7.1K Post(s)Gender: MaleGoal: BodybuildingDate Joined: August 8, 2008
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The best power I can offer any of you is knowledge. People are going to do whatever they want at the end of the day, but at least if you watch this video (and future videos on the topic) you will be much more informed about the deadly risks you are about to take. If you have future video suggestions around the topic of steroids, please leave them below.
Here are the links to some of the articles mentioned in the video:
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2.6K Post(s)Gender: MaleGoal: BodybuildingDate Joined: October 10, 2013
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Scott,
Outstanding video and factually accurate - I commend you for the courage to make it. Many people do indeed see using the juice as no big deal and look at people like Arnold, Lou Ferrigno, Dorian Yates, and other famous bodybuilders still alive as testament to their "safety" if done right. If you drill down, you will find that they too are experiencing issues from their steroid and GH use that are not being shared with the public.
As someone who experimented with them for 4 years early on in my lifting career, I can tell you from first hand experience that I can understand the allure but the after effects are the real deal. From an allure perspective, it is true - you will be able to train more intensely, lift heavier weight, eat many more calories, grow much faster, get leaner and stronger, and recover much faster than normal. However, steroids are like magnesium - it burns very bright but burns out equally as fast.
When you come off a cycle and your body is basically without testosterone for the first 2 weeks until your gonads activate again, you lose the majority of the size you gained, the majority of your strength, and your recovery ability plummets. You can get depressed and moody and be tired all the time. Studies have shown that just ONE cycle of steroids actually takes your endocrine system 7 years to fully recover from. As you mentioned, steroids don't directly cause some of the side effects and disease states people experience but they do accelerate and provide the required environmental stimulus to have them occur. Things like baldness, cancer, tumors, mood swings, etc are exacerbated by steroids or occur much sooner than if one does not use them. This means if you have the genetic propensity to be bald, get certain cancers, be a snap-head with a bad temper, and have heart disease or diabetes, taking steroids will dramatically increase the chances of these events as well as speed them up - meaning they will occur at a much younger age than would occur naturally. Stacking of juice as well as taking all the required supplemental drugs to deal with all the side effects is a slippery slope that many can't overcome. In some cases, the person dies.
For me, I was young and dumb and just wanted to get big and strong as I was the typical small skinny kid growing up. One day I came to the realization that I was not going to be a pro bodybuilder and starting a professional business career has no place for experimentation with steroids. I also realized they won't help me pay the bills and actually are counter to the ultimate goal I have for pumping iron, which I didn't realize until I got older and more mature, which is for health and vitality. Now that I am in my 50s, I am so glad I stopped when I did at a young age and after using for a short period of time. I am in much better shape now than I was back then and so many people I know or who know me from my gym can't believe how old I am and have no idea how I can do the intense training I do on a regular basis at my age. It all comes down to doing things the natural way - both in training and eating - and realizing your true goals for exercising.
John
34 years of lifting and nutritional experience and resident "old man" :-)
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13 Post(s)Gender: MaleGoal: Gain MuscleDate Joined: December 12, 2015
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Excellent video mate, brave of you aswell. It ties well with what I was talking about a few weeks ago with how shocking it was to find how trivial and common place it seems to be.
Informative and without judgement, great way to tackle the subject.
3 Post(s)Gender: MaleGoal: MaintainDate Joined: April 4, 2016
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If you want to get same results without harmfull your body than use legal steroids!!! I really suggest you this type of products, it works very good and no side effect on my body.
563 Post(s)Gender: MaleGoal: Gain MuscleDate Joined: December 12, 2013
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I think you're missing the point here and why Scott promotes being Natty. Steroids legal or not are junk and harmful to ones self but what you do yourself is your choice. Promoting said legal steroids is like telling me the $10 of TestoBooster in the grocery store works.
I have been training coming up on 6 years and have made some great gainz. I've done a lot of trial and error on myself as well as learned from others and through research online. I've come along way in strength and size since I've started. I will continue to learn and make myself better each day. MS Athlete/Super Hermanite BEING CHALLENGED IN LIFE IS INEVITABLE, BEING DEFEATED IS OPTIONAL.
7.1K Post(s)Gender: MaleGoal: BodybuildingDate Joined: August 8, 2008
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Legal Steroids? Why are you promoting this? "It worked for me"... really? IS that why you didn't even post a profile photo or before and after? Did you even watch this video?
Explain to me EXACTLY how these are "legal steroids" and won't have the possibilty of all the harmful side efects I mention in the video.
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7.1K Post(s)Gender: MaleGoal: BodybuildingDate Joined: August 8, 2008
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Thanks @jmboiardi, I know we have talked about this several time. Was happy to finally put this video out there for others!
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467 Post(s)Gender: FemaleGoal: Train for a sportDate Joined: August 8, 2014
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... "Click here" paired with poorly worded promises ....
... Said every spam/scam poster, ever.
Lol I am not even going to click that link, to give him free clicks and views on this bull crap, nor to give any potential malitious scripts a chance to add my computer to an Ukrainian botnet .... XD
I am hereby swimming away from your bs ! ^^
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192 Post(s)Gender: MaleGoal: Gain MuscleDate Joined: May 5, 2015
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Legal steroids - depends on where you live, how you get them and whether you're rich and/or popular enough to be protected.
If I simply ran away from what looked like false promises I'd have run from Scott also.
Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.
I'm an eternal rookie - As soon as I stop learning I start dying.
7.1K Post(s)Gender: MaleGoal: BodybuildingDate Joined: August 8, 2008
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If you ran from me... I would catch you :-P
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192 Post(s)Gender: MaleGoal: Gain MuscleDate Joined: May 5, 2015
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Probably. I have no speed. Seriously, though, I take everyone's information (even yours) and research the heck out of it before I act on it. I try not to look at the information based on whether I think the person is natty or enhanced but (not going to lie) it's hard.
Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.
I'm an eternal rookie - As soon as I stop learning I start dying.
7.1K Post(s)Gender: MaleGoal: BodybuildingDate Joined: August 8, 2008
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I think that it is great you fact check your information.. I hate to say it... but it seems like things are only getting worse on YouTube in terms of what is correct and what is bro-science for clickbait.. it is sad
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192 Post(s)Gender: MaleGoal: Gain MuscleDate Joined: May 5, 2015
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I try not to suspect those who look better than I do of using enhancements but the louder they yell "full natty brah" the harder it gets. As the Bard wrote "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.
I'm an eternal rookie - As soon as I stop learning I start dying.
7.1K Post(s)Gender: MaleGoal: BodybuildingDate Joined: August 8, 2008