Did you reach your natty potential?

[Astartes]

Curious to know how many people waited on their natty potential to start or who just sent it? Any crazy stories of your first introduction to gear? I see a lot of confliction between people who wait and who don't but overall all the transformations seem to be epic when diet, training and supps are on point. I am 31 been lifting consistenly for almost 3 yeasrs after a 10 year break due to drugs and alchol. Trying to stay natural as long as possibe but recent lab work suggested lower T and if they want to TRT me might as well blast.

28 years old. Was 6’ 215 and about 8-12% BF. Close if not there. Biggest issue once I started was my strength exploded and I got too strong too fast eclipsing my tendon’s ability to keep up.

Had to back up and learn to lift better years later. Guys like Fred Bolt at Westside Barbell helped. Of course back then focus was on ego lifting and powerlifting while trying to be a bodybuilder.

**facepalm**

Like others, I looked like I was on gear to people who didn’t really know what to look for. So got asked all the time what “supplements” I was using.

Now kids at Planet Fitness desk straight up ask me if I’m on gear. Jesus I can’t believe half the younger generations have teeth still.

 

[Astartes]

I not only topped out, but had started to decline with age and lowering hormone levels, before I tried steroids.

Do you know how frustrating it was to slowly get weaker over a couple of years no matter how much you ate and how intensely you trained?

Then, boom! I was stronger than I had ever been in my life in a little over a month and larger and leaner, too.

LOL!

It helps that I had all of my training dialed in, and some bodybuilders on a forum like this helped me with my diet while I was still natty, so I was already eating a well planned diet for a couple of months prior to hopping on, so when I started injecting, the transformation was so swift it was amazing. I did not just get bigger, but I looked like I had never looked before. There was a huge visual transformation.

It made me wish I had tried it when I was younger, but with no internet to learn and just rumor from other guys in the gym, it probably would have sucked.

Yes…. But we also know how nice it is to go to our 30th class reunion and be amazed at how 99% of the population lets itself GOOOOOO