make.

 

[Baby Gorilla]

Gee...I'm so touched....

Didn't expect so much support. Sometimes the threads here sound like a "go hard or go home" attitude regarding the use of gear. I really didn't expect so much agreement about how one's quality as a bodybuilder isn't linked to the use of gear.

I have a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

Hope it's not a hairball....again.

 

[JG1]

I finished my last cycle about 3 1/2 months ago, and really don't have any plans of getting back on. I trully think I'm done with gear. First and formost, I'm worried about my health in the future. I don't want anything I do now to come back and bite me in the ass when I'm 50 years old. I've been natural now for a few months and I'm making good gains while losing bodyfat, I just really don't see me every going back on.

 

[THE BOUNCER]

I finished my last cycle about 3 1/2 months ago, and really don't have any plans of getting back on. I trully think I'm done with gear. First and formost, I'm worried about my health in the future. I don't want anything I do now to come back and bite me in the ass when I'm 50 years old. I've been natural now for a few months and I'm making good gains while losing bodyfat, I just really don't see me every going back on.

stop being a bitch!! i will get you back on myself if I have to!j/k

 

[Pat Mycroch]

I've been off for about an year now. It is a humbling experience, but whatever... I'm saving money

 

[JG1]

stop being a bitch!! i will get you back on myself if I have to!j/k

LOL!

 

[TheStromba]

Just came off my second cycle 3 weeks ago. Took only 6 weeks off between. I promised myself I would wait longer this time. There is really nothing like the feeling of being on. This can be habit forming...I can see it already.

 

[madbomber31]

it's simple to say you are going off... but when you go from 242 to 216 2 years later... oh, you'll re think it.