I’ve never understood why people cared who does, and who doesn’t use steroids. It’s always seemed like a non- issue to me. Yes, some use. Yes, some builds (think Ronnie Coleman) are highly unlikely to be within natural ability, but again who cares.(shit watch some monsters even be natural)
Why aren’t you simply training hard, regardless of your “natty” status.
Steroids speed recovery right? Recovery is related to work capacity, right? Follow me here: If that’s the case, what is to say a hard training natty can’t build the work capacity to be able to recover just as well as a lazy or even moderately hard training , what to call them? I hate to say gearhead as to me that sounds negative, so user. Natty also sounds like shit weak high schoolers say, so natural. User= Steroids, Natural= No Steroids. What is to keep a particularly hard charging natural from gaining the ability to recover like he is a user? Come up with something, I don’t see any reason they couldn’t.
I’m sure you’ve all heard war stories about a sergeant, or this old dude I worked construction with who can move all day long, seemingly to no effect. I’ve heard anecdotes about grizzled sergeants doing stupid fast 3 miles in gas masks, with packs on. I’ve heard stories about a laborer who lifted shit that rationally required equipment and should not be possible yet he did them with his bare hands.
Now the whole GPP build work capacity slowly thing, yeah it can work. Now think back to high school football, or wrestling, or a unit that PTs hard. That recovery can be built smart or stupid. Scientific manner, or the brute force run you into the ground method.
Read Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr. A 5’6″ scholar in the 1800s threw himself onto a ship, and put all of us to shame by the physical abilities he had. A fucking bookworm in the 1830s did more than all of us do now, and steroids make all the difference?
People need to sack the fuck up as far as physical ability. Steroids,or prohormones,creatine, your fucking no-xplode, none of that shit matters. It’s all in the effort.
Don’t be a bitch, don’t make excuses, and build yourself the strength and recovery abilities. Natty or not.
-J